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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 96 106
Rank change year-on-year -37 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,154 902 813
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.11% 2.75% 2.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.71% 25.52% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 637 520
10th Percentile £375 £324 £330
25th Percentile £425 £408 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £633
90th Percentile £672 £681 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £510
% change year-on-year - -6.86% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 18
10th Percentile £37.53 £34.28 £44.38
25th Percentile £57.18 £52.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +9.80%
75th Percentile £82.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +7.89%

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 4,670 3,535 4,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 10.77% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,023 2,285 2,616
10th Percentile £286 £278 £265
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £644
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 88 80
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.56 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.77 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.08% -34.46% +17.65%

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 6 October 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 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 16 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 6 October 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 -39 983 £502 -2.05% 749
UK excluding London -33 599 £475 - 461
London -40 446 £550 -1.57% 362
Work from Home +3 382 £524 +4.75% 399
North of England -46 184 £475 -0.11% 115
Midlands +3 148 £469 +4.22% 54
West Midlands +7 127 £469 -1.26% 36
Yorkshire -19 104 £475 -5.10% 49
South East -38 85 £475 - 108
Scotland +7 82 £425 -9.33% 56
North West -41 73 £474 +10.49% 52
South West -10 72 £537 -10.50% 54
East of England -9 31 £511 +6.23% 45
East Midlands -5 21 £427 +29.39% 18
North East -45 10 £375 -27.88% 14
Wales -13 6 £625 +31.58% 17

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 61 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.39%) Apache
2 16 (1.39%) SAS
3 12 (1.04%) nginx
4 10 (0.87%) Camunda
4 10 (0.87%) CMS
5 9 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.61%) CICS
7 6 (0.52%) Traefik
8 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.35%) JBoss
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.17%) Appian
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.087%) Mule
Applications
1 89 (7.71%) MS Visio
2 74 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.52%) Trello
6 5 (0.43%) Notion
6 5 (0.43%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.17%) Productboard
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.087%) CATIA
10 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.087%) Sketch
10 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.087%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.087%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 269 (23.31%) Azure
2 262 (22.70%) AWS
3 142 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
4 106 (9.19%) GitHub
5 90 (7.80%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.59%) Amazon S3
7 59 (5.11%) GCP
8 55 (4.77%) Serverless
9 54 (4.68%) Miro
10 50 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (2.60%) Figma
15 28 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (1.91%) SaaS
18 20 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (1.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.03%) Firewall
2 34 (2.95%) DNS
3 16 (1.39%) SSH
4 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.04%) SSL
6 11 (0.95%) HTTP
6 11 (0.95%) Network Security
7 10 (0.87%) DHCP
7 10 (0.87%) VPN
7 10 (0.87%) WAN
8 6 (0.52%) Broadband
8 6 (0.52%) IPv4
8 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.52%) VLAN
9 5 (0.43%) Internet
9 5 (0.43%) IPv6
10 4 (0.35%) BGP
10 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.35%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (7.19%) Power BI
2 69 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 21 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (1.82%) Metadata
9 20 (1.73%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.21%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.13%) MySQL
13 13 (1.13%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,056 (91.51%) JIRA
2 153 (13.26%) Git
3 106 (9.19%) GitLab
4 102 (8.84%) Jenkins
5 50 (4.33%) Bitbucket
6 34 (2.95%) Selenium
7 32 (2.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.60%) JUnit
9 29 (2.51%) Zephyr
10 25 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 24 (2.08%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.99%) Maven
13 22 (1.91%) Postman
14 21 (1.82%) Mockito
15 20 (1.73%) SonarQube
16 18 (1.56%) Artifactory
16 18 (1.56%) REST Assured
17 16 (1.39%) JMeter
18 15 (1.30%) Cypress.io
19 11 (0.95%) MSI
General
1 471 (40.81%) Social Skills
2 324 (28.08%) Finance
3 230 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (18.11%) Public Sector
5 163 (14.12%) Banking
6 53 (4.59%) Retail
7 51 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.73%) Military
13 17 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.30%) Investment Banking
14 15 (1.30%) Legal
14 15 (1.30%) Marketing
14 15 (1.30%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 244 (21.14%) Analyst
2 172 (14.90%) Business Analyst
3 123 (10.66%) Developer
4 111 (9.62%) Senior
5 109 (9.45%) Lead
6 59 (5.11%) Architect
7 58 (5.03%) Scrum Master
8 47 (4.07%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.90%) Consultant
10 41 (3.55%) Product Manager
10 41 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 40 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
12 35 (3.03%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.17%) Java Developer
15 25 (2.17%) Technical Manager
16 24 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
18 20 (1.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (9.97%) Terraform
2 93 (8.06%) REST
3 43 (3.73%) HTML
4 42 (3.64%) .NET
5 41 (3.55%) RESTful
6 40 (3.47%) JSON
7 37 (3.21%) React
8 32 (2.77%) SOAP
9 31 (2.69%) AngularJS
9 31 (2.69%) Web Services
10 30 (2.60%) CSS
11 29 (2.51%) Spring Boot
12 27 (2.34%) .NET Core
12 27 (2.34%) Spring
13 26 (2.25%) Kafka
14 22 (1.91%) Hibernate
15 21 (1.82%) XML
16 20 (1.73%) .NET Framework
16 20 (1.73%) JPA
17 19 (1.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 220 (19.06%) Product Ownership
2 83 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.51%) Virtual Team
7 25 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.30%) Credit Risk
11 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.21%) PKI
12 12 (1.04%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.87%) Mainframe
14 10 (0.87%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 65 (5.63%) Linux
2 62 (5.37%) Windows
3 34 (2.95%) Unix
4 13 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.78%) Android
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.61%) zOS
8 4 (0.35%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.087%) CentOS
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (65.42%) Agile
2 407 (35.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 344 (29.81%) DevOps
4 316 (27.38%) Scrum
5 280 (24.26%) CI/CD
6 246 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
7 237 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 213 (18.46%) User Stories
9 197 (17.07%) Migration
10 195 (16.90%) Test Automation
11 169 (14.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 153 (13.26%) Sprint Planning
13 148 (12.82%) Business Analysis
14 144 (12.48%) Acceptance Criteria
15 140 (12.13%) SDLC
16 132 (11.44%) AI
17 131 (11.35%) User Acceptance Testing
18 129 (11.18%) Requirements Gathering
19 125 (10.83%) Kanban
20 121 (10.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 243 (21.06%) SQL
2 155 (13.43%) Python
3 91 (7.89%) Java
4 56 (4.85%) PowerShell
5 53 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 47 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 46 (3.99%) Bash
8 45 (3.90%) C#
9 43 (3.73%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.56%) Bicep
11 16 (1.39%) Groovy
12 14 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.04%) Perl
14 11 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.87%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.61%) Go
17 6 (0.52%) JCL
18 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.35%) R
19 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 394 (34.14%) Security Cleared
2 325 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.88%) Degree
4 74 (6.41%) DV Cleared
5 69 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 30 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.51%) PMP
9 24 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 14 (1.21%) CBAP
13 12 (1.04%) IIBA
14 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.87%) CISSP
15 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.52%) CISM
17 5 (0.43%) CSPO
17 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.87%) QA
2 83 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.94%) PMO
4 50 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.17%) WCAG
6 21 (1.82%) NCSC
7 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.78%) GDPR
8 9 (0.78%) NIST
8 9 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.61%) GRC
10 7 (0.61%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.61%) SEPA
11 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.35%) MiFID
12 3 (0.26%) EMIR
12 3 (0.26%) GxP
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 102 (8.84%) Docker
2 51 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.61%) vSphere
6 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.35%) Squid
7 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 75 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 64 (5.55%) Ansible
3 57 (4.94%) Grafana
4 34 (2.95%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.39%) Argo
5 16 (1.39%) Control-M
6 13 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.87%) Istio
8 8 (0.69%) Packer
9 7 (0.61%) SCOM
9 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.35%) Consul
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 4 (0.35%) WSUS
13 3 (0.26%) SELinux
14 2 (0.17%) HP ALM
14 2 (0.17%) Kibana
14 2 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 157 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.97%) Oracle
3 83 (7.19%) ServiceNow
4 65 (5.63%) Atlassian
5 42 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.29%) IBM
7 37 (3.21%) Google
8 34 (2.95%) VMware
9 29 (2.51%) Splunk
10 28 (2.43%) Talend
11 26 (2.25%) SAP
12 25 (2.17%) Denodo
13 23 (1.99%) Informatica
14 19 (1.65%) Databricks
15 15 (1.30%) Remedy
16 14 (1.21%) Dynatrace
17 12 (1.04%) MuleSoft
18 11 (0.95%) Adobe
18 11 (0.95%) Cisco
19 10 (0.87%) BMC