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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 105 100
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 995 829 1,101
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.77% 2.26% 2.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.86% 20.46% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 523 717
10th Percentile £325 £313 £375
25th Percentile £419 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £721 £768 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 31
10th Percentile £29.57 £53.24 £50.00
25th Percentile £41.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +5.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £72.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.40 £68.75 £67.41
% change year-on-year -7.78% +1.98% +34.83%

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 3,848 4,052 4,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 11.03% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,590 2,491 3,154
10th Percentile £283 £260 £250
25th Percentile £400 £391 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £788 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 95 139
10th Percentile £17.33 £17.03 £14.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.63 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.63% +38.46%
75th Percentile £69.25 £64.61 £65.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.75 £75.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £41.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% +73.96% +37.14%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +18 894 £525 - 394
UK excluding London +5 475 £500 - 259
London +22 450 £550 - 162
Work from Home -16 248 £513 +1.14% 185
North of England -10 178 £500 -0.99% 66
Yorkshire -16 101 £513 -0.49% 21
Midlands +18 87 £450 -5.66% 40
South West +13 81 £625 -2.72% 40
West Midlands +22 68 £475 -5.00% 20
North West -6 66 £465 -8.37% 43
South East -11 66 £525 +14.13% 76
Scotland +7 45 £500 - 15
East Midlands -5 19 £334 -17.49% 20
East of England -29 15 £425 - 21
North East -1 11 £520 +15.56% 2
Wales 0 5 £469 -10.71% 2
Northern Ireland -4 2 £320 - 3

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 69 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 47 (4.72%) nginx
3 18 (1.81%) Apache
4 17 (1.71%) CMS
5 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.30%) CICS
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Camunda
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
3 78 (7.84%) MS Visio
4 56 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.81%) Trello
6 12 (1.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.20%) InDesign
7 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.10%) Notion
8 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.10%) Sketch
8 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (19.20%) AWS
2 142 (14.27%) Azure
3 94 (9.45%) GitHub
4 58 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (4.52%) Amazon S3
6 44 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
7 43 (4.32%) GCP
8 39 (3.92%) Power Platform
9 38 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 32 (3.22%) Serverless
11 31 (3.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 30 (3.02%) Miro
13 29 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (2.91%) Slack
14 26 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (2.51%) SaaS
16 24 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
16 24 (2.41%) AWS KMS
16 24 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.92%) Firewall
2 44 (4.42%) DNS
3 41 (4.12%) SSH
4 28 (2.81%) SMTP
5 25 (2.51%) FTP
6 24 (2.41%) HTTP
7 21 (2.11%) VPN
8 18 (1.81%) SSL
9 17 (1.71%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (1.21%) IMAP
11 10 (1.01%) BGP
12 9 (0.90%) WAN
13 8 (0.80%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.70%) IPsec
14 7 (0.70%) MPLS
14 7 (0.70%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.70%) TCP/IP
14 7 (0.70%) VSAN
15 6 (0.60%) DHCP
16 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (3.62%) Power BI
3 32 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (3.02%) Tableau
5 28 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.91%) Metadata
8 17 (1.71%) Hadoop
9 16 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.51%) Big Data
11 14 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.01%) MySQL
13 8 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.80%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.60%) Couchbase
15 5 (0.50%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.50%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 899 (90.35%) JIRA
2 130 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 124 (12.46%) Git
4 63 (6.33%) GitLab
5 62 (6.23%) Bitbucket
6 30 (3.02%) Selenium
7 26 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.61%) Vagrant
8 21 (2.11%) SonarQube
8 21 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (1.71%) Postman
10 16 (1.61%) JUnit
11 13 (1.31%) Maven
12 10 (1.01%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.80%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.80%) ScriptRunner
13 8 (0.80%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.70%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.60%) Mockito
15 6 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 449 (45.13%) Social Skills
2 269 (27.04%) Finance
3 168 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (13.77%) Banking
5 131 (13.17%) Public Sector
6 48 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.22%) Retail
8 29 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (2.51%) Military
11 23 (2.31%) Legal
12 21 (2.11%) Front Office
12 21 (2.11%) Investment Banking
13 20 (2.01%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.61%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.31%) Automotive
16 12 (1.21%) Marketing
17 10 (1.01%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 205 (20.60%) Analyst
2 164 (16.48%) Business Analyst
3 94 (9.45%) Project Manager
4 83 (8.34%) Architect
5 80 (8.04%) Senior
6 79 (7.94%) Lead
7 74 (7.44%) Developer
8 45 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.52%) Product Owner
10 33 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
11 32 (3.22%) Scrum Master
12 29 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (2.81%) Administrator
13 28 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (2.71%) Technical Analyst
15 26 (2.61%) Consultant
15 26 (2.61%) Technical Business Analyst
16 24 (2.41%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.14%) REST
2 40 (4.02%) HTML
2 40 (4.02%) LDAP
3 39 (3.92%) .NET
4 37 (3.72%) AngularJS
5 35 (3.52%) Kafka
5 35 (3.52%) React
6 31 (3.12%) JSON
7 30 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
8 29 (2.91%) SOAP
9 28 (2.81%) RESTful
10 26 (2.61%) Web Services
11 24 (2.41%) SAML
12 23 (2.31%) CSS
13 18 (1.81%) Spring
14 17 (1.71%) HTML5
14 17 (1.71%) Spring Boot
15 16 (1.61%) jQuery
15 16 (1.61%) Node.js
15 16 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 142 (14.27%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (2.71%) Replication
6 24 (2.41%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.21%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.81%) PKI
11 15 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.41%) Derivative
12 14 (1.41%) Tandem
13 13 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.31%) Equities
14 12 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.21%) NHS
14 12 (1.21%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 101 (10.15%) Linux
2 85 (8.54%) Windows
3 32 (3.22%) Unix
4 29 (2.91%) VMS
5 24 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.11%) Android
8 10 (1.01%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Debian
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.20%) zOS
12 1 (0.10%) AIX
12 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (64.72%) Agile
2 260 (26.13%) DevOps
3 231 (23.22%) Scrum
4 230 (23.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 193 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 156 (15.68%) CI/CD
7 153 (15.38%) Project Management
8 139 (13.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 132 (13.27%) Change Management
10 127 (12.76%) User Stories
11 124 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (11.16%) Roadmaps
13 109 (10.95%) Migration
14 96 (9.65%) Project Delivery
15 91 (9.15%) Decision-Making
16 90 (9.05%) Microservices
17 87 (8.74%) ITIL
17 87 (8.74%) Test Automation
18 83 (8.34%) Kanban
18 83 (8.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 185 (18.59%) Python
2 119 (11.96%) SQL
3 90 (9.05%) Java
4 67 (6.73%) PowerShell
5 65 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.32%) Bash
7 26 (2.61%) Groovy
7 26 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 25 (2.51%) Go
9 24 (2.41%) C#
10 19 (1.91%) Perl
11 8 (0.80%) C++
11 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.50%) PHP
14 4 (0.40%) C
14 4 (0.40%) R
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.20%) Korn
16 2 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 253 (25.43%) SC Cleared
3 171 (17.19%) Degree
4 42 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.22%) PMI Certification
5 37 (3.72%) CISSP
6 34 (3.42%) PMP
7 30 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.51%) CISM
10 24 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (1.51%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.41%) CBAP
13 13 (1.31%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.21%) Azure Certification
15 11 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (1.01%) CCNP
16 10 (1.01%) CSPO
17 9 (0.90%) PhD
18 7 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.34%) QA
2 32 (3.22%) GDPR
3 24 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.21%) PMO
5 19 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.31%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.31%) NIST
8 9 (0.90%) COBIT
8 9 (0.90%) WCAG
9 7 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.60%) GRC
10 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.60%) PSD2
10 6 (0.60%) SEPA
11 5 (0.50%) NCSC
12 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.30%) ITGC
13 3 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (9.55%) Docker
2 31 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.21%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.21%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.21%) Postfix
5 12 (1.21%) Squid
5 12 (1.21%) vSphere
6 9 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.60%) Firmware
8 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.10%) etcd
12 1 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 97 (9.75%) Terraform
2 88 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.33%) Ansible
4 36 (3.62%) Grafana
5 30 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.61%) Packer
7 24 (2.41%) Consul
7 24 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.41%) NetBackup
8 14 (1.41%) OPNET
9 12 (1.21%) Nessus
9 12 (1.21%) Puppet
10 10 (1.01%) Proxmox
11 8 (0.80%) vRealize
12 7 (0.70%) Istio
13 6 (0.60%) Argo
13 6 (0.60%) SCCM
14 5 (0.50%) PowerCLI
14 5 (0.50%) VxRail
15 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 107 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 104 (10.45%) Atlassian
3 90 (9.05%) ServiceNow
4 49 (4.92%) Oracle
5 40 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 34 (3.42%) VMware
7 33 (3.32%) Remedy
8 29 (2.91%) HP
9 26 (2.61%) IBM
10 23 (2.31%) Cisco
11 22 (2.21%) Google
11 22 (2.21%) SAP
12 19 (1.91%) BiZZdesign
12 19 (1.91%) Commvault
13 18 (1.81%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.81%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.41%) BMC
14 14 (1.41%) Cloudera
14 14 (1.41%) Foundry
14 14 (1.41%) Splunk