Confluence Contracts

Confluence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Confluence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Confluence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 104 87
Rank change year-on-year -31 -17 +15
Contract jobs citing Confluence 755 1,402 2,559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 2.34% 2.88%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.21% 21.30% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 978 1,724
10th Percentile £363 £360 £394
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £788 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 23
10th Percentile £24.10 £22.16 £38.54
25th Percentile £37.56 £44.63 £41.84
Median hourly rate £61.25 £55.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% +11.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £84.58 £60.25
90th Percentile £75.75 £88.23 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £55.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +19.37% +16.84% -13.64%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Confluence is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -38 570 £538 -2.27% 217
UK excluding London +11 409 £538 +2.38% 148
Work from Home -8 303 £525 - 121
London -39 280 £550 -8.33% 78
Scotland +69 132 £575 +35.29% 11
South West +29 100 £550 -4.35% 23
South East +44 99 £500 -4.76% 47
North of England -35 41 £525 +0.96% 36
East of England -10 20 £410 -18.00% 12
North West -11 20 £500 +5.26% 19
Yorkshire -11 20 £550 +4.76% 16
Midlands -71 17 £475 -11.71% 20
West Midlands -63 9 £550 +2.23% 14
East Midlands +20 8 £345 -53.57% 6
Wales +13 1 - - 3
North East 0 1 - - 1

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (8.61%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.90%) SharePoint Server
3 30 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.32%) Apache
5 9 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.66%) nginx
7 4 (0.53%) CMS
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Appian
8 3 (0.40%) IIS
9 2 (0.26%) JBoss
9 2 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.26%) WildFly
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 52 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.90%) MS Visio
3 33 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.40%) Windchill
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.26%) InDesign
7 2 (0.26%) InVision
7 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.26%) Simulink
7 2 (0.26%) Sketch
7 2 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 9 (1.19%) SAP Hybris
2 7 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.79%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.53%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.40%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Magento
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 164 (21.72%) Azure
2 129 (17.09%) AWS
3 56 (7.42%) Power Platform
4 53 (7.02%) GitHub
5 51 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (5.30%) GCP
7 36 (4.77%) Azure Stack
8 26 (3.44%) Slack
9 25 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (3.05%) SaaS
11 18 (2.38%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (1.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 15 (1.99%) Serverless
13 14 (1.85%) PaaS
14 13 (1.72%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.59%) Apigee
16 10 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (1.32%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.61%) Firewall
2 44 (5.83%) DNS
3 37 (4.90%) BGP
4 30 (3.97%) TCP/IP
5 26 (3.44%) DHCP
6 17 (2.25%) SNMP
7 13 (1.72%) HTTP
7 13 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
7 13 (1.72%) VPN
8 11 (1.46%) FIX Connectivity
9 9 (1.19%) Kerberos
9 9 (1.19%) VLAN
9 9 (1.19%) VSAN
10 8 (1.06%) NAS
10 8 (1.06%) SAN
11 7 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.66%) 5G
12 5 (0.66%) HTTPS
12 5 (0.66%) Skype
13 4 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.23%) Power BI
2 35 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.58%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.52%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 18 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 14 (1.85%) Tableau
7 13 (1.72%) MySQL
8 11 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.06%) Metadata
11 6 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (0.79%) Big Data
12 5 (0.66%) Apache Hive
12 5 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.53%) Couchbase
13 4 (0.53%) OLAP
13 4 (0.53%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 698 (92.45%) JIRA
2 115 (15.23%) Git
3 111 (14.70%) Jenkins
4 81 (10.73%) Bitbucket
5 52 (6.89%) GitLab
6 31 (4.11%) Postman
7 30 (3.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 24 (3.18%) JMeter
9 21 (2.78%) JUnit
10 20 (2.65%) Eclipse
11 19 (2.52%) TeamCity
12 18 (2.38%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.99%) Selenium
14 14 (1.85%) Robot Framework
15 13 (1.72%) GoogleTest
16 12 (1.59%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.46%) Appium
18 10 (1.32%) IntelliJ
19 7 (0.93%) Artifactory
19 7 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 253 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (17.09%) Public Sector
4 116 (15.36%) Finance
5 38 (5.03%) Banking
6 24 (3.18%) Aerospace
6 24 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.78%) Military
9 20 (2.65%) Marketing
10 19 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.99%) Retail
13 14 (1.85%) Front Office
14 10 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.19%) Legal
16 8 (1.06%) Electronics
17 5 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 119 (15.76%) Analyst
2 96 (12.72%) Senior
3 86 (11.39%) Developer
4 67 (8.87%) Business Analyst
5 50 (6.62%) Architect
6 33 (4.37%) Project Manager
6 33 (4.37%) Test Engineer
7 30 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (3.84%) Delivery Manager
9 28 (3.71%) Product Manager
10 27 (3.58%) Java Developer
10 27 (3.58%) Lead
11 24 (3.18%) Senior Manager
12 22 (2.91%) JIRA Engineer
13 21 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
13 21 (2.78%) Support Engineer
13 21 (2.78%) Test and Integration Engineer
14 20 (2.65%) Applications Engineer
15 19 (2.52%) Product Owner
15 19 (2.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.81%) REST
2 39 (5.17%) .NET
3 35 (4.64%) XML
4 33 (4.37%) HTML
5 32 (4.24%) Spring
6 31 (4.11%) CSS
6 31 (4.11%) Spring Boot
7 27 (3.58%) .NET Core
7 27 (3.58%) Kafka
8 26 (3.44%) React
9 24 (3.18%) JSON
10 23 (3.05%) LDAP
11 17 (2.25%) Node.js
12 16 (2.12%) Apache Camel
12 16 (2.12%) Web Services
13 15 (1.99%) RESTful
14 14 (1.85%) JPA
15 13 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
15 13 (1.72%) Hibernate
15 13 (1.72%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 40 (5.30%) Private Cloud
3 32 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 22 (2.91%) PKI
5 18 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 15 (1.99%) Fixed Income
7 14 (1.85%) Clustering
7 14 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.72%) Derivative
8 13 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.19%) Replication
10 9 (1.19%) Wiki
11 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.79%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.79%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 123 (16.29%) Linux
2 110 (14.57%) Windows
3 33 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.84%) Unix
5 17 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (1.06%) Solaris
7 6 (0.79%) Android
7 6 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.53%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.26%) VMS
10 2 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (56.42%) Agile
2 163 (21.59%) DevOps
3 131 (17.35%) Scrum
4 108 (14.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 93 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (12.32%) Project Management
6 86 (11.39%) CI/CD
7 81 (10.73%) Service Management
8 70 (9.27%) Continuous Integration
9 63 (8.34%) Test Automation
10 62 (8.21%) ITIL
10 62 (8.21%) User Stories
11 61 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (7.28%) Migration
13 53 (7.02%) Roadmaps
14 48 (6.36%) High Availability
14 48 (6.36%) Software Engineering
15 47 (6.23%) Analytics
15 47 (6.23%) Workflow
16 46 (6.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 130 (17.22%) Python
2 86 (11.39%) Java
2 86 (11.39%) PowerShell
3 81 (10.73%) SQL
4 57 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 41 (5.43%) Bash
6 26 (3.44%) C++
7 18 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.25%) Go
9 15 (1.99%) Groovy
10 13 (1.72%) C
11 12 (1.59%) C#
12 9 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.79%) Rust
14 5 (0.66%) ABAP
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
15 3 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 280 (37.09%) Security Cleared
2 225 (29.80%) SC Cleared
3 97 (12.85%) Degree
4 51 (6.75%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 16 (2.12%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.12%) MCSE
6 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.99%) MCSA
8 10 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.32%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.93%) CCNA
10 7 (0.93%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.66%) PMP
12 4 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.40%) CSPO
13 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.81%) QA
2 39 (5.17%) Government Security Classifications
3 32 (4.24%) PMO
4 23 (3.05%) GDPR
5 12 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.59%) NCSC
6 10 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.19%) NIST
8 8 (1.06%) GxP
8 8 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
9 7 (0.93%) Dodd-Frank
9 7 (0.93%) EMIR
9 7 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
9 7 (0.93%) MiFID
10 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.40%) WCAG
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (7.95%) Docker
2 52 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 47 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.12%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.85%) Firmware
6 11 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.79%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.66%) vSphere
10 4 (0.53%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.53%) Snort
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.13%) HDFS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 75 (9.93%) Kubernetes
2 71 (9.40%) Ansible
3 45 (5.96%) Terraform
4 26 (3.44%) Grafana
5 25 (3.31%) Kibana
5 25 (3.31%) SCOM
6 24 (3.18%) PowerCLI
7 18 (2.38%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.46%) Puppet
9 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.19%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (1.06%) logstash
11 8 (1.06%) Netcool
11 8 (1.06%) Tivoli
11 8 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.93%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 192 (25.43%) Atlassian
2 115 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 56 (7.42%) VMware
4 51 (6.75%) Oracle
5 41 (5.43%) SAP
6 32 (4.24%) Google
6 32 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 32 (4.24%) Splunk
7 30 (3.97%) Dell
7 30 (3.97%) HP
8 21 (2.78%) Cisco
9 16 (2.12%) Adobe
10 14 (1.85%) IBM
11 13 (1.72%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.46%) ION Trading
13 11 (1.46%) MarketAxess
13 11 (1.46%) Tradeweb
14 10 (1.32%) Databricks
14 10 (1.32%) Salesforce