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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 97 117
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,127 869 779
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.65% 2.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.61% 24.19% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 608 524
10th Percentile £377 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £631
90th Percentile £671 £688 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 21
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.25 £25.30
25th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £92.75 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 4,579 3,592 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.53% 10.97% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,000 2,336 2,801
10th Percentile £288 £278 £281
25th Percentile £404 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £719 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 92 98
10th Percentile £16.23 £17.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £21.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +24.88% -37.08%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.25 £69.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £47.50
% change year-on-year -24.58% -9.28% +18.75%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -31 984 £505 -1.51% 476
UK excluding London -23 586 £480 +1.05% 257
London -24 448 £539 -6.30% 290
Work from Home -1 372 £523 +4.50% 244
North of England -41 186 £475 +10.48% 77
Midlands +10 150 £459 -3.37% 26
West Midlands +6 123 £463 -2.63% 18
Yorkshire -27 98 £474 +8.72% 22
South East -22 93 £500 +3.63% 53
North West -41 83 £474 +12.07% 42
South West -16 67 £540 -4.42% 45
Scotland +6 66 £457 -8.60% 26
East Midlands -2 26 £413 +25.00% 8
East of England -14 26 £400 -13.51% 11
Wales -13 9 £650 +36.84% 4
North East -50 8 £480 -7.69% 13

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 80 (7.10%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.60%) SAS
3 12 (1.06%) nginx
4 11 (0.98%) CMS
5 10 (0.89%) Apache
6 7 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.62%) Camunda
7 5 (0.44%) JBoss
7 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) Drupal
11 1 (0.089%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.089%) IIS
11 1 (0.089%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.089%) Mule
11 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (8.07%) MS Visio
2 70 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.53%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 4 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.27%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.089%) CATIA
10 1 (0.089%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.089%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.089%) Sketch
10 1 (0.089%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.80%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.27%) Primavera
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) BASE24
8 2 (0.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.18%) Summit
9 1 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.089%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.089%) MetaTrader
9 1 (0.089%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 268 (23.78%) Azure
2 256 (22.72%) AWS
3 129 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
4 112 (9.94%) GitHub
5 89 (7.90%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.74%) Amazon S3
7 56 (4.97%) Serverless
8 53 (4.70%) GCP
9 51 (4.53%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (3.99%) Miro
13 44 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (2.66%) Figma
17 26 (2.31%) SaaS
18 25 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
19 24 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
19 24 (2.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.66%) Firewall
2 25 (2.22%) DNS
3 18 (1.60%) SSH
4 15 (1.33%) SSL
5 12 (1.06%) Network Security
5 12 (1.06%) VPN
6 11 (0.98%) HTTP
6 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.98%) WAN
7 6 (0.53%) Broadband
7 6 (0.53%) HTTPS
7 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.44%) DHCP
8 5 (0.44%) LAN
9 4 (0.35%) Internet
9 4 (0.35%) IPv4
9 4 (0.35%) OpenVPN
9 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.27%) IPv6
10 3 (0.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.19%) Power BI
2 57 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (3.46%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 27 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (2.22%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.51%) Metadata
11 17 (1.51%) Tableau
12 16 (1.42%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
15 11 (0.98%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1,016 (90.15%) JIRA
2 151 (13.40%) Git
3 104 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 98 (8.70%) GitLab
5 53 (4.70%) Bitbucket
6 43 (3.82%) Selenium
7 31 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 26 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 23 (2.04%) Zephyr
10 22 (1.95%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.77%) Cypress.io
11 20 (1.77%) JUnit
11 20 (1.77%) Postman
12 19 (1.69%) Artifactory
13 17 (1.51%) JMeter
14 14 (1.24%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.98%) MSI
15 11 (0.98%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.89%) Maven
17 9 (0.80%) Mockito
General
1 461 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 337 (29.90%) Finance
3 209 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (17.66%) Public Sector
5 170 (15.08%) Banking
6 50 (4.44%) Retail
7 49 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.77%) Legal
11 19 (1.69%) Military
12 18 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.33%) Retail Banking
16 12 (1.06%) Marketing
17 10 (0.89%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (20.32%) Analyst
2 170 (15.08%) Business Analyst
3 118 (10.47%) Developer
4 110 (9.76%) Senior
5 101 (8.96%) Lead
6 68 (6.03%) Architect
7 61 (5.41%) Scrum Master
8 48 (4.26%) Consultant
9 44 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.73%) Data Engineer
11 40 (3.55%) Product Owner
12 39 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
13 30 (2.66%) Product Manager
14 28 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (1.95%) Business Systems Analyst
16 22 (1.95%) Technical Analyst
17 21 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (1.77%) JIRA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (11.54%) Terraform
2 75 (6.65%) REST
3 42 (3.73%) .NET
4 40 (3.55%) HTML
5 38 (3.37%) JSON
6 37 (3.28%) React
7 32 (2.84%) CSS
8 29 (2.57%) AngularJS
8 29 (2.57%) RESTful
9 25 (2.22%) .NET Core
10 21 (1.86%) Kafka
11 20 (1.77%) XML
12 19 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 19 (1.69%) Spring
13 18 (1.60%) PySpark
14 17 (1.51%) ADO
14 17 (1.51%) Playwright
14 17 (1.51%) Spring Boot
15 16 (1.42%) Node.js
15 16 (1.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 206 (18.28%) Product Ownership
2 76 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 51 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.57%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 24 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 23 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 17 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.33%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.98%) Clustering
13 11 (0.98%) Credit Risk
13 11 (0.98%) PKI
14 9 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.12%) Linux
2 57 (5.06%) Windows
3 33 (2.93%) Unix
4 11 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.71%) Android
6 8 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.27%) AIX
9 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.18%) MVS
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.089%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.089%) Solaris
11 1 (0.089%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (66.19%) Agile
2 372 (33.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 341 (30.26%) DevOps
4 306 (27.15%) Scrum
5 268 (23.78%) CI/CD
6 225 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 187 (16.59%) User Stories
9 186 (16.50%) Test Automation
10 176 (15.62%) Migration
11 175 (15.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 137 (12.16%) Sprint Planning
13 135 (11.98%) Acceptance Criteria
14 128 (11.36%) SDLC
15 126 (11.18%) Business Analysis
16 124 (11.00%) Kanban
17 121 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
17 121 (10.74%) User Acceptance Testing
18 119 (10.56%) Requirements Gathering
19 113 (10.03%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 215 (19.08%) SQL
2 166 (14.73%) Python
3 86 (7.63%) Java
4 63 (5.59%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.73%) C#
7 42 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.64%) Bash
9 17 (1.51%) Groovy
10 16 (1.42%) Bicep
10 16 (1.42%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.89%) Perl
12 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.35%) Korn
13 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.35%) Swift
14 3 (0.27%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 403 (35.76%) Security Cleared
2 337 (29.90%) SC Cleared
3 107 (9.49%) Degree
4 65 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 60 (5.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (2.57%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.04%) PMP
9 21 (1.86%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 15 (1.33%) CISSP
11 15 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
12 13 (1.15%) IIBA
13 12 (1.06%) CBAP
14 11 (0.98%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.71%) CISM
17 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.53%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (10.74%) QA
2 64 (5.68%) Data Quality
2 64 (5.68%) PMO
3 47 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.13%) WCAG
5 20 (1.77%) NCSC
6 16 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.24%) GRC
7 14 (1.24%) NIST
8 12 (1.06%) GDPR
9 8 (0.71%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.71%) SLA
10 7 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.53%) SEPA
12 5 (0.44%) MiFID
13 4 (0.35%) HL7
14 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.27%) EMIR
14 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 95 (8.43%) Docker
2 48 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) Squid
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 64 (5.68%) Ansible
3 47 (4.17%) Grafana
4 26 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.42%) Argo
7 8 (0.71%) Control-M
7 8 (0.71%) Istio
8 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.53%) Packer
9 6 (0.53%) SCOM
10 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.44%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.35%) Consul
11 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 3 (0.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 148 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.16%) ServiceNow
3 79 (7.01%) Oracle
4 75 (6.65%) Atlassian
5 44 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.28%) IBM
7 36 (3.19%) SAP
8 31 (2.75%) Google
9 27 (2.40%) Splunk
10 26 (2.31%) Talend
11 25 (2.22%) Denodo
11 25 (2.22%) VMware
12 22 (1.95%) Informatica
13 19 (1.69%) Databricks
14 14 (1.24%) MuleSoft
15 12 (1.06%) Cisco
15 12 (1.06%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.98%) Adobe
17 10 (0.89%) Zscaler
18 9 (0.80%) Red Hat