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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 96 131
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 -18
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,167 813 763
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 2.66% 1.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.24% 23.83% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 547 517
10th Percentile £350 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £627
90th Percentile £684 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 19 26
10th Percentile £28.38 £54.80 £25.28
25th Percentile £48.40 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £72.06 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £77.28 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.14% - +16.67%

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 4,447 3,412 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 11.15% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,947 2,228 3,063
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £626
90th Percentile £675 £714 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 77 162
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +63.48% -38.83%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.06 £32.12
% change year-on-year -34.03% +65.20% -28.63%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -8 1,008 £488 -4.88% 179
UK excluding London -11 639 £460 -3.26% 133
London -14 430 £525 -4.55% 77
Work from Home +11 393 £493 +8.24% 119
North of England -13 215 £447 +5.12% 37
Midlands +29 190 £459 -1.82% 13
West Midlands +25 153 £459 -3.37% 11
North West -4 112 £431 +5.12% 19
Yorkshire -23 96 £450 +7.46% 15
South East -48 84 £500 +2.04% 47
Scotland -2 74 £525 +16.67% 6
South West -20 56 £563 -2.17% 22
East Midlands +3 35 £407 +22.30% 2
East of England -26 22 £350 -24.32% 6
Wales -13 9 £650 +36.84% 2
North East -39 8 £375 -30.23% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 2

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
1 101 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.23%) SAS
3 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.11%) nginx
4 7 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.51%) CMS
6 5 (0.43%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) JBoss
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.086%) Appian
10 1 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 95 (8.14%) MS Visio
2 88 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (5.40%) Microsoft Project
4 54 (4.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 4 (0.34%) Trello
8 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
9 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.086%) CATIA
10 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.60%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.34%) Actimize
6 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.26%) Primavera
6 3 (0.26%) Summit
7 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.17%) Maximo
7 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.17%) Shopify
8 1 (0.086%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 273 (23.39%) AWS
2 247 (21.17%) Azure
3 119 (10.20%) GitHub
4 111 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
5 92 (7.88%) Power Platform
6 74 (6.34%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.88%) Serverless
8 52 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 48 (4.11%) GCP
11 44 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (2.66%) Entra ID
13 31 (2.66%) SaaS
14 30 (2.57%) Miro
15 25 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (1.80%) dbt
16 21 (1.80%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.74%) Firewall
2 23 (1.97%) Network Security
3 19 (1.63%) DNS
4 18 (1.54%) WAN
5 15 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.20%) LAN
6 14 (1.20%) VPN
7 12 (1.03%) SSL
7 12 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.94%) SSH
9 10 (0.86%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.77%) HTTP
11 7 (0.60%) OpenVPN
11 7 (0.60%) PSTN
11 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.43%) BIG-IP
12 5 (0.43%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.34%) BGP
13 4 (0.34%) MPLS
13 4 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (6.94%) Power BI
2 62 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 31 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.57%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.57%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (2.14%) Tableau
9 23 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (1.80%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.71%) Metadata
12 15 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
14 13 (1.11%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.03%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.03%) Pentaho
16 11 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,060 (90.83%) JIRA
2 161 (13.80%) Git
3 133 (11.40%) Jenkins
4 105 (9.00%) GitLab
5 55 (4.71%) Selenium
6 46 (3.94%) Bitbucket
7 35 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 33 (2.83%) Cucumber
9 31 (2.66%) JMeter
9 31 (2.66%) JUnit
10 30 (2.57%) Postman
11 22 (1.89%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.71%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.71%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 19 (1.63%) Zephyr
14 13 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (1.11%) REST Assured
15 10 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
16 9 (0.77%) Maven
General
1 458 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 339 (29.05%) Finance
3 195 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (16.45%) Banking
5 176 (15.08%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (3.34%) Retail
8 31 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.31%) Legal
9 27 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (1.89%) Military
11 21 (1.80%) Retail Banking
12 18 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.11%) Marketing
15 12 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
16 10 (0.86%) Front Office
16 10 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 250 (21.42%) Analyst
2 199 (17.05%) Business Analyst
3 121 (10.37%) Senior
4 111 (9.51%) Developer
5 85 (7.28%) Architect
6 80 (6.86%) Lead
7 60 (5.14%) Scrum Master
8 56 (4.80%) Project Manager
9 54 (4.63%) Data Engineer
10 48 (4.11%) Consultant
11 39 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (2.83%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (2.57%) Tester
14 27 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.89%) Technical Business Analyst
17 21 (1.80%) Security Engineer
17 21 (1.80%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (4.88%) REST
2 44 (3.77%) JSON
3 41 (3.51%) Spring
4 33 (2.83%) .NET
5 30 (2.57%) RESTful
6 29 (2.49%) React
7 25 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 25 (2.14%) HTML
8 23 (1.97%) PySpark
8 23 (1.97%) XML
9 22 (1.89%) ADO
10 20 (1.71%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.63%) CSS
11 19 (1.63%) SOAP
11 19 (1.63%) WireMock
12 16 (1.37%) Kafka
12 16 (1.37%) OpenID
13 14 (1.20%) LDAP
13 14 (1.20%) Node.js
13 14 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (15.42%) Product Ownership
2 70 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.23%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.23%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.20%) PMI
13 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.11%) Linux
2 56 (4.80%) Windows
3 36 (3.08%) Unix
4 12 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.94%) Android
5 11 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.43%) AIX
6 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.26%) Solaris
8 3 (0.26%) zOS
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
9 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.086%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.086%) SUSE
10 1 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (62.90%) Agile
2 322 (27.59%) DevOps
2 322 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 289 (24.76%) Scrum
4 283 (24.25%) CI/CD
5 221 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
6 217 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 189 (16.20%) Test Automation
8 180 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 172 (14.74%) User Stories
10 158 (13.54%) Migration
11 125 (10.71%) Kanban
12 122 (10.45%) Project Management
13 120 (10.28%) SDLC
14 119 (10.20%) Roadmaps
15 118 (10.11%) Acceptance Criteria
16 113 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
17 110 (9.43%) AI
18 109 (9.34%) Data Modelling
19 107 (9.17%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 214 (18.34%) SQL
2 168 (14.40%) Python
3 91 (7.80%) Java
4 54 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 43 (3.68%) PL/SQL
6 41 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 37 (3.17%) Bash
8 33 (2.83%) TypeScript
9 30 (2.57%) C#
10 12 (1.03%) Shell Script
11 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.86%) Groovy
11 10 (0.86%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.86%) Perl
12 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.51%) Bicep
13 6 (0.51%) C++
14 4 (0.34%) VBA
15 3 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 391 (33.50%) Security Cleared
2 328 (28.11%) SC Cleared
3 132 (11.31%) Degree
4 48 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (3.86%) PMI Certification
6 43 (3.68%) DV Cleared
7 39 (3.34%) PMP
8 33 (2.83%) CISSP
9 26 (2.23%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.14%) CISM
11 24 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 17 (1.46%) SAFe Agilist
14 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (1.11%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (1.03%) CBAP
17 11 (0.94%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.94%) IIBA
18 8 (0.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (9.34%) QA
2 66 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 55 (4.71%) PMO
4 36 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 35 (3.00%) GDPR
6 25 (2.14%) NIST
7 20 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.29%) GRC
9 14 (1.20%) WCAG
10 13 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.03%) NCSC
12 10 (0.86%) SLA
13 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.51%) MiFID
15 5 (0.43%) HL7
15 5 (0.43%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.43%) PSD2
16 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (8.05%) Docker
2 24 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.86%) Squid
4 7 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.26%) Ceph
5 3 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) Firmware
5 3 (0.26%) HDFS
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (9.60%) Terraform
2 100 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.83%) Ansible
4 50 (4.28%) Grafana
5 34 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.11%) Consul
8 13 (1.11%) Puppet
9 9 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.77%) NetBackup
10 8 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.43%) Istio
13 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
14 3 (0.26%) CASB
14 3 (0.26%) Foglight
14 3 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 129 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.80%) ServiceNow
3 85 (7.28%) Oracle
4 84 (7.20%) Atlassian
5 45 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 35 (3.00%) SAP
7 32 (2.74%) Talend
8 28 (2.40%) Databricks
8 28 (2.40%) Denodo
9 26 (2.23%) Red Hat
10 25 (2.14%) IBM
11 23 (1.97%) Informatica
12 19 (1.63%) Google
13 17 (1.46%) Splunk
14 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
15 15 (1.29%) BiZZdesign
15 15 (1.29%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.03%) Cisco
16 12 (1.03%) Sonatype
17 11 (0.94%) Zscaler