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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 99 128
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 -35
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,058 775 849
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.67% 2.52% 1.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.99% 21.89% 19.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 475 562
10th Percentile £325 £313 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -6.42% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £628
90th Percentile £727 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £544
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.05% +0.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 28
10th Percentile £26.33 £55.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £27.21 £60.38 £52.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £64.38 £70.47
90th Percentile £80.05 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £67.56
% change year-on-year -30.83% -7.49% +26.28%

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 3,920 3,540 4,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 11.50% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 2,179 2,886
10th Percentile £300 £254 £250
25th Percentile £400 £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £600
90th Percentile £693 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 68 169
10th Percentile £15.20 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.81 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +49.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £51.19
90th Percentile £81.60 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £48.16 £24.00
% change year-on-year -43.50% +100.66% +29.73%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +9 944 £500 -2.44% 212
UK excluding London +6 562 £475 -5.00% 163
London -9 409 £550 +6.59% 67
Work from Home -15 260 £475 - 114
North of England +16 206 £450 -10.00% 37
Midlands +7 116 £425 -10.90% 32
Yorkshire -15 111 £500 -7.41% 15
South West +12 99 £725 +26.09% 29
North West +29 88 £404 -10.33% 22
South East -32 79 £500 +5.26% 47
West Midlands -2 76 £450 -5.66% 23
Scotland +20 47 £456 +14.06% 3
East Midlands +1 39 £393 -6.43% 9
East of England -26 19 £425 +4.68% 18
North East -11 7 £425 -5.56% 1
Wales -2 3 £400 -24.17%
Northern Ireland -2 2 £458 - 2

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 89 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.50%) nginx
3 15 (1.42%) CMS
4 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.85%) SAS
6 8 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.28%) Traefik
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) FileNet
10 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.095%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 108 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 108 (10.21%) Microsoft Project
2 100 (9.45%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (8.51%) MS Visio
4 74 (6.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.23%) Trello
6 6 (0.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.47%) Notion
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.19%) InDesign
8 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.095%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.095%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.095%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.095%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.66%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Summit
7 1 (0.095%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.095%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.095%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 170 (16.07%) AWS
2 162 (15.31%) Azure
3 123 (11.63%) GitHub
4 74 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (5.67%) Power Platform
6 32 (3.02%) GCP
7 31 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (2.93%) Miro
8 29 (2.74%) SaaS
9 28 (2.65%) Serverless
10 27 (2.55%) Amazon S3
11 26 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (2.17%) Figma
15 21 (1.98%) Lucidchart
16 20 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.80%) Slack
18 18 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.78%) Firewall
2 21 (1.98%) SSH
2 21 (1.98%) VPN
3 20 (1.89%) DNS
4 19 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.70%) WAN
6 17 (1.61%) Network Security
7 13 (1.23%) LAN
7 13 (1.23%) SSL
8 12 (1.13%) FTP
9 11 (1.04%) HTTP
10 10 (0.95%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.85%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.85%) SMTP
11 9 (0.85%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.85%) VSAN
11 9 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.66%) Modbus
12 7 (0.66%) RS-232
12 7 (0.66%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.91%) Power BI
2 46 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (4.25%) Tableau
4 33 (3.12%) NoSQL
5 21 (1.98%) Metadata
5 21 (1.98%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.70%) Big Data
9 16 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.23%) DocumentDB
10 13 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.95%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.76%) Redis
14 7 (0.66%) Tick Data
15 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.57%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 971 (91.78%) JIRA
2 132 (12.48%) Jenkins
3 97 (9.17%) Git
4 59 (5.58%) GitLab
5 48 (4.54%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.69%) Selenium
7 30 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 27 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (2.46%) Postman
10 22 (2.08%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.51%) JUnit
12 12 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.04%) Maven
14 9 (0.85%) Android Studio
14 9 (0.85%) ScriptRunner
15 8 (0.76%) Vagrant
16 7 (0.66%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.57%) Zephyr
18 5 (0.47%) Artifactory
General
1 470 (44.42%) Social Skills
2 330 (31.19%) Finance
3 208 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (17.39%) Banking
5 136 (12.85%) Public Sector
6 54 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (4.54%) Military
8 32 (3.02%) Retail
9 28 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.27%) Retail Banking
12 23 (2.17%) Investment Banking
13 21 (1.98%) Legal
13 21 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.51%) Front Office
15 16 (1.51%) Marketing
16 15 (1.42%) Automotive
17 14 (1.32%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (22.87%) Analyst
2 205 (19.38%) Business Analyst
3 112 (10.59%) Architect
4 102 (9.64%) Project Manager
5 84 (7.94%) Developer
6 80 (7.56%) Senior
7 73 (6.90%) Lead
8 48 (4.54%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.21%) Scrum Master
9 34 (3.21%) Technical Business Analyst
10 33 (3.12%) Technical Analyst
11 31 (2.93%) Tester
12 30 (2.84%) Service Architect
13 29 (2.74%) Consultant
13 29 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
14 28 (2.65%) Senior Business Analyst
15 24 (2.27%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (2.27%) Product Owner
16 23 (2.17%) Banking Business Analyst
17 22 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.52%) REST
2 46 (4.35%) RESTful
3 37 (3.50%) Kafka
4 31 (2.93%) .NET
5 30 (2.84%) Spring
6 29 (2.74%) HTML
7 25 (2.36%) JSON
8 23 (2.17%) SOAP
8 23 (2.17%) Spring Boot
9 20 (1.89%) Node.js
10 19 (1.80%) Playwright
11 17 (1.61%) React
11 17 (1.61%) XML
12 16 (1.51%) OAuth
13 15 (1.42%) LDAP
13 15 (1.42%) YAML
14 14 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (1.32%) Swagger
15 13 (1.23%) ADO
15 13 (1.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 182 (17.20%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 47 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 30 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.08%) PMI
6 22 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 21 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.98%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.95%) NHS
14 9 (0.85%) Equities
14 9 (0.85%) Reference Data
14 9 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.75%) Linux
2 65 (6.14%) Windows
3 21 (1.98%) Unix
4 16 (1.51%) Android
5 12 (1.13%) VMS
6 8 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.095%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.095%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (61.72%) Agile
2 309 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 269 (25.43%) DevOps
4 246 (23.25%) Scrum
5 218 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
6 187 (17.67%) CI/CD
7 172 (16.26%) User Stories
8 168 (15.88%) Project Management
9 161 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 150 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 141 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
12 116 (10.96%) Change Management
13 113 (10.68%) Roadmaps
14 112 (10.59%) Project Delivery
15 109 (10.30%) Decision-Making
16 108 (10.21%) Migration
16 108 (10.21%) Test Automation
17 107 (10.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 105 (9.92%) Workshop Facilitation
19 97 (9.17%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 153 (14.46%) Python
2 122 (11.53%) SQL
3 75 (7.09%) Java
4 60 (5.67%) PowerShell
5 56 (5.29%) JavaScript
6 28 (2.65%) Bash
7 23 (2.17%) C#
8 21 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.23%) Go
10 9 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.85%) C++
11 8 (0.76%) Groovy
12 7 (0.66%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.47%) Perl
15 3 (0.28%) C
15 3 (0.28%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 295 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 246 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 218 (20.60%) Degree
4 57 (5.39%) PMI Certification
5 51 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 50 (4.73%) PMP
7 45 (4.25%) CISSP
8 41 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (3.31%) CISM
9 35 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (2.84%) Master's Degree
11 27 (2.55%) DV Cleared
12 22 (2.08%) CBAP
13 18 (1.70%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.42%) IIBA
15 12 (1.13%) CSPO
15 12 (1.13%) MBA
16 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
17 10 (0.95%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.17%) QA
2 37 (3.50%) GDPR
3 36 (3.40%) PMO
4 29 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 28 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.80%) NIST
7 13 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.13%) PSD2
9 11 (1.04%) GRC
10 9 (0.85%) Basel III
11 8 (0.76%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.76%) WCAG
12 5 (0.47%) NCSC
12 5 (0.47%) SEPA
12 5 (0.47%) SLA
13 4 (0.38%) COBIT
13 4 (0.38%) MiFID
13 4 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 91 (8.60%) Docker
2 18 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.23%) Squid
5 10 (0.95%) vSphere
6 8 (0.76%) DFS Replication
6 8 (0.76%) Postfix
7 7 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.66%) Firmware
8 6 (0.57%) Dovecot
9 5 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.095%) etcd
12 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 96 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 75 (7.09%) Terraform
3 59 (5.58%) Ansible
4 32 (3.02%) Grafana
5 30 (2.84%) OPNET
6 21 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.89%) Consul
8 17 (1.61%) Packer
9 14 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.13%) NetBackup
11 11 (1.04%) Puppet
12 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.95%) vRealize
13 7 (0.66%) VxRail
14 6 (0.57%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.57%) Nessus
14 6 (0.57%) Proxmox
15 5 (0.47%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.47%) Istio
15 5 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 126 (11.91%) Atlassian
2 113 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.43%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.73%) Oracle
5 48 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.59%) Remedy
7 31 (2.93%) BiZZdesign
8 27 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 22 (2.08%) VMware
10 21 (1.98%) SAP
11 20 (1.89%) IBM
12 19 (1.80%) Cisco
12 19 (1.80%) Commvault
13 18 (1.70%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.61%) Google
14 17 (1.61%) HP
15 16 (1.51%) Splunk
16 15 (1.42%) CyberArk
17 14 (1.32%) Dell
18 13 (1.23%) CheckPoint