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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 102 137
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 -38
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,135 737 751
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.47% 2.52% 1.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.64% 21.94% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 492 483
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £409 £405 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -9.07% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £629
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £538
% change year-on-year -2.56% -9.30% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 20
10th Percentile £32.00 £52.07 £24.70
25th Percentile £43.40 £59.94 £39.19
Median hourly rate £63.07 £63.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% +8.51% +10.85%
75th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £77.88 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.96% +2.00% +16.82%

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 4,260 3,359 4,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.29% 11.50% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 2,239 2,877
10th Percentile £306 £270 £250
25th Percentile £404 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
75th Percentile £588 £607 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 84 172
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.83 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.48 £15.49
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +44.07% +18.00%
75th Percentile £73.94 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.09 £52.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% +118.75% +9.09%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 1,010 £500 - 226
UK excluding London +8 605 £475 -2.56% 167
London +6 435 £525 +5.00% 72
Work from Home 0 303 £478 +6.11% 109
North of England +3 204 £450 +5.88% 41
Midlands +11 164 £450 -2.17% 31
West Midlands +6 122 £450 -5.66% 19
North West +27 106 £431 +5.12% 20
South West +10 99 £725 +27.19% 21
Yorkshire -17 94 £480 +5.49% 10
South East -54 71 £500 +3.09% 50
Scotland +8 48 £525 +15.07% 4
East Midlands -12 39 £416 -0.89% 12
East of England -32 22 £400 -5.83% 15
Wales -15 5 £606 +27.63% 7
North East -17 4 £415 -13.77% 11
Northern Ireland -1 2 £458 -

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
1 100 (8.81%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.91%) nginx
3 16 (1.41%) SAS
4 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.79%) CMS
6 5 (0.44%) Apache
6 5 (0.44%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.088%) Mendix
Applications
1 109 (9.60%) Microsoft Project
2 99 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 93 (8.19%) MS Visio
4 81 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
5 72 (6.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.97%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.18%) InDesign
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.088%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.088%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.53%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.26%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.088%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 211 (18.59%) AWS
2 209 (18.41%) Azure
3 127 (11.19%) GitHub
4 93 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 41 (3.61%) GCP
7 39 (3.44%) SaaS
8 36 (3.17%) Miro
9 31 (2.73%) Amazon S3
9 31 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (2.73%) Serverless
10 30 (2.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 29 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (2.38%) Entra ID
13 25 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.85%) OpenShift
17 19 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.56%) Firewall
2 20 (1.76%) VPN
3 18 (1.59%) Network Security
3 18 (1.59%) SSL
3 18 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.59%) WAN
4 15 (1.32%) LAN
5 13 (1.15%) DNS
5 13 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.88%) Ethernet
6 10 (0.88%) Unified Communications
7 8 (0.70%) VSAN
8 7 (0.62%) Modbus
8 7 (0.62%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.62%) PSTN
8 7 (0.62%) RS-232
8 7 (0.62%) RS-485
8 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) BIG-IP
9 5 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.81%) Power BI
2 53 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (3.70%) Tableau
4 29 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.29%) Metadata
7 24 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 19 (1.67%) SQL Server
9 18 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.23%) Big Data
10 14 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.15%) DocumentDB
12 12 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.88%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.79%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.62%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.62%) Power Query
16 7 (0.62%) Relational Database
17 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,041 (91.72%) JIRA
2 140 (12.33%) Git
3 125 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 62 (5.46%) GitLab
5 48 (4.23%) Bitbucket
5 48 (4.23%) Selenium
6 33 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 29 (2.56%) JUnit
8 27 (2.38%) Cucumber
8 27 (2.38%) Postman
9 24 (2.11%) JMeter
10 23 (2.03%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.41%) WebDriver
12 13 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 13 (1.15%) ScriptRunner
13 12 (1.06%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.88%) Maven
15 9 (0.79%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.79%) Zephyr
16 8 (0.70%) Android Studio
General
1 478 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 338 (29.78%) Finance
3 215 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (17.80%) Banking
5 157 (13.83%) Public Sector
6 55 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.32%) Military
8 38 (3.35%) Retail
9 35 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.11%) Legal
11 24 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.03%) Retail Banking
13 17 (1.50%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.50%) Marketing
14 16 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
15 15 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.06%) Front Office
17 10 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 257 (22.64%) Analyst
2 220 (19.38%) Business Analyst
3 112 (9.87%) Architect
4 105 (9.25%) Senior
5 96 (8.46%) Project Manager
6 93 (8.19%) Developer
7 77 (6.78%) Lead
8 39 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
8 39 (3.44%) Scrum Master
9 38 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (3.26%) Tester
11 35 (3.08%) Consultant
12 32 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (2.73%) Technical Analyst
13 31 (2.73%) Technical Business Analyst
14 30 (2.64%) Service Architect
15 27 (2.38%) Banking Analyst
16 26 (2.29%) Banking Business Analyst
17 25 (2.20%) Technical Manager
18 24 (2.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.34%) REST
2 48 (4.23%) Spring
3 36 (3.17%) RESTful
4 27 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 26 (2.29%) Kafka
6 24 (2.11%) ADO
6 24 (2.11%) HTML
7 22 (1.94%) JSON
7 22 (1.94%) React
8 21 (1.85%) Node.js
9 20 (1.76%) .NET
10 18 (1.59%) Playwright
10 18 (1.59%) WireMock
11 17 (1.50%) OAuth
11 17 (1.50%) SOAP
12 15 (1.32%) XML
13 14 (1.23%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.23%) OpenID
13 14 (1.23%) Swagger
14 13 (1.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 188 (16.56%) Product Ownership
2 55 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 21 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.67%) PMI
8 18 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.79%) IoT
14 9 (0.79%) Reference Data
14 9 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.55%) Linux
2 48 (4.23%) Windows
3 15 (1.32%) Android
4 14 (1.23%) Unix
5 11 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (63.61%) Agile
2 320 (28.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 306 (26.96%) DevOps
4 274 (24.14%) Scrum
5 233 (20.53%) CI/CD
6 227 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 180 (15.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 176 (15.51%) User Stories
10 168 (14.80%) Project Management
11 148 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
12 131 (11.54%) Test Automation
13 126 (11.10%) Migration
14 124 (10.93%) Roadmaps
15 120 (10.57%) Change Management
16 118 (10.40%) Kanban
16 118 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
17 114 (10.04%) Decision-Making
17 114 (10.04%) Project Delivery
18 106 (9.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 159 (14.01%) Python
2 138 (12.16%) SQL
3 87 (7.67%) Java
4 63 (5.55%) JavaScript
5 56 (4.93%) PowerShell
6 37 (3.26%) Bash
7 27 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.67%) C#
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.88%) C++
10 10 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.62%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.53%) Perl
14 4 (0.35%) C
14 4 (0.35%) Groovy
14 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 390 (34.36%) Security Cleared
2 332 (29.25%) SC Cleared
3 181 (15.95%) Degree
4 54 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 53 (4.67%) PMP
6 52 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 45 (3.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 36 (3.17%) CISSP
9 28 (2.47%) CISM
10 25 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (2.11%) DV Cleared
11 24 (2.11%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.67%) CBAP
12 19 (1.67%) IIBA
13 17 (1.50%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
15 12 (1.06%) MBA
16 9 (0.79%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.70%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.37%) QA
2 45 (3.96%) PMO
3 44 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 42 (3.70%) GDPR
5 26 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.29%) NIST
6 21 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.67%) GRC
8 12 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.79%) Basel III
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.53%) MiFID
11 6 (0.53%) PSD2
12 5 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.44%) HL7
12 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.35%) P3O
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (8.63%) Docker
2 16 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 16 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.88%) Squid
4 7 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.62%) Firmware
4 7 (0.62%) vSphere
5 3 (0.26%) HDFS
6 2 (0.18%) Ceph
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.18%) Postfix
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 121 (10.66%) Kubernetes
2 86 (7.58%) Terraform
3 63 (5.55%) Ansible
4 37 (3.26%) Grafana
5 30 (2.64%) OPNET
6 27 (2.38%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.94%) Consul
8 21 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (1.50%) Puppet
10 16 (1.41%) Packer
11 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.97%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.88%) vRealize
13 9 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.62%) VxRail
16 6 (0.53%) Istio
17 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 5 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
18 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (12.78%) Atlassian
2 109 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 99 (8.72%) ServiceNow
4 53 (4.67%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.08%) Oracle
6 34 (3.00%) Remedy
7 33 (2.91%) SAP
8 30 (2.64%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
9 21 (1.85%) Databricks
10 20 (1.76%) Splunk
11 18 (1.59%) IBM
12 17 (1.50%) Commvault
12 17 (1.50%) VMware
13 16 (1.41%) Cisco
13 16 (1.41%) Google
13 16 (1.41%) Sonatype
14 14 (1.23%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.97%) HP
15 11 (0.97%) Zscaler