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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 104 102
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,019 854 1,054
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.79% 2.36% 2.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.49% 21.26% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 541 681
10th Percentile £328 £313 £380
25th Percentile £416 £410 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.71%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £655
90th Percentile £738 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 31
10th Percentile £27.21 £48.50 £50.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £60.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.82 £64.76 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -0.37% +30.00%
75th Percentile £72.94 £70.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £85.38 £72.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.82 £64.76 £67.41
% change year-on-year -3.00% -3.93% +27.19%

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 3,847 4,016 4,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 11.12% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,619 2,474 3,034
10th Percentile £288 £262 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +1.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £626
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 92 137
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.06 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +37.96% +38.46%
75th Percentile £65.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -26.32% +98.33% +36.86%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 +13 915 £525 - 159
UK excluding London +5 493 £500 - 141
London +9 450 £550 - 45
Work from Home -17 246 £500 -1.38% 80
North of England -14 177 £500 -0.99% 30
Yorkshire -10 103 £513 -0.49% 13
Midlands +24 95 £450 -5.66% 23
South West +16 92 £725 +14.62% 21
West Midlands +24 73 £470 -5.05% 13
South East -19 68 £525 +12.90% 57
North West -6 64 £465 -9.22% 16
Scotland +13 44 £500 - 1
East Midlands -4 22 £354 -15.21% 10
East of England -30 15 £425 - 13
North East -3 10 £510 +13.33% 2
Wales -2 5 £469 -10.71% 3
Northern Ireland -3 2 £320 -

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 70 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 42 (4.12%) nginx
3 17 (1.67%) CMS
4 14 (1.37%) Apache
5 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.29%) CICS
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.29%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Camunda
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.098%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.098%) Appian
8 1 (0.098%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.098%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (9.72%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (9.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 90 (8.83%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (8.05%) MS Visio
5 57 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.96%) Trello
7 11 (1.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.49%) 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%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.098%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.098%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.098%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.098%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.098%) Sketch
10 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.18%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.098%) Endur
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.098%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 184 (18.06%) AWS
2 144 (14.13%) Azure
3 100 (9.81%) GitHub
4 59 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.02%) Amazon S3
6 41 (4.02%) GCP
7 40 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 32 (3.14%) Miro
11 27 (2.65%) Serverless
12 26 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.55%) Slack
13 25 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (2.45%) SaaS
14 23 (2.26%) Lucidchart
14 23 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (2.16%) Amazon ELB
15 22 (2.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.81%) Firewall
2 40 (3.93%) SSH
3 33 (3.24%) DNS
4 25 (2.45%) SMTP
5 24 (2.36%) FTP
6 23 (2.26%) HTTP
7 21 (2.06%) SSL
8 16 (1.57%) OpenLDAP
8 16 (1.57%) VPN
9 11 (1.08%) IMAP
10 9 (0.88%) WAN
11 8 (0.79%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.79%) VSAN
12 6 (0.59%) Network Security
12 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.49%) LAN
14 4 (0.39%) DHCP
14 4 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (4.02%) Power BI
3 33 (3.24%) Tableau
4 30 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.57%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.57%) Metadata
8 14 (1.37%) Big Data
8 14 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.88%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.88%) MySQL
12 8 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.69%) Redis
14 6 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.59%) Couchbase
15 5 (0.49%) DocumentDB
15 5 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 925 (90.78%) JIRA
2 130 (12.76%) Jenkins
3 118 (11.58%) Git
4 63 (6.18%) GitLab
5 62 (6.08%) Bitbucket
6 32 (3.14%) Selenium
7 26 (2.55%) Cucumber
8 24 (2.36%) Vagrant
9 23 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 18 (1.77%) Postman
12 15 (1.47%) JUnit
13 12 (1.18%) Maven
14 10 (0.98%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.88%) Cypress.io
16 7 (0.69%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.69%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.69%) Zephyr
17 6 (0.59%) Android Studio
17 6 (0.59%) ScriptRunner
General
1 461 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 279 (27.38%) Finance
3 187 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (13.25%) Banking
4 135 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 43 (4.22%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (4.12%) Military
7 30 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (2.94%) Retail
8 26 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.45%) Legal
10 20 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 20 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.86%) Front Office
12 18 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.57%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.28%) Automotive
15 11 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.08%) Marketing
15 11 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 208 (20.41%) Analyst
2 166 (16.29%) Business Analyst
3 102 (10.01%) Architect
3 102 (10.01%) Project Manager
4 90 (8.83%) Senior
5 76 (7.46%) Developer
6 75 (7.36%) Lead
7 46 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
8 43 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 37 (3.63%) Product Owner
10 34 (3.34%) Scrum Master
11 33 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 30 (2.94%) Service Architect
13 29 (2.85%) Technical Analyst
14 28 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
14 28 (2.75%) Technical Business Analyst
15 27 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (2.65%) Consultant
16 26 (2.55%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.46%) REST
2 43 (4.22%) HTML
3 39 (3.83%) .NET
3 39 (3.83%) LDAP
4 38 (3.73%) Kafka
5 35 (3.43%) AngularJS
6 32 (3.14%) React
7 31 (3.04%) JSON
8 30 (2.94%) RESTful
9 29 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
10 28 (2.75%) SOAP
11 24 (2.36%) SAML
11 24 (2.36%) Web Services
12 22 (2.16%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.96%) CSS
13 20 (1.96%) Spring
14 19 (1.86%) Node.js
15 17 (1.67%) Playwright
16 16 (1.57%) jQuery
16 16 (1.57%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 164 (16.09%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 34 (3.34%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.55%) Replication
6 25 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.37%) PMI
12 14 (1.37%) Tandem
13 13 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.18%) Derivative
14 12 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.18%) NHS
15 11 (1.08%) Equities
16 10 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.32%) Linux
2 82 (8.05%) Windows
3 32 (3.14%) Unix
4 27 (2.65%) VMS
5 22 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.08%) Android
8 9 (0.88%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Debian
11 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) zOS
12 1 (0.098%) AIX
12 1 (0.098%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.098%) MVS
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (65.85%) Agile
2 261 (25.61%) DevOps
3 245 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 239 (23.45%) Scrum
5 186 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 160 (15.70%) Project Management
8 150 (14.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 139 (13.64%) User Stories
10 137 (13.44%) Change Management
11 136 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (10.89%) Migration
13 110 (10.79%) Roadmaps
14 107 (10.50%) Acceptance Criteria
15 103 (10.11%) ITIL
16 99 (9.72%) Project Delivery
17 96 (9.42%) Microservices
18 94 (9.22%) Decision-Making
19 92 (9.03%) Test Automation
20 89 (8.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 172 (16.88%) Python
2 120 (11.78%) SQL
3 87 (8.54%) Java
4 70 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 63 (6.18%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.14%) Bash
7 25 (2.45%) Go
8 23 (2.26%) C#
8 23 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.16%) Groovy
10 18 (1.77%) Perl
11 9 (0.88%) C++
12 7 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.49%) PHP
15 4 (0.39%) C
15 4 (0.39%) R
16 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 279 (27.38%) Security Cleared
2 256 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 189 (18.55%) Degree
4 48 (4.71%) PMI Certification
5 42 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (4.02%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (3.83%) PMP
8 36 (3.53%) CISSP
9 29 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.45%) CISM
10 25 (2.45%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.96%) CBAP
12 17 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.37%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.28%) CSPO
15 12 (1.18%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.98%) PhD
17 7 (0.69%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 6 (0.59%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.44%) QA
2 34 (3.34%) GDPR
3 26 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.55%) PMO
4 18 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.28%) NIST
7 10 (0.98%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.88%) COBIT
8 9 (0.88%) WCAG
9 7 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.59%) GRC
10 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.59%) NCSC
10 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.59%) PSD2
10 6 (0.59%) SEPA
11 4 (0.39%) MiFID
12 3 (0.29%) Basel III
12 3 (0.29%) ITGC
System Software
1 96 (9.42%) Docker
2 30 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.06%) DFS Replication
5 11 (1.08%) Dovecot
5 11 (1.08%) Postfix
5 11 (1.08%) Squid
5 11 (1.08%) vSphere
6 7 (0.69%) Firmware
7 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.098%) KVM
10 1 (0.098%) SRDF
10 1 (0.098%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 94 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 91 (8.93%) Terraform
3 60 (5.89%) Ansible
4 34 (3.34%) Grafana
5 30 (2.94%) OPNET
6 28 (2.75%) Prometheus
7 23 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.16%) Packer
9 20 (1.96%) Consul
10 14 (1.37%) NetBackup
10 14 (1.37%) Puppet
11 11 (1.08%) Nessus
12 10 (0.98%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.88%) vRealize
14 8 (0.79%) Istio
15 6 (0.59%) SCCM
15 6 (0.59%) VxRail
16 5 (0.49%) Argo
16 5 (0.49%) HP ALM
16 5 (0.49%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 114 (11.19%) Atlassian
2 107 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 107 (10.50%) ServiceNow
3 50 (4.91%) Remedy
4 49 (4.81%) Oracle
5 42 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 31 (3.04%) HP
7 27 (2.65%) IBM
8 26 (2.55%) VMware
9 22 (2.16%) Google
9 22 (2.16%) SAP
10 20 (1.96%) Commvault
11 19 (1.86%) BiZZdesign
11 19 (1.86%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.77%) Cisco
12 18 (1.77%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.57%) BMC
13 16 (1.57%) Dell
14 13 (1.28%) Foundry
14 13 (1.28%) Ivanti