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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 100 110
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,163 868 804
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.63% 2.08%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.71% 23.96% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 602 531
10th Percentile £377 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £671 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 20
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.38 £25.30
25th Percentile £59.75 £62.73 £46.69
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £80.31 £76.88 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +16.67%

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 4,707 3,623 4,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 10.97% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,076 2,339 2,762
10th Percentile £281 £280 £275
25th Percentile £403 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.67% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 95 88
10th Percentile £14.96 £17.59 £17.08
25th Percentile £17.38 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.06 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +8.05% -29.63%
75th Percentile £62.34 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.13 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £48.56
% change year-on-year -21.22% -15.04% +6.73%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -25 1,007 £500 -2.44% 370
UK excluding London -19 619 £475 - 206
London -34 452 £537 -6.57% 217
Work from Home +11 378 £518 +3.60% 589
North of England -42 193 £474 +5.33% 45
Midlands +17 161 £469 -1.26% 26
West Midlands +16 135 £469 -1.26% 23
Yorkshire -19 105 £474 +5.33% 13
South East -28 92 £475 - 45
North West -35 82 £470 +10.59% 24
Scotland +13 79 £431 -4.17% 25
South West -19 69 £545 -5.22% 37
East of England -18 28 £461 +2.44% 12
East Midlands -1 25 £413 +25.00% 3
North East -55 9 £480 -7.69% 8
Wales -12 8 £650 +36.84% 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 72 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) SAS
3 14 (1.20%) Apache
4 12 (1.03%) nginx
5 10 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.86%) CMS
6 9 (0.77%) Camunda
7 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.34%) JBoss
9 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.086%) Appian
11 1 (0.086%) IIS
11 1 (0.086%) Mule
11 1 (0.086%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (7.48%) MS Visio
2 73 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 5 (0.43%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.34%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.086%) CATIA
11 1 (0.086%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.086%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.086%) Sketch
11 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.60%) Temenos T24
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) BASE24
7 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.17%) Primavera
7 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.17%) Summit
8 1 (0.086%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.086%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.086%) Endur
8 1 (0.086%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (22.53%) AWS
2 259 (22.27%) Azure
3 127 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
4 112 (9.63%) GitHub
5 85 (7.31%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.53%) Amazon S3
7 62 (5.33%) Serverless
8 60 (5.16%) GCP
9 57 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (4.21%) Miro
11 46 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (2.75%) Figma
13 31 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (2.24%) SaaS
16 25 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (1.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.67%) DNS
1 31 (2.67%) Firewall
2 18 (1.55%) SSH
3 17 (1.46%) SSL
4 13 (1.12%) HTTP
5 12 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.95%) Network Security
6 11 (0.95%) WAN
7 9 (0.77%) DHCP
8 8 (0.69%) VPN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.43%) Internet
10 5 (0.43%) LAN
11 4 (0.34%) IPv4
11 4 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.34%) OpenVPN
11 4 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.62%) Power BI
2 62 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 35 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 27 (2.32%) DynamoDB
8 25 (2.15%) MongoDB
9 24 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 23 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
11 22 (1.89%) Metadata
12 20 (1.72%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.38%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.38%) Oracle Database
13 16 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (1.20%) Tableau
16 13 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
17 12 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 11 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1,057 (90.89%) JIRA
2 158 (13.59%) Git
3 109 (9.37%) Jenkins
4 104 (8.94%) GitLab
5 50 (4.30%) Bitbucket
6 37 (3.18%) Selenium
7 32 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 29 (2.49%) JUnit
9 24 (2.06%) Zephyr
10 23 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (1.81%) Maven
11 21 (1.81%) Postman
11 21 (1.81%) SonarQube
12 20 (1.72%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.72%) Cucumber
13 19 (1.63%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.63%) Mockito
14 16 (1.38%) REST Assured
15 15 (1.29%) JMeter
16 11 (0.95%) MSI
General
1 475 (40.84%) Social Skills
2 336 (28.89%) Finance
3 225 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (17.37%) Public Sector
5 172 (14.79%) Banking
6 50 (4.30%) Retail
7 47 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.81%) Military
12 19 (1.63%) Legal
12 19 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.38%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (1.12%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.12%) Marketing
17 12 (1.03%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.60%) Billing
Job Titles
1 236 (20.29%) Analyst
2 170 (14.62%) Business Analyst
3 130 (11.18%) Developer
4 121 (10.40%) Senior
5 104 (8.94%) Lead
6 68 (5.85%) Scrum Master
7 63 (5.42%) Architect
8 48 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.87%) Project Manager
10 44 (3.78%) Consultant
10 44 (3.78%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (3.18%) Product Manager
11 37 (3.18%) Product Owner
12 32 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.24%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (2.15%) Java Developer
16 23 (1.98%) Senior Developer
17 21 (1.81%) Business Systems Analyst
17 21 (1.81%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (10.83%) Terraform
2 88 (7.57%) REST
3 42 (3.61%) .NET
3 42 (3.61%) HTML
4 38 (3.27%) AngularJS
4 38 (3.27%) JSON
4 38 (3.27%) RESTful
5 37 (3.18%) React
6 34 (2.92%) CSS
7 28 (2.41%) Spring
7 28 (2.41%) Spring Boot
8 25 (2.15%) .NET Core
9 24 (2.06%) Kafka
9 24 (2.06%) Web Services
10 23 (1.98%) SOAP
11 21 (1.81%) Hibernate
12 20 (1.72%) XML
13 19 (1.63%) .NET Framework
13 19 (1.63%) JPA
14 18 (1.55%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 217 (18.66%) Product Ownership
2 79 (6.79%) Onboarding
3 61 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 31 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 27 (2.32%) Data Structures
8 24 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 14 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.20%) PKI
14 13 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.03%) Credit Risk
16 11 (0.95%) Clustering
17 10 (0.86%) Replication
18 8 (0.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (5.76%) Linux
2 58 (4.99%) Windows
3 33 (2.84%) Unix
4 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.69%) Android
8 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) VMS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (66.12%) Agile
2 384 (33.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 343 (29.49%) DevOps
4 319 (27.43%) Scrum
5 282 (24.25%) CI/CD
6 244 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
7 235 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 204 (17.54%) User Stories
9 194 (16.68%) Test Automation
10 180 (15.48%) Migration
11 169 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 159 (13.67%) Sprint Planning
13 142 (12.21%) SDLC
14 134 (11.52%) Acceptance Criteria
15 131 (11.26%) Kanban
16 128 (11.01%) AI
17 127 (10.92%) Business Analysis
18 125 (10.75%) Requirements Gathering
19 121 (10.40%) User Acceptance Testing
20 117 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 225 (19.35%) SQL
2 168 (14.45%) Python
3 91 (7.82%) Java
4 61 (5.25%) JavaScript
5 52 (4.47%) TypeScript
6 50 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 42 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.53%) Bash
8 41 (3.53%) C#
9 17 (1.46%) Groovy
10 16 (1.38%) Bicep
11 12 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 11 (0.95%) Perl
13 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.34%) Go
16 4 (0.34%) Korn
16 4 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 404 (34.74%) Security Cleared
2 337 (28.98%) SC Cleared
3 106 (9.11%) Degree
4 69 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 65 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (2.75%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.24%) PMP
8 24 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (1.98%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 18 (1.55%) Azure Certification
12 16 (1.38%) SAFe Agilist
13 14 (1.20%) IIBA
14 13 (1.12%) CISSP
15 12 (1.03%) CBAP
16 10 (0.86%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.69%) CISM
18 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
19 5 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (10.83%) QA
2 71 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 65 (5.59%) PMO
4 49 (4.21%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.15%) WCAG
6 20 (1.72%) NCSC
7 15 (1.29%) GRC
8 14 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (1.03%) GDPR
9 12 (1.03%) NIST
10 8 (0.69%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.69%) SLA
11 7 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.52%) SEPA
13 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.34%) HL7
14 4 (0.34%) MiFID
15 3 (0.26%) EMIR
15 3 (0.26%) GxP
15 3 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (8.77%) Docker
2 52 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.52%) Squid
5 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.34%) Ceph
7 4 (0.34%) vSphere
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 66 (5.67%) Ansible
3 54 (4.64%) Grafana
4 33 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.29%) Argo
7 10 (0.86%) Control-M
8 7 (0.60%) Istio
8 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.60%) Packer
8 7 (0.60%) SCOM
8 7 (0.60%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.34%) Consul
11 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.34%) Podman
11 4 (0.34%) Puppet
11 4 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 150 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.91%) ServiceNow
3 82 (7.05%) Oracle
4 72 (6.19%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.27%) Google
6 38 (3.27%) IBM
7 32 (2.75%) SAP
7 32 (2.75%) VMware
8 28 (2.41%) Talend
9 27 (2.32%) Splunk
10 25 (2.15%) Denodo
11 23 (1.98%) Informatica
12 18 (1.55%) Databricks
13 13 (1.12%) MuleSoft
14 12 (1.03%) Cisco
15 11 (0.95%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.86%) Adobe
16 10 (0.86%) BMC
17 9 (0.77%) Remedy