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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 101 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +26 -34
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,054 783 840
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.65% 2.53% 1.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.94% 21.96% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 482 556
10th Percentile £325 £313 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.75% -1.14%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £727 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £507 £544
% change year-on-year -6.89% -6.67% +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 3,912 3,565 4,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 11.51% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,705 2,196 2,860
10th Percentile £300 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £600
90th Percentile £694 £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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +12 942 £500 -3.01% 214
UK excluding London +13 564 £473 -6.89% 163
London -12 404 £550 +6.59% 69
Work from Home -16 259 £463 -2.63% 117
North of England +11 208 £450 -10.00% 37
Midlands +8 117 £425 -10.90% 32
Yorkshire -15 110 £500 -7.41% 15
South West +10 99 £725 +26.09% 29
North West +32 91 £405 -10.00% 22
South East -24 79 £500 +4.17% 47
West Midlands -2 77 £446 -6.45% 23
Scotland +15 46 £450 +9.09% 3
East Midlands +1 38 £398 -5.36% 9
East of England -29 19 £425 +4.68% 18
North East -12 7 £425 -5.56% 1
Wales -2 3 £400 -24.17%
Northern Ireland -3 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 90 (8.54%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.51%) 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
1 109 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
2 105 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (9.39%) Microsoft Office
4 88 (8.35%) MS Visio
5 75 (7.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.23%) Trello
7 6 (0.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.47%) Notion
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.19%) InDesign
9 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.095%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.095%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.095%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.095%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.52%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.95%) 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%) Endur
7 1 (0.095%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.095%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.095%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.095%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 168 (15.94%) AWS
2 159 (15.09%) Azure
3 122 (11.57%) GitHub
4 73 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 31 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (2.94%) Miro
7 30 (2.85%) GCP
8 29 (2.75%) SaaS
9 28 (2.66%) Serverless
10 27 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 26 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (2.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (2.09%) Figma
15 21 (1.99%) Lucidchart
16 20 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.80%) Slack
18 18 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.89%) Firewall
2 21 (1.99%) VPN
3 20 (1.90%) DNS
3 20 (1.90%) SSH
4 19 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.80%) WAN
5 17 (1.61%) Network Security
6 13 (1.23%) LAN
7 12 (1.14%) FTP
7 12 (1.14%) SSL
8 11 (1.04%) HTTP
8 11 (1.04%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.95%) Ethernet
9 10 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.85%) SMTP
10 9 (0.85%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.85%) VSAN
11 7 (0.66%) Modbus
11 7 (0.66%) RS-232
11 7 (0.66%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.03%) Power BI
2 46 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (4.08%) Tableau
4 33 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 21 (1.99%) Metadata
5 21 (1.99%) SQL Server
6 20 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.71%) Big Data
9 16 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.23%) DocumentDB
10 13 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.04%) 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
1 968 (91.84%) JIRA
2 131 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 97 (9.20%) Git
4 59 (5.60%) GitLab
5 48 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.70%) Selenium
7 30 (2.85%) SonarQube
8 27 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (2.47%) Postman
10 22 (2.09%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.52%) JUnit
12 12 (1.14%) 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
1 468 (44.40%) Social Skills
2 325 (30.83%) Finance
3 206 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 182 (17.27%) Banking
5 139 (13.19%) Public Sector
6 54 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (4.55%) Military
8 31 (2.94%) Retail
9 28 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.37%) Retail Banking
12 22 (2.09%) Investment Banking
13 21 (1.99%) Legal
13 21 (1.99%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.52%) Marketing
15 15 (1.42%) Automotive
15 15 (1.42%) Front Office
16 14 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (22.87%) Analyst
2 204 (19.35%) Business Analyst
3 112 (10.63%) Architect
4 102 (9.68%) Project Manager
5 83 (7.87%) Senior
6 82 (7.78%) Developer
7 72 (6.83%) Lead
8 48 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.23%) Scrum Master
9 34 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
10 33 (3.13%) Technical Analyst
11 31 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 31 (2.94%) Tester
12 30 (2.85%) Senior Business Analyst
12 30 (2.85%) Service Architect
13 29 (2.75%) Consultant
14 24 (2.28%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.28%) Product Owner
15 23 (2.18%) Banking Business Analyst
16 21 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.55%) REST
2 46 (4.36%) RESTful
3 37 (3.51%) Kafka
4 31 (2.94%) .NET
5 30 (2.85%) Spring
6 29 (2.75%) HTML
7 25 (2.37%) JSON
8 23 (2.18%) SOAP
8 23 (2.18%) Spring Boot
9 20 (1.90%) Node.js
10 19 (1.80%) Playwright
11 17 (1.61%) React
11 17 (1.61%) XML
12 16 (1.52%) OAuth
13 15 (1.42%) LDAP
13 15 (1.42%) YAML
14 14 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (1.33%) Swagger
15 13 (1.23%) ADO
15 13 (1.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 179 (16.98%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.46%) Cloud Native
2 47 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 30 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (2.09%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (1.99%) Mobile App
5 21 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 19 (1.80%) PMI
7 17 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (0.95%) NHS
12 9 (0.85%) Equities
12 9 (0.85%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.85%) Replication
12 9 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.78%) Linux
2 65 (6.17%) Windows
3 21 (1.99%) Unix
4 16 (1.52%) Android
5 12 (1.14%) 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
1 648 (61.48%) Agile
2 305 (28.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 266 (25.24%) DevOps
4 243 (23.06%) Scrum
5 217 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 186 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 170 (16.13%) User Stories
8 168 (15.94%) Project Management
9 157 (14.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 148 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (13.47%) Acceptance Criteria
12 117 (11.10%) Change Management
13 114 (10.82%) Roadmaps
14 109 (10.34%) Project Delivery
15 108 (10.25%) Decision-Making
16 107 (10.15%) Migration
16 107 (10.15%) Test Automation
17 106 (10.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 102 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
19 97 (9.20%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 150 (14.23%) Python
2 121 (11.48%) SQL
3 74 (7.02%) Java
4 60 (5.69%) PowerShell
5 56 (5.31%) JavaScript
6 27 (2.56%) Bash
7 23 (2.18%) C#
8 21 (1.99%) 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
1 296 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 247 (23.43%) SC Cleared
3 215 (20.40%) Degree
4 55 (5.22%) PMI Certification
5 51 (4.84%) PMP
5 51 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
6 44 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 44 (4.17%) CISSP
7 35 (3.32%) CISM
8 33 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.85%) Master's Degree
10 27 (2.56%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.90%) CBAP
12 18 (1.71%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.42%) IIBA
14 12 (1.14%) CSPO
14 12 (1.14%) MBA
15 11 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.95%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.01%) QA
2 37 (3.51%) PMO
3 36 (3.42%) GDPR
4 29 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.80%) NIST
6 13 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.04%) GRC
8 11 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.95%) PSD2
10 9 (0.85%) Basel III
11 8 (0.76%) WCAG
12 6 (0.57%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.47%) NCSC
13 5 (0.47%) SLA
14 4 (0.38%) COBIT
14 4 (0.38%) MiFID
14 4 (0.38%) P3O
15 3 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 91 (8.63%) Docker
2 18 (1.71%) 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 (9.11%) Kubernetes
2 76 (7.21%) Terraform
3 58 (5.50%) Ansible
4 32 (3.04%) Grafana
5 30 (2.85%) OPNET
6 21 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.90%) Consul
8 17 (1.61%) Packer
9 14 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.04%) NetBackup
10 11 (1.04%) Puppet
11 10 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.95%) vRealize
12 7 (0.66%) VxRail
13 6 (0.57%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.57%) Nessus
13 6 (0.57%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.47%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.47%) Istio
14 5 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 126 (11.95%) Atlassian
2 111 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 68 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.74%) Oracle
5 47 (4.46%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.61%) Remedy
7 31 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
8 26 (2.47%) Red Hat
9 22 (2.09%) SAP
9 22 (2.09%) VMware
10 20 (1.90%) Cisco
10 20 (1.90%) IBM
11 18 (1.71%) Commvault
11 18 (1.71%) Sonatype
12 17 (1.61%) Google
12 17 (1.61%) HP
13 15 (1.42%) CyberArk
13 15 (1.42%) Splunk
14 14 (1.33%) Dell
15 13 (1.23%) CheckPoint