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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 94 126
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 -22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,182 860 773
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 2.64% 1.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.72% 24.08% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 590 530
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.19%
75th Percentile £596 £608 £631
90th Percentile £675 £682 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 24
10th Percentile £40.73 £58.63 £25.27
25th Percentile £55.53 £63.13 £39.19
Median hourly rate £62.75 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £72.18 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.98 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% - +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 4,595 3,571 4,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.96% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,031 2,329 3,010
10th Percentile £306 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -5.52% +1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 87 137
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.79
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.02 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -36.59%
75th Percentile £63.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.72 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £30.91
% change year-on-year -29.73% +61.13% -11.68%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -7 1,028 £500 -2.44% 229
UK excluding London -13 637 £469 -1.26% 149
London -18 453 £525 -5.23% 106
Work from Home +6 405 £500 +9.29% 110
North of England -19 203 £450 +5.88% 41
Midlands +36 182 £459 -3.37% 23
West Midlands +24 153 £459 -3.37% 18
North West -15 102 £445 +8.54% 23
Yorkshire -25 94 £458 +7.65% 13
South East -45 89 £500 -1.09% 49
Scotland -1 74 £479 +6.33% 5
South West -17 67 £550 -4.35% 19
East Midlands -1 27 £419 +25.75% 5
East of England -21 24 £350 -23.29% 7
Wales -16 8 £650 +36.84% 1
North East -48 8 £480 -12.73% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 5

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
1 102 (8.63%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.78%) SAS
3 17 (1.44%) nginx
4 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.76%) CMS
6 7 (0.59%) Apache
6 7 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.085%) Mule
12 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (7.45%) MS Visio
2 71 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.59%) Trello
7 6 (0.51%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) CATIA
10 1 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.76%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
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%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 281 (23.77%) AWS
2 278 (23.52%) Azure
3 132 (11.17%) GitHub
4 128 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 85 (7.19%) Amazon S3
7 58 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
8 57 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (4.74%) Serverless
10 55 (4.65%) GCP
11 52 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 43 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
15 36 (3.05%) Miro
16 34 (2.88%) SaaS
17 30 (2.54%) Entra ID
18 28 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
19 24 (2.03%) Figma
20 21 (1.78%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.71%) Firewall
2 25 (2.12%) DNS
3 17 (1.44%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.44%) WAN
4 16 (1.35%) Network Security
5 15 (1.27%) SSH
6 14 (1.18%) VPN
7 12 (1.02%) SSL
7 12 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.93%) LAN
8 11 (0.93%) OpenVPN
9 10 (0.85%) HTTP
9 10 (0.85%) Unified Communications
10 7 (0.59%) PSTN
11 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.34%) DHCP
12 4 (0.34%) MPLS
13 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.25%) Internet
13 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.51%) Power BI
2 63 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (3.05%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.28%) MongoDB
9 23 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.78%) Metadata
10 21 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.52%) Tableau
12 15 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.02%) Pentaho
15 11 (0.93%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 10 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,067 (90.27%) JIRA
2 165 (13.96%) Git
3 125 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 106 (8.97%) GitLab
5 55 (4.65%) Selenium
6 48 (4.06%) Bitbucket
7 34 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.71%) JUnit
9 31 (2.62%) JMeter
10 30 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (2.37%) Postman
12 23 (1.95%) Zephyr
13 21 (1.78%) Artifactory
14 20 (1.69%) Cypress.io
14 20 (1.69%) SonarQube
15 19 (1.61%) WebDriver
16 16 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.93%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.76%) IntelliJ
18 9 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
General
1 476 (40.27%) Social Skills
2 330 (27.92%) Finance
3 206 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (16.16%) Public Sector
5 177 (14.97%) Banking
6 58 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.13%) Retail
8 34 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.37%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.95%) Legal
12 20 (1.69%) Military
12 20 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.27%) Marketing
15 13 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 247 (20.90%) Analyst
2 189 (15.99%) Business Analyst
3 129 (10.91%) Senior
4 112 (9.48%) Developer
5 101 (8.54%) Lead
6 72 (6.09%) Architect
7 66 (5.58%) Scrum Master
8 51 (4.31%) Data Engineer
9 48 (4.06%) Project Manager
10 47 (3.98%) Consultant
11 45 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.88%) Product Owner
13 29 (2.45%) Tester
14 27 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (2.12%) Product Manager
16 24 (2.03%) Technical Analyst
16 24 (2.03%) Test Analyst
17 23 (1.95%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (1.95%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.58%) REST
2 45 (3.81%) JSON
3 37 (3.13%) Spring
4 35 (2.96%) .NET
5 34 (2.88%) RESTful
6 33 (2.79%) React
7 28 (2.37%) HTML
8 27 (2.28%) AngularJS
9 26 (2.20%) XML
10 23 (1.95%) CSS
11 21 (1.78%) ADO
11 21 (1.78%) PySpark
11 21 (1.78%) SOAP
12 20 (1.69%) Spring Boot
13 19 (1.61%) WireMock
14 17 (1.44%) .NET Core
14 17 (1.44%) Kafka
15 16 (1.35%) Node.js
15 16 (1.35%) OpenID
15 16 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 191 (16.16%) Product Ownership
2 74 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.71%) Virtual Team
5 26 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 19 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.02%) Linux
2 60 (5.08%) Windows
3 36 (3.05%) Unix
4 14 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.76%) Android
7 5 (0.42%) AIX
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.25%) Solaris
8 3 (0.25%) zOS
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.085%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.085%) SUSE
10 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (64.81%) Agile
2 355 (30.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 336 (28.43%) DevOps
4 303 (25.63%) Scrum
5 290 (24.53%) CI/CD
6 240 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
7 233 (19.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 195 (16.50%) Test Automation
9 183 (15.48%) User Stories
10 176 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 157 (13.28%) Migration
12 138 (11.68%) Kanban
13 131 (11.08%) Sprint Planning
14 130 (11.00%) Acceptance Criteria
15 128 (10.83%) Roadmaps
16 119 (10.07%) AI
16 119 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
17 113 (9.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 112 (9.48%) SDLC
19 111 (9.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 213 (18.02%) SQL
2 179 (15.14%) Python
3 96 (8.12%) Java
4 56 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 46 (3.89%) Bash
6 45 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 44 (3.72%) PL/SQL
8 38 (3.21%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.13%) C#
10 12 (1.02%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.93%) Groovy
11 11 (0.93%) Perl
12 9 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.76%) Bicep
13 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.34%) R
14 4 (0.34%) VBA
15 3 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 405 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 336 (28.43%) SC Cleared
3 133 (11.25%) Degree
4 58 (4.91%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (3.38%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.79%) PMP
8 28 (2.37%) CISSP
9 25 (2.12%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (1.69%) CISM
12 18 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 17 (1.44%) SAFe Agilist
14 16 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 14 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (1.02%) CBAP
17 10 (0.85%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.68%) IIBA
18 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (9.81%) QA
2 69 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.08%) PMO
4 41 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.54%) GDPR
6 20 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.69%) NIST
6 20 (1.69%) WCAG
7 15 (1.27%) NCSC
8 13 (1.10%) GRC
9 11 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
11 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.51%) SLA
12 5 (0.42%) HL7
12 5 (0.42%) MiFID
12 5 (0.42%) SEPA
13 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 103 (8.71%) Docker
2 31 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.85%) Squid
4 9 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.25%) Ceph
7 3 (0.25%) HDFS
7 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 132 (11.17%) Terraform
2 99 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 71 (6.01%) Ansible
4 62 (5.25%) Grafana
5 35 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.10%) Argo
8 13 (1.10%) Puppet
9 11 (0.93%) Consul
10 9 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.76%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.68%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.59%) Istio
13 6 (0.51%) Control-M
14 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.34%) Podman
15 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 139 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 97 (8.21%) ServiceNow
3 92 (7.78%) Oracle
4 77 (6.51%) Atlassian
5 53 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.47%) SAP
7 34 (2.88%) IBM
8 32 (2.71%) Talend
9 30 (2.54%) Red Hat
10 28 (2.37%) Denodo
11 26 (2.20%) Databricks
11 26 (2.20%) Google
12 25 (2.12%) Splunk
13 23 (1.95%) Informatica
14 16 (1.35%) Dynatrace
14 16 (1.35%) MuleSoft
15 13 (1.10%) VMware
16 10 (0.85%) Commvault
16 10 (0.85%) Veracode
17 9 (0.76%) Zscaler