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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 104 114
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -26
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,005 762 909
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.71% 2.40% 2.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.97% 21.69% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 477 603
10th Percentile £325 £313 £380
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.55%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £650
90th Percentile £726 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -4.43% -7.73% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 28
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.70 £43.22
25th Percentile £39.00 £58.47 £54.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% - +20.19%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.51 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £70.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.48 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.63% - +16.82%

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 3,726 3,513 4,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.03% 11.07% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,582 2,159 2,873
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £606
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 73 140
10th Percentile £14.89 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +49.49% +38.58%
75th Percentile £68.90 £62.50 £60.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.96 £47.50 £23.48
% change year-on-year -49.56% +102.28% +34.30%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +15 904 £513 -1.44% 235
UK excluding London +19 525 £485 -4.43% 207
London -4 401 £550 +4.76% 62
Work from Home -13 243 £480 -4.00% 132
North of England +2 188 £468 -9.22% 44
Midlands +25 117 £445 -6.71% 35
Yorkshire -17 103 £506 -3.11% 18
South West +29 98 £725 +26.09% 26
West Midlands +15 80 £458 -5.38% 24
South East -12 77 £500 +7.53% 73
North West +15 74 £438 -13.79% 23
Scotland +13 37 £500 +11.11% 9
East Midlands +4 36 £393 -6.43% 11
East of England -20 14 £444 +9.30% 22
North East -7 10 £488 +8.33% 4
Wales 0 3 £400 -23.81% 4
Northern Ireland -4 2 £320 - 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 77 (7.66%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.99%) nginx
3 13 (1.29%) CMS
4 9 (0.90%) SAS
5 8 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) CICS
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.100%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.100%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.100%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.100%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.100%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.100%) WordPress
Applications
1 101 (10.05%) Microsoft Project
2 100 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 96 (9.55%) Microsoft Office
4 85 (8.46%) MS Visio
5 68 (6.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (1.39%) Trello
7 9 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.40%) Notion
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.100%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.100%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.100%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.100%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.100%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.100%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.100%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (16.72%) AWS
2 142 (14.13%) Azure
3 110 (10.95%) GitHub
4 59 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.88%) GCP
7 30 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 30 (2.99%) Miro
8 29 (2.89%) Serverless
9 28 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 23 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
13 22 (2.19%) Lucidchart
14 21 (2.09%) SaaS
15 19 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.89%) Figma
15 19 (1.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.18%) Firewall
2 30 (2.99%) SSH
3 19 (1.89%) DNS
4 18 (1.79%) FTP
5 16 (1.59%) HTTP
5 16 (1.59%) SSL
5 16 (1.59%) VPN
6 15 (1.49%) SMTP
7 14 (1.39%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.09%) WAN
10 10 (1.00%) Network Security
10 10 (1.00%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.90%) IMAP
11 9 (0.90%) VSAN
12 8 (0.80%) Ethernet
13 6 (0.60%) LAN
13 6 (0.60%) Modbus
13 6 (0.60%) RS-232
13 6 (0.60%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.07%) Power BI
2 43 (4.28%) Tableau
3 42 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (3.38%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (2.09%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.59%) Big Data
8 16 (1.59%) Metadata
9 12 (1.19%) DocumentDB
9 12 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.80%) Redis
13 7 (0.70%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.70%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.60%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 922 (91.74%) JIRA
2 126 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 96 (9.55%) Git
4 59 (5.87%) GitLab
5 48 (4.78%) Bitbucket
6 34 (3.38%) Selenium
7 23 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (2.09%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.99%) Postman
10 16 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.39%) Vagrant
12 10 (1.00%) JUnit
12 10 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.90%) ScriptRunner
14 8 (0.80%) Maven
14 8 (0.80%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.70%) Android Studio
16 6 (0.60%) Zephyr
17 5 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 449 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 300 (29.85%) Finance
3 203 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (15.72%) Banking
5 133 (13.23%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (4.68%) Military
7 33 (3.28%) Retail
8 32 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.59%) Legal
10 24 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.99%) Retail Banking
14 19 (1.89%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.59%) Front Office
15 16 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.39%) Marketing
17 13 (1.29%) Automotive
18 10 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 227 (22.59%) Analyst
2 186 (18.51%) Business Analyst
3 101 (10.05%) Architect
4 97 (9.65%) Project Manager
5 77 (7.66%) Senior
6 74 (7.36%) Developer
7 71 (7.06%) Lead
8 50 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.48%) Technical Analyst
10 34 (3.38%) Technical Business Analyst
11 30 (2.99%) Product Owner
11 30 (2.99%) Service Architect
12 29 (2.89%) Consultant
12 29 (2.89%) Scrum Master
12 29 (2.89%) Senior Business Analyst
13 28 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
13 28 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (2.69%) Tester
15 23 (2.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.47%) REST
2 41 (4.08%) Kafka
3 35 (3.48%) RESTful
4 31 (3.08%) HTML
5 30 (2.99%) .NET
6 25 (2.49%) Spring
7 22 (2.19%) JSON
7 22 (2.19%) LDAP
8 20 (1.99%) SOAP
9 19 (1.89%) Node.js
9 19 (1.89%) Playwright
10 18 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (1.69%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.49%) OAuth
12 15 (1.49%) React
13 14 (1.39%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.29%) Middleware
14 13 (1.29%) SAML
14 13 (1.29%) XML
15 12 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 174 (17.31%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.89%) PMI
8 18 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.79%) Replication
9 17 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.19%) Tandem
12 11 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.09%) Equities
13 10 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.90%) NHS
14 9 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 8 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.86%) Linux
2 73 (7.26%) Windows
3 24 (2.39%) Unix
4 18 (1.79%) VMS
5 14 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (1.39%) Android
6 9 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.100%) AIX
9 1 (0.100%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.100%) MVS
9 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.100%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (62.19%) Agile
2 279 (27.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 257 (25.57%) DevOps
4 234 (23.28%) Scrum
5 186 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
6 169 (16.82%) CI/CD
7 165 (16.42%) Project Management
8 164 (16.32%) User Stories
9 148 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 134 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
11 131 (13.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (12.14%) Project Delivery
13 116 (11.54%) Change Management
14 105 (10.45%) Workshop Facilitation
15 104 (10.35%) Migration
16 102 (10.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 101 (10.05%) Roadmaps
18 99 (9.85%) Test Automation
19 95 (9.45%) Decision-Making
20 93 (9.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.42%) Python
2 119 (11.84%) SQL
3 63 (6.27%) Java
4 59 (5.87%) PowerShell
5 55 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 30 (2.99%) Bash
7 22 (2.19%) C#
7 22 (2.19%) Go
8 20 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.39%) Groovy
10 10 (1.00%) C++
11 9 (0.90%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.90%) Perl
12 6 (0.60%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.40%) C
14 3 (0.30%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.30%) PHP
14 3 (0.30%) R
15 2 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 290 (28.86%) Security Cleared
2 257 (25.57%) SC Cleared
3 195 (19.40%) Degree
4 51 (5.07%) PMI Certification
5 45 (4.48%) PMP
6 44 (4.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 38 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.78%) CISSP
8 31 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (2.79%) CISM
10 26 (2.59%) Master's Degree
11 23 (2.29%) CBAP
12 22 (2.19%) DV Cleared
13 16 (1.59%) IIBA
14 15 (1.49%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.39%) CSPO
16 11 (1.09%) Azure Certification
16 11 (1.09%) MBA
17 10 (1.00%) PhD
18 9 (0.90%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.06%) QA
2 35 (3.48%) GDPR
3 34 (3.38%) PMO
4 29 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.39%) NIST
7 13 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.09%) GRC
9 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.90%) PSD2
9 9 (0.90%) WCAG
10 8 (0.80%) Basel III
10 8 (0.80%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.60%) COBIT
12 5 (0.50%) NCSC
12 5 (0.50%) SEPA
12 5 (0.50%) SLA
13 4 (0.40%) P3O
14 3 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 87 (8.66%) Docker
2 22 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.39%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.00%) Firmware
5 10 (1.00%) Squid
5 10 (1.00%) vSphere
6 9 (0.90%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.90%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.100%) KVM
11 1 (0.100%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.100%) NFS
11 1 (0.100%) SRDF
11 1 (0.100%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.100%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 75 (7.46%) Terraform
3 60 (5.97%) Ansible
4 30 (2.99%) OPNET
5 26 (2.59%) Grafana
6 20 (1.99%) Prometheus
7 15 (1.49%) Packer
8 14 (1.39%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.19%) Consul
10 10 (1.00%) Puppet
10 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.00%) vRealize
11 9 (0.90%) Nessus
11 9 (0.90%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.70%) VxRail
13 5 (0.50%) Istio
13 5 (0.50%) SCCM
14 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 3 (0.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 120 (11.94%) Atlassian
2 104 (10.35%) Microsoft
3 74 (7.36%) ServiceNow
4 49 (4.88%) Oracle
5 41 (4.08%) Remedy
5 41 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.39%) IBM
7 23 (2.29%) VMware
8 22 (2.19%) BiZZdesign
9 21 (2.09%) Cisco
9 21 (2.09%) Commvault
9 21 (2.09%) HP
9 21 (2.09%) SAP
10 20 (1.99%) Google
11 18 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.69%) Dell
13 15 (1.49%) CyberArk
14 13 (1.29%) CheckPoint
14 13 (1.29%) Sonatype
15 12 (1.19%) Centrify