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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 97 121
Rank change year-on-year -22 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,170 870 774
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.65% 1.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.26% 24.20% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 612 529
10th Percentile £362 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.60%
75th Percentile £599 £607 £638
90th Percentile £675 £680 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £528
% change year-on-year - -9.95% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 22
10th Percentile £41.37 £57.75 £25.26
25th Percentile £56.68 £65.00 £37.56
Median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £70.61 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.90 £81.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.29% - +14.29%

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 4,631 3,595 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.96% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 2,366 2,886
10th Percentile £306 £281 £274
25th Percentile £406 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.10% -3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 87 119
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.08 £13.61
25th Percentile £19.01 £26.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £32.50 £44.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.97% +43.55% -39.51%
75th Percentile £61.26 £67.63 £66.50
90th Percentile £74.33 £79.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £30.00
% change year-on-year -31.03% +57.07% -14.29%

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 31 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 31 July 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 31 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 -12 1,032 £500 -2.34% 178
UK excluding London -8 633 £475 - 115
London -20 447 £532 -4.06% 83
Work from Home +10 398 £500 +11.11% 85
North of England -29 193 £463 +8.82% 31
Midlands +26 191 £459 -1.82% 15
West Midlands +13 165 £459 -3.37% 14
Yorkshire -30 95 £461 +8.53% 10
South East -28 93 £500 -2.30% 36
North West -30 93 £453 +7.74% 14
South West -16 69 £545 -5.22% 18
Scotland -6 63 £525 +16.67% 2
East of England -12 27 £350 -23.29% 8
East Midlands -1 24 £413 +25.76% 1
Wales -16 8 £650 +36.84% 2
North East -48 8 £480 -12.73% 7

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 86 (7.35%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.79%) SAS
3 13 (1.11%) nginx
4 10 (0.85%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) Apache
6 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.26%) Camunda
10 3 (0.26%) CICS
10 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.085%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.085%) Mule
12 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 64 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (4.96%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.60%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) CATIA
10 1 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.94%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.26%) Primavera
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
9 1 (0.085%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.085%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 280 (23.93%) AWS
1 280 (23.93%) Azure
2 130 (11.11%) GitHub
3 126 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 80 (6.84%) Amazon S3
6 61 (5.21%) GCP
7 56 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (4.44%) Serverless
9 50 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 48 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 38 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 36 (3.08%) Miro
13 34 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (2.65%) SaaS
15 27 (2.31%) Entra ID
15 27 (2.31%) Figma
16 21 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (1.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.31%) Firewall
2 22 (1.88%) DNS
3 15 (1.28%) Network Security
4 14 (1.20%) SSH
5 13 (1.11%) SSL
5 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.94%) HTTP
6 11 (0.94%) WAN
7 9 (0.77%) VPN
8 6 (0.51%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.43%) DHCP
9 5 (0.43%) LAN
10 4 (0.34%) Broadband
10 4 (0.34%) MPLS
10 4 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.26%) Internet
11 3 (0.26%) NGFW
11 3 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.58%) Power BI
2 63 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 36 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (2.39%) DynamoDB
7 27 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
9 22 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.54%) Tableau
12 17 (1.45%) Metadata
13 16 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (1.20%) BusinessObjects
15 14 (1.20%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.20%) Oracle Database
16 12 (1.03%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1,053 (90.00%) JIRA
2 169 (14.44%) Git
3 127 (10.85%) Jenkins
4 101 (8.63%) GitLab
5 57 (4.87%) Bitbucket
6 55 (4.70%) Selenium
7 35 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.74%) JMeter
8 32 (2.74%) JUnit
9 28 (2.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 28 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (2.31%) Postman
11 25 (2.14%) Zephyr
12 21 (1.79%) Artifactory
13 20 (1.71%) Cypress.io
14 19 (1.62%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.94%) REST Assured
16 10 (0.85%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.77%) Maven
17 9 (0.77%) MSI
General
1 478 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 321 (27.44%) Finance
3 211 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (16.84%) Public Sector
5 165 (14.10%) Banking
6 47 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (3.50%) Retail
8 40 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.97%) Legal
10 23 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.71%) Military
13 18 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.45%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.11%) Marketing
16 13 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
18 10 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 237 (20.26%) Analyst
2 178 (15.21%) Business Analyst
3 127 (10.85%) Senior
4 115 (9.83%) Developer
5 109 (9.32%) Lead
6 69 (5.90%) Architect
7 59 (5.04%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.27%) Data Engineer
9 48 (4.10%) Consultant
10 46 (3.93%) Delivery Manager
11 45 (3.85%) Project Manager
12 39 (3.33%) Product Owner
13 28 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 28 (2.39%) Tester
14 24 (2.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (1.97%) Product Manager
15 23 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.88%) AWS Engineer
17 21 (1.79%) Business Systems Analyst
17 21 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.41%) REST
2 44 (3.76%) JSON
3 41 (3.50%) .NET
4 37 (3.16%) Spring
5 31 (2.65%) React
6 29 (2.48%) AngularJS
6 29 (2.48%) HTML
6 29 (2.48%) RESTful
7 24 (2.05%) XML
8 23 (1.97%) .NET Core
8 23 (1.97%) CSS
9 21 (1.79%) PySpark
10 20 (1.71%) ADO
10 20 (1.71%) SOAP
10 20 (1.71%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.62%) .NET Framework
11 19 (1.62%) Kafka
11 19 (1.62%) WireMock
12 18 (1.54%) Node.js
13 17 (1.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 190 (16.24%) Product Ownership
2 74 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 30 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 16 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.03%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.94%) Clustering
13 11 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.01%) Linux
2 58 (4.96%) Windows
3 34 (2.91%) Unix
4 15 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.77%) Android
7 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.43%) AIX
8 5 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.26%) Solaris
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.085%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (65.13%) Agile
2 348 (29.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 341 (29.15%) DevOps
4 301 (25.73%) Scrum
5 294 (25.13%) CI/CD
6 234 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 234 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 198 (16.92%) Test Automation
8 177 (15.13%) User Stories
9 172 (14.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 167 (14.27%) Migration
11 130 (11.11%) Kanban
12 129 (11.03%) Sprint Planning
13 125 (10.68%) Acceptance Criteria
14 122 (10.43%) Roadmaps
15 121 (10.34%) SDLC
16 118 (10.09%) AI
17 117 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 113 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
19 111 (9.49%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 221 (18.89%) SQL
2 181 (15.47%) Python
3 95 (8.12%) Java
4 58 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.10%) Bash
6 47 (4.02%) PowerShell
7 44 (3.76%) PL/SQL
8 43 (3.68%) C#
9 39 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.11%) Bicep
10 13 (1.11%) Groovy
10 13 (1.11%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.03%) Perl
12 11 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.34%) Korn
15 4 (0.34%) VBA
16 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 410 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 346 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 120 (10.26%) Degree
4 60 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (4.87%) DV Cleared
6 37 (3.16%) PMI Certification
7 32 (2.74%) PMP
8 24 (2.05%) CISSP
9 23 (1.97%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (1.37%) CISM
13 16 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
14 12 (1.03%) CBAP
14 12 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.94%) IIBA
16 9 (0.77%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
18 6 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.49%) QA
2 66 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.13%) PMO
4 42 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.31%) GDPR
6 22 (1.88%) WCAG
7 20 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.54%) NIST
9 16 (1.37%) NCSC
10 12 (1.03%) GRC
11 8 (0.68%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.60%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.60%) SLA
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) HL7
14 5 (0.43%) MiFID
14 5 (0.43%) SEPA
15 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 104 (8.89%) Docker
2 39 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.43%) Squid
4 5 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.26%) Ceph
5 3 (0.26%) HDFS
5 3 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 131 (11.20%) Terraform
2 94 (8.03%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.90%) Ansible
4 64 (5.47%) Grafana
5 34 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.20%) Argo
8 13 (1.11%) Puppet
9 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.77%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.60%) Control-M
10 7 (0.60%) Istio
11 6 (0.51%) Consul
12 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.43%) SCOM
12 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 139 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.46%) ServiceNow
3 91 (7.78%) Oracle
4 83 (7.09%) Atlassian
5 45 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.50%) SAP
7 34 (2.91%) IBM
8 32 (2.74%) Talend
9 28 (2.39%) Denodo
9 28 (2.39%) Google
10 27 (2.31%) Databricks
11 25 (2.14%) Splunk
12 23 (1.97%) Informatica
12 23 (1.97%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.45%) VMware
14 16 (1.37%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.20%) Dynatrace
16 13 (1.11%) Commvault
17 11 (0.94%) Adobe
18 9 (0.77%) Cisco