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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 102 123
Rank change year-on-year +9 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,102 756 836
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.69% 2.50% 1.88%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.60% 21.71% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 479 555
10th Percentile £329 £311 £368
25th Percentile £400 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -6.89% -0.91%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £725 £708 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -6.86% -7.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 27
10th Percentile £26.55 £55.79 £36.50
25th Percentile £30.16 £60.81 £50.63
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £66.73 £66.56 £73.45
90th Percentile £79.23 £74.63 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.83% -10.71% +30.84%

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 3,993 3,482 4,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.75% 11.53% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,755 2,166 2,866
10th Percentile £304 £255 £250
25th Percentile £402 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 69 167
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +61.19% +17.33%
75th Percentile £69.44 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.60 £66.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £48.82 £23.88
% change year-on-year -44.26% +104.46% +16.46%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +14 989 £500 -1.72% 208
UK excluding London +18 589 £475 -6.86% 169
London +5 425 £525 +5.00% 66
Work from Home -6 280 £466 -1.91% 107
North of England +13 214 £450 -11.33% 30
Midlands +9 137 £441 -5.82% 35
Yorkshire -13 112 £500 -8.56% 12
South West +14 101 £725 +26.09% 33
West Midlands +4 100 £450 -5.66% 28
North West +28 96 £428 -2.29% 18
South East -29 74 £500 +5.26% 53
Scotland +16 46 £469 +10.29% 5
East Midlands -11 35 £411 -2.14% 7
East of England -25 21 £425 +3.03% 12
North East -13 6 £388 -13.89% 1
Wales -5 3 £400 -24.17% 3
Northern Ireland -1 2 £458 -

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 92 (8.35%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.18%) nginx
3 15 (1.36%) CMS
4 12 (1.09%) SAS
5 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.64%) Apache
8 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.27%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) FileNet
11 2 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.091%) Mendix
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 113 (10.25%) Microsoft Project
2 105 (9.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 97 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (8.44%) MS Visio
5 74 (6.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.09%) Trello
7 5 (0.45%) Notion
8 3 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.18%) InDesign
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.091%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.091%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.091%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.091%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.45%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Actimize
6 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 1 (0.091%) Endur
7 1 (0.091%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.091%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.091%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.091%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 195 (17.70%) AWS
2 176 (15.97%) Azure
3 129 (11.71%) GitHub
4 77 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (5.44%) Power Platform
6 38 (3.45%) GCP
7 31 (2.81%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.72%) SaaS
9 29 (2.63%) Miro
10 28 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (2.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (2.45%) Lucidchart
12 26 (2.36%) Serverless
13 22 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (1.72%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.63%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.36%) Firewall
2 20 (1.81%) VPN
3 19 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.72%) WAN
4 18 (1.63%) Network Security
5 17 (1.54%) DNS
6 15 (1.36%) SSH
7 13 (1.18%) LAN
8 12 (1.09%) SSL
9 11 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.82%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.82%) FTP
11 9 (0.82%) VSAN
12 8 (0.73%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.64%) HTTP
13 7 (0.64%) Modbus
13 7 (0.64%) RS-232
13 7 (0.64%) RS-485
14 6 (0.54%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
1 52 (4.72%) Power BI
2 38 (3.45%) Tableau
3 33 (2.99%) NoSQL
4 25 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 24 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.09%) Metadata
6 23 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (1.63%) Big Data
9 16 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.27%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.18%) DocumentDB
12 9 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.64%) Redis
13 7 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1,008 (91.47%) JIRA
2 129 (11.71%) Jenkins
3 115 (10.44%) Git
4 63 (5.72%) GitLab
5 40 (3.63%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.54%) Selenium
7 29 (2.63%) Postman
7 29 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 26 (2.36%) SonarQube
9 25 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 25 (2.27%) JUnit
10 14 (1.27%) JMeter
11 11 (1.00%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.00%) Maven
12 9 (0.82%) Android Studio
12 9 (0.82%) ScriptRunner
12 9 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 8 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 489 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 324 (29.40%) Finance
3 214 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (16.42%) Banking
5 139 (12.61%) Public Sector
6 58 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.45%) Military
8 37 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (2.99%) Retail
10 29 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 25 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.18%) Legal
12 24 (2.18%) Retail Banking
13 20 (1.81%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.54%) Marketing
15 13 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.09%) Automotive
16 12 (1.09%) Front Office
16 12 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 257 (23.32%) Analyst
2 214 (19.42%) Business Analyst
3 114 (10.34%) Architect
4 106 (9.62%) Project Manager
5 90 (8.17%) Senior
6 80 (7.26%) Lead
7 79 (7.17%) Developer
8 45 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
9 35 (3.18%) Technical Analyst
9 35 (3.18%) Technical Business Analyst
10 34 (3.09%) Scrum Master
10 34 (3.09%) Tester
11 32 (2.90%) Consultant
12 30 (2.72%) Service Architect
13 27 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
13 27 (2.45%) Senior Business Analyst
14 24 (2.18%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.18%) Product Owner
14 24 (2.18%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.08%) REST
2 41 (3.72%) Spring
3 36 (3.27%) Kafka
3 36 (3.27%) RESTful
4 27 (2.45%) HTML
5 26 (2.36%) JSON
6 25 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 23 (2.09%) .NET
8 20 (1.81%) XML
9 19 (1.72%) Playwright
9 19 (1.72%) SOAP
10 18 (1.63%) Node.js
11 17 (1.54%) ADO
11 17 (1.54%) OAuth
12 16 (1.45%) React
13 15 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (1.36%) YAML
14 13 (1.18%) Middleware
14 13 (1.18%) WireMock
15 12 (1.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 176 (15.97%) Product Ownership
2 54 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 44 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.00%) PMI
7 21 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 20 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.63%) Data Centre
10 16 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.91%) NHS
14 10 (0.91%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 9 (0.82%) Equities
15 9 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.89%) Linux
2 59 (5.35%) Windows
3 22 (2.00%) Unix
4 17 (1.54%) Android
5 11 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.73%) VMS
7 7 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
8 6 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.18%) AIX
11 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.18%) Solaris
12 1 (0.091%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (60.44%) Agile
2 319 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (24.59%) DevOps
4 244 (22.14%) Scrum
5 219 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 201 (18.24%) CI/CD
7 173 (15.70%) Project Management
8 172 (15.61%) User Stories
9 170 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 163 (14.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 142 (12.89%) Acceptance Criteria
12 119 (10.80%) Change Management
12 119 (10.80%) Decision-Making
13 117 (10.62%) Roadmaps
14 116 (10.53%) Test Automation
15 115 (10.44%) Migration
15 115 (10.44%) Project Delivery
16 108 (9.80%) Workshop Facilitation
17 103 (9.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 96 (8.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 152 (13.79%) Python
2 125 (11.34%) SQL
3 73 (6.62%) Java
4 59 (5.35%) PowerShell
5 52 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 32 (2.90%) Bash
7 21 (1.91%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.72%) C#
9 12 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.00%) Go
11 9 (0.82%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.82%) C++
12 7 (0.64%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.64%) Perl
13 6 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.36%) Groovy
15 3 (0.27%) Bicep
15 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.27%) PHP
15 3 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 322 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 272 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 218 (19.78%) Degree
4 59 (5.35%) PMI Certification
5 55 (4.99%) PMP
6 52 (4.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 49 (4.45%) CISSP
8 45 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 41 (3.72%) CISM
10 35 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (2.90%) Master's Degree
12 25 (2.27%) DV Cleared
13 23 (2.09%) CBAP
14 16 (1.45%) IIBA
15 15 (1.36%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.09%) MBA
17 11 (1.00%) CSPO
18 10 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.91%) PhD
18 10 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.35%) QA
2 45 (4.08%) GDPR
3 41 (3.72%) PMO
4 34 (3.09%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 24 (2.18%) NIST
7 19 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.09%) GRC
10 10 (0.91%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.82%) Basel III
12 8 (0.73%) WCAG
13 7 (0.64%) PSD2
14 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.54%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.45%) NCSC
15 5 (0.45%) SLA
16 4 (0.36%) COBIT
16 4 (0.36%) P3O
System Software
1 96 (8.71%) Docker
2 16 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 10 (0.91%) Squid
5 9 (0.82%) vSphere
6 7 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 5 (0.45%) Postfix
8 4 (0.36%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.27%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.091%) etcd
11 1 (0.091%) HDFS
11 1 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 110 (9.98%) Kubernetes
2 78 (7.08%) Terraform
3 63 (5.72%) Ansible
4 36 (3.27%) Grafana
5 30 (2.72%) OPNET
6 24 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.81%) Consul
8 17 (1.54%) Packer
9 15 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (1.27%) Puppet
11 13 (1.18%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.91%) vRealize
13 7 (0.64%) VxRail
14 6 (0.54%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.45%) Istio
16 4 (0.36%) HP ALM
16 4 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
17 3 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 123 (11.16%) Atlassian
2 111 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 77 (6.99%) ServiceNow
4 54 (4.90%) Oracle
5 50 (4.54%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.27%) Remedy
7 32 (2.90%) BiZZdesign
8 31 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 24 (2.18%) SAP
10 23 (2.09%) IBM
11 20 (1.81%) Commvault
11 20 (1.81%) VMware
12 19 (1.72%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.63%) CyberArk
14 17 (1.54%) Cisco
15 16 (1.45%) Google
16 15 (1.36%) Databricks
16 15 (1.36%) HP
16 15 (1.36%) Splunk
17 13 (1.18%) MuleSoft