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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 104 99
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,013 845 1,075
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.80% 2.30% 2.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.23% 20.77% 23.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 529 700
10th Percentile £325 £315 £375
25th Percentile £416 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £764 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £503 £560
% change year-on-year -0.50% -10.27% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 29
10th Percentile £28.39 £53.24 £48.92
25th Percentile £40.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.27 £67.26 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +7.62% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £84.50 £72.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.27 £67.26 £64.88
% change year-on-year -5.94% +3.66% +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 3,862 4,069 4,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.69% 11.09% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,598 2,495 3,076
10th Percentile £288 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £392 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £714 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £470
% change year-on-year +4.40% -3.19% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 95 139
10th Percentile £17.35 £17.03 £14.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.63 £17.75
Median hourly rate £34.99 £35.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% +30.69% +34.91%
75th Percentile £69.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £23.85
% change year-on-year -17.65% +78.20% +36.29%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +22 909 £525 - 193
UK excluding London +4 487 £500 -0.50% 164
London +16 451 £550 - 68
Work from Home -8 253 £513 +1.14% 92
North of England -11 179 £500 -1.19% 33
Yorkshire -16 101 £513 -0.49% 10
Midlands +29 90 £450 -5.66% 21
South West +17 86 £633 -1.56% 25
West Midlands +19 69 £475 -5.00% 10
South East -16 68 £525 +15.38% 66
North West -3 67 £465 -9.22% 21
Scotland +8 45 £500 - 6
East Midlands -2 21 £348 -14.03% 10
East of England -29 16 £425 - 13
North East -5 11 £520 +15.56% 2
Wales +2 5 £469 -10.71% 3
Northern Ireland -4 2 £320 -

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 69 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 44 (4.34%) nginx
3 17 (1.68%) Apache
3 17 (1.68%) CMS
4 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.30%) CICS
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Traefik
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) Camunda
6 2 (0.20%) FileNet
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.099%) JBoss
7 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.099%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 93 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (8.59%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (8.09%) MS Visio
5 57 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.97%) Trello
7 12 (1.18%) 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 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.099%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.099%) Notion
9 1 (0.099%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.099%) Sketch
9 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.099%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.099%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 190 (18.76%) AWS
2 148 (14.61%) Azure
3 97 (9.58%) GitHub
4 62 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (4.34%) GCP
6 43 (4.24%) Amazon S3
7 42 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
8 41 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 37 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (3.06%) Miro
10 31 (3.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 30 (2.96%) Serverless
11 30 (2.96%) Slack
12 26 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (2.37%) SaaS
14 23 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
14 23 (2.27%) AWS KMS
15 22 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.64%) Firewall
2 40 (3.95%) SSH
3 39 (3.85%) DNS
4 27 (2.67%) SMTP
5 24 (2.37%) FTP
6 23 (2.27%) HTTP
7 20 (1.97%) SSL
8 18 (1.78%) VPN
9 17 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (1.18%) IMAP
11 8 (0.79%) VSAN
11 8 (0.79%) WAN
12 7 (0.69%) BGP
12 7 (0.69%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.49%) DHCP
13 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.49%) Network Security
13 5 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (3.75%) Power BI
3 31 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (2.96%) Tableau
5 28 (2.76%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.88%) Metadata
8 16 (1.58%) Hadoop
9 14 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (1.38%) Big Data
9 14 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.99%) MySQL
12 8 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.59%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.49%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.49%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 914 (90.23%) JIRA
2 131 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 121 (11.94%) Git
4 63 (6.22%) Bitbucket
4 63 (6.22%) GitLab
5 31 (3.06%) Selenium
6 26 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 25 (2.47%) Vagrant
8 23 (2.27%) SonarQube
9 22 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.68%) Postman
11 16 (1.58%) JUnit
12 13 (1.28%) Maven
13 10 (0.99%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.79%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
17 6 (0.59%) Android Studio
17 6 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 460 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 273 (26.95%) Finance
3 176 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.23%) Banking
5 133 (13.13%) Public Sector
6 48 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.26%) Military
8 32 (3.16%) Retail
9 29 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.47%) Legal
12 21 (2.07%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.97%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.88%) Front Office
15 17 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (1.58%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.28%) Automotive
18 11 (1.09%) Marketing
18 11 (1.09%) Publishing
19 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 210 (20.73%) Analyst
2 167 (16.49%) Business Analyst
3 99 (9.77%) Project Manager
4 91 (8.98%) Architect
5 88 (8.69%) Senior
6 78 (7.70%) Lead
7 77 (7.60%) Developer
8 45 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 45 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
9 34 (3.36%) Scrum Master
10 33 (3.26%) Product Owner
11 29 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
11 29 (2.86%) Technical Analyst
12 28 (2.76%) Administrator
12 28 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (2.76%) Technical Business Analyst
13 27 (2.67%) Consultant
13 27 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.31%) REST
2 43 (4.24%) HTML
3 40 (3.95%) LDAP
4 39 (3.85%) .NET
5 37 (3.65%) AngularJS
5 37 (3.65%) Kafka
6 34 (3.36%) React
7 31 (3.06%) JSON
8 30 (2.96%) RESTful
9 29 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
9 29 (2.86%) SOAP
10 25 (2.47%) Web Services
11 24 (2.37%) SAML
12 23 (2.27%) CSS
13 21 (2.07%) Spring
14 20 (1.97%) Spring Boot
15 19 (1.88%) Node.js
16 17 (1.68%) HTML5
17 16 (1.58%) jQuery
17 16 (1.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 150 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 32 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.57%) Replication
6 25 (2.47%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.38%) PKI
10 14 (1.38%) Tandem
11 13 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.18%) Derivative
12 12 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.18%) NHS
12 12 (1.18%) PMI
13 11 (1.09%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.77%) Linux
2 82 (8.09%) Windows
3 32 (3.16%) Unix
4 28 (2.76%) VMS
5 23 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.09%) Android
8 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.39%) 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 (0.099%) AIX
12 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.099%) MVS
12 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (65.15%) Agile
2 262 (25.86%) DevOps
3 237 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 233 (23.00%) Scrum
5 194 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 160 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 156 (15.40%) Project Management
8 147 (14.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 133 (13.13%) Change Management
10 132 (13.03%) User Stories
11 130 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (11.06%) Roadmaps
13 111 (10.96%) Migration
14 101 (9.97%) Project Delivery
15 94 (9.28%) Acceptance Criteria
15 94 (9.28%) ITIL
15 94 (9.28%) Microservices
16 91 (8.98%) Decision-Making
17 90 (8.88%) Test Automation
18 87 (8.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 179 (17.67%) Python
2 121 (11.94%) SQL
3 91 (8.98%) Java
4 68 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 64 (6.32%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.16%) Bash
7 25 (2.47%) Go
7 25 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.37%) Groovy
9 23 (2.27%) C#
10 18 (1.78%) Perl
11 9 (0.89%) C++
12 7 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.49%) PHP
15 4 (0.39%) C
15 4 (0.39%) R
16 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.20%) Korn
Qualifications
1 273 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 253 (24.98%) SC Cleared
3 178 (17.57%) Degree
4 44 (4.34%) PMI Certification
5 42 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (3.55%) CISSP
6 36 (3.55%) PMP
7 31 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 30 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.47%) CISM
9 25 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.48%) CBAP
10 15 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.28%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.18%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.09%) CSPO
14 9 (0.89%) PhD
15 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.69%) CCNP
16 7 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (8.29%) QA
2 33 (3.26%) GDPR
3 25 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.37%) PMO
5 19 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.28%) NIST
9 9 (0.89%) COBIT
9 9 (0.89%) WCAG
10 7 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.59%) GRC
11 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.59%) PSD2
11 6 (0.59%) SEPA
12 5 (0.49%) NCSC
13 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.30%) ITGC
14 3 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 95 (9.38%) Docker
2 30 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.07%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.18%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.18%) Postfix
5 12 (1.18%) Squid
5 12 (1.18%) vSphere
6 7 (0.69%) Firmware
7 6 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.099%) etcd
11 1 (0.099%) KVM
11 1 (0.099%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 93 (9.18%) Terraform
2 89 (8.79%) Kubernetes
3 62 (6.12%) Ansible
4 35 (3.46%) Grafana
5 29 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (2.27%) Packer
8 21 (2.07%) Consul
8 21 (2.07%) OPNET
9 14 (1.38%) NetBackup
9 14 (1.38%) Puppet
10 12 (1.18%) Nessus
11 10 (0.99%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.89%) Istio
12 9 (0.89%) vRealize
13 6 (0.59%) Argo
13 6 (0.59%) SCCM
13 6 (0.59%) VxRail
14 5 (0.49%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.49%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 110 (10.86%) Atlassian
2 107 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 97 (9.58%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.94%) Oracle
5 42 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.95%) Remedy
7 31 (3.06%) HP
7 31 (3.06%) VMware
8 27 (2.67%) IBM
9 23 (2.27%) SAP
10 22 (2.17%) Google
11 21 (2.07%) Cisco
12 20 (1.97%) Commvault
13 19 (1.88%) BiZZdesign
14 18 (1.78%) CyberArk
14 18 (1.78%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.58%) BMC
15 16 (1.58%) Dell
16 13 (1.28%) Foundry
16 13 (1.28%) Ivanti