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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 104 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -24
Contract jobs citing Confluence 990 768 954
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.69% 2.37% 2.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.43% 21.47% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 485 628
10th Percentile £325 £313 £380
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £650
90th Percentile £734 £747 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £511 £560
% change year-on-year -2.69% -8.71% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 27
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.63 £42.76
25th Percentile £39.00 £60.38 £53.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% - +43.68%
75th Percentile £65.62 £66.01 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.48 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.63% - +17.92%

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 3,746 3,577 4,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.18% 11.04% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,191 2,888
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +5.56% -3.22% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 75 130
10th Percentile £15.37 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.28 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +45.83% +34.38%
75th Percentile £68.90 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.30 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year -35.98% +91.01% +27.36%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +10 894 £517 -1.57% 233
UK excluding London +28 510 £498 -2.69% 151
London -4 403 £550 +4.76% 107
Work from Home -14 244 £492 -1.60% 94
North of England +5 178 £478 -7.28% 34
Midlands +28 117 £450 -5.66% 21
Yorkshire -20 100 £513 -1.44% 17
South West +21 96 £725 +20.83% 17
West Midlands +12 82 £468 -4.59% 14
South East -8 77 £500 +5.26% 66
North West +14 69 £438 -15.46% 16
Scotland +9 34 £488 -2.50% 3
East Midlands 0 34 £402 -4.29% 7
East of England -21 15 £425 +3.03% 7
North East -6 9 £520 +15.56% 1
Wales -5 2 £385 -26.67% 4
Northern Ireland -9 2 £320 - 1

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 76 (7.68%) SharePoint
2 30 (3.03%) nginx
3 14 (1.41%) CMS
4 9 (0.91%) Apache
5 8 (0.81%) SAS
6 3 (0.30%) CICS
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 101 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 79 (7.98%) MS Visio
5 60 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (1.92%) Trello
7 10 (1.01%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.51%) Notion
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.10%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.10%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.62%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Shopify
7 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.10%) Endur
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 165 (16.67%) AWS
2 139 (14.04%) Azure
3 107 (10.81%) GitHub
4 57 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (5.25%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.04%) GCP
7 33 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (3.13%) Miro
9 29 (2.93%) Serverless
10 27 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (2.32%) Lucidchart
13 22 (2.22%) SaaS
14 21 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (2.12%) Slack
15 18 (1.82%) Figma
15 18 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.24%) Firewall
2 35 (3.54%) SSH
3 21 (2.12%) DNS
3 21 (2.12%) SSL
4 20 (2.02%) FTP
5 18 (1.82%) HTTP
6 17 (1.72%) SMTP
7 15 (1.52%) OpenLDAP
7 15 (1.52%) VPN
8 11 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 10 (1.01%) IMAP
9 10 (1.01%) WAN
10 9 (0.91%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.91%) VSAN
11 8 (0.81%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.61%) Modbus
12 6 (0.61%) Network Security
12 6 (0.61%) RS-232
12 6 (0.61%) RS-485
13 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.95%) Power BI
2 44 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (4.24%) Tableau
4 30 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 24 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.32%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.82%) Big Data
8 17 (1.72%) Metadata
9 16 (1.62%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.52%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.91%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.71%) Redis
17 6 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
17 6 (0.61%) Couchbase
17 6 (0.61%) MySQL
18 5 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 914 (92.32%) JIRA
2 121 (12.22%) Jenkins
3 95 (9.60%) Git
4 59 (5.96%) GitLab
5 53 (5.35%) Bitbucket
6 32 (3.23%) Selenium
7 20 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.92%) Postman
9 17 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.62%) Vagrant
11 11 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.01%) JUnit
13 9 (0.91%) ScriptRunner
14 8 (0.81%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.71%) Android Studio
15 7 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.61%) Zephyr
17 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
17 5 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 446 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 287 (28.99%) Finance
3 196 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (15.15%) Banking
5 135 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 46 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (4.65%) Military
7 34 (3.43%) Retail
8 32 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.42%) Legal
10 23 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.02%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.92%) Retail Banking
13 18 (1.82%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.62%) Telecoms
15 15 (1.52%) Front Office
16 13 (1.31%) Marketing
17 12 (1.21%) Automotive
18 10 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 218 (22.02%) Analyst
2 175 (17.68%) Business Analyst
3 100 (10.10%) Architect
4 98 (9.90%) Project Manager
5 80 (8.08%) Senior
6 69 (6.97%) Developer
7 68 (6.87%) Lead
8 46 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.23%) Scrum Master
10 31 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (3.13%) Product Owner
11 30 (3.03%) Service Architect
11 30 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
12 29 (2.93%) Technical Business Analyst
13 28 (2.83%) Consultant
14 27 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
14 27 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (2.73%) Senior Business Analyst
15 26 (2.63%) Tester
16 25 (2.53%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.77%) REST
2 41 (4.14%) Kafka
3 35 (3.54%) HTML
3 35 (3.54%) RESTful
4 30 (3.03%) JSON
5 29 (2.93%) LDAP
6 27 (2.73%) .NET
7 25 (2.53%) SOAP
8 24 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
9 22 (2.22%) Spring
10 20 (2.02%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.92%) SAML
12 18 (1.82%) Web Services
13 17 (1.72%) Node.js
13 17 (1.72%) OAuth
13 17 (1.72%) Playwright
13 17 (1.72%) Spring Boot
14 15 (1.52%) React
15 14 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
15 14 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 169 (17.07%) Product Ownership
2 42 (4.24%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.12%) Replication
7 20 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.92%) PMI
9 17 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.31%) Tandem
12 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.11%) Data Centre
13 11 (1.11%) Equities
14 10 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.01%) NHS
15 9 (0.91%) PKI
16 8 (0.81%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.98%) Linux
2 76 (7.68%) Windows
3 28 (2.83%) Unix
4 20 (2.02%) VMS
5 16 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
6 14 (1.41%) Android
7 10 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) zOS
11 1 (0.10%) AIX
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) MVS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (63.23%) Agile
2 274 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 261 (26.36%) DevOps
4 238 (24.04%) Scrum
5 189 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (16.46%) CI/CD
6 163 (16.46%) Project Management
7 153 (15.45%) User Stories
8 147 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 137 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 122 (12.32%) Acceptance Criteria
11 120 (12.12%) Change Management
12 111 (11.21%) Project Delivery
13 102 (10.30%) Migration
14 99 (10.00%) Roadmaps
15 98 (9.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 97 (9.80%) Workshop Facilitation
17 96 (9.70%) Decision-Making
18 94 (9.49%) Test Automation
19 90 (9.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 151 (15.25%) Python
2 114 (11.52%) SQL
3 62 (6.26%) Java
3 62 (6.26%) PowerShell
4 60 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 32 (3.23%) Bash
6 23 (2.32%) Go
7 21 (2.12%) C#
8 20 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.62%) Groovy
10 11 (1.11%) Perl
11 9 (0.91%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.91%) C++
12 6 (0.61%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.40%) C
14 3 (0.30%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.30%) PHP
14 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 288 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 258 (26.06%) SC Cleared
3 192 (19.39%) Degree
4 50 (5.05%) PMI Certification
5 44 (4.44%) PMP
6 41 (4.14%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (3.64%) CISSP
9 31 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.73%) Master's Degree
11 26 (2.63%) CISM
12 24 (2.42%) DV Cleared
13 22 (2.22%) CBAP
14 15 (1.52%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.41%) CSPO
15 14 (1.41%) IIBA
16 12 (1.21%) Azure Certification
17 11 (1.11%) MBA
18 10 (1.01%) PhD
19 9 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.98%) QA
2 36 (3.64%) GDPR
3 32 (3.23%) PMO
4 27 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.21%) NIST
9 10 (1.01%) GRC
10 9 (0.91%) WCAG
11 8 (0.81%) Basel III
12 7 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.71%) PSD2
13 6 (0.61%) COBIT
14 5 (0.51%) NCSC
14 5 (0.51%) SEPA
15 4 (0.40%) P3O
16 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.20%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 86 (8.69%) Docker
2 23 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.62%) DFS Replication
5 11 (1.11%) Firmware
5 11 (1.11%) Squid
6 10 (1.01%) Dovecot
6 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 10 (1.01%) vSphere
7 6 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.10%) etcd
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.10%) SRDF
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 75 (7.58%) Terraform
3 58 (5.86%) Ansible
4 30 (3.03%) OPNET
5 29 (2.93%) Grafana
6 23 (2.32%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.41%) NetBackup
8 14 (1.41%) Packer
9 13 (1.31%) Puppet
10 12 (1.21%) Consul
11 10 (1.01%) Nessus
11 10 (1.01%) Proxmox
11 10 (1.01%) vRealize
12 7 (0.71%) VxRail
13 6 (0.61%) SCCM
14 5 (0.51%) Istio
15 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 3 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (11.92%) Atlassian
2 107 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 82 (8.28%) ServiceNow
4 51 (5.15%) Oracle
5 46 (4.65%) Remedy
6 44 (4.44%) Salesforce
7 27 (2.73%) HP
8 26 (2.63%) IBM
9 23 (2.32%) VMware
10 22 (2.22%) SAP
11 21 (2.12%) Commvault
11 21 (2.12%) Google
12 20 (2.02%) BiZZdesign
12 20 (2.02%) Cisco
13 18 (1.82%) Red Hat
14 17 (1.72%) Dell
15 15 (1.52%) CyberArk
16 12 (1.21%) BMC
16 12 (1.21%) Centrify
16 12 (1.21%) MuleSoft