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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 103 126
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -34
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,044 771 859
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.67% 2.47% 1.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.96% 21.70% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 475 570
10th Percentile £325 £314 £375
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £619 £629 £636
90th Percentile £727 £725 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £548
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.68% +1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 30
10th Percentile £26.11 £54.70 £40.00
25th Percentile £27.21 £58.47 £53.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £64.51 £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £70.63 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -34.40% -7.08% +25.73%

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 3,873 3,553 4,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 11.40% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,680 2,173 2,897
10th Percentile £300 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £688 £723 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 70 171
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £41.00 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% +53.10% +34.91%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.44 £52.29
90th Percentile £81.70 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.21 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -48.36% +103.40% +34.15%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +9 932 £500 -2.44% 281
UK excluding London +11 559 £475 -5.00% 201
London -8 401 £550 +6.02% 109
Work from Home -23 256 £475 -1.55% 182
North of England +8 206 £450 -11.76% 41
Midlands +10 114 £427 -10.48% 43
Yorkshire -14 112 £500 -6.45% 18
South West +19 99 £725 +26.09% 28
North West +27 87 £405 -14.74% 23
South East -23 79 £500 +6.38% 60
West Midlands +3 74 £450 -5.66% 34
Scotland +22 47 £469 +10.29% 9
East Midlands -1 39 £398 -5.36% 9
East of England -31 18 £425 +4.68% 22
North East -11 7 £425 -5.56% 1
Wales -3 3 £400 -24.17% 2
Northern Ireland -5 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 88 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.35%) nginx
3 15 (1.44%) CMS
4 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.86%) SAS
6 8 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.67%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.29%) Traefik
9 2 (0.19%) CICS
9 2 (0.19%) FileNet
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.096%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.096%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 108 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (10.15%) Microsoft Project
3 101 (9.67%) Microsoft Office
4 87 (8.33%) MS Visio
5 74 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (1.34%) Trello
7 7 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.48%) 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
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
10 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.67%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Summit
7 1 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.096%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.096%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.096%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.096%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 166 (15.90%) AWS
2 155 (14.85%) Azure
3 117 (11.21%) GitHub
4 69 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (5.65%) Power Platform
6 35 (3.35%) GCP
7 31 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (2.97%) Miro
8 30 (2.87%) SaaS
9 28 (2.68%) Serverless
10 26 (2.49%) Amazon S3
11 25 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (2.01%) Figma
13 21 (2.01%) Lucidchart
14 20 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.82%) Slack
16 18 (1.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.93%) Firewall
2 23 (2.20%) SSH
3 21 (2.01%) DNS
4 20 (1.92%) VPN
5 18 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.72%) WAN
6 15 (1.44%) Network Security
7 14 (1.34%) FTP
8 13 (1.25%) LAN
8 13 (1.25%) SSL
9 12 (1.15%) HTTP
10 11 (1.05%) SMTP
11 10 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.86%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.86%) Unified Communications
12 9 (0.86%) VSAN
12 9 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.67%) IMAP
13 7 (0.67%) Modbus
13 7 (0.67%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.89%) Power BI
2 44 (4.21%) Tableau
3 42 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 20 (1.92%) Metadata
5 20 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 20 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (1.63%) Big Data
8 15 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.25%) DocumentDB
10 12 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.86%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.77%) Redis
13 7 (0.67%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.57%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 958 (91.76%) JIRA
2 129 (12.36%) Jenkins
3 94 (9.00%) Git
4 58 (5.56%) GitLab
5 48 (4.60%) Bitbucket
6 38 (3.64%) Selenium
7 27 (2.59%) SonarQube
7 27 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 24 (2.30%) Postman
9 21 (2.01%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.15%) JUnit
11 10 (0.96%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.96%) Vagrant
12 9 (0.86%) Android Studio
12 9 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
13 8 (0.77%) Maven
14 7 (0.67%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.57%) Zephyr
16 5 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 464 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 323 (30.94%) Finance
3 205 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (17.05%) Banking
5 133 (12.74%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.27%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (4.60%) Military
8 34 (3.26%) Retail
9 29 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.20%) Legal
12 22 (2.11%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.01%) Retail Banking
14 20 (1.92%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.53%) Marketing
16 15 (1.44%) Automotive
16 15 (1.44%) Front Office
17 14 (1.34%) Telecoms
18 12 (1.15%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 236 (22.61%) Analyst
2 200 (19.16%) Business Analyst
3 107 (10.25%) Architect
4 102 (9.77%) Project Manager
5 81 (7.76%) Developer
6 80 (7.66%) Senior
7 72 (6.90%) Lead
8 48 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.26%) Technical Business Analyst
10 33 (3.16%) Scrum Master
10 33 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
11 30 (2.87%) Service Architect
12 29 (2.78%) Consultant
12 29 (2.78%) Tester
13 28 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (2.68%) Senior Business Analyst
14 26 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
15 24 (2.30%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (2.30%) Product Owner
16 23 (2.20%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (6.13%) REST
2 45 (4.31%) RESTful
3 37 (3.54%) Kafka
4 31 (2.97%) .NET
5 29 (2.78%) HTML
6 28 (2.68%) Spring
7 24 (2.30%) JSON
8 21 (2.01%) SOAP
8 21 (2.01%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.82%) Node.js
9 19 (1.82%) Playwright
10 17 (1.63%) React
11 16 (1.53%) OAuth
11 16 (1.53%) XML
12 15 (1.44%) LDAP
12 15 (1.44%) YAML
13 14 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (1.25%) Swagger
15 12 (1.15%) ADO
15 12 (1.15%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 181 (17.34%) Product Ownership
2 46 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (2.01%) PMI
7 20 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 20 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.25%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.05%) Replication
11 11 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.96%) NHS
13 9 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.86%) Equities
13 9 (0.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 79 (7.57%) Linux
2 69 (6.61%) Windows
3 21 (2.01%) Unix
4 16 (1.53%) Android
5 14 (1.34%) VMS
6 10 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
8 7 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.096%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.096%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (62.07%) Agile
2 305 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 261 (25.00%) DevOps
4 242 (23.18%) Scrum
5 213 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
6 180 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 170 (16.28%) User Stories
8 169 (16.19%) Project Management
9 157 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 148 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 139 (13.31%) Acceptance Criteria
12 115 (11.02%) Change Management
13 112 (10.73%) Project Delivery
14 108 (10.34%) Decision-Making
15 107 (10.25%) Roadmaps
16 106 (10.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 105 (10.06%) Migration
18 104 (9.96%) Test Automation
19 103 (9.87%) Workshop Facilitation
20 98 (9.39%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 149 (14.27%) Python
2 117 (11.21%) SQL
3 71 (6.80%) Java
4 63 (6.03%) PowerShell
5 54 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 28 (2.68%) Bash
7 22 (2.11%) C#
8 21 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.25%) Go
10 10 (0.96%) Groovy
11 9 (0.86%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.86%) C++
12 7 (0.67%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.57%) Perl
14 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.29%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.29%) PHP
15 3 (0.29%) R
15 3 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 293 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 248 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 213 (20.40%) Degree
4 57 (5.46%) PMI Certification
5 50 (4.79%) PMP
6 49 (4.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 43 (4.12%) CISSP
8 40 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (3.16%) CISM
11 29 (2.78%) Master's Degree
12 25 (2.39%) DV Cleared
13 22 (2.11%) CBAP
14 16 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.44%) IIBA
16 12 (1.15%) CSPO
17 11 (1.05%) MBA
18 10 (0.96%) PhD
18 10 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
19 9 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.91%) QA
2 37 (3.54%) GDPR
2 37 (3.54%) PMO
3 30 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.63%) NIST
6 13 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.15%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.15%) PSD2
8 11 (1.05%) GRC
9 9 (0.86%) WCAG
10 8 (0.77%) Basel III
10 8 (0.77%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.57%) COBIT
12 5 (0.48%) NCSC
12 5 (0.48%) SEPA
12 5 (0.48%) SLA
13 4 (0.38%) P3O
14 3 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 90 (8.62%) Docker
2 18 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.44%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.25%) Squid
5 10 (0.96%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.96%) vSphere
6 8 (0.77%) Firmware
7 7 (0.67%) Dovecot
7 7 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.67%) Postfix
8 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.29%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.096%) etcd
11 1 (0.096%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 95 (9.10%) Kubernetes
2 77 (7.38%) Terraform
3 61 (5.84%) Ansible
4 31 (2.97%) Grafana
5 30 (2.87%) OPNET
6 22 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.82%) Consul
8 17 (1.63%) Packer
9 13 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.15%) NetBackup
11 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.96%) Puppet
11 10 (0.96%) vRealize
12 7 (0.67%) Nessus
12 7 (0.67%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.67%) VxRail
13 5 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.48%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.48%) Istio
13 5 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 123 (11.78%) Atlassian
2 112 (10.73%) Microsoft
3 69 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 51 (4.89%) Oracle
5 48 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.64%) Remedy
7 27 (2.59%) BiZZdesign
8 24 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 22 (2.11%) VMware
10 21 (2.01%) SAP
11 20 (1.92%) IBM
12 19 (1.82%) Cisco
12 19 (1.82%) Commvault
12 19 (1.82%) HP
13 18 (1.72%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.63%) Google
15 16 (1.53%) Dell
15 16 (1.53%) Splunk
16 15 (1.44%) CyberArk
17 13 (1.25%) CheckPoint