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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 106 106
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,008 763 910
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.71% 2.40% 2.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.92% 21.63% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 481 601
10th Percentile £325 £313 £380
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.05%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £728 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £504 £550
% change year-on-year -3.02% -8.41% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 28
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.70 £43.22
25th Percentile £39.00 £58.47 £54.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% - +20.19%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.51 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £70.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.48 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.63% - +16.82%

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 3,745 3,528 4,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.07% 11.07% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,170 2,821
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £693 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 73 131
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +51.02% +37.18%
75th Percentile £68.54 £62.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £81.60 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.96 £47.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -49.56% +104.61% +32.66%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +13 908 £513 -1.44% 224
UK excluding London +22 525 £489 -3.02% 204
London -1 405 £550 +4.76% 54
Work from Home -17 241 £480 -6.34% 131
North of England +2 188 £469 -8.98% 46
Midlands +25 115 £450 -5.66% 34
Yorkshire -18 104 £500 -3.85% 18
South West +23 98 £725 +26.09% 26
West Midlands +13 79 £465 -5.10% 23
South East -8 79 £500 +7.53% 68
North West +23 73 £447 -11.92% 25
Scotland +12 37 £500 +11.11% 10
East Midlands -3 35 £398 -5.36% 11
East of England -25 14 £444 +9.30% 22
North East -7 10 £488 +8.33% 4
Wales 0 3 £400 -23.81% 4
Northern Ireland -2 2 £320 - 3

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 78 (7.74%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.88%) nginx
3 13 (1.29%) CMS
4 9 (0.89%) SAS
5 8 (0.79%) Apache
6 3 (0.30%) CICS
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.099%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 102 (10.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 102 (10.12%) Microsoft Project
2 99 (9.82%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (8.53%) MS Visio
4 70 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.49%) Trello
6 9 (0.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.40%) Notion
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
8 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.099%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.099%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.099%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.099%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.099%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Shopify
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.099%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.099%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 167 (16.57%) AWS
2 143 (14.19%) Azure
3 114 (11.31%) GitHub
4 59 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.87%) GCP
7 31 (3.08%) Miro
8 30 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (2.98%) Amazon S3
9 28 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (2.78%) Serverless
10 26 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 22 (2.18%) Lucidchart
13 22 (2.18%) SaaS
14 19 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (1.88%) Figma
14 19 (1.88%) Slack
15 18 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.17%) Firewall
2 31 (3.08%) SSH
3 19 (1.88%) DNS
4 18 (1.79%) FTP
5 16 (1.59%) HTTP
5 16 (1.59%) SSL
5 16 (1.59%) VPN
6 15 (1.49%) SMTP
7 14 (1.39%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.09%) WAN
10 10 (0.99%) Network Security
10 10 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.89%) IMAP
11 9 (0.89%) VSAN
12 8 (0.79%) Ethernet
13 6 (0.60%) LAN
13 6 (0.60%) Modbus
13 6 (0.60%) RS-232
13 6 (0.60%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.96%) Power BI
2 43 (4.27%) Tableau
3 41 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.27%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (2.08%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.69%) Metadata
7 17 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.59%) Big Data
9 12 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.09%) DocumentDB
10 11 (1.09%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.99%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.79%) Redis
13 7 (0.69%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.60%) Couchbase
14 6 (0.60%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 924 (91.67%) JIRA
2 127 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 95 (9.42%) Git
4 61 (6.05%) GitLab
5 50 (4.96%) Bitbucket
6 34 (3.37%) Selenium
7 23 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.08%) Postman
9 16 (1.59%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.39%) Vagrant
11 10 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.99%) JUnit
11 10 (0.99%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.89%) ScriptRunner
13 8 (0.79%) Maven
13 8 (0.79%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.69%) Android Studio
15 6 (0.60%) Zephyr
16 5 (0.50%) SoapUI
General
1 451 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 305 (30.26%) Finance
3 206 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (15.97%) Banking
5 131 (13.00%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.66%) Military
7 46 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.27%) Retail
9 32 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.68%) Legal
11 24 (2.38%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.98%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.88%) Retail Banking
16 17 (1.69%) Front Office
16 17 (1.69%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.29%) Marketing
18 11 (1.09%) Automotive
18 11 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 226 (22.42%) Analyst
2 183 (18.15%) Business Analyst
3 99 (9.82%) Architect
4 96 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 76 (7.54%) Senior
6 74 (7.34%) Developer
7 71 (7.04%) Lead
8 49 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.47%) Technical Analyst
10 34 (3.37%) Technical Business Analyst
11 30 (2.98%) Product Owner
11 30 (2.98%) Scrum Master
11 30 (2.98%) Service Architect
12 29 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
12 29 (2.88%) Senior Business Analyst
13 28 (2.78%) Consultant
13 28 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (2.68%) Tester
15 23 (2.28%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (6.35%) REST
2 40 (3.97%) Kafka
3 36 (3.57%) RESTful
4 31 (3.08%) HTML
5 29 (2.88%) .NET
6 26 (2.58%) Spring
7 23 (2.28%) JSON
8 22 (2.18%) LDAP
9 21 (2.08%) SOAP
10 19 (1.88%) Node.js
10 19 (1.88%) Playwright
11 18 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (1.79%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.69%) OAuth
13 15 (1.49%) React
14 14 (1.39%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.29%) Middleware
15 13 (1.29%) SAML
15 13 (1.29%) XML
16 12 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 171 (16.96%) Product Ownership
2 44 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.67%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.88%) PMI
8 18 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.79%) Replication
9 17 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 15 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (1.29%) Tandem
12 11 (1.09%) Equities
13 10 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 10 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (0.99%) NHS
14 9 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 8 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 78 (7.74%) Linux
2 75 (7.44%) Windows
3 25 (2.48%) Unix
4 18 (1.79%) VMS
5 14 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (1.39%) Android
6 9 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Solaris
8 2 (0.20%) zOS
9 1 (0.099%) AIX
9 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.099%) MVS
9 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (62.10%) Agile
2 279 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 261 (25.89%) DevOps
4 234 (23.21%) Scrum
5 190 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
6 172 (17.06%) CI/CD
7 167 (16.57%) Project Management
8 160 (15.87%) User Stories
9 147 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 136 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (12.90%) Acceptance Criteria
12 121 (12.00%) Project Delivery
13 116 (11.51%) Change Management
14 103 (10.22%) Migration
15 101 (10.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 101 (10.02%) Workshop Facilitation
16 100 (9.92%) Roadmaps
16 100 (9.92%) Test Automation
17 96 (9.52%) Decision-Making
18 92 (9.13%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.38%) Python
2 119 (11.81%) SQL
3 64 (6.35%) Java
4 59 (5.85%) PowerShell
5 56 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 30 (2.98%) Bash
7 22 (2.18%) C#
7 22 (2.18%) Go
8 20 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.39%) Groovy
10 10 (0.99%) C++
11 9 (0.89%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.89%) Perl
12 6 (0.60%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.40%) C
14 3 (0.30%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.30%) PHP
14 3 (0.30%) R
15 2 (0.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 287 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 254 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 195 (19.35%) Degree
4 49 (4.86%) PMI Certification
5 44 (4.37%) TOGAF Certification
6 43 (4.27%) PMP
7 38 (3.77%) CISSP
8 37 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.78%) CISM
11 26 (2.58%) Master's Degree
12 23 (2.28%) CBAP
13 22 (2.18%) DV Cleared
14 16 (1.59%) IIBA
15 14 (1.39%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.39%) CSPO
16 11 (1.09%) Azure Certification
16 11 (1.09%) MBA
17 10 (0.99%) PhD
18 9 (0.89%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.13%) QA
2 37 (3.67%) GDPR
3 36 (3.57%) PMO
4 28 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.39%) NIST
7 13 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.09%) GRC
9 10 (0.99%) WCAG
10 8 (0.79%) Basel III
10 8 (0.79%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.79%) PSD2
11 6 (0.60%) COBIT
12 5 (0.50%) NCSC
12 5 (0.50%) SEPA
12 5 (0.50%) SLA
13 4 (0.40%) P3O
14 3 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 86 (8.53%) Docker
2 22 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.39%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.99%) Firmware
5 10 (0.99%) Squid
5 10 (0.99%) vSphere
6 9 (0.89%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.89%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.099%) KVM
11 1 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.099%) NFS
11 1 (0.099%) SRDF
11 1 (0.099%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.099%) Xen
Systems Management
1 91 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 73 (7.24%) Terraform
3 60 (5.95%) Ansible
4 30 (2.98%) OPNET
5 26 (2.58%) Grafana
6 20 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.39%) NetBackup
7 14 (1.39%) Packer
8 12 (1.19%) Consul
9 10 (0.99%) Puppet
9 10 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.99%) vRealize
10 9 (0.89%) Nessus
10 9 (0.89%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.69%) VxRail
12 5 (0.50%) Istio
12 5 (0.50%) SCCM
13 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.30%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 120 (11.90%) Atlassian
2 106 (10.52%) Microsoft
3 74 (7.34%) ServiceNow
4 49 (4.86%) Oracle
5 43 (4.27%) Salesforce
6 41 (4.07%) Remedy
7 26 (2.58%) IBM
8 23 (2.28%) VMware
9 22 (2.18%) BiZZdesign
9 22 (2.18%) SAP
10 21 (2.08%) Cisco
10 21 (2.08%) Commvault
10 21 (2.08%) HP
11 20 (1.98%) Google
12 18 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.69%) Dell
14 15 (1.49%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.29%) CheckPoint
15 13 (1.29%) Sonatype
16 12 (1.19%) Centrify