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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 100 121
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -29
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,038 764 866
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.70% 2.44% 1.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.19% 21.64% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 474 580
10th Percentile £331 £313 £380
25th Percentile £404 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% -6.27% -
75th Percentile £623 £630 £648
90th Percentile £727 £734 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 28
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.78 £43.22
25th Percentile £36.05 £59.50 £54.00
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £64.51 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £70.40 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £64.88
% change year-on-year -27.26% -3.67% +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 3,817 3,531 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.94% 11.28% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,640 2,174 2,889
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 73 158
10th Percentile £14.60 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.66% +45.13% +44.87%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £82.40 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £25.64
% change year-on-year -58.33% +110.61% +44.70%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +12 924 £500 -2.91% 241
UK excluding London +21 554 £480 -4.00% 210
London -10 400 £550 +4.76% 68
Work from Home -19 251 £480 -4.00% 138
North of England +8 204 £458 -10.73% 37
Midlands +20 115 £445 -6.71% 40
Yorkshire -17 110 £513 -1.44% 17
South West +17 97 £725 +26.09% 29
North West +21 84 £428 -10.00% 17
South East -11 78 £500 +9.89% 71
West Midlands +11 76 £458 -5.38% 28
Scotland +26 49 £475 +9.20% 8
East Midlands -7 38 £358 -14.76% 12
East of England -20 15 £463 +15.77% 27
North East -9 10 £488 +8.33% 4
Wales -4 3 £400 -23.81% 3
Northern Ireland -4 2 £458 - 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 80 (7.71%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.47%) nginx
3 14 (1.35%) CMS
4 9 (0.87%) SAS
5 7 (0.67%) Apache
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.29%) Traefik
7 2 (0.19%) CICS
7 2 (0.19%) FileNet
7 2 (0.19%) IIS
8 1 (0.096%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.096%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.096%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.096%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 106 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 105 (10.12%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (9.73%) Microsoft Office
4 86 (8.29%) MS Visio
5 72 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (1.25%) Trello
7 8 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.39%) 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
9 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.096%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.096%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.096%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.096%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.096%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.67%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.29%) Shopify
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
7 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.096%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.096%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.096%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.096%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.096%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 165 (15.90%) AWS
2 153 (14.74%) Azure
3 115 (11.08%) GitHub
4 68 (6.55%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 37 (3.56%) GCP
7 30 (2.89%) Miro
8 27 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (2.60%) Amazon S3
8 27 (2.60%) Serverless
8 27 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (2.12%) Lucidchart
11 21 (2.02%) SaaS
12 20 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (1.93%) Figma
13 19 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.83%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.24%) Firewall
2 29 (2.79%) SSH
3 22 (2.12%) DNS
4 20 (1.93%) VPN
5 17 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.54%) FTP
7 14 (1.35%) HTTP
7 14 (1.35%) Network Security
8 13 (1.25%) SMTP
8 13 (1.25%) SSL
9 11 (1.06%) WAN
10 10 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.87%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.87%) VSAN
12 8 (0.77%) IMAP
12 8 (0.77%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.67%) Modbus
13 7 (0.67%) RS-232
13 7 (0.67%) RS-485
14 6 (0.58%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.01%) Power BI
2 44 (4.24%) Tableau
3 43 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.18%) NoSQL
5 20 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.93%) Metadata
5 20 (1.93%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.64%) Big Data
8 15 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.16%) DocumentDB
10 12 (1.16%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.96%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.77%) Redis
13 7 (0.67%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.67%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.58%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 949 (91.43%) JIRA
2 129 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 97 (9.34%) Git
4 61 (5.88%) GitLab
5 51 (4.91%) Bitbucket
6 34 (3.28%) Selenium
7 27 (2.60%) SonarQube
7 27 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (2.02%) Postman
9 20 (1.93%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.16%) Vagrant
11 10 (0.96%) JUnit
11 10 (0.96%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.96%) ScriptRunner
12 9 (0.87%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.77%) Maven
14 7 (0.67%) Android Studio
14 7 (0.67%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.58%) Zephyr
16 5 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 465 (44.80%) Social Skills
2 321 (30.92%) Finance
3 207 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (16.67%) Banking
5 134 (12.91%) Public Sector
6 52 (5.01%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (4.53%) Military
8 34 (3.28%) Retail
9 32 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.31%) Legal
12 23 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 22 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (2.02%) Retail Banking
15 17 (1.64%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.54%) Front Office
17 15 (1.45%) Marketing
17 15 (1.45%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.35%) Automotive
19 11 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 235 (22.64%) Analyst
2 199 (19.17%) Business Analyst
3 105 (10.12%) Architect
4 98 (9.44%) Project Manager
5 78 (7.51%) Developer
6 76 (7.32%) Senior
7 73 (7.03%) Lead
8 49 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.47%) Scrum Master
10 35 (3.37%) Technical Business Analyst
11 34 (3.28%) Technical Analyst
12 30 (2.89%) Service Architect
13 29 (2.79%) Consultant
13 29 (2.79%) Senior Business Analyst
14 28 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
14 28 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
15 27 (2.60%) Product Owner
15 27 (2.60%) Tester
16 26 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 24 (2.31%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.78%) REST
2 42 (4.05%) RESTful
3 38 (3.66%) Kafka
4 31 (2.99%) .NET
5 28 (2.70%) HTML
6 25 (2.41%) Spring
7 21 (2.02%) JSON
8 19 (1.83%) Playwright
8 19 (1.83%) SOAP
9 18 (1.73%) Node.js
9 18 (1.73%) React
9 18 (1.73%) Spring Boot
10 17 (1.64%) LDAP
11 15 (1.45%) OAuth
11 15 (1.45%) XML
12 14 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (1.25%) YAML
14 12 (1.16%) Middleware
15 11 (1.06%) ADO
15 11 (1.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 187 (18.02%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.14%) Cloud Native
4 31 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (2.12%) PMI
7 20 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 19 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.45%) Replication
11 12 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.16%) Tandem
12 10 (0.96%) Equities
12 10 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 9 (0.87%) NHS
14 8 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.90%) Linux
2 70 (6.74%) Windows
3 23 (2.22%) Unix
4 16 (1.54%) VMS
5 14 (1.35%) Android
6 12 (1.16%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.096%) AIX
12 1 (0.096%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.096%) MVS
12 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.096%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (61.75%) Agile
2 295 (28.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (25.72%) DevOps
4 242 (23.31%) Scrum
5 207 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
6 184 (17.73%) CI/CD
7 169 (16.28%) User Stories
8 168 (16.18%) Project Management
9 157 (15.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 146 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 134 (12.91%) Acceptance Criteria
12 119 (11.46%) Project Delivery
13 118 (11.37%) Change Management
14 111 (10.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 107 (10.31%) Decision-Making
15 107 (10.31%) Migration
16 105 (10.12%) Roadmaps
17 102 (9.83%) Test Automation
18 101 (9.73%) Workshop Facilitation
19 97 (9.34%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 146 (14.07%) Python
2 119 (11.46%) SQL
3 67 (6.45%) Java
4 59 (5.68%) PowerShell
5 51 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 31 (2.99%) Bash
7 23 (2.22%) C#
7 23 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.45%) Go
9 12 (1.16%) Groovy
10 11 (1.06%) C++
11 9 (0.87%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.77%) Perl
13 7 (0.67%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.39%) C
15 4 (0.39%) R
16 3 (0.29%) Embedded C
16 3 (0.29%) PHP
16 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 293 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 253 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 211 (20.33%) Degree
4 55 (5.30%) PMI Certification
5 49 (4.72%) TOGAF Certification
6 47 (4.53%) PMP
7 44 (4.24%) CISSP
8 37 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (3.28%) CISM
10 28 (2.70%) Master's Degree
11 23 (2.22%) CBAP
12 22 (2.12%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.45%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.45%) IIBA
14 12 (1.16%) CSPO
15 11 (1.06%) MBA
16 10 (0.96%) Azure Certification
16 10 (0.96%) PhD
16 10 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (8.38%) QA
2 37 (3.56%) GDPR
3 36 (3.47%) PMO
4 31 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.73%) NIST
7 13 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.16%) GRC
9 11 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.06%) PSD2
10 9 (0.87%) WCAG
11 8 (0.77%) Basel III
11 8 (0.77%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.58%) COBIT
13 5 (0.48%) NCSC
13 5 (0.48%) SEPA
13 5 (0.48%) SLA
14 4 (0.39%) P3O
15 3 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 88 (8.48%) Docker
2 19 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.35%) Squid
5 12 (1.16%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.96%) Firmware
6 10 (0.96%) vSphere
7 8 (0.77%) Dovecot
7 8 (0.77%) Postfix
8 7 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.096%) KVM
12 1 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.096%) NFS
12 1 (0.096%) SRDF
12 1 (0.096%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.096%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 81 (7.80%) Terraform
3 64 (6.17%) Ansible
4 30 (2.89%) Grafana
4 30 (2.89%) OPNET
5 24 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.83%) Consul
7 17 (1.64%) Packer
8 14 (1.35%) NetBackup
9 13 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.96%) Puppet
10 10 (0.96%) vRealize
11 8 (0.77%) Nessus
11 8 (0.77%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.67%) VxRail
13 5 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.48%) Istio
14 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.39%) SCCM
14 4 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 120 (11.56%) Atlassian
2 110 (10.60%) Microsoft
3 72 (6.94%) ServiceNow
4 52 (5.01%) Oracle
5 45 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.66%) Remedy
7 28 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
8 25 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 24 (2.31%) IBM
10 23 (2.22%) VMware
11 21 (2.02%) Commvault
12 20 (1.93%) Cisco
13 19 (1.83%) Google
14 18 (1.73%) HP
15 17 (1.64%) SAP
15 17 (1.64%) Sonatype
16 16 (1.54%) Dell
17 15 (1.45%) CyberArk
17 15 (1.45%) Splunk
18 13 (1.25%) CheckPoint