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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 96 133
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -18
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,164 796 767
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.30% 2.66% 1.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.46% 23.70% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 531 522
10th Percentile £350 £326 £355
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £682 £675 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.37% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 25
10th Percentile £28.38 £54.23 £25.10
25th Percentile £48.40 £62.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72.06 £77.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.28 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.14% - +21.74%

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 4,399 3,358 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.68% 11.23% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,945 2,216 3,086
10th Percentile £313 £289 £261
25th Percentile £405 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -2.15%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 73 165
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.56 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £60.25 £70.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.63 £79.75 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.06 £30.83
% change year-on-year -34.03% +72.12% -36.44%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -2 1,008 £486 -4.84% 155
UK excluding London -6 641 £464 -2.37% 128
London -9 424 £525 -4.55% 65
Work from Home +11 392 £492 +9.33% 95
North of England -17 210 £444 +4.47% 31
Midlands +30 198 £459 -1.82% 13
West Midlands +23 156 £463 -2.63% 11
North West +2 114 £430 +4.88% 15
South East -35 89 £488 +0.52% 46
Yorkshire -34 88 £468 +13.33% 14
Scotland +3 70 £550 +22.22% 9
South West -18 60 £553 -3.91% 18
East Midlands +5 40 £413 +23.87% 2
East of England -28 20 £350 -24.32% 8
Wales -15 9 £650 +36.84% 2
North East -41 8 £375 -30.23% 2
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
1 101 (8.68%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.58%) SAS
3 13 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.12%) nginx
4 7 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.52%) CMS
6 5 (0.43%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.086%) Appian
10 1 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 88 (7.56%) MS Visio
2 86 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 67 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.43%) Trello
7 4 (0.34%) Notion
8 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.086%) CATIA
9 1 (0.086%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.52%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.34%) Actimize
5 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.26%) Primavera
5 3 (0.26%) Summit
6 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.17%) BASE24
6 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.17%) Maximo
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.086%) ENOVIA
Cloud Services
1 272 (23.37%) AWS
2 238 (20.45%) Azure
3 121 (10.40%) GitHub
4 107 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 74 (6.36%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.90%) Serverless
8 52 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 48 (4.12%) GCP
11 44 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (2.58%) Miro
14 30 (2.58%) SaaS
15 29 (2.49%) Entra ID
16 26 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (1.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.66%) Firewall
2 23 (1.98%) Network Security
3 19 (1.63%) DNS
4 18 (1.55%) WAN
5 17 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.20%) LAN
6 14 (1.20%) VPN
7 12 (1.03%) SSL
7 12 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.86%) SSH
8 10 (0.86%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.77%) HTTP
10 7 (0.60%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.60%) OpenVPN
10 7 (0.60%) PSTN
10 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.43%) BIG-IP
11 5 (0.43%) Modbus
11 5 (0.43%) RS-232
11 5 (0.43%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.30%) Power BI
2 59 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (2.66%) Tableau
5 29 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
5 29 (2.49%) DynamoDB
6 27 (2.32%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (1.98%) SQL Server
8 21 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.72%) Metadata
10 17 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
13 13 (1.12%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.03%) Pentaho
15 11 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.95%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,063 (91.32%) JIRA
2 155 (13.32%) Git
3 128 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 104 (8.93%) GitLab
5 54 (4.64%) Selenium
6 48 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 32 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 32 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.66%) JUnit
9 30 (2.58%) JMeter
10 28 (2.41%) Postman
11 22 (1.89%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.72%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.63%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.55%) Zephyr
15 13 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 12 (1.03%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
18 9 (0.77%) Maven
General
1 455 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 334 (28.69%) Finance
3 204 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (16.67%) Banking
5 180 (15.46%) Public Sector
6 60 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.92%) Retail
8 31 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.32%) Legal
10 26 (2.23%) Retail Banking
11 24 (2.06%) Military
12 23 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.37%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
17 13 (1.12%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.12%) Marketing
18 10 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 9 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 252 (21.65%) Analyst
2 202 (17.35%) Business Analyst
3 119 (10.22%) Senior
4 107 (9.19%) Developer
5 89 (7.65%) Architect
6 76 (6.53%) Lead
7 60 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 55 (4.73%) Scrum Master
9 54 (4.64%) Data Engineer
10 45 (3.87%) Consultant
11 39 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (2.84%) Product Owner
12 33 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (2.66%) Tester
14 27 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.89%) Technical Business Analyst
17 21 (1.80%) Banking Analyst
17 21 (1.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (4.21%) REST
2 41 (3.52%) JSON
2 41 (3.52%) Spring
3 31 (2.66%) RESTful
4 30 (2.58%) React
5 27 (2.32%) .NET
6 26 (2.23%) HTML
7 23 (1.98%) ADO
7 23 (1.98%) PySpark
8 21 (1.80%) AngularJS
8 21 (1.80%) XML
9 20 (1.72%) CSS
9 20 (1.72%) Spring Boot
10 19 (1.63%) WireMock
11 18 (1.55%) SOAP
12 16 (1.37%) OpenID
13 14 (1.20%) Kafka
13 14 (1.20%) Node.js
14 13 (1.12%) AWS CDK
14 13 (1.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 183 (15.72%) Product Ownership
2 69 (5.93%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.32%) Data Centre
4 27 (2.32%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.37%) PMI
12 15 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 13 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.95%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.95%) Security Posture
16 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.30%) Linux
2 57 (4.90%) Windows
3 34 (2.92%) Unix
4 13 (1.12%) Android
5 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.43%) AIX
6 5 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.26%) Solaris
8 3 (0.26%) zOS
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.086%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.086%) SUSE
10 1 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (62.03%) Agile
2 327 (28.09%) DevOps
3 321 (27.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 284 (24.40%) Scrum
5 278 (23.88%) CI/CD
6 228 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
7 216 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 183 (15.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 183 (15.72%) Test Automation
9 176 (15.12%) User Stories
10 158 (13.57%) Migration
11 124 (10.65%) Project Management
12 122 (10.48%) Kanban
13 120 (10.31%) Acceptance Criteria
14 117 (10.05%) Roadmaps
15 115 (9.88%) SDLC
16 110 (9.45%) Change Management
16 110 (9.45%) Project Delivery
17 109 (9.36%) User Acceptance Testing
18 105 (9.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 200 (17.18%) SQL
2 165 (14.18%) Python
3 89 (7.65%) Java
4 57 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 42 (3.61%) PL/SQL
5 42 (3.61%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.26%) Bash
7 34 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.06%) C#
9 12 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.95%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.86%) Groovy
11 10 (0.86%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.86%) Perl
12 8 (0.69%) C++
13 7 (0.60%) Bicep
13 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.43%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 403 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 338 (29.04%) SC Cleared
3 131 (11.25%) Degree
4 52 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (4.04%) PMI Certification
6 42 (3.61%) PMP
7 41 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.84%) CISSP
9 26 (2.23%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.15%) CISM
11 24 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 18 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (1.46%) Master's Degree
15 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (1.29%) IIBA
17 13 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (1.03%) CBAP
19 11 (0.95%) Azure Certification
20 9 (0.77%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.76%) QA
2 68 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.73%) PMO
4 38 (3.26%) GDPR
5 35 (3.01%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.15%) NIST
7 20 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.29%) GRC
9 14 (1.20%) WCAG
10 13 (1.12%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.03%) NCSC
12 10 (0.86%) SLA
13 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.52%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.52%) MiFID
15 5 (0.43%) Basel III
15 5 (0.43%) HL7
15 5 (0.43%) PSD2
16 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 90 (7.73%) Docker
2 17 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.86%) Squid
4 6 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.43%) Firmware
6 3 (0.26%) Ceph
6 3 (0.26%) HDFS
6 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (9.62%) Terraform
2 96 (8.25%) Kubernetes
3 62 (5.33%) Ansible
4 50 (4.30%) Grafana
5 34 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.12%) Consul
8 13 (1.12%) Puppet
9 9 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.77%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (0.43%) Istio
12 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.26%) CASB
13 3 (0.26%) Foglight
13 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 119 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.56%) ServiceNow
3 87 (7.47%) Atlassian
4 83 (7.13%) Oracle
5 46 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 32 (2.75%) Talend
7 31 (2.66%) SAP
8 28 (2.41%) Denodo
9 26 (2.23%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.06%) Databricks
10 24 (2.06%) IBM
11 23 (1.98%) Informatica
12 18 (1.55%) Google
13 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.37%) Splunk
14 15 (1.29%) BiZZdesign
14 15 (1.29%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.03%) Cisco
15 12 (1.03%) Sonatype
16 11 (0.95%) Zscaler