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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 106 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 920 821 1,142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.75% 2.21% 2.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.40% 20.26% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 512 756
10th Percentile £325 £325 £380
25th Percentile £413 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £761 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% -8.41% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 34
10th Percentile £27.21 £48.13 £50.38
25th Percentile £39.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.95 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.07% +12.00% +7.85%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £73.44
90th Percentile £80.88 £70.50 £76.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.95 £70.00 £64.88
% change year-on-year -10.07% +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 3,622 4,053 4,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 10.91% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,532 3,278
10th Percentile £284 £263 £250
25th Percentile £390 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £810 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.67% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 73 152
10th Percentile £16.81 £18.33 £16.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £19.81
Median hourly rate £34.99 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +23.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.00 £75.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.43 £56.13 £27.00
% change year-on-year -38.65% +107.87% +52.37%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +16 821 £520 -0.95% 524
UK excluding London +12 435 £485 -3.72% 425
London +17 419 £550 - 211
Work from Home -13 236 £500 -1.38% 344
North of England +1 182 £486 -4.09% 92
Yorkshire -7 98 £513 +2.50% 41
Midlands +23 78 £450 +7.14% 37
North West +7 70 £434 -17.77% 43
South East +4 66 £488 +8.33% 180
West Midlands +29 61 £475 -17.39% 17
South West 0 52 £580 -8.30% 61
Scotland 0 40 £488 -2.50% 21
East Midlands -3 17 £333 -14.94% 19
North East -2 14 £520 +15.56% 9
East of England -23 14 £519 +22.06% 22
Wales +2 5 £475 -11.63% 11
Northern Ireland -7 1 £325 - 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 60 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.15%) nginx
3 18 (1.96%) Apache
4 13 (1.41%) CMS
5 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.33%) Traefik
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
7 2 (0.22%) CICS
7 2 (0.22%) FileNet
7 2 (0.22%) 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%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 83 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 65 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
4 53 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
5 46 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 18 (1.96%) Trello
7 12 (1.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.22%) 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 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Endur
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Primavera
5 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 178 (19.35%) AWS
2 145 (15.76%) Azure
3 87 (9.46%) GitHub
4 54 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (5.11%) GCP
6 45 (4.89%) Amazon S3
7 44 (4.78%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (4.24%) Power Platform
9 38 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (3.70%) Serverless
11 30 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.83%) Slack
13 24 (2.61%) Amazon ELB
13 24 (2.61%) AWS KMS
13 24 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (2.61%) Miro
13 24 (2.61%) SaaS
14 23 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (2.39%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.54%) Firewall
2 48 (5.22%) DNS
3 41 (4.46%) SSH
4 28 (3.04%) SMTP
5 24 (2.61%) HTTP
5 24 (2.61%) VPN
6 23 (2.50%) FTP
7 21 (2.28%) SSL
8 17 (1.85%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (1.30%) BGP
9 12 (1.30%) IMAP
10 10 (1.09%) DHCP
10 10 (1.09%) WAN
11 9 (0.98%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.87%) VLAN
13 7 (0.76%) IPsec
13 7 (0.76%) MPLS
13 7 (0.76%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.76%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (3.91%) Power BI
3 32 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (3.04%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.39%) Tableau
6 17 (1.85%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 15 (1.63%) Big Data
8 15 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.63%) Metadata
9 14 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.20%) MySQL
12 9 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.76%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.65%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.65%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 825 (89.67%) JIRA
2 119 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 107 (11.63%) Git
4 58 (6.30%) Bitbucket
5 52 (5.65%) GitLab
6 30 (3.26%) Selenium
7 26 (2.83%) Vagrant
8 25 (2.72%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.17%) SonarQube
10 17 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (1.74%) Postman
12 14 (1.52%) JUnit
13 11 (1.20%) Maven
14 10 (1.09%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.98%) Artifactory
15 9 (0.98%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.87%) Gradle
16 8 (0.87%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.87%) ScriptRunner
16 8 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 400 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 246 (26.74%) Finance
3 146 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.48%) Banking
5 104 (11.30%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.93%) Retail
9 26 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.39%) Front Office
10 22 (2.39%) Legal
11 17 (1.85%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.41%) Automotive
13 13 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.98%) Military
16 8 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 198 (21.52%) Analyst
2 160 (17.39%) Business Analyst
3 84 (9.13%) Project Manager
4 82 (8.91%) Senior
5 78 (8.48%) Developer
6 70 (7.61%) Lead
7 60 (6.52%) Architect
8 41 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 38 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.91%) Product Owner
11 30 (3.26%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.93%) Administrator
12 27 (2.93%) AWS DevOps
12 27 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
13 26 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (2.72%) Technical Business Analyst
15 24 (2.61%) Consultant
15 24 (2.61%) Data Engineer
15 24 (2.61%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.85%) REST
2 40 (4.35%) HTML
2 40 (4.35%) LDAP
3 39 (4.24%) .NET
4 38 (4.13%) AngularJS
5 36 (3.91%) React
6 34 (3.70%) JSON
6 34 (3.70%) Kafka
7 31 (3.37%) RESTful
8 30 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
8 30 (3.26%) SOAP
9 27 (2.93%) Web Services
10 23 (2.50%) CSS
10 23 (2.50%) SAML
11 17 (1.85%) HTML5
11 17 (1.85%) Node.js
11 17 (1.85%) Playwright
12 16 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
12 16 (1.74%) jQuery
12 16 (1.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 122 (13.26%) Product Ownership
2 47 (5.11%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.93%) Replication
5 24 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.07%) PKI
8 18 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.52%) Derivative
9 14 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.41%) Tandem
11 12 (1.30%) Equities
12 11 (1.20%) NHS
13 10 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.09%) PMI
13 10 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.24%) Windows
2 75 (8.15%) Linux
3 29 (3.15%) VMS
4 27 (2.93%) Unix
5 24 (2.61%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.09%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.98%) Android
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.22%) CentOS
11 2 (0.22%) Debian
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Solaris
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) AIX
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (63.37%) Agile
2 235 (25.54%) DevOps
3 221 (24.02%) Scrum
4 199 (21.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 175 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (16.09%) CI/CD
7 133 (14.46%) Project Management
8 125 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 120 (13.04%) User Stories
10 119 (12.93%) Change Management
11 114 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (11.63%) Migration
13 100 (10.87%) Roadmaps
14 99 (10.76%) Microservices
15 86 (9.35%) Test Automation
16 84 (9.13%) Decision-Making
17 80 (8.70%) Project Delivery
18 75 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
19 74 (8.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 71 (7.72%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 169 (18.37%) Python
2 121 (13.15%) SQL
3 95 (10.33%) Java
4 65 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 53 (5.76%) PowerShell
6 30 (3.26%) Bash
6 30 (3.26%) Groovy
7 27 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.83%) Go
9 24 (2.61%) C#
10 22 (2.39%) Perl
11 9 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.76%) C++
13 6 (0.65%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.54%) PHP
15 4 (0.43%) R
16 3 (0.33%) C
16 3 (0.33%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 205 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 191 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 151 (16.41%) Degree
4 36 (3.91%) PMI Certification
5 33 (3.59%) CISSP
6 32 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (3.15%) PMP
9 26 (2.83%) DV Cleared
10 23 (2.50%) CISM
11 14 (1.52%) CBAP
12 13 (1.41%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.30%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.30%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.20%) CCNP
14 11 (1.20%) CSPO
15 8 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.15%) QA
2 29 (3.15%) GDPR
3 23 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.28%) PMO
5 18 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.52%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.30%) NIST
9 10 (1.09%) WCAG
10 9 (0.98%) COBIT
11 7 (0.76%) SEPA
12 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.65%) PSD2
13 5 (0.54%) MiFID
13 5 (0.54%) NCSC
13 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.43%) SLA
14 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (8.37%) Docker
2 32 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.39%) DFS Replication
5 13 (1.41%) vSphere
6 12 (1.30%) Dovecot
6 12 (1.30%) Postfix
6 12 (1.30%) Squid
7 10 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.76%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.54%) Firmware
9 5 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.54%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.11%) etcd
12 1 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.11%) SRDF
12 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 83 (9.02%) Terraform
2 68 (7.39%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.85%) Ansible
4 35 (3.80%) Grafana
5 30 (3.26%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.63%) Packer
8 14 (1.52%) Consul
8 14 (1.52%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.30%) Nessus
9 12 (1.30%) Puppet
10 10 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.76%) Istio
12 6 (0.65%) Argo
12 6 (0.65%) SCCM
12 6 (0.65%) vRealize
13 5 (0.54%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.43%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.43%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.33%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 107 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.26%) Atlassian
3 72 (7.83%) ServiceNow
4 45 (4.89%) Oracle
5 34 (3.70%) VMware
6 33 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 28 (3.04%) HP
7 28 (3.04%) IBM
8 24 (2.61%) Cisco
8 24 (2.61%) Google
9 22 (2.39%) SAP
10 19 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 19 (2.07%) Remedy
11 18 (1.96%) Commvault
12 17 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
13 16 (1.74%) CyberArk
14 14 (1.52%) BMC
14 14 (1.52%) Cloudera
14 14 (1.52%) Foundry
14 14 (1.52%) Palantir