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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 95 115
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,138 885 788
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.68% 2.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.77% 24.31% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 622 529
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £671 £687 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 21
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.25 £25.30
25th Percentile £59.25 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £87.63 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 4,595 3,640 4,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 11.03% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,019 2,377 2,809
10th Percentile £294 £279 £282
25th Percentile £404 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £523
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -8.33% +0.48%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £718 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 92 100
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.11 £21.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £33.04
Median % change year-on-year -21.22% +24.88% -37.96%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.41 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £44.64 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.19% -6.03% +11.76%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -30 995 £502 -2.05% 184
UK excluding London -23 600 £475 - 113
London -30 444 £538 -6.52% 94
Work from Home -3 377 £517 +3.34% 91
North of England -40 186 £474 +8.34% 30
Midlands +17 161 £459 -3.37% 17
West Midlands +13 133 £459 -3.37% 13
Yorkshire -20 98 £474 +8.72% 9
South East -36 93 £500 +1.01% 30
North West -37 83 £472 +10.94% 13
South West -14 71 £539 -4.69% 20
Scotland +1 67 £500 +3.90% 7
East Midlands +1 27 £413 +25.00% 4
East of England -18 24 £350 -24.32% 7
Wales -15 9 £650 +36.84% 4
North East -48 8 £480 -8.13% 8

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 80 (7.03%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.76%) SAS
3 11 (0.97%) CMS
3 11 (0.97%) nginx
4 10 (0.88%) Apache
5 7 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.44%) JBoss
6 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.088%) Appian
10 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.088%) Mule
10 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (7.82%) MS Visio
2 70 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.53%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 4 (0.35%) 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 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.088%) CATIA
10 1 (0.088%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.088%) Sketch
10 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.18%) BASE24
7 2 (0.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.088%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.088%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.088%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 268 (23.55%) Azure
2 258 (22.67%) AWS
3 125 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (10.19%) GitHub
5 89 (7.82%) Power Platform
6 73 (6.41%) Amazon S3
7 57 (5.01%) Serverless
8 55 (4.83%) GCP
9 52 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (3.87%) Miro
11 42 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 31 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (2.64%) Figma
15 29 (2.55%) SaaS
16 25 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.20%) Entra ID
17 23 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.55%) Firewall
2 24 (2.11%) DNS
3 16 (1.41%) SSH
4 15 (1.32%) SSL
5 12 (1.05%) Network Security
5 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.05%) VPN
6 11 (0.97%) WAN
7 10 (0.88%) HTTP
8 6 (0.53%) Broadband
8 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.44%) DHCP
9 5 (0.44%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.44%) LAN
9 5 (0.44%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.35%) 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 (7.12%) Power BI
2 58 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (3.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 35 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 31 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (2.20%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.76%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.49%) Metadata
11 17 (1.49%) Tableau
12 16 (1.41%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
15 12 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.97%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1,027 (90.25%) JIRA
2 155 (13.62%) Git
3 105 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 96 (8.44%) GitLab
5 59 (5.18%) Bitbucket
6 45 (3.95%) Selenium
7 28 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 28 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 25 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.20%) Zephyr
9 23 (2.02%) Postman
10 21 (1.85%) JMeter
11 20 (1.76%) Cypress.io
11 20 (1.76%) JUnit
12 19 (1.67%) Artifactory
13 11 (0.97%) MSI
13 11 (0.97%) REST Assured
14 10 (0.88%) WebDriver
15 9 (0.79%) IntelliJ
16 8 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
General
1 469 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 333 (29.26%) Finance
3 213 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (17.75%) Public Sector
5 166 (14.59%) Banking
6 51 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 51 (4.48%) Retail
7 34 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.85%) Legal
11 19 (1.67%) Military
11 19 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.32%) Retail Banking
15 12 (1.05%) Marketing
16 10 (0.88%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 231 (20.30%) Analyst
2 170 (14.94%) Business Analyst
3 117 (10.28%) Developer
4 115 (10.11%) Senior
5 103 (9.05%) Lead
6 66 (5.80%) Architect
7 60 (5.27%) Scrum Master
8 48 (4.22%) Consultant
9 45 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 43 (3.78%) Project Manager
11 41 (3.60%) Product Owner
12 39 (3.43%) Delivery Manager
13 29 (2.55%) Product Manager
14 26 (2.28%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (2.02%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (1.93%) Business Systems Analyst
16 22 (1.93%) Technical Analyst
17 21 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (1.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (11.34%) Terraform
2 76 (6.68%) REST
3 42 (3.69%) .NET
4 38 (3.34%) JSON
5 36 (3.16%) HTML
6 34 (2.99%) React
7 29 (2.55%) AngularJS
7 29 (2.55%) RESTful
8 28 (2.46%) CSS
9 25 (2.20%) .NET Core
10 23 (2.02%) Spring
11 20 (1.76%) XML
12 19 (1.67%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.58%) Kafka
13 18 (1.58%) Playwright
13 18 (1.58%) PySpark
14 17 (1.49%) ADO
15 16 (1.41%) Web Services
16 15 (1.32%) SailPoint
16 15 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 204 (17.93%) Product Ownership
2 76 (6.68%) Onboarding
3 52 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.55%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (2.28%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 20 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 17 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.05%) Clustering
13 11 (0.97%) Credit Risk
13 11 (0.97%) PKI
14 10 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
15 9 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 73 (6.41%) Linux
2 59 (5.18%) Windows
3 35 (3.08%) Unix
4 12 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.70%) Android
5 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
10 2 (0.18%) MVS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.088%) Solaris
11 1 (0.088%) SUSE
11 1 (0.088%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.088%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (66.61%) Agile
2 369 (32.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 336 (29.53%) DevOps
4 308 (27.07%) Scrum
5 278 (24.43%) CI/CD
6 231 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (16.78%) Test Automation
9 182 (15.99%) User Stories
10 176 (15.47%) Migration
11 173 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 138 (12.13%) Sprint Planning
13 133 (11.69%) Acceptance Criteria
14 130 (11.42%) SDLC
15 127 (11.16%) Business Analysis
16 125 (10.98%) Kanban
17 121 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (10.19%) Requirements Gathering
19 115 (10.11%) AI
19 115 (10.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 214 (18.80%) SQL
2 169 (14.85%) Python
3 87 (7.64%) Java
4 60 (5.27%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 44 (3.87%) PL/SQL
8 43 (3.78%) C#
9 42 (3.69%) Bash
10 16 (1.41%) Bicep
10 16 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.32%) Groovy
12 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.88%) Perl
13 7 (0.62%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.35%) Korn
15 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.35%) Swift
16 3 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 410 (36.03%) Security Cleared
2 343 (30.14%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.49%) Degree
4 64 (5.62%) DV Cleared
5 60 (5.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.11%) PMP
9 21 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 19 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.41%) CISSP
13 15 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
14 14 (1.23%) IIBA
15 12 (1.05%) CBAP
16 10 (0.88%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.79%) CISM
17 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
19 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (10.81%) QA
2 64 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 62 (5.45%) PMO
4 47 (4.13%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.11%) WCAG
6 19 (1.67%) NCSC
7 15 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.14%) GDPR
8 13 (1.14%) GRC
8 13 (1.14%) NIST
9 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.70%) SLA
10 7 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.53%) SEPA
12 5 (0.44%) MiFID
13 4 (0.35%) HL7
13 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.26%) EMIR
System Software
1 96 (8.44%) Docker
2 48 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.44%) Squid
5 5 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 77 (6.77%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.98%) Ansible
3 51 (4.48%) Grafana
4 27 (2.37%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.32%) Argo
7 8 (0.70%) Istio
7 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.62%) Control-M
8 7 (0.62%) Puppet
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.53%) Packer
9 6 (0.53%) SCOM
9 6 (0.53%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.44%) Consul
11 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 3 (0.26%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 148 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 83 (7.29%) Oracle
4 81 (7.12%) Atlassian
5 45 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 35 (3.08%) SAP
7 32 (2.81%) Google
7 32 (2.81%) IBM
8 29 (2.55%) Talend
9 27 (2.37%) Denodo
10 26 (2.28%) Splunk
11 25 (2.20%) VMware
12 24 (2.11%) Informatica
13 20 (1.76%) Databricks
14 14 (1.23%) MuleSoft
15 13 (1.14%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.05%) Cisco
17 11 (0.97%) Adobe
18 10 (0.88%) Red Hat
18 10 (0.88%) Zscaler