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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 97 131
Rank change year-on-year -12 +34 -23
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,208 857 772
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 2.62% 1.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.09% 23.91% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 584 524
10th Percentile £351 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £686 £679 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -9.52% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 25
10th Percentile £32.88 £54.80 £25.27
25th Percentile £47.24 £62.50 £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 £80.50 £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 4,631 3,584 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 10.97% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 2,341 3,115
10th Percentile £309 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -0.32%
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 85 153
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.80 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.04 £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 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +50.00% -23.91%

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 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 12 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 12 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 0 1,043 £500 -2.44% 263
UK excluding London -14 651 £467 -1.72% 173
London -14 455 £525 -4.55% 136
Work from Home +14 405 £500 +8.70% 110
North of England -22 213 £447 +5.18% 50
Midlands +34 184 £459 -3.37% 17
West Midlands +22 152 £459 -3.37% 10
North West -11 106 £440 +7.38% 24
Yorkshire -23 99 £453 +6.47% 21
South East -41 91 £500 - 46
Scotland +1 76 £525 +16.67% 12
South West -16 65 £539 -6.35% 35
East Midlands -1 30 £402 +20.72% 7
East of England -23 23 £350 -23.29% 9
Wales -15 9 £650 +36.84% 1
North East -40 9 £428 -22.27% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 4

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 97 (8.03%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.82%) SAS
3 15 (1.24%) nginx
4 13 (1.08%) 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 (0.41%) 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 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.083%) Mule
12 1 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 97 (8.03%) MS Visio
2 85 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
4 52 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.083%) CATIA
10 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.50%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.33%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
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%) Shopify
9 1 (0.083%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 281 (23.26%) AWS
2 274 (22.68%) Azure
3 136 (11.26%) GitHub
4 126 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (7.45%) Power Platform
6 84 (6.95%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.72%) Serverless
8 55 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (4.06%) GCP
12 40 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 34 (2.81%) Miro
15 31 (2.57%) SaaS
16 30 (2.48%) Entra ID
17 24 (1.99%) Figma
18 23 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
19 21 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.81%) Firewall
2 22 (1.82%) Network Security
3 21 (1.74%) DNS
4 18 (1.49%) WAN
5 13 (1.08%) LAN
5 13 (1.08%) VPN
6 12 (0.99%) SSL
6 12 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (0.91%) SSH
8 10 (0.83%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.75%) HTTP
10 7 (0.58%) OpenVPN
10 7 (0.58%) PSTN
10 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.33%) BIG-IP
11 4 (0.33%) MPLS
12 3 (0.25%) BGP
12 3 (0.25%) OSPF
12 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.54%) Power BI
2 63 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 34 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (2.48%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.74%) Tableau
10 20 (1.66%) Metadata
11 15 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
12 14 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
12 14 (1.16%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.08%) NoSQL
14 12 (0.99%) Pentaho
15 11 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1,092 (90.40%) JIRA
2 168 (13.91%) Git
3 135 (11.18%) Jenkins
4 107 (8.86%) GitLab
5 58 (4.80%) Selenium
6 48 (3.97%) Bitbucket
7 36 (2.98%) Cucumber
7 36 (2.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.57%) JMeter
8 31 (2.57%) JUnit
9 30 (2.48%) Postman
10 21 (1.74%) Artifactory
11 20 (1.66%) Cypress.io
11 20 (1.66%) SonarQube
12 19 (1.57%) WebDriver
12 19 (1.57%) Zephyr
13 15 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (1.08%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.75%) Maven
15 9 (0.75%) ScriptRunner
General
1 482 (39.90%) Social Skills
2 342 (28.31%) Finance
3 215 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (15.98%) Public Sector
5 184 (15.23%) Banking
6 60 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (2.98%) Retail
8 35 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 26 (2.15%) Legal
11 24 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.74%) Military
12 21 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.49%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.16%) Marketing
15 12 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
16 10 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 253 (20.94%) Analyst
2 201 (16.64%) Business Analyst
3 127 (10.51%) Senior
4 117 (9.69%) Developer
5 101 (8.36%) Lead
6 81 (6.71%) Architect
7 63 (5.22%) Scrum Master
8 54 (4.47%) Data Engineer
9 51 (4.22%) Project Manager
10 48 (3.97%) Consultant
11 40 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.81%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.48%) Tester
14 27 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
17 24 (1.99%) Technical Business Analyst
18 21 (1.74%) Security Engineer
18 21 (1.74%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.55%) REST
2 45 (3.73%) JSON
3 41 (3.39%) Spring
4 37 (3.06%) .NET
5 35 (2.90%) RESTful
6 31 (2.57%) React
7 30 (2.48%) HTML
8 27 (2.24%) AngularJS
9 25 (2.07%) XML
10 23 (1.90%) PySpark
10 23 (1.90%) SOAP
11 22 (1.82%) CSS
12 21 (1.74%) ADO
13 20 (1.66%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.57%) Kafka
14 19 (1.57%) WireMock
15 17 (1.41%) .NET Core
15 17 (1.41%) Node.js
15 17 (1.41%) Playwright
16 16 (1.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 191 (15.81%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.24%) Virtual Team
5 26 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 19 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.49%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (0.99%) Mobile App
14 12 (0.99%) PMI
14 12 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.87%) Linux
2 57 (4.72%) Windows
3 36 (2.98%) Unix
4 12 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.75%) Android
7 5 (0.41%) AIX
7 5 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.083%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.083%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.083%) SUSE
11 1 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (63.58%) Agile
2 345 (28.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 332 (27.48%) DevOps
4 301 (24.92%) Scrum
5 300 (24.83%) CI/CD
6 236 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 225 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (16.39%) Test Automation
9 185 (15.31%) User Stories
10 182 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 158 (13.08%) Migration
12 128 (10.60%) Acceptance Criteria
12 128 (10.60%) Kanban
13 125 (10.35%) Roadmaps
14 124 (10.26%) Sprint Planning
15 122 (10.10%) User Acceptance Testing
16 120 (9.93%) SDLC
17 114 (9.44%) AI
17 114 (9.44%) Data Modelling
18 112 (9.27%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.13%) SQL
2 183 (15.15%) Python
3 97 (8.03%) Java
4 58 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 45 (3.73%) Bash
6 44 (3.64%) PL/SQL
7 42 (3.48%) PowerShell
8 38 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.06%) C#
10 12 (0.99%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.91%) Groovy
11 11 (0.91%) Perl
12 10 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.75%) Bicep
14 8 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.33%) C++
16 4 (0.33%) R
16 4 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 417 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 343 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 139 (11.51%) Degree
4 57 (4.72%) DV Cleared
5 56 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (3.39%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.81%) PMP
8 33 (2.73%) CISSP
9 27 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.07%) CISM
11 24 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 15 (1.24%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.24%) SAFe Agilist
14 13 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (0.99%) CBAP
16 10 (0.83%) IIBA
17 9 (0.75%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (9.77%) QA
2 73 (6.04%) Data Quality
3 60 (4.97%) PMO
4 42 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.57%) GDPR
6 25 (2.07%) NIST
7 20 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.57%) WCAG
9 15 (1.24%) NCSC
10 14 (1.16%) GRC
11 13 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.75%) SLA
13 8 (0.66%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.58%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.50%) MiFID
16 5 (0.41%) HL7
16 5 (0.41%) PSD2
16 5 (0.41%) SEPA
System Software
1 107 (8.86%) Docker
2 27 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.83%) Squid
4 7 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.25%) Ceph
5 3 (0.25%) HDFS
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.083%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.083%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.083%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 129 (10.68%) Terraform
2 104 (8.61%) Kubernetes
3 70 (5.79%) Ansible
4 61 (5.05%) Grafana
5 36 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.08%) Consul
8 13 (1.08%) Puppet
9 12 (0.99%) Argo
10 9 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.75%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.66%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.41%) Control-M
13 5 (0.41%) Istio
13 5 (0.41%) Packer
14 4 (0.33%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.33%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 136 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 97 (8.03%) ServiceNow
3 92 (7.62%) Oracle
4 82 (6.79%) Atlassian
5 51 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.15%) SAP
7 32 (2.65%) Talend
8 29 (2.40%) IBM
9 28 (2.32%) Denodo
10 27 (2.24%) Databricks
11 26 (2.15%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.90%) Informatica
13 22 (1.82%) Splunk
14 20 (1.66%) Google
15 17 (1.41%) MuleSoft
16 16 (1.32%) Dynatrace
17 15 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
18 12 (0.99%) Sonatype
19 11 (0.91%) Cisco
19 11 (0.91%) Zscaler