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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 104 101
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -21
Contract jobs citing Confluence 972 824 1,103
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.74% 2.25% 2.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.61% 20.37% 22.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 522 725
10th Percentile £325 £313 £375
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £624 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £761 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 35
10th Percentile £29.57 £53.70 £50.50
25th Percentile £41.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £73.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.00 £75.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.40 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -9.43% +12.00% +20.19%

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 3,796 4,046 4,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.69% 11.04% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,548 2,519 3,218
10th Percentile £288 £263 £254
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £631
90th Percentile £704 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £455 £470
% change year-on-year +2.20% -3.19% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 79 144
10th Percentile £17.16 £18.00 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.99 £18.45
Median hourly rate £34.99 £41.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +45.13% +44.87%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -33.96% +120.83% +37.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +15 872 £525 - 403
UK excluding London +4 458 £500 - 260
London +15 444 £563 +2.27% 179
Work from Home -19 247 £513 +1.08% 182
North of England -1 182 £500 -0.99% 57
Yorkshire -10 101 £500 - 20
Midlands +22 82 £450 +5.88% 34
North West -1 68 £458 -11.59% 32
South East -4 67 £525 +15.38% 72
West Midlands +18 65 £475 -4.04% 13
South West +2 65 £588 -8.56% 45
Scotland +3 44 £475 -5.00% 18
East Midlands -6 17 £330 -15.71% 21
East of England -35 15 £425 - 26
North East -6 13 £520 +15.56% 5
Wales +3 5 £469 -12.79% 4
Northern Ireland -3 2 £320 - 7

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 66 (6.79%) SharePoint
2 49 (5.04%) nginx
3 17 (1.75%) Apache
4 16 (1.65%) CMS
5 4 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.31%) CICS
6 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.31%) Traefik
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
7 2 (0.21%) FileNet
7 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.10%) Appian
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 90 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (7.61%) MS Visio
3 71 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
4 67 (6.89%) Microsoft Project
5 53 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 18 (1.85%) Trello
7 12 (1.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.10%) InDesign
9 1 (0.10%) Notion
9 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.10%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.41%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.21%) Shopify
5 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Primavera
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 195 (20.06%) AWS
2 140 (14.40%) Azure
3 92 (9.47%) GitHub
4 54 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (4.63%) Amazon S3
6 44 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
7 43 (4.42%) GCP
8 41 (4.22%) Power Platform
9 38 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (3.19%) Serverless
10 31 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 29 (2.98%) Miro
12 28 (2.88%) Slack
13 26 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (2.47%) Amazon ELB
14 24 (2.47%) AWS KMS
15 23 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (2.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.14%) Firewall
2 45 (4.63%) DNS
3 41 (4.22%) SSH
4 28 (2.88%) SMTP
5 24 (2.47%) FTP
5 24 (2.47%) HTTP
6 22 (2.26%) VPN
7 19 (1.95%) SSL
8 17 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (1.23%) IMAP
10 10 (1.03%) BGP
11 9 (0.93%) WAN
12 8 (0.82%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.72%) DHCP
13 7 (0.72%) IPsec
13 7 (0.72%) MPLS
13 7 (0.72%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.72%) VSAN
14 6 (0.62%) TCP/IP
15 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (3.91%) Power BI
3 32 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (3.19%) Tableau
5 27 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.85%) Metadata
8 16 (1.65%) Hadoop
9 15 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (1.44%) Big Data
11 12 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.13%) MySQL
13 9 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.93%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.62%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.51%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 878 (90.33%) JIRA
2 129 (13.27%) Jenkins
3 126 (12.96%) Git
4 63 (6.48%) GitLab
5 62 (6.38%) Bitbucket
6 29 (2.98%) Selenium
7 26 (2.67%) Vagrant
8 25 (2.57%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.06%) SonarQube
9 20 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (1.65%) Postman
11 15 (1.54%) JUnit
12 13 (1.34%) Maven
13 9 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.93%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.82%) ScriptRunner
15 7 (0.72%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.72%) Zephyr
16 6 (0.62%) Artifactory
16 6 (0.62%) Mockito
General
1 428 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 267 (27.47%) Finance
3 157 (16.15%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (14.09%) Banking
5 129 (13.27%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.29%) Retail
8 28 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (2.26%) Front Office
11 21 (2.16%) Legal
12 20 (2.06%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.85%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.34%) Automotive
17 12 (1.23%) Military
18 10 (1.03%) Financial Institution
18 10 (1.03%) Marketing
19 9 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (20.37%) Analyst
2 155 (15.95%) Business Analyst
3 92 (9.47%) Project Manager
4 81 (8.33%) Senior
5 77 (7.92%) Lead
6 76 (7.82%) Developer
7 71 (7.30%) Architect
8 45 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 44 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.70%) Product Owner
11 34 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
12 32 (3.29%) Scrum Master
13 30 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (2.88%) Administrator
14 28 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (2.78%) Consultant
15 27 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (2.57%) Technical Analyst
17 23 (2.37%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.30%) REST
2 40 (4.12%) HTML
2 40 (4.12%) LDAP
3 39 (4.01%) .NET
4 37 (3.81%) AngularJS
5 35 (3.60%) Kafka
5 35 (3.60%) React
6 30 (3.09%) JSON
6 30 (3.09%) RESTful
7 29 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
7 29 (2.98%) SOAP
8 27 (2.78%) Web Services
9 24 (2.47%) SAML
10 23 (2.37%) CSS
11 19 (1.95%) Spring
12 18 (1.85%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.75%) HTML5
13 17 (1.75%) Node.js
14 16 (1.65%) jQuery
14 16 (1.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 128 (13.17%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.78%) Replication
5 26 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.37%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.16%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.85%) PKI
10 14 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.44%) Derivative
10 14 (1.44%) Tandem
11 13 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.23%) Equities
12 12 (1.23%) NHS
13 11 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.19%) Linux
2 83 (8.54%) Windows
3 32 (3.29%) Unix
4 29 (2.98%) VMS
5 24 (2.47%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.03%) Android
7 10 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.21%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Debian
9 2 (0.21%) Solaris
9 2 (0.21%) zOS
10 1 (0.10%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) MVS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (64.09%) Agile
2 253 (26.03%) DevOps
3 228 (23.46%) Scrum
4 220 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 188 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (15.95%) CI/CD
7 143 (14.71%) Project Management
8 136 (13.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 132 (13.58%) Change Management
10 124 (12.76%) User Stories
11 120 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (11.32%) Migration
13 109 (11.21%) Roadmaps
14 92 (9.47%) Project Delivery
15 90 (9.26%) Microservices
16 89 (9.16%) Decision-Making
17 84 (8.64%) Test Automation
18 80 (8.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 79 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
19 79 (8.13%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 187 (19.24%) Python
2 121 (12.45%) SQL
3 90 (9.26%) Java
4 65 (6.69%) PowerShell
5 64 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.50%) Bash
7 26 (2.67%) Go
7 26 (2.67%) Groovy
7 26 (2.67%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.37%) C#
9 20 (2.06%) Perl
10 9 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.72%) C++
12 6 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.51%) PHP
13 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.41%) R
15 3 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.21%) Korn
16 2 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 253 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 236 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 157 (16.15%) Degree
4 42 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (4.01%) PMI Certification
6 36 (3.70%) CISSP
7 32 (3.29%) PMP
8 29 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.57%) CISM
9 25 (2.57%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.34%) CBAP
13 12 (1.23%) Azure Certification
14 11 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.13%) CSPO
15 10 (1.03%) CCNP
16 9 (0.93%) PhD
17 8 (0.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.44%) QA
2 30 (3.09%) GDPR
3 23 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.37%) PMO
4 18 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.23%) NIST
7 9 (0.93%) COBIT
7 9 (0.93%) WCAG
8 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.62%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.62%) PSD2
8 6 (0.62%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) GRC
9 5 (0.51%) NCSC
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.31%) ITGC
11 3 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 98 (10.08%) Docker
2 31 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.26%) DFS Replication
5 13 (1.34%) vSphere
6 12 (1.23%) Dovecot
6 12 (1.23%) Postfix
6 12 (1.23%) Squid
7 9 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.51%) Firmware
8 5 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.10%) etcd
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (10.29%) Terraform
2 91 (9.36%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.48%) Ansible
4 36 (3.70%) Grafana
5 30 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.88%) Packer
7 26 (2.67%) Consul
8 24 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.44%) NetBackup
10 12 (1.23%) Nessus
10 12 (1.23%) Puppet
11 10 (1.03%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.82%) vRealize
13 7 (0.72%) Istio
14 6 (0.62%) Argo
14 6 (0.62%) SCCM
15 5 (0.51%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.51%) VxRail
16 4 (0.41%) HP ALM
16 4 (0.41%) OPNET
Vendors
1 102 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.05%) Atlassian
3 77 (7.92%) ServiceNow
4 48 (4.94%) Oracle
5 39 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 35 (3.60%) VMware
7 29 (2.98%) HP
8 26 (2.67%) IBM
9 24 (2.47%) Google
10 23 (2.37%) Cisco
10 23 (2.37%) Remedy
10 23 (2.37%) SAP
11 19 (1.95%) BiZZdesign
11 19 (1.95%) Commvault
12 18 (1.85%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.75%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.44%) BMC
14 14 (1.44%) Splunk
15 13 (1.34%) Foundry
15 13 (1.34%) Ivanti