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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 93 130
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -17
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,167 808 764
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.29% 2.69% 1.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.44% 23.93% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 543 522
10th Percentile £350 £327 £355
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £682 £675 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -3.37% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 26
10th Percentile £28.38 £54.51 £25.13
25th Percentile £48.40 £62.50 £37.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £72.06 £77.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.28 £80.75 £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 4,414 3,377 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.67% 11.24% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,953 2,224 3,062
10th Percentile £313 £289 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 74 165
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.63 £72.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £53.61 £30.91
% change year-on-year -34.71% +73.42% -38.18%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -6 1,008 £488 -4.60% 161
UK excluding London -9 642 £459 -3.37% 132
London -11 427 £525 -4.55% 62
Work from Home +3 394 £492 +8.13% 94
North of England -23 210 £446 +4.88% 35
Midlands +32 196 £459 -0.22% 13
West Midlands +24 152 £461 -3.00% 11
North West -7 114 £431 +5.12% 18
Yorkshire -28 88 £468 +13.33% 14
South East -36 87 £500 +3.09% 45
Scotland -1 74 £525 +16.67% 8
South West -20 59 £558 -3.04% 23
East Midlands +8 42 £413 +23.87% 2
East of England -28 21 £350 -24.32% 8
Wales -13 9 £650 +36.84% 1
North East -40 8 £375 -30.23% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 3

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 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.31%) 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%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.086%) Appian
10 1 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 91 (7.80%) MS Visio
2 88 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 68 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.43%) Trello
7 4 (0.34%) Notion
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 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.51%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.34%) Actimize
5 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.26%) Primavera
5 3 (0.26%) Summit
6 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.17%) BASE24
6 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.17%) Maximo
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 269 (23.05%) AWS
2 241 (20.65%) Azure
3 118 (10.11%) GitHub
4 110 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
5 95 (8.14%) 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%) SaaS
14 30 (2.57%) Miro
15 29 (2.49%) Entra ID
16 26 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (1.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.66%) Firewall
2 23 (1.97%) Network Security
3 19 (1.63%) DNS
4 18 (1.54%) WAN
5 17 (1.46%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.20%) LAN
6 14 (1.20%) VPN
7 12 (1.03%) SSL
7 12 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.86%) SSH
8 10 (0.86%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.77%) HTTP
10 7 (0.60%) OpenVPN
10 7 (0.60%) PSTN
10 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.51%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.43%) BIG-IP
13 4 (0.34%) Modbus
13 4 (0.34%) RS-232
13 4 (0.34%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.28%) Power BI
2 57 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (2.66%) Tableau
5 30 (2.57%) DynamoDB
6 29 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (2.49%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
7 23 (1.97%) SQL Server
8 21 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.71%) Metadata
10 17 (1.46%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
13 13 (1.11%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.03%) Pentaho
15 11 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.94%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,064 (91.17%) JIRA
2 156 (13.37%) Git
3 130 (11.14%) Jenkins
4 104 (8.91%) GitLab
5 54 (4.63%) Selenium
6 47 (4.03%) Bitbucket
7 33 (2.83%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 31 (2.66%) JMeter
9 31 (2.66%) JUnit
10 29 (2.49%) Postman
11 22 (1.89%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.71%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.71%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.54%) Zephyr
15 13 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (1.11%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
17 9 (0.77%) Maven
General
1 454 (38.90%) Social Skills
2 339 (29.05%) Finance
3 201 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (16.97%) Banking
5 182 (15.60%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.26%) Retail
8 32 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.31%) Legal
10 24 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.06%) Military
10 24 (2.06%) Retail Banking
11 22 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.37%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
14 14 (1.20%) Marketing
15 13 (1.11%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 248 (21.25%) Analyst
2 197 (16.88%) Business Analyst
3 121 (10.37%) Senior
4 107 (9.17%) Developer
5 89 (7.63%) Architect
6 76 (6.51%) Lead
7 62 (5.31%) Project Manager
8 59 (5.06%) Scrum Master
9 54 (4.63%) Data Engineer
10 47 (4.03%) Consultant
11 39 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (2.83%) Product Owner
12 33 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (2.57%) Tester
14 28 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
16 22 (1.89%) Banking Analyst
16 22 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.89%) Technical Business Analyst
16 22 (1.89%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.37%) REST
2 43 (3.68%) JSON
3 41 (3.51%) Spring
4 31 (2.66%) RESTful
5 30 (2.57%) React
6 27 (2.31%) .NET
7 26 (2.23%) HTML
8 23 (1.97%) ADO
8 23 (1.97%) PySpark
9 22 (1.89%) XML
10 21 (1.80%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.71%) CSS
11 20 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.63%) WireMock
13 18 (1.54%) SOAP
14 16 (1.37%) OpenID
15 15 (1.29%) Kafka
16 14 (1.20%) Node.js
17 13 (1.11%) AWS CDK
17 13 (1.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 187 (16.02%) Product Ownership
2 70 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.40%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.37%) PMI
11 16 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 13 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.94%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.28%) Linux
2 57 (4.88%) Windows
3 34 (2.91%) Unix
4 13 (1.11%) Android
5 11 (0.94%) Apple iOS
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
7 4 (0.34%) 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
1 728 (62.38%) Agile
2 326 (27.93%) DevOps
3 325 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (24.59%) Scrum
5 276 (23.65%) CI/CD
6 223 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 183 (15.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 183 (15.68%) Test Automation
9 175 (15.00%) User Stories
10 159 (13.62%) Migration
11 127 (10.88%) Project Management
12 125 (10.71%) Kanban
13 120 (10.28%) Acceptance Criteria
14 118 (10.11%) Roadmaps
15 114 (9.77%) SDLC
16 112 (9.60%) Project Delivery
17 110 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
18 108 (9.25%) Change Management
19 106 (9.08%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 201 (17.22%) SQL
2 165 (14.14%) Python
3 90 (7.71%) Java
4 57 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 43 (3.68%) PL/SQL
5 43 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.26%) Bash
7 34 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.14%) C#
9 12 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.86%) Groovy
10 10 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 10 (0.86%) Perl
11 7 (0.60%) Bicep
11 7 (0.60%) C++
11 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.34%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.34%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 397 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 331 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 133 (11.40%) Degree
4 51 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (4.11%) PMI Certification
6 43 (3.68%) PMP
7 42 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.83%) CISSP
9 26 (2.23%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.14%) CISM
11 24 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (1.46%) Master's Degree
15 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (1.03%) CBAP
17 12 (1.03%) IIBA
18 11 (0.94%) Azure Certification
19 9 (0.77%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (8.91%) QA
2 66 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 56 (4.80%) PMO
4 36 (3.08%) GDPR
5 35 (3.00%) Accessibility
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%) Basel III
15 5 (0.43%) HL7
15 5 (0.43%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.43%) PSD2
System Software
1 90 (7.71%) Docker
2 17 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.86%) Squid
4 7 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.34%) Firmware
6 3 (0.26%) Ceph
6 3 (0.26%) HDFS
6 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (9.60%) Terraform
2 96 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 63 (5.40%) Ansible
4 50 (4.28%) Grafana
5 34 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.20%) 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 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
11 5 (0.43%) Istio
12 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.26%) CASB
13 3 (0.26%) Foglight
13 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 124 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.54%) ServiceNow
3 86 (7.37%) Atlassian
4 85 (7.28%) Oracle
5 47 (4.03%) Salesforce
6 35 (3.00%) SAP
7 32 (2.74%) Talend
8 28 (2.40%) Denodo
9 26 (2.23%) Red Hat
10 24 (2.06%) Databricks
10 24 (2.06%) IBM
11 23 (1.97%) Informatica
12 18 (1.54%) Google
13 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.37%) Splunk
14 15 (1.29%) BiZZdesign
14 15 (1.29%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.03%) Cisco
15 12 (1.03%) Sonatype
16 11 (0.94%) Zscaler