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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 94 130
Rank change year-on-year -15 +36 -19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,133 779 776
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.26% 2.63% 1.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.23% 23.49% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 518 528
10th Percentile £350 £331 £356
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £670 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 25
10th Percentile £26.99 £53.94 £25.10
25th Percentile £55.47 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £74.50 £77.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £80.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.64% - +21.74%

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 4,320 3,317 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.61% 11.20% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 2,189 3,063
10th Percentile £313 £281 £262
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £710 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 70 164
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.35 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +65.56% -39.60%
75th Percentile £61.58 £69.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £74.93 £78.88 £72.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £53.61 £30.41
% change year-on-year -39.38% +76.28% -38.25%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +1 989 £488 -3.70% 216
UK excluding London -13 618 £465 -2.11% 161
London -4 423 £525 -4.55% 93
Work from Home +10 379 £492 +9.33% 116
North of England -24 203 £446 +4.88% 37
Midlands +33 195 £459 -1.82% 22
West Midlands +18 153 £463 -2.63% 16
North West -2 110 £431 +3.86% 15
South East -37 86 £500 +8.11% 55
Yorkshire -30 84 £455 +10.30% 18
Scotland -8 65 £555 +23.33% 13
South West -20 58 £563 -2.17% 20
East Midlands +3 40 £413 +13.95% 6
East of England -33 19 £350 -24.32% 13
North East -37 9 £428 -20.47% 4
Wales -18 7 £650 +36.84% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 4

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
1 103 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 30 (2.65%) SAS
3 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.15%) nginx
4 6 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.53%) CMS
5 4 (0.35%) Apache
5 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.35%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.26%) CICS
6 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Camunda
7 2 (0.18%) Drupal
7 2 (0.18%) JBoss
8 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.088%) Appian
8 1 (0.088%) Mendix
Applications
1 85 (7.50%) MS Visio
2 80 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 65 (5.74%) Microsoft Project
4 55 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 47 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.44%) Trello
7 4 (0.35%) Notion
8 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.53%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.44%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.35%) Actimize
5 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.26%) Primavera
5 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.18%) BASE24
6 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.088%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.088%) SAP SRM
7 1 (0.088%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 252 (22.24%) AWS
2 230 (20.30%) Azure
3 119 (10.50%) GitHub
4 104 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (8.21%) Power Platform
6 64 (5.65%) Amazon S3
7 53 (4.68%) Serverless
8 46 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 46 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (3.97%) GCP
10 42 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 31 (2.74%) SaaS
13 30 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (2.65%) Miro
14 28 (2.47%) Entra ID
15 25 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (1.85%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.65%) Firewall
2 23 (2.03%) Network Security
3 19 (1.68%) DNS
4 18 (1.59%) WAN
5 17 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.24%) LAN
6 14 (1.24%) SSL
6 14 (1.24%) VPN
7 12 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.97%) SSH
9 10 (0.88%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.79%) HTTP
11 7 (0.62%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.62%) OpenVPN
11 7 (0.62%) PSTN
11 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.44%) BIG-IP
12 5 (0.44%) Modbus
12 5 (0.44%) RS-232
12 5 (0.44%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.24%) Power BI
2 54 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (2.74%) Tableau
5 29 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 26 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (2.03%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.85%) SQL Server
10 20 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (1.77%) Metadata
11 15 (1.32%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
12 14 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.15%) Relational Database
14 12 (1.06%) Pentaho
15 10 (0.88%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.88%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1,038 (91.62%) JIRA
2 146 (12.89%) Git
3 122 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 98 (8.65%) GitLab
5 54 (4.77%) Selenium
6 47 (4.15%) Bitbucket
7 32 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 31 (2.74%) JUnit
9 30 (2.65%) Cucumber
9 30 (2.65%) Postman
10 29 (2.56%) JMeter
11 22 (1.94%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.77%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.68%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.59%) Cypress.io
14 18 (1.59%) Zephyr
15 12 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 12 (1.06%) REST Assured
16 11 (0.97%) ScriptRunner
17 9 (0.79%) IntelliJ
General
1 444 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 329 (29.04%) Finance
3 200 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (16.95%) Banking
5 165 (14.56%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.09%) Retail
8 31 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.47%) Legal
10 26 (2.29%) Retail Banking
11 24 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.03%) Military
13 21 (1.85%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
16 14 (1.24%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.15%) Marketing
18 11 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 9 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 260 (22.95%) Analyst
2 213 (18.80%) Business Analyst
3 112 (9.89%) Senior
4 99 (8.74%) Developer
5 84 (7.41%) Architect
6 75 (6.62%) Lead
7 61 (5.38%) Project Manager
8 52 (4.59%) Scrum Master
9 50 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 45 (3.97%) Consultant
11 40 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
12 31 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
12 31 (2.74%) Tester
13 28 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.29%) Product Owner
15 24 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (2.03%) Banking Analyst
16 23 (2.03%) Technical Analyst
16 23 (2.03%) Technical Business Analyst
17 22 (1.94%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (4.32%) REST
2 41 (3.62%) Spring
3 32 (2.82%) JSON
4 31 (2.74%) RESTful
5 30 (2.65%) React
6 25 (2.21%) .NET
6 25 (2.21%) ADO
6 25 (2.21%) HTML
7 21 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.77%) SOAP
8 20 (1.77%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.68%) PySpark
9 19 (1.68%) WireMock
10 18 (1.59%) CSS
10 18 (1.59%) XML
11 16 (1.41%) OpenID
12 15 (1.32%) Node.js
13 13 (1.15%) AWS CDK
13 13 (1.15%) Playwright
13 13 (1.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 172 (15.18%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.77%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.38%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 23 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.50%) PMI
11 17 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.97%) Security Posture
14 10 (0.88%) PKI
14 10 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.79%) IoT
15 9 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 85 (7.50%) Linux
2 55 (4.85%) Windows
3 33 (2.91%) Unix
4 13 (1.15%) Android
5 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.44%) AIX
7 5 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 2 (0.18%) MVS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.088%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.088%) SUSE
11 1 (0.088%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.088%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (61.61%) Agile
2 313 (27.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 310 (27.36%) DevOps
4 284 (25.07%) Scrum
5 271 (23.92%) CI/CD
6 222 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
7 198 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 179 (15.80%) User Stories
10 178 (15.71%) Test Automation
11 159 (14.03%) Migration
12 128 (11.30%) Project Management
13 122 (10.77%) Acceptance Criteria
14 115 (10.15%) Roadmaps
15 113 (9.97%) Kanban
15 113 (9.97%) SDLC
16 109 (9.62%) Project Delivery
17 107 (9.44%) Data Modelling
17 107 (9.44%) Workshop Facilitation
18 106 (9.36%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (16.59%) SQL
2 159 (14.03%) Python
3 84 (7.41%) Java
4 55 (4.85%) JavaScript
5 39 (3.44%) Bash
5 39 (3.44%) PL/SQL
6 38 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.59%) C#
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.97%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.88%) Groovy
11 10 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.88%) Perl
12 8 (0.71%) C++
13 7 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.44%) Bicep
14 5 (0.44%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.35%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 393 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 330 (29.13%) SC Cleared
3 132 (11.65%) Degree
4 51 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 49 (4.32%) PMI Certification
6 43 (3.80%) PMP
7 40 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 33 (2.91%) CISSP
9 26 (2.29%) CISM
10 25 (2.21%) AWS Certification
11 24 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (1.68%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.68%) SAFe Agilist
13 17 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 16 (1.41%) CBAP
14 16 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.41%) IIBA
15 13 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.97%) Azure Certification
17 9 (0.79%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.30%) QA
2 63 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.68%) PMO
4 39 (3.44%) GDPR
5 35 (3.09%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.21%) NIST
7 20 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.41%) GRC
9 14 (1.24%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.15%) WCAG
11 10 (0.88%) NCSC
11 10 (0.88%) SLA
12 7 (0.62%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.53%) Basel III
13 6 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.53%) PSD2
14 5 (0.44%) HL7
14 5 (0.44%) MiFID
15 4 (0.35%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 89 (7.86%) Docker
2 16 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.97%) Squid
4 6 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (0.44%) Firmware
6 3 (0.26%) Ceph
6 3 (0.26%) HDFS
6 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (9.44%) Terraform
2 95 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 59 (5.21%) Ansible
4 51 (4.50%) Grafana
5 35 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.15%) Consul
7 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (1.15%) Puppet
8 9 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.79%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
10 5 (0.44%) Istio
11 4 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.35%) Argo
11 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.26%) CASB
12 3 (0.26%) Foglight
Vendors
1 113 (9.97%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 80 (7.06%) Atlassian
4 79 (6.97%) Oracle
5 47 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 33 (2.91%) SAP
7 31 (2.74%) Talend
8 28 (2.47%) Denodo
9 26 (2.29%) Red Hat
10 23 (2.03%) Databricks
11 20 (1.77%) IBM
12 18 (1.59%) Google
12 18 (1.59%) Informatica
13 17 (1.50%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
14 16 (1.41%) Splunk
15 15 (1.32%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.06%) Cisco
16 12 (1.06%) Sonatype
17 11 (0.97%) Zscaler