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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 98 108
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,149 864 823
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.11% 2.62% 2.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.55% 24.19% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 602 537
10th Percentile £374 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £638
90th Percentile £671 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 20
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.38 £25.30
25th Percentile £60.00 £62.73 £46.69
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £76.88 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +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 4,681 3,572 4,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 10.84% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,313 2,750
10th Percentile £284 £276 £263
25th Percentile £402 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £650
90th Percentile £680 £702 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 92 85
10th Percentile £14.88 £17.40 £17.45
25th Percentile £16.60 £24.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -5.19% -26.67%
75th Percentile £61.95 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.86 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £38.03 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.54% -21.68% +5.15%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -30 985 £500 -2.44% 670
UK excluding London -22 607 £475 - 383
London -34 446 £538 -6.52% 349
Work from Home +16 368 £520 +1.46% 310
North of England -38 190 £472 +4.89% 85
Midlands +14 154 £469 -1.26% 44
West Midlands +14 129 £469 -1.26% 29
Yorkshire -16 104 £474 +2.05% 23
South East -35 87 £475 +1.06% 105
Scotland +10 85 £425 -8.11% 36
North West -41 78 £450 +5.88% 48
South West -10 65 £550 -4.35% 48
East of England -14 29 £472 +4.89% 40
East Midlands -5 24 £416 +26.06% 15
North East -52 11 £375 -27.88% 14
Wales -12 8 £650 +36.84% 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 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) SAS
3 13 (1.13%) Apache
4 12 (1.04%) nginx
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
6 9 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.78%) Camunda
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.26%) JBoss
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.087%) IIS
11 1 (0.087%) Mule
11 1 (0.087%) Traefik
11 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.83%) MS Visio
2 71 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
7 5 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.087%) CATIA
11 1 (0.087%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.087%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.087%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.087%) OneSumX
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.087%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.087%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 259 (22.54%) AWS
2 258 (22.45%) Azure
3 127 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
4 104 (9.05%) GitHub
5 88 (7.66%) Power Platform
6 70 (6.09%) Amazon S3
7 60 (5.22%) GCP
8 55 (4.79%) Serverless
9 52 (4.53%) Miro
10 50 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (2.79%) Figma
15 28 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (2.18%) SaaS
18 24 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
19 23 (2.00%) Entra ID
20 20 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.87%) DNS
1 33 (2.87%) Firewall
2 18 (1.57%) SSH
2 18 (1.57%) SSL
3 14 (1.22%) WAN
4 13 (1.13%) HTTP
4 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.96%) Network Security
6 10 (0.87%) DHCP
7 9 (0.78%) VPN
8 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.52%) IPv4
9 6 (0.52%) LAN
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) IPv6
11 4 (0.35%) OpenVPN
11 4 (0.35%) VLAN
11 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.96%) Power BI
2 66 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 35 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 26 (2.26%) DynamoDB
7 26 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.00%) Metadata
9 22 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (1.74%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.31%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 12 (1.04%) Tableau
16 11 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1,053 (91.64%) JIRA
2 155 (13.49%) Git
3 103 (8.96%) Jenkins
4 100 (8.70%) GitLab
5 47 (4.09%) Bitbucket
6 35 (3.05%) Selenium
7 32 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (2.35%) JUnit
9 26 (2.26%) Zephyr
10 24 (2.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 22 (1.91%) Postman
12 21 (1.83%) Maven
12 21 (1.83%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.74%) Artifactory
13 20 (1.74%) Cucumber
14 19 (1.65%) Mockito
15 18 (1.57%) Cypress.io
16 16 (1.39%) REST Assured
17 15 (1.31%) JMeter
18 11 (0.96%) MSI
General
1 467 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 328 (28.55%) Finance
3 223 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (17.84%) Public Sector
5 161 (14.01%) Banking
6 52 (4.53%) Retail
7 45 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.74%) Military
12 17 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.39%) Legal
14 15 (1.31%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.22%) Marketing
16 12 (1.04%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.04%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 233 (20.28%) Analyst
2 165 (14.36%) Business Analyst
3 124 (10.79%) Senior
4 122 (10.62%) Developer
5 105 (9.14%) Lead
6 63 (5.48%) Scrum Master
7 62 (5.40%) Architect
8 47 (4.09%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.74%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.66%) Consultant
11 41 (3.57%) Product Manager
12 40 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
13 36 (3.13%) Product Owner
14 31 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 25 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.18%) Java Developer
17 24 (2.09%) Technical Manager
18 23 (2.00%) Senior Developer
19 20 (1.74%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (10.18%) Terraform
2 92 (8.01%) REST
3 42 (3.66%) HTML
4 41 (3.57%) .NET
5 39 (3.39%) AngularJS
5 39 (3.39%) JSON
5 39 (3.39%) RESTful
6 36 (3.13%) React
7 33 (2.87%) CSS
8 28 (2.44%) Spring Boot
9 27 (2.35%) SOAP
10 26 (2.26%) Spring
10 26 (2.26%) Web Services
11 25 (2.18%) .NET Core
12 24 (2.09%) Kafka
13 21 (1.83%) Hibernate
14 20 (1.74%) XML
15 19 (1.65%) JPA
16 18 (1.57%) .NET Framework
16 18 (1.57%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 219 (19.06%) Product Ownership
2 80 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 64 (5.57%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.31%) PKI
12 13 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.04%) Credit Risk
13 12 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 11 (0.96%) Clustering
15 10 (0.87%) Replication
16 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.74%) Linux
2 57 (4.96%) Windows
3 33 (2.87%) Unix
4 11 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.70%) Android
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
9 2 (0.17%) VMS
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.17%) zOS
10 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.087%) Solaris
10 1 (0.087%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (66.23%) Agile
2 388 (33.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 335 (29.16%) DevOps
4 314 (27.33%) Scrum
5 277 (24.11%) CI/CD
6 242 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
7 232 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 204 (17.75%) User Stories
9 190 (16.54%) Test Automation
10 184 (16.01%) Migration
11 166 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 156 (13.58%) Sprint Planning
13 135 (11.75%) Business Analysis
14 134 (11.66%) Acceptance Criteria
14 134 (11.66%) SDLC
15 127 (11.05%) AI
16 126 (10.97%) Kanban
17 124 (10.79%) Requirements Gathering
18 119 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
19 118 (10.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 226 (19.67%) SQL
2 165 (14.36%) Python
3 95 (8.27%) Java
4 59 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 51 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 42 (3.66%) PL/SQL
7 40 (3.48%) C#
8 39 (3.39%) Bash
9 18 (1.57%) Groovy
10 16 (1.39%) Bicep
11 12 (1.04%) Kotlin
12 11 (0.96%) Perl
13 10 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.44%) Go
16 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.26%) REXX
17 3 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 395 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 325 (28.29%) SC Cleared
3 103 (8.96%) Degree
4 74 (6.44%) DV Cleared
5 66 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (2.79%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.26%) PMP
8 23 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.22%) CISSP
12 13 (1.13%) IIBA
13 11 (0.96%) CBAP
13 11 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.78%) CISM
16 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (11.14%) QA
2 76 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 62 (5.40%) PMO
4 48 (4.18%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.18%) WCAG
6 21 (1.83%) NCSC
7 12 (1.04%) GRC
8 11 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.87%) GDPR
9 10 (0.87%) NIST
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.52%) SEPA
13 4 (0.35%) MiFID
13 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.26%) EMIR
14 3 (0.26%) GxP
14 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 96 (8.36%) Docker
2 51 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.52%) Squid
5 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.44%) vSphere
7 4 (0.35%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 66 (5.74%) Ansible
3 54 (4.70%) Grafana
4 32 (2.79%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.31%) Argo
7 10 (0.87%) Control-M
8 8 (0.70%) Istio
9 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.61%) Packer
9 7 (0.61%) SCOM
9 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) Consul
12 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 4 (0.35%) WSUS
13 3 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 149 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.83%) ServiceNow
3 84 (7.31%) Oracle
4 69 (6.01%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.31%) Google
7 36 (3.13%) IBM
8 33 (2.87%) VMware
9 30 (2.61%) Splunk
10 28 (2.44%) SAP
10 28 (2.44%) Talend
11 25 (2.18%) Denodo
12 23 (2.00%) Informatica
13 16 (1.39%) Databricks
14 13 (1.13%) Cisco
14 13 (1.13%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.04%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.87%) Adobe
16 10 (0.87%) BMC
16 10 (0.87%) Remedy