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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 105 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 983 818 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.67% 2.40% 2.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.94% 21.60% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 519 656
10th Percentile £331 £313 £380
25th Percentile £416 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £738 £744 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £575
% change year-on-year -2.91% -10.43% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 30
10th Percentile £27.21 £55.60 £49.46
25th Percentile £39.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -5.49% +29.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £72.35
90th Percentile £78.56 £71.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £68.78
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.13% +29.77%

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 3,789 3,787 4,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.28% 11.11% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,575 2,334 2,985
10th Percentile £290 £252 £256
25th Percentile £400 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £629 £625
90th Percentile £702 £751 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 81 135
10th Percentile £15.56 £17.08 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.13 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% +29.63% +46.14%
75th Percentile £66.17 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £23.13
% change year-on-year -35.98% +83.78% +32.14%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +8 879 £525 - 134
UK excluding London +11 479 £500 -2.91% 114
London -4 422 £550 - 49
Work from Home -17 246 £513 -2.38% 65
North of England -9 168 £500 -2.91% 23
Yorkshire -19 102 £513 -0.97% 11
Midlands +15 94 £444 -6.97% 24
South West +13 91 £725 +14.62% 13
South East -19 73 £510 +8.51% 46
West Midlands +18 72 £450 -10.67% 19
North West -1 57 £465 -10.79% 12
Scotland +18 40 £500 +11.11%
East Midlands -9 21 £380 -9.52% 5
East of England -35 15 £425 - 7
North East -5 9 £520 +15.56% 1
Wales +2 2 £385 -26.67% 2
Northern Ireland -7 2 £320 - 1

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 75 (7.63%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.15%) nginx
3 16 (1.63%) CMS
4 11 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (0.31%) CICS
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.31%) Traefik
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) FileNet
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 94 (9.56%) Microsoft Project
2 91 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
3 82 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 78 (7.93%) MS Visio
5 53 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (1.93%) Trello
7 11 (1.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.51%) Notion
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.10%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.10%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.41%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.20%) Shopify
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 166 (16.89%) AWS
2 139 (14.14%) Azure
3 101 (10.27%) GitHub
4 54 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (4.68%) Power Platform
6 43 (4.37%) GCP
7 36 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
7 36 (3.66%) Amazon S3
8 34 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (3.26%) Miro
10 30 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 28 (2.85%) Serverless
12 27 (2.75%) Slack
13 26 (2.64%) SaaS
14 25 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (2.34%) Lucidchart
17 22 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
18 20 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
19 19 (1.93%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.58%) Firewall
2 38 (3.87%) SSH
3 24 (2.44%) DNS
4 22 (2.24%) FTP
4 22 (2.24%) SSL
5 20 (2.03%) HTTP
5 20 (2.03%) SMTP
6 16 (1.63%) OpenLDAP
6 16 (1.63%) VPN
7 11 (1.12%) IMAP
8 10 (1.02%) WAN
9 9 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.92%) VSAN
10 7 (0.71%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.61%) Network Security
12 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
12 5 (0.51%) LAN
13 4 (0.41%) BGP
13 4 (0.41%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
1 43 (4.37%) Power BI
2 34 (3.46%) Tableau
3 30 (3.05%) NoSQL
4 27 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.73%) Big Data
5 17 (1.73%) Metadata
6 16 (1.63%) Hadoop
6 16 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.92%) DocumentDB
11 8 (0.81%) MySQL
12 7 (0.71%) Redis
13 6 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.61%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 900 (91.56%) JIRA
2 123 (12.51%) Jenkins
3 103 (10.48%) Git
4 61 (6.21%) GitLab
5 54 (5.49%) Bitbucket
6 33 (3.36%) Selenium
7 22 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.14%) Vagrant
9 20 (2.03%) Postman
10 19 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (1.83%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.22%) JUnit
13 11 (1.12%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.92%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.71%) Maven
15 7 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
16 6 (0.61%) Zephyr
17 5 (0.51%) Android Studio
18 4 (0.41%) Artifactory
General
1 453 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 275 (27.98%) Finance
3 185 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (13.53%) Public Sector
5 126 (12.82%) Banking
6 43 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (4.17%) Military
8 32 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.05%) Retail
10 28 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.64%) Legal
12 20 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.83%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.63%) Front Office
15 16 (1.63%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.32%) Automotive
17 12 (1.22%) Marketing
18 11 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 208 (21.16%) Analyst
2 164 (16.68%) Business Analyst
3 96 (9.77%) Project Manager
4 89 (9.05%) Architect
5 88 (8.95%) Senior
6 69 (7.02%) Developer
7 67 (6.82%) Lead
8 40 (4.07%) Product Owner
9 39 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
12 33 (3.36%) Scrum Master
13 31 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
14 30 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
14 30 (3.05%) Service Architect
14 30 (3.05%) Technical Business Analyst
15 27 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (2.75%) Consultant
15 27 (2.75%) Senior Business Analyst
16 26 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.92%) REST
2 43 (4.37%) Kafka
3 35 (3.56%) HTML
3 35 (3.56%) LDAP
4 34 (3.46%) RESTful
5 30 (3.05%) .NET
6 28 (2.85%) JSON
7 25 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
7 25 (2.54%) SOAP
8 23 (2.34%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.24%) Spring
10 21 (2.14%) SAML
11 19 (1.93%) Node.js
11 19 (1.93%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.83%) OAuth
12 18 (1.83%) Playwright
13 17 (1.73%) React
13 17 (1.73%) Web Services
14 15 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
15 14 (1.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 167 (16.99%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 34 (3.46%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.34%) Replication
7 20 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.63%) PMI
10 14 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.42%) Tandem
10 14 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.22%) Equities
12 11 (1.12%) NHS
13 10 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.65%) Linux
2 77 (7.83%) Windows
3 31 (3.15%) Unix
4 23 (2.34%) VMS
5 19 (1.93%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.02%) Android
8 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) AIX
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) MVS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (64.80%) Agile
2 254 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 246 (25.03%) DevOps
4 235 (23.91%) Scrum
5 187 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (16.89%) CI/CD
7 159 (16.17%) Project Management
8 144 (14.65%) User Stories
9 138 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 133 (13.53%) Change Management
12 114 (11.60%) Acceptance Criteria
13 109 (11.09%) Roadmaps
14 107 (10.89%) Migration
15 102 (10.38%) Project Delivery
16 97 (9.87%) ITIL
16 97 (9.87%) Test Automation
17 95 (9.66%) Decision-Making
18 94 (9.56%) Workshop Facilitation
19 92 (9.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 163 (16.58%) Python
2 114 (11.60%) SQL
3 72 (7.32%) Java
4 60 (6.10%) PowerShell
5 58 (5.90%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.36%) Bash
7 24 (2.44%) Go
8 22 (2.24%) C#
9 20 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.93%) Groovy
11 15 (1.53%) Perl
12 9 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.61%) C++
13 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.51%) PHP
15 3 (0.31%) C
15 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.31%) R
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 270 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 246 (25.03%) SC Cleared
3 191 (19.43%) Degree
4 49 (4.98%) PMI Certification
5 41 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 40 (4.07%) PMP
7 38 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (3.66%) CISSP
9 33 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.64%) CISM
11 25 (2.54%) DV Cleared
12 24 (2.44%) CBAP
13 20 (2.03%) Master's Degree
14 16 (1.63%) CSPO
15 15 (1.53%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.22%) Azure Certification
17 10 (1.02%) PhD
18 8 (0.81%) ISTQB
19 7 (0.71%) CFA
20 6 (0.61%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (9.05%) QA
2 34 (3.46%) GDPR
3 28 (2.85%) Accessibility
3 28 (2.85%) PMO
4 18 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.22%) NIST
8 9 (0.92%) WCAG
9 8 (0.81%) GRC
10 7 (0.71%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.71%) PSD2
11 6 (0.61%) COBIT
11 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.51%) NCSC
12 5 (0.51%) SEPA
13 4 (0.41%) Basel III
14 3 (0.31%) SLA
15 2 (0.20%) ITGC
System Software
1 90 (9.16%) Docker
2 25 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.83%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.22%) Squid
6 11 (1.12%) Dovecot
6 11 (1.12%) Postfix
7 10 (1.02%) vSphere
8 7 (0.71%) Firmware
9 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.10%) NFS
12 1 (0.10%) SRDF
12 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 80 (8.14%) Terraform
3 61 (6.21%) Ansible
4 33 (3.36%) Grafana
5 30 (3.05%) OPNET
6 27 (2.75%) Prometheus
7 20 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.53%) Puppet
9 14 (1.42%) NetBackup
9 14 (1.42%) Packer
10 12 (1.22%) Consul
11 11 (1.12%) Nessus
12 10 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 10 (1.02%) vRealize
13 8 (0.81%) Istio
14 7 (0.71%) VxRail
15 6 (0.61%) Argo
15 6 (0.61%) SCCM
16 4 (0.41%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.31%) Ambari
Vendors
1 113 (11.50%) Atlassian
2 100 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 89 (9.05%) ServiceNow
4 49 (4.98%) Oracle
5 46 (4.68%) Remedy
6 44 (4.48%) Salesforce
7 27 (2.75%) IBM
8 26 (2.64%) HP
9 25 (2.54%) VMware
10 24 (2.44%) SAP
11 22 (2.24%) Google
12 21 (2.14%) Commvault
13 20 (2.03%) BiZZdesign
13 20 (2.03%) Cisco
14 19 (1.93%) CyberArk
15 18 (1.83%) Red Hat
16 17 (1.73%) Dell
17 13 (1.32%) Cloudera
17 13 (1.32%) Foundry
17 13 (1.32%) Palantir