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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 97 108
Rank change year-on-year -34 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,181 917 833
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 2.76% 2.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.95% 25.46% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 670 529
10th Percentile £391 £325 £331
25th Percentile £425 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £515
% change year-on-year -0.78% -7.04% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 18
10th Percentile £25.11 £27.21 £44.38
25th Percentile £46.50 £40.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +12.00%

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 4,734 3,602 4,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.56% 10.85% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,035 2,373 2,588
10th Percentile £286 £277 £263
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £645
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +4.22% -2.70% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 87 75
10th Percentile £14.80 £16.64 £18.00
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £33.88 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -8.43% +20.33%
75th Percentile £54.50 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.87 £72.50 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £33.33 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.56% -36.52% +75.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -38 1,009 £500 -3.82% 124
UK excluding London -26 612 £475 -0.78% 106
London -41 459 £550 -3.30% 39
Work from Home +3 382 £516 +3.20% 61
North of England -46 197 £475 -2.31% 25
Midlands +7 151 £459 +0.60% 20
West Midlands +7 131 £469 -1.26% 14
Yorkshire -16 118 £475 -7.32% 12
South East -48 85 £459 -5.85% 25
Scotland +14 83 £425 -12.82% 7
North West -48 72 £470 +8.36% 12
South West -13 71 £537 -10.50% 16
East of England -15 28 £544 +8.75% 7
East Midlands -9 20 £416 +25.49% 6
North East -44 10 £388 -25.48% 1
Wales -11 6 £625 +31.58% 4

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 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.03%) SAS
3 16 (1.35%) Apache
4 15 (1.27%) CMS
5 12 (1.02%) nginx
6 10 (0.85%) Camunda
7 9 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.68%) Traefik
9 7 (0.59%) CICS
10 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.34%) JBoss
12 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.25%) IIS
12 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.17%) Drupal
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 93 (7.87%) MS Visio
2 80 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (5.25%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.51%) Trello
7 5 (0.42%) Notion
7 5 (0.42%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.34%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Gliffy
9 3 (0.25%) Productboard
9 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.085%) CATIA
11 1 (0.085%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.085%) Sketch
11 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.25%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.17%) BASE24
6 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.17%) Primavera
6 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.17%) Summit
7 1 (0.085%) Actimize
7 1 (0.085%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.085%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.085%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.085%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 276 (23.37%) AWS
2 275 (23.29%) Azure
3 144 (12.19%) Azure DevOps
4 108 (9.14%) GitHub
5 92 (7.79%) Power Platform
6 81 (6.86%) Amazon S3
7 60 (5.08%) GCP
8 57 (4.83%) Serverless
9 55 (4.66%) Miro
10 51 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 51 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (2.96%) Figma
14 33 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (1.86%) SaaS
18 21 (1.78%) Entra ID
19 20 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.88%) DNS
1 34 (2.88%) Firewall
2 16 (1.35%) SSH
3 13 (1.10%) Network Security
3 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.02%) SSL
5 11 (0.93%) HTTP
5 11 (0.93%) WAN
6 10 (0.85%) DHCP
6 10 (0.85%) VPN
7 9 (0.76%) IPv4
8 8 (0.68%) IPv6
9 7 (0.59%) Kerberos
10 6 (0.51%) Broadband
10 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.51%) VLAN
11 5 (0.42%) BGP
11 5 (0.42%) Internet
11 5 (0.42%) OSPF
12 4 (0.34%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (7.28%) Power BI
2 63 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (2.79%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (2.12%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.95%) DynamoDB
8 20 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 20 (1.69%) Metadata
9 17 (1.44%) MySQL
10 16 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (1.27%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.19%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.10%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.10%) Tableau
14 12 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,079 (91.36%) JIRA
2 152 (12.87%) Git
3 108 (9.14%) GitLab
4 104 (8.81%) Jenkins
5 56 (4.74%) Bitbucket
6 30 (2.54%) JUnit
7 27 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 26 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 26 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 26 (2.20%) Selenium
9 23 (1.95%) Maven
10 22 (1.86%) Zephyr
11 21 (1.78%) Mockito
12 20 (1.69%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.52%) Artifactory
13 18 (1.52%) REST Assured
14 16 (1.35%) JMeter
15 14 (1.19%) Cypress.io
15 14 (1.19%) Postman
16 11 (0.93%) Gradle
General
1 480 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 338 (28.62%) Finance
3 243 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (17.70%) Public Sector
5 171 (14.48%) Banking
6 53 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (4.40%) Retail
8 47 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
9 34 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.44%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.44%) Military
14 16 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.27%) Legal
15 15 (1.27%) Marketing
16 9 (0.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 250 (21.17%) Analyst
2 174 (14.73%) Business Analyst
3 126 (10.67%) Developer
4 115 (9.74%) Senior
5 110 (9.31%) Lead
6 60 (5.08%) Architect
7 51 (4.32%) Scrum Master
8 48 (4.06%) Project Manager
9 47 (3.98%) Consultant
9 47 (3.98%) Data Engineer
10 41 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
10 41 (3.47%) Product Manager
11 37 (3.13%) Product Owner
12 30 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.37%) Java Developer
13 28 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.20%) Technical Manager
15 23 (1.95%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (1.86%) Data Analyst
16 22 (1.86%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (9.91%) Terraform
2 104 (8.81%) REST
3 46 (3.90%) HTML
4 44 (3.73%) .NET
5 41 (3.47%) RESTful
6 40 (3.39%) JSON
7 39 (3.30%) SOAP
8 36 (3.05%) React
9 33 (2.79%) AngularJS
10 31 (2.62%) Web Services
11 30 (2.54%) CSS
11 30 (2.54%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.37%) Kafka
12 28 (2.37%) Spring
13 27 (2.29%) .NET Core
14 22 (1.86%) Hibernate
15 21 (1.78%) XML
16 20 (1.69%) .NET Framework
16 20 (1.69%) ADO
16 20 (1.69%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 229 (19.39%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.86%) Onboarding
3 64 (5.42%) Cloud Native
4 38 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (2.79%) Virtual Team
6 28 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.12%) Data Structures
9 23 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.44%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.27%) PKI
12 14 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.93%) Market Risk
15 10 (0.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 69 (5.84%) Linux
2 62 (5.25%) Windows
3 35 (2.96%) Unix
4 16 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.76%) Android
7 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.59%) zOS
8 4 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.25%) AIX
9 3 (0.25%) macOS
9 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.085%) CentOS
11 1 (0.085%) Solaris
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (65.45%) Agile
2 428 (36.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 347 (29.38%) DevOps
4 313 (26.50%) Scrum
5 291 (24.64%) CI/CD
6 252 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
7 248 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 228 (19.31%) User Stories
9 215 (18.20%) Migration
10 198 (16.77%) Test Automation
11 171 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 167 (14.14%) Acceptance Criteria
13 155 (13.12%) Business Analysis
14 153 (12.96%) Sprint Planning
15 144 (12.19%) SDLC
16 143 (12.11%) User Acceptance Testing
17 136 (11.52%) AI
18 135 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
19 132 (11.18%) Roadmaps
20 127 (10.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 254 (21.51%) SQL
2 166 (14.06%) Python
3 96 (8.13%) Java
4 58 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 57 (4.83%) PowerShell
6 48 (4.06%) Bash
7 46 (3.90%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.64%) C#
9 41 (3.47%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.52%) Bicep
11 17 (1.44%) Groovy
11 17 (1.44%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.02%) Perl
13 10 (0.85%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.59%) Go
16 6 (0.51%) JCL
17 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.34%) R
18 4 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 394 (33.36%) Security Cleared
2 325 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 127 (10.75%) Degree
4 71 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (5.93%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.47%) PMI Certification
7 35 (2.96%) PMP
8 32 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.29%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.61%) ISTQB
11 17 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 16 (1.35%) CBAP
13 15 (1.27%) IIBA
14 13 (1.10%) CISSP
15 11 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
16 10 (0.85%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.76%) CISM
18 8 (0.68%) CSPO
19 7 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (11.85%) QA
2 83 (7.03%) Data Quality
3 59 (5.00%) PMO
4 54 (4.57%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.46%) WCAG
6 21 (1.78%) NCSC
7 17 (1.44%) GDPR
8 10 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.76%) NIST
10 8 (0.68%) SLA
11 7 (0.59%) GRC
11 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.59%) SEPA
12 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.25%) GxP
13 3 (0.25%) MiFID
13 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 107 (9.06%) Docker
2 51 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.76%) vSphere
6 6 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.34%) Squid
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.085%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.76%) Ansible
3 61 (5.17%) Grafana
4 34 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.44%) Control-M
6 16 (1.35%) Argo
6 16 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.02%) Istio
8 8 (0.68%) Packer
9 7 (0.59%) SCOM
9 7 (0.59%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.34%) Podman
12 4 (0.34%) WSUS
13 3 (0.25%) Consul
13 3 (0.25%) SELinux
14 2 (0.17%) Kibana
14 2 (0.17%) Nessus
14 2 (0.17%) OPNET
Vendors
1 164 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.37%) Oracle
3 86 (7.28%) ServiceNow
4 70 (5.93%) Atlassian
5 41 (3.47%) IBM
5 41 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.13%) Google
7 36 (3.05%) VMware
8 31 (2.62%) Splunk
9 25 (2.12%) Denodo
9 25 (2.12%) SAP
10 23 (1.95%) Informatica
10 23 (1.95%) Talend
11 17 (1.44%) Databricks
12 15 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 15 (1.27%) Remedy
13 12 (1.02%) Adobe
13 12 (1.02%) Cisco
14 11 (0.93%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.85%) Veracode