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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 103 99
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 952 834 1,114
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.75% 2.28% 2.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.51% 20.71% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 521 737
10th Percentile £325 £315 £378
25th Percentile £413 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £693 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 34
10th Percentile £29.57 £46.25 £50.38
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% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £73.44
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.00 £76.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.40 £70.00 £64.88
% change year-on-year -9.43% +7.89% -7.31%

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 3,732 4,027 4,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.78% 11.02% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,493 2,495 3,206
10th Percentile £285 £263 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 78 144
10th Percentile £15.77 £19.85 £15.73
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.18 £19.22
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.46 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +40.71% +42.89%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £55.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -30.91% +103.70% +50.00%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +15 851 £525 - 676
UK excluding London -3 444 £492 -1.60% 552
London +12 439 £575 +4.55% 309
Work from Home -11 246 £513 - 325
North of England +1 183 £500 -1.19% 96
Yorkshire -13 101 £500 -1.48% 38
Midlands +16 78 £450 +5.88% 46
North West +1 69 £465 -10.14% 45
South East -1 67 £511 +13.56% 245
West Midlands +17 62 £475 -4.04% 23
South West +2 57 £575 -9.80% 72
Scotland +4 43 £475 -5.00% 43
East Midlands -12 16 £334 -14.75% 22
North East -6 13 £520 +15.56% 13
East of England -30 13 £463 +8.82% 28
Wales +1 4 £475 -11.63% 16
Northern Ireland -6 2 £320 - 6

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 63 (6.62%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.62%) nginx
3 18 (1.89%) Apache
4 14 (1.47%) CMS
5 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.32%) CICS
6 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.32%) Traefik
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
7 2 (0.21%) FileNet
7 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.11%) Appian
8 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) JBoss
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (7.67%) MS Visio
3 65 (6.83%) Microsoft Office
4 57 (5.99%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (5.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (2.00%) Trello
7 12 (1.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.11%) InDesign
9 1 (0.11%) Notion
9 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.42%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.42%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Primavera
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 192 (20.17%) AWS
2 142 (14.92%) Azure
3 96 (10.08%) GitHub
4 54 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (4.73%) Amazon S3
5 45 (4.73%) GCP
6 44 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
7 39 (4.10%) Power Platform
8 38 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (3.47%) Serverless
10 31 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (2.94%) Slack
12 27 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (2.84%) Miro
13 26 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (2.52%) Amazon ELB
14 24 (2.52%) AWS KMS
14 24 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.36%) Firewall
2 46 (4.83%) DNS
3 41 (4.31%) SSH
4 28 (2.94%) SMTP
5 24 (2.52%) FTP
5 24 (2.52%) HTTP
6 23 (2.42%) VPN
7 20 (2.10%) SSL
8 17 (1.79%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (1.26%) IMAP
10 11 (1.16%) BGP
11 10 (1.05%) WAN
12 8 (0.84%) DHCP
12 8 (0.84%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.74%) IPsec
13 7 (0.74%) MPLS
13 7 (0.74%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.63%) VLAN
15 5 (0.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (3.78%) Power BI
3 32 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (3.15%) Tableau
5 28 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.89%) Metadata
8 17 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 16 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.58%) Big Data
11 14 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.16%) MySQL
14 9 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.95%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.63%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.63%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 861 (90.44%) JIRA
2 127 (13.34%) Jenkins
3 122 (12.82%) Git
4 63 (6.62%) Bitbucket
5 60 (6.30%) GitLab
6 29 (3.05%) Selenium
7 26 (2.73%) Vagrant
8 24 (2.52%) Cucumber
9 21 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (2.00%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.68%) Postman
12 14 (1.47%) JUnit
13 13 (1.37%) Maven
14 10 (1.05%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.95%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.84%) ScriptRunner
16 8 (0.84%) Zephyr
17 7 (0.74%) Gradle
17 7 (0.74%) REST Assured
18 6 (0.63%) Artifactory
General
1 415 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 259 (27.21%) Finance
3 149 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (14.50%) Banking
5 120 (12.61%) Public Sector
6 48 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (2.94%) Retail
8 26 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (2.52%) Front Office
10 21 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 21 (2.21%) Legal
11 18 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.26%) Automotive
14 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.95%) Back Office
15 9 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 198 (20.80%) Analyst
2 156 (16.39%) Business Analyst
3 86 (9.03%) Project Manager
4 83 (8.72%) Developer
4 83 (8.72%) Senior
5 71 (7.46%) Lead
6 65 (6.83%) Architect
7 45 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
8 42 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.78%) Product Owner
10 33 (3.47%) Scrum Master
11 30 (3.15%) AWS DevOps
12 29 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
13 28 (2.94%) Administrator
13 28 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (2.84%) Consultant
14 27 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (2.84%) Technical Analyst
15 25 (2.63%) Technical Business Analyst
16 24 (2.52%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.35%) REST
2 40 (4.20%) .NET
2 40 (4.20%) HTML
2 40 (4.20%) LDAP
3 38 (3.99%) AngularJS
4 36 (3.78%) React
5 35 (3.68%) Kafka
6 32 (3.36%) JSON
6 32 (3.36%) RESTful
7 30 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
7 30 (3.15%) SOAP
8 27 (2.84%) Web Services
9 24 (2.52%) SAML
10 23 (2.42%) CSS
11 20 (2.10%) Spring
12 19 (2.00%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.79%) HTML5
13 17 (1.79%) Node.js
13 17 (1.79%) Playwright
14 16 (1.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 28 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.84%) Replication
5 26 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.31%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.89%) PKI
10 15 (1.58%) Derivative
11 14 (1.47%) Equities
11 14 (1.47%) Tandem
12 13 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.26%) NHS
13 12 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.05%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 90 (9.45%) Linux
2 83 (8.72%) Windows
3 32 (3.36%) Unix
4 29 (3.05%) VMS
5 24 (2.52%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.26%) Android
6 12 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.21%) CentOS
10 2 (0.21%) Debian
10 2 (0.21%) Solaris
10 2 (0.21%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) MVS
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (63.66%) Agile
2 255 (26.79%) DevOps
3 231 (24.26%) Scrum
4 209 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 189 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (16.39%) CI/CD
7 142 (14.92%) Project Management
8 135 (14.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 130 (13.66%) Change Management
10 123 (12.92%) User Stories
11 117 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (11.55%) Migration
13 106 (11.13%) Roadmaps
14 95 (9.98%) Microservices
15 87 (9.14%) Decision-Making
16 85 (8.93%) Project Delivery
16 85 (8.93%) Test Automation
17 78 (8.19%) Kanban
18 76 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
19 75 (7.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 184 (19.33%) Python
2 126 (13.24%) SQL
3 94 (9.87%) Java
4 66 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 62 (6.51%) PowerShell
6 33 (3.47%) Bash
7 27 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.73%) Go
8 26 (2.73%) Groovy
9 25 (2.63%) C#
10 20 (2.10%) Perl
11 11 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.74%) C++
13 5 (0.53%) PHP
13 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.42%) R
15 3 (0.32%) C
16 2 (0.21%) Bicep
16 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 235 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 220 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 150 (15.76%) Degree
4 40 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.89%) PMI Certification
6 34 (3.57%) CISSP
7 30 (3.15%) PMP
8 29 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.73%) DV Cleared
10 23 (2.42%) CISM
11 13 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.37%) CBAP
11 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.26%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.16%) CSPO
14 10 (1.05%) CCNP
15 8 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.30%) QA
2 30 (3.15%) GDPR
3 23 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.21%) PMO
5 18 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.26%) NIST
9 9 (0.95%) COBIT
9 9 (0.95%) WCAG
10 7 (0.74%) SEPA
11 6 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.63%) PSD2
12 5 (0.53%) NCSC
12 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.42%) GRC
13 4 (0.42%) MiFID
13 4 (0.42%) SLA
13 4 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 93 (9.77%) Docker
2 31 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.31%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.26%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.26%) Postfix
5 12 (1.26%) Squid
5 12 (1.26%) vSphere
6 10 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.53%) Firmware
8 5 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.53%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.11%) etcd
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.11%) SRDF
11 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 94 (9.87%) Terraform
2 86 (9.03%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.62%) Ansible
4 35 (3.68%) Grafana
5 30 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.52%) Packer
6 24 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (2.31%) Consul
8 14 (1.47%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.26%) Nessus
9 12 (1.26%) Puppet
10 10 (1.05%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.74%) Istio
12 6 (0.63%) Argo
12 6 (0.63%) SCCM
12 6 (0.63%) vRealize
13 4 (0.42%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.42%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.32%) PowerCLI
14 3 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 104 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 81 (8.51%) Atlassian
3 72 (7.56%) ServiceNow
4 47 (4.94%) Oracle
5 36 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.36%) VMware
7 28 (2.94%) HP
8 25 (2.63%) IBM
9 23 (2.42%) Cisco
9 23 (2.42%) SAP
10 22 (2.31%) Google
11 19 (2.00%) Remedy
12 17 (1.79%) BiZZdesign
12 17 (1.79%) Commvault
12 17 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.68%) CyberArk
14 14 (1.47%) BMC
14 14 (1.47%) Cloudera
14 14 (1.47%) Foundry
14 14 (1.47%) Palantir