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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 97 107
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,154 915 830
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.76% 2.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.84% 25.49% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 655 530
10th Percentile £375 £325 £324
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £631
90th Percentile £671 £680 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £509
% change year-on-year - -6.63% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 18
10th Percentile £37.53 £33.11 £44.38
25th Percentile £57.18 £51.06 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £66.70 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -4.71% +9.80%
75th Percentile £82.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £66.70 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% -4.71% +7.89%

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 4,645 3,589 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 10.82% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,003 2,342 2,642
10th Percentile £286 £278 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +4.22% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 86 78
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.60 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% +4.20%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.24 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £33.33 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.98% -39.41% +83.33%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -39 983 £500 -3.24% 682
UK excluding London -30 600 £475 - 360
London -43 444 £550 -1.57% 361
Work from Home +2 382 £520 +4.00% 312
North of England -49 189 £474 -0.21% 92
Midlands +7 148 £469 +4.22% 44
West Midlands +7 128 £469 -1.26% 30
Yorkshire -15 110 £475 -7.41% 44
South East -41 84 £459 -5.85% 80
Scotland +9 81 £425 -9.33% 43
South West -3 72 £537 -10.50% 45
North West -48 71 £474 +10.36% 38
East of England -14 29 £513 +2.50% 34
East Midlands -16 20 £416 +26.06% 14
North East -47 11 £375 -27.88% 10
Wales -9 6 £625 +31.58% 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 62 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.39%) Apache
2 16 (1.39%) SAS
3 12 (1.04%) nginx
4 11 (0.95%) CMS
5 10 (0.87%) Camunda
6 9 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.61%) CICS
8 6 (0.52%) Traefik
9 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.35%) JBoss
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.087%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 90 (7.80%) MS Visio
2 79 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 5 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Productboard
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.087%) CATIA
11 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.087%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.087%) Actimize
8 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.087%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.087%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 268 (23.22%) Azure
2 261 (22.62%) AWS
3 140 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (9.27%) GitHub
5 92 (7.97%) Power Platform
6 77 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 59 (5.11%) GCP
8 55 (4.77%) Serverless
9 54 (4.68%) Miro
10 50 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (2.86%) Figma
15 28 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (1.99%) SaaS
18 20 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (1.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.95%) DNS
1 34 (2.95%) Firewall
2 16 (1.39%) SSH
3 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.04%) Network Security
4 12 (1.04%) SSL
5 11 (0.95%) HTTP
5 11 (0.95%) WAN
6 10 (0.87%) DHCP
6 10 (0.87%) VPN
7 9 (0.78%) IPv4
8 8 (0.69%) IPv6
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) VLAN
10 5 (0.43%) BGP
10 5 (0.43%) Internet
10 5 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.43%) OSPF
11 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.37%) Power BI
2 69 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.33%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 24 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.08%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (1.82%) Metadata
10 20 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.21%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.21%) MySQL
13 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.13%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,052 (91.16%) JIRA
2 153 (13.26%) Git
3 107 (9.27%) GitLab
4 101 (8.75%) Jenkins
5 52 (4.51%) Bitbucket
6 33 (2.86%) Selenium
7 30 (2.60%) JUnit
8 29 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 29 (2.51%) Zephyr
9 25 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 24 (2.08%) Cucumber
11 23 (1.99%) Maven
12 21 (1.82%) Mockito
12 21 (1.82%) Postman
13 20 (1.73%) SonarQube
14 18 (1.56%) Artifactory
14 18 (1.56%) REST Assured
15 16 (1.39%) JMeter
16 15 (1.30%) Cypress.io
17 11 (0.95%) Gradle
General
1 472 (40.90%) Social Skills
2 324 (28.08%) Finance
3 236 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
4 212 (18.37%) Public Sector
5 161 (13.95%) Banking
6 53 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.42%) Retail
8 46 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.56%) Military
12 18 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.39%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.39%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.30%) Legal
15 15 (1.30%) Marketing
16 9 (0.78%) Billing
Job Titles
1 242 (20.97%) Analyst
2 169 (14.64%) Business Analyst
3 126 (10.92%) Developer
4 113 (9.79%) Senior
5 109 (9.45%) Lead
6 59 (5.11%) Architect
7 55 (4.77%) Scrum Master
8 47 (4.07%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.90%) Consultant
10 43 (3.73%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
12 40 (3.47%) Product Manager
13 36 (3.12%) Product Owner
14 31 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.34%) Java Developer
15 27 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
16 25 (2.17%) Technical Manager
17 24 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (1.82%) Technical Analyst
19 20 (1.73%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (10.05%) Terraform
2 97 (8.41%) REST
3 46 (3.99%) HTML
4 41 (3.55%) .NET
4 41 (3.55%) RESTful
5 40 (3.47%) JSON
6 37 (3.21%) React
7 35 (3.03%) SOAP
8 32 (2.77%) AngularJS
9 31 (2.69%) Web Services
10 30 (2.60%) CSS
11 29 (2.51%) Spring Boot
12 27 (2.34%) .NET Core
12 27 (2.34%) Kafka
12 27 (2.34%) Spring
13 22 (1.91%) Hibernate
14 21 (1.82%) XML
15 20 (1.73%) .NET Framework
15 20 (1.73%) JPA
16 19 (1.65%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 224 (19.41%) Product Ownership
2 81 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 35 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 29 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.99%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.47%) Credit Risk
13 15 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.21%) PKI
15 12 (1.04%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.95%) Market Risk
16 11 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 10 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.72%) Linux
2 62 (5.37%) Windows
3 35 (3.03%) Unix
4 14 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.78%) Android
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.61%) zOS
8 4 (0.35%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (65.42%) Agile
2 415 (35.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 340 (29.46%) DevOps
4 309 (26.78%) Scrum
5 280 (24.26%) CI/CD
6 252 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (20.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 219 (18.98%) User Stories
9 202 (17.50%) Migration
10 196 (16.98%) Test Automation
11 165 (14.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 151 (13.08%) Acceptance Criteria
13 150 (13.00%) Business Analysis
13 150 (13.00%) Sprint Planning
14 142 (12.31%) SDLC
15 134 (11.61%) AI
16 130 (11.27%) User Acceptance Testing
17 128 (11.09%) Requirements Gathering
18 126 (10.92%) Roadmaps
19 119 (10.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 242 (20.97%) SQL
2 156 (13.52%) Python
3 95 (8.23%) Java
4 56 (4.85%) JavaScript
4 56 (4.85%) PowerShell
5 47 (4.07%) Bash
5 47 (4.07%) TypeScript
6 43 (3.73%) C#
7 41 (3.55%) PL/SQL
8 18 (1.56%) Bicep
9 16 (1.39%) Groovy
9 16 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.04%) Perl
11 10 (0.87%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.87%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.61%) Go
13 6 (0.52%) JCL
14 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.35%) R
15 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 395 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 325 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 119 (10.31%) Degree
4 72 (6.24%) DV Cleared
5 70 (6.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.12%) PMI Certification
7 32 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.60%) PMP
9 24 (2.08%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 14 (1.21%) CBAP
13 12 (1.04%) IIBA
14 11 (0.95%) CISSP
14 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.61%) CISM
17 5 (0.43%) CSPO
17 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.87%) QA
2 81 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.94%) PMO
4 49 (4.25%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.25%) WCAG
6 21 (1.82%) NCSC
7 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.78%) GDPR
8 9 (0.78%) NIST
9 8 (0.69%) SLA
10 7 (0.61%) GRC
10 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.61%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.61%) SEPA
11 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.26%) GxP
12 3 (0.26%) MiFID
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (8.93%) Docker
2 51 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.69%) vSphere
6 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.35%) Squid
7 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 66 (5.72%) Ansible
3 58 (5.03%) Grafana
4 33 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.47%) Control-M
6 16 (1.39%) Argo
7 14 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.87%) Istio
9 8 (0.69%) Packer
10 7 (0.61%) SCOM
10 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.35%) Podman
13 4 (0.35%) WSUS
14 3 (0.26%) Consul
14 3 (0.26%) SELinux
15 2 (0.17%) HP ALM
15 2 (0.17%) Kibana
15 2 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 158 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.97%) Oracle
3 85 (7.37%) ServiceNow
4 65 (5.63%) Atlassian
5 42 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.29%) Google
6 38 (3.29%) IBM
7 35 (3.03%) VMware
8 31 (2.69%) Splunk
9 28 (2.43%) Talend
10 25 (2.17%) Denodo
10 25 (2.17%) SAP
11 23 (1.99%) Informatica
12 17 (1.47%) Databricks
13 15 (1.30%) Remedy
14 14 (1.21%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.04%) Adobe
15 12 (1.04%) Cisco
15 12 (1.04%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.87%) BMC