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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 95 107
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,165 889 822
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.12% 2.68% 2.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.75% 24.89% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 627 526
10th Percentile £375 £320 £331
25th Percentile £425 £407 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £514
% change year-on-year - -7.54% -6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 16
10th Percentile £37.53 £35.11 £40.63
25th Percentile £57.18 £53.44 £63.92
Median hourly rate £67.47 £66.70 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -4.71% +9.80%
75th Percentile £82.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £66.70 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% -4.71% +7.89%

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 3,572 4,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.58% 10.78% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,048 2,314 2,669
10th Percentile £286 £278 £265
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £645
90th Percentile £686 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +2.78% -1.37% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 86 79
10th Percentile £14.78 £15.60 £17.08
25th Percentile £16.60 £20.69 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% -6.95% -19.72%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £32.77 £48.56
% change year-on-year -11.50% -32.52% +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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -38 993 £505 -1.56% 714
UK excluding London -31 606 £475 - 512
London -34 451 £550 -1.57% 338
Work from Home +6 382 £524 +4.75% 448
North of England -39 186 £475 +1.93% 110
Midlands +4 150 £469 +2.79% 54
West Midlands +12 128 £469 -1.26% 36
Yorkshire -18 107 £475 -2.56% 44
South East -40 85 £475 +2.15% 105
Scotland +9 84 £425 -6.85% 86
South West -10 72 £537 -8.60% 55
North West -44 72 £472 +10.02% 52
East of England -7 32 £510 +5.97% 48
East Midlands -14 21 £427 +29.39% 18
North East -53 10 £375 -27.88% 14
Wales -9 8 £650 +36.84% 26

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 61 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.55%) SAS
3 16 (1.37%) Apache
4 12 (1.03%) nginx
5 10 (0.86%) Camunda
5 10 (0.86%) CMS
6 9 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.60%) CICS
8 6 (0.52%) Traefik
9 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.34%) JBoss
11 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.17%) Appian
12 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.086%) Mule
Applications
1 91 (7.81%) MS Visio
2 75 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (4.81%) Microsoft Project
4 36 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 35 (3.00%) 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
10 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
10 2 (0.17%) Productboard
11 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.086%) CATIA
11 1 (0.086%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.086%) Sketch
11 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
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%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.086%) Shopify
8 1 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 271 (23.26%) Azure
2 263 (22.58%) AWS
3 143 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (9.18%) GitHub
5 90 (7.73%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.52%) Amazon S3
7 60 (5.15%) GCP
8 58 (4.98%) Miro
9 55 (4.72%) Serverless
10 50 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (2.66%) Figma
15 28 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.06%) SaaS
17 21 (1.80%) Entra ID
18 20 (1.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.09%) Firewall
2 34 (2.92%) DNS
3 16 (1.37%) SSH
4 13 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.03%) HTTP
5 12 (1.03%) SSL
5 12 (1.03%) WAN
6 11 (0.94%) Network Security
7 10 (0.86%) DHCP
7 10 (0.86%) VPN
8 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) Internet
9 6 (0.52%) IPv4
9 6 (0.52%) VLAN
10 5 (0.43%) IPv6
11 4 (0.34%) BGP
11 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.34%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (7.12%) Power BI
2 67 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 32 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 24 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.06%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (1.80%) Metadata
10 20 (1.72%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (1.12%) MySQL
14 13 (1.12%) NoSQL
14 13 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1,067 (91.59%) JIRA
2 153 (13.13%) Git
3 106 (9.10%) GitLab
4 102 (8.76%) Jenkins
5 50 (4.29%) Bitbucket
6 34 (2.92%) Selenium
7 32 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.58%) JUnit
9 29 (2.49%) Zephyr
10 25 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 24 (2.06%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.97%) Maven
13 22 (1.89%) Postman
14 21 (1.80%) Mockito
15 20 (1.72%) SonarQube
16 18 (1.55%) Artifactory
16 18 (1.55%) REST Assured
17 16 (1.37%) JMeter
18 15 (1.29%) Cypress.io
19 11 (0.94%) Gradle
General
1 476 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 325 (27.90%) Finance
3 232 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (17.94%) Public Sector
5 163 (13.99%) Banking
6 52 (4.46%) Retail
7 50 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 20 (1.72%) Military
13 17 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.29%) Legal
14 15 (1.29%) Marketing
14 15 (1.29%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.20%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 244 (20.94%) Analyst
2 173 (14.85%) Business Analyst
3 123 (10.56%) Developer
4 114 (9.79%) Senior
5 110 (9.44%) Lead
6 61 (5.24%) Scrum Master
7 59 (5.06%) Architect
8 47 (4.03%) Data Engineer
9 45 (3.86%) Consultant
10 42 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
10 42 (3.61%) Product Manager
11 41 (3.52%) Project Manager
12 35 (3.00%) Product Owner
13 30 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.15%) Java Developer
15 25 (2.15%) Technical Manager
16 24 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
17 22 (1.89%) Technical Analyst
18 21 (1.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (9.87%) Terraform
2 94 (8.07%) REST
3 45 (3.86%) HTML
4 41 (3.52%) JSON
4 41 (3.52%) RESTful
5 40 (3.43%) .NET
6 36 (3.09%) React
7 34 (2.92%) SOAP
8 33 (2.83%) AngularJS
8 33 (2.83%) CSS
9 31 (2.66%) Web Services
10 29 (2.49%) Spring Boot
11 27 (2.32%) .NET Core
11 27 (2.32%) Spring
12 26 (2.23%) Kafka
13 22 (1.89%) Hibernate
14 21 (1.80%) XML
15 20 (1.72%) .NET Framework
15 20 (1.72%) JPA
16 19 (1.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 226 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 83 (7.12%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 34 (2.92%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 25 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 25 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.29%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.20%) PKI
14 12 (1.03%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 11 (0.94%) Mobile App
16 10 (0.86%) Market Risk
16 10 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 65 (5.58%) Linux
2 63 (5.41%) Windows
3 34 (2.92%) Unix
4 13 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Android
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.60%) zOS
8 4 (0.34%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.086%) CentOS
11 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.086%) Solaris
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (65.49%) Agile
2 408 (35.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 348 (29.87%) DevOps
4 322 (27.64%) Scrum
5 280 (24.03%) CI/CD
6 248 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 216 (18.54%) User Stories
9 196 (16.82%) Migration
10 195 (16.74%) Test Automation
11 170 (14.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 156 (13.39%) Sprint Planning
13 148 (12.70%) Business Analysis
14 145 (12.45%) Acceptance Criteria
15 139 (11.93%) SDLC
16 133 (11.42%) AI
17 132 (11.33%) User Acceptance Testing
18 131 (11.24%) Requirements Gathering
19 128 (10.99%) Kanban
20 122 (10.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 241 (20.69%) SQL
2 157 (13.48%) Python
3 91 (7.81%) Java
4 57 (4.89%) PowerShell
5 56 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 46 (3.95%) Bash
6 46 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 44 (3.78%) C#
8 43 (3.69%) PL/SQL
9 18 (1.55%) Bicep
10 16 (1.37%) Groovy
11 14 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.03%) Perl
13 11 (0.94%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.60%) Go
16 6 (0.52%) JCL
17 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.34%) R
18 4 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 398 (34.16%) Security Cleared
2 329 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.87%) Degree
4 74 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 68 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 29 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.49%) PMP
8 24 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (1.12%) CBAP
12 12 (1.03%) IIBA
13 11 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.94%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.86%) CISSP
14 10 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.52%) CISM
16 5 (0.43%) CSPO
16 5 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (11.76%) QA
2 82 (7.04%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.98%) PMO
4 49 (4.21%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.15%) WCAG
6 21 (1.80%) NCSC
7 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.77%) GDPR
8 9 (0.77%) NIST
8 9 (0.77%) SLA
9 8 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.60%) GRC
10 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
10 7 (0.60%) SEPA
11 4 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.34%) MiFID
12 3 (0.26%) EMIR
12 3 (0.26%) GxP
12 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (8.84%) Docker
2 51 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.60%) vSphere
6 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.34%) Squid
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.086%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 65 (5.58%) Ansible
3 57 (4.89%) Grafana
4 34 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.37%) Argo
5 16 (1.37%) Control-M
6 14 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.86%) Istio
8 8 (0.69%) Packer
9 7 (0.60%) SCOM
9 7 (0.60%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.34%) Consul
11 4 (0.34%) Podman
11 4 (0.34%) WSUS
12 3 (0.26%) SELinux
13 2 (0.17%) Kibana
13 2 (0.17%) SCCM
13 2 (0.17%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 157 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.90%) Oracle
3 86 (7.38%) ServiceNow
4 65 (5.58%) Atlassian
5 44 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.35%) Google
7 38 (3.26%) IBM
8 34 (2.92%) VMware
9 29 (2.49%) Splunk
10 28 (2.40%) Talend
11 26 (2.23%) SAP
12 25 (2.15%) Denodo
13 23 (1.97%) Informatica
14 19 (1.63%) Databricks
15 15 (1.29%) Remedy
16 14 (1.20%) Dynatrace
17 12 (1.03%) Cisco
17 12 (1.03%) MuleSoft
18 11 (0.94%) Adobe
19 10 (0.86%) BMC