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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 93 116
Rank change year-on-year -35 +23 -16
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,141 862 791
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 2.65% 2.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.86% 24.25% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 600 526
10th Percentile £375 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £671 £680 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +0.53% -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 21
10th Percentile £44.86 £53.25 £25.30
25th Percentile £59.75 £62.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.45%
75th Percentile £76.94 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £94.63 £79.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +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 4,590 3,555 4,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.57% 10.93% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,012 2,308 2,794
10th Percentile £288 £277 £278
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £680 £713 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 91 95
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.00 £21.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +30.30% -38.76%
75th Percentile £60.95 £65.25 £69.38
90th Percentile £75.60 £78.70 £74.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £48.56
% change year-on-year -29.62% -4.90% +7.91%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -27 993 £505 -1.56% 560
UK excluding London -23 595 £478 +0.53% 307
London -29 455 £538 -6.52% 332
Work from Home +13 379 £525 +5.00% 289
North of England -46 187 £474 +10.23% 87
Midlands +13 152 £459 -3.37% 30
West Midlands +9 124 £463 -2.63% 24
Yorkshire -23 100 £474 +8.72% 26
South East -34 93 £500 +5.26% 57
North West -40 82 £473 +11.29% 47
Scotland +1 71 £438 -2.78% 36
South West -14 68 £545 -4.39% 54
East Midlands -1 27 £420 +27.20% 6
East of England -13 26 £400 -11.11% 21
Wales -14 9 £650 +36.84% 3
North East -53 8 £480 -7.69% 14

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 80 (7.01%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.58%) SAS
3 12 (1.05%) nginx
4 11 (0.96%) Apache
4 11 (0.96%) CMS
5 8 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.70%) Camunda
6 5 (0.44%) JBoss
6 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.088%) IIS
10 1 (0.088%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.088%) Mule
10 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 71 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.53%) Trello
7 5 (0.44%) Notion
7 5 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 4 (0.35%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.088%) CATIA
10 1 (0.088%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.088%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.088%) Sketch
10 1 (0.088%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Temenos T24
2 8 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.53%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.26%) Primavera
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) BASE24
7 2 (0.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.18%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.18%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.088%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.088%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.088%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 267 (23.40%) Azure
2 265 (23.23%) AWS
3 128 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (9.90%) GitHub
5 89 (7.80%) Power Platform
6 76 (6.66%) Amazon S3
7 60 (5.26%) Serverless
8 55 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (4.73%) GCP
10 49 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (4.03%) Miro
12 44 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (2.72%) Figma
15 25 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (2.19%) SaaS
16 24 (2.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.54%) Firewall
2 28 (2.45%) DNS
3 18 (1.58%) SSH
4 16 (1.40%) SSL
5 13 (1.14%) HTTP
6 12 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.05%) VPN
7 11 (0.96%) WAN
8 10 (0.88%) Network Security
9 7 (0.61%) DHCP
10 6 (0.53%) Broadband
10 6 (0.53%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.44%) LAN
12 4 (0.35%) Internet
12 4 (0.35%) IPv4
12 4 (0.35%) OpenVPN
12 4 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.26%) IPv6
13 3 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (7.10%) Power BI
2 59 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 32 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (2.45%) DynamoDB
7 26 (2.28%) Relational Database
8 25 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (2.10%) MongoDB
10 23 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 19 (1.67%) Metadata
12 16 (1.40%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (1.40%) Tableau
13 14 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
15 12 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
16 11 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1,029 (90.18%) JIRA
2 153 (13.41%) Git
3 107 (9.38%) Jenkins
4 101 (8.85%) GitLab
5 50 (4.38%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.42%) Selenium
7 31 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 25 (2.19%) JUnit
8 25 (2.19%) Zephyr
9 23 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 21 (1.84%) Postman
11 20 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 20 (1.75%) Cypress.io
12 18 (1.58%) Artifactory
13 17 (1.49%) SonarQube
14 16 (1.40%) JMeter
14 16 (1.40%) Maven
15 15 (1.31%) Mockito
16 14 (1.23%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.96%) MSI
General
1 467 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 337 (29.54%) Finance
3 214 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (17.44%) Public Sector
5 171 (14.99%) Banking
6 52 (4.56%) Retail
7 49 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.75%) Legal
11 20 (1.75%) Military
12 18 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.31%) Retail Banking
16 14 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.05%) Marketing
18 11 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (20.68%) Analyst
2 172 (15.07%) Business Analyst
3 123 (10.78%) Developer
4 115 (10.08%) Senior
5 104 (9.11%) Lead
6 70 (6.13%) Architect
7 61 (5.35%) Scrum Master
8 48 (4.21%) Consultant
8 48 (4.21%) Project Manager
9 45 (3.94%) Data Engineer
10 39 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
11 37 (3.24%) Product Owner
12 30 (2.63%) Product Manager
13 29 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
15 25 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (1.93%) Business Systems Analyst
16 22 (1.93%) Technical Analyst
17 21 (1.84%) Solutions Architect
18 20 (1.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (11.22%) Terraform
2 82 (7.19%) REST
3 42 (3.68%) .NET
4 41 (3.59%) HTML
5 38 (3.33%) JSON
5 38 (3.33%) React
6 34 (2.98%) AngularJS
6 34 (2.98%) RESTful
7 33 (2.89%) CSS
8 25 (2.19%) .NET Core
8 25 (2.19%) Spring
9 23 (2.02%) Spring Boot
10 22 (1.93%) Kafka
11 21 (1.84%) Web Services
12 20 (1.75%) SOAP
12 20 (1.75%) XML
13 19 (1.67%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.58%) PySpark
15 17 (1.49%) ADO
16 16 (1.40%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 206 (18.05%) Product Ownership
2 77 (6.75%) Onboarding
3 57 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 25 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 17 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 15 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.05%) PKI
16 11 (0.96%) Clustering
16 11 (0.96%) Credit Risk
17 9 (0.79%) Operational Technology
17 9 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (5.87%) Linux
2 57 (5.00%) Windows
3 33 (2.89%) Unix
4 11 (0.96%) Apple iOS
5 9 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (0.70%) Android
6 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.26%) AIX
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.18%) MVS
9 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.18%) zOS
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.088%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (66.17%) Agile
2 376 (32.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 341 (29.89%) DevOps
4 310 (27.17%) Scrum
5 269 (23.58%) CI/CD
6 230 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 228 (19.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 196 (17.18%) User Stories
9 190 (16.65%) Test Automation
10 178 (15.60%) Migration
11 175 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 144 (12.62%) Sprint Planning
13 138 (12.09%) SDLC
14 134 (11.74%) Acceptance Criteria
15 129 (11.31%) Kanban
16 125 (10.96%) Business Analysis
17 122 (10.69%) Requirements Gathering
18 120 (10.52%) Infrastructure as Code
18 120 (10.52%) User Acceptance Testing
19 119 (10.43%) AI
Programming Languages
1 216 (18.93%) SQL
2 166 (14.55%) Python
3 90 (7.89%) Java
4 61 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.47%) TypeScript
6 48 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 41 (3.59%) C#
7 41 (3.59%) PL/SQL
8 40 (3.51%) Bash
9 16 (1.40%) Bicep
9 16 (1.40%) Groovy
9 16 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 10 (0.88%) Perl
11 9 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.35%) Korn
13 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.35%) Swift
14 3 (0.26%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 403 (35.32%) Security Cleared
2 339 (29.71%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.47%) Degree
4 66 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 63 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (2.54%) PMI Certification
7 26 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.02%) PMP
10 21 (1.84%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 15 (1.31%) CISSP
12 15 (1.31%) SAFe Agilist
13 14 (1.23%) IIBA
14 12 (1.05%) CBAP
15 11 (0.96%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.70%) CISM
18 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
19 5 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (10.52%) QA
2 68 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 64 (5.61%) PMO
4 46 (4.03%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.10%) WCAG
6 20 (1.75%) NCSC
7 15 (1.31%) GRC
8 14 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (1.05%) GDPR
9 12 (1.05%) NIST
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.70%) SLA
11 7 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.53%) SEPA
13 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.35%) HL7
14 4 (0.35%) MiFID
15 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) EMIR
15 3 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 98 (8.59%) Docker
2 49 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.53%) Squid
4 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.35%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
8 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.52%) Ansible
3 52 (4.56%) Grafana
4 31 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.40%) Argo
7 9 (0.79%) Control-M
8 8 (0.70%) Istio
9 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.61%) SCOM
10 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.53%) Packer
11 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) Consul
12 4 (0.35%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.35%) Podman
12 4 (0.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 148 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 91 (7.98%) ServiceNow
3 80 (7.01%) Oracle
4 71 (6.22%) Atlassian
5 43 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.33%) IBM
7 35 (3.07%) SAP
8 33 (2.89%) Google
9 28 (2.45%) Talend
9 28 (2.45%) VMware
10 26 (2.28%) Splunk
11 25 (2.19%) Denodo
12 22 (1.93%) Informatica
13 19 (1.67%) Databricks
14 13 (1.14%) MuleSoft
15 12 (1.05%) Cisco
16 11 (0.96%) Adobe
16 11 (0.96%) Dynatrace
17 9 (0.79%) BMC
17 9 (0.79%) Zscaler