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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 102 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,014 844 1,078
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.81% 2.31% 2.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.35% 20.82% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 527 703
10th Percentile £325 £314 £375
25th Percentile £415 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £765 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £560
% change year-on-year -0.25% -10.49% +6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 29
10th Percentile £27.21 £53.24 £48.92
25th Percentile £39.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £67.26 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +7.62% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £67.26 £64.88
% change year-on-year -6.13% +3.66% +23.59%

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 3,848 4,053 4,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.66% 11.07% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 2,483 3,097
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £395 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £717 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £470
% change year-on-year +4.40% -3.19% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 94 140
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.02 £14.58
25th Percentile £20.40 £21.44 £17.74
Median hourly rate £34.99 £35.00 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% +32.63% +32.95%
75th Percentile £68.90 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year -17.65% +78.95% +34.87%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +22 911 £525 - 176
UK excluding London +4 488 £500 -0.25% 161
London +15 452 £550 - 60
Work from Home -11 252 £513 +1.14% 73
North of England -14 177 £500 -0.99% 28
Yorkshire -20 101 £513 -0.49% 9
Midlands +30 92 £450 -5.66% 20
South West +20 87 £633 -1.56% 24
West Midlands +15 71 £475 -5.00% 10
South East -11 68 £525 +15.38% 71
North West -3 66 £465 -9.22% 17
Scotland +6 45 £500 - 7
East Midlands -2 21 £348 -14.03% 9
East of England -32 16 £425 - 11
North East -4 10 £510 +13.33% 2
Wales +1 5 £469 -10.71% 3
Northern Ireland -3 2 £320 -

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 69 (6.80%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.34%) nginx
3 17 (1.68%) Apache
3 17 (1.68%) CMS
4 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.30%) CICS
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Traefik
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) Camunda
6 2 (0.20%) FileNet
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.099%) Appian
7 1 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.099%) JBoss
7 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.099%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 93 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (8.68%) Microsoft Project
3 87 (8.58%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (8.09%) MS Visio
5 57 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.97%) Trello
7 12 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
8 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.099%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.099%) Notion
9 1 (0.099%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.099%) Sketch
9 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.099%) Endur
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.099%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 189 (18.64%) AWS
2 148 (14.60%) Azure
3 99 (9.76%) GitHub
4 62 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (4.34%) GCP
6 42 (4.14%) Amazon S3
6 42 (4.14%) Power Platform
7 41 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
8 37 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (3.06%) Miro
11 30 (2.96%) Slack
12 29 (2.86%) Serverless
13 26 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (2.37%) SaaS
15 23 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
15 23 (2.27%) AWS KMS
16 22 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.73%) Firewall
2 40 (3.94%) SSH
3 39 (3.85%) DNS
4 27 (2.66%) SMTP
5 24 (2.37%) FTP
6 23 (2.27%) HTTP
7 21 (2.07%) SSL
8 19 (1.87%) VPN
9 17 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (1.18%) IMAP
11 8 (0.79%) VSAN
11 8 (0.79%) WAN
12 7 (0.69%) BGP
12 7 (0.69%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.49%) DHCP
13 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.49%) Network Security
13 5 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (3.85%) Power BI
3 31 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (3.06%) Tableau
4 28 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 26 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 19 (1.87%) Metadata
7 16 (1.58%) Hadoop
8 14 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (1.38%) Big Data
8 14 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.08%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.89%) MySQL
11 8 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.59%) Couchbase
12 6 (0.59%) Redis
13 5 (0.49%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.49%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 916 (90.34%) JIRA
2 129 (12.72%) Jenkins
3 119 (11.74%) Git
4 63 (6.21%) GitLab
5 61 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 31 (3.06%) Selenium
7 26 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.47%) Vagrant
9 22 (2.17%) SonarQube
9 22 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.68%) Postman
11 15 (1.48%) JUnit
12 12 (1.18%) Maven
13 10 (0.99%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.79%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.69%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
17 6 (0.59%) Android Studio
17 6 (0.59%) Mockito
General
1 460 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 274 (27.02%) Finance
3 177 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.21%) Banking
5 132 (13.02%) Public Sector
6 46 (4.54%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.35%) Military
8 32 (3.16%) Retail
9 29 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.47%) Legal
12 21 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.87%) Front Office
15 17 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (1.58%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.28%) Automotive
18 11 (1.08%) Marketing
18 11 (1.08%) Publishing
19 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 209 (20.61%) Analyst
2 166 (16.37%) Business Analyst
3 99 (9.76%) Project Manager
4 93 (9.17%) Architect
5 88 (8.68%) Senior
6 78 (7.69%) Developer
7 77 (7.59%) Lead
8 45 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
9 34 (3.35%) Scrum Master
10 33 (3.25%) Product Owner
11 29 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
12 28 (2.76%) Administrator
12 28 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (2.76%) Technical Analyst
13 27 (2.66%) Consultant
13 27 (2.66%) Platform Engineer
13 27 (2.66%) Technical Business Analyst
14 25 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (7.40%) REST
2 43 (4.24%) HTML
3 40 (3.94%) LDAP
4 39 (3.85%) .NET
5 38 (3.75%) Kafka
6 37 (3.65%) AngularJS
7 34 (3.35%) React
8 31 (3.06%) JSON
9 30 (2.96%) RESTful
10 29 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
10 29 (2.86%) SOAP
11 25 (2.47%) Web Services
12 24 (2.37%) SAML
13 23 (2.27%) CSS
14 21 (2.07%) Spring Boot
15 20 (1.97%) Spring
16 18 (1.78%) Node.js
17 17 (1.68%) HTML5
18 16 (1.58%) jQuery
18 16 (1.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 151 (14.89%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.56%) Replication
6 25 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.48%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.38%) PKI
11 14 (1.38%) Tandem
12 13 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.28%) PMI
13 12 (1.18%) Derivative
13 12 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.18%) NHS
14 11 (1.08%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 98 (9.66%) Linux
2 82 (8.09%) Windows
3 32 (3.16%) Unix
4 28 (2.76%) VMS
5 23 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.08%) Android
8 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Debian
11 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) zOS
12 1 (0.099%) AIX
12 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.099%) MVS
12 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (64.99%) Agile
2 261 (25.74%) DevOps
3 238 (23.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 233 (22.98%) Scrum
5 193 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (15.88%) CI/CD
7 156 (15.38%) Project Management
8 146 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 134 (13.21%) Change Management
10 131 (12.92%) User Stories
11 130 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (11.05%) Roadmaps
13 110 (10.85%) Migration
14 101 (9.96%) Project Delivery
15 95 (9.37%) ITIL
15 95 (9.37%) Microservices
16 94 (9.27%) Acceptance Criteria
17 91 (8.97%) Decision-Making
18 90 (8.88%) Test Automation
19 88 (8.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 178 (17.55%) Python
2 120 (11.83%) SQL
3 89 (8.78%) Java
4 69 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 64 (6.31%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.16%) Bash
7 25 (2.47%) Go
7 25 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.37%) Groovy
9 23 (2.27%) C#
10 18 (1.78%) Perl
11 9 (0.89%) C++
12 7 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.49%) PHP
15 4 (0.39%) C
15 4 (0.39%) R
16 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 274 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 253 (24.95%) SC Cleared
3 179 (17.65%) Degree
4 45 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 42 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.55%) CISSP
6 36 (3.55%) PMP
7 32 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 30 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.47%) CISM
9 25 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.48%) CBAP
10 15 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.38%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.18%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.08%) CSPO
14 9 (0.89%) PhD
15 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.69%) CCNP
16 7 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (8.28%) QA
2 33 (3.25%) GDPR
3 25 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.47%) PMO
4 19 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.38%) NIST
7 9 (0.89%) COBIT
7 9 (0.89%) WCAG
8 7 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.59%) GRC
9 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.59%) NCSC
9 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.59%) PSD2
9 6 (0.59%) SEPA
10 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.30%) MiFID
11 3 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (9.57%) Docker
2 30 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.07%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.18%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.18%) Postfix
5 12 (1.18%) Squid
5 12 (1.18%) vSphere
6 7 (0.69%) Firmware
7 6 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.099%) etcd
11 1 (0.099%) KVM
11 1 (0.099%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 93 (9.17%) Terraform
2 91 (8.97%) Kubernetes
3 62 (6.11%) Ansible
4 35 (3.45%) Grafana
5 29 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (2.27%) Packer
8 22 (2.17%) OPNET
9 21 (2.07%) Consul
10 14 (1.38%) NetBackup
10 14 (1.38%) Puppet
11 12 (1.18%) Nessus
12 10 (0.99%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.89%) Istio
13 9 (0.89%) vRealize
14 6 (0.59%) Argo
14 6 (0.59%) SCCM
14 6 (0.59%) VxRail
15 5 (0.49%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.49%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 110 (10.85%) Atlassian
2 107 (10.55%) Microsoft
3 98 (9.66%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.93%) Oracle
5 42 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 41 (4.04%) Remedy
7 31 (3.06%) HP
7 31 (3.06%) VMware
8 27 (2.66%) IBM
9 22 (2.17%) Google
9 22 (2.17%) SAP
10 21 (2.07%) Cisco
11 20 (1.97%) Commvault
12 19 (1.87%) BiZZdesign
13 18 (1.78%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.78%) Red Hat
14 16 (1.58%) BMC
14 16 (1.58%) Dell
15 13 (1.28%) Foundry
15 13 (1.28%) Ivanti