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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 95 113
Rank change year-on-year -30 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,135 862 785
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.65% 2.07%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.60% 24.31% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 597 524
10th Percentile £375 £325 £352
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £671 £681 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 20
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.38 £25.30
25th Percentile £59.75 £62.73 £46.69
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £80.31 £76.88 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +14.29%

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 4,614 3,546 4,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.55% 10.90% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,033 2,296 2,752
10th Percentile £291 £278 £275
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -8.81% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £719 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 92 88
10th Percentile £16.20 £17.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £23.13
Median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% +24.20% -36.97%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.04 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £48.56
% change year-on-year -27.19% -8.08% +6.73%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -35 990 £500 -2.44% 408
UK excluding London -19 592 £475 - 234
London -38 452 £537 -6.57% 232
Work from Home +13 372 £523 +4.50% 195
North of England -45 189 £474 +8.97% 48
Midlands +13 150 £461 -3.00% 34
West Midlands +7 123 £466 -1.95% 29
Yorkshire -22 101 £474 +8.72% 16
South East -38 92 £488 +2.63% 51
North West -45 82 £472 +10.94% 26
South West -9 69 £545 -3.33% 45
Scotland -11 69 £431 -4.17% 22
East Midlands -5 26 £420 +27.20% 5
East of England -11 26 £400 -11.11% 20
North East -46 9 £480 -7.69% 6
Wales -15 8 £650 +36.84% 2

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 72 (6.34%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.59%) SAS
3 12 (1.06%) Apache
3 12 (1.06%) nginx
4 11 (0.97%) CMS
5 9 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.79%) Camunda
6 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.44%) JBoss
6 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.18%) CICS
8 2 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.088%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.088%) IIS
9 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.088%) Mule
9 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (7.58%) MS Visio
2 72 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (5.11%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.53%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
7 5 (0.44%) 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 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.088%) CATIA
10 1 (0.088%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.088%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.088%) Sketch
10 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) BASE24
7 2 (0.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.18%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.088%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.088%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.088%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.088%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 261 (23.00%) Azure
2 260 (22.91%) AWS
3 127 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
4 114 (10.04%) GitHub
5 82 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 78 (6.87%) Amazon S3
7 63 (5.55%) Serverless
8 58 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (4.93%) GCP
10 51 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (4.14%) Miro
13 46 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (2.73%) Figma
14 31 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (2.29%) SaaS
17 25 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
18 24 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.56%) Firewall
2 28 (2.47%) DNS
3 18 (1.59%) SSH
4 16 (1.41%) SSL
5 13 (1.15%) HTTP
6 12 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.97%) WAN
8 10 (0.88%) Network Security
9 8 (0.70%) VPN
10 7 (0.62%) DHCP
11 6 (0.53%) Broadband
11 6 (0.53%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.44%) LAN
13 4 (0.35%) Internet
13 4 (0.35%) IPv4
13 4 (0.35%) OpenVPN
13 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.26%) IPv6
14 3 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.52%) Power BI
2 61 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 26 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
8 25 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 23 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (1.76%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.76%) Metadata
11 16 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.15%) Tableau
14 12 (1.06%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1,029 (90.66%) JIRA
2 153 (13.48%) Git
3 107 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 105 (9.25%) GitLab
5 50 (4.41%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.44%) Selenium
7 32 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 28 (2.47%) JUnit
9 25 (2.20%) Zephyr
10 23 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (1.85%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.85%) Postman
12 20 (1.76%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.67%) SonarQube
14 18 (1.59%) Artifactory
14 18 (1.59%) Maven
15 17 (1.50%) JMeter
15 17 (1.50%) Mockito
16 16 (1.41%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.97%) MSI
General
1 462 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 334 (29.43%) Finance
3 214 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (17.00%) Public Sector
5 173 (15.24%) Banking
6 52 (4.58%) Retail
7 47 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.76%) Military
12 19 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.59%) Legal
14 17 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.32%) Retail Banking
16 13 (1.15%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.15%) Marketing
17 11 (0.97%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 232 (20.44%) Analyst
2 168 (14.80%) Business Analyst
3 128 (11.28%) Developer
4 115 (10.13%) Senior
5 104 (9.16%) Lead
6 63 (5.55%) Architect
7 62 (5.46%) Scrum Master
8 46 (4.05%) Consultant
9 45 (3.96%) Data Engineer
10 44 (3.88%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (3.26%) Product Owner
13 32 (2.82%) Product Manager
14 30 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
16 22 (1.94%) Java Developer
16 22 (1.94%) Senior Developer
17 21 (1.85%) Business Systems Analyst
18 20 (1.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (11.19%) Terraform
2 84 (7.40%) REST
3 42 (3.70%) .NET
3 42 (3.70%) HTML
4 39 (3.44%) React
5 38 (3.35%) JSON
6 35 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 35 (3.08%) RESTful
7 34 (3.00%) CSS
8 27 (2.38%) Spring
9 25 (2.20%) .NET Core
9 25 (2.20%) Spring Boot
10 24 (2.11%) Kafka
11 22 (1.94%) Web Services
12 21 (1.85%) SOAP
13 20 (1.76%) XML
14 19 (1.67%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.59%) Hibernate
16 17 (1.50%) ADO
16 17 (1.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 208 (18.33%) Product Ownership
2 77 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 58 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 25 (2.20%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 17 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 13 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.06%) PKI
14 11 (0.97%) Clustering
14 11 (0.97%) Credit Risk
15 9 (0.79%) Replication
16 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 65 (5.73%) Linux
2 56 (4.93%) Windows
3 33 (2.91%) Unix
4 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.70%) Android
6 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) MVS
9 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.18%) zOS
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.088%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (66.08%) Agile
2 372 (32.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (29.87%) DevOps
4 310 (27.31%) Scrum
5 274 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 229 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (17.44%) User Stories
9 191 (16.83%) Test Automation
10 173 (15.24%) Migration
11 165 (14.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 149 (13.13%) Sprint Planning
13 139 (12.25%) SDLC
14 133 (11.72%) Acceptance Criteria
15 129 (11.37%) Kanban
16 123 (10.84%) Business Analysis
17 122 (10.75%) Requirements Gathering
17 122 (10.75%) User Acceptance Testing
18 120 (10.57%) AI
19 119 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 217 (19.12%) SQL
2 160 (14.10%) Python
3 87 (7.67%) Java
4 62 (5.46%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.49%) TypeScript
6 48 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 41 (3.61%) C#
7 41 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 39 (3.44%) Bash
9 16 (1.41%) Bicep
9 16 (1.41%) Groovy
10 12 (1.06%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.88%) Perl
12 9 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.35%) Go
14 4 (0.35%) Korn
14 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 393 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 330 (29.07%) SC Cleared
3 106 (9.34%) Degree
4 67 (5.90%) DV Cleared
5 63 (5.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (2.64%) PMI Certification
7 24 (2.11%) PMP
8 23 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 18 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
12 14 (1.23%) CISSP
12 14 (1.23%) IIBA
13 12 (1.06%) CBAP
14 11 (0.97%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.70%) CISM
17 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 5 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (10.84%) QA
2 65 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 64 (5.64%) PMO
4 47 (4.14%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.20%) WCAG
6 20 (1.76%) NCSC
7 15 (1.32%) GRC
8 14 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (1.06%) GDPR
9 12 (1.06%) NIST
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.53%) SEPA
13 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.35%) HL7
14 4 (0.35%) MiFID
15 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) EMIR
15 3 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 100 (8.81%) Docker
2 51 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) Squid
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 64 (5.64%) Ansible
3 53 (4.67%) Grafana
4 32 (2.82%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.32%) Argo
7 9 (0.79%) Control-M
8 7 (0.62%) Istio
8 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.62%) Packer
8 7 (0.62%) SCOM
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
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
11 4 (0.35%) WSUS
12 3 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 146 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.02%) ServiceNow
3 81 (7.14%) Oracle
4 70 (6.17%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.44%) IBM
7 35 (3.08%) SAP
8 34 (3.00%) Google
9 29 (2.56%) VMware
10 28 (2.47%) Talend
11 26 (2.29%) Splunk
12 25 (2.20%) Denodo
13 22 (1.94%) Informatica
14 18 (1.59%) Databricks
15 13 (1.15%) MuleSoft
16 12 (1.06%) Cisco
17 11 (0.97%) Adobe
17 11 (0.97%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.88%) BMC
19 9 (0.79%) Veracode