Confluence Contracts

Confluence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 136 106
Rank change year-on-year +32 -30 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 739 760 1,392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.53% 1.74% 2.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.34% 18.19% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 497 971
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £408 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £650
90th Percentile £673 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 19
10th Percentile £51.78 £24.10 £22.16
25th Percentile £58.47 £37.56 £44.63
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.25 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% +10.36% +11.00%
75th Percentile £75.63 £68.75 £84.58
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.75 £88.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £66.25 £55.50
% change year-on-year -3.77% +19.37% +16.84%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

Confluence falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,308 4,179 6,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 9.59% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,874 4,603
10th Percentile £275 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.97%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.72% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 161 147
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £15.42 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%
75th Percentile £64.13 £46.18 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £68.00 £78.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
% change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +46 606 £512 -4.74% 401
UK excluding London +26 355 £500 -6.98% 227
London +36 286 £513 -6.82% 202
Work from Home +10 240 £453 -13.81% 308
North of England +78 102 £425 -19.05% 66
South East +18 75 £485 -3.00% 39
Yorkshire +53 60 £450 -18.18% 26
Scotland -35 54 £463 -19.57% 9
Midlands +55 50 £504 +6.05% 35
South West 0 49 £563 +2.27% 37
North West +32 41 £410 -18.00% 36
West Midlands +42 35 £512 -6.91% 29
East of England +37 24 £425 +3.60% 23
East Midlands +16 14 £449 +30.00% 6
North East +5 7 £525 - 4
Wales +10 6 £425 - 15

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 56 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.35%) Apache
3 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.95%) nginx
4 7 (0.95%) SAS
5 5 (0.68%) Camunda
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
5 5 (0.68%) Drupal
5 5 (0.68%) WordPress
6 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) Traefik
7 2 (0.27%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 70 (9.47%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (7.44%) MS Visio
3 48 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 32 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (3.38%) Trello
6 16 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.27%) InVision
9 2 (0.27%) Open Workbench
9 2 (0.27%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.41%) Shopify
5 2 (0.27%) Kondor
5 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Actimize
6 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 156 (21.11%) AWS
2 96 (12.99%) Azure
3 46 (6.22%) GitHub
4 41 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.74%) GCP
7 29 (3.92%) Serverless
8 27 (3.65%) SaaS
9 26 (3.52%) IaaS
10 25 (3.38%) Slack
11 22 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (2.71%) Miro
13 18 (2.44%) PaaS
14 17 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.35%) Figma
18 8 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 8 (1.08%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.11%) Firewall
2 21 (2.84%) HTTP
3 18 (2.44%) DNS
4 14 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.62%) DHCP
5 12 (1.62%) Network Security
6 10 (1.35%) Software-Defined Radio
6 10 (1.35%) VPN
7 9 (1.22%) Kerberos
7 9 (1.22%) SAN
7 9 (1.22%) SNMP
8 8 (1.08%) SMTP
9 6 (0.81%) POP3
10 5 (0.68%) NAS
10 5 (0.68%) Skype
11 4 (0.54%) Internet
11 4 (0.54%) SNA
11 4 (0.54%) VLAN
12 3 (0.41%) SSL
12 3 (0.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.60%) Oracle Database
2 34 (4.60%) Power BI
3 31 (4.19%) MySQL
4 26 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 23 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (2.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 18 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.03%) Big Data
9 15 (2.03%) Tableau
10 14 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.76%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (1.62%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.95%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.68%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.68%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 671 (90.80%) JIRA
2 101 (13.67%) Git
3 71 (9.61%) Bitbucket
4 70 (9.47%) Jenkins
5 40 (5.41%) GitLab
6 36 (4.87%) Cucumber
7 29 (3.92%) JUnit
8 27 (3.65%) ScriptRunner
9 25 (3.38%) Visual Studio
10 21 (2.84%) Postman
11 20 (2.71%) Selenium
12 19 (2.57%) Subversion
13 18 (2.44%) Jasmine
14 14 (1.89%) Eclipse
15 13 (1.76%) GoogleTest
15 13 (1.76%) Maven
15 13 (1.76%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (1.76%) Robot Framework
16 11 (1.49%) PVCS
17 10 (1.35%) ERwin
General
1 268 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 206 (27.88%) Finance
3 141 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (12.45%) Public Sector
5 82 (11.10%) Banking
6 31 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (2.84%) Marketing
8 18 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.89%) Retail
11 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.62%) Military
12 11 (1.49%) Automotive
12 11 (1.49%) Front Office
13 10 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.95%) Legal
15 7 (0.95%) Retail Banking
16 6 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 166 (22.46%) Analyst
2 107 (14.48%) Business Analyst
3 91 (12.31%) Developer
4 66 (8.93%) Senior
5 48 (6.50%) Project Manager
6 42 (5.68%) Lead
7 36 (4.87%) Architect
8 31 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
9 26 (3.52%) Software Engineer
10 25 (3.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 22 (2.98%) Technical Manager
12 21 (2.84%) Data Analyst
12 21 (2.84%) Technical Analyst
13 18 (2.44%) Scrum Master
14 17 (2.30%) Java Developer
14 17 (2.30%) JIRA Engineer
15 16 (2.17%) Delphi Developer
15 16 (2.17%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.14%) REST
2 34 (4.60%) Spring Boot
3 32 (4.33%) HTML
4 31 (4.19%) Spring
5 29 (3.92%) CSS
6 28 (3.79%) RESTful
7 27 (3.65%) Swagger
8 25 (3.38%) Kafka
8 25 (3.38%) SOAP
9 23 (3.11%) OpenAPI
10 18 (2.44%) JSON
10 18 (2.44%) Web Services
11 17 (2.30%) AngularJS
11 17 (2.30%) Spring Security
12 16 (2.17%) Spring Batch
13 15 (2.03%) LDAP
14 13 (1.76%) Flash
14 13 (1.76%) XML
15 11 (1.49%) Java EE
16 10 (1.35%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.23%) Product Ownership
2 28 (3.79%) Data Centre
3 18 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 17 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 16 (2.17%) Clustering
5 16 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.35%) PKI
10 9 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.22%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.95%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.81%) PMI
14 5 (0.68%) Derivative
14 5 (0.68%) IVR
14 5 (0.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 89 (12.04%) Linux
2 59 (7.98%) Windows
3 33 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (3.52%) Unix
5 20 (2.71%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.22%) Android
7 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.68%) VMS
9 5 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.68%) zOS
10 4 (0.54%) CentOS
10 4 (0.54%) Solaris
11 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.27%) Debian
12 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.14%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (59.81%) Agile
2 173 (23.41%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (20.03%) Scrum
4 139 (18.81%) DevOps
5 126 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 112 (15.16%) Project Management
7 88 (11.91%) User Stories
8 87 (11.77%) CI/CD
8 87 (11.77%) Migration
9 80 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 78 (10.55%) Test Automation
11 68 (9.20%) Analytics
12 67 (9.07%) Project Delivery
13 64 (8.66%) Validation
14 60 (8.12%) Roadmaps
15 57 (7.71%) Kanban
15 57 (7.71%) Waterfall
16 56 (7.58%) User Experience
17 55 (7.44%) Microservices
18 54 (7.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 138 (18.67%) SQL
2 102 (13.80%) Java
2 102 (13.80%) Python
3 45 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.68%) Bash
5 40 (5.41%) PL/SQL
6 29 (3.92%) Groovy
7 28 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.65%) C#
9 18 (2.44%) C++
10 16 (2.17%) Delphi
11 14 (1.89%) C
12 13 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.49%) ProC
15 8 (1.08%) Perl
16 7 (0.95%) Bicep
16 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.81%) PHP
17 6 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (22.33%) Security Cleared
2 146 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 92 (12.45%) Degree
4 22 (2.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 12 (1.62%) CCNA
10 11 (1.49%) CBAP
10 11 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 10 (1.35%) CCNP
11 10 (1.35%) PMP
11 10 (1.35%) RHCA
11 10 (1.35%) RHCE
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (1.08%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.53%) QA
2 31 (4.19%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.57%) PMO
5 18 (2.44%) GDPR
6 8 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.68%) SLA
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.54%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) NIST
8 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.41%) MiFID
9 3 (0.41%) WCAG
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
10 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.14%) P3O
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (7.58%) Docker
2 34 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 16 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (1.62%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.68%) Firmware
8 4 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.54%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.27%) NFS
10 2 (0.27%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.27%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.27%) vSphere
11 1 (0.14%) HDFS
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 49 (6.63%) Terraform
3 35 (4.74%) Ansible
4 20 (2.71%) vCenter Server
5 19 (2.57%) Puppet
5 19 (2.57%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.76%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (1.35%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.08%) Packer
9 6 (0.81%) Consul
9 6 (0.81%) WSUS
10 4 (0.54%) Control-M
10 4 (0.54%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.54%) Rancher
10 4 (0.54%) Tivoli
10 4 (0.54%) Tivoli NetView
11 3 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Netcool
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 121 (16.37%) Atlassian
2 105 (14.21%) Microsoft
3 94 (12.72%) Oracle
4 40 (5.41%) Google
5 38 (5.14%) VMware
6 31 (4.19%) Cisco
7 29 (3.92%) ServiceNow
8 25 (3.38%) IBM
9 18 (2.44%) Splunk
10 16 (2.17%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.89%) SAP
12 13 (1.76%) Commvault
13 11 (1.49%) Informatica
14 10 (1.35%) Dell
15 7 (0.95%) Adobe
15 7 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
15 7 (0.95%) Databricks
15 7 (0.95%) Intel
15 7 (0.95%) Sparx