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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 98 110
Rank change year-on-year -31 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,149 859 802
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.11% 2.65% 2.10%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.59% 24.27% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 599 529
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £671 £688 £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% - +12.00%
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% - +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 4,672 3,539 4,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.59% 10.90% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,058 2,288 2,711
10th Percentile £281 £277 £268
25th Percentile £402 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +3.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £708 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £464
% change year-on-year +2.22% -2.96% -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 92 86
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.40 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.80 £24.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% -3.95% -29.63%
75th Percentile £62.34 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.22 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £38.03 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.54% -21.68% +5.15%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -33 992 £500 -2.44% 776
UK excluding London -29 607 £475 - 404
London -30 448 £537 -6.57% 453
Work from Home +3 371 £523 +1.95% 388
North of England -42 190 £474 +5.33% 98
Midlands +15 159 £469 -1.26% 46
West Midlands +10 134 £469 -1.26% 37
Yorkshire -15 104 £475 +3.15% 24
South East -35 90 £475 +1.06% 76
Scotland +10 80 £431 -6.76% 49
North West -38 79 £447 +5.18% 61
South West -27 63 £550 -4.35% 65
East of England -15 28 £461 +2.44% 39
East Midlands -1 24 £416 +26.06% 9
North East -46 10 £428 -17.79% 13
Wales -10 8 £650 +36.84% 5

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 67 (5.83%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.57%) SAS
3 13 (1.13%) Apache
4 12 (1.04%) nginx
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
6 9 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.78%) Camunda
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.26%) JBoss
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.087%) Appian
10 1 (0.087%) Mule
10 1 (0.087%) Traefik
10 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (7.66%) MS Visio
2 72 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) 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 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.087%) CATIA
11 1 (0.087%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.087%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.52%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.17%) Actimize
6 2 (0.17%) BASE24
6 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
6 2 (0.17%) Primavera
6 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
6 2 (0.17%) Summit
7 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.087%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 259 (22.54%) AWS
2 258 (22.45%) Azure
3 128 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (9.49%) GitHub
5 85 (7.40%) Power Platform
6 74 (6.44%) Amazon S3
7 59 (5.13%) Serverless
8 58 (5.05%) GCP
9 54 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (4.53%) Miro
11 49 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (2.79%) Figma
14 31 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (2.18%) SaaS
17 24 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
18 23 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (2.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.70%) DNS
1 31 (2.70%) Firewall
2 18 (1.57%) SSH
3 17 (1.48%) SSL
4 13 (1.13%) HTTP
4 13 (1.13%) WAN
5 12 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.96%) Network Security
7 9 (0.78%) DHCP
8 8 (0.70%) VPN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) IPv4
10 5 (0.44%) LAN
11 4 (0.35%) IPv6
11 4 (0.35%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.35%) MPLS
11 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.70%) Power BI
2 64 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 35 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 35 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 26 (2.26%) DynamoDB
6 26 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 23 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (1.91%) Metadata
9 20 (1.74%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.13%) Tableau
14 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 11 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1,049 (91.30%) JIRA
2 154 (13.40%) Git
3 107 (9.31%) Jenkins
4 102 (8.88%) GitLab
5 49 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 36 (3.13%) Selenium
7 31 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 28 (2.44%) JUnit
9 25 (2.18%) Zephyr
10 23 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 22 (1.91%) Postman
12 21 (1.83%) Maven
12 21 (1.83%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.74%) Artifactory
14 19 (1.65%) Cucumber
14 19 (1.65%) Mockito
15 18 (1.57%) Cypress.io
16 16 (1.39%) REST Assured
17 15 (1.31%) JMeter
18 11 (0.96%) MSI
General
1 467 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 327 (28.46%) Finance
3 221 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (17.58%) Public Sector
5 168 (14.62%) Banking
6 52 (4.53%) Retail
7 45 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.74%) Military
13 18 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.39%) Legal
15 15 (1.31%) Retail Banking
16 14 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.13%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.13%) Marketing
18 12 (1.04%) Investment Banking
19 7 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 234 (20.37%) Analyst
2 167 (14.53%) Business Analyst
3 125 (10.88%) Developer
4 123 (10.70%) Senior
5 102 (8.88%) Lead
6 68 (5.92%) Scrum Master
7 60 (5.22%) Architect
8 47 (4.09%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
10 44 (3.83%) Project Manager
11 42 (3.66%) Consultant
12 37 (3.22%) Product Manager
13 36 (3.13%) Product Owner
14 31 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
16 25 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.18%) Java Developer
17 23 (2.00%) Senior Developer
18 22 (1.91%) Technical Manager
19 20 (1.74%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (10.62%) Terraform
2 90 (7.83%) REST
3 42 (3.66%) .NET
3 42 (3.66%) HTML
4 39 (3.39%) RESTful
5 38 (3.31%) AngularJS
5 38 (3.31%) JSON
6 36 (3.13%) React
7 34 (2.96%) CSS
8 28 (2.44%) Spring Boot
9 27 (2.35%) Spring
10 25 (2.18%) .NET Core
11 24 (2.09%) Kafka
11 24 (2.09%) SOAP
12 23 (2.00%) Web Services
13 21 (1.83%) Hibernate
14 20 (1.74%) XML
15 19 (1.65%) .NET Framework
15 19 (1.65%) JPA
16 18 (1.57%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 219 (19.06%) Product Ownership
2 79 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 61 (5.31%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.79%) Data Centre
4 32 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.61%) Virtual Team
6 27 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.22%) PKI
11 13 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.04%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.96%) Clustering
14 10 (0.87%) Replication
15 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 66 (5.74%) Linux
2 57 (4.96%) Windows
3 33 (2.87%) Unix
4 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.70%) Android
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.17%) MVS
9 2 (0.17%) VMS
9 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.17%) zOS
10 1 (0.087%) Check Point GAiA
10 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.087%) Rocky
10 1 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (66.41%) Agile
2 383 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (29.50%) DevOps
4 315 (27.42%) Scrum
5 280 (24.37%) CI/CD
6 241 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
7 233 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 201 (17.49%) User Stories
9 193 (16.80%) Test Automation
10 181 (15.75%) Migration
11 165 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 159 (13.84%) Sprint Planning
13 138 (12.01%) SDLC
14 132 (11.49%) Acceptance Criteria
15 131 (11.40%) Business Analysis
16 128 (11.14%) AI
16 128 (11.14%) Kanban
17 122 (10.62%) Requirements Gathering
18 119 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
19 116 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 223 (19.41%) SQL
2 164 (14.27%) Python
3 90 (7.83%) Java
4 59 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 50 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.66%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.57%) C#
9 39 (3.39%) Bash
10 17 (1.48%) Groovy
11 16 (1.39%) Bicep
12 11 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 11 (0.96%) Perl
13 10 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.35%) Go
16 4 (0.35%) Korn
16 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 397 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 329 (28.63%) SC Cleared
3 101 (8.79%) Degree
4 69 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 66 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 25 (2.18%) PMP
8 23 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 18 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.39%) SAFe Agilist
12 14 (1.22%) IIBA
13 12 (1.04%) CISSP
14 11 (0.96%) CBAP
14 11 (0.96%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.70%) CISM
17 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
18 5 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (11.05%) QA
2 72 (6.27%) Data Quality
3 64 (5.57%) PMO
4 49 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.18%) WCAG
6 20 (1.74%) NCSC
7 14 (1.22%) GRC
8 12 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.96%) GDPR
10 10 (0.87%) NIST
11 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.61%) SLA
13 6 (0.52%) SEPA
14 4 (0.35%) MiFID
14 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.26%) EMIR
15 3 (0.26%) GxP
16 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 100 (8.70%) Docker
2 52 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.52%) Squid
5 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.35%) Ceph
7 4 (0.35%) vSphere
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 65 (5.66%) Ansible
3 54 (4.70%) Grafana
4 32 (2.79%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.31%) Argo
7 10 (0.87%) Control-M
8 8 (0.70%) Istio
9 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.61%) Packer
9 7 (0.61%) SCOM
9 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) Consul
12 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 4 (0.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 149 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.92%) ServiceNow
3 84 (7.31%) Oracle
4 68 (5.92%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.31%) Google
7 37 (3.22%) IBM
8 32 (2.79%) VMware
9 30 (2.61%) SAP
10 29 (2.52%) Splunk
11 28 (2.44%) Talend
12 25 (2.18%) Denodo
13 23 (2.00%) Informatica
14 16 (1.39%) Databricks
15 13 (1.13%) Cisco
16 12 (1.04%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.04%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.87%) Adobe
17 10 (0.87%) BMC
18 9 (0.78%) Remedy