Confluence Contract Job Trends

Confluence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Confluence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 110 94
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 -16
Contract jobs citing Confluence 869 818 1,203
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.64% 2.12% 2.44%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.43% 19.73% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 535 792
10th Percentile £325 £350 £376
25th Percentile £408 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £658
90th Percentile £688 £750 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 32
10th Percentile £53.38 £25.30 £45.26
25th Percentile £62.73 £46.69 £55.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £76.88 - £73.75
90th Percentile £79.13 - £76.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -10.71%

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 3,557 4,145 5,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.80% 10.76% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,307 2,728 3,455
10th Percentile £275 £263 £256
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +4.90% -4.67%
75th Percentile £595 £649 £643
90th Percentile £701 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 159
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +138.64%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £47.04
% change year-on-year -21.68% +3.24% +143.03%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +19 748 £513 -2.38% 414
UK excluding London 0 403 £475 -9.52% 315
London +23 388 £575 +5.75% 182
Work from Home -12 224 £513 -2.38% 179
North of England +8 166 £450 -12.62% 64
Yorkshire -13 79 £465 -9.81% 28
North West +20 75 £425 -17.87% 34
Midlands +35 71 £475 -13.64% 46
South East -1 58 £470 +4.44% 139
West Midlands +33 57 £475 -17.39% 27
Scotland -3 50 £481 -28.70% 12
South West -11 40 £575 +6.98% 28
North East +11 18 £520 +8.33% 2
East Midlands +5 14 £330 -9.67% 17
East of England -9 14 £450 -14.29% 20
Wales +9 7 £475 -13.64% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £325 - 2

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 57 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.34%) nginx
3 17 (1.96%) Apache
4 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.58%) CMS
5 5 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.35%) CICS
6 3 (0.35%) Traefik
7 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.23%) Camunda
7 2 (0.23%) FileNet
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.23%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.12%) IIS
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 82 (9.44%) MS Visio
2 69 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
4 34 (3.91%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (1.96%) Trello
7 12 (1.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) Notion
9 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.12%) Simulink
9 1 (0.12%) Sketch
9 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.04%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.46%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Endur
6 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.12%) Primavera
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 196 (22.55%) AWS
2 142 (16.34%) Azure
3 65 (7.48%) GitHub
4 53 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.64%) GCP
6 43 (4.95%) Amazon S3
6 43 (4.95%) Power Platform
7 41 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (4.37%) Serverless
9 36 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (3.57%) SaaS
11 29 (3.34%) Slack
12 27 (3.11%) Miro
13 26 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (2.76%) Amazon ELB
14 24 (2.76%) AWS KMS
15 23 (2.65%) IaaS
16 21 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
17 20 (2.30%) Lucidchart
18 19 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.87%) Firewall
2 49 (5.64%) DNS
3 34 (3.91%) SSH
4 29 (3.34%) SMTP
5 26 (2.99%) HTTP
6 23 (2.65%) FTP
6 23 (2.65%) VPN
7 21 (2.42%) SSL
8 17 (1.96%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (1.38%) BGP
9 12 (1.38%) DHCP
9 12 (1.38%) IMAP
10 10 (1.15%) Unified Communications
11 8 (0.92%) Network Security
11 8 (0.92%) VLAN
12 7 (0.81%) IPsec
12 7 (0.81%) MPLS
13 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.69%) WAN
14 5 (0.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.26%) Power BI
2 34 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 21 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (2.19%) Tableau
7 17 (1.96%) Big Data
8 15 (1.73%) Oracle Database
9 14 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 13 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.27%) Metadata
11 11 (1.27%) MySQL
11 11 (1.27%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.92%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.81%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
16 5 (0.58%) DB2
Development Applications
1 776 (89.30%) JIRA
2 103 (11.85%) Git
3 92 (10.59%) Jenkins
4 68 (7.83%) Bitbucket
5 44 (5.06%) GitLab
6 28 (3.22%) ScriptRunner
7 27 (3.11%) Selenium
7 27 (3.11%) Vagrant
8 24 (2.76%) Cucumber
9 22 (2.53%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.84%) Postman
11 15 (1.73%) JUnit
12 13 (1.50%) Maven
13 12 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (1.15%) Gradle
14 10 (1.15%) REST Assured
15 9 (1.04%) Artifactory
15 9 (1.04%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.04%) Visual Studio
15 9 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 377 (43.38%) Social Skills
2 256 (29.46%) Finance
3 145 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (13.69%) Banking
5 107 (12.31%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (2.88%) Retail
9 21 (2.42%) Front Office
10 20 (2.30%) Investment Banking
11 18 (2.07%) Legal
12 17 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Automotive
16 11 (1.27%) Military
17 10 (1.15%) Back Office
17 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 199 (22.90%) Analyst
2 168 (19.33%) Business Analyst
3 79 (9.09%) Developer
3 79 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 77 (8.86%) Senior
5 58 (6.67%) Lead
6 52 (5.98%) Architect
7 38 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (3.68%) Product Owner
9 30 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
10 29 (3.34%) Administrator
11 27 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
13 24 (2.76%) Scrum Master
14 23 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (2.53%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (2.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 19 (2.19%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.18%) REST
2 41 (4.72%) HTML
2 41 (4.72%) LDAP
3 40 (4.60%) AngularJS
4 37 (4.26%) React
5 35 (4.03%) .NET
6 32 (3.68%) JSON
7 30 (3.45%) Kafka
7 30 (3.45%) RESTful
8 27 (3.11%) SOAP
9 26 (2.99%) CSS
9 26 (2.99%) Web Services
10 24 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
11 20 (2.30%) Node.js
12 18 (2.07%) HTML5
13 17 (1.96%) Spring Boot
14 16 (1.84%) jQuery
14 16 (1.84%) SAML
15 13 (1.50%) JDBC
15 13 (1.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (13.35%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 32 (3.68%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.99%) Replication
5 24 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.30%) PKI
8 19 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 17 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.61%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.38%) Derivative
12 12 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.15%) Equities
14 10 (1.15%) NHS
15 9 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.04%) PMI
16 8 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 78 (8.98%) Windows
2 70 (8.06%) Linux
3 31 (3.57%) VMS
4 24 (2.76%) Amazon Linux
5 16 (1.84%) Unix
6 12 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.15%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.92%) Android
9 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.35%) zOS
12 2 (0.23%) CentOS
12 2 (0.23%) Debian
12 2 (0.23%) Solaris
13 1 (0.12%) AIX
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.12%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (66.28%) Agile
2 220 (25.32%) DevOps
3 217 (24.97%) Scrum
4 176 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
5 168 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 135 (15.54%) CI/CD
7 131 (15.07%) Migration
8 125 (14.38%) Project Management
9 115 (13.23%) Change Management
10 112 (12.89%) User Stories
11 110 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 100 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (11.05%) Microservices
14 92 (10.59%) Roadmaps
15 74 (8.52%) Project Delivery
15 74 (8.52%) Requirements Gathering
16 72 (8.29%) Test Automation
17 68 (7.83%) Acceptance Criteria
17 68 (7.83%) Analytics
18 67 (7.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 136 (15.65%) Python
2 131 (15.07%) SQL
3 98 (11.28%) Java
4 62 (7.13%) JavaScript
5 50 (5.75%) Groovy
6 43 (4.95%) PowerShell
7 27 (3.11%) Bash
8 25 (2.88%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.76%) C#
10 23 (2.65%) Perl
11 20 (2.30%) Go
12 10 (1.15%) C++
13 9 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.58%) Bicep
14 5 (0.58%) R
15 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.46%) PHP
15 4 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 198 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 183 (21.06%) SC Cleared
3 120 (13.81%) Degree
4 28 (3.22%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.30%) PMP
7 19 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.84%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.73%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.61%) CBAP
12 12 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (1.27%) CCNP
14 9 (1.04%) CISSP
14 9 (1.04%) CSPO
15 6 (0.69%) IIBA
15 6 (0.69%) ISEB
15 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.46%) ISTQB
16 4 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.29%) QA
2 25 (2.88%) GDPR
3 23 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.50%) PMO
5 13 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 10 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.04%) WCAG
8 8 (0.92%) COBIT
9 7 (0.81%) PSD2
10 6 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.69%) SEPA
11 5 (0.58%) GxP
11 5 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.58%) MiFID
11 5 (0.58%) NIST
11 5 (0.58%) SLA
12 4 (0.46%) NCSC
12 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (8.52%) Docker
2 33 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.53%) DFS Replication
4 21 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.38%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.38%) Postfix
5 12 (1.38%) Squid
6 10 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.04%) vSphere
8 8 (0.92%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.58%) Firmware
9 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.46%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.12%) NFS
13 1 (0.12%) SRDF
13 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (9.44%) Terraform
2 69 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 48 (5.52%) Ansible
4 32 (3.68%) Grafana
5 29 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.61%) Consul
7 14 (1.61%) Packer
8 12 (1.38%) Nessus
9 11 (1.27%) NetBackup
10 10 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
10 10 (1.15%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.92%) Puppet
12 7 (0.81%) Istio
13 6 (0.69%) Argo
14 5 (0.58%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.58%) SCCM
14 5 (0.58%) Tivoli
15 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
16 3 (0.35%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 104 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 82 (9.44%) ServiceNow
3 79 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 59 (6.79%) Oracle
5 28 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.11%) VMware
7 26 (2.99%) Google
8 25 (2.88%) HP
9 23 (2.65%) SAP
10 22 (2.53%) IBM
11 19 (2.19%) Remedy
12 18 (2.07%) Cisco
13 17 (1.96%) Commvault
14 14 (1.61%) Dell
14 14 (1.61%) Palantir
15 13 (1.50%) BMC
15 13 (1.50%) Ivanti
16 12 (1.38%) Foundry
16 12 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
16 12 (1.38%) Red Hat