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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 130 111
Rank change year-on-year +34 -19 -28
Contract jobs citing Confluence 823 762 1,275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.67% 1.77% 2.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.90% 17.40% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 517 865
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £410 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £644
90th Percentile £675 £725 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 22
10th Percentile £54.80 £25.28 £38.63
25th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.75% -6.93%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £80.50 £75.00 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%

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 3,443 4,379 5,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.17% 10.14% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,227 3,048 4,086
10th Percentile £290 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £644
90th Percentile £713 £789 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 162 159
10th Percentile £18.27 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.39 £16.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -38.83% +128.26%
75th Percentile £68.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.06 £32.12 £46.75
% change year-on-year +65.20% -31.30% +133.75%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +42 676 £513 -2.38% 1,853
UK excluding London +24 394 £475 -9.52% 1,072
London +51 326 £550 +2.33% 938
Work from Home +13 255 £455 -10.43% 904
North of England +43 139 £425 -15.00% 260
Yorkshire +27 68 £419 -16.25% 106
North West +32 64 £420 -16.42% 143
South East +15 63 £490 +18.07% 276
Scotland -12 61 £450 -21.74% 79
Midlands +51 54 £468 +24.79% 160
South West -7 48 £575 +4.31% 127
West Midlands +36 37 £475 -13.64% 109
East of England +21 22 £463 +12.12% 127
East Midlands +11 16 £333 -6.33% 48
North East +8 13 £538 +11.98% 12
Wales +15 9 £475 -13.64% 29

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 42 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.43%) nginx
3 18 (2.19%) Apache
4 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.73%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.61%) CMS
7 4 (0.49%) Drupal
7 4 (0.49%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.49%) WordPress
8 3 (0.36%) IIS
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.24%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.12%) Appian
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Mattermost
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 69 (8.38%) MS Visio
2 57 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (3.04%) Microsoft Project
6 23 (2.79%) Trello
7 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.24%) InVision
7 2 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.24%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.46%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.36%) Shopify
3 3 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.12%) Actimize
5 1 (0.12%) Primavera
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 185 (22.48%) AWS
2 114 (13.85%) Azure
3 60 (7.29%) GitHub
4 47 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (4.98%) GCP
6 38 (4.62%) Power Platform
6 38 (4.62%) SaaS
7 35 (4.25%) Serverless
8 27 (3.28%) IaaS
9 25 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (3.04%) Miro
10 18 (2.19%) PaaS
11 17 (2.07%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.70%) Slack
13 13 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.46%) Lucidchart
15 11 (1.34%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.10%) DNS
2 36 (4.37%) Firewall
3 24 (2.92%) VPN
4 20 (2.43%) DHCP
5 16 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.70%) HTTP
6 14 (1.70%) SMTP
7 13 (1.58%) SSL
8 11 (1.34%) BGP
8 11 (1.34%) Unified Communications
8 11 (1.34%) VLAN
9 8 (0.97%) IPsec
9 8 (0.97%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.97%) Network Security
10 7 (0.85%) MPLS
10 7 (0.85%) SAN
11 6 (0.73%) SNMP
12 5 (0.61%) FTP
12 5 (0.61%) Internet
12 5 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.89%) Oracle Database
1 32 (3.89%) Power BI
2 29 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.31%) Big Data
4 19 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.07%) Data Lake
6 16 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.94%) MySQL
7 13 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.09%) Tableau
11 7 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 734 (89.19%) JIRA
2 114 (13.85%) Git
3 81 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 74 (8.99%) Bitbucket
5 39 (4.74%) GitLab
6 29 (3.52%) ScriptRunner
7 24 (2.92%) Selenium
8 21 (2.55%) Subversion
9 19 (2.31%) Maven
10 17 (2.07%) Cucumber
10 17 (2.07%) JUnit
11 15 (1.82%) Visual Studio
12 14 (1.70%) Gradle
12 14 (1.70%) Postman
13 13 (1.58%) Oracle Forms
14 12 (1.46%) Vagrant
15 11 (1.34%) PVCS
15 11 (1.34%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.34%) SonarQube
15 11 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 330 (40.10%) Social Skills
2 221 (26.85%) Finance
3 145 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (12.39%) Banking
5 101 (12.27%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.19%) Front Office
8 18 (2.19%) Marketing
8 18 (2.19%) Retail
9 15 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.70%) Military
11 11 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.22%) Automotive
12 10 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.09%) Legal
14 8 (0.97%) Back Office
14 8 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 186 (22.60%) Analyst
2 152 (18.47%) Business Analyst
3 85 (10.33%) Developer
4 62 (7.53%) Project Manager
5 61 (7.41%) Senior
6 55 (6.68%) Lead
7 44 (5.35%) Architect
8 32 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
9 25 (3.04%) Administrator
9 25 (3.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (3.04%) Software Engineer
10 23 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (2.43%) Data Analyst
11 20 (2.43%) Technical Manager
12 19 (2.31%) Technical Analyst
13 18 (2.19%) Scrum Master
13 18 (2.19%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.94%) JIRA Engineer
14 16 (1.94%) Product Owner
15 15 (1.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.59%) REST
2 35 (4.25%) HTML
3 33 (4.01%) AngularJS
4 32 (3.89%) CSS
5 28 (3.40%) React
6 27 (3.28%) Kafka
7 25 (3.04%) SOAP
8 23 (2.79%) Web Services
9 21 (2.55%) Spring Boot
10 20 (2.43%) LDAP
11 18 (2.19%) .NET
12 17 (2.07%) JSON
12 17 (2.07%) Node.js
12 17 (2.07%) RESTful
13 15 (1.82%) Spring
14 14 (1.70%) jQuery
14 14 (1.70%) XML
15 12 (1.46%) HTML5
15 12 (1.46%) SAML
16 11 (1.34%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 98 (11.91%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 23 (2.79%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 18 (2.19%) PKI
7 14 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.46%) Clustering
9 11 (1.34%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.34%) Derivative
10 10 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.22%) Mainframe
11 8 (0.97%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.97%) Replication
12 7 (0.85%) Equities
12 7 (0.85%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 82 (9.96%) Linux
2 59 (7.17%) Windows
3 22 (2.67%) Unix
4 20 (2.43%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.34%) Android
7 10 (1.22%) VMS
8 7 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.61%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.61%) zOS
11 4 (0.49%) CentOS
11 4 (0.49%) Debian
11 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.36%) Solaris
13 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (64.28%) Agile
2 182 (22.11%) Scrum
3 171 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
4 163 (19.81%) DevOps
5 139 (16.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 123 (14.95%) Migration
7 113 (13.73%) Project Management
8 95 (11.54%) User Stories
9 93 (11.30%) CI/CD
9 93 (11.30%) Validation
10 88 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 75 (9.11%) Roadmaps
13 74 (8.99%) Change Management
14 72 (8.75%) Analytics
15 70 (8.51%) Microservices
16 68 (8.26%) Project Delivery
17 66 (8.02%) Business Analysis
18 65 (7.90%) Service Management
19 63 (7.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (15.92%) SQL
2 116 (14.09%) Java
3 110 (13.37%) Python
4 53 (6.44%) JavaScript
5 38 (4.62%) Groovy
6 35 (4.25%) PowerShell
7 27 (3.28%) Bash
7 27 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 21 (2.55%) C#
9 20 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 17 (2.07%) C++
11 15 (1.82%) Perl
12 14 (1.70%) C
13 11 (1.34%) ProC
14 10 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.97%) Bicep
15 8 (0.97%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.85%) Delphi
17 6 (0.73%) PHP
18 5 (0.61%) JCL
Qualifications
1 184 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 166 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 101 (12.27%) Degree
4 24 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 18 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 17 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.82%) CCNP
8 15 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.70%) PMP
10 13 (1.58%) CBAP
11 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (1.22%) OCA
14 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.09%) CCNA
15 8 (0.97%) IIBA
16 7 (0.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.02%) QA
2 25 (3.04%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.70%) PMO
5 11 (1.34%) GDPR
6 8 (0.97%) MiFID
6 8 (0.97%) SLA
7 6 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.61%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.36%) COBIT
9 3 (0.36%) EMIR
9 3 (0.36%) GxP
9 3 (0.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) SEPA
9 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) ITGC
10 2 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (6.80%) Docker
2 40 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (3.52%) Active Directory
4 22 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.09%) vSphere
7 8 (0.97%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.61%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.61%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.24%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.24%) Firmware
12 2 (0.24%) NFS
12 2 (0.24%) Postfix
12 2 (0.24%) Squid
12 2 (0.24%) Veritas File System
12 2 (0.24%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 66 (8.02%) Terraform
2 59 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 46 (5.59%) Ansible
4 22 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (2.43%) Puppet
5 20 (2.43%) vCenter Server
6 16 (1.94%) Packer
7 14 (1.70%) Consul
8 13 (1.58%) Oracle RMAN
8 13 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.09%) Grafana
9 9 (1.09%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.97%) Tivoli
11 6 (0.73%) WSUS
12 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.49%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.49%) Nessus
12 4 (0.49%) Tivoli NetView
13 3 (0.36%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.36%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 117 (14.22%) Atlassian
2 92 (11.18%) Microsoft
3 78 (9.48%) Oracle
4 50 (6.08%) ServiceNow
5 49 (5.95%) VMware
6 38 (4.62%) Cisco
7 36 (4.37%) Google
8 23 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 20 (2.43%) IBM
10 17 (2.07%) Splunk
11 16 (1.94%) SAP
12 13 (1.58%) Commvault
12 13 (1.58%) HP
13 11 (1.34%) Citrix
13 11 (1.34%) Dell
13 11 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.09%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.09%) Palantir
14 9 (1.09%) Veeam
15 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft