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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 100 106
Rank change year-on-year -25 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,153 852 813
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.10% 2.58% 2.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.32% 24.00% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 594 522
10th Percentile £375 £325 £341
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £638
90th Percentile £672 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +0.53% -9.52% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 19
10th Percentile £45.81 £52.88 £25.29
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.79 £43.38
Median hourly rate £69.99 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.02% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85.94 £72.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.07 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.09% - +12.00%

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 4,741 3,550 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 10.77% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,085 2,292 2,696
10th Percentile £285 £275 £263
25th Percentile £404 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -8.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £650
90th Percentile £684 £700 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 88 83
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.81 £17.26
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.81 £23.80
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -6.67% -21.38%
75th Percentile £56.43 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.89 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -14.29% -27.92% +6.73%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -29 988 £502 -2.05% 690
UK excluding London -20 597 £478 +0.53% 393
London -25 456 £538 -6.52% 356
Work from Home +9 370 £525 +5.00% 330
North of England -35 182 £474 +4.06% 93
Midlands +10 151 £469 -1.26% 47
West Midlands +15 128 £469 -1.26% 35
Yorkshire -12 103 £475 +1.50% 28
South East -40 87 £475 +5.56% 94
Scotland +6 83 £425 -6.85% 42
North West -44 71 £470 +9.56% 52
South West -12 66 £550 -4.35% 55
East of England -12 31 £491 +9.11% 41
East Midlands -11 22 £416 +29.49% 12
North East -51 11 £375 -27.88% 13
Wales -10 8 £650 +36.84% 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 61 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.56%) SAS
3 14 (1.21%) Apache
4 12 (1.04%) nginx
5 10 (0.87%) CMS
6 9 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.78%) Camunda
7 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.35%) JBoss
8 4 (0.35%) Traefik
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.26%) CICS
9 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) Appian
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.087%) Mule
11 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (7.81%) MS Visio
2 69 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.52%) Trello
7 5 (0.43%) Notion
7 5 (0.43%) 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 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.17%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.087%) CATIA
11 1 (0.087%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.087%) Sketch
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.52%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.43%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.17%) Actimize
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Primavera
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 2 (0.17%) Summit
9 1 (0.087%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.087%) ENOVIA
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.087%) SAP PS
9 1 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 266 (23.07%) AWS
2 260 (22.55%) Azure
3 130 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
4 105 (9.11%) GitHub
5 91 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 73 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 61 (5.29%) GCP
8 54 (4.68%) Serverless
9 53 (4.60%) Miro
10 49 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
14 32 (2.78%) Figma
15 29 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (2.08%) SaaS
18 23 (1.99%) Entra ID
19 20 (1.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.95%) Firewall
2 32 (2.78%) DNS
3 16 (1.39%) SSH
3 16 (1.39%) SSL
4 13 (1.13%) HTTP
4 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.04%) WAN
6 11 (0.95%) Network Security
7 10 (0.87%) DHCP
7 10 (0.87%) VPN
8 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.52%) Broadband
9 6 (0.52%) IPv4
10 5 (0.43%) Internet
10 5 (0.43%) IPv6
10 5 (0.43%) VLAN
11 4 (0.35%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.35%) MPLS
11 4 (0.35%) OpenVPN
11 4 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (7.29%) Power BI
2 69 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 34 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 31 (2.69%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 24 (2.08%) Metadata
7 24 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (1.73%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.30%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
13 13 (1.13%) Tableau
14 12 (1.04%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1,056 (91.59%) JIRA
2 152 (13.18%) Git
3 104 (9.02%) GitLab
4 103 (8.93%) Jenkins
5 47 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 36 (3.12%) Selenium
7 30 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (2.34%) JUnit
8 27 (2.34%) Zephyr
9 25 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 23 (1.99%) Postman
11 21 (1.82%) Cucumber
11 21 (1.82%) Maven
12 19 (1.65%) Mockito
12 19 (1.65%) SonarQube
13 18 (1.56%) Artifactory
14 16 (1.39%) Cypress.io
14 16 (1.39%) JMeter
14 16 (1.39%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.95%) MSI
General
1 465 (40.33%) Social Skills
2 323 (28.01%) Finance
3 222 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (17.78%) Public Sector
5 162 (14.05%) Banking
6 53 (4.60%) Retail
7 46 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.73%) Military
12 17 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.30%) Legal
13 15 (1.30%) Marketing
13 15 (1.30%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.04%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 236 (20.47%) Analyst
2 167 (14.48%) Business Analyst
3 121 (10.49%) Developer
4 118 (10.23%) Senior
5 105 (9.11%) Lead
6 63 (5.46%) Architect
6 63 (5.46%) Scrum Master
7 47 (4.08%) Data Engineer
8 43 (3.73%) Project Manager
9 42 (3.64%) Consultant
9 42 (3.64%) Product Manager
10 39 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (3.12%) Product Owner
12 30 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (2.17%) Java Developer
16 24 (2.08%) Technical Manager
17 22 (1.91%) Senior Developer
18 20 (1.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (9.97%) Terraform
2 96 (8.33%) REST
3 42 (3.64%) HTML
4 41 (3.56%) .NET
5 40 (3.47%) JSON
6 38 (3.30%) RESTful
7 37 (3.21%) AngularJS
8 35 (3.04%) React
9 33 (2.86%) CSS
10 32 (2.78%) SOAP
11 29 (2.52%) Spring Boot
11 29 (2.52%) Web Services
12 27 (2.34%) Spring
13 25 (2.17%) .NET Core
13 25 (2.17%) Kafka
14 22 (1.91%) Hibernate
15 20 (1.73%) XML
16 19 (1.65%) JPA
17 18 (1.56%) .NET Framework
17 18 (1.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 222 (19.25%) Product Ownership
2 81 (7.03%) Onboarding
3 61 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 33 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 33 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 26 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 23 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 16 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.39%) PKI
11 14 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.13%) Credit Risk
12 13 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.04%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.95%) Clustering
15 10 (0.87%) Replication
15 10 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 64 (5.55%) Linux
2 58 (5.03%) Windows
3 32 (2.78%) Unix
4 13 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.69%) Android
8 7 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.26%) AIX
9 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.26%) VMS
9 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.26%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.087%) CentOS
11 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.087%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (65.57%) Agile
2 391 (33.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 338 (29.31%) DevOps
4 318 (27.58%) Scrum
5 277 (24.02%) CI/CD
6 242 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
7 237 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (17.95%) User Stories
9 190 (16.48%) Migration
9 190 (16.48%) Test Automation
10 168 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 155 (13.44%) Sprint Planning
12 138 (11.97%) Acceptance Criteria
13 137 (11.88%) SDLC
14 135 (11.71%) Business Analysis
15 131 (11.36%) AI
16 127 (11.01%) Kanban
17 125 (10.84%) Requirements Gathering
18 124 (10.75%) User Acceptance Testing
19 118 (10.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 234 (20.29%) SQL
2 163 (14.14%) Python
3 96 (8.33%) Java
4 57 (4.94%) JavaScript
5 53 (4.60%) PowerShell
6 49 (4.25%) TypeScript
7 43 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.56%) Bash
8 41 (3.56%) C#
9 19 (1.65%) Groovy
10 16 (1.39%) Bicep
11 12 (1.04%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.04%) Perl
12 11 (0.95%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.78%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.52%) Go
15 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.26%) VB
16 3 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 395 (34.26%) Security Cleared
2 327 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 107 (9.28%) Degree
4 72 (6.24%) DV Cleared
5 67 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 27 (2.34%) PMP
8 25 (2.17%) AWS Certification
9 24 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.56%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 14 (1.21%) CISSP
13 13 (1.13%) IIBA
14 11 (0.95%) CBAP
14 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
15 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.78%) CISM
17 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
18 5 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (11.62%) QA
2 80 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.20%) PMO
4 48 (4.16%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.17%) WCAG
6 21 (1.82%) NCSC
7 13 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.04%) GDPR
8 12 (1.04%) GRC
9 11 (0.95%) NIST
10 9 (0.78%) SLA
11 8 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.61%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.61%) SEPA
13 4 (0.35%) MiFID
13 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.26%) EMIR
14 3 (0.26%) GxP
14 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 100 (8.67%) Docker
2 50 (4.34%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.52%) vSphere
6 4 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.35%) Squid
7 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Ceph
8 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.17%) UAG
9 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 66 (5.72%) Ansible
3 56 (4.86%) Grafana
4 34 (2.95%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.39%) Argo
7 12 (1.04%) Control-M
8 9 (0.78%) Istio
9 7 (0.61%) Packer
9 7 (0.61%) SCOM
9 7 (0.61%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
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%) WSUS
13 3 (0.26%) SELinux
Vendors
1 147 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.07%) ServiceNow
3 88 (7.63%) Oracle
4 70 (6.07%) Atlassian
5 44 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.38%) Google
7 37 (3.21%) IBM
8 33 (2.86%) VMware
9 29 (2.52%) Splunk
10 28 (2.43%) Talend
11 26 (2.25%) SAP
12 25 (2.17%) Denodo
13 23 (1.99%) Informatica
14 19 (1.65%) Databricks
15 14 (1.21%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.04%) Cisco
16 12 (1.04%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.95%) Adobe
17 11 (0.95%) Remedy
18 10 (0.87%) BMC