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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 97 130
Rank change year-on-year -10 +33 -22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,199 847 780
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 2.62% 1.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.21% 23.83% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 577 526
10th Percentile £350 £328 £350
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £686 £675 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 25
10th Percentile £32.88 £54.80 £25.27
25th Percentile £47.24 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £72.18 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.98 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.14% - +16.67%

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 4,575 3,555 4,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 11.01% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,324 3,126
10th Percentile £309 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -1.95% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £675 £719 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 84 157
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.68 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +51.21% -38.83%
75th Percentile £62.75 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £74.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £33.56
% change year-on-year -33.33% +56.45% -28.22%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -6 1,034 £500 -2.44% 293
UK excluding London -14 648 £467 -1.72% 195
London -14 449 £525 -4.55% 146
Work from Home +14 403 £500 +8.70% 125
North of England -23 212 £447 +5.18% 56
Midlands +27 183 £459 -3.37% 17
West Midlands +21 151 £459 -3.37% 9
North West -9 105 £438 +5.42% 26
Yorkshire -21 99 £453 +6.47% 22
South East -31 90 £500 - 48
Scotland +3 76 £525 +16.67% 15
South West -18 65 £540 -6.09% 46
East Midlands +1 30 £402 +20.72% 8
East of England -22 23 £350 -24.32% 10
Wales -14 9 £650 +36.84%
North East -36 9 £428 -20.47% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 4

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 98 (8.17%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.83%) SAS
3 15 (1.25%) nginx
4 13 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.67%) CMS
6 7 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.50%) Apache
7 6 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.083%) Appian
12 1 (0.083%) Mendix
12 1 (0.083%) Mule
Applications
1 96 (8.01%) MS Visio
2 83 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.42%) Notion
7 4 (0.33%) Trello
8 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.083%) CATIA
10 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.33%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.25%) Primavera
7 3 (0.25%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Maximo
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.083%) MetaTrader
Cloud Services
1 281 (23.44%) AWS
2 271 (22.60%) Azure
3 133 (11.09%) GitHub
4 123 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (7.51%) Power Platform
6 84 (7.01%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.75%) Serverless
8 55 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (4.09%) GCP
12 40 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (2.84%) Miro
15 31 (2.59%) SaaS
16 30 (2.50%) Entra ID
17 23 (1.92%) Figma
17 23 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
18 21 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.92%) Firewall
2 23 (1.92%) Network Security
3 21 (1.75%) DNS
4 18 (1.50%) WAN
5 14 (1.17%) LAN
5 14 (1.17%) VPN
6 13 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.00%) SSL
7 12 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.92%) SSH
9 10 (0.83%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.75%) HTTP
11 7 (0.58%) OpenVPN
11 7 (0.58%) PSTN
11 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.42%) BIG-IP
13 4 (0.33%) BGP
13 4 (0.33%) MPLS
13 4 (0.33%) OSPF
14 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.59%) Power BI
2 63 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.75%) Tableau
10 20 (1.67%) Metadata
11 15 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
12 14 (1.17%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.08%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.00%) Pentaho
15 11 (0.92%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,081 (90.16%) JIRA
2 167 (13.93%) Git
3 135 (11.26%) Jenkins
4 107 (8.92%) GitLab
5 58 (4.84%) Selenium
6 48 (4.00%) Bitbucket
7 36 (3.00%) Cucumber
7 36 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.59%) JMeter
8 31 (2.59%) JUnit
9 30 (2.50%) Postman
10 21 (1.75%) Artifactory
11 20 (1.67%) Cypress.io
11 20 (1.67%) SonarQube
12 19 (1.58%) WebDriver
12 19 (1.58%) Zephyr
13 15 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.75%) IntelliJ
15 9 (0.75%) Maven
General
1 475 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 338 (28.19%) Finance
3 211 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (15.93%) Public Sector
5 184 (15.35%) Banking
6 60 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.09%) Retail
8 33 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 27 (2.25%) Legal
11 24 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.75%) Military
12 21 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.50%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.50%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.17%) Marketing
15 11 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
16 10 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 251 (20.93%) Analyst
2 199 (16.60%) Business Analyst
3 125 (10.43%) Senior
4 116 (9.67%) Developer
5 99 (8.26%) Lead
6 81 (6.76%) Architect
7 63 (5.25%) Scrum Master
8 54 (4.50%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.34%) Project Manager
10 48 (4.00%) Consultant
11 38 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.84%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.50%) Tester
14 27 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.09%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (2.00%) Technical Analyst
17 24 (2.00%) Technical Business Analyst
18 21 (1.75%) Security Engineer
18 21 (1.75%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.42%) REST
2 45 (3.75%) JSON
3 41 (3.42%) Spring
4 36 (3.00%) .NET
5 34 (2.84%) RESTful
6 31 (2.59%) React
7 29 (2.42%) HTML
8 27 (2.25%) AngularJS
9 25 (2.09%) XML
10 23 (1.92%) PySpark
10 23 (1.92%) SOAP
11 21 (1.75%) ADO
11 21 (1.75%) CSS
12 20 (1.67%) Spring Boot
13 19 (1.58%) Kafka
13 19 (1.58%) WireMock
14 17 (1.42%) Node.js
14 17 (1.42%) Playwright
15 16 (1.33%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 187 (15.60%) Product Ownership
2 74 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
6 23 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 18 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.00%) PMI
12 12 (1.00%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.92%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (7.01%) Linux
2 58 (4.84%) Windows
3 36 (3.00%) Unix
4 12 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.75%) Android
7 5 (0.42%) AIX
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Solaris
9 3 (0.25%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.083%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.083%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.083%) SUSE
11 1 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (63.30%) Agile
2 338 (28.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 328 (27.36%) DevOps
4 298 (24.85%) Scrum
5 297 (24.77%) CI/CD
6 233 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 197 (16.43%) Test Automation
9 182 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 180 (15.01%) User Stories
11 157 (13.09%) Migration
12 128 (10.68%) Kanban
13 127 (10.59%) Acceptance Criteria
14 123 (10.26%) Roadmaps
15 121 (10.09%) User Acceptance Testing
16 119 (9.92%) SDLC
16 119 (9.92%) Sprint Planning
17 114 (9.51%) AI
18 113 (9.42%) Data Modelling
18 113 (9.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 218 (18.18%) SQL
2 184 (15.35%) Python
3 96 (8.01%) Java
4 57 (4.75%) JavaScript
5 45 (3.75%) Bash
6 44 (3.67%) PL/SQL
7 42 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 37 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 36 (3.00%) C#
10 12 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.92%) Groovy
11 11 (0.92%) Perl
12 10 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.67%) Bicep
13 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.33%) C++
15 4 (0.33%) R
15 4 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 412 (34.36%) Security Cleared
2 340 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 137 (11.43%) Degree
4 56 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.42%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.84%) PMP
8 33 (2.75%) CISSP
9 27 (2.25%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.09%) CISM
11 24 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
15 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
16 13 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (1.00%) CBAP
18 9 (0.75%) IIBA
18 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
19 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (9.76%) QA
2 73 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.92%) PMO
4 41 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.59%) GDPR
6 25 (2.09%) NIST
7 20 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.50%) WCAG
9 14 (1.17%) GRC
9 14 (1.17%) NCSC
10 13 (1.08%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.67%) SLA
12 7 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.58%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.50%) MiFID
14 5 (0.42%) HL7
14 5 (0.42%) PSD2
15 4 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 106 (8.84%) Docker
2 27 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.83%) Squid
4 7 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.25%) Ceph
5 3 (0.25%) HDFS
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.083%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 128 (10.68%) Terraform
2 103 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 71 (5.92%) Ansible
4 61 (5.09%) Grafana
5 36 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.08%) Consul
8 13 (1.08%) Puppet
9 12 (1.00%) Argo
10 9 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.75%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.42%) Istio
13 5 (0.42%) Packer
14 4 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.33%) Control-M
14 4 (0.33%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 134 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.17%) ServiceNow
3 92 (7.67%) Oracle
4 81 (6.76%) Atlassian
5 51 (4.25%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.17%) SAP
7 32 (2.67%) Talend
8 29 (2.42%) IBM
9 28 (2.34%) Databricks
9 28 (2.34%) Denodo
10 26 (2.17%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.92%) Informatica
12 21 (1.75%) Splunk
13 20 (1.67%) Google
14 17 (1.42%) MuleSoft
15 16 (1.33%) Dynatrace
16 15 (1.25%) BiZZdesign
17 12 (1.00%) Cisco
17 12 (1.00%) Sonatype
17 12 (1.00%) Zscaler