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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 92 116
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 -11
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,179 883 771
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.67% 1.98%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.45% 24.38% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 622 527
10th Percentile £361 £317 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £598 £605 £638
90th Percentile £674 £680 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 22
10th Percentile £42.01 £53.38 £25.26
25th Percentile £57.84 £63.13 £37.56
Median hourly rate £63.25 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.83 £80.75 £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 4,632 3,622 4,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.72% 10.94% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 2,380 2,847
10th Percentile £306 £281 £280
25th Percentile £405 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £645
90th Percentile £675 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £458
% change year-on-year +3.33% -1.64% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 88 114
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.17 £13.74
25th Percentile £19.00 £26.00 £20.21
Median hourly rate £32.50 £44.75 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +41.12% -39.60%
75th Percentile £60.95 £66.44 £68.56
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.13 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £30.91
% change year-on-year -31.03% +52.43% -27.26%

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 August 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 August 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 3 August 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 1,039 £500 -2.44% 275
UK excluding London -13 636 £475 - 156
London -18 452 £532 -3.62% 134
Work from Home +8 399 £500 +9.89% 130
North of England -34 193 £465 +8.28% 43
Midlands +25 191 £459 -0.22% 20
West Midlands +16 165 £459 -3.37% 15
North West -27 94 £455 +7.69% 16
Yorkshire -29 94 £463 +8.82% 19
South East -33 94 £500 -2.30% 49
South West -13 69 £545 -5.22% 26
Scotland 0 64 £525 +16.67% 5
East of England -7 28 £350 -23.29% 7
East Midlands -4 24 £413 +25.76% 5
Wales -15 8 £650 +36.84% 2
North East -45 8 £480 -10.70% 8

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 87 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.78%) SAS
3 13 (1.10%) nginx
4 10 (0.85%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) Apache
6 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.25%) Camunda
10 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.17%) CICS
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
12 1 (0.085%) Mendix
12 1 (0.085%) Mule
12 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.63%) MS Visio
2 64 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.68%) Trello
7 5 (0.42%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.76%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
7 3 (0.25%) 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%) MetaTrader
9 1 (0.085%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 283 (24.00%) AWS
1 283 (24.00%) Azure
2 130 (11.03%) GitHub
3 127 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 80 (6.79%) Amazon S3
6 62 (5.26%) GCP
7 56 (4.75%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (4.41%) Serverless
9 50 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 48 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
11 39 (3.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 36 (3.05%) Miro
13 34 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (2.63%) SaaS
15 27 (2.29%) Entra ID
15 27 (2.29%) Figma
16 22 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (1.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.37%) Firewall
2 22 (1.87%) DNS
3 16 (1.36%) SSH
4 15 (1.27%) SSL
5 14 (1.19%) Network Security
6 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.93%) HTTP
7 11 (0.93%) VPN
7 11 (0.93%) WAN
8 6 (0.51%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.42%) Broadband
9 5 (0.42%) LAN
10 4 (0.34%) DHCP
10 4 (0.34%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.34%) Internet
10 4 (0.34%) MPLS
10 4 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.25%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.53%) Power BI
2 63 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 36 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 28 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (2.37%) DynamoDB
6 28 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (1.87%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.53%) Tableau
11 17 (1.44%) Metadata
12 16 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (1.19%) NoSQL
14 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database
15 12 (1.02%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1,061 (89.99%) JIRA
2 169 (14.33%) Git
3 127 (10.77%) Jenkins
4 100 (8.48%) GitLab
5 57 (4.83%) Bitbucket
6 55 (4.66%) Selenium
7 35 (2.97%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.71%) JMeter
8 32 (2.71%) JUnit
9 29 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 27 (2.29%) Postman
12 25 (2.12%) Zephyr
13 21 (1.78%) Artifactory
14 20 (1.70%) Cypress.io
15 19 (1.61%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.93%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.85%) SonarQube
18 9 (0.76%) Maven
18 9 (0.76%) MSI
General
1 484 (41.05%) Social Skills
2 324 (27.48%) Finance
3 213 (18.07%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (16.96%) Public Sector
5 168 (14.25%) Banking
6 48 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (3.56%) Retail
8 41 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (2.71%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.95%) Legal
10 23 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.70%) Military
13 17 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 16 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.10%) Marketing
15 13 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
17 10 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (20.19%) Analyst
2 179 (15.18%) Business Analyst
3 128 (10.86%) Senior
4 114 (9.67%) Developer
5 110 (9.33%) Lead
6 69 (5.85%) Architect
7 59 (5.00%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.24%) Data Engineer
9 48 (4.07%) Consultant
10 47 (3.99%) Project Manager
11 46 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
12 40 (3.39%) Product Owner
13 29 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
14 28 (2.37%) Tester
15 25 (2.12%) Product Manager
16 24 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
17 23 (1.95%) Technical Analyst
18 22 (1.87%) AWS Engineer
19 21 (1.78%) Solutions Architect
19 21 (1.78%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (6.19%) REST
2 42 (3.56%) JSON
3 41 (3.48%) .NET
4 36 (3.05%) Spring
5 31 (2.63%) React
6 29 (2.46%) AngularJS
6 29 (2.46%) HTML
7 28 (2.37%) RESTful
8 24 (2.04%) XML
9 23 (1.95%) .NET Core
9 23 (1.95%) CSS
10 21 (1.78%) PySpark
11 20 (1.70%) ADO
12 19 (1.61%) .NET Framework
12 19 (1.61%) Kafka
12 19 (1.61%) SOAP
12 19 (1.61%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.61%) WireMock
13 18 (1.53%) Node.js
14 16 (1.36%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 192 (16.28%) Product Ownership
2 75 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.75%) Cloud Native
4 31 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 28 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 16 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.93%) Clustering
14 11 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (0.93%) Mobile App
15 10 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (7.12%) Linux
2 59 (5.00%) Windows
3 34 (2.88%) Unix
4 15 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.76%) Android
7 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.42%) AIX
8 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.25%) Solaris
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (65.06%) Agile
2 355 (30.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 341 (28.92%) DevOps
4 304 (25.78%) Scrum
5 295 (25.02%) CI/CD
6 237 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (16.79%) Test Automation
9 178 (15.10%) User Stories
10 173 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 168 (14.25%) Migration
12 132 (11.20%) Kanban
13 129 (10.94%) Sprint Planning
14 126 (10.69%) Acceptance Criteria
15 123 (10.43%) Roadmaps
15 123 (10.43%) SDLC
16 118 (10.01%) AI
17 116 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (9.67%) Business Analysis
19 113 (9.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 223 (18.91%) SQL
2 182 (15.44%) Python
3 95 (8.06%) Java
4 57 (4.83%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.16%) Bash
6 47 (3.99%) PowerShell
7 44 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 43 (3.65%) C#
9 39 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.10%) Bicep
11 13 (1.10%) Groovy
12 12 (1.02%) Perl
13 10 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.76%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.34%) Korn
17 3 (0.25%) R
17 3 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 412 (34.94%) Security Cleared
2 348 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 121 (10.26%) Degree
4 61 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 58 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 37 (3.14%) PMI Certification
7 32 (2.71%) PMP
8 24 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.04%) CISSP
9 20 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 16 (1.36%) CISM
12 16 (1.36%) SAFe Agilist
13 13 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (1.02%) CBAP
15 11 (0.93%) IIBA
16 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
18 6 (0.51%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (9.50%) QA
2 66 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.09%) PMO
4 42 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.29%) GDPR
6 22 (1.87%) WCAG
7 20 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.53%) NIST
9 17 (1.44%) NCSC
10 12 (1.02%) GRC
11 8 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.68%) SLA
12 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) HL7
14 5 (0.42%) MiFID
14 5 (0.42%) SEPA
15 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 104 (8.82%) Docker
2 39 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.51%) Squid
5 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.34%) Ceph
6 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.25%) HDFS
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 131 (11.11%) Terraform
2 94 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.85%) Ansible
4 64 (5.43%) Grafana
5 34 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.19%) Argo
8 13 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.59%) Control-M
10 7 (0.59%) Istio
11 6 (0.51%) Consul
12 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.42%) SCOM
12 5 (0.42%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 138 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 92 (7.80%) Oracle
4 83 (7.04%) Atlassian
5 45 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.48%) SAP
7 35 (2.97%) IBM
8 32 (2.71%) Talend
9 28 (2.37%) Denodo
9 28 (2.37%) Google
10 27 (2.29%) Databricks
11 26 (2.21%) Splunk
12 23 (1.95%) Informatica
12 23 (1.95%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.61%) VMware
14 16 (1.36%) MuleSoft
15 14 (1.19%) Dynatrace
16 13 (1.10%) Commvault
17 11 (0.93%) Adobe
17 11 (0.93%) Cisco