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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 105 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 -39
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,124 745 751
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.44% 2.54% 1.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.39% 22.11% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 487 487
10th Percentile £340 £324 £363
25th Percentile £405 £402 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -11.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £630
90th Percentile £723 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £477 £538
% change year-on-year -1.47% -11.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 18
10th Percentile £29.20 £51.93 £24.10
25th Percentile £45.01 £59.50 £37.56
Median hourly rate £63.07 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +6.12% +14.49%
75th Percentile £74.13 £75.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.28 £78.00 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.89% +23.83%

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 4,259 3,369 4,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.26% 11.48% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,925 2,247 2,896
10th Percentile £309 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -3.08%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 82 165
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.78 £13.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.83 £15.42
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +49.12% +3.64%
75th Percentile £73.88 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £68.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.61 £52.50 £23.88
% change year-on-year -3.60% +119.90% +7.74%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +11 1,003 £500 - 159
UK excluding London 0 601 £470 -1.47% 123
London +6 428 £523 +4.50% 60
Work from Home +10 310 £475 +5.56% 85
North of England -4 200 £447 +5.92% 25
Midlands +7 172 £450 -3.95% 21
West Midlands +14 130 £450 -5.66% 14
North West +20 108 £438 +8.83% 12
South West +12 98 £725 +28.89% 9
Yorkshire -29 86 £468 +3.31% 9
South East -57 70 £500 +1.52% 38
Scotland -4 45 £525 +15.07% 13
East Midlands -12 39 £413 -1.49% 7
East of England -29 19 £350 -17.60% 13
North East -15 6 £365 -28.78% 4
Wales -12 5 £606 +27.63% 4
Northern Ireland +3 2 £458 -

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 98 (8.72%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.94%) nginx
3 16 (1.42%) SAS
4 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.71%) CMS
6 5 (0.44%) Apache
6 5 (0.44%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) Mendix
Applications
1 104 (9.25%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (8.36%) MS Visio
3 92 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 80 (7.12%) Microsoft Office
5 68 (6.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.80%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.089%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.089%) InDesign
8 1 (0.089%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.53%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.27%) Actimize
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.089%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 213 (18.95%) AWS
2 208 (18.51%) Azure
3 125 (11.12%) GitHub
4 93 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.47%) GCP
6 39 (3.47%) SaaS
7 35 (3.11%) Miro
8 33 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 32 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (2.85%) Serverless
10 29 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (2.40%) Entra ID
12 25 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (1.96%) OpenShift
16 18 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.49%) Firewall
2 19 (1.69%) VPN
3 18 (1.60%) Network Security
3 18 (1.60%) SSL
3 18 (1.60%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.60%) WAN
4 15 (1.33%) LAN
5 13 (1.16%) DNS
5 13 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.89%) Ethernet
6 10 (0.89%) Unified Communications
7 8 (0.71%) VSAN
8 7 (0.62%) Modbus
8 7 (0.62%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.62%) PSTN
8 7 (0.62%) RS-232
8 7 (0.62%) RS-485
8 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) FTP
9 5 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.78%) Power BI
2 54 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (3.38%) Tableau
4 36 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.31%) Metadata
7 25 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.78%) SQL Server
9 17 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.42%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.25%) Big Data
12 13 (1.16%) DocumentDB
13 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.80%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.71%) Relational Database
17 7 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,036 (92.17%) JIRA
2 142 (12.63%) Git
3 120 (10.68%) Jenkins
4 61 (5.43%) GitLab
5 55 (4.89%) Selenium
6 47 (4.18%) Bitbucket
7 34 (3.02%) Postman
8 33 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (2.58%) JUnit
10 27 (2.40%) Cucumber
11 24 (2.14%) JMeter
12 23 (2.05%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.42%) WebDriver
13 16 (1.42%) Zephyr
14 14 (1.25%) Cypress.io
15 13 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (1.16%) ScriptRunner
16 10 (0.89%) Maven
16 10 (0.89%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 467 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 327 (29.09%) Finance
3 219 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (17.17%) Banking
5 164 (14.59%) Public Sector
6 54 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.54%) Military
8 36 (3.20%) Retail
9 32 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.22%) Retail Banking
11 24 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.05%) Legal
13 16 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.42%) Marketing
14 15 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
14 15 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.98%) Front Office
16 10 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 260 (23.13%) Analyst
2 217 (19.31%) Business Analyst
3 108 (9.61%) Architect
4 102 (9.07%) Senior
5 94 (8.36%) Developer
6 89 (7.92%) Project Manager
7 75 (6.67%) Lead
8 44 (3.91%) Scrum Master
9 41 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
10 36 (3.20%) Tester
11 34 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (2.94%) Consultant
13 32 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (2.67%) Service Architect
15 27 (2.40%) Banking Analyst
15 27 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
15 27 (2.40%) Technical Business Analyst
16 26 (2.31%) Banking Business Analyst
17 25 (2.22%) Test Analyst
18 24 (2.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.14%) REST
2 47 (4.18%) Spring
3 34 (3.02%) RESTful
4 26 (2.31%) Kafka
4 26 (2.31%) Spring Boot
5 25 (2.22%) HTML
6 24 (2.14%) ADO
6 24 (2.14%) React
7 22 (1.96%) JSON
8 21 (1.87%) Node.js
9 18 (1.60%) .NET
9 18 (1.60%) Playwright
9 18 (1.60%) WireMock
10 17 (1.51%) SOAP
11 16 (1.42%) OAuth
12 14 (1.25%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.25%) OpenID
12 14 (1.25%) Swagger
12 14 (1.25%) XML
13 13 (1.16%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 186 (16.55%) Product Ownership
2 56 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.65%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 21 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.60%) PMI
8 17 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.80%) Equities
13 9 (0.80%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.72%) Linux
2 48 (4.27%) Windows
3 14 (1.25%) Android
3 14 (1.25%) Unix
4 11 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.18%) AIX
8 2 (0.18%) Solaris
9 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (64.23%) Agile
2 312 (27.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 295 (26.25%) DevOps
4 270 (24.02%) Scrum
5 227 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
6 226 (20.11%) CI/CD
7 185 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 181 (16.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 175 (15.57%) User Stories
10 159 (14.15%) Project Management
11 149 (13.26%) Acceptance Criteria
12 138 (12.28%) Test Automation
13 130 (11.57%) Migration
14 121 (10.77%) Kanban
15 120 (10.68%) Change Management
15 120 (10.68%) Roadmaps
16 117 (10.41%) Workshop Facilitation
17 111 (9.88%) Project Delivery
18 109 (9.70%) Decision-Making
19 103 (9.16%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 158 (14.06%) Python
2 140 (12.46%) SQL
3 86 (7.65%) Java
4 64 (5.69%) JavaScript
5 56 (4.98%) PowerShell
6 36 (3.20%) Bash
7 29 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.60%) C#
9 13 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.89%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.89%) C++
11 9 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.62%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.53%) Perl
15 4 (0.36%) C
15 4 (0.36%) Groovy
15 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 405 (36.03%) Security Cleared
2 344 (30.60%) SC Cleared
3 177 (15.75%) Degree
4 53 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.45%) PMI Certification
6 48 (4.27%) PMP
7 44 (3.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 34 (3.02%) CISSP
9 29 (2.58%) DV Cleared
10 26 (2.31%) CISM
11 25 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (2.05%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.69%) CBAP
13 19 (1.69%) IIBA
14 17 (1.51%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
16 12 (1.07%) MBA
17 9 (0.80%) Azure Certification
18 7 (0.62%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.36%) QA
2 44 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 44 (3.91%) PMO
3 41 (3.65%) GDPR
4 27 (2.40%) NIST
5 24 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.60%) GRC
8 12 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.80%) Basel III
10 8 (0.71%) SLA
11 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.53%) MiFID
11 6 (0.53%) PSD2
12 5 (0.44%) HL7
12 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.36%) P3O
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (8.81%) Docker
2 16 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.89%) Squid
5 7 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.62%) Firmware
5 7 (0.62%) vSphere
6 3 (0.27%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 87 (7.74%) Terraform
3 58 (5.16%) Ansible
4 37 (3.29%) Grafana
5 30 (2.67%) OPNET
6 27 (2.40%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.96%) Consul
8 21 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.42%) Packer
9 16 (1.42%) Puppet
10 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.80%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.71%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.62%) vRealize
13 7 (0.62%) VxRail
14 6 (0.53%) Istio
15 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
16 4 (0.36%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (12.72%) Atlassian
2 107 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 98 (8.72%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 43 (3.83%) Oracle
6 34 (3.02%) Remedy
7 33 (2.94%) SAP
8 27 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 22 (1.96%) Splunk
10 21 (1.87%) Databricks
11 19 (1.69%) BiZZdesign
12 18 (1.60%) IBM
13 16 (1.42%) Cisco
13 16 (1.42%) Google
14 15 (1.33%) Commvault
14 15 (1.33%) Talend
15 14 (1.25%) MuleSoft
16 13 (1.16%) Sonatype
16 13 (1.16%) VMware
17 11 (0.98%) HP