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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,128 745 754
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.39% 2.55% 1.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.76% 22.42% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 482 492
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £626
90th Percentile £721 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -6.50% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 18
10th Percentile £23.85 £51.78 £24.10
25th Percentile £48.40 £58.47 £37.56
Median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +4.08% +10.36%
75th Percentile £72.06 £75.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.83 £78.13 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £63.75 £66.25
% change year-on-year -0.78% -3.77% +19.37%

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 4,215 3,323 4,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.92% 11.36% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,888 2,219 2,880
10th Percentile £313 £275 £251
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £718 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +3.08% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 77 161
10th Percentile £15.55 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £15.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +49.01% -31.21%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.92 £46.18 £23.75
% change year-on-year -7.06% +94.44% -9.49%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +4 1,002 £500 -2.34% 226
UK excluding London +1 602 £468 -6.50% 169
London +12 430 £525 +1.74% 82
Work from Home +12 330 £485 +7.78% 104
Midlands +19 193 £450 -10.67% 39
North of England -4 193 £447 +5.18% 31
West Midlands +18 146 £456 -10.94% 30
North West +12 100 £430 +4.88% 12
South West -3 87 £725 +27.19% 23
Yorkshire -25 87 £480 +7.02% 14
South East -59 70 £500 +3.09% 43
Scotland -8 47 £525 +13.51% 9
East Midlands -1 44 £420 -6.35% 9
East of England -31 20 £350 -17.60% 16
North East -21 6 £365 -30.48% 6
Wales -9 5 £606 +42.65% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 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
1 103 (9.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.95%) SAS
3 20 (1.77%) nginx
4 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.62%) CMS
6 5 (0.44%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) Drupal
10 1 (0.089%) Mendix
Applications
1 106 (9.40%) Microsoft Project
2 89 (7.89%) MS Visio
3 84 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 78 (6.91%) Microsoft Office
5 59 (5.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.71%) Trello
7 7 (0.62%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.089%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.089%) InDesign
9 1 (0.089%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.24%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.53%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.35%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.27%) Actimize
6 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) Primavera
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 (0.089%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 215 (19.06%) AWS
2 207 (18.35%) Azure
3 126 (11.17%) GitHub
4 91 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (7.36%) Power Platform
6 46 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 43 (3.81%) GCP
8 41 (3.63%) SaaS
8 41 (3.63%) Serverless
9 37 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 34 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (2.93%) Miro
12 32 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (2.39%) Entra ID
15 24 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (2.04%) Figma
17 21 (1.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.75%) Firewall
2 19 (1.68%) VPN
3 18 (1.60%) Network Security
3 18 (1.60%) SSL
3 18 (1.60%) WAN
4 17 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.33%) LAN
6 13 (1.15%) DNS
6 13 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (0.89%) Ethernet
7 10 (0.89%) Unified Communications
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
9 5 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.56%) Power BI
2 48 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (2.93%) Tableau
5 26 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.95%) DynamoDB
7 22 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.86%) Metadata
8 21 (1.86%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.15%) Big Data
10 13 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (1.15%) DocumentDB
11 12 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.80%) Hadoop
13 9 (0.80%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1,043 (92.46%) JIRA
2 138 (12.23%) Git
3 118 (10.46%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.59%) GitLab
5 55 (4.88%) Selenium
6 50 (4.43%) Bitbucket
7 35 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (2.84%) Postman
9 29 (2.57%) JUnit
10 28 (2.48%) Cucumber
11 26 (2.30%) JMeter
12 23 (2.04%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.77%) Cypress.io
14 17 (1.51%) Zephyr
15 16 (1.42%) WebDriver
16 13 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.98%) ScriptRunner
18 9 (0.80%) IntelliJ
18 9 (0.80%) Maven
18 9 (0.80%) REST Assured
General
1 485 (43.00%) Social Skills
2 330 (29.26%) Finance
3 225 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (16.76%) Banking
5 167 (14.80%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.96%) Military
7 55 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (3.37%) Retail
9 30 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (2.30%) Legal
12 24 (2.13%) Retail Banking
13 23 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.42%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.33%) Marketing
17 14 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
17 14 (1.24%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 8 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (22.96%) Analyst
2 216 (19.15%) Business Analyst
3 108 (9.57%) Senior
4 105 (9.31%) Architect
5 95 (8.42%) Developer
6 82 (7.27%) Lead
6 82 (7.27%) Project Manager
7 46 (4.08%) Scrum Master
8 41 (3.63%) Consultant
8 41 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (2.93%) Tester
10 32 (2.84%) Data Engineer
11 31 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 30 (2.66%) Service Architect
12 30 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (2.39%) Technical Analyst
13 27 (2.39%) Technical Business Analyst
14 26 (2.30%) Banking Analyst
15 25 (2.22%) Banking Business Analyst
16 24 (2.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.70%) REST
2 47 (4.17%) Spring
3 32 (2.84%) RESTful
4 28 (2.48%) React
5 27 (2.39%) HTML
6 26 (2.30%) Spring Boot
7 24 (2.13%) ADO
8 23 (2.04%) Kafka
9 21 (1.86%) JSON
9 21 (1.86%) Node.js
10 18 (1.60%) WireMock
11 17 (1.51%) .NET
11 17 (1.51%) SOAP
12 15 (1.33%) Playwright
13 14 (1.24%) OpenID
13 14 (1.24%) Swagger
13 14 (1.24%) XML
14 13 (1.15%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.06%) CSS
16 11 (0.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 196 (17.38%) Product Ownership
2 55 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 47 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 24 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 20 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.68%) PMI
8 16 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 13 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.89%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.62%) Linux
2 49 (4.34%) Windows
3 15 (1.33%) Android
4 12 (1.06%) Unix
5 11 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.44%) AIX
8 5 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.27%) zOS
10 2 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.089%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (63.56%) Agile
2 326 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 284 (25.18%) DevOps
4 268 (23.76%) Scrum
5 240 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 213 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
7 192 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 181 (16.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 180 (15.96%) User Stories
10 154 (13.65%) Acceptance Criteria
10 154 (13.65%) Project Management
11 148 (13.12%) Test Automation
12 141 (12.50%) Migration
13 120 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 118 (10.46%) Workshop Facilitation
15 111 (9.84%) Change Management
16 108 (9.57%) Kanban
17 105 (9.31%) Project Delivery
17 105 (9.31%) Requirements Gathering
18 104 (9.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 148 (13.12%) SQL
2 144 (12.77%) Python
3 92 (8.16%) Java
4 58 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 43 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 34 (3.01%) Bash
7 32 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.33%) C#
9 13 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.89%) C++
12 9 (0.80%) Perl
13 8 (0.71%) Groovy
14 7 (0.62%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.35%) C
16 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 402 (35.64%) Security Cleared
2 335 (29.70%) SC Cleared
3 169 (14.98%) Degree
4 50 (4.43%) PMI Certification
5 47 (4.17%) PMP
6 45 (3.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (3.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 33 (2.93%) CISSP
9 32 (2.84%) DV Cleared
10 26 (2.30%) CISM
11 24 (2.13%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (1.77%) CBAP
14 19 (1.68%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.68%) IIBA
14 19 (1.68%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (1.06%) MBA
17 10 (0.89%) Azure Certification
18 7 (0.62%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.16%) QA
2 50 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.08%) PMO
4 41 (3.63%) GDPR
5 37 (3.28%) Accessibility
6 26 (2.30%) NIST
7 20 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (1.51%) GRC
9 12 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) Basel III
10 9 (0.80%) WCAG
11 8 (0.71%) SLA
12 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) MiFID
12 6 (0.53%) PSD2
13 5 (0.44%) HL7
14 4 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 4 (0.35%) NCSC
14 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (7.98%) Docker
2 14 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.89%) Squid
3 10 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.62%) Firmware
5 4 (0.35%) vSphere
6 3 (0.27%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 108 (9.57%) Kubernetes
2 90 (7.98%) Terraform
3 60 (5.32%) Ansible
4 46 (4.08%) Grafana
5 31 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.66%) OPNET
7 19 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.42%) Consul
8 16 (1.42%) Puppet
9 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.80%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.71%) Packer
12 6 (0.53%) Istio
13 5 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.35%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 126 (11.17%) Atlassian
2 104 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 102 (9.04%) ServiceNow
4 53 (4.70%) Salesforce
5 50 (4.43%) Oracle
6 36 (3.19%) SAP
7 34 (3.01%) Remedy
8 27 (2.39%) Red Hat
9 22 (1.95%) Databricks
10 19 (1.68%) BiZZdesign
10 19 (1.68%) IBM
11 17 (1.51%) Splunk
12 16 (1.42%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.42%) Google
13 15 (1.33%) Talend
14 14 (1.24%) MuleSoft
14 14 (1.24%) Sonatype
15 13 (1.15%) Cisco
16 12 (1.06%) Commvault
16 12 (1.06%) Denodo