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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 94 103
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,164 908 837
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.76% 2.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.98% 25.47% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 658 533
10th Percentile £381 £325 £330
25th Percentile £425 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £671 £683 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £513
% change year-on-year - -7.32% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 18
10th Percentile £23.26 £27.21 £44.38
25th Percentile £51.99 £39.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £79.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +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 4,659 3,565 4,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.54% 10.83% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,003 2,336 2,605
10th Percentile £286 £276 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £523
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.79% +4.60%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £680 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £459
% change year-on-year +4.22% -1.91% -3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 85 75
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.29 £18.00
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £33.88 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -8.43% -7.50%
75th Percentile £56.22 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.12 £72.50 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £32.77 £52.50
% change year-on-year -20.23% -37.58% +50.00%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -40 993 £500 -3.80% 477
UK excluding London -30 604 £475 - 263
London -44 451 £550 -1.57% 239
Work from Home +3 386 £520 +2.77% 223
North of England -44 190 £474 -1.76% 78
Midlands +7 152 £462 -0.11% 35
West Midlands +12 132 £469 -1.26% 24
Yorkshire -16 110 £475 -6.27% 40
South East -47 84 £459 -5.85% 62
Scotland +18 82 £425 -9.33% 21
North West -44 72 £474 +9.28% 31
South West -7 71 £537 -10.50% 34
East of England -9 28 £544 +8.75% 14
East Midlands -9 20 £416 +26.06% 11
North East -46 11 £375 -27.88% 7
Wales -15 6 £625 +31.58% 7

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 63 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.63%) SAS
3 16 (1.37%) Apache
4 14 (1.20%) CMS
5 12 (1.03%) nginx
6 10 (0.86%) Camunda
7 9 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.60%) CICS
9 6 (0.52%) Traefik
10 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.34%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.34%) JBoss
12 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.26%) IIS
12 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.17%) Drupal
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 90 (7.73%) MS Visio
2 81 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 5 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.34%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Gliffy
9 3 (0.26%) Productboard
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.086%) CATIA
11 1 (0.086%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.086%) Sketch
11 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.086%) Actimize
8 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.086%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.086%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 266 (22.85%) Azure
2 265 (22.77%) AWS
3 138 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (9.19%) GitHub
5 92 (7.90%) Power Platform
6 78 (6.70%) Amazon S3
7 59 (5.07%) GCP
8 55 (4.73%) Serverless
9 53 (4.55%) Miro
10 50 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
14 33 (2.84%) Figma
15 29 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (1.89%) SaaS
19 20 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
19 20 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.92%) DNS
1 34 (2.92%) Firewall
2 16 (1.37%) SSH
3 13 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.03%) Network Security
4 12 (1.03%) SSL
5 11 (0.95%) HTTP
5 11 (0.95%) WAN
6 10 (0.86%) DHCP
6 10 (0.86%) VPN
7 9 (0.77%) IPv4
8 8 (0.69%) IPv6
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) VLAN
10 5 (0.43%) BGP
10 5 (0.43%) Internet
10 5 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 5 (0.43%) OSPF
11 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (7.30%) Power BI
2 68 (5.84%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 35 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 24 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.06%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.72%) Metadata
11 16 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.29%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.20%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.20%) MySQL
13 14 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.12%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,063 (91.32%) JIRA
2 153 (13.14%) Git
3 107 (9.19%) GitLab
4 102 (8.76%) Jenkins
5 55 (4.73%) Bitbucket
6 33 (2.84%) Selenium
7 30 (2.58%) JUnit
8 29 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (2.41%) Zephyr
10 26 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (2.15%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.98%) Maven
13 21 (1.80%) Mockito
14 20 (1.72%) Postman
14 20 (1.72%) SonarQube
15 18 (1.55%) Artifactory
15 18 (1.55%) REST Assured
16 16 (1.37%) JMeter
17 15 (1.29%) Cypress.io
18 11 (0.95%) MSI
General
1 472 (40.55%) Social Skills
2 327 (28.09%) Finance
3 240 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (17.96%) Public Sector
5 165 (14.18%) Banking
6 53 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.38%) Retail
8 47 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 17 (1.46%) Military
14 16 (1.37%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.29%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.29%) Legal
15 15 (1.29%) Marketing
16 9 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 247 (21.22%) Analyst
2 172 (14.78%) Business Analyst
3 126 (10.82%) Developer
4 112 (9.62%) Senior
5 109 (9.36%) Lead
6 60 (5.15%) Architect
7 54 (4.64%) Scrum Master
8 47 (4.04%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.87%) Consultant
10 43 (3.69%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
11 41 (3.52%) Product Manager
12 36 (3.09%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.32%) Java Developer
14 27 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.15%) Technical Manager
16 24 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
17 22 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
17 22 (1.89%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (9.97%) Terraform
2 99 (8.51%) REST
3 46 (3.95%) HTML
4 44 (3.78%) .NET
5 41 (3.52%) RESTful
6 40 (3.44%) JSON
7 37 (3.18%) React
8 35 (3.01%) SOAP
9 32 (2.75%) AngularJS
10 31 (2.66%) Web Services
11 30 (2.58%) CSS
12 29 (2.49%) Spring Boot
13 28 (2.41%) Kafka
14 27 (2.32%) .NET Core
14 27 (2.32%) Spring
15 22 (1.89%) Hibernate
16 21 (1.80%) XML
17 20 (1.72%) .NET Framework
17 20 (1.72%) JPA
18 18 (1.55%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 223 (19.16%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 35 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (2.75%) Virtual Team
6 29 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.46%) Credit Risk
12 15 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.29%) PKI
13 14 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 12 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.95%) Market Risk
15 11 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.67%) Linux
2 62 (5.33%) Windows
3 35 (3.01%) Unix
4 14 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Android
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.60%) zOS
8 4 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) macOS
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.086%) CentOS
11 1 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (65.38%) Agile
2 419 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (29.12%) DevOps
4 311 (26.72%) Scrum
5 285 (24.48%) CI/CD
6 253 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 240 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 222 (19.07%) User Stories
9 207 (17.78%) Migration
10 200 (17.18%) Test Automation
11 166 (14.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 160 (13.75%) Acceptance Criteria
13 153 (13.14%) Business Analysis
14 152 (13.06%) Sprint Planning
15 143 (12.29%) SDLC
16 136 (11.68%) User Acceptance Testing
17 134 (11.51%) AI
18 133 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
19 126 (10.82%) Roadmaps
20 121 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 245 (21.05%) SQL
2 159 (13.66%) Python
3 95 (8.16%) Java
4 57 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 56 (4.81%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.04%) Bash
6 47 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.69%) C#
8 41 (3.52%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.55%) Bicep
10 16 (1.37%) Groovy
10 16 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.03%) Perl
12 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.60%) Go
14 6 (0.52%) JCL
15 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.34%) R
16 4 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 396 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 327 (28.09%) SC Cleared
3 122 (10.48%) Degree
4 72 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 71 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.18%) PMI Certification
7 32 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.66%) PMP
9 25 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (1.29%) IIBA
13 14 (1.20%) CBAP
13 14 (1.20%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.95%) CISSP
14 11 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.69%) CSPO
17 7 (0.60%) CISM
18 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (11.86%) QA
2 83 (7.13%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.98%) PMO
4 52 (4.47%) Accessibility
5 29 (2.49%) WCAG
6 21 (1.80%) NCSC
7 13 (1.12%) GDPR
8 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.77%) NIST
10 8 (0.69%) SLA
11 7 (0.60%) GRC
11 7 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.60%) SEPA
12 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.26%) GxP
13 3 (0.26%) MiFID
13 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (8.85%) Docker
2 51 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.69%) vSphere
6 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.34%) Squid
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (6.53%) Kubernetes
2 66 (5.67%) Ansible
3 58 (4.98%) Grafana
4 33 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.46%) Control-M
6 16 (1.37%) Argo
7 14 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.86%) Istio
9 8 (0.69%) Packer
10 7 (0.60%) SCOM
10 7 (0.60%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
13 4 (0.34%) WSUS
14 3 (0.26%) Consul
14 3 (0.26%) SELinux
15 2 (0.17%) Kibana
15 2 (0.17%) Nessus
15 2 (0.17%) OPNET
Vendors
1 161 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.82%) Oracle
3 85 (7.30%) ServiceNow
4 67 (5.76%) Atlassian
5 42 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.52%) IBM
7 38 (3.26%) Google
8 35 (3.01%) VMware
9 31 (2.66%) Splunk
10 27 (2.32%) Talend
11 25 (2.15%) Denodo
11 25 (2.15%) SAP
12 23 (1.98%) Informatica
13 17 (1.46%) Databricks
14 15 (1.29%) Remedy
15 14 (1.20%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.03%) Adobe
16 12 (1.03%) Cisco
16 12 (1.03%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.86%) BMC