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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 98 106
Rank change year-on-year -30 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,156 867 811
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.11% 2.64% 2.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.47% 24.55% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 608 516
10th Percentile £375 £315 £330
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £675 £683 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +0.53% -7.77% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 16
10th Percentile £42.87 £46.80 £40.63
25th Percentile £60.31 £57.50 £63.92
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +7.89%

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 4,725 3,532 4,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 10.76% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,064 2,282 2,629
10th Percentile £285 £276 £265
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £649
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £454
% change year-on-year +2.78% -0.88% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 85 76
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.98 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -0.06% -24.06%
75th Percentile £55.50 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.12 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £33.33 £48.56
% change year-on-year -15.23% -31.37% +5.57%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -36 988 £505 -1.56% 581
UK excluding London -26 598 £478 +0.53% 322
London -34 453 £540 -6.09% 306
Work from Home +12 375 £525 +5.00% 280
North of England -43 185 £475 +4.74% 76
Midlands +12 149 £469 +1.41% 37
West Midlands +15 127 £469 -1.26% 27
Yorkshire -15 107 £475 - 30
South East -34 85 £475 +5.56% 70
Scotland +12 83 £425 -11.69% 41
North West -46 70 £472 +10.02% 34
South West -17 68 £540 -8.09% 46
East of England -10 31 £491 +2.03% 34
East Midlands -14 21 £427 +29.39% 10
North East -46 11 £375 -27.88% 12
Wales -10 8 £650 +52.94% 5

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 60 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.56%) SAS
3 15 (1.30%) Apache
4 12 (1.04%) nginx
5 10 (0.87%) Camunda
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
6 9 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.61%) CICS
8 6 (0.52%) Traefik
9 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.35%) JBoss
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
Applications
1 90 (7.79%) MS Visio
2 72 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (4.67%) Microsoft Project
4 34 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 5 (0.43%) 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
10 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.17%) Productboard
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.087%) CATIA
11 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.087%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.087%) OneSumX
8 1 (0.087%) Shopify
8 1 (0.087%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 266 (23.01%) AWS
2 265 (22.92%) Azure
3 135 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (9.43%) GitHub
5 90 (7.79%) Power Platform
6 75 (6.49%) Amazon S3
7 60 (5.19%) GCP
8 56 (4.84%) Miro
9 55 (4.76%) Serverless
10 50 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (2.51%) Figma
14 29 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.08%) SaaS
17 21 (1.82%) Entra ID
17 21 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.03%) Firewall
2 33 (2.85%) DNS
3 16 (1.38%) SSH
4 13 (1.12%) HTTP
4 13 (1.12%) SSL
4 13 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.04%) WAN
6 11 (0.95%) Network Security
6 11 (0.95%) VPN
7 10 (0.87%) DHCP
8 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) Internet
9 6 (0.52%) IPv4
10 5 (0.43%) IPv6
10 5 (0.43%) VLAN
11 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.35%) MPLS
11 4 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (7.18%) Power BI
2 68 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.24%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.16%) MongoDB
8 24 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.08%) DynamoDB
9 22 (1.90%) Metadata
10 21 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
11 20 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.38%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (1.12%) MySQL
15 13 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (1.12%) Tableau
16 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,057 (91.44%) JIRA
2 152 (13.15%) Git
3 106 (9.17%) GitLab
4 103 (8.91%) Jenkins
5 49 (4.24%) Bitbucket
6 35 (3.03%) Selenium
7 32 (2.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.60%) JUnit
9 29 (2.51%) Zephyr
10 24 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 24 (2.08%) Cucumber
11 23 (1.99%) Maven
12 22 (1.90%) Postman
13 21 (1.82%) Mockito
14 20 (1.73%) SonarQube
15 18 (1.56%) Artifactory
15 18 (1.56%) REST Assured
16 16 (1.38%) JMeter
17 15 (1.30%) Cypress.io
18 11 (0.95%) Gradle
General
1 470 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 324 (28.03%) Finance
3 226 (19.55%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (17.91%) Public Sector
5 162 (14.01%) Banking
6 51 (4.41%) Retail
7 48 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 45 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.73%) Military
13 17 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.30%) Legal
14 15 (1.30%) Marketing
14 15 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.30%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.12%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 238 (20.59%) Analyst
2 167 (14.45%) Business Analyst
3 122 (10.55%) Developer
4 117 (10.12%) Senior
5 109 (9.43%) Lead
6 63 (5.45%) Scrum Master
7 61 (5.28%) Architect
8 47 (4.07%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.72%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.63%) Consultant
10 42 (3.63%) Product Manager
11 39 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 36 (3.11%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.25%) Java Developer
16 24 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (2.08%) Technical Manager
17 22 (1.90%) Senior Developer
17 22 (1.90%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (9.86%) Terraform
2 93 (8.04%) REST
3 46 (3.98%) HTML
4 40 (3.46%) JSON
5 39 (3.37%) .NET
5 39 (3.37%) RESTful
6 35 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 35 (3.03%) React
6 35 (3.03%) SOAP
7 34 (2.94%) CSS
8 30 (2.60%) Spring Boot
8 30 (2.60%) Web Services
9 27 (2.34%) Spring
10 26 (2.25%) Kafka
11 25 (2.16%) .NET Core
12 23 (1.99%) Hibernate
13 21 (1.82%) XML
14 20 (1.73%) JPA
15 19 (1.64%) ADO
15 19 (1.64%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 225 (19.46%) Product Ownership
2 82 (7.09%) Onboarding
3 61 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 34 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.51%) Virtual Team
7 25 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.73%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.30%) PKI
13 14 (1.21%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 10 (0.87%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 64 (5.54%) Linux
2 62 (5.36%) Windows
3 33 (2.85%) Unix
4 13 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.78%) Android
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.61%) zOS
8 4 (0.35%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.087%) CentOS
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.087%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (65.74%) Agile
2 400 (34.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 340 (29.41%) DevOps
4 321 (27.77%) Scrum
5 279 (24.13%) CI/CD
6 240 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 239 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
8 213 (18.43%) User Stories
9 196 (16.96%) Migration
10 193 (16.70%) Test Automation
11 167 (14.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 156 (13.49%) Sprint Planning
13 142 (12.28%) Acceptance Criteria
13 142 (12.28%) Business Analysis
14 139 (12.02%) SDLC
15 129 (11.16%) User Acceptance Testing
16 128 (11.07%) AI
17 127 (10.99%) Kanban
18 125 (10.81%) Requirements Gathering
19 120 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 238 (20.59%) SQL
2 156 (13.49%) Python
3 95 (8.22%) Java
4 57 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 55 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.72%) Bash
7 43 (3.72%) PL/SQL
8 42 (3.63%) C#
9 16 (1.38%) Bicep
9 16 (1.38%) Groovy
10 15 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.04%) Perl
12 11 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.61%) Go
15 6 (0.52%) JCL
16 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.35%) Swift
18 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 393 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 325 (28.11%) SC Cleared
3 113 (9.78%) Degree
4 73 (6.31%) DV Cleared
5 68 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.85%) PMI Certification
7 28 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (2.34%) PMP
9 25 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.56%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 13 (1.12%) CBAP
13 12 (1.04%) IIBA
14 11 (0.95%) CISSP
14 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.61%) CISM
17 5 (0.43%) CSPO
17 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.94%) QA
2 80 (6.92%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.19%) PMO
4 48 (4.15%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.16%) WCAG
6 21 (1.82%) NCSC
7 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.87%) NIST
9 9 (0.78%) GDPR
9 9 (0.78%) SLA
10 8 (0.69%) GRC
10 8 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.61%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.61%) SEPA
12 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.35%) MiFID
13 3 (0.26%) EMIR
13 3 (0.26%) GxP
13 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (8.82%) Docker
2 49 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.52%) vSphere
6 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.35%) Squid
6 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) Ceph
7 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) UAG
8 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (6.75%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.88%) Ansible
3 56 (4.84%) Grafana
4 34 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.38%) Argo
7 15 (1.30%) Control-M
8 11 (0.95%) Istio
9 8 (0.69%) Packer
10 7 (0.61%) SCOM
10 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.35%) Consul
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 4 (0.35%) WSUS
13 3 (0.26%) SELinux
14 2 (0.17%) Kibana
14 2 (0.17%) Nessus
14 2 (0.17%) OPNET
Vendors
1 152 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.87%) Oracle
3 88 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 64 (5.54%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.72%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.29%) Google
6 38 (3.29%) IBM
7 33 (2.85%) VMware
8 29 (2.51%) Splunk
9 28 (2.42%) Talend
10 26 (2.25%) SAP
11 25 (2.16%) Denodo
12 23 (1.99%) Informatica
13 19 (1.64%) Databricks
14 14 (1.21%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.04%) Cisco
15 12 (1.04%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.95%) Adobe
16 11 (0.95%) Remedy
17 10 (0.87%) BMC