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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 91 132
Rank change year-on-year -19 +41 -21
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,169 838 768
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.27% 2.68% 1.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.19% 24.02% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 570 517
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £628
90th Percentile £686 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 25
10th Percentile £29.50 £54.80 £25.27
25th Percentile £51.93 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £77.20 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +16.67%

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 4,464 3,489 4,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.66% 11.16% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,955 2,281 3,092
10th Percentile £313 £289 £263
25th Percentile £404 £400 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £675 £719 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 82 160
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.45 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.35 £16.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £51.25 £31.91
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% +60.60% -39.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -33.33% +63.48% -31.30%

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 July 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 July 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 3 July 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 -10 1,010 £492 -3.95% 271
UK excluding London -17 630 £465 -2.11% 178
London -9 441 £525 -4.55% 125
Work from Home +10 394 £500 +8.70% 165
North of England -19 210 £447 +5.18% 50
Midlands +28 181 £459 -3.37% 21
West Midlands +21 149 £459 -3.37% 12
North West -8 107 £438 +4.17% 27
Yorkshire -28 95 £453 +9.70% 20
South East -38 87 £500 +2.04% 59
Scotland +3 74 £525 +16.67% 8
South West -18 57 £564 -1.96% 23
East Midlands 0 30 £402 +20.72% 9
East of England -22 22 £350 -24.32% 9
Wales -18 9 £650 +36.84% 3
North East -41 9 £428 -20.47% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 6

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
1 101 (8.64%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.88%) SAS
3 13 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.11%) nginx
4 7 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.60%) CMS
5 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.43%) JBoss
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.086%) Appian
10 1 (0.086%) Mendix
Applications
1 96 (8.21%) MS Visio
2 84 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (5.39%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 48 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 4 (0.34%) Trello
8 3 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.17%) Final Cut Pro
9 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.086%) CATIA
10 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.77%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.26%) IntelliMatch
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.26%) Primavera
7 3 (0.26%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.17%) Maximo
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.086%) MetaTrader
Cloud Services
1 276 (23.61%) AWS
2 259 (22.16%) Azure
3 129 (11.04%) GitHub
4 117 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
5 89 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 81 (6.93%) Amazon S3
7 56 (4.79%) Serverless
8 54 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 48 (4.11%) GCP
12 39 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (2.74%) Miro
15 30 (2.57%) Entra ID
15 30 (2.57%) SaaS
16 24 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
17 21 (1.80%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (1.80%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.74%) Firewall
2 23 (1.97%) Network Security
3 19 (1.63%) DNS
4 18 (1.54%) WAN
5 14 (1.20%) LAN
5 14 (1.20%) VPN
6 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.03%) SSL
7 12 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.94%) SSH
9 10 (0.86%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.77%) HTTP
11 7 (0.60%) OpenVPN
11 7 (0.60%) PSTN
11 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.43%) BIG-IP
13 4 (0.34%) BGP
13 4 (0.34%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.34%) MPLS
13 4 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.67%) Power BI
2 63 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 31 (2.65%) SQL Server
6 30 (2.57%) DynamoDB
6 30 (2.57%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
9 22 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 21 (1.80%) Tableau
11 20 (1.71%) Metadata
12 15 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
13 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.11%) NoSQL
15 12 (1.03%) Pentaho
16 11 (0.94%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,055 (90.25%) JIRA
2 166 (14.20%) Git
3 133 (11.38%) Jenkins
4 106 (9.07%) GitLab
5 58 (4.96%) Selenium
6 44 (3.76%) Bitbucket
7 36 (3.08%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 31 (2.65%) JMeter
9 31 (2.65%) JUnit
10 30 (2.57%) Postman
11 21 (1.80%) Artifactory
12 20 (1.71%) Cypress.io
12 20 (1.71%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 19 (1.63%) Zephyr
14 13 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (1.11%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.77%) IntelliJ
15 9 (0.77%) Maven
General
1 455 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 337 (28.83%) Finance
3 195 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (15.74%) Banking
5 180 (15.40%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.17%) Retail
8 32 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.31%) Legal
9 27 (2.31%) Manufacturing
10 25 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.63%) Military
11 19 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.54%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.54%) Retail Banking
13 15 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.20%) Marketing
15 10 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
15 10 (0.86%) Front Office
15 10 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 245 (20.96%) Analyst
2 195 (16.68%) Business Analyst
3 125 (10.69%) Senior
4 113 (9.67%) Developer
5 87 (7.44%) Lead
6 80 (6.84%) Architect
7 61 (5.22%) Scrum Master
8 54 (4.62%) Data Engineer
8 54 (4.62%) Project Manager
9 47 (4.02%) Consultant
10 39 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
11 33 (2.82%) Product Owner
12 30 (2.57%) Tester
13 27 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (2.05%) DevOps Engineer
16 23 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
16 23 (1.97%) Technical Business Analyst
17 21 (1.80%) Security Engineer
17 21 (1.80%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.22%) REST
2 43 (3.68%) JSON
3 41 (3.51%) Spring
4 35 (2.99%) .NET
5 34 (2.91%) RESTful
6 29 (2.48%) React
7 26 (2.22%) AngularJS
7 26 (2.22%) HTML
8 23 (1.97%) PySpark
8 23 (1.97%) XML
9 22 (1.88%) SOAP
10 21 (1.80%) ADO
11 20 (1.71%) CSS
11 20 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.63%) WireMock
13 17 (1.45%) Playwright
14 16 (1.37%) Kafka
14 16 (1.37%) Node.js
14 16 (1.37%) OpenID
15 15 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 175 (14.97%) Product Ownership
2 73 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.13%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.31%) Virtual Team
5 25 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 22 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.03%) PMI
11 11 (0.94%) Security Posture
12 10 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 10 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (6.93%) Linux
2 56 (4.79%) Windows
3 36 (3.08%) Unix
4 12 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.77%) Android
7 5 (0.43%) AIX
7 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.086%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.086%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE
11 1 (0.086%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (63.05%) Agile
2 322 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 318 (27.20%) DevOps
4 291 (24.89%) CI/CD
5 287 (24.55%) Scrum
6 221 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
7 220 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 194 (16.60%) Test Automation
9 178 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 168 (14.37%) User Stories
11 156 (13.34%) Migration
12 122 (10.44%) Kanban
13 120 (10.27%) SDLC
14 117 (10.01%) Acceptance Criteria
14 117 (10.01%) Project Management
15 116 (9.92%) Roadmaps
16 115 (9.84%) AI
16 115 (9.84%) User Acceptance Testing
17 112 (9.58%) Data Modelling
18 109 (9.32%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 212 (18.14%) SQL
2 180 (15.40%) Python
3 93 (7.96%) Java
4 54 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 44 (3.76%) Bash
5 44 (3.76%) PL/SQL
6 39 (3.34%) PowerShell
7 36 (3.08%) C#
8 35 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.03%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.86%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.86%) Groovy
10 10 (0.86%) Kotlin
10 10 (0.86%) Perl
11 8 (0.68%) Bicep
11 8 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.43%) C++
14 4 (0.34%) R
14 4 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 395 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 332 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 133 (11.38%) Degree
4 50 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.68%) PMI Certification
7 36 (3.08%) PMP
8 33 (2.82%) CISSP
9 26 (2.22%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.14%) CISM
11 24 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
15 13 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (1.03%) Azure Certification
16 12 (1.03%) CBAP
17 9 (0.77%) IIBA
17 9 (0.77%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.41%) QA
2 65 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 58 (4.96%) PMO
4 38 (3.25%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.65%) GDPR
6 25 (2.14%) NIST
7 20 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.37%) WCAG
9 15 (1.28%) GRC
10 14 (1.20%) NCSC
11 13 (1.11%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.77%) SLA
13 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.51%) MiFID
15 5 (0.43%) HL7
15 5 (0.43%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.43%) PSD2
16 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 103 (8.81%) Docker
2 23 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.86%) Squid
4 7 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.26%) Ceph
5 3 (0.26%) HDFS
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.17%) Firmware
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.086%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (10.44%) Terraform
2 102 (8.73%) Kubernetes
3 70 (5.99%) Ansible
4 58 (4.96%) Grafana
5 34 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.11%) Consul
8 13 (1.11%) Puppet
9 11 (0.94%) Argo
10 9 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.77%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.68%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.43%) Istio
14 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.26%) CASB
15 3 (0.26%) Foglight
Vendors
1 131 (11.21%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.78%) Oracle
2 91 (7.78%) ServiceNow
3 81 (6.93%) Atlassian
4 48 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 36 (3.08%) SAP
6 32 (2.74%) Talend
7 28 (2.40%) Databricks
7 28 (2.40%) Denodo
8 27 (2.31%) IBM
9 26 (2.22%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.97%) Informatica
11 20 (1.71%) Google
12 18 (1.54%) Splunk
13 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.28%) BiZZdesign
14 15 (1.28%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.03%) Cisco
15 12 (1.03%) Sonatype
15 12 (1.03%) Zscaler