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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 95 117
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,171 867 769
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.19% 2.63% 1.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.13% 24.23% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 609 531
10th Percentile £365 £316 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £608 £638
90th Percentile £670 £680 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 23
10th Percentile £44.64 £53.38 £25.26
25th Percentile £57.84 £63.13 £38.38
Median hourly rate £63.25 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £69.04 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.83 £80.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.29% - +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 4,659 3,578 4,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 10.85% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,078 2,345 2,831
10th Percentile £305 £281 £275
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% +0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 90 109
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £15.34
25th Percentile £18.63 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.79% +34.75% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £36.75
% change year-on-year -30.33% +26.94% +33.64%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -12 1,032 £500 -2.44% 456
UK excluding London -15 626 £475 - 247
London -27 456 £535 -4.25% 253
Work from Home +13 396 £511 +10.54% 228
North of England -32 194 £474 +9.28% 71
Midlands +28 183 £459 -3.37% 32
West Midlands +22 157 £463 -2.63% 25
Yorkshire -22 99 £463 +3.47% 23
South East -26 95 £500 - 47
North West -27 90 £473 +11.95% 34
South West -13 68 £537 -6.61% 38
Scotland +3 65 £525 +2.44% 24
East Midlands +4 25 £413 +25.00% 6
East of England -14 24 £350 -23.29% 14
Wales -11 8 £650 +36.84% 5
North East -50 8 £480 -8.57% 14

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 85 (7.26%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.79%) SAS
3 12 (1.02%) nginx
4 11 (0.94%) CMS
5 10 (0.85%) Apache
6 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.43%) JBoss
7 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.26%) Camunda
9 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.085%) Mendix
11 1 (0.085%) Mule
11 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 64 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
5 31 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.60%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) CATIA
10 1 (0.085%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Primavera
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%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
9 1 (0.085%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.085%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.085%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 281 (24.00%) Azure
2 276 (23.57%) AWS
3 129 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
4 124 (10.59%) GitHub
5 84 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 78 (6.66%) Amazon S3
7 64 (5.47%) GCP
8 55 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.53%) Serverless
10 50 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (3.25%) Miro
15 32 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (2.48%) SaaS
17 27 (2.31%) Figma
18 26 (2.22%) Entra ID
19 23 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
20 22 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.39%) Firewall
2 24 (2.05%) DNS
3 16 (1.37%) SSH
4 15 (1.28%) SSL
5 13 (1.11%) Network Security
6 12 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.94%) VPN
8 10 (0.85%) HTTP
9 9 (0.77%) WAN
10 5 (0.43%) Broadband
10 5 (0.43%) DHCP
10 5 (0.43%) OpenVPN
10 5 (0.43%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.34%) LAN
12 3 (0.26%) Internet
12 3 (0.26%) IPv4
12 3 (0.26%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.26%) MPLS
12 3 (0.26%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.49%) Power BI
2 62 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 27 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (2.31%) MongoDB
6 25 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 23 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (1.79%) Data Lake
9 20 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.54%) Metadata
10 18 (1.54%) Tableau
11 17 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
14 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.11%) NoSQL
16 12 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,052 (89.84%) JIRA
2 167 (14.26%) Git
3 117 (9.99%) Jenkins
4 97 (8.28%) GitLab
5 56 (4.78%) Bitbucket
6 51 (4.36%) Selenium
7 33 (2.82%) Cucumber
8 30 (2.56%) JMeter
8 30 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 28 (2.39%) JUnit
10 25 (2.13%) Zephyr
11 24 (2.05%) Postman
12 20 (1.71%) Artifactory
13 19 (1.62%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.54%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.94%) MSI
16 10 (0.85%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.77%) IntelliJ
18 8 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
General
1 484 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 325 (27.75%) Finance
3 215 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (17.08%) Public Sector
5 163 (13.92%) Banking
6 49 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
7 44 (3.76%) Retail
8 28 (2.39%) Manufacturing
9 25 (2.13%) Legal
10 23 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.71%) Military
13 17 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.11%) Marketing
16 13 (1.11%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 233 (19.90%) Analyst
2 174 (14.86%) Business Analyst
3 126 (10.76%) Senior
4 111 (9.48%) Developer
4 111 (9.48%) Lead
5 67 (5.72%) Architect
6 59 (5.04%) Scrum Master
7 50 (4.27%) Consultant
8 49 (4.18%) Data Engineer
9 47 (4.01%) Delivery Manager
10 45 (3.84%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.50%) Product Owner
12 27 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
13 26 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (2.22%) Product Manager
13 26 (2.22%) Tester
14 23 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (1.88%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (1.88%) Business Systems Analyst
16 21 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.32%) REST
2 44 (3.76%) .NET
3 40 (3.42%) JSON
4 33 (2.82%) Spring
5 29 (2.48%) HTML
5 29 (2.48%) React
6 28 (2.39%) AngularJS
6 28 (2.39%) RESTful
7 25 (2.13%) .NET Core
8 23 (1.96%) CSS
8 23 (1.96%) XML
9 20 (1.71%) .NET Framework
9 20 (1.71%) PySpark
10 19 (1.62%) ADO
10 19 (1.62%) WireMock
11 18 (1.54%) Kafka
12 17 (1.45%) SOAP
13 16 (1.37%) Spring Boot
14 15 (1.28%) SailPoint
14 15 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 192 (16.40%) Product Ownership
2 74 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.87%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 20 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 18 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 13 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.02%) Clustering
13 12 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 81 (6.92%) Linux
2 60 (5.12%) Windows
3 34 (2.90%) Unix
4 13 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 12 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.60%) Android
6 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.43%) AIX
8 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.085%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE
11 1 (0.085%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (64.99%) Agile
2 359 (30.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 337 (28.78%) DevOps
4 301 (25.70%) Scrum
5 287 (24.51%) CI/CD
6 233 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 227 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
8 193 (16.48%) Test Automation
9 176 (15.03%) User Stories
10 172 (14.69%) Migration
10 172 (14.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 127 (10.85%) Kanban
11 127 (10.85%) Sprint Planning
12 125 (10.67%) Acceptance Criteria
13 118 (10.08%) Roadmaps
14 117 (9.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 117 (9.99%) SDLC
15 116 (9.91%) Business Analysis
15 116 (9.91%) Project Delivery
16 115 (9.82%) AI
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.70%) SQL
2 177 (15.12%) Python
3 89 (7.60%) Java
4 52 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.27%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.01%) Bash
7 45 (3.84%) C#
8 44 (3.76%) PL/SQL
9 40 (3.42%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.37%) Bicep
11 15 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.20%) Groovy
13 12 (1.02%) Perl
14 9 (0.77%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.34%) Korn
18 4 (0.34%) Swift
19 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 416 (35.53%) Security Cleared
2 351 (29.97%) SC Cleared
3 114 (9.74%) Degree
4 61 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (5.12%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.73%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.31%) PMP
8 23 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.96%) CISSP
9 19 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 18 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.28%) CISM
11 15 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
12 12 (1.02%) CBAP
12 12 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.94%) IIBA
13 11 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.51%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.48%) QA
2 65 (5.55%) Data Quality
3 61 (5.21%) PMO
4 46 (3.93%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.22%) GDPR
6 25 (2.13%) WCAG
7 20 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.62%) NCSC
9 17 (1.45%) NIST
10 12 (1.02%) GRC
11 8 (0.68%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.68%) SLA
12 7 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) SEPA
14 5 (0.43%) HL7
15 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 104 (8.88%) Docker
2 45 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.43%) Squid
5 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.34%) Ceph
6 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.26%) HDFS
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 132 (11.27%) Terraform
2 92 (7.86%) Kubernetes
3 70 (5.98%) Ansible
4 59 (5.04%) Grafana
5 34 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.20%) Argo
8 11 (0.94%) Puppet
9 8 (0.68%) Istio
10 7 (0.60%) Control-M
10 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.60%) NetBackup
11 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.51%) SCOM
11 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.43%) Consul
12 5 (0.43%) Packer
13 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 145 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.63%) ServiceNow
3 90 (7.69%) Oracle
4 79 (6.75%) Atlassian
5 45 (3.84%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.07%) SAP
7 35 (2.99%) IBM
8 32 (2.73%) Talend
9 29 (2.48%) Google
10 28 (2.39%) Denodo
11 27 (2.31%) Splunk
12 25 (2.13%) Databricks
13 23 (1.96%) Informatica
14 21 (1.79%) VMware
15 17 (1.45%) Red Hat
16 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
17 13 (1.11%) Dynatrace
18 12 (1.02%) Cisco
18 12 (1.02%) Commvault
19 11 (0.94%) Adobe