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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 126
Rank change year-on-year -16 +28 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,191 853 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.25% 2.62% 1.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.78% 23.88% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 585 534
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £631
90th Percentile £682 £681 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 24
10th Percentile £34.00 £58.63 £25.27
25th Percentile £49.61 £63.13 £39.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £70.61 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.90 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +16.67%

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 4,619 3,572 4,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.97% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,055 2,331 3,061
10th Percentile £308 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £394 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -4.30% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 87 142
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.66
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.02 £16.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +43.88% -37.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £53.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.72 £74.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £38.50
% change year-on-year -29.73% +29.38% -15.38%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -4 1,035 £500 -2.44% 152
UK excluding London -12 643 £469 -1.26% 115
London -11 453 £525 -4.55% 66
Work from Home +10 405 £500 +9.89% 103
North of England -25 207 £450 +5.88% 25
Midlands +31 183 £459 -3.37% 18
West Midlands +21 153 £459 -3.37% 15
North West -23 102 £444 +8.29% 16
Yorkshire -21 98 £460 +8.24% 7
South East -34 88 £500 - 40
Scotland +4 74 £479 +6.33% 4
South West -16 68 £545 -5.22% 16
East Midlands 0 28 £413 +23.87% 3
East of England -17 25 £350 -23.29% 7
Wales -14 8 £650 +36.84% 1
North East -39 8 £480 -12.73% 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
1 103 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.76%) SAS
3 19 (1.60%) nginx
4 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.76%) CMS
6 7 (0.59%) Apache
6 7 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.084%) Mule
12 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (7.64%) MS Visio
2 74 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.59%) Trello
7 6 (0.50%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.084%) CATIA
10 1 (0.084%) Sketch
10 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.76%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.25%) Primavera
7 3 (0.25%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Maximo
8 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.084%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 282 (23.68%) AWS
2 277 (23.26%) Azure
3 132 (11.08%) GitHub
4 128 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (7.39%) Power Platform
6 84 (7.05%) Amazon S3
7 58 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
8 56 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (4.70%) Serverless
9 55 (4.62%) GCP
10 52 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 37 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (3.02%) Miro
15 34 (2.85%) SaaS
16 30 (2.52%) Entra ID
17 26 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
18 24 (2.02%) Figma
19 21 (1.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.85%) Firewall
2 24 (2.02%) DNS
3 19 (1.60%) Network Security
3 19 (1.60%) WAN
4 16 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.26%) SSH
5 15 (1.26%) VPN
6 13 (1.09%) LAN
7 12 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.92%) OpenVPN
8 11 (0.92%) SSL
9 10 (0.84%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.76%) HTTP
11 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.59%) PSTN
13 4 (0.34%) BIG-IP
13 4 (0.34%) DHCP
13 4 (0.34%) MPLS
14 3 (0.25%) BGP
14 3 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.47%) Power BI
2 63 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 28 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.76%) Metadata
9 21 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.51%) Tableau
11 15 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
12 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.01%) Pentaho
14 11 (0.92%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,076 (90.34%) JIRA
2 168 (14.11%) Git
3 126 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 107 (8.98%) GitLab
5 56 (4.70%) Selenium
6 48 (4.03%) Bitbucket
7 34 (2.85%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.69%) JUnit
9 31 (2.60%) JMeter
9 31 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (2.35%) Postman
11 21 (1.76%) Artifactory
11 21 (1.76%) SonarQube
11 21 (1.76%) Zephyr
12 20 (1.68%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.60%) WebDriver
14 16 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 11 (0.92%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.76%) IntelliJ
16 9 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
General
1 476 (39.97%) Social Skills
2 332 (27.88%) Finance
3 205 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (16.29%) Public Sector
5 177 (14.86%) Banking
6 58 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.11%) Retail
8 35 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.93%) Legal
12 20 (1.68%) Military
12 20 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.43%) Retail Banking
14 15 (1.26%) Marketing
15 14 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 247 (20.74%) Analyst
2 192 (16.12%) Business Analyst
3 128 (10.75%) Senior
4 114 (9.57%) Developer
5 100 (8.40%) Lead
6 74 (6.21%) Architect
7 65 (5.46%) Scrum Master
8 51 (4.28%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.11%) Project Manager
10 47 (3.95%) Consultant
11 45 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.85%) Product Owner
13 29 (2.43%) Tester
14 27 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.02%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (2.02%) Technical Analyst
15 24 (2.02%) Technical Business Analyst
16 23 (1.93%) Product Manager
16 23 (1.93%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.46%) REST
2 45 (3.78%) JSON
3 37 (3.11%) Spring
4 35 (2.94%) .NET
4 35 (2.94%) RESTful
5 33 (2.77%) React
6 28 (2.35%) HTML
7 27 (2.27%) AngularJS
8 26 (2.18%) XML
9 23 (1.93%) CSS
10 21 (1.76%) ADO
10 21 (1.76%) PySpark
10 21 (1.76%) SOAP
11 20 (1.68%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.60%) WireMock
13 17 (1.43%) .NET Core
13 17 (1.43%) Kafka
14 16 (1.34%) Node.js
14 16 (1.34%) OpenID
14 16 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 193 (16.20%) Product Ownership
2 73 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 31 (2.60%) Virtual Team
5 26 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 19 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.09%) PMI
14 12 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.01%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.22%) Linux
2 61 (5.12%) Windows
3 36 (3.02%) Unix
4 14 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.76%) Android
7 5 (0.42%) AIX
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.25%) Solaris
8 3 (0.25%) zOS
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.084%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.084%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.084%) SUSE
10 1 (0.084%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 766 (64.32%) Agile
2 350 (29.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 337 (28.30%) DevOps
4 301 (25.27%) Scrum
5 293 (24.60%) CI/CD
6 240 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
7 235 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 196 (16.46%) Test Automation
9 182 (15.28%) User Stories
10 180 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 157 (13.18%) Migration
12 137 (11.50%) Kanban
13 129 (10.83%) Sprint Planning
14 127 (10.66%) Roadmaps
15 126 (10.58%) Acceptance Criteria
16 123 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
17 120 (10.08%) AI
18 112 (9.40%) Project Management
18 112 (9.40%) SDLC
19 111 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 215 (18.05%) SQL
2 179 (15.03%) Python
3 97 (8.14%) Java
4 56 (4.70%) JavaScript
5 46 (3.86%) Bash
5 46 (3.86%) PowerShell
6 44 (3.69%) PL/SQL
7 38 (3.19%) TypeScript
8 37 (3.11%) C#
9 12 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.92%) Groovy
10 11 (0.92%) Perl
11 10 (0.84%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.76%) Bicep
13 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.34%) R
14 4 (0.34%) VBA
15 3 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 411 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 339 (28.46%) SC Cleared
3 135 (11.34%) Degree
4 58 (4.87%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (3.53%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.85%) PMP
8 30 (2.52%) CISSP
9 25 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 24 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.85%) CISM
12 18 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 17 (1.43%) SAFe Agilist
14 15 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (1.01%) CBAP
16 10 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (0.67%) IIBA
17 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (9.91%) QA
2 69 (5.79%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.95%) PMO
4 41 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.52%) GDPR
6 22 (1.85%) NIST
7 20 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.68%) WCAG
8 15 (1.26%) NCSC
9 13 (1.09%) GRC
10 11 (0.92%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.50%) SLA
13 5 (0.42%) HL7
13 5 (0.42%) MiFID
13 5 (0.42%) SEPA
14 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 105 (8.82%) Docker
2 31 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.84%) Squid
4 9 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.25%) Ceph
7 3 (0.25%) HDFS
7 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 134 (11.25%) Terraform
2 102 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.21%) Ansible
4 61 (5.12%) Grafana
5 36 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.09%) Consul
8 13 (1.09%) Puppet
9 12 (1.01%) Argo
10 9 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.76%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.59%) Istio
13 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.42%) Control-M
13 5 (0.42%) Packer
14 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.31%) ServiceNow
3 92 (7.72%) Oracle
4 78 (6.55%) Atlassian
5 54 (4.53%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.44%) SAP
7 32 (2.69%) IBM
7 32 (2.69%) Talend
8 30 (2.52%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.35%) Denodo
10 26 (2.18%) Databricks
11 24 (2.02%) Google
11 24 (2.02%) Splunk
12 23 (1.93%) Informatica
13 17 (1.43%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.34%) Dynatrace
15 13 (1.09%) VMware
16 11 (0.92%) Cisco
16 11 (0.92%) Veracode
16 11 (0.92%) Zscaler