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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 104 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,002 840 1,058
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.76% 2.35% 2.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.29% 21.15% 23.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 530 683
10th Percentile £330 £313 £380
25th Percentile £425 £410 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.71%
75th Percentile £633 £630 £657
90th Percentile £738 £743 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £500 £561
% change year-on-year +2.20% -10.81% +5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 31
10th Percentile £27.21 £48.50 £50.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.82 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £72.94 £70.00 £72.20
90th Percentile £85.38 £70.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.82 £62.50 £67.41
% change year-on-year +0.51% -7.29% +28.40%

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 3,812 3,971 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.51% 11.12% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,593 2,445 3,058
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £393 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £626
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 90 137
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £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% +36.00%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +16 899 £525 - 479
UK excluding London +9 488 £511 +2.20% 453
London +8 440 £550 - 78
Work from Home -20 240 £513 +1.11% 267
North of England -13 172 £500 -1.38% 100
Yorkshire -15 103 £513 -0.49% 47
Midlands +22 95 £450 -5.66% 72
South West +14 92 £725 +14.62% 63
West Midlands +23 73 £465 -6.06% 35
South East -25 69 £525 +14.13% 136
North West -1 59 £475 -6.40% 45
Scotland +19 44 £500 +11.11% 21
East Midlands -6 22 £354 -15.71% 33
East of England -27 15 £425 - 58
North East +1 10 £510 +13.33% 9
Wales +3 4 £463 -11.90% 9
Northern Ireland -6 2 £320 - 3

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 69 (6.89%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.89%) nginx
3 17 (1.70%) CMS
4 11 (1.10%) Apache
5 3 (0.30%) CICS
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Traefik
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) FileNet
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.100%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.100%) Appian
7 1 (0.100%) Camunda
7 1 (0.100%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.100%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.100%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (9.78%) Microsoft Project
2 91 (9.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 90 (8.98%) Microsoft Office
4 84 (8.38%) MS Visio
5 56 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (2.00%) Trello
7 11 (1.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.50%) 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 (0.100%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.100%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.100%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.100%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.100%) Sketch
10 1 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.30%) NetSuite
1 13 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.20%) Shopify
5 1 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.100%) Endur
5 1 (0.100%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.100%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.100%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.100%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.100%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 178 (17.76%) AWS
2 143 (14.27%) Azure
3 100 (9.98%) GitHub
4 59 (5.89%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 40 (3.99%) Amazon S3
6 40 (3.99%) GCP
7 39 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (3.09%) Miro
11 27 (2.69%) Serverless
12 26 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.59%) Slack
13 25 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.40%) Lucidchart
14 24 (2.40%) SaaS
15 23 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (2.10%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.89%) Firewall
2 39 (3.89%) SSH
3 31 (3.09%) DNS
4 23 (2.30%) FTP
4 23 (2.30%) HTTP
5 22 (2.20%) SMTP
6 21 (2.10%) SSL
7 17 (1.70%) VPN
8 16 (1.60%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (1.10%) IMAP
10 9 (0.90%) VSAN
10 9 (0.90%) WAN
11 8 (0.80%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.70%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.60%) Network Security
14 5 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.50%) LAN
15 4 (0.40%) DHCP
15 4 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (3.89%) Power BI
3 33 (3.29%) Tableau
4 29 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (2.79%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.70%) Metadata
8 16 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 15 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.40%) Big Data
11 13 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.20%) MongoDB
13 9 (0.90%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.90%) MySQL
14 8 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.70%) Redis
16 6 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (0.60%) Couchbase
17 5 (0.50%) DocumentDB
17 5 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 911 (90.92%) JIRA
2 127 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 114 (11.38%) Git
4 64 (6.39%) GitLab
5 61 (6.09%) Bitbucket
6 32 (3.19%) Selenium
7 26 (2.59%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 23 (2.30%) Vagrant
9 22 (2.20%) SonarQube
10 18 (1.80%) Postman
11 15 (1.50%) JUnit
12 12 (1.20%) Maven
13 10 (1.00%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.90%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.70%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.70%) Zephyr
16 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
16 6 (0.60%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.60%) ScriptRunner
General
1 449 (44.81%) Social Skills
2 277 (27.64%) Finance
3 183 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (13.17%) Public Sector
5 129 (12.87%) Banking
6 43 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (4.09%) Military
8 30 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 29 (2.89%) Retail
10 27 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.50%) Legal
12 20 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.90%) Front Office
13 19 (1.90%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.60%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.30%) Automotive
17 11 (1.10%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.10%) Marketing
17 11 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (20.56%) Analyst
2 165 (16.47%) Business Analyst
3 101 (10.08%) Project Manager
4 97 (9.68%) Architect
5 89 (8.88%) Senior
6 75 (7.49%) Lead
7 72 (7.19%) Developer
8 42 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.69%) Product Owner
10 34 (3.39%) Scrum Master
11 33 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
12 30 (2.99%) Service Architect
13 29 (2.89%) Technical Analyst
14 28 (2.79%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (2.79%) Technical Business Analyst
15 27 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
16 26 (2.59%) Consultant
16 26 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.09%) REST
2 40 (3.99%) HTML
3 39 (3.89%) LDAP
4 37 (3.69%) Kafka
5 35 (3.49%) .NET
6 32 (3.19%) JSON
7 31 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 30 (2.99%) RESTful
9 29 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
10 28 (2.79%) SOAP
11 24 (2.40%) React
11 24 (2.40%) SAML
11 24 (2.40%) Web Services
12 21 (2.10%) Spring Boot
13 19 (1.90%) Node.js
13 19 (1.90%) Spring
14 17 (1.70%) CSS
14 17 (1.70%) Playwright
15 16 (1.60%) OAuth
16 15 (1.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 165 (16.47%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.50%) Replication
6 22 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 18 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.40%) PMI
10 14 (1.40%) Tandem
11 12 (1.20%) Derivative
11 12 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.20%) NHS
12 11 (1.10%) Equities
13 10 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.48%) Linux
2 81 (8.08%) Windows
3 32 (3.19%) Unix
4 26 (2.59%) VMS
5 21 (2.10%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.10%) Android
8 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.30%) 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 (0.100%) AIX
12 1 (0.100%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.100%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.100%) MVS
12 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (66.47%) Agile
2 259 (25.85%) DevOps
3 244 (24.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 238 (23.75%) Scrum
5 183 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (16.27%) CI/CD
7 159 (15.87%) Project Management
8 147 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 141 (14.07%) User Stories
10 137 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (13.57%) Change Management
12 111 (11.08%) Migration
13 108 (10.78%) Roadmaps
14 107 (10.68%) Acceptance Criteria
15 101 (10.08%) ITIL
16 97 (9.68%) Project Delivery
17 94 (9.38%) Microservices
18 93 (9.28%) Decision-Making
19 91 (9.08%) Test Automation
20 89 (8.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 167 (16.67%) Python
2 121 (12.08%) SQL
3 81 (8.08%) Java
4 66 (6.59%) JavaScript
5 63 (6.29%) PowerShell
6 33 (3.29%) Bash
7 25 (2.50%) Go
8 23 (2.30%) C#
9 21 (2.10%) Groovy
10 19 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.70%) Perl
12 9 (0.90%) C++
13 7 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.50%) PHP
16 4 (0.40%) C
16 4 (0.40%) R
17 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 273 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 251 (25.05%) SC Cleared
3 188 (18.76%) Degree
4 48 (4.79%) PMI Certification
5 42 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (4.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 39 (3.89%) PMP
8 36 (3.59%) CISSP
9 29 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.50%) CISM
10 25 (2.50%) DV Cleared
11 21 (2.10%) CBAP
12 17 (1.70%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.40%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.40%) CSPO
14 12 (1.20%) Azure Certification
15 10 (1.00%) PhD
16 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.60%) CFA
17 6 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.68%) QA
2 34 (3.39%) GDPR
3 26 (2.59%) PMO
4 25 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.30%) NIST
8 12 (1.20%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.90%) COBIT
9 9 (0.90%) WCAG
10 7 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.60%) GRC
11 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.60%) NCSC
11 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.60%) PSD2
11 6 (0.60%) SEPA
12 4 (0.40%) MiFID
13 3 (0.30%) Basel III
13 3 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (9.58%) Docker
2 29 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.00%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.20%) vSphere
6 11 (1.10%) Dovecot
6 11 (1.10%) Postfix
6 11 (1.10%) Squid
7 7 (0.70%) Firmware
8 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.100%) KVM
11 1 (0.100%) SRDF
11 1 (0.100%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 95 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 91 (9.08%) Terraform
3 61 (6.09%) Ansible
4 34 (3.39%) Grafana
5 30 (2.99%) OPNET
6 28 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 23 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.20%) Packer
9 20 (2.00%) Consul
10 15 (1.50%) Puppet
11 14 (1.40%) NetBackup
12 11 (1.10%) Nessus
13 10 (1.00%) Proxmox
13 10 (1.00%) vRealize
14 8 (0.80%) Istio
15 7 (0.70%) VxRail
16 6 (0.60%) SCCM
17 5 (0.50%) Argo
17 5 (0.50%) HP ALM
17 5 (0.50%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 113 (11.28%) Atlassian
2 102 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 102 (10.18%) ServiceNow
3 50 (4.99%) Remedy
4 49 (4.89%) Oracle
5 41 (4.09%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.19%) HP
7 28 (2.79%) IBM
8 27 (2.69%) VMware
9 22 (2.20%) SAP
10 21 (2.10%) Commvault
10 21 (2.10%) Google
11 19 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
11 19 (1.90%) Cisco
11 19 (1.90%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.80%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.70%) Dell
14 16 (1.60%) BMC
15 14 (1.40%) Splunk
16 13 (1.30%) Cloudera