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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 91 115
Rank change year-on-year -33 +24 -12
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,167 882 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.18% 2.68% 1.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.94% 24.50% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 619 533
10th Percentile £371 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £407 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £670 £683 £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 £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £78.63 £80.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +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 4,680 3,600 4,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.92% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,088 2,345 2,843
10th Percentile £300 £281 £275
25th Percentile £404 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +2.44%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £720 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 89 104
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £26.00 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +31.57% -32.47%
75th Percentile £60.64 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.71 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.62% +2.62% +63.64%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -20 1,027 £500 -2.44% 433
UK excluding London -12 624 £475 - 230
London -22 451 £539 -6.30% 247
Work from Home +11 387 £510 +7.37% 219
North of England -35 194 £474 +9.28% 68
Midlands +25 176 £459 -3.37% 26
West Midlands +14 148 £459 -3.37% 22
Yorkshire -26 101 £463 +3.12% 24
South East -28 98 £500 +5.26% 48
North West -36 88 £474 +12.86% 31
South West -22 68 £539 -6.35% 36
Scotland -5 65 £513 +1.23% 22
East Midlands -2 27 £413 +23.87% 3
East of England -14 25 £350 -23.29% 13
Wales -12 9 £650 +36.84% 4
North East -52 8 £480 -8.13% 13

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 84 (7.20%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.80%) SAS
3 12 (1.03%) nginx
4 11 (0.94%) CMS
5 10 (0.86%) 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
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.086%) IIS
11 1 (0.086%) Mule
11 1 (0.086%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.71%) MS Visio
2 72 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
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 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.086%) CATIA
10 1 (0.086%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.086%) Sketch
10 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.69%) 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 4 (0.34%) Actimize
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.086%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.086%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 277 (23.74%) Azure
2 266 (22.79%) AWS
3 128 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (10.45%) GitHub
5 89 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 71 (6.08%) Amazon S3
7 64 (5.48%) GCP
8 55 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.54%) Serverless
10 48 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (3.34%) Miro
14 33 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (2.57%) SaaS
17 27 (2.31%) Figma
18 26 (2.23%) Entra ID
19 23 (1.97%) Amazon EMR
20 22 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.40%) Firewall
2 24 (2.06%) DNS
3 15 (1.29%) SSH
4 14 (1.20%) SSL
5 12 (1.03%) Network Security
5 12 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.94%) VPN
7 10 (0.86%) HTTP
7 10 (0.86%) WAN
8 6 (0.51%) Broadband
8 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.43%) DHCP
9 5 (0.43%) LAN
9 5 (0.43%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.34%) IPv4
11 3 (0.26%) Internet
11 3 (0.26%) IPv6
11 3 (0.26%) MPLS
11 3 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (6.94%) Power BI
2 60 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 36 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (2.14%) DynamoDB
6 25 (2.14%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 21 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 20 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.63%) Tableau
11 18 (1.54%) Metadata
12 17 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.11%) NoSQL
16 12 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,051 (90.06%) JIRA
2 155 (13.28%) Git
3 114 (9.77%) Jenkins
4 97 (8.31%) GitLab
5 56 (4.80%) Bitbucket
6 52 (4.46%) Selenium
7 33 (2.83%) Cucumber
8 29 (2.49%) JMeter
8 29 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (2.40%) JUnit
10 27 (2.31%) Zephyr
11 26 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 23 (1.97%) Postman
13 20 (1.71%) Artifactory
14 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
15 18 (1.54%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.94%) MSI
17 10 (0.86%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.77%) IntelliJ
19 8 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 481 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 334 (28.62%) Finance
3 222 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (16.45%) Public Sector
5 165 (14.14%) Banking
6 52 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.94%) Retail
8 42 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.06%) Legal
12 19 (1.63%) Military
12 19 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.29%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.11%) Marketing
17 12 (1.03%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
18 9 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 243 (20.82%) Analyst
2 181 (15.51%) Business Analyst
3 125 (10.71%) Senior
4 111 (9.51%) Developer
5 110 (9.43%) Lead
6 68 (5.83%) Architect
7 60 (5.14%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.28%) Consultant
9 47 (4.03%) Project Manager
10 45 (3.86%) Data Engineer
11 41 (3.51%) Product Owner
12 40 (3.43%) Delivery Manager
13 30 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (2.31%) Product Manager
15 26 (2.23%) Tester
16 24 (2.06%) DevOps Engineer
17 22 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
17 22 (1.89%) Business Systems Analyst
18 21 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (1.80%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.43%) REST
2 42 (3.60%) .NET
3 39 (3.34%) JSON
4 32 (2.74%) Spring
5 29 (2.49%) HTML
5 29 (2.49%) React
5 29 (2.49%) RESTful
6 28 (2.40%) AngularJS
7 25 (2.14%) .NET Core
8 23 (1.97%) CSS
9 22 (1.89%) XML
10 20 (1.71%) .NET Framework
11 19 (1.63%) ADO
11 19 (1.63%) WireMock
12 18 (1.54%) Kafka
13 17 (1.46%) PySpark
14 15 (1.29%) Node.js
14 15 (1.29%) OpenID
14 15 (1.29%) Playwright
14 15 (1.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 201 (17.22%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.49%) Data Centre
5 28 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 25 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 18 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
14 13 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.03%) Clustering
15 12 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 78 (6.68%) Linux
2 62 (5.31%) Windows
3 34 (2.91%) Unix
4 13 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Android
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.51%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.34%) AIX
11 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 2 (0.17%) Solaris
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.17%) zOS
12 1 (0.086%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.086%) SUSE
12 1 (0.086%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (65.12%) Agile
2 370 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 334 (28.62%) DevOps
4 307 (26.31%) Scrum
5 280 (23.99%) CI/CD
6 231 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (16.37%) Test Automation
9 186 (15.94%) User Stories
10 175 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 173 (14.82%) Migration
12 140 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
13 136 (11.65%) Acceptance Criteria
14 128 (10.97%) Kanban
15 123 (10.54%) SDLC
16 121 (10.37%) Business Analysis
17 119 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
18 118 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
19 117 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
19 117 (10.03%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 214 (18.34%) SQL
2 174 (14.91%) Python
3 87 (7.46%) Java
4 52 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.37%) PowerShell
6 45 (3.86%) Bash
7 44 (3.77%) PL/SQL
8 43 (3.68%) C#
9 41 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.46%) Bicep
11 15 (1.29%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.20%) Groovy
13 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.86%) Perl
14 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.34%) Korn
17 4 (0.34%) Swift
18 3 (0.26%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 411 (35.22%) Security Cleared
2 344 (29.48%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.60%) Degree
4 62 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 58 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.31%) PMP
8 23 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.63%) CISSP
10 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 18 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.29%) IIBA
11 15 (1.29%) SAFe Agilist
12 12 (1.03%) CBAP
12 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.94%) CISM
13 11 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.51%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.03%) QA
2 62 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 62 (5.31%) PMO
3 46 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 25 (2.14%) WCAG
5 23 (1.97%) GDPR
6 19 (1.63%) NCSC
7 18 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (1.46%) NIST
9 14 (1.20%) GRC
10 8 (0.69%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.69%) SLA
11 7 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.51%) SEPA
13 5 (0.43%) HL7
14 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 104 (8.91%) Docker
2 47 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.29%) 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 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 128 (10.97%) Terraform
2 92 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.91%) Ansible
4 59 (5.06%) Grafana
5 34 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.29%) Argo
8 9 (0.77%) Puppet
9 8 (0.69%) Istio
9 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.60%) Control-M
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%) NetBackup
12 5 (0.43%) Packer
13 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 147 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.97%) ServiceNow
3 88 (7.54%) Oracle
4 78 (6.68%) Atlassian
5 46 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.17%) SAP
7 33 (2.83%) Google
7 33 (2.83%) IBM
8 32 (2.74%) Talend
9 28 (2.40%) Denodo
10 27 (2.31%) Splunk
11 25 (2.14%) Databricks
12 23 (1.97%) Informatica
12 23 (1.97%) VMware
13 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
14 13 (1.11%) Dynatrace
14 13 (1.11%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.03%) Adobe
15 12 (1.03%) Cisco
16 11 (0.94%) Zscaler