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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 93 117
Rank change year-on-year -35 +24 -9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,149 878 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.67% 1.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.71% 24.38% 18.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 617 528
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £407 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £671 £684 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 23
10th Percentile £44.64 £53.25 £25.26
25th Percentile £57.84 £62.50 £38.38
Median hourly rate £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £78.63 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +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 4,649 3,601 4,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 10.95% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,065 2,349 2,832
10th Percentile £300 £281 £280
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £721 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £468
% change year-on-year +2.78% -3.90% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 88 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £25.94 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +29.07% -31.77%
75th Percentile £60.08 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.86 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.19% -0.81% +56.52%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -29 1,008 £500 -2.44% 191
UK excluding London -14 612 £475 - 130
London -29 444 £540 -6.09% 81
Work from Home +15 382 £515 +8.42% 95
North of England -46 193 £475 +8.46% 38
Midlands +18 169 £459 -3.37% 19
West Midlands +14 141 £459 -3.37% 15
Yorkshire -29 101 £474 +5.69% 15
South East -38 94 £500 +3.63% 32
North West -33 87 £474 +12.86% 14
South West -14 69 £537 -6.61% 24
Scotland +2 65 £513 +1.23% 9
East Midlands -6 27 £413 +24.43% 3
East of England -18 24 £350 -23.29% 8
Wales -17 9 £650 +36.84% 3
North East -48 8 £480 -8.13% 9

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 82 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.83%) SAS
3 11 (0.96%) CMS
3 11 (0.96%) nginx
4 10 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.44%) JBoss
6 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.087%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.087%) Mule
10 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (7.75%) MS Visio
2 71 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.61%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 4 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.087%) CATIA
10 1 (0.087%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.087%) Sketch
10 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.78%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.35%) Actimize
4 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Primavera
6 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.17%) BASE24
6 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.17%) Summit
7 1 (0.087%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.087%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 270 (23.50%) Azure
2 260 (22.63%) AWS
3 125 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
4 119 (10.36%) GitHub
5 87 (7.57%) Power Platform
6 69 (6.01%) Amazon S3
7 61 (5.31%) GCP
8 53 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (4.61%) Serverless
9 48 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
10 41 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 41 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (3.48%) Miro
12 32 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (2.61%) SaaS
15 27 (2.35%) Figma
16 25 (2.18%) Entra ID
17 23 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.44%) Firewall
2 23 (2.00%) DNS
3 15 (1.31%) SSH
4 14 (1.22%) SSL
5 12 (1.04%) Network Security
5 12 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.96%) VPN
7 10 (0.87%) HTTP
7 10 (0.87%) WAN
8 6 (0.52%) Broadband
8 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) DHCP
9 5 (0.44%) LAN
9 5 (0.44%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.35%) IPv4
11 3 (0.26%) Internet
11 3 (0.26%) IPv6
11 3 (0.26%) MPLS
11 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.88%) Power BI
2 58 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 38 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.09%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.65%) Tableau
11 17 (1.48%) Metadata
11 17 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (1.22%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.13%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,036 (90.17%) JIRA
2 151 (13.14%) Git
3 110 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 95 (8.27%) GitLab
5 56 (4.87%) Bitbucket
6 49 (4.26%) Selenium
7 29 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 29 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (2.35%) Zephyr
9 25 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (2.18%) JMeter
10 24 (2.09%) JUnit
10 24 (2.09%) Postman
11 19 (1.65%) Artifactory
11 19 (1.65%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.31%) WebDriver
13 11 (0.96%) MSI
14 10 (0.87%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.78%) IntelliJ
16 8 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
General
1 469 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 333 (28.98%) Finance
3 218 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (16.54%) Public Sector
5 166 (14.45%) Banking
6 52 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (4.00%) Retail
8 39 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.09%) Legal
12 19 (1.65%) Military
12 19 (1.65%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.31%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.13%) Marketing
17 12 (1.04%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
18 9 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (20.89%) Analyst
2 178 (15.49%) Business Analyst
3 120 (10.44%) Senior
4 112 (9.75%) Developer
5 107 (9.31%) Lead
6 66 (5.74%) Architect
7 59 (5.13%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.35%) Consultant
9 44 (3.83%) Data Engineer
9 44 (3.83%) Project Manager
10 41 (3.57%) Product Owner
11 39 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
12 29 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (2.35%) Product Manager
14 24 (2.09%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (1.91%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (1.91%) Business Systems Analyst
15 22 (1.91%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (1.91%) Tester
16 21 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.61%) REST
2 43 (3.74%) .NET
3 39 (3.39%) JSON
4 29 (2.52%) AngularJS
4 29 (2.52%) HTML
4 29 (2.52%) React
4 29 (2.52%) RESTful
5 27 (2.35%) Spring
6 26 (2.26%) .NET Core
7 23 (2.00%) CSS
8 22 (1.91%) XML
9 20 (1.74%) .NET Framework
10 18 (1.57%) ADO
10 18 (1.57%) Kafka
11 16 (1.39%) Playwright
11 16 (1.39%) PySpark
11 16 (1.39%) Web Services
12 15 (1.31%) SailPoint
12 15 (1.31%) SOAP
12 15 (1.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 202 (17.58%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.87%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.52%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 20 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.74%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.13%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.04%) Clustering
13 12 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (6.53%) Linux
2 60 (5.22%) Windows
3 34 (2.96%) Unix
4 12 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.70%) Android
5 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.087%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE
11 1 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 752 (65.45%) Agile
2 373 (32.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 332 (28.89%) DevOps
4 307 (26.72%) Scrum
5 272 (23.67%) CI/CD
6 229 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (16.36%) Test Automation
9 187 (16.28%) User Stories
10 172 (14.97%) Migration
11 171 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 140 (12.18%) Sprint Planning
13 136 (11.84%) Acceptance Criteria
14 128 (11.14%) Kanban
15 125 (10.88%) SDLC
16 123 (10.70%) Business Analysis
17 120 (10.44%) User Acceptance Testing
18 118 (10.27%) Requirements Gathering
18 118 (10.27%) Workshop Facilitation
19 117 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 215 (18.71%) SQL
2 173 (15.06%) Python
3 85 (7.40%) Java
4 52 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 44 (3.83%) Bash
6 44 (3.83%) C#
6 44 (3.83%) PL/SQL
7 41 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.48%) Bicep
9 15 (1.31%) Kotlin
10 14 (1.22%) Groovy
11 10 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.78%) Perl
13 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.35%) Korn
15 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.35%) Swift
16 3 (0.26%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 403 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 337 (29.33%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.57%) Degree
4 62 (5.40%) DV Cleared
5 58 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.26%) PMP
8 23 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 18 (1.57%) CISSP
11 15 (1.31%) IIBA
11 15 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 13 (1.13%) CBAP
13 11 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.96%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.87%) CISM
15 8 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (10.53%) QA
2 63 (5.48%) PMO
3 62 (5.40%) Data Quality
4 46 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.18%) WCAG
6 19 (1.65%) NCSC
7 18 (1.57%) GDPR
8 15 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.31%) NIST
9 13 (1.13%) GRC
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.52%) SEPA
13 5 (0.44%) HL7
14 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 102 (8.88%) Docker
2 48 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.44%) Squid
5 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
6 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.26%) HDFS
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 127 (11.05%) Terraform
2 88 (7.66%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.92%) Ansible
4 56 (4.87%) Grafana
5 31 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.31%) Argo
8 8 (0.70%) Istio
8 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.70%) Puppet
9 7 (0.61%) Control-M
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.52%) SCOM
10 6 (0.52%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.44%) Consul
11 5 (0.44%) Packer
12 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 148 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.92%) ServiceNow
3 83 (7.22%) Oracle
4 79 (6.88%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.13%) SAP
7 33 (2.87%) Google
8 32 (2.79%) IBM
8 32 (2.79%) Talend
9 28 (2.44%) Denodo
10 27 (2.35%) Splunk
11 23 (2.00%) Informatica
11 23 (2.00%) VMware
12 22 (1.91%) Databricks
13 14 (1.22%) MuleSoft
14 13 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.04%) Adobe
15 12 (1.04%) Cisco
16 11 (0.96%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.87%) CyberArk