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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 102 100
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 964 828 1,108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.74% 2.28% 2.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.57% 20.58% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 523 731
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 £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -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% +28.21%
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% +27.22%

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 3,770 4,024 4,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 11.10% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,528 2,501 3,196
10th Percentile £288 £263 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £631
90th Percentile £703 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £459 £470
% change year-on-year +1.36% -2.39% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 81 143
10th Percentile £16.64 £19.64 £15.43
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.80 £18.81
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% +41.03%
75th Percentile £66.54 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £74.00 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £25.39
% change year-on-year -30.00% +96.93% +45.09%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +12 862 £525 - 446
UK excluding London +2 450 £500 - 283
London +17 443 £575 +4.55% 196
Work from Home -21 245 £513 -0.49% 203
North of England -6 183 £500 -0.99% 76
Yorkshire -10 101 £500 - 27
Midlands +18 78 £450 +5.88% 36
North West -3 69 £465 -10.14% 45
South East -2 67 £511 +11.09% 71
West Midlands +14 62 £475 -4.04% 13
South West -3 61 £588 -8.56% 45
Scotland +9 44 £475 -5.00% 21
East Midlands -5 16 £334 -14.75% 23
North East -4 13 £520 +15.56% 4
East of England -30 13 £463 +8.82% 25
Wales -1 5 £469 -12.79% 3
Northern Ireland -5 2 £320 - 8

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 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 49 (5.08%) nginx
3 18 (1.87%) Apache
4 14 (1.45%) 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%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 89 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (7.68%) MS Visio
3 68 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
4 60 (6.22%) Microsoft Project
5 52 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (1.97%) Trello
7 12 (1.24%) 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 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.52%) 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 Financials
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) Primavera
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 196 (20.33%) AWS
2 143 (14.83%) Azure
3 95 (9.85%) GitHub
4 55 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (4.67%) Amazon S3
6 44 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
6 44 (4.56%) GCP
7 39 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 38 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (3.32%) Serverless
10 31 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (2.90%) Miro
11 28 (2.90%) Slack
12 26 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (2.49%) Amazon ELB
13 24 (2.49%) AWS KMS
13 24 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (2.28%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (2.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.29%) Firewall
2 46 (4.77%) DNS
3 41 (4.25%) SSH
4 28 (2.90%) SMTP
5 24 (2.49%) FTP
5 24 (2.49%) HTTP
6 23 (2.39%) VPN
7 20 (2.07%) SSL
8 17 (1.76%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (1.24%) IMAP
10 11 (1.14%) BGP
11 10 (1.04%) WAN
12 8 (0.83%) DHCP
12 8 (0.83%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.73%) IPsec
13 7 (0.73%) MPLS
13 7 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.73%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.62%) VLAN
15 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (3.73%) Power BI
3 32 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (3.11%) Tableau
5 28 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.87%) Metadata
8 17 (1.76%) Hadoop
9 16 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.56%) Big Data
11 14 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.14%) MySQL
14 9 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.93%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.62%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.62%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.52%) DynamoDB
16 5 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 872 (90.46%) JIRA
2 129 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 127 (13.17%) Git
4 63 (6.54%) Bitbucket
5 61 (6.33%) GitLab
6 29 (3.01%) Selenium
7 26 (2.70%) Vagrant
8 24 (2.49%) Cucumber
9 21 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 19 (1.97%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.66%) Postman
12 14 (1.45%) JUnit
13 13 (1.35%) Maven
14 10 (1.04%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.93%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.83%) ScriptRunner
17 7 (0.73%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.73%) Zephyr
18 6 (0.62%) Artifactory
18 6 (0.62%) Mockito
General
1 423 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 266 (27.59%) Finance
3 154 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (14.11%) Banking
5 127 (13.17%) Public Sector
6 50 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (3.22%) Retail
8 28 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.39%) Front Office
11 21 (2.18%) Legal
12 20 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 18 (1.87%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.66%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.24%) Automotive
17 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.04%) Marketing
18 9 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 198 (20.54%) Analyst
2 157 (16.29%) Business Analyst
3 86 (8.92%) Project Manager
4 82 (8.51%) Senior
5 78 (8.09%) Developer
6 75 (7.78%) Lead
7 67 (6.95%) Architect
8 45 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (3.73%) Product Owner
11 34 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (3.42%) Scrum Master
13 30 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (2.90%) Administrator
14 28 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (2.80%) Consultant
15 27 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (2.59%) Technical Analyst
17 24 (2.49%) Data Engineer
18 23 (2.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.37%) REST
2 40 (4.15%) .NET
2 40 (4.15%) HTML
2 40 (4.15%) LDAP
3 38 (3.94%) AngularJS
4 35 (3.63%) Kafka
4 35 (3.63%) React
5 32 (3.32%) JSON
6 31 (3.22%) RESTful
7 30 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
7 30 (3.11%) SOAP
8 27 (2.80%) Web Services
9 24 (2.49%) SAML
10 23 (2.39%) CSS
11 19 (1.97%) Spring
12 18 (1.87%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.76%) HTML5
13 17 (1.76%) Node.js
13 17 (1.76%) Playwright
14 16 (1.66%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 124 (12.86%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.77%) Onboarding
3 28 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 27 (2.80%) Replication
5 26 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.28%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.87%) PKI
9 14 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.45%) Derivative
9 14 (1.45%) Tandem
10 13 (1.35%) Equities
11 12 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.24%) NHS
11 12 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 97 (10.06%) Linux
2 85 (8.82%) Windows
3 32 (3.32%) Unix
4 29 (3.01%) VMS
5 24 (2.49%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.04%) Android
7 10 (1.04%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) AIX
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) MVS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (64.32%) Agile
2 254 (26.35%) DevOps
3 230 (23.86%) Scrum
4 213 (22.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 187 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (16.08%) CI/CD
7 142 (14.73%) Project Management
8 136 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 130 (13.49%) Change Management
10 124 (12.86%) User Stories
11 118 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (11.31%) Migration
13 106 (11.00%) Roadmaps
14 93 (9.65%) Microservices
15 88 (9.13%) Decision-Making
15 88 (9.13%) Project Delivery
16 85 (8.82%) Test Automation
17 77 (7.99%) Cybersecurity
17 77 (7.99%) Kanban
18 76 (7.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 188 (19.50%) Python
2 125 (12.97%) SQL
3 90 (9.34%) Java
4 65 (6.74%) JavaScript
4 65 (6.74%) PowerShell
5 34 (3.53%) Bash
6 26 (2.70%) Go
6 26 (2.70%) Groovy
6 26 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 25 (2.59%) C#
8 20 (2.07%) Perl
9 9 (0.93%) Kotlin
10 7 (0.73%) C++
11 6 (0.62%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.52%) PHP
12 5 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.41%) R
14 3 (0.31%) C
15 2 (0.21%) Korn
15 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 248 (25.73%) Security Cleared
2 232 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 152 (15.77%) Degree
4 41 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (3.84%) PMI Certification
6 35 (3.63%) CISSP
7 30 (3.11%) PMP
8 29 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.70%) DV Cleared
10 24 (2.49%) CISM
11 14 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.35%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.35%) CBAP
13 12 (1.24%) Azure Certification
14 11 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (1.14%) CSPO
15 10 (1.04%) CCNP
15 10 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.83%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.83%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.20%) QA
2 30 (3.11%) GDPR
3 23 (2.39%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.28%) PMO
5 18 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.35%) Data Quality
8 12 (1.24%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) COBIT
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 7 (0.73%) SEPA
11 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.62%) PSD2
12 5 (0.52%) NCSC
12 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.41%) GRC
13 4 (0.41%) MiFID
13 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.31%) ITGC
System Software
1 98 (10.17%) Docker
2 31 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.28%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.24%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.24%) Postfix
5 12 (1.24%) Squid
5 12 (1.24%) vSphere
6 10 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.52%) Firmware
8 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.52%) 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%) SRDF
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 100 (10.37%) Terraform
2 90 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 65 (6.74%) Ansible
4 36 (3.73%) Grafana
5 30 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.90%) Packer
7 26 (2.70%) Consul
8 24 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.45%) NetBackup
10 12 (1.24%) Nessus
10 12 (1.24%) Puppet
11 10 (1.04%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.73%) Istio
13 6 (0.62%) Argo
13 6 (0.62%) SCCM
13 6 (0.62%) vRealize
14 5 (0.52%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.41%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.41%) Tivoli
16 3 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 84 (8.71%) Atlassian
3 73 (7.57%) ServiceNow
4 49 (5.08%) Oracle
5 38 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.53%) VMware
7 28 (2.90%) HP
8 25 (2.59%) IBM
9 24 (2.49%) Google
10 23 (2.39%) Cisco
10 23 (2.39%) SAP
11 20 (2.07%) Remedy
12 18 (1.87%) BiZZdesign
13 17 (1.76%) Commvault
13 17 (1.76%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.76%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.45%) BMC
14 14 (1.45%) Cloudera
14 14 (1.45%) Foundry
14 14 (1.45%) Splunk