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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 100 105
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,136 843 819
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.09% 2.58% 2.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.38% 23.87% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 787 586 532
10th Percentile £374 £324 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £671 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 19
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.25 £25.29
25th Percentile £60.63 £63.40 £43.38
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £83.13 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 4,660 3,531 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 10.81% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,036 2,284 2,735
10th Percentile £286 £275 £263
25th Percentile £402 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £705 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 90 84
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.16 £17.35
25th Percentile £16.60 £22.38 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -7.89% -24.75%
75th Percentile £60.17 £64.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -7.14% -27.92% +5.15%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -30 974 £500 -2.44% 836
UK excluding London -21 597 £475 - 455
London -32 442 £537 -6.57% 460
Work from Home +14 366 £521 +1.81% 412
North of England -39 185 £474 +3.61% 116
Midlands +11 152 £469 -1.26% 51
West Midlands +12 128 £469 -1.26% 37
Yorkshire -15 103 £475 +1.50% 33
South East -33 87 £475 +2.15% 99
Scotland +3 82 £425 -6.85% 50
North West -41 74 £450 +4.90% 68
South West -13 65 £550 -4.35% 62
East of England -10 29 £472 +4.89% 49
East Midlands -6 23 £405 +26.07% 14
North East -47 11 £375 -27.88% 15
Wales -11 8 £650 +36.84% 5

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 60 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.58%) SAS
3 13 (1.14%) Apache
4 12 (1.06%) nginx
5 10 (0.88%) CMS
6 9 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.79%) Camunda
7 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.26%) JBoss
8 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.088%) Appian
10 1 (0.088%) IIS
10 1 (0.088%) Mule
10 1 (0.088%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (7.83%) MS Visio
2 70 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.53%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
7 5 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.088%) CATIA
11 1 (0.088%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.088%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.088%) Sketch
11 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) BASE24
7 2 (0.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.18%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.088%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.088%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.088%) SAP PS
8 1 (0.088%) Shopify
8 1 (0.088%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 255 (22.45%) AWS
2 250 (22.01%) Azure
3 123 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
4 102 (8.98%) GitHub
5 87 (7.66%) Power Platform
6 68 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 59 (5.19%) GCP
8 53 (4.67%) Serverless
9 51 (4.49%) Miro
10 48 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (2.82%) Figma
15 28 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (2.11%) SaaS
18 22 (1.94%) Entra ID
19 19 (1.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.90%) Firewall
2 31 (2.73%) DNS
3 16 (1.41%) SSH
3 16 (1.41%) SSL
4 13 (1.14%) HTTP
4 13 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.14%) WAN
5 11 (0.97%) Network Security
6 10 (0.88%) DHCP
7 9 (0.79%) VPN
8 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) Broadband
9 6 (0.53%) IPv4
10 5 (0.44%) Internet
10 5 (0.44%) IPv6
10 5 (0.44%) LAN
11 4 (0.35%) BGP
11 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.35%) MPLS
11 4 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (7.04%) Power BI
2 67 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 33 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.73%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.02%) Metadata
9 20 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (1.76%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.41%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.32%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 12 (1.06%) Tableau
15 11 (0.97%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1,041 (91.64%) JIRA
2 151 (13.29%) Git
3 102 (8.98%) Jenkins
4 101 (8.89%) GitLab
5 46 (4.05%) Bitbucket
6 35 (3.08%) Selenium
7 30 (2.64%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (2.38%) JUnit
8 27 (2.38%) Zephyr
9 25 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 22 (1.94%) Postman
11 21 (1.85%) Maven
12 20 (1.76%) Cucumber
13 19 (1.67%) Mockito
13 19 (1.67%) SonarQube
14 18 (1.58%) Artifactory
15 16 (1.41%) Cypress.io
15 16 (1.41%) REST Assured
16 15 (1.32%) JMeter
17 11 (0.97%) MSI
General
1 463 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 319 (28.08%) Finance
3 222 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 204 (17.96%) Public Sector
5 160 (14.08%) Banking
6 53 (4.67%) Retail
7 45 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.76%) Military
12 17 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.32%) Legal
13 15 (1.32%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.23%) Marketing
15 12 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.06%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.62%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 232 (20.42%) Analyst
2 164 (14.44%) Business Analyst
3 120 (10.56%) Developer
4 117 (10.30%) Senior
5 103 (9.07%) Lead
6 63 (5.55%) Scrum Master
7 61 (5.37%) Architect
8 47 (4.14%) Data Engineer
9 43 (3.79%) Project Manager
10 41 (3.61%) Product Manager
11 40 (3.52%) Consultant
12 39 (3.43%) Delivery Manager
13 36 (3.17%) Product Owner
14 29 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
16 25 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.20%) Java Developer
17 23 (2.02%) Technical Manager
18 21 (1.85%) Senior Developer
19 20 (1.76%) Business Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (10.12%) Terraform
2 92 (8.10%) REST
3 42 (3.70%) HTML
4 41 (3.61%) .NET
5 39 (3.43%) AngularJS
5 39 (3.43%) JSON
5 39 (3.43%) RESTful
6 34 (2.99%) React
7 33 (2.90%) CSS
8 28 (2.46%) Spring Boot
9 27 (2.38%) SOAP
10 26 (2.29%) Spring
10 26 (2.29%) Web Services
11 25 (2.20%) .NET Core
12 24 (2.11%) Kafka
13 21 (1.85%) Hibernate
14 20 (1.76%) XML
15 19 (1.67%) JPA
16 18 (1.58%) .NET Framework
17 17 (1.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 221 (19.45%) Product Ownership
2 81 (7.13%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.46%) Cloud Native
4 32 (2.82%) Data Centre
4 32 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.64%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.32%) PKI
11 13 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.06%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.97%) Clustering
14 10 (0.88%) Replication
15 8 (0.70%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 63 (5.55%) Linux
2 57 (5.02%) Windows
3 31 (2.73%) Unix
4 12 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.70%) Android
7 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) MVS
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.18%) zOS
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.088%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (66.11%) Agile
2 384 (33.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 329 (28.96%) DevOps
4 314 (27.64%) Scrum
5 275 (24.21%) CI/CD
6 240 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (17.87%) User Stories
9 189 (16.64%) Test Automation
10 183 (16.11%) Migration
11 165 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 153 (13.47%) Sprint Planning
13 135 (11.88%) Acceptance Criteria
14 134 (11.80%) SDLC
15 133 (11.71%) Business Analysis
16 128 (11.27%) AI
17 126 (11.09%) Kanban
18 124 (10.92%) Requirements Gathering
19 120 (10.56%) User Acceptance Testing
20 115 (10.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 224 (19.72%) SQL
2 161 (14.17%) Python
3 94 (8.27%) Java
4 57 (5.02%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 49 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 42 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 40 (3.52%) C#
9 38 (3.35%) Bash
10 19 (1.67%) Groovy
11 16 (1.41%) Bicep
12 12 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.06%) Perl
13 10 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.79%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.53%) Go
16 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.26%) REXX
18 3 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 392 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 324 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 104 (9.15%) Degree
4 72 (6.34%) DV Cleared
5 65 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.29%) PMP
8 23 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 14 (1.23%) CISSP
12 13 (1.14%) IIBA
13 11 (0.97%) CBAP
13 11 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
14 10 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.79%) CISM
16 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (11.36%) QA
2 76 (6.69%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.28%) PMO
4 48 (4.23%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.20%) WCAG
6 21 (1.85%) NCSC
7 12 (1.06%) GRC
8 11 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.88%) GDPR
9 10 (0.88%) NIST
10 8 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.62%) SEPA
12 4 (0.35%) MiFID
12 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.26%) EMIR
13 3 (0.26%) GxP
13 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 95 (8.36%) Docker
2 51 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.44%) vSphere
7 4 (0.35%) Squid
8 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) Ceph
9 2 (0.18%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.18%) Postfix
9 2 (0.18%) UAG
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.55%) Ansible
3 55 (4.84%) Grafana
4 33 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.32%) Argo
7 10 (0.88%) Control-M
8 7 (0.62%) Packer
8 7 (0.62%) SCOM
8 7 (0.62%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.53%) Istio
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.35%) Consul
11 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.35%) Podman
11 4 (0.35%) WSUS
12 3 (0.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 147 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.75%) ServiceNow
3 84 (7.39%) Oracle
4 69 (6.07%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.43%) Google
7 36 (3.17%) IBM
8 31 (2.73%) VMware
9 29 (2.55%) Splunk
10 28 (2.46%) Talend
11 26 (2.29%) SAP
12 25 (2.20%) Denodo
13 23 (2.02%) Informatica
14 16 (1.41%) Databricks
15 14 (1.23%) Dynatrace
16 13 (1.14%) Cisco
17 12 (1.06%) MuleSoft
18 10 (0.88%) Adobe
18 10 (0.88%) BMC
18 10 (0.88%) Remedy