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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 95 117
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,148 874 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.67% 2.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.86% 24.16% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 616 527
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £671 £681 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 23
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.25 £25.26
25th Percentile £59.00 £62.50 £38.38
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 4,617 3,617 4,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 11.03% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,033 2,362 2,827
10th Percentile £300 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -7.79% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 91 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.90 £25.08 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +26.56% -35.15%
75th Percentile £56.63 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.08 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £45.00
% change year-on-year -27.19% -0.81% +28.57%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -30 1,004 £504 -1.76% 180
UK excluding London -15 609 £475 - 110
London -23 444 £539 -6.30% 90
Work from Home 0 379 £520 +4.00% 89
North of England -44 190 £475 +8.57% 32
Midlands +21 164 £459 -3.37% 18
West Midlands +12 136 £459 -3.37% 13
Yorkshire -21 100 £474 +8.72% 12
South East -32 93 £500 +3.63% 26
North West -29 85 £474 +11.41% 12
South West -17 73 £539 -4.69% 19
Scotland +1 67 £508 -0.98% 7
East Midlands -4 27 £413 +25.00% 5
East of England -9 24 £350 -23.29% 7
Wales -15 9 £650 +36.84% 3
North East -45 8 £480 -8.13% 8

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 80 (6.97%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.92%) SAS
3 11 (0.96%) CMS
3 11 (0.96%) nginx
4 10 (0.87%) Apache
5 7 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.44%) JBoss
6 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.087%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.087%) Mendix
10 1 (0.087%) Mule
10 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (7.75%) MS Visio
2 70 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.97%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.61%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 4 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.087%) CATIA
10 1 (0.087%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.087%) Sketch
10 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.78%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Actimize
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.087%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 270 (23.52%) Azure
2 260 (22.65%) AWS
3 125 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
4 118 (10.28%) GitHub
5 89 (7.75%) Power Platform
6 73 (6.36%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.97%) Serverless
8 55 (4.79%) GCP
9 52 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (3.83%) Miro
11 42 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (2.53%) Figma
14 29 (2.53%) SaaS
15 25 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.09%) Entra ID
17 23 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.53%) Firewall
2 23 (2.00%) DNS
3 15 (1.31%) SSH
4 14 (1.22%) SSL
5 12 (1.05%) Network Security
5 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.05%) VPN
6 11 (0.96%) WAN
7 10 (0.87%) HTTP
8 6 (0.52%) Broadband
8 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) DHCP
9 5 (0.44%) LAN
9 5 (0.44%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.35%) IPv4
11 3 (0.26%) Internet
11 3 (0.26%) IPv6
11 3 (0.26%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.06%) Power BI
2 60 (5.23%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 36 (3.14%) SQL Server
5 33 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (2.18%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.09%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.74%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.66%) Tableau
11 17 (1.48%) Metadata
12 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
16 12 (1.05%) Pentaho
16 12 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,038 (90.42%) JIRA
2 154 (13.41%) Git
3 108 (9.41%) Jenkins
4 96 (8.36%) GitLab
5 60 (5.23%) Bitbucket
6 45 (3.92%) Selenium
7 29 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 28 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 27 (2.35%) Zephyr
10 25 (2.18%) Cucumber
10 25 (2.18%) Postman
11 21 (1.83%) JMeter
12 20 (1.74%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.74%) JUnit
13 19 (1.66%) Artifactory
14 11 (0.96%) MSI
14 11 (0.96%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.87%) WebDriver
16 9 (0.78%) IntelliJ
17 8 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 476 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 338 (29.44%) Finance
3 215 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (17.42%) Public Sector
5 167 (14.55%) Banking
6 52 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (4.36%) Retail
8 34 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.92%) Legal
12 19 (1.66%) Military
12 19 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.31%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.31%) Retail Banking
16 13 (1.13%) Marketing
17 10 (0.87%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (20.56%) Analyst
2 174 (15.16%) Business Analyst
3 117 (10.19%) Developer
3 117 (10.19%) Senior
4 104 (9.06%) Lead
5 64 (5.57%) Architect
6 60 (5.23%) Scrum Master
7 50 (4.36%) Consultant
8 46 (4.01%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.92%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.66%) Product Owner
11 40 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 29 (2.53%) Product Manager
13 27 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.26%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (2.00%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.92%) Business Systems Analyst
16 22 (1.92%) Test Analyst
17 21 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (11.32%) Terraform
2 76 (6.62%) REST
3 42 (3.66%) .NET
4 38 (3.31%) JSON
5 36 (3.14%) HTML
6 34 (2.96%) React
7 29 (2.53%) AngularJS
7 29 (2.53%) RESTful
8 28 (2.44%) CSS
9 25 (2.18%) .NET Core
10 23 (2.00%) Spring
11 20 (1.74%) XML
12 19 (1.66%) .NET Framework
12 19 (1.66%) Kafka
13 18 (1.57%) Playwright
13 18 (1.57%) PySpark
14 17 (1.48%) ADO
15 16 (1.39%) Web Services
16 15 (1.31%) Node.js
16 15 (1.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 206 (17.94%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 52 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 20 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 17 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.05%) Clustering
12 11 (0.96%) Credit Risk
12 11 (0.96%) PKI
13 10 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.36%) Linux
2 59 (5.14%) Windows
3 36 (3.14%) Unix
4 12 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.70%) Android
5 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.087%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.087%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (66.55%) Agile
2 375 (32.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 338 (29.44%) DevOps
4 311 (27.09%) Scrum
5 279 (24.30%) CI/CD
6 235 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (19.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 193 (16.81%) Test Automation
9 184 (16.03%) User Stories
10 178 (15.51%) Migration
11 174 (15.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 139 (12.11%) Sprint Planning
13 134 (11.67%) Acceptance Criteria
14 130 (11.32%) SDLC
15 127 (11.06%) Business Analysis
15 127 (11.06%) Kanban
16 121 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
17 118 (10.28%) Requirements Gathering
17 118 (10.28%) User Acceptance Testing
18 116 (10.10%) AI
Programming Languages
1 219 (19.08%) SQL
2 173 (15.07%) Python
3 88 (7.67%) Java
4 60 (5.23%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.36%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.09%) TypeScript
7 45 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 43 (3.75%) Bash
8 43 (3.75%) C#
9 16 (1.39%) Bicep
9 16 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 15 (1.31%) Groovy
11 10 (0.87%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.87%) Perl
12 7 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.44%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.35%) Korn
15 4 (0.35%) Swift
16 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 411 (35.80%) Security Cleared
2 345 (30.05%) SC Cleared
3 109 (9.49%) Degree
4 62 (5.40%) DV Cleared
5 61 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (2.61%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.26%) AWS Certification
8 25 (2.18%) PMP
9 22 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 19 (1.66%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.48%) CISSP
13 15 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
14 14 (1.22%) IIBA
15 12 (1.05%) CBAP
16 10 (0.87%) CISM
16 10 (0.87%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
18 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (10.71%) QA
2 65 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 62 (5.40%) PMO
4 46 (4.01%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.09%) WCAG
6 19 (1.66%) NCSC
7 15 (1.31%) GDPR
7 15 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.22%) NIST
9 13 (1.13%) GRC
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.52%) SEPA
13 5 (0.44%) MiFID
14 4 (0.35%) HL7
14 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) EMIR
System Software
1 97 (8.45%) Docker
2 48 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.44%) Squid
5 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
6 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.26%) HDFS
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 79 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 69 (6.01%) Ansible
3 52 (4.53%) Grafana
4 27 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.31%) Argo
7 8 (0.70%) Istio
7 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.70%) Puppet
8 7 (0.61%) Control-M
9 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.52%) Packer
9 6 (0.52%) SCOM
9 6 (0.52%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.44%) Consul
11 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.35%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 148 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.84%) ServiceNow
3 87 (7.58%) Oracle
4 81 (7.06%) Atlassian
5 46 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 35 (3.05%) SAP
7 33 (2.87%) Google
8 32 (2.79%) IBM
8 32 (2.79%) Talend
9 28 (2.44%) Denodo
10 27 (2.35%) Splunk
11 25 (2.18%) Informatica
12 23 (2.00%) VMware
13 20 (1.74%) Databricks
14 14 (1.22%) MuleSoft
15 13 (1.13%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.05%) Adobe
16 12 (1.05%) Cisco
17 11 (0.96%) Red Hat
18 10 (0.87%) Zscaler