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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 98 131
Rank change year-on-year -11 +33 -23
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,197 851 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 2.62% 1.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.95% 23.92% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 582 523
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £685 £681 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 25
10th Percentile £32.88 £58.63 £25.27
25th Percentile £47.24 £63.13 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £72.18 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.98 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.14% - +16.67%

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 4,613 3,557 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.77% 10.96% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,322 3,099
10th Percentile £308 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 86 153
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.92 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.11 £16.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +44.98% -38.10%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.73 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £49.81 £33.56
% change year-on-year -29.73% +48.43% -26.25%

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 July 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 July 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 15 July 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 -4 1,034 £500 -2.44% 257
UK excluding London -13 647 £469 -1.26% 216
London -9 450 £525 -4.55% 91
Work from Home +5 405 £500 +9.89% 215
North of England -22 210 £450 +5.88% 45
Midlands +38 183 £459 -1.82% 34
West Midlands +22 152 £459 -3.37% 21
North West -13 105 £443 +8.05% 24
Yorkshire -28 98 £460 +8.24% 16
South East -38 90 £500 -1.09% 61
Scotland 0 76 £525 +16.67% 14
South West -14 65 £540 -6.09% 23
East Midlands +1 29 £407 +22.30% 13
East of England -19 25 £350 -23.29% 25
Wales -12 8 £650 +36.84% 4
North East -45 8 £480 -12.73% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 12

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 99 (8.27%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.75%) SAS
3 18 (1.50%) nginx
4 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.75%) CMS
6 7 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.50%) Apache
7 6 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) CICS
10 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.084%) Mule
12 1 (0.084%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (7.60%) MS Visio
2 78 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (5.10%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 44 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.42%) Notion
7 4 (0.33%) Trello
8 3 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.084%) CATIA
10 1 (0.084%) Sketch
10 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.33%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.25%) Primavera
7 3 (0.25%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Maximo
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 281 (23.48%) AWS
2 274 (22.89%) Azure
3 136 (11.36%) GitHub
4 128 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 84 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 58 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (4.76%) Serverless
9 56 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (4.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (4.09%) GCP
12 42 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 40 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (3.01%) Miro
15 31 (2.59%) SaaS
16 30 (2.51%) Entra ID
17 24 (2.01%) Figma
18 23 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
19 21 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.84%) Firewall
2 22 (1.84%) Network Security
3 21 (1.75%) DNS
4 18 (1.50%) WAN
5 15 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.17%) SSH
7 13 (1.09%) LAN
7 13 (1.09%) VPN
8 12 (1.00%) SSL
8 12 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.84%) OpenVPN
9 10 (0.84%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.75%) HTTP
11 7 (0.58%) PSTN
11 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.33%) BIG-IP
12 4 (0.33%) MPLS
12 4 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.25%) BGP
13 3 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.52%) Power BI
2 63 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (2.84%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (2.51%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.51%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (1.84%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.67%) Metadata
11 19 (1.59%) Tableau
12 15 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (1.17%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.09%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.00%) Pentaho
16 11 (0.92%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,081 (90.31%) JIRA
2 171 (14.29%) Git
3 132 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 108 (9.02%) GitLab
5 57 (4.76%) Selenium
6 47 (3.93%) Bitbucket
7 35 (2.92%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 31 (2.59%) JMeter
9 31 (2.59%) JUnit
10 29 (2.42%) Postman
11 21 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.67%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.67%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.59%) WebDriver
13 19 (1.59%) Zephyr
14 15 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 12 (1.00%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.75%) IntelliJ
16 9 (0.75%) ScriptRunner
General
1 477 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 337 (28.15%) Finance
3 211 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (16.21%) Public Sector
5 177 (14.79%) Banking
6 58 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.09%) Retail
8 35 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 24 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.01%) Legal
11 21 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.67%) Military
13 18 (1.50%) Retail Banking
14 17 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.17%) Marketing
16 12 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 11 (0.92%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
18 10 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 248 (20.72%) Analyst
2 196 (16.37%) Business Analyst
3 127 (10.61%) Senior
4 114 (9.52%) Developer
5 102 (8.52%) Lead
6 80 (6.68%) Architect
7 63 (5.26%) Scrum Master
8 52 (4.34%) Data Engineer
9 51 (4.26%) Project Manager
10 48 (4.01%) Consultant
11 42 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.84%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.51%) Tester
14 27 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (1.92%) AWS Engineer
18 22 (1.84%) Technical Analyst
18 22 (1.84%) Technical Business Analyst
19 21 (1.75%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.51%) REST
2 45 (3.76%) JSON
3 38 (3.17%) Spring
4 37 (3.09%) .NET
5 35 (2.92%) RESTful
6 31 (2.59%) React
7 29 (2.42%) HTML
8 27 (2.26%) AngularJS
9 25 (2.09%) XML
10 22 (1.84%) CSS
10 22 (1.84%) SOAP
11 21 (1.75%) ADO
11 21 (1.75%) PySpark
12 20 (1.67%) Spring Boot
13 19 (1.59%) Kafka
13 19 (1.59%) WireMock
14 17 (1.42%) .NET Core
15 16 (1.34%) Node.js
15 16 (1.34%) Playwright
15 16 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 189 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 74 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.18%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.34%) Virtual Team
5 27 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 23 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 18 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.00%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.00%) PMI
14 12 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.10%) Linux
2 57 (4.76%) Windows
3 36 (3.01%) Unix
4 13 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.75%) Android
7 5 (0.42%) AIX
7 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.33%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.25%) Solaris
9 3 (0.25%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.084%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.084%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.084%) SUSE
11 1 (0.084%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (63.83%) Agile
2 345 (28.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 333 (27.82%) DevOps
4 299 (24.98%) Scrum
5 298 (24.90%) CI/CD
6 236 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
7 228 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 197 (16.46%) Test Automation
9 182 (15.20%) User Stories
10 178 (14.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 156 (13.03%) Migration
12 130 (10.86%) Kanban
13 127 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 126 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
15 125 (10.44%) Sprint Planning
16 121 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
17 117 (9.77%) SDLC
18 115 (9.61%) AI
19 112 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
20 110 (9.19%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 216 (18.05%) SQL
2 179 (14.95%) Python
3 96 (8.02%) Java
4 57 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 46 (3.84%) Bash
6 44 (3.68%) PL/SQL
7 42 (3.51%) PowerShell
8 38 (3.17%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.09%) C#
10 12 (1.00%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.92%) Groovy
11 11 (0.92%) Perl
12 10 (0.84%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.75%) Bicep
14 8 (0.67%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.33%) R
16 4 (0.33%) VBA
17 3 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 413 (34.50%) Security Cleared
2 339 (28.32%) SC Cleared
3 139 (11.61%) Degree
4 58 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 55 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.43%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.84%) PMP
8 33 (2.76%) CISSP
9 27 (2.26%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.09%) CISM
11 23 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
14 15 (1.25%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (1.09%) CBAP
15 13 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.75%) IIBA
16 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (9.69%) QA
2 70 (5.85%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.93%) PMO
4 43 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 30 (2.51%) GDPR
6 25 (2.09%) NIST
7 20 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.67%) WCAG
8 15 (1.25%) NCSC
9 14 (1.17%) GRC
10 12 (1.00%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.67%) SLA
12 7 (0.58%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.58%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.50%) MiFID
14 5 (0.42%) HL7
14 5 (0.42%) SEPA
15 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 108 (9.02%) Docker
2 27 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.84%) Squid
4 7 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.25%) Ceph
6 3 (0.25%) HDFS
6 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.17%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.084%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.084%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 133 (11.11%) Terraform
2 105 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 74 (6.18%) Ansible
4 61 (5.10%) Grafana
5 36 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.09%) Consul
8 13 (1.09%) Puppet
9 12 (1.00%) Argo
10 9 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.75%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.42%) Control-M
13 5 (0.42%) Istio
13 5 (0.42%) Packer
14 4 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.33%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 137 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.35%) ServiceNow
3 92 (7.69%) Oracle
4 82 (6.85%) Atlassian
5 53 (4.43%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.34%) SAP
7 32 (2.67%) Talend
8 29 (2.42%) IBM
8 29 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 28 (2.34%) Denodo
10 26 (2.17%) Databricks
11 23 (1.92%) Informatica
12 22 (1.84%) Splunk
13 20 (1.67%) Google
14 17 (1.42%) MuleSoft
15 16 (1.34%) Dynatrace
16 15 (1.25%) BiZZdesign
17 11 (0.92%) Cisco
17 11 (0.92%) Sonatype
17 11 (0.92%) Zscaler