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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 106 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +20 -36
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,049 772 869
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.71% 2.46% 1.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.09% 21.64% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 477 581
10th Percentile £330 £314 £380
25th Percentile £400 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £623 £630 £644
90th Percentile £727 £730 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 29
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.78 £40.00
25th Percentile £36.05 £59.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £64.51 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £70.40 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £64.88
% change year-on-year -27.26% -3.67% +23.59%

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 3,872 3,567 4,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.99% 11.34% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,680 2,181 2,931
10th Percentile £300 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 72 164
10th Percentile £14.72 £17.01 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +45.13% +44.87%
75th Percentile £69.13 £63.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £82.20 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.42 £50.91 £24.43
% change year-on-year -50.08% +108.38% +37.87%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +12 934 £500 -2.91% 229
UK excluding London +25 559 £480 -4.00% 189
London -13 405 £550 +4.76% 73
Work from Home -13 257 £478 -4.50% 120
North of England +9 207 £455 -11.22% 39
Midlands +17 113 £441 -7.49% 41
Yorkshire -12 111 £513 -1.44% 17
South West +13 99 £725 +26.09% 28
North West +22 86 £414 -12.89% 21
South East -16 80 £500 +7.53% 61
West Midlands +4 73 £450 -6.93% 29
Scotland +25 49 £475 +9.20% 5
East Midlands +3 39 £398 -5.36% 12
East of England -24 15 £463 +13.92% 19
North East -11 10 £488 +8.33% 2
Wales -2 3 £400 -23.81% 1
Northern Ireland 0 2 £458 - 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 87 (8.29%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.34%) nginx
3 15 (1.43%) CMS
4 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.86%) SAS
5 8 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.67%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.29%) Traefik
8 2 (0.19%) CICS
8 2 (0.19%) FileNet
8 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 1 (0.095%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.095%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.095%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 108 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 104 (9.91%) Microsoft Project
3 102 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
4 86 (8.20%) MS Visio
5 72 (6.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.24%) Trello
7 7 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.48%) Notion
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.19%) InDesign
9 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.095%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.095%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.095%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.095%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.67%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.29%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.19%) Summit
7 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.095%) Endur
7 1 (0.095%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.095%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.095%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.095%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 166 (15.82%) AWS
2 155 (14.78%) Azure
3 116 (11.06%) GitHub
4 70 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (5.53%) Power Platform
6 36 (3.43%) GCP
7 32 (3.05%) Miro
8 29 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (2.67%) SaaS
10 27 (2.57%) Serverless
11 26 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (2.48%) Amazon S3
12 25 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 24 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (2.10%) Lucidchart
15 21 (2.00%) Figma
16 19 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (1.81%) Slack
17 18 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.00%) Firewall
2 23 (2.19%) SSH
3 20 (1.91%) DNS
3 20 (1.91%) VPN
4 17 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.62%) WAN
5 14 (1.33%) FTP
5 14 (1.33%) Network Security
6 13 (1.24%) SSL
7 12 (1.14%) HTTP
7 12 (1.14%) LAN
8 11 (1.05%) SMTP
9 10 (0.95%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.86%) Ethernet
10 9 (0.86%) VSAN
11 7 (0.67%) IMAP
11 7 (0.67%) OpenLDAP
11 7 (0.67%) RS-232
11 7 (0.67%) RS-485
11 7 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.86%) Power BI
2 44 (4.19%) Tableau
3 42 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 20 (1.91%) Metadata
5 20 (1.91%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (1.81%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.62%) Big Data
8 15 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.14%) DocumentDB
9 12 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 9 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.76%) Redis
12 7 (0.67%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.67%) Tick Data
13 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.57%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 961 (91.61%) JIRA
2 128 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 95 (9.06%) Git
4 63 (6.01%) GitLab
5 49 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 34 (3.24%) Selenium
7 29 (2.76%) SonarQube
8 28 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (2.10%) Postman
10 20 (1.91%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.14%) JUnit
12 10 (0.95%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.95%) Vagrant
13 9 (0.86%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
14 8 (0.76%) Maven
15 7 (0.67%) Android Studio
15 7 (0.67%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.57%) Zephyr
17 5 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 469 (44.71%) Social Skills
2 324 (30.89%) Finance
3 206 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (16.68%) Banking
5 136 (12.96%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (4.58%) Military
8 34 (3.24%) Retail
9 31 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.29%) Legal
12 22 (2.10%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.00%) Retail Banking
14 16 (1.53%) Front Office
14 16 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.53%) Marketing
15 14 (1.33%) Automotive
15 14 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.05%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 236 (22.50%) Analyst
2 200 (19.07%) Business Analyst
3 106 (10.10%) Architect
4 99 (9.44%) Project Manager
5 80 (7.63%) Developer
6 79 (7.53%) Senior
7 74 (7.05%) Lead
8 49 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.53%) Scrum Master
10 34 (3.24%) Technical Business Analyst
11 33 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
12 30 (2.86%) Consultant
12 30 (2.86%) Service Architect
13 29 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
13 29 (2.76%) Senior Business Analyst
14 28 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
14 28 (2.67%) Tester
15 25 (2.38%) Product Owner
16 24 (2.29%) Banking Analyst
16 24 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.91%) REST
2 45 (4.29%) RESTful
3 37 (3.53%) Kafka
4 31 (2.96%) .NET
5 28 (2.67%) HTML
6 26 (2.48%) Spring
7 22 (2.10%) JSON
8 20 (1.91%) SOAP
9 19 (1.81%) Playwright
9 19 (1.81%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.72%) Node.js
11 17 (1.62%) React
12 16 (1.53%) LDAP
12 16 (1.53%) XML
13 15 (1.43%) OAuth
13 15 (1.43%) YAML
14 14 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (1.24%) Swagger
16 12 (1.14%) ADO
16 12 (1.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 188 (17.92%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.48%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (2.10%) PMI
7 20 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 20 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.24%) Replication
10 12 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (0.95%) Equities
12 10 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.86%) NHS
13 9 (0.86%) Tandem
14 8 (0.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.82%) Linux
2 71 (6.77%) Windows
3 22 (2.10%) Unix
4 14 (1.33%) Android
4 14 (1.33%) VMS
5 10 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) Solaris
10 1 (0.095%) AIX
10 1 (0.095%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.095%) MVS
10 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.095%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (62.44%) Agile
2 307 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (25.55%) DevOps
4 248 (23.64%) Scrum
5 210 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (17.92%) CI/CD
7 173 (16.49%) User Stories
8 166 (15.82%) Project Management
9 158 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 148 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 138 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
12 115 (10.96%) Change Management
12 115 (10.96%) Project Delivery
13 111 (10.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 108 (10.30%) Decision-Making
14 108 (10.30%) Migration
15 106 (10.10%) Roadmaps
16 104 (9.91%) Test Automation
17 101 (9.63%) Workshop Facilitation
18 99 (9.44%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 148 (14.11%) Python
2 118 (11.25%) SQL
3 69 (6.58%) Java
4 62 (5.91%) PowerShell
5 50 (4.77%) JavaScript
6 31 (2.96%) Bash
7 23 (2.19%) C#
7 23 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.43%) Go
9 11 (1.05%) C++
10 10 (0.95%) Groovy
11 9 (0.86%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.67%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.67%) Perl
13 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.38%) C
15 3 (0.29%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.29%) PHP
15 3 (0.29%) R
15 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 294 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 249 (23.74%) SC Cleared
3 211 (20.11%) Degree
4 56 (5.34%) PMI Certification
5 49 (4.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 48 (4.58%) PMP
7 43 (4.10%) CISSP
8 39 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (3.15%) CISM
11 28 (2.67%) Master's Degree
12 25 (2.38%) DV Cleared
13 23 (2.19%) CBAP
14 15 (1.43%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.43%) IIBA
15 12 (1.14%) CSPO
16 11 (1.05%) MBA
17 10 (0.95%) PhD
17 10 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
18 9 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.67%) QA
2 37 (3.53%) GDPR
3 34 (3.24%) PMO
4 30 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.72%) NIST
7 13 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.14%) GRC
8 12 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.14%) PSD2
9 9 (0.86%) WCAG
10 8 (0.76%) Basel III
10 8 (0.76%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.57%) COBIT
12 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 5 (0.48%) SEPA
12 5 (0.48%) SLA
13 4 (0.38%) P3O
14 3 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 88 (8.39%) Docker
2 19 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.24%) Squid
5 10 (0.95%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.95%) vSphere
6 9 (0.86%) Firmware
7 7 (0.67%) Dovecot
7 7 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.67%) Postfix
8 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.095%) KVM
11 1 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.095%) NFS
11 1 (0.095%) SRDF
11 1 (0.095%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.095%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 80 (7.63%) Terraform
3 65 (6.20%) Ansible
4 30 (2.86%) OPNET
5 28 (2.67%) Grafana
6 22 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.81%) Consul
8 17 (1.62%) Packer
9 14 (1.33%) NetBackup
10 13 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.95%) Puppet
11 10 (0.95%) vRealize
12 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.67%) Nessus
13 7 (0.67%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.67%) VxRail
14 5 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.48%) Istio
15 4 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 118 (11.25%) Atlassian
2 112 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 69 (6.58%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.96%) Oracle
5 48 (4.58%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.62%) Remedy
7 27 (2.57%) BiZZdesign
8 25 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 23 (2.19%) VMware
10 21 (2.00%) Commvault
10 21 (2.00%) IBM
11 20 (1.91%) Cisco
12 19 (1.81%) Google
13 18 (1.72%) HP
13 18 (1.72%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.62%) SAP
15 16 (1.53%) Dell
15 16 (1.53%) Splunk
16 15 (1.43%) CyberArk
17 13 (1.24%) CheckPoint