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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 100 121
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,088 776 848
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.68% 2.53% 1.91%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.53% 21.91% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 481 565
10th Percentile £325 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £410 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.94% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £624 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £504 £540
% change year-on-year -5.70% -6.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 27
10th Percentile £26.55 £55.79 £40.00
25th Percentile £30.16 £60.81 £51.88
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £66.73 £66.56 £70.95
90th Percentile £79.23 £74.63 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £67.41
% change year-on-year -30.83% -7.29% +26.00%

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 3,952 3,541 4,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 11.54% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,732 2,186 2,853
10th Percentile £300 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 70 169
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.86 £22.13 £15.65
Median hourly rate £25.28 £41.46 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -39.01% +50.66% +25.07%
75th Percentile £69.28 £64.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £50.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -48.31% +112.11% +29.73%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +6 975 £500 -1.48% 218
UK excluding London +12 578 £475 -5.70% 181
London -15 423 £525 +5.00% 64
Work from Home -13 273 £472 -0.63% 118
North of England +15 207 £450 -11.33% 33
Midlands +20 132 £443 -3.80% 34
Yorkshire -10 108 £500 -8.85% 14
South West +14 100 £725 +26.09% 43
West Midlands +12 94 £450 -5.66% 27
North West +30 93 £405 -10.00% 19
South East -25 76 £500 +5.26% 50
Scotland +11 46 £456 +7.35% 6
East Midlands -2 36 £411 -2.14% 7
East of England -29 21 £425 +4.68% 15
North East -11 6 £388 -13.89%
Wales -5 3 £400 -24.17% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 £458 - 1

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 91 (8.36%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.31%) nginx
3 15 (1.38%) CMS
4 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.83%) SAS
6 8 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.64%) Apache
8 5 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) FileNet
11 2 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 110 (10.11%) Microsoft Project
2 105 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (9.10%) Microsoft Office
4 92 (8.46%) MS Visio
5 73 (6.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.10%) Trello
7 5 (0.46%) Notion
8 4 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.18%) InDesign
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.092%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.092%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.092%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.092%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.092%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.47%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.64%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.092%) Endur
7 1 (0.092%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.092%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.092%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.092%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 185 (17.00%) AWS
2 167 (15.35%) Azure
3 126 (11.58%) GitHub
4 77 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 32 (2.94%) GCP
8 31 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (2.76%) Miro
9 30 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 29 (2.67%) SaaS
11 28 (2.57%) Serverless
12 27 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (2.48%) Lucidchart
13 24 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (1.75%) Figma
17 18 (1.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.68%) Firewall
2 21 (1.93%) VPN
3 19 (1.75%) DNS
3 19 (1.75%) SSH
3 19 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.75%) WAN
4 18 (1.65%) Network Security
5 13 (1.19%) LAN
5 13 (1.19%) SSL
6 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.92%) Ethernet
7 10 (0.92%) FTP
7 10 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.83%) HTTP
8 9 (0.83%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.83%) VSAN
9 7 (0.64%) Modbus
9 7 (0.64%) RS-232
9 7 (0.64%) RS-485
9 7 (0.64%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.96%) Power BI
2 46 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (3.86%) Tableau
4 33 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 25 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.02%) Metadata
8 21 (1.93%) SQL Server
9 18 (1.65%) Big Data
10 16 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.19%) DocumentDB
11 13 (1.19%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.92%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.74%) Redis
14 7 (0.64%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.64%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.64%) Tick Data
15 6 (0.55%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 996 (91.54%) JIRA
2 131 (12.04%) Jenkins
3 115 (10.57%) Git
4 61 (5.61%) GitLab
5 43 (3.95%) Bitbucket
6 37 (3.40%) Selenium
7 28 (2.57%) SonarQube
7 28 (2.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (2.48%) Postman
9 21 (1.93%) Cucumber
10 20 (1.84%) JUnit
11 11 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.01%) Maven
12 9 (0.83%) Android Studio
12 9 (0.83%) JMeter
12 9 (0.83%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.83%) ScriptRunner
13 7 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.64%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.55%) Artifactory
General
1 486 (44.67%) Social Skills
2 324 (29.78%) Finance
3 215 (19.76%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (16.64%) Banking
5 145 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.50%) Military
8 33 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (2.94%) Retail
10 28 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.21%) Retail Banking
13 23 (2.11%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.11%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.93%) Legal
15 16 (1.47%) Marketing
16 15 (1.38%) Front Office
17 13 (1.19%) Automotive
17 13 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 245 (22.52%) Analyst
2 209 (19.21%) Business Analyst
3 114 (10.48%) Architect
4 106 (9.74%) Project Manager
5 87 (8.00%) Senior
6 80 (7.35%) Developer
7 76 (6.99%) Lead
8 47 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.22%) Technical Analyst
9 35 (3.22%) Technical Business Analyst
10 34 (3.13%) Scrum Master
11 32 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (2.94%) Tester
12 30 (2.76%) Consultant
12 30 (2.76%) Senior Business Analyst
12 30 (2.76%) Service Architect
13 28 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (2.21%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.21%) Product Owner
15 23 (2.11%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.16%) REST
2 38 (3.49%) RESTful
3 37 (3.40%) Spring
4 36 (3.31%) Kafka
5 27 (2.48%) HTML
6 26 (2.39%) Spring Boot
7 25 (2.30%) .NET
7 25 (2.30%) JSON
8 21 (1.93%) SOAP
9 19 (1.75%) Playwright
10 18 (1.65%) Node.js
10 18 (1.65%) XML
11 17 (1.56%) OAuth
12 15 (1.38%) ADO
12 15 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (1.38%) React
12 15 (1.38%) YAML
13 13 (1.19%) LDAP
13 13 (1.19%) Swagger
14 12 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 178 (16.36%) Product Ownership
2 49 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.93%) PMI
6 21 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.84%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (0.92%) NHS
11 10 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (0.83%) Equities
12 9 (0.83%) Reference Data
12 9 (0.83%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.90%) Linux
2 63 (5.79%) Windows
3 21 (1.93%) Unix
4 17 (1.56%) Android
5 11 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.92%) VMS
7 8 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.18%) AIX
12 2 (0.18%) Solaris
13 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.092%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (60.75%) Agile
2 311 (28.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (24.91%) DevOps
4 245 (22.52%) Scrum
5 224 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 198 (18.20%) CI/CD
7 178 (16.36%) Project Management
8 172 (15.81%) User Stories
9 166 (15.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 166 (15.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 141 (12.96%) Acceptance Criteria
11 122 (11.21%) Change Management
12 115 (10.57%) Project Delivery
12 115 (10.57%) Roadmaps
13 113 (10.39%) Decision-Making
13 113 (10.39%) Migration
14 110 (10.11%) Test Automation
15 105 (9.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 105 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
16 98 (9.01%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 151 (13.88%) Python
2 120 (11.03%) SQL
3 76 (6.99%) Java
4 58 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 54 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 29 (2.67%) Bash
7 21 (1.93%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.75%) C#
9 13 (1.19%) Go
10 10 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.83%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.83%) C++
12 8 (0.74%) Perl
13 7 (0.64%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.55%) Groovy
14 6 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.28%) C
15 3 (0.28%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 323 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 273 (25.09%) SC Cleared
3 219 (20.13%) Degree
4 57 (5.24%) PMI Certification
5 53 (4.87%) PMP
6 52 (4.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 48 (4.41%) CISSP
8 45 (4.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (3.68%) CISM
10 33 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (2.85%) Master's Degree
12 27 (2.48%) DV Cleared
13 22 (2.02%) CBAP
14 16 (1.47%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.38%) IIBA
16 12 (1.10%) CSPO
16 12 (1.10%) MBA
17 11 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.92%) PhD
18 10 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (8.92%) QA
2 41 (3.77%) GDPR
3 38 (3.49%) PMO
4 32 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.57%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.02%) NIST
7 19 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.10%) GRC
10 11 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.83%) Basel III
12 8 (0.74%) PSD2
13 7 (0.64%) WCAG
14 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.46%) NCSC
15 5 (0.46%) SLA
16 4 (0.37%) COBIT
16 4 (0.37%) MiFID
16 4 (0.37%) P3O
17 3 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (8.46%) Docker
2 18 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.01%) Squid
5 10 (0.92%) vSphere
6 7 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.64%) Firmware
7 6 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.55%) Postfix
8 4 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.092%) etcd
11 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 101 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 79 (7.26%) Terraform
3 62 (5.70%) Ansible
4 33 (3.03%) Grafana
5 30 (2.76%) OPNET
6 22 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.84%) Consul
8 17 (1.56%) Packer
9 15 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (1.29%) Puppet
11 12 (1.10%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.92%) vRealize
13 7 (0.64%) VxRail
14 6 (0.55%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.46%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.46%) Istio
16 4 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
16 4 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 125 (11.49%) Atlassian
2 112 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 78 (7.17%) ServiceNow
4 53 (4.87%) Oracle
5 49 (4.50%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.40%) Remedy
7 32 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
8 30 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 23 (2.11%) IBM
9 23 (2.11%) SAP
10 22 (2.02%) VMware
11 20 (1.84%) Cisco
12 19 (1.75%) Commvault
13 18 (1.65%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.56%) HP
15 16 (1.47%) CyberArk
15 16 (1.47%) Google
16 15 (1.38%) Splunk
17 14 (1.29%) CheckPoint
17 14 (1.29%) Dell