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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 101 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 -36
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,131 761 799
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.65% 2.59% 1.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.85% 22.23% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 837 500 518
10th Percentile £333 £313 £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £625
90th Percentile £718 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -6.40% -6.02% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 25
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.93 £40.00
25th Percentile £27.21 £59.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% -7.08% +28.12%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £74.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.83% -10.71% +33.33%

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 4,061 3,424 4,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.51% 11.63% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,802 2,205 2,846
10th Percentile £304 £256 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £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 131 69 179
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.81
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £41.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +60.78% +14.20%
75th Percentile £69.44 £63.75 £45.59
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £68.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £45.66 £23.22
% change year-on-year -18.70% +96.67% +5.52%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +10 1,014 £500 - 280
UK excluding London +8 610 £475 -6.40% 219
London +2 424 £525 +5.00% 108
Work from Home +2 302 £475 +5.09% 164
North of England +12 213 £455 - 32
Midlands +11 158 £430 -6.63% 37
West Midlands +1 118 £450 -5.66% 25
Yorkshire -12 111 £500 -6.37% 12
South West +9 100 £725 +26.09% 32
North West +23 99 £431 +1.41% 15
South East -45 75 £500 - 86
Scotland +6 44 £500 +17.65% 6
East Midlands -12 38 £420 - 12
East of England -28 23 £425 +3.03% 23
Wales -8 4 £400 -23.81% 6
North East -17 3 £350 -22.22% 5
Northern Ireland -4 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
1 101 (8.93%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.92%) nginx
3 15 (1.33%) CMS
4 14 (1.24%) SAS
5 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.62%) Apache
7 6 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.44%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.088%) JBoss
12 1 (0.088%) Mendix
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 115 (10.17%) Microsoft Project
2 105 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 93 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (7.96%) MS Visio
5 75 (6.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.15%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.18%) InDesign
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.088%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.088%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.088%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.18%) Actimize
6 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Summit
6 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.088%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 202 (17.86%) AWS
2 182 (16.09%) Azure
3 135 (11.94%) GitHub
4 79 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.45%) GCP
7 34 (3.01%) SaaS
8 30 (2.65%) Serverless
9 29 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 28 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (2.39%) Amazon S3
11 27 (2.39%) Miro
12 26 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.95%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.77%) Lucidchart
17 19 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 19 (1.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.01%) Firewall
2 24 (2.12%) VPN
3 20 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.68%) Network Security
4 19 (1.68%) WAN
5 14 (1.24%) DNS
6 13 (1.15%) LAN
7 12 (1.06%) SSL
8 11 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.88%) SSH
9 10 (0.88%) VSAN
9 10 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.80%) Ethernet
11 8 (0.71%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.62%) Modbus
12 7 (0.62%) OpenVPN
12 7 (0.62%) RS-232
12 7 (0.62%) RS-485
13 5 (0.44%) BIG-IP
13 5 (0.44%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.22%) Power BI
2 55 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (3.63%) Tableau
4 31 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.95%) MongoDB
5 22 (1.95%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.68%) Metadata
7 18 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.41%) Big Data
9 15 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.24%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.15%) DocumentDB
12 12 (1.06%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.71%) MySQL
14 7 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (0.62%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.62%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.62%) Tick Data
15 6 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1,039 (91.87%) JIRA
2 137 (12.11%) Jenkins
3 131 (11.58%) Git
4 69 (6.10%) GitLab
5 49 (4.33%) Bitbucket
5 49 (4.33%) Selenium
6 33 (2.92%) JUnit
7 32 (2.83%) Cucumber
7 32 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.65%) Postman
9 24 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 22 (1.95%) JMeter
11 15 (1.33%) WebDriver
12 12 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (1.06%) Maven
13 10 (0.88%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.88%) ScriptRunner
14 9 (0.80%) Android Studio
14 9 (0.80%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 493 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 326 (28.82%) Finance
3 214 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (16.71%) Banking
5 155 (13.70%) Public Sector
6 61 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (4.16%) Military
8 36 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (3.09%) Retail
10 31 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.21%) Legal
12 23 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (1.95%) Retail Banking
14 20 (1.77%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 17 (1.50%) Marketing
17 16 (1.41%) Financial Institution
18 13 (1.15%) Automotive
18 13 (1.15%) Front Office
19 12 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 257 (22.72%) Analyst
2 213 (18.83%) Business Analyst
3 120 (10.61%) Architect
4 103 (9.11%) Project Manager
5 95 (8.40%) Senior
6 84 (7.43%) Developer
7 81 (7.16%) Lead
8 46 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (3.54%) Tester
10 38 (3.36%) Technical Business Analyst
11 37 (3.27%) Technical Analyst
12 35 (3.09%) Consultant
13 33 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
14 31 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
14 31 (2.74%) Scrum Master
15 30 (2.65%) Service Architect
16 27 (2.39%) Banking Analyst
16 27 (2.39%) Data Engineer
17 26 (2.30%) Banking Business Analyst
18 25 (2.21%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (6.19%) REST
2 49 (4.33%) Spring
3 36 (3.18%) RESTful
4 33 (2.92%) Kafka
5 28 (2.48%) JSON
6 27 (2.39%) HTML
6 27 (2.39%) Spring Boot
7 21 (1.86%) XML
8 19 (1.68%) WireMock
9 18 (1.59%) .NET
9 18 (1.59%) Node.js
9 18 (1.59%) Playwright
9 18 (1.59%) SOAP
10 17 (1.50%) ADO
10 17 (1.50%) OAuth
10 17 (1.50%) React
11 14 (1.24%) Middleware
12 13 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
12 13 (1.15%) Swagger
12 13 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 176 (15.56%) Product Ownership
2 56 (4.95%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.39%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 23 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 21 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 20 (1.77%) PMI
9 17 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 13 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.06%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (0.88%) Equities
14 10 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.22%) Linux
2 57 (5.04%) Windows
3 23 (2.03%) Unix
4 17 (1.50%) Android
5 11 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (60.83%) Agile
2 324 (28.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 288 (25.46%) DevOps
4 258 (22.81%) Scrum
5 226 (19.98%) CI/CD
6 225 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 184 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 173 (15.30%) Project Management
8 173 (15.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 168 (14.85%) User Stories
10 142 (12.56%) Acceptance Criteria
11 133 (11.76%) Test Automation
12 124 (10.96%) Decision-Making
13 122 (10.79%) Migration
14 120 (10.61%) Project Delivery
15 118 (10.43%) Roadmaps
16 112 (9.90%) Change Management
17 111 (9.81%) Workshop Facilitation
18 106 (9.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 104 (9.20%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 163 (14.41%) Python
2 133 (11.76%) SQL
3 84 (7.43%) Java
4 58 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 56 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.01%) Bash
7 22 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.59%) C#
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.88%) C++
12 7 (0.62%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.62%) Go
13 6 (0.53%) Perl
13 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.27%) C
14 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.27%) PHP
14 3 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 367 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 309 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 210 (18.57%) Degree
4 57 (5.04%) PMI Certification
5 55 (4.86%) PMP
6 52 (4.60%) CISSP
6 52 (4.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 51 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 42 (3.71%) CISM
9 38 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (2.74%) Master's Degree
11 25 (2.21%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.77%) CBAP
13 17 (1.50%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.50%) IIBA
14 15 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (1.06%) MBA
16 10 (0.88%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.88%) PhD
16 10 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.40%) QA
2 43 (3.80%) PMO
3 40 (3.54%) GDPR
4 39 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.39%) NIST
6 24 (2.12%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.15%) GRC
9 11 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) Basel III
11 7 (0.62%) PSD2
11 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) SLA
13 5 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.44%) MiFID
14 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.35%) P3O
14 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (8.66%) Docker
2 15 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.80%) vSphere
5 8 (0.71%) Squid
6 7 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.62%) Firmware
7 3 (0.27%) HDFS
7 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.18%) Postfix
9 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 119 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 81 (7.16%) Terraform
3 69 (6.10%) Ansible
4 38 (3.36%) Grafana
5 30 (2.65%) OPNET
6 26 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.86%) Consul
8 18 (1.59%) Puppet
9 17 (1.50%) Packer
10 16 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (1.24%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.88%) vRealize
14 7 (0.62%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.62%) VxRail
15 5 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
16 4 (0.35%) HP ALM
17 3 (0.27%) CASB
17 3 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 141 (12.47%) Atlassian
2 110 (9.73%) Microsoft
3 76 (6.72%) ServiceNow
4 53 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 46 (4.07%) Oracle
6 34 (3.01%) Remedy
7 33 (2.92%) Red Hat
8 32 (2.83%) BiZZdesign
9 30 (2.65%) SAP
10 20 (1.77%) Commvault
10 20 (1.77%) IBM
11 19 (1.68%) Sonatype
11 19 (1.68%) VMware
12 18 (1.59%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.59%) Databricks
12 18 (1.59%) Splunk
13 17 (1.50%) Cisco
14 16 (1.41%) Google
15 15 (1.33%) MuleSoft
16 13 (1.15%) HP