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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 -21
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,183 865 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.24% 2.65% 1.91%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.67% 24.20% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 598 534
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £414 £406 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £599 £606 £631
90th Percentile £675 £680 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 24
10th Percentile £40.73 £57.75 £25.27
25th Percentile £55.53 £65.00 £39.19
Median hourly rate £62.75 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £72.18 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.98 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% - +14.29%

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 4,608 3,574 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.94% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,046 2,337 2,984
10th Percentile £306 £289 £265
25th Percentile £404 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -6.08% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 86 133
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.92 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.05 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% +38.90% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.58 £68.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.63 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -25.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -11 1,033 £500 -2.44% 199
UK excluding London -15 640 £469 -1.26% 135
London -21 449 £525 -5.23% 90
Work from Home +10 400 £500 +8.70% 92
North of England -24 198 £453 +6.47% 31
Midlands +28 185 £459 -3.37% 19
West Midlands +21 156 £459 -3.37% 17
North West -16 97 £446 +8.78% 16
Yorkshire -22 96 £453 +6.47% 9
South East -33 93 £500 -1.09% 44
Scotland 0 71 £457 +0.16% 3
South West -18 69 £540 -6.09% 23
East Midlands +2 27 £419 +27.09% 2
East of England -15 27 £350 -23.29% 9
Wales -16 8 £650 +36.84% 2
North East -41 8 £480 -12.73% 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
1 100 (8.45%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.78%) SAS
3 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.01%) nginx
5 9 (0.76%) CMS
6 7 (0.59%) Apache
6 7 (0.59%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.085%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.085%) Mule
12 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (7.52%) MS Visio
2 72 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (4.99%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 38 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.59%) Trello
7 6 (0.51%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) CATIA
10 1 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.76%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.25%) Primavera
7 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.25%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 282 (23.84%) Azure
2 277 (23.42%) AWS
3 132 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (11.07%) GitHub
5 89 (7.52%) Power Platform
6 80 (6.76%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.82%) GCP
8 55 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (4.40%) Serverless
11 49 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (3.13%) Miro
15 35 (2.96%) SaaS
16 34 (2.87%) Entra ID
17 33 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
18 28 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
19 26 (2.20%) Figma
20 21 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.20%) Firewall
2 20 (1.69%) DNS
3 17 (1.44%) WAN
4 15 (1.27%) Network Security
5 14 (1.18%) SSH
6 12 (1.01%) SSL
6 12 (1.01%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.93%) LAN
8 10 (0.85%) HTTP
8 10 (0.85%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.76%) VPN
10 7 (0.59%) PSTN
11 6 (0.51%) OpenVPN
11 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.34%) Broadband
12 4 (0.34%) DHCP
12 4 (0.34%) MPLS
13 3 (0.25%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.42%) Power BI
2 63 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 26 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 23 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
10 21 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 20 (1.69%) Metadata
12 19 (1.61%) Tableau
13 15 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.18%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (1.18%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.18%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.01%) Pentaho
15 12 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 11 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,064 (89.94%) JIRA
2 167 (14.12%) Git
3 126 (10.65%) Jenkins
4 101 (8.54%) GitLab
5 55 (4.65%) Selenium
6 50 (4.23%) Bitbucket
7 35 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.70%) JUnit
9 31 (2.62%) JMeter
9 31 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (2.37%) Postman
11 24 (2.03%) Zephyr
12 22 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 21 (1.78%) Artifactory
14 20 (1.69%) Cypress.io
15 19 (1.61%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.93%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.85%) SonarQube
18 9 (0.76%) IntelliJ
18 9 (0.76%) MSI
General
1 479 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 326 (27.56%) Finance
3 204 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (16.57%) Public Sector
5 177 (14.96%) Banking
6 51 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.21%) Retail
8 36 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.94%) Legal
10 23 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.78%) Military
12 18 (1.52%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.52%) Retail Banking
13 15 (1.27%) Marketing
14 14 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 244 (20.63%) Analyst
2 186 (15.72%) Business Analyst
3 130 (10.99%) Senior
4 114 (9.64%) Developer
5 104 (8.79%) Lead
6 67 (5.66%) Architect
7 64 (5.41%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.23%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.14%) Project Manager
10 48 (4.06%) Consultant
11 45 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (3.13%) Product Owner
13 29 (2.45%) Tester
14 28 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.11%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (2.03%) Product Manager
16 24 (2.03%) Technical Analyst
16 24 (2.03%) Test Analyst
17 23 (1.94%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (1.94%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (6.17%) REST
2 43 (3.63%) JSON
3 39 (3.30%) .NET
4 36 (3.04%) Spring
5 32 (2.70%) RESTful
6 30 (2.54%) React
7 27 (2.28%) AngularJS
7 27 (2.28%) HTML
8 24 (2.03%) XML
9 23 (1.94%) .NET Core
10 22 (1.86%) ADO
10 22 (1.86%) CSS
11 21 (1.78%) PySpark
12 19 (1.61%) .NET Framework
12 19 (1.61%) SOAP
12 19 (1.61%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.61%) WireMock
13 17 (1.44%) Kafka
13 17 (1.44%) Node.js
13 17 (1.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 194 (16.40%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 58 (4.90%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 29 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 17 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.01%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.02%) Linux
2 62 (5.24%) Windows
3 36 (3.04%) Unix
4 15 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.76%) Android
7 5 (0.42%) AIX
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.25%) Solaris
8 3 (0.25%) zOS
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 1 (0.085%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.085%) SUSE
10 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (64.92%) Agile
2 364 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 342 (28.91%) DevOps
4 304 (25.70%) Scrum
5 292 (24.68%) CI/CD
6 236 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 235 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
8 202 (17.08%) Test Automation
9 186 (15.72%) User Stories
10 175 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 167 (14.12%) Migration
12 133 (11.24%) Kanban
13 132 (11.16%) Acceptance Criteria
14 128 (10.82%) Sprint Planning
15 123 (10.40%) Roadmaps
16 118 (9.97%) User Acceptance Testing
17 117 (9.89%) SDLC
18 116 (9.81%) AI
19 114 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
20 110 (9.30%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 218 (18.43%) SQL
2 184 (15.55%) Python
3 93 (7.86%) Java
4 56 (4.73%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.14%) PowerShell
6 47 (3.97%) Bash
7 44 (3.72%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.47%) C#
9 36 (3.04%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.10%) Bicep
11 12 (1.01%) Groovy
11 12 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 11 (0.93%) Perl
12 11 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.34%) R
15 4 (0.34%) VBA
16 3 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 406 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 336 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 128 (10.82%) Degree
4 58 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 57 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (3.21%) PMI Certification
7 32 (2.70%) PMP
8 25 (2.11%) CISSP
9 24 (2.03%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.61%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 17 (1.44%) CISM
14 16 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
15 13 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (1.01%) CBAP
17 9 (0.76%) IIBA
17 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
19 6 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (9.55%) QA
2 69 (5.83%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.07%) PMO
4 42 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.54%) GDPR
6 22 (1.86%) WCAG
7 20 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.61%) NIST
9 16 (1.35%) NCSC
10 13 (1.10%) GRC
11 9 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) SLA
14 5 (0.42%) HL7
14 5 (0.42%) MiFID
14 5 (0.42%) SEPA
15 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 103 (8.71%) Docker
2 36 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.42%) Squid
4 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.25%) Ceph
6 3 (0.25%) HDFS
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 129 (10.90%) Terraform
2 94 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 72 (6.09%) Ansible
4 58 (4.90%) Grafana
5 31 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.10%) Argo
8 13 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.59%) Istio
11 6 (0.51%) Consul
11 6 (0.51%) Control-M
12 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
13 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 145 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.28%) ServiceNow
3 91 (7.69%) Oracle
4 79 (6.68%) Atlassian
5 49 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.47%) SAP
7 34 (2.87%) IBM
8 32 (2.70%) Talend
9 28 (2.37%) Denodo
10 27 (2.28%) Google
11 26 (2.20%) Databricks
11 26 (2.20%) Splunk
12 24 (2.03%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.94%) Informatica
14 16 (1.35%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.18%) VMware
16 12 (1.01%) Dynatrace
17 11 (0.93%) Adobe
17 11 (0.93%) Commvault
18 9 (0.76%) Cisco