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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 98 126
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 -31
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,064 784 843
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.66% 2.53% 1.89%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.09% 21.96% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 484 557
10th Percentile £327 £313 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -6.19% -0.91%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £507 £545
% change year-on-year -6.40% -6.88% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 28
10th Percentile £26.33 £55.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £27.21 £60.38 £52.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £64.38 £70.47
90th Percentile £80.05 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £67.56
% change year-on-year -30.83% -7.49% +26.28%

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 3,928 3,570 4,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.82% 11.53% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,710 2,203 2,872
10th Percentile £300 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £694 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 68 171
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.81 £15.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +53.10% +21.73%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £50.60
90th Percentile £81.20 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £48.16 £24.00
% change year-on-year -45.36% +100.66% +29.73%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +5 952 £500 -2.68% 196
UK excluding London +16 571 £475 -6.40% 166
London -7 408 £530 +4.60% 58
Work from Home -16 265 £467 -1.72% 109
North of England +13 206 £450 -10.00% 36
Midlands +15 126 £441 -7.49% 32
Yorkshire -18 109 £500 -7.41% 14
South West +16 100 £725 +26.09% 29
North West +24 91 £414 -8.06% 22
West Midlands +6 86 £450 -5.66% 23
South East -31 79 £500 +4.17% 47
Scotland +14 45 £450 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -6 38 £398 -5.36% 9
East of England -27 19 £425 +4.68% 15
North East -12 6 £388 -13.89%
Wales -6 3 £400 -24.17% 4
Northern Ireland -3 2 £458 - 1

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 90 (8.46%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.48%) nginx
3 15 (1.41%) CMS
4 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.85%) SAS
6 8 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
8 4 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.38%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.28%) Traefik
10 2 (0.19%) CICS
10 2 (0.19%) FileNet
10 2 (0.19%) IIS
11 1 (0.094%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 109 (10.24%) Microsoft Project
2 103 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 98 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
4 88 (8.27%) MS Visio
5 73 (6.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.13%) Trello
7 6 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.47%) Notion
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.19%) InDesign
9 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.094%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.094%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.094%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.094%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.50%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.66%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Summit
7 1 (0.094%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.094%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.094%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.094%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.094%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 178 (16.73%) AWS
2 159 (14.94%) Azure
3 122 (11.47%) GitHub
4 73 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (5.73%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.20%) Amazon S3
7 32 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (2.91%) Miro
8 31 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (2.73%) GCP
9 29 (2.73%) SaaS
10 28 (2.63%) Serverless
11 26 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (1.97%) Lucidchart
14 20 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (1.88%) Figma
14 20 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.85%) Firewall
2 21 (1.97%) VPN
3 20 (1.88%) DNS
3 20 (1.88%) SSH
4 19 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.79%) WAN
5 17 (1.60%) Network Security
6 13 (1.22%) LAN
7 12 (1.13%) FTP
7 12 (1.13%) SSL
8 11 (1.03%) HTTP
8 11 (1.03%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.94%) Ethernet
9 10 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.85%) SMTP
10 9 (0.85%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.85%) VSAN
11 7 (0.66%) Modbus
11 7 (0.66%) RS-232
11 7 (0.66%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.98%) Power BI
2 44 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (4.04%) Tableau
4 33 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 26 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.97%) Metadata
8 20 (1.88%) SQL Server
9 18 (1.69%) Big Data
10 16 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.22%) DocumentDB
11 13 (1.22%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.94%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.75%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.75%) Redis
15 7 (0.66%) Tick Data
16 6 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (0.56%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 976 (91.73%) JIRA
2 129 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 108 (10.15%) Git
4 60 (5.64%) GitLab
5 46 (4.32%) Bitbucket
6 37 (3.48%) Selenium
7 30 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 27 (2.54%) Postman
8 27 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 20 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.50%) JUnit
11 12 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.03%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.03%) Maven
13 9 (0.85%) Android Studio
13 9 (0.85%) ScriptRunner
14 8 (0.75%) Vagrant
15 7 (0.66%) SpecFlow
16 6 (0.56%) SoapUI
16 6 (0.56%) Zephyr
General
1 473 (44.45%) Social Skills
2 323 (30.36%) Finance
3 207 (19.45%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (16.92%) Banking
5 143 (13.44%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.61%) Military
8 31 (2.91%) Retail
9 29 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.44%) Retail Banking
12 22 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 21 (1.97%) Legal
13 21 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.41%) Automotive
14 15 (1.41%) Front Office
14 15 (1.41%) Marketing
15 14 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 239 (22.46%) Analyst
2 203 (19.08%) Business Analyst
3 111 (10.43%) Architect
4 102 (9.59%) Project Manager
5 84 (7.89%) Senior
6 81 (7.61%) Developer
7 72 (6.77%) Lead
8 47 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.29%) Technical Analyst
9 35 (3.29%) Technical Business Analyst
10 34 (3.20%) Scrum Master
11 31 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 31 (2.91%) Tester
12 30 (2.82%) Consultant
12 30 (2.82%) Senior Business Analyst
12 30 (2.82%) Service Architect
13 28 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (2.16%) Banking Analyst
14 23 (2.16%) Product Owner
15 22 (2.07%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.48%) REST
2 44 (4.14%) RESTful
3 37 (3.48%) Kafka
4 32 (3.01%) Spring
5 31 (2.91%) .NET
6 27 (2.54%) HTML
7 25 (2.35%) Spring Boot
8 24 (2.26%) JSON
8 24 (2.26%) SOAP
9 19 (1.79%) Playwright
10 18 (1.69%) Node.js
11 17 (1.60%) XML
12 16 (1.50%) OAuth
13 15 (1.41%) LDAP
13 15 (1.41%) React
13 15 (1.41%) YAML
14 14 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (1.32%) Swagger
15 13 (1.22%) ADO
16 12 (1.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 176 (16.54%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 29 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.79%) PMI
9 17 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.94%) NHS
14 9 (0.85%) Equities
14 9 (0.85%) Replication
14 9 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 9 (0.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 84 (7.89%) Linux
2 65 (6.11%) Windows
3 21 (1.97%) Unix
4 16 (1.50%) Android
5 12 (1.13%) VMS
6 9 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.094%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.094%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (61.37%) Agile
2 304 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (25.19%) DevOps
4 239 (22.46%) Scrum
5 222 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (17.67%) CI/CD
7 170 (15.98%) User Stories
8 169 (15.88%) Project Management
9 158 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 156 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 142 (13.35%) Acceptance Criteria
12 125 (11.75%) Change Management
13 116 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 114 (10.71%) Project Delivery
15 108 (10.15%) Decision-Making
15 108 (10.15%) Migration
16 106 (9.96%) Test Automation
17 104 (9.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 103 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
19 96 (9.02%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 152 (14.29%) Python
2 123 (11.56%) SQL
3 74 (6.95%) Java
4 60 (5.64%) PowerShell
5 54 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 27 (2.54%) Bash
7 23 (2.16%) C#
8 21 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.22%) Go
10 9 (0.85%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.85%) C++
11 8 (0.75%) Groovy
11 8 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.66%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.66%) Perl
13 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.28%) C
14 3 (0.28%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.28%) PHP
14 3 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 309 (29.04%) Security Cleared
2 260 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 215 (20.21%) Degree
4 55 (5.17%) PMI Certification
5 51 (4.79%) PMP
5 51 (4.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 46 (4.32%) CISSP
7 44 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (3.48%) CISM
9 33 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (2.82%) Master's Degree
11 27 (2.54%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.88%) CBAP
13 18 (1.69%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.41%) IIBA
15 12 (1.13%) CSPO
15 12 (1.13%) MBA
16 11 (1.03%) Azure Certification
17 10 (0.94%) PhD
17 10 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (8.93%) QA
2 37 (3.48%) PMO
3 36 (3.38%) GDPR
4 31 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 29 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.79%) NIST
7 14 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (1.03%) GRC
9 11 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.85%) Basel III
11 8 (0.75%) PSD2
11 8 (0.75%) WCAG
12 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.47%) NCSC
13 5 (0.47%) SLA
14 4 (0.38%) COBIT
14 4 (0.38%) MiFID
14 4 (0.38%) P3O
15 3 (0.28%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 89 (8.36%) Docker
2 18 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.22%) Squid
5 10 (0.94%) vSphere
6 8 (0.75%) DFS Replication
6 8 (0.75%) Postfix
7 7 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.66%) Firmware
8 6 (0.56%) Dovecot
9 5 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.094%) etcd
12 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.094%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 96 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 78 (7.33%) Terraform
3 58 (5.45%) Ansible
4 32 (3.01%) Grafana
5 30 (2.82%) OPNET
6 21 (1.97%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.88%) Consul
8 17 (1.60%) Packer
9 14 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.13%) Puppet
11 11 (1.03%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.94%) vRealize
13 7 (0.66%) VxRail
14 6 (0.56%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.56%) Nessus
14 6 (0.56%) Proxmox
15 5 (0.47%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.47%) Istio
15 5 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 124 (11.65%) Atlassian
2 112 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 77 (7.24%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.89%) Oracle
5 47 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.57%) Remedy
7 31 (2.91%) BiZZdesign
8 28 (2.63%) Red Hat
9 22 (2.07%) SAP
9 22 (2.07%) VMware
10 20 (1.88%) Cisco
10 20 (1.88%) IBM
11 18 (1.69%) Commvault
11 18 (1.69%) Sonatype
12 17 (1.60%) HP
13 16 (1.50%) Google
14 15 (1.41%) CyberArk
14 15 (1.41%) Splunk
15 14 (1.32%) Dell
16 13 (1.22%) CheckPoint