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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 94 136
Rank change year-on-year -17 +42 -25
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,106 748 726
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 2.60% 1.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.13% 23.38% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 496 482
10th Percentile £350 £333 £358
25th Percentile £407 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.98% -0.69%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £628
90th Percentile £675 £671 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -3.37% -11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 22
10th Percentile £23.85 £53.65 £25.03
25th Percentile £48.40 £61.88 £37.56
Median hourly rate £62.75 £70.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +9.80% +10.87%
75th Percentile £72.06 £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £78.25 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% - +21.74%

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 4,232 3,199 4,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.12% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,838 2,124 2,976
10th Percentile £313 £281 £260
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £708 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 60 162
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.10 £13.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.42 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +74.53% -41.31%
75th Percentile £63.00 £67.00 £50.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.61 £30.00
% change year-on-year -34.71% +78.70% -25.00%

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 3 June 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 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 17 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 3 June 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 +3 971 £488 -4.83% 268
UK excluding London -5 608 £459 -3.37% 187
London -6 405 £525 -4.55% 122
Work from Home +16 372 £492 +9.33% 141
North of England -16 202 £446 +4.88% 29
Midlands +35 201 £459 -0.22% 29
West Midlands +23 156 £459 -10.35% 19
North West +11 107 £431 +3.73% 16
South East -39 88 £475 +5.56% 51
Yorkshire -34 87 £468 +11.64% 9
Scotland -2 55 £555 +23.33% 17
South West -27 54 £563 -2.17% 25
East Midlands +2 42 £407 +4.16% 10
East of England -36 17 £350 -24.32% 18
North East -33 8 £428 -22.27% 4
Wales -12 7 £650 +52.94% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 8

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
1 105 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.62%) SAS
3 13 (1.18%) nginx
4 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.54%) CMS
6 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.36%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.27%) Apache
7 3 (0.27%) CICS
7 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.18%) Camunda
8 2 (0.18%) Drupal
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.090%) Appian
9 1 (0.090%) Mendix
9 1 (0.090%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 75 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 69 (6.24%) Microsoft Project
4 54 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 50 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.45%) Notion
6 5 (0.45%) Trello
7 1 (0.090%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.090%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.54%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) Actimize
5 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.18%) BASE24
6 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.18%) Primavera
6 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 1 (0.090%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.090%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 247 (22.33%) AWS
2 215 (19.44%) Azure
3 121 (10.94%) GitHub
4 93 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
5 86 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 57 (5.15%) Amazon S3
7 50 (4.52%) Serverless
8 43 (3.89%) GCP
9 42 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (2.98%) SaaS
14 31 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.53%) Miro
16 27 (2.44%) Entra ID
16 27 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.90%) Figma
18 20 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.80%) Firewall
2 22 (1.99%) Network Security
3 20 (1.81%) DNS
4 19 (1.72%) WAN
5 17 (1.54%) SSL
5 17 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.36%) VPN
7 14 (1.27%) LAN
8 13 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.90%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.81%) SSH
11 8 (0.72%) Ethernet
11 8 (0.72%) HTTP
11 8 (0.72%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.63%) OpenVPN
12 7 (0.63%) PSTN
13 5 (0.45%) Modbus
13 5 (0.45%) MPLS
13 5 (0.45%) RS-232
13 5 (0.45%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.87%) Power BI
2 50 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (2.71%) Tableau
5 29 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (1.99%) DynamoDB
6 22 (1.99%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (1.81%) MongoDB
8 19 (1.72%) Metadata
9 17 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 16 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (1.08%) Big Data
12 12 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (1.08%) Pentaho
13 10 (0.90%) Relational Database
14 9 (0.81%) DocumentDB
14 9 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1,010 (91.32%) JIRA
2 137 (12.39%) Git
3 122 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 91 (8.23%) GitLab
5 57 (5.15%) Selenium
6 46 (4.16%) Bitbucket
7 32 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.80%) JUnit
9 30 (2.71%) Cucumber
9 30 (2.71%) Postman
10 29 (2.62%) JMeter
11 22 (1.99%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.81%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.81%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.72%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.63%) Zephyr
15 13 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 11 (0.99%) ScriptRunner
17 10 (0.90%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.81%) IntelliJ
General
1 445 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 314 (28.39%) Finance
3 192 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (16.37%) Banking
5 163 (14.74%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.44%) Retail
8 33 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.44%) Legal
10 25 (2.26%) Military
11 24 (2.17%) Retail Banking
12 22 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.36%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
16 12 (1.08%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.08%) Marketing
17 10 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 253 (22.88%) Analyst
2 210 (18.99%) Business Analyst
3 109 (9.86%) Senior
4 91 (8.23%) Developer
5 80 (7.23%) Architect
6 72 (6.51%) Lead
7 63 (5.70%) Project Manager
8 49 (4.43%) Scrum Master
9 47 (4.25%) Consultant
9 47 (4.25%) Data Engineer
10 40 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
11 32 (2.89%) Tester
12 29 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.17%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.08%) Technical Analyst
15 23 (2.08%) Technical Business Analyst
16 22 (1.99%) Banking Business Analyst
16 22 (1.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.25%) REST
2 44 (3.98%) Spring
3 30 (2.71%) RESTful
4 29 (2.62%) React
5 25 (2.26%) ADO
6 24 (2.17%) HTML
7 23 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 22 (1.99%) .NET
8 22 (1.99%) JSON
9 19 (1.72%) AngularJS
9 19 (1.72%) Node.js
9 19 (1.72%) WireMock
9 19 (1.72%) XML
10 18 (1.63%) SOAP
11 16 (1.45%) Kafka
11 16 (1.45%) OpenID
12 15 (1.36%) Playwright
12 15 (1.36%) PySpark
13 13 (1.18%) AWS CDK
13 13 (1.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 162 (14.65%) Product Ownership
2 52 (4.70%) Cloud Native
2 52 (4.70%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 23 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 21 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (1.90%) Management Information System
7 17 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 16 (1.45%) PMI
9 14 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 11 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 10 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 10 (0.90%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.81%) IoT
12 9 (0.81%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.41%) Linux
2 52 (4.70%) Windows
3 32 (2.89%) Unix
4 12 (1.08%) Android
5 10 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.45%) AIX
7 5 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.45%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.27%) Solaris
9 3 (0.27%) zOS
10 2 (0.18%) MVS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.090%) SUSE
11 1 (0.090%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (61.21%) Agile
2 308 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 294 (26.58%) DevOps
4 264 (23.87%) Scrum
5 262 (23.69%) CI/CD
6 218 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 175 (15.82%) Test Automation
9 173 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 172 (15.55%) User Stories
11 149 (13.47%) Migration
12 134 (12.12%) Project Management
13 117 (10.58%) Acceptance Criteria
14 115 (10.40%) Roadmaps
15 110 (9.95%) Workshop Facilitation
16 109 (9.86%) Kanban
17 106 (9.58%) Project Delivery
17 106 (9.58%) SDLC
18 104 (9.40%) Change Management
19 102 (9.22%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 173 (15.64%) SQL
2 154 (13.92%) Python
3 85 (7.69%) Java
4 52 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.62%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.53%) Bash
7 32 (2.89%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.45%) C#
10 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.99%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.90%) Groovy
12 10 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 10 (0.90%) Perl
13 8 (0.72%) C++
14 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.45%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.27%) Korn
17 3 (0.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 386 (34.90%) Security Cleared
2 321 (29.02%) SC Cleared
3 136 (12.30%) Degree
4 50 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (4.25%) PMI Certification
6 44 (3.98%) PMP
7 41 (3.71%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.98%) CISSP
9 28 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.35%) CISM
11 22 (1.99%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.72%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
13 17 (1.54%) CBAP
13 17 (1.54%) IIBA
14 16 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.99%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.90%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.50%) QA
2 58 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 56 (5.06%) PMO
4 37 (3.35%) GDPR
5 33 (2.98%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.26%) NIST
7 19 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.36%) GRC
9 14 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.90%) SLA
10 10 (0.90%) WCAG
11 7 (0.63%) Basel III
11 7 (0.63%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.54%) MiFID
12 6 (0.54%) NCSC
12 6 (0.54%) PSD2
13 5 (0.45%) HL7
14 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 90 (8.14%) Docker
2 15 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.99%) Squid
4 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.45%) Firmware
6 3 (0.27%) Ceph
6 3 (0.27%) HDFS
6 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (9.13%) Terraform
2 98 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 60 (5.42%) Ansible
4 51 (4.61%) Grafana
5 36 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.27%) Puppet
8 13 (1.18%) Consul
8 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.81%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (0.45%) Istio
12 4 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.36%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.36%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.27%) Foglight
13 3 (0.27%) Kibana
13 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 106 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.32%) Atlassian
3 79 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 67 (6.06%) Oracle
5 47 (4.25%) Salesforce
6 33 (2.98%) SAP
7 31 (2.80%) Talend
8 28 (2.53%) Denodo
9 26 (2.35%) Red Hat
10 23 (2.08%) Databricks
11 21 (1.90%) IBM
12 17 (1.54%) Splunk
13 16 (1.45%) BiZZdesign
14 15 (1.36%) Dynatrace
14 15 (1.36%) Google
15 14 (1.27%) Informatica
15 14 (1.27%) MuleSoft
16 13 (1.18%) Cisco
17 12 (1.08%) Sonatype
18 11 (0.99%) Zscaler