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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 97 114
Rank change year-on-year -31 +17 -10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,136 872 786
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.65% 2.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.64% 24.22% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 605 525
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £671 £685 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 21
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.25 £25.30
25th Percentile £59.75 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £76.94 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +14.29%

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 4,610 3,600 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.54% 10.93% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,022 2,336 2,791
10th Percentile £288 £276 £280
25th Percentile £404 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £676 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 93 96
10th Percentile £16.23 £17.56 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £21.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +25.34% -38.76%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.25 £69.06
90th Percentile £75.15 £78.46 £74.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £48.56
% change year-on-year -24.58% -11.26% +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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -28 991 £505 -1.56% 298
UK excluding London -21 589 £475 - 174
London -30 454 £538 -6.52% 166
Work from Home +12 374 £525 +5.00% 139
North of England -50 186 £474 +10.23% 47
Midlands +14 150 £461 -3.00% 22
West Midlands +6 122 £466 -1.95% 16
Yorkshire -28 99 £463 +6.08% 12
South East -29 94 £500 +5.26% 46
North West -50 82 £473 +11.29% 25
Scotland 0 68 £447 -0.61% 8
South West -17 67 £540 -5.26% 34
East Midlands +2 27 £420 +27.20% 6
East of England -13 26 £400 -11.11% 6
Wales -13 9 £650 +36.84% 2
North East -45 8 £480 -7.69% 10

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 81 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.58%) SAS
3 12 (1.06%) nginx
4 11 (0.97%) CMS
5 10 (0.88%) Apache
6 8 (0.70%) Camunda
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.44%) JBoss
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) Drupal
12 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.088%) Appian
12 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.088%) Mule
12 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (8.01%) MS Visio
2 70 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (5.19%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.53%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
7 5 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.088%) CATIA
10 1 (0.088%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.088%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.088%) Sketch
10 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.26%) Primavera
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) BASE24
8 2 (0.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.18%) Summit
9 1 (0.088%) CA PPM
9 1 (0.088%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.088%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.088%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.088%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 268 (23.59%) Azure
2 257 (22.62%) AWS
3 129 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
4 112 (9.86%) GitHub
5 90 (7.92%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.69%) Amazon S3
7 56 (4.93%) Serverless
8 53 (4.67%) GCP
9 51 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (3.96%) Miro
13 44 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (2.73%) Figma
16 26 (2.29%) SaaS
17 25 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
18 24 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.55%) Firewall
2 25 (2.20%) DNS
3 18 (1.58%) SSH
4 15 (1.32%) SSL
5 12 (1.06%) HTTP
5 12 (1.06%) VPN
6 11 (0.97%) Network Security
6 11 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.97%) WAN
7 6 (0.53%) Broadband
7 6 (0.53%) HTTPS
7 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.44%) DHCP
8 5 (0.44%) LAN
9 4 (0.35%) Internet
9 4 (0.35%) IPv4
9 4 (0.35%) OpenVPN
9 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.26%) IPv6
10 3 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (7.22%) Power BI
2 59 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 27 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (2.20%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 19 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.50%) Metadata
11 17 (1.50%) Tableau
12 16 (1.41%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.97%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1,024 (90.14%) JIRA
2 151 (13.29%) Git
3 104 (9.15%) Jenkins
4 100 (8.80%) GitLab
5 50 (4.40%) Bitbucket
6 43 (3.79%) Selenium
7 32 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 25 (2.20%) Zephyr
9 23 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 22 (1.94%) Cucumber
10 22 (1.94%) Postman
11 21 (1.85%) JUnit
12 20 (1.76%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.67%) Artifactory
14 17 (1.50%) JMeter
15 14 (1.23%) REST Assured
16 12 (1.06%) SonarQube
17 11 (0.97%) Maven
17 11 (0.97%) MSI
18 10 (0.88%) Mockito
General
1 462 (40.67%) Social Skills
2 339 (29.84%) Finance
3 210 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (17.52%) Public Sector
5 171 (15.05%) Banking
6 51 (4.49%) Retail
7 50 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.76%) Legal
11 20 (1.76%) Military
12 18 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.32%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.32%) Retail Banking
16 12 (1.06%) Marketing
17 10 (0.88%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (20.69%) Analyst
2 172 (15.14%) Business Analyst
3 119 (10.48%) Developer
4 111 (9.77%) Senior
5 102 (8.98%) Lead
6 69 (6.07%) Architect
7 61 (5.37%) Scrum Master
8 48 (4.23%) Consultant
9 47 (4.14%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 39 (3.43%) Delivery Manager
11 39 (3.43%) Product Owner
12 30 (2.64%) Product Manager
13 28 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (1.94%) Business Systems Analyst
16 22 (1.94%) Technical Analyst
17 21 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (1.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (11.44%) Terraform
2 74 (6.51%) REST
3 42 (3.70%) .NET
4 41 (3.61%) HTML
5 39 (3.43%) JSON
6 38 (3.35%) React
7 33 (2.90%) CSS
8 30 (2.64%) RESTful
9 29 (2.55%) AngularJS
10 25 (2.20%) .NET Core
11 22 (1.94%) Kafka
12 20 (1.76%) Spring
12 20 (1.76%) XML
13 19 (1.67%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.58%) PySpark
14 18 (1.58%) Spring Boot
15 17 (1.50%) ADO
15 17 (1.50%) Playwright
16 16 (1.41%) Node.js
16 16 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 207 (18.22%) Product Ownership
2 77 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 51 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 30 (2.64%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.11%) Virtual Team
9 23 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 17 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.41%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
16 11 (0.97%) Clustering
16 11 (0.97%) Credit Risk
16 11 (0.97%) PKI
17 9 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (6.07%) Linux
2 57 (5.02%) Windows
3 33 (2.90%) Unix
4 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.70%) Android
6 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.18%) MVS
10 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.088%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.088%) SUSE
11 1 (0.088%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (66.02%) Agile
2 376 (33.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 339 (29.84%) DevOps
4 307 (27.02%) Scrum
5 265 (23.33%) CI/CD
6 225 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (16.81%) User Stories
9 187 (16.46%) Test Automation
10 175 (15.40%) Migration
10 175 (15.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (12.15%) Sprint Planning
12 136 (11.97%) Acceptance Criteria
13 130 (11.44%) SDLC
14 127 (11.18%) Business Analysis
15 126 (11.09%) Kanban
16 123 (10.83%) Requirements Gathering
16 123 (10.83%) User Acceptance Testing
17 121 (10.65%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (10.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 215 (18.93%) SQL
2 165 (14.52%) Python
3 87 (7.66%) Java
4 64 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.23%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.70%) C#
7 42 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 40 (3.52%) Bash
9 17 (1.50%) Groovy
10 16 (1.41%) Bicep
10 16 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 10 (0.88%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.88%) Perl
12 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.35%) Korn
13 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.35%) Swift
14 3 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 404 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 338 (29.75%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.51%) Degree
4 66 (5.81%) DV Cleared
5 61 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.02%) PMP
10 21 (1.85%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (1.32%) CISSP
12 15 (1.32%) SAFe Agilist
13 13 (1.14%) IIBA
14 12 (1.06%) CBAP
15 11 (0.97%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.70%) CISM
18 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.53%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (10.56%) QA
2 65 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 64 (5.63%) PMO
4 48 (4.23%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.11%) WCAG
6 20 (1.76%) NCSC
7 15 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.23%) GRC
9 13 (1.14%) NIST
10 12 (1.06%) GDPR
11 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.70%) SLA
12 7 (0.62%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.53%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.53%) SEPA
14 4 (0.35%) HL7
14 4 (0.35%) MiFID
15 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) EMIR
15 3 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 95 (8.36%) Docker
2 48 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) Squid
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 64 (5.63%) Ansible
3 47 (4.14%) Grafana
4 26 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.41%) Argo
7 9 (0.79%) Control-M
8 8 (0.70%) Istio
9 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.53%) Packer
10 6 (0.53%) SCOM
11 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) Consul
12 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 4 (0.35%) Puppet
13 3 (0.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 150 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 92 (8.10%) ServiceNow
3 81 (7.13%) Oracle
4 73 (6.43%) Atlassian
5 44 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.35%) IBM
7 37 (3.26%) SAP
8 31 (2.73%) Google
9 28 (2.46%) Splunk
9 28 (2.46%) Talend
10 26 (2.29%) VMware
11 25 (2.20%) Denodo
12 22 (1.94%) Informatica
13 19 (1.67%) Databricks
14 14 (1.23%) MuleSoft
15 12 (1.06%) Cisco
15 12 (1.06%) Dynatrace
16 11 (0.97%) Adobe
17 10 (0.88%) Zscaler
18 9 (0.79%) BMC