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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 99 133
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 -27
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,134 753 750
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.39% 2.59% 1.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.08% 22.94% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 488 490
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -1.74%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -6.20% -6.98% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 19
10th Percentile £23.85 £51.78 £24.40
25th Percentile £48.40 £58.47 £38.38
Median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% +10.62%
75th Percentile £72.06 £75.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £78.13 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.78% -8.93% +23.89%

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 4,187 3,283 4,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.82% 11.28% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,188 2,882
10th Percentile £313 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 77 157
10th Percentile £15.52 £16.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.14 £22.50 £15.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.09 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% +56.69% -38.89%
75th Percentile £72.00 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.70 £76.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.06 £47.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year -24.08% +99.99% -13.64%

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 8 May 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 8 May 2026.

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 8 May 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 +10 1,003 £500 -2.15% 202
UK excluding London +1 618 £469 -6.20% 139
London +7 418 £519 -0.76% 80
Work from Home +19 340 £492 +9.33% 138
Midlands +23 203 £455 -9.00% 32
North of England -8 194 £447 +5.18% 27
West Midlands +24 155 £459 -10.35% 27
North West +7 101 £431 +5.00% 13
Yorkshire -26 85 £480 +7.02% 11
South West -8 84 £725 +28.60% 19
South East -65 75 £500 +5.26% 36
Scotland -9 50 £550 +18.92% 11
East Midlands 0 45 £423 -5.48% 5
East of England -32 21 £350 -22.22% 7
North East -16 8 £428 -18.57% 4
Wales -10 6 £650 +52.94% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 1

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
1 106 (9.35%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.94%) SAS
3 15 (1.32%) nginx
4 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.71%) CMS
6 4 (0.35%) Apache
6 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.35%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.18%) CICS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
8 2 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.088%) Drupal
9 1 (0.088%) Mendix
Applications
1 106 (9.35%) Microsoft Project
2 91 (8.02%) MS Visio
3 86 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 77 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
5 60 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.71%) Trello
7 7 (0.62%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.088%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.088%) InDesign
9 1 (0.088%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.06%) NetSuite
1 12 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.53%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.44%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.26%) Actimize
4 3 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.18%) Maximo
5 2 (0.18%) Primavera
5 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.18%) Summit
6 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG-F
6 1 (0.088%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 220 (19.40%) AWS
2 215 (18.96%) Azure
3 122 (10.76%) GitHub
4 95 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 47 (4.14%) Amazon S3
7 42 (3.70%) GCP
7 42 (3.70%) Serverless
8 41 (3.62%) SaaS
9 37 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 35 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (2.82%) Miro
14 27 (2.38%) Entra ID
15 26 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (2.03%) Figma
17 21 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.73%) Firewall
2 19 (1.68%) Network Security
2 19 (1.68%) SSL
2 19 (1.68%) VPN
3 18 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.59%) WAN
4 15 (1.32%) LAN
5 14 (1.23%) DNS
6 13 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (0.88%) Ethernet
7 10 (0.88%) Unified Communications
8 7 (0.62%) Modbus
8 7 (0.62%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.62%) PSTN
8 7 (0.62%) RS-232
8 7 (0.62%) RS-485
8 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) HTTP
10 5 (0.44%) SSH
10 5 (0.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.70%) Power BI
2 46 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (2.91%) Tableau
5 26 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.03%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.94%) DynamoDB
8 21 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 21 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 20 (1.76%) Metadata
10 14 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 13 (1.15%) Big Data
11 13 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
11 13 (1.15%) DocumentDB
12 12 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (0.79%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.79%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1,039 (91.62%) JIRA
2 131 (11.55%) Git
3 117 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 69 (6.08%) GitLab
5 55 (4.85%) Selenium
6 46 (4.06%) Bitbucket
7 33 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (2.82%) Postman
9 29 (2.56%) JUnit
10 28 (2.47%) Cucumber
11 26 (2.29%) JMeter
12 23 (2.03%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.76%) Cypress.io
14 17 (1.50%) Zephyr
15 16 (1.41%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.32%) Artifactory
17 12 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 11 (0.97%) ScriptRunner
19 10 (0.88%) REST Assured
20 9 (0.79%) IntelliJ
General
1 485 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 327 (28.84%) Finance
3 225 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (16.23%) Banking
5 168 (14.81%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.94%) Military
7 54 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.17%) Retail
9 29 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.29%) Legal
11 25 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.03%) Retail Banking
14 19 (1.68%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
16 14 (1.23%) Marketing
17 12 (1.06%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 8 (0.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 267 (23.54%) Analyst
2 222 (19.58%) Business Analyst
3 115 (10.14%) Senior
4 110 (9.70%) Architect
5 94 (8.29%) Developer
6 83 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 81 (7.14%) Lead
8 48 (4.23%) Scrum Master
9 42 (3.70%) Consultant
10 38 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
11 34 (3.00%) Data Engineer
12 33 (2.91%) Tester
13 32 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (2.65%) Service Architect
14 30 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (2.29%) Technical Analyst
15 26 (2.29%) Technical Business Analyst
16 25 (2.20%) Banking Analyst
17 24 (2.12%) Banking Business Analyst
17 24 (2.12%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (4.41%) REST
2 46 (4.06%) Spring
3 32 (2.82%) RESTful
4 28 (2.47%) ADO
4 28 (2.47%) React
5 27 (2.38%) HTML
5 27 (2.38%) Spring Boot
6 23 (2.03%) Kafka
7 22 (1.94%) Node.js
8 21 (1.85%) JSON
9 18 (1.59%) .NET
9 18 (1.59%) WireMock
10 17 (1.50%) SOAP
11 15 (1.32%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.32%) Playwright
12 14 (1.23%) OpenID
12 14 (1.23%) XML
13 13 (1.15%) Swagger
14 12 (1.06%) CSS
15 11 (0.97%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 198 (17.46%) Product Ownership
2 54 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 50 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 26 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 20 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.76%) PMI
8 19 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 13 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (6.97%) Linux
2 49 (4.32%) Windows
3 19 (1.68%) Unix
4 14 (1.23%) Android
5 10 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.44%) AIX
7 5 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.26%) zOS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) MVS
10 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (63.49%) Agile
2 321 (28.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 282 (24.87%) DevOps
4 264 (23.28%) Scrum
5 243 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 211 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 185 (16.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 181 (15.96%) User Stories
10 157 (13.84%) Test Automation
11 155 (13.67%) Acceptance Criteria
12 154 (13.58%) Project Management
13 147 (12.96%) Migration
14 117 (10.32%) Roadmaps
15 115 (10.14%) Workshop Facilitation
16 109 (9.61%) Project Delivery
17 108 (9.52%) Kanban
17 108 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 107 (9.44%) Change Management
18 107 (9.44%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 155 (13.67%) SQL
2 134 (11.82%) Python
3 89 (7.85%) Java
4 58 (5.11%) JavaScript
5 38 (3.35%) PowerShell
6 32 (2.82%) Bash
6 32 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 18 (1.59%) PL/SQL
8 15 (1.32%) C#
9 11 (0.97%) Apex Code
9 11 (0.97%) Kotlin
9 11 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.88%) C++
11 8 (0.71%) Groovy
11 8 (0.71%) Perl
12 7 (0.62%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.35%) C
14 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 405 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 339 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 170 (14.99%) Degree
4 56 (4.94%) PMI Certification
5 52 (4.59%) PMP
6 44 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (3.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 36 (3.17%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.82%) CISSP
10 25 (2.20%) CISM
11 23 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.94%) CBAP
13 20 (1.76%) SAFe Agilist
14 19 (1.68%) IIBA
15 18 (1.59%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (1.06%) MBA
18 10 (0.88%) Azure Certification
19 7 (0.62%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (8.02%) QA
2 51 (4.50%) Data Quality
2 51 (4.50%) PMO
3 41 (3.62%) GDPR
4 36 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.29%) NIST
6 20 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.50%) GRC
8 12 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.79%) Basel III
9 9 (0.79%) SLA
9 9 (0.79%) WCAG
10 7 (0.62%) MiFID
11 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.53%) PSD2
12 5 (0.44%) HL7
13 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.35%) P3O
System Software
1 86 (7.58%) Docker
2 14 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.88%) Squid
4 9 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.62%) Firmware
6 4 (0.35%) vSphere
7 3 (0.26%) HDFS
8 2 (0.18%) Ceph
8 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 100 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 90 (7.94%) Terraform
3 60 (5.29%) Ansible
4 47 (4.14%) Grafana
5 31 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.65%) OPNET
7 19 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.41%) Puppet
9 12 (1.06%) Consul
9 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.79%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.71%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.53%) Istio
13 5 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.35%) Packer
14 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 121 (10.67%) Atlassian
2 106 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 101 (8.91%) ServiceNow
4 54 (4.76%) Oracle
4 54 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.09%) SAP
6 34 (3.00%) Remedy
7 26 (2.29%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.94%) Databricks
8 22 (1.94%) Talend
9 19 (1.68%) Denodo
9 19 (1.68%) IBM
10 18 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
11 17 (1.50%) Splunk
12 16 (1.41%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.32%) Cisco
14 14 (1.23%) Google
14 14 (1.23%) MuleSoft
14 14 (1.23%) Sonatype
15 12 (1.06%) Commvault