Confluence Contract Job Trends

Confluence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 100 104
Rank change year-on-year -30 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,145 863 830
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.61% 2.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.40% 24.33% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 602 532
10th Percentile £377 £317 £332
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £638
90th Percentile £675 £687 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.09% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 17
10th Percentile £42.87 £47.75 £28.87
25th Percentile £60.31 £59.38 £54.63
Median hourly rate £67.47 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.04% -3.57% +12.00%

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 4,693 3,547 4,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 10.73% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,047 2,288 2,685
10th Percentile £286 £276 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £649
90th Percentile £681 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +3.06% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 88 81
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.81 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.81 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.70 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.01% -5.41% -22.43%
75th Percentile £55.63 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.81 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -17.14% -27.92% +6.73%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Confluence job vacancy trend in the UK

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 16 Contract Job 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 September 2026. 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 -31 979 £506 -1.27% 606
UK excluding London -22 594 £480 +1.05% 349
London -32 448 £540 -6.09% 317
Work from Home +24 370 £525 +5.00% 293
North of England -44 182 £475 +4.17% 78
Midlands +13 149 £469 -1.26% 37
West Midlands +13 127 £469 -1.26% 27
Yorkshire -17 103 £475 -0.11% 26
South East -42 85 £475 +5.56% 92
Scotland +4 83 £425 -8.11% 40
North West -42 71 £472 +10.02% 42
South West -9 67 £550 -4.35% 51
East of England -4 31 £491 +6.16% 34
East Midlands -11 21 £427 +31.38% 10
North East -44 11 £375 -27.88% 10
Wales -10 8 £650 +52.94% 3

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 60 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) SAS
3 14 (1.22%) Apache
4 12 (1.05%) nginx
5 10 (0.87%) Camunda
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
6 9 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.52%) Traefik
8 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.44%) CICS
9 4 (0.35%) JBoss
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) Appian
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.087%) Mule
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 70 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.63%) Microsoft Project
4 34 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
7 5 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.087%) CATIA
11 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.087%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.087%) OneSumX
8 1 (0.087%) Shopify
8 1 (0.087%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 265 (23.14%) AWS
2 261 (22.79%) Azure
3 131 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
4 105 (9.17%) GitHub
5 88 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 74 (6.46%) Amazon S3
7 61 (5.33%) GCP
8 55 (4.80%) Miro
9 54 (4.72%) Serverless
10 49 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (2.53%) Figma
14 29 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.10%) SaaS
17 23 (2.01%) Entra ID
18 21 (1.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.06%) Firewall
2 32 (2.79%) DNS
3 16 (1.40%) SSH
3 16 (1.40%) SSL
4 13 (1.14%) HTTP
4 13 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.05%) WAN
6 11 (0.96%) Network Security
7 10 (0.87%) DHCP
7 10 (0.87%) VPN
8 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) Internet
9 6 (0.52%) IPv4
10 5 (0.44%) IPv6
10 5 (0.44%) VLAN
11 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.35%) MPLS
11 4 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.07%) Power BI
2 66 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 33 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (2.79%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.18%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.10%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.10%) Metadata
8 21 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (1.75%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.14%) MySQL
13 13 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.14%) Tableau
14 12 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,047 (91.44%) JIRA
2 151 (13.19%) Git
3 105 (9.17%) GitLab
4 103 (9.00%) Jenkins
5 47 (4.10%) Bitbucket
6 35 (3.06%) Selenium
7 32 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 29 (2.53%) JUnit
9 28 (2.45%) Zephyr
10 24 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 22 (1.92%) Cucumber
11 22 (1.92%) Maven
11 22 (1.92%) Postman
12 20 (1.75%) Mockito
12 20 (1.75%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.57%) Artifactory
13 18 (1.57%) REST Assured
14 16 (1.40%) JMeter
15 15 (1.31%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.96%) MSI
General
1 467 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 325 (28.38%) Finance
3 218 (19.04%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (17.82%) Public Sector
5 160 (13.97%) Banking
6 52 (4.54%) Retail
7 46 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.75%) Military
13 17 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.31%) Legal
14 15 (1.31%) Marketing
14 15 (1.31%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (0.96%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 234 (20.44%) Analyst
2 165 (14.41%) Business Analyst
3 119 (10.39%) Developer
4 116 (10.13%) Senior
5 107 (9.34%) Lead
6 63 (5.50%) Scrum Master
7 62 (5.41%) Architect
8 47 (4.10%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.76%) Consultant
9 43 (3.76%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.67%) Product Manager
11 39 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.97%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.18%) Java Developer
16 24 (2.10%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (2.10%) Technical Manager
17 22 (1.92%) Senior Developer
18 20 (1.75%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (9.96%) Terraform
2 92 (8.03%) REST
3 43 (3.76%) HTML
4 40 (3.49%) .NET
5 39 (3.41%) JSON
6 38 (3.32%) RESTful
7 35 (3.06%) React
7 35 (3.06%) SOAP
8 34 (2.97%) AngularJS
8 34 (2.97%) CSS
9 30 (2.62%) Spring Boot
10 29 (2.53%) Web Services
11 27 (2.36%) Spring
12 26 (2.27%) Kafka
13 25 (2.18%) .NET Core
14 23 (2.01%) Hibernate
15 20 (1.75%) JPA
15 20 (1.75%) XML
16 19 (1.66%) Playwright
17 18 (1.57%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 223 (19.48%) Product Ownership
2 81 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 61 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 26 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.57%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.40%) PKI
13 14 (1.22%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.05%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 11 (0.96%) Clustering
17 10 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (5.59%) Linux
2 60 (5.24%) Windows
3 33 (2.88%) Unix
4 13 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.79%) Android
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.44%) zOS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.087%) CentOS
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 749 (65.41%) Agile
2 392 (34.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 337 (29.43%) DevOps
4 316 (27.60%) Scrum
5 275 (24.02%) CI/CD
6 236 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 236 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (18.08%) User Stories
8 194 (16.94%) Migration
9 189 (16.51%) Test Automation
10 168 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 154 (13.45%) Sprint Planning
12 136 (11.88%) Acceptance Criteria
12 136 (11.88%) Business Analysis
13 135 (11.79%) SDLC
14 129 (11.27%) AI
15 126 (11.00%) Kanban
15 126 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
16 123 (10.74%) Requirements Gathering
17 117 (10.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 235 (20.52%) SQL
2 155 (13.54%) Python
3 94 (8.21%) Java
4 54 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 53 (4.63%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.76%) PL/SQL
8 42 (3.67%) Bash
8 42 (3.67%) C#
9 16 (1.40%) Bicep
9 16 (1.40%) Groovy
10 13 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.05%) Perl
12 11 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.79%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.52%) Go
15 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.35%) JCL
16 4 (0.35%) Swift
17 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 391 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 323 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.69%) Degree
4 72 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 68 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.88%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.36%) PMP
8 26 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 14 (1.22%) CISSP
13 12 (1.05%) IIBA
14 11 (0.96%) CBAP
14 11 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.79%) CISM
17 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
18 5 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (11.79%) QA
2 80 (6.99%) Data Quality
3 59 (5.15%) PMO
4 48 (4.19%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.18%) WCAG
6 21 (1.83%) NCSC
7 12 (1.05%) GDPR
7 12 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.96%) NIST
9 9 (0.79%) GRC
9 9 (0.79%) SLA
10 8 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.61%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.61%) SEPA
12 4 (0.35%) MiFID
12 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.26%) EMIR
13 3 (0.26%) GxP
13 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 102 (8.91%) Docker
2 50 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.52%) vSphere
6 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.35%) Squid
7 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.94%) Ansible
3 56 (4.89%) Grafana
4 34 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.40%) Argo
7 14 (1.22%) Control-M
8 11 (0.96%) Istio
9 8 (0.70%) Packer
10 7 (0.61%) SCOM
10 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.35%) Consul
13 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.35%) Podman
13 4 (0.35%) WSUS
14 3 (0.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 149 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.95%) Oracle
3 90 (7.86%) ServiceNow
4 62 (5.41%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.32%) Google
6 38 (3.32%) IBM
7 33 (2.88%) VMware
8 29 (2.53%) Splunk
9 28 (2.45%) Talend
10 26 (2.27%) SAP
11 25 (2.18%) Denodo
12 23 (2.01%) Informatica
13 19 (1.66%) Databricks
14 14 (1.22%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.05%) Cisco
15 12 (1.05%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.96%) Adobe
16 11 (0.96%) Remedy
17 10 (0.87%) BMC