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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 97 117
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,184 871 770
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.65% 1.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.43% 24.12% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 614 528
10th Percentile £363 £323 £350
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £599 £608 £638
90th Percentile £671 £679 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 22
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.38 £25.26
25th Percentile £59.00 £63.13 £37.56
Median hourly rate £63.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.75 £80.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +14.29%

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 4,656 3,611 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.97% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,070 2,381 2,847
10th Percentile £305 £281 £275
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £515
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -7.28% +0.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £648
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +3.06% -0.88% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 89 113
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.27 £13.93
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +40.33% -39.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.25 £68.00
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.00 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £31.00
% change year-on-year -31.03% +52.00% -27.06%

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 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -11 1,043 £500 -2.44% 271
UK excluding London -13 634 £475 - 165
London -17 461 £532 -4.14% 125
Work from Home +13 398 £500 +8.70% 127
North of England -33 191 £468 +9.02% 45
Midlands +23 188 £459 -3.37% 23
West Midlands +17 162 £461 -3.00% 18
South East -19 96 £500 -2.15% 44
Yorkshire -27 93 £463 +8.82% 17
North West -30 93 £461 +9.05% 19
South West -20 70 £539 -6.35% 23
Scotland +6 67 £500 - 7
East of England -14 25 £350 -23.29% 13
East Midlands +4 24 £413 +25.76% 5
Wales -10 8 £650 +36.84% 3
North East -48 8 £480 -8.57% 9

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 84 (7.09%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.77%) SAS
3 14 (1.18%) nginx
4 11 (0.93%) CMS
5 10 (0.84%) Apache
6 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.42%) JBoss
7 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.25%) Camunda
8 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.084%) Mendix
10 1 (0.084%) Mule
10 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 66 (5.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (4.98%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.59%) Trello
7 5 (0.42%) 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 Creative Suite
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.084%) CATIA
10 1 (0.084%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.084%) Sketch
10 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.76%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 8 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) Primavera
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%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 288 (24.32%) Azure
2 279 (23.56%) AWS
3 133 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (10.98%) GitHub
5 86 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 80 (6.76%) Amazon S3
7 63 (5.32%) GCP
8 56 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
9 52 (4.39%) Serverless
10 50 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 39 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 36 (3.04%) Miro
14 33 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (2.45%) SaaS
16 28 (2.36%) Figma
17 27 (2.28%) Entra ID
18 22 (1.86%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (1.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.53%) Firewall
2 25 (2.11%) DNS
3 16 (1.35%) SSH
4 15 (1.27%) SSL
5 14 (1.18%) Network Security
6 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.93%) HTTP
7 11 (0.93%) VPN
8 10 (0.84%) WAN
9 6 (0.51%) OpenVPN
9 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.42%) Broadband
10 5 (0.42%) DHCP
11 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.34%) Internet
11 4 (0.34%) LAN
11 4 (0.34%) MPLS
11 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.25%) IPv4
12 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.59%) Power BI
2 63 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 36 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (2.28%) DynamoDB
7 27 (2.28%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
8 23 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.60%) Metadata
11 18 (1.52%) Tableau
12 17 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
15 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.10%) NoSQL
17 12 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,066 (90.03%) JIRA
2 172 (14.53%) Git
3 122 (10.30%) Jenkins
4 99 (8.36%) GitLab
5 57 (4.81%) Bitbucket
6 51 (4.31%) Selenium
7 34 (2.87%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.70%) JMeter
8 32 (2.70%) JUnit
9 30 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (2.11%) Postman
11 25 (2.11%) Zephyr
12 21 (1.77%) Artifactory
13 19 (1.60%) WebDriver
14 17 (1.44%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.93%) MSI
15 11 (0.93%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.93%) SonarQube
16 9 (0.76%) Maven
General
1 489 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 328 (27.70%) Finance
3 216 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (17.40%) Public Sector
5 165 (13.94%) Banking
6 49 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
7 44 (3.72%) Retail
8 28 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 25 (2.11%) Legal
10 22 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.69%) Military
12 17 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.44%) Retail Banking
12 17 (1.44%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.10%) Marketing
15 11 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
16 10 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (20.10%) Analyst
2 179 (15.12%) Business Analyst
3 129 (10.90%) Senior
4 115 (9.71%) Developer
5 112 (9.46%) Lead
6 70 (5.91%) Architect
7 59 (4.98%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.22%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.14%) Consultant
10 48 (4.05%) Project Manager
11 45 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
12 41 (3.46%) Product Owner
13 29 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (2.28%) Tester
15 25 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (2.11%) Product Manager
16 23 (1.94%) Technical Analyst
17 22 (1.86%) AWS Engineer
17 22 (1.86%) Business Systems Analyst
18 21 (1.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (6.59%) REST
2 44 (3.72%) .NET
3 42 (3.55%) JSON
4 35 (2.96%) Spring
5 30 (2.53%) AngularJS
5 30 (2.53%) HTML
5 30 (2.53%) React
5 30 (2.53%) RESTful
6 26 (2.20%) .NET Core
7 24 (2.03%) CSS
7 24 (2.03%) XML
8 21 (1.77%) .NET Framework
8 21 (1.77%) PySpark
9 20 (1.69%) ADO
10 19 (1.60%) SOAP
10 19 (1.60%) WireMock
11 18 (1.52%) Kafka
11 18 (1.52%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.44%) Node.js
12 17 (1.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 191 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 59 (4.98%) Cloud Native
4 30 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 27 (2.28%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 16 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.10%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.01%) Clustering
13 12 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.18%) Linux
2 61 (5.15%) Windows
3 34 (2.87%) Unix
4 14 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.59%) Android
6 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.42%) AIX
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.25%) Solaris
8 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.17%) zOS
10 1 (0.084%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.084%) SUSE
10 1 (0.084%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (65.29%) Agile
2 360 (30.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 346 (29.22%) DevOps
4 306 (25.84%) Scrum
5 296 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 234 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
7 232 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (16.72%) Test Automation
9 180 (15.20%) User Stories
10 175 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 171 (14.44%) Migration
12 130 (10.98%) Kanban
13 128 (10.81%) Sprint Planning
14 126 (10.64%) Acceptance Criteria
15 122 (10.30%) SDLC
16 121 (10.22%) Roadmaps
17 120 (10.14%) AI
18 118 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
19 117 (9.88%) Business Analysis
20 115 (9.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 224 (18.92%) SQL
2 182 (15.37%) Python
3 92 (7.77%) Java
4 55 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.05%) Bash
5 48 (4.05%) PowerShell
6 45 (3.80%) C#
7 44 (3.72%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.35%) Bicep
10 14 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.10%) Groovy
12 11 (0.93%) Perl
13 9 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.34%) Korn
15 4 (0.34%) Swift
16 3 (0.25%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 420 (35.47%) Security Cleared
2 352 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 118 (9.97%) Degree
4 62 (5.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (5.07%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.87%) PMI Certification
7 29 (2.45%) PMP
8 24 (2.03%) CISSP
9 23 (1.94%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (1.35%) CISM
12 16 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
13 13 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (1.01%) CBAP
15 11 (0.93%) IIBA
16 10 (0.84%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.84%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (9.71%) QA
2 67 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.90%) PMO
4 45 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.28%) GDPR
6 24 (2.03%) WCAG
7 20 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.60%) NCSC
9 18 (1.52%) NIST
10 12 (1.01%) GRC
11 8 (0.68%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.68%) SLA
12 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.42%) HL7
14 5 (0.42%) MiFID
14 5 (0.42%) SEPA
15 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 106 (8.95%) Docker
2 44 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.51%) Squid
4 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.34%) Ceph
6 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) HDFS
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%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 134 (11.32%) Terraform
2 94 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 71 (6.00%) Ansible
4 61 (5.15%) Grafana
5 34 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.18%) Argo
8 12 (1.01%) Puppet
9 8 (0.68%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.59%) Control-M
10 7 (0.59%) Istio
10 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.51%) Consul
11 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.51%) SCOM
11 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.42%) Packer
13 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 145 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.61%) ServiceNow
3 91 (7.69%) Oracle
4 76 (6.42%) Atlassian
5 45 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.13%) SAP
7 35 (2.96%) IBM
8 32 (2.70%) Talend
9 29 (2.45%) Google
10 28 (2.36%) Databricks
10 28 (2.36%) Denodo
11 27 (2.28%) Splunk
12 23 (1.94%) Informatica
13 21 (1.77%) Red Hat
13 21 (1.77%) VMware
14 16 (1.35%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.18%) Dynatrace
16 13 (1.10%) Commvault
17 12 (1.01%) Adobe
17 12 (1.01%) Cisco