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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 105 99
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 -18
Contract jobs citing Confluence 999 845 1,072
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.80% 2.35% 2.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.44% 21.23% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 531 696
10th Percentile £327 £315 £375
25th Percentile £420 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £560
% change year-on-year -0.74% -10.04% +6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 29
10th Percentile £27.21 £49.00 £48.92
25th Percentile £39.00 £61.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £67.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +7.23% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £67.02 £64.88
% change year-on-year -5.80% +3.29% +23.59%

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 3,779 3,981 4,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.58% 11.06% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,554 2,441 3,090
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £399 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +1.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £626
90th Percentile £720 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £470
% change year-on-year +2.70% -1.60% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 94 137
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +43.27% +31.45%
75th Percentile £68.54 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £23.13
% change year-on-year -26.32% +105.41% +31.32%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +15 897 £525 - 154
UK excluding London +1 480 £500 -0.74% 129
London +13 446 £550 - 51
Work from Home -16 244 £513 +1.08% 88
North of England -13 171 £500 -0.99% 27
Yorkshire -17 96 £513 -0.49% 13
Midlands +17 92 £450 -5.66% 18
South West +23 88 £650 +1.17% 24
West Midlands +25 71 £475 -5.00% 9
South East -18 66 £525 +12.90% 48
North West -4 65 £466 -9.17% 12
Scotland +12 44 £500 - 1
East Midlands -3 21 £348 -16.71% 8
East of England -28 16 £425 - 11
North East -5 10 £510 +13.33% 4
Wales -1 5 £469 -10.71% 3
Northern Ireland -5 2 £320 - 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 68 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.30%) nginx
3 17 (1.70%) CMS
4 14 (1.40%) Apache
5 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.30%) CICS
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Camunda
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.10%) Appian
8 1 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (9.01%) Microsoft Project
2 89 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
4 78 (7.81%) MS Visio
5 56 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (2.00%) Trello
7 12 (1.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
8 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.10%) Notion
9 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.10%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 182 (18.22%) AWS
2 143 (14.31%) Azure
3 99 (9.91%) GitHub
4 59 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (4.20%) Amazon S3
6 41 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
6 41 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 40 (4.00%) GCP
8 37 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (3.10%) Miro
11 28 (2.80%) Serverless
11 28 (2.80%) Slack
12 26 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (2.40%) SaaS
15 23 (2.30%) Amazon ELB
15 23 (2.30%) AWS KMS
16 22 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.70%) Firewall
2 40 (4.00%) SSH
3 33 (3.30%) DNS
4 26 (2.60%) SMTP
5 24 (2.40%) FTP
6 23 (2.30%) HTTP
7 20 (2.00%) SSL
8 17 (1.70%) OpenLDAP
9 14 (1.40%) VPN
10 12 (1.20%) IMAP
11 8 (0.80%) VSAN
11 8 (0.80%) WAN
12 7 (0.70%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.60%) TCP/IP
14 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.50%) Network Security
15 4 (0.40%) DHCP
15 4 (0.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 4 (0.40%) LAN
16 3 (0.30%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (3.80%) Power BI
3 31 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (3.00%) Tableau
5 28 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.60%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.60%) Metadata
8 14 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (1.40%) Big Data
8 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.90%) MySQL
11 8 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.60%) Couchbase
12 6 (0.60%) Redis
13 5 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.40%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 907 (90.79%) JIRA
2 130 (13.01%) Jenkins
3 117 (11.71%) Git
4 63 (6.31%) GitLab
5 61 (6.11%) Bitbucket
6 31 (3.10%) Selenium
7 26 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 25 (2.50%) Vagrant
9 23 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (2.20%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.70%) Postman
12 15 (1.50%) JUnit
13 12 (1.20%) Maven
14 10 (1.00%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.90%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.80%) Zephyr
17 7 (0.70%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.70%) ScriptRunner
18 6 (0.60%) Android Studio
18 6 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 450 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 271 (27.13%) Finance
3 179 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 131 (13.11%) Banking
6 43 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.80%) Military
8 32 (3.20%) Retail
9 29 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.50%) Legal
12 20 (2.00%) Investment Banking
12 20 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.90%) Front Office
14 17 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.50%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.30%) Automotive
17 11 (1.10%) Marketing
17 11 (1.10%) Publishing
18 9 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 203 (20.32%) Analyst
2 161 (16.12%) Business Analyst
3 97 (9.71%) Architect
4 96 (9.61%) Project Manager
5 88 (8.81%) Senior
6 77 (7.71%) Developer
7 72 (7.21%) Lead
8 45 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 35 (3.50%) Product Owner
11 34 (3.40%) Scrum Master
12 33 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
13 29 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
13 29 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
14 28 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (2.80%) Technical Business Analyst
15 27 (2.70%) Consultant
15 27 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (2.60%) Administrator
16 26 (2.60%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (7.51%) REST
2 42 (4.20%) HTML
3 40 (4.00%) LDAP
4 39 (3.90%) .NET
5 37 (3.70%) Kafka
6 36 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 33 (3.30%) React
8 31 (3.10%) JSON
9 29 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
9 29 (2.90%) RESTful
10 28 (2.80%) SOAP
11 24 (2.40%) SAML
11 24 (2.40%) Web Services
12 21 (2.10%) CSS
12 21 (2.10%) Spring Boot
13 19 (1.90%) Spring
14 18 (1.80%) Node.js
15 16 (1.60%) HTML5
15 16 (1.60%) jQuery
15 16 (1.60%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (15.62%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 30 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.60%) Replication
6 25 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 19 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.40%) Tandem
12 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.30%) PMI
13 12 (1.20%) Derivative
13 12 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.20%) NHS
14 11 (1.10%) Equities
15 10 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 96 (9.61%) Linux
2 81 (8.11%) Windows
3 32 (3.20%) Unix
4 28 (2.80%) VMS
5 23 (2.30%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.10%) Android
8 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Debian
11 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) zOS
12 1 (0.10%) AIX
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) MVS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (65.47%) Agile
2 258 (25.83%) DevOps
3 239 (23.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 233 (23.32%) Scrum
5 188 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (16.12%) CI/CD
7 155 (15.52%) Project Management
8 142 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 132 (13.21%) Change Management
9 132 (13.21%) User Stories
10 128 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 110 (11.01%) Roadmaps
12 108 (10.81%) Migration
13 99 (9.91%) Acceptance Criteria
13 99 (9.91%) Project Delivery
14 98 (9.81%) ITIL
15 95 (9.51%) Microservices
16 90 (9.01%) Test Automation
17 89 (8.91%) Decision-Making
18 87 (8.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 173 (17.32%) Python
2 116 (11.61%) SQL
3 87 (8.71%) Java
4 69 (6.91%) JavaScript
5 64 (6.41%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.20%) Bash
7 25 (2.50%) Go
8 24 (2.40%) Groovy
8 24 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.30%) C#
10 18 (1.80%) Perl
11 9 (0.90%) C++
12 7 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.50%) PHP
15 4 (0.40%) C
15 4 (0.40%) R
16 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 274 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 253 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 178 (17.82%) Degree
4 44 (4.40%) PMI Certification
5 42 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.60%) CISSP
6 36 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 35 (3.50%) PMP
8 29 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.50%) CISM
9 25 (2.50%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.60%) CBAP
11 15 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.40%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.20%) CSPO
14 9 (0.90%) PhD
15 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 6 (0.60%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (8.41%) QA
2 33 (3.30%) GDPR
3 25 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.50%) PMO
4 18 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.40%) NIST
6 10 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 9 (0.90%) COBIT
7 9 (0.90%) WCAG
8 7 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 6 (0.60%) GRC
9 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.60%) NCSC
9 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.60%) PSD2
9 6 (0.60%) SEPA
10 3 (0.30%) ITGC
10 3 (0.30%) SLA
10 3 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (9.61%) Docker
2 30 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.10%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.20%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.20%) Postfix
5 12 (1.20%) Squid
6 11 (1.10%) vSphere
7 7 (0.70%) Firmware
8 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.10%) etcd
11 1 (0.10%) SRDF
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 91 (9.11%) Terraform
2 89 (8.91%) Kubernetes
3 59 (5.91%) Ansible
4 35 (3.50%) Grafana
5 29 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.60%) OPNET
7 23 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.20%) Packer
9 20 (2.00%) Consul
10 14 (1.40%) NetBackup
10 14 (1.40%) Puppet
11 12 (1.20%) Nessus
12 10 (1.00%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.90%) vRealize
14 8 (0.80%) Istio
15 6 (0.60%) SCCM
15 6 (0.60%) VxRail
16 5 (0.50%) Argo
16 5 (0.50%) HP ALM
16 5 (0.50%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 111 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 104 (10.41%) Microsoft
3 102 (10.21%) ServiceNow
4 49 (4.90%) Oracle
5 45 (4.50%) Remedy
6 43 (4.30%) Salesforce
7 31 (3.10%) HP
8 27 (2.70%) IBM
9 26 (2.60%) VMware
10 22 (2.20%) Google
10 22 (2.20%) SAP
11 20 (2.00%) Commvault
12 19 (1.90%) BiZZdesign
13 18 (1.80%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.80%) Red Hat
14 17 (1.70%) Cisco
15 16 (1.60%) BMC
15 16 (1.60%) Dell
16 13 (1.30%) Foundry
16 13 (1.30%) Ivanti