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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 101 122
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 -34
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,015 759 887
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.69% 2.41% 2.04%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.89% 21.68% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 475 593
10th Percentile £330 £313 £380
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £621 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -4.43% -7.73% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 28
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.70 £43.22
25th Percentile £36.05 £58.47 £54.00
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +20.19%
75th Percentile £64.51 £65.51 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £70.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.26% - +19.05%

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 3,775 3,501 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.02% 11.12% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 2,157 2,858
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £693 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 70 146
10th Percentile £14.60 £17.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.44 £16.42
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +49.02% +37.84%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 £56.88
90th Percentile £81.40 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £48.16 £24.00
% change year-on-year -53.28% +100.66% +37.14%

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 January 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 January 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 21 January 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 +14 912 £500 -3.80% 270
UK excluding London +18 533 £485 -4.43% 250
London -12 400 £550 +4.76% 60
Work from Home -14 245 £478 -4.50% 133
North of England +6 193 £468 -9.22% 49
Midlands +23 119 £445 -6.71% 43
Yorkshire -14 107 £513 -1.91% 20
South West +23 98 £725 +26.09% 34
West Midlands +15 81 £450 -6.93% 24
South East -14 77 £500 +7.53% 81
North West +10 75 £438 -13.79% 24
Scotland +17 37 £500 +11.11% 13
East Midlands -3 37 £376 -10.60% 18
East of England -26 15 £463 +13.92% 29
North East -7 10 £488 +8.33% 5
Wales -1 3 £400 -23.81% 6
Northern Ireland -2 2 £320 - 4

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 81 (7.98%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.15%) nginx
3 13 (1.28%) CMS
4 9 (0.89%) SAS
5 8 (0.79%) Apache
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.30%) Traefik
7 2 (0.20%) CICS
7 2 (0.20%) FileNet
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.099%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.099%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 103 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 102 (10.05%) Microsoft Project
3 99 (9.75%) Microsoft Office
4 89 (8.77%) MS Visio
5 72 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (1.38%) Trello
7 9 (0.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.39%) Notion
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.099%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.099%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.099%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.099%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.099%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.58%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.30%) Shopify
5 2 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Maximo
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.099%) Endur
6 1 (0.099%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.099%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.099%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.099%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 163 (16.06%) AWS
2 144 (14.19%) Azure
3 107 (10.54%) GitHub
4 61 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.84%) GCP
7 30 (2.96%) Miro
8 25 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 24 (2.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (2.27%) Serverless
11 22 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (2.17%) Lucidchart
12 21 (2.07%) SaaS
13 19 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.87%) Figma
13 19 (1.87%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.33%) Firewall
2 30 (2.96%) SSH
3 19 (1.87%) DNS
4 18 (1.77%) FTP
5 17 (1.67%) VPN
6 16 (1.58%) HTTP
6 16 (1.58%) SSL
7 15 (1.48%) SMTP
8 14 (1.38%) Network Security
9 13 (1.28%) WAN
10 12 (1.18%) SD-WAN
10 12 (1.18%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.89%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.89%) IMAP
11 9 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (0.89%) VSAN
12 8 (0.79%) LAN
13 7 (0.69%) BGP
13 7 (0.69%) Modbus
13 7 (0.69%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.93%) Power BI
2 43 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (4.24%) Tableau
3 34 (3.35%) NoSQL
4 22 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (2.07%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.58%) Big Data
7 16 (1.58%) Metadata
8 12 (1.18%) DocumentDB
8 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.79%) Redis
12 7 (0.69%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.69%) Tick Data
13 6 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.59%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 930 (91.63%) JIRA
2 127 (12.51%) Jenkins
3 94 (9.26%) Git
4 55 (5.42%) GitLab
5 48 (4.73%) Bitbucket
6 35 (3.45%) Selenium
7 24 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
8 21 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 20 (1.97%) Postman
10 17 (1.67%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.38%) Vagrant
12 10 (0.99%) JUnit
12 10 (0.99%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.89%) Cypress.io
13 9 (0.89%) ScriptRunner
14 8 (0.79%) Maven
14 8 (0.79%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.69%) Android Studio
16 6 (0.59%) Zephyr
17 5 (0.49%) SoapUI
General
1 453 (44.63%) Social Skills
2 304 (29.95%) Finance
3 203 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (15.86%) Banking
5 138 (13.60%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (4.63%) Military
7 33 (3.25%) Retail
8 32 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (2.56%) Legal
10 24 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.27%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.97%) Retail Banking
14 19 (1.87%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.58%) Front Office
17 14 (1.38%) Marketing
18 13 (1.28%) Automotive
19 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 228 (22.46%) Analyst
2 189 (18.62%) Business Analyst
3 103 (10.15%) Architect
4 98 (9.66%) Project Manager
5 77 (7.59%) Senior
6 76 (7.49%) Developer
7 72 (7.09%) Lead
8 51 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
9 35 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
10 30 (2.96%) Product Owner
10 30 (2.96%) Service Architect
11 29 (2.86%) Consultant
11 29 (2.86%) Scrum Master
11 29 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
12 28 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
12 28 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (2.66%) Tester
14 23 (2.27%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.91%) REST
2 40 (3.94%) Kafka
3 36 (3.55%) RESTful
4 31 (3.05%) HTML
5 30 (2.96%) .NET
6 25 (2.46%) Spring
7 22 (2.17%) JSON
8 20 (1.97%) SOAP
9 19 (1.87%) Node.js
9 19 (1.87%) Playwright
10 18 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (1.67%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.58%) LDAP
13 15 (1.48%) OAuth
13 15 (1.48%) React
14 14 (1.38%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.28%) SAML
15 13 (1.28%) XML
16 12 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
16 12 (1.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 177 (17.44%) Product Ownership
2 41 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.84%) Cloud Native
4 28 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (2.07%) PMI
8 18 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.67%) Replication
9 17 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.18%) Tandem
12 11 (1.08%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.99%) Equities
13 10 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.89%) NHS
14 9 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 8 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 81 (7.98%) Linux
2 74 (7.29%) Windows
3 23 (2.27%) Unix
4 18 (1.77%) VMS
5 14 (1.38%) Amazon Linux
5 14 (1.38%) Android
6 9 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.69%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.099%) AIX
9 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.099%) MVS
9 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (61.87%) Agile
2 282 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 257 (25.32%) DevOps
4 235 (23.15%) Scrum
5 188 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (16.55%) CI/CD
6 168 (16.55%) Project Management
7 165 (16.26%) User Stories
8 151 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 136 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (13.30%) Acceptance Criteria
11 123 (12.12%) Project Delivery
12 118 (11.63%) Change Management
13 107 (10.54%) Workshop Facilitation
14 104 (10.25%) Migration
15 103 (10.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 102 (10.05%) Test Automation
17 101 (9.95%) Roadmaps
18 95 (9.36%) Decision-Making
19 93 (9.16%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 150 (14.78%) Python
2 120 (11.82%) SQL
3 63 (6.21%) Java
4 60 (5.91%) PowerShell
5 55 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 31 (3.05%) Bash
7 22 (2.17%) C#
8 20 (1.97%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.58%) Go
10 14 (1.38%) Groovy
11 11 (1.08%) C++
12 10 (0.99%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.89%) Perl
14 7 (0.69%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.39%) C
17 3 (0.30%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.30%) PHP
17 3 (0.30%) R
18 2 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 295 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 258 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 198 (19.51%) Degree
4 53 (5.22%) PMI Certification
5 46 (4.53%) PMP
5 46 (4.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 40 (3.94%) CISSP
7 36 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.96%) CISM
10 26 (2.56%) Master's Degree
11 23 (2.27%) CBAP
11 23 (2.27%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.58%) IIBA
13 15 (1.48%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.38%) CSPO
15 11 (1.08%) Azure Certification
15 11 (1.08%) MBA
16 10 (0.99%) PhD
17 9 (0.89%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.78%) QA
2 35 (3.45%) GDPR
3 34 (3.35%) PMO
4 29 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.97%) Data Quality
6 16 (1.58%) NIST
7 13 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.08%) GRC
9 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.89%) PSD2
9 9 (0.89%) WCAG
10 8 (0.79%) Basel III
10 8 (0.79%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.59%) COBIT
12 5 (0.49%) NCSC
12 5 (0.49%) SEPA
12 5 (0.49%) SLA
13 4 (0.39%) P3O
14 3 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 90 (8.87%) Docker
2 19 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.58%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.38%) DFS Replication
5 11 (1.08%) Firmware
6 10 (0.99%) Squid
6 10 (0.99%) vSphere
7 9 (0.89%) Dovecot
7 9 (0.89%) Postfix
8 7 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.099%) KVM
12 1 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.099%) NFS
12 1 (0.099%) SRDF
12 1 (0.099%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.099%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 79 (7.78%) Terraform
3 63 (6.21%) Ansible
4 30 (2.96%) OPNET
5 27 (2.66%) Grafana
6 21 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.67%) Packer
8 14 (1.38%) Consul
8 14 (1.38%) NetBackup
9 10 (0.99%) Puppet
9 10 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.99%) vRealize
10 9 (0.89%) Nessus
10 9 (0.89%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.69%) VxRail
12 5 (0.49%) Istio
12 5 (0.49%) SCCM
13 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.30%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 116 (11.43%) Atlassian
2 105 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 76 (7.49%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.93%) Oracle
5 43 (4.24%) Remedy
5 43 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.36%) BiZZdesign
6 24 (2.36%) IBM
7 23 (2.27%) Cisco
7 23 (2.27%) VMware
8 21 (2.07%) Commvault
8 21 (2.07%) HP
8 21 (2.07%) SAP
9 19 (1.87%) Google
10 18 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 17 (1.67%) Dell
12 15 (1.48%) CheckPoint
12 15 (1.48%) CyberArk
13 14 (1.38%) Sonatype
14 13 (1.28%) F5