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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 97 126
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 -16
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,166 845 776
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.25% 2.66% 1.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.98% 23.96% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 574 524
10th Percentile £351 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £410 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.19%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £686 £675 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 25
10th Percentile £30.63 £54.80 £25.27
25th Percentile £51.99 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £74.50 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £77.13 £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 4,488 3,526 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.09% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,963 2,303 3,112
10th Percentile £313 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £719 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 83 157
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.56 £13.51
25th Percentile £19.20 £26.39 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £50.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +55.69% -38.83%
75th Percentile £63.03 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.74 £74.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £33.56
% change year-on-year -33.33% +56.45% -28.22%

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 6 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 6 July 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 6 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 -10 1,006 £492 -4.00% 271
UK excluding London -14 629 £465 -2.11% 178
London -12 438 £525 -4.55% 125
Work from Home +9 396 £500 +8.70% 165
North of England -19 208 £447 +5.18% 50
Midlands +26 181 £459 -3.37% 21
West Midlands +24 149 £459 -3.37% 12
North West -13 105 £438 +5.42% 27
Yorkshire -26 95 £453 +6.47% 20
South East -30 88 £500 +1.01% 59
Scotland -4 74 £525 +16.67% 8
South West -18 57 £564 -1.96% 23
East Midlands -4 30 £402 +20.72% 9
East of England -29 22 £350 -24.32% 9
Wales -17 9 £650 +36.84% 3
North East -40 9 £428 -20.47% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 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 (8.58%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.89%) SAS
3 14 (1.20%) nginx
4 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.60%) CMS
6 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.43%) Apache
7 5 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.26%) CICS
9 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.17%) Camunda
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.086%) Appian
11 1 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 95 (8.15%) MS Visio
2 83 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (5.32%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (4.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (4.12%) 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 9 (0.77%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.26%) Primavera
7 3 (0.26%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.17%) Maximo
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.086%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 275 (23.58%) AWS
2 259 (22.21%) Azure
3 127 (10.89%) GitHub
4 117 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 81 (6.95%) Amazon S3
7 56 (4.80%) Serverless
8 54 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (4.12%) GCP
12 39 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (2.74%) Miro
15 30 (2.57%) Entra ID
15 30 (2.57%) SaaS
16 23 (1.97%) Figma
16 23 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.83%) Firewall
2 23 (1.97%) Network Security
3 20 (1.72%) DNS
4 18 (1.54%) WAN
5 14 (1.20%) LAN
5 14 (1.20%) VPN
6 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
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
13 4 (0.34%) BGP
13 4 (0.34%) MPLS
13 4 (0.34%) OSPF
14 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.60%) Power BI
2 63 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.20%) 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 23 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
9 22 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.80%) Tableau
11 20 (1.72%) Metadata
12 15 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.11%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.03%) Pentaho
16 11 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,052 (90.22%) JIRA
2 166 (14.24%) Git
3 133 (11.41%) Jenkins
4 106 (9.09%) GitLab
5 58 (4.97%) Selenium
6 45 (3.86%) Bitbucket
7 36 (3.09%) Cucumber
8 35 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 31 (2.66%) JMeter
9 31 (2.66%) JUnit
10 30 (2.57%) Postman
11 21 (1.80%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.72%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.72%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 19 (1.63%) Zephyr
14 14 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (1.11%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.77%) Maven
16 9 (0.77%) ScriptRunner
General
1 454 (38.94%) Social Skills
2 334 (28.64%) Finance
3 194 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (15.69%) Banking
5 181 (15.52%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.17%) Retail
8 31 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.32%) Legal
9 27 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.80%) Military
12 19 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.54%) Retail Banking
14 15 (1.29%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.20%) Marketing
16 10 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
16 10 (0.86%) Front Office
16 10 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 244 (20.93%) Analyst
2 194 (16.64%) Business Analyst
3 125 (10.72%) Senior
4 113 (9.69%) Developer
5 87 (7.46%) Lead
6 80 (6.86%) Architect
7 61 (5.23%) Scrum Master
8 54 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 53 (4.55%) Project Manager
10 47 (4.03%) Consultant
11 39 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (2.83%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.57%) Tester
14 27 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
17 23 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
17 23 (1.97%) Technical Business Analyst
18 21 (1.80%) Security Engineer
18 21 (1.80%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.23%) REST
2 43 (3.69%) JSON
3 41 (3.52%) Spring
4 35 (3.00%) .NET
5 34 (2.92%) RESTful
6 31 (2.66%) React
7 26 (2.23%) AngularJS
7 26 (2.23%) HTML
8 23 (1.97%) PySpark
8 23 (1.97%) XML
9 22 (1.89%) SOAP
10 21 (1.80%) ADO
11 20 (1.72%) CSS
11 20 (1.72%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.63%) WireMock
13 17 (1.46%) Playwright
14 16 (1.37%) Kafka
14 16 (1.37%) Node.js
14 16 (1.37%) OpenID
15 15 (1.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 176 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 72 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.15%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.23%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 22 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 17 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
11 15 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.03%) PMI
13 11 (0.94%) Security Posture
14 10 (0.86%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.03%) Linux
2 57 (4.89%) Windows
3 36 (3.09%) Unix
4 12 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Android
7 5 (0.43%) AIX
7 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.086%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.086%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 738 (63.29%) Agile
2 323 (27.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 318 (27.27%) DevOps
4 291 (24.96%) CI/CD
5 288 (24.70%) Scrum
6 221 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
7 217 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 194 (16.64%) Test Automation
9 175 (15.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 169 (14.49%) User Stories
11 156 (13.38%) Migration
12 122 (10.46%) Kanban
13 119 (10.21%) SDLC
14 116 (9.95%) Acceptance Criteria
15 115 (9.86%) AI
15 115 (9.86%) Project Management
15 115 (9.86%) Roadmaps
16 114 (9.78%) User Acceptance Testing
17 112 (9.61%) Data Modelling
18 110 (9.43%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 212 (18.18%) SQL
2 181 (15.52%) Python
3 93 (7.98%) Java
4 54 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.77%) Bash
5 44 (3.77%) PL/SQL
6 40 (3.43%) PowerShell
7 37 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 36 (3.09%) 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 8 (0.69%) Bicep
11 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.34%) C++
13 4 (0.34%) R
13 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 397 (34.05%) Security Cleared
2 333 (28.56%) SC Cleared
3 133 (11.41%) Degree
4 49 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 49 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 42 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 35 (3.00%) PMP
7 33 (2.83%) CISSP
8 26 (2.23%) AWS Certification
9 25 (2.14%) CISM
10 24 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
14 13 (1.11%) Azure Certification
14 13 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (1.03%) CBAP
16 9 (0.77%) IIBA
16 9 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (9.35%) QA
2 65 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.89%) PMO
4 40 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.66%) GDPR
6 25 (2.14%) NIST
7 20 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.54%) WCAG
9 14 (1.20%) GRC
9 14 (1.20%) NCSC
10 13 (1.11%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.77%) SLA
12 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) MiFID
14 5 (0.43%) HL7
14 5 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.43%) PSD2
15 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 103 (8.83%) 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%) 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 ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.086%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 123 (10.55%) Terraform
2 102 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 70 (6.00%) Ansible
4 58 (4.97%) Grafana
5 34 (2.92%) 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 11 (0.94%) Argo
10 9 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.77%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.69%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.43%) Istio
14 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.34%) Packer
14 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.26%) Foglight
Vendors
1 130 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 91 (7.80%) Oracle
4 81 (6.95%) Atlassian
5 47 (4.03%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.09%) SAP
7 32 (2.74%) Talend
8 28 (2.40%) Databricks
8 28 (2.40%) Denodo
9 27 (2.32%) IBM
10 26 (2.23%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.97%) Informatica
12 20 (1.72%) Google
13 18 (1.54%) 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
16 12 (1.03%) Zscaler