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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 100 135
Rank change year-on-year +1 +35 -32
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,112 764 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.40% 2.59% 1.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.46% 22.54% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 498 500
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £406 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.01%
75th Percentile £602 £590 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -6.20% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 18
10th Percentile £28.97 £51.78 £24.10
25th Percentile £58.43 £58.47 £37.56
Median hourly rate £63.14 £63.75 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.08% +12.39%
75th Percentile £74.26 £75.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £78.13 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £63.75 £66.25
% change year-on-year -0.39% -3.77% +21.56%

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 4,203 3,390 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.05% 11.48% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,872 2,264 2,863
10th Percentile £308 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £458 £450
% change year-on-year +2.73% +1.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 83 162
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.80 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £35.25 £41.91 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +45.77% -24.34%
75th Percentile £73.94 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £48.82 £24.43
% change year-on-year +7.55% +99.82% -6.04%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +6 989 £500 - 148
UK excluding London -6 589 £469 -6.20% 118
London +9 428 £520 +4.00% 59
Work from Home +10 312 £485 +6.59% 77
North of England -4 196 £450 +6.26% 15
Midlands +11 171 £450 -6.93% 24
West Midlands +8 127 £450 -9.09% 17
North West +18 107 £438 +8.83% 7
South West +1 89 £725 +28.89% 16
Yorkshire -30 83 £480 +6.08% 6
South East -56 69 £500 +1.52% 42
Scotland -3 48 £525 +15.07% 8
East Midlands -7 41 £420 -6.04% 7
East of England -29 19 £350 -17.60% 7
North East -20 6 £365 -30.48% 2
Wales -10 5 £606 +42.65% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £458 - 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
1 100 (8.99%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.97%) nginx
3 16 (1.44%) SAS
4 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.63%) CMS
6 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.36%) Apache
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.090%) Mendix
Applications
1 104 (9.35%) Microsoft Project
2 91 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 89 (8.00%) MS Visio
4 79 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
5 66 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.81%) Trello
7 5 (0.45%) Notion
8 1 (0.090%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.090%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.090%) InDesign
8 1 (0.090%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.090%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.26%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.54%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.27%) Actimize
6 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.090%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 215 (19.33%) AWS
2 201 (18.08%) Azure
3 124 (11.15%) GitHub
4 91 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (6.65%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.51%) SaaS
7 37 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 37 (3.33%) GCP
7 37 (3.33%) Miro
8 33 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 32 (2.88%) Serverless
10 30 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (2.43%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.34%) Entra ID
13 25 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.70%) Firewall
2 19 (1.71%) VPN
3 18 (1.62%) Network Security
3 18 (1.62%) SSL
3 18 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.62%) WAN
4 15 (1.35%) LAN
5 13 (1.17%) DNS
5 13 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.90%) Ethernet
6 10 (0.90%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.63%) Modbus
7 7 (0.63%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.63%) PSTN
7 7 (0.63%) RS-232
7 7 (0.63%) RS-485
7 7 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.45%) BIG-IP
8 5 (0.45%) SSH
8 5 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.85%) Power BI
2 54 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (3.42%) Tableau
4 36 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (2.43%) NoSQL
6 25 (2.25%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.98%) Metadata
8 20 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (1.80%) SQL Server
9 16 (1.44%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.17%) Big Data
10 13 (1.17%) DocumentDB
11 11 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (0.63%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.63%) Power Query
15 7 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1,030 (92.63%) JIRA
2 143 (12.86%) Git
3 119 (10.70%) Jenkins
4 60 (5.40%) GitLab
5 54 (4.86%) Selenium
6 49 (4.41%) Bitbucket
7 35 (3.15%) Sonatype Nexus
8 33 (2.97%) Postman
9 29 (2.61%) JUnit
10 27 (2.43%) Cucumber
11 25 (2.25%) JMeter
12 23 (2.07%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.44%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.35%) Zephyr
15 14 (1.26%) Cypress.io
16 13 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 13 (1.17%) ScriptRunner
17 10 (0.90%) Maven
18 9 (0.81%) IntelliJ
18 9 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 475 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 331 (29.77%) Finance
3 215 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (17.27%) Banking
5 165 (14.84%) Public Sector
6 54 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (4.68%) Military
8 38 (3.42%) Retail
9 31 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.25%) Legal
11 25 (2.25%) Retail Banking
12 23 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.44%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.44%) Marketing
15 15 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
16 11 (0.99%) Front Office
17 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 257 (23.11%) Analyst
2 218 (19.60%) Business Analyst
3 108 (9.71%) Architect
4 100 (8.99%) Senior
5 92 (8.27%) Developer
6 87 (7.82%) Project Manager
7 74 (6.65%) Lead
8 47 (4.23%) Scrum Master
9 40 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
10 34 (3.06%) Consultant
10 34 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
11 33 (2.97%) Tester
12 31 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (2.70%) Service Architect
14 27 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
14 27 (2.43%) Technical Business Analyst
15 26 (2.34%) Banking Analyst
16 25 (2.25%) Banking Business Analyst
16 25 (2.25%) Technical Manager
17 23 (2.07%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.22%) REST
2 47 (4.23%) Spring
3 33 (2.97%) RESTful
4 26 (2.34%) Spring Boot
5 24 (2.16%) HTML
6 23 (2.07%) ADO
6 23 (2.07%) Kafka
6 23 (2.07%) React
7 21 (1.89%) JSON
7 21 (1.89%) Node.js
8 18 (1.62%) .NET
8 18 (1.62%) WireMock
9 16 (1.44%) SOAP
10 15 (1.35%) Playwright
11 14 (1.26%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.26%) OpenID
11 14 (1.26%) Swagger
12 13 (1.17%) XML
13 12 (1.08%) CSS
13 12 (1.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 191 (17.18%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 25 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 21 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 19 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.62%) PMI
9 17 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 11 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (0.81%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.81%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.72%) Linux
2 46 (4.14%) Windows
3 14 (1.26%) Android
3 14 (1.26%) Unix
4 11 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Solaris
8 2 (0.18%) zOS
9 1 (0.090%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (63.67%) Agile
2 316 (28.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 292 (26.26%) DevOps
4 269 (24.19%) Scrum
5 230 (20.68%) CI/CD
6 218 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (16.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (16.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 175 (15.74%) User Stories
10 163 (14.66%) Project Management
11 149 (13.40%) Acceptance Criteria
12 135 (12.14%) Migration
13 134 (12.05%) Test Automation
14 121 (10.88%) Workshop Facilitation
15 118 (10.61%) Roadmaps
16 114 (10.25%) Change Management
17 112 (10.07%) Kanban
18 108 (9.71%) Project Delivery
19 106 (9.53%) Decision-Making
20 103 (9.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 148 (13.31%) Python
2 139 (12.50%) SQL
3 87 (7.82%) Java
4 57 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.51%) Bash
7 27 (2.43%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.44%) C#
9 13 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.90%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.90%) C++
11 9 (0.81%) Kotlin
11 9 (0.81%) Perl
12 8 (0.72%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.63%) Embedded C++
13 7 (0.63%) Groovy
14 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.36%) C
15 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 392 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 331 (29.77%) SC Cleared
3 171 (15.38%) Degree
4 51 (4.59%) PMI Certification
5 50 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 49 (4.41%) PMP
7 44 (3.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 33 (2.97%) CISSP
9 25 (2.25%) CISM
9 25 (2.25%) DV Cleared
10 23 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.71%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.71%) CBAP
11 19 (1.71%) IIBA
12 16 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.44%) SAFe Agilist
13 12 (1.08%) MBA
14 10 (0.90%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.63%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.36%) QA
2 45 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 44 (3.96%) PMO
4 41 (3.69%) GDPR
5 25 (2.25%) NIST
6 24 (2.16%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.62%) GRC
9 12 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.81%) Basel III
11 8 (0.72%) SLA
12 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.54%) MiFID
12 6 (0.54%) PSD2
13 5 (0.45%) HL7
14 4 (0.36%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.36%) P3O
14 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (9.08%) Docker
2 14 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.90%) Squid
3 10 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.63%) Firmware
5 4 (0.36%) vSphere
6 3 (0.27%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 91 (8.18%) Terraform
3 61 (5.49%) Ansible
4 39 (3.51%) Grafana
5 31 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.70%) OPNET
7 23 (2.07%) Consul
8 19 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.44%) Packer
9 16 (1.44%) Puppet
10 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.81%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.72%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.54%) Istio
14 5 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.36%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.36%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.36%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 132 (11.87%) Atlassian
2 104 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 102 (9.17%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.68%) Salesforce
5 43 (3.87%) Oracle
6 34 (3.06%) Remedy
6 34 (3.06%) SAP
7 27 (2.43%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.89%) Databricks
9 19 (1.71%) BiZZdesign
10 18 (1.62%) Splunk
11 16 (1.44%) IBM
12 15 (1.35%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.35%) Talend
13 14 (1.26%) Google
13 14 (1.26%) MuleSoft
14 13 (1.17%) Cisco
15 12 (1.08%) Commvault
16 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
17 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace