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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 101 125
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 -28
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,123 770 835
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.72% 2.53% 1.89%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.80% 21.89% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 490 555
10th Percentile £331 £312 £368
25th Percentile £402 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -8.03% -0.91%
75th Percentile £610 £614 £627
90th Percentile £725 £706 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -6.86% -7.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 27
10th Percentile £26.55 £55.79 £36.50
25th Percentile £30.16 £60.81 £50.63
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £66.73 £66.56 £73.45
90th Percentile £79.23 £74.63 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -30.83% -10.71% +30.84%

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 4,040 3,517 4,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 11.55% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 2,192 2,850
10th Percentile £304 £255 £250
25th Percentile £401 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 69 166
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.94
25th Percentile £17.62 £22.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -35.08% +58.81% +19.09%
75th Percentile £69.42 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.30 £66.00 £68.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -44.26% +103.40% +9.09%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +16 1,008 £500 -1.96% 207
UK excluding London +17 606 £475 -6.86% 165
London -7 429 £525 +5.00% 65
Work from Home -6 287 £467 -0.41% 111
North of England +17 217 £453 -10.84% 32
Midlands +12 143 £435 -5.35% 32
Yorkshire -15 114 £500 -8.56% 14
South West +16 106 £725 +26.09% 33
West Midlands +8 106 £450 -5.66% 26
North West +25 97 £430 -1.71% 18
South East -37 75 £500 +4.17% 52
Scotland +16 48 £475 +11.76% 5
East Midlands -11 35 £411 -2.14% 6
East of England -26 21 £425 +3.03% 10
North East -14 6 £388 -13.89% 1
Wales -4 3 £400 -24.17% 3
Northern Ireland -3 2 £458 -

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 92 (8.19%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.21%) nginx
3 15 (1.34%) CMS
4 14 (1.25%) SAS
5 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.62%) Apache
8 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.27%) Traefik
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) FileNet
11 2 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.089%) Mendix
12 1 (0.089%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 113 (10.06%) Microsoft Project
2 106 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (8.37%) MS Visio
5 75 (6.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.07%) Trello
7 5 (0.45%) Notion
8 3 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.18%) InDesign
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.089%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.089%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.089%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.62%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
8 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.089%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.089%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 198 (17.63%) AWS
2 178 (15.85%) Azure
3 131 (11.67%) GitHub
4 78 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 38 (3.38%) GCP
7 32 (2.85%) Amazon S3
7 32 (2.85%) SaaS
8 29 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (2.58%) Miro
8 29 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 28 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (2.40%) Lucidchart
10 27 (2.40%) Serverless
11 22 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.69%) Entra ID
14 19 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.38%) Firewall
2 21 (1.87%) VPN
3 20 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.69%) WAN
5 18 (1.60%) DNS
5 18 (1.60%) Network Security
6 15 (1.34%) SSH
7 13 (1.16%) LAN
8 12 (1.07%) SSL
9 11 (0.98%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.89%) VSAN
10 10 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.80%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.80%) FTP
12 8 (0.71%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.62%) HTTP
13 7 (0.62%) Modbus
13 7 (0.62%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.62%) RS-232
13 7 (0.62%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (4.81%) Power BI
3 38 (3.38%) Tableau
4 33 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 25 (2.23%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.05%) Metadata
7 23 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.60%) Big Data
10 17 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.42%) Hadoop
12 13 (1.16%) DocumentDB
13 9 (0.80%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.71%) MySQL
15 7 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (0.62%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.62%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.62%) Redis
15 7 (0.62%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1,028 (91.54%) JIRA
2 133 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 118 (10.51%) Git
4 65 (5.79%) GitLab
5 44 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.47%) Selenium
7 31 (2.76%) Postman
8 29 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (2.40%) SonarQube
10 25 (2.23%) Cucumber
10 25 (2.23%) JUnit
11 14 (1.25%) JMeter
12 11 (0.98%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.98%) Maven
13 9 (0.80%) Android Studio
13 9 (0.80%) ScriptRunner
13 9 (0.80%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.71%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.71%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 496 (44.17%) Social Skills
2 325 (28.94%) Finance
3 217 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (16.12%) Banking
5 144 (12.82%) Public Sector
6 60 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.36%) Military
8 37 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
9 33 (2.94%) Retail
10 32 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (2.32%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (2.14%) Legal
13 24 (2.14%) Retail Banking
14 20 (1.78%) Investment Banking
15 17 (1.51%) Marketing
16 13 (1.16%) Automotive
16 13 (1.16%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.07%) Front Office
17 12 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 261 (23.24%) Analyst
2 215 (19.15%) Business Analyst
3 115 (10.24%) Architect
4 106 (9.44%) Project Manager
5 91 (8.10%) Senior
6 82 (7.30%) Lead
7 81 (7.21%) Developer
8 46 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
10 35 (3.12%) Scrum Master
10 35 (3.12%) Technical Analyst
10 35 (3.12%) Technical Business Analyst
10 35 (3.12%) Tester
11 32 (2.85%) Consultant
12 30 (2.67%) Service Architect
13 27 (2.40%) Data Engineer
13 27 (2.40%) Delivery Manager
13 27 (2.40%) Senior Business Analyst
14 24 (2.14%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.97%) REST
2 41 (3.65%) Spring
3 37 (3.29%) Kafka
4 36 (3.21%) RESTful
5 27 (2.40%) HTML
6 26 (2.32%) JSON
7 25 (2.23%) Spring Boot
8 23 (2.05%) .NET
9 20 (1.78%) Playwright
9 20 (1.78%) XML
10 19 (1.69%) SOAP
11 18 (1.60%) Node.js
12 17 (1.51%) ADO
12 17 (1.51%) OAuth
12 17 (1.51%) React
13 15 (1.34%) Middleware
13 15 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (1.34%) YAML
14 13 (1.16%) WireMock
15 12 (1.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 177 (15.76%) Product Ownership
2 55 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 44 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 22 (1.96%) PMI
8 20 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 14 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.89%) Equities
15 10 (0.89%) NHS
15 10 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 9 (0.80%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.10%) Linux
2 62 (5.52%) Windows
3 24 (2.14%) Unix
4 17 (1.51%) Android
5 11 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.71%) VMS
7 7 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
7 7 (0.62%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.089%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (60.82%) Agile
2 323 (28.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 277 (24.67%) DevOps
4 251 (22.35%) Scrum
5 225 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
6 209 (18.61%) CI/CD
7 174 (15.49%) Project Management
7 174 (15.49%) User Stories
8 171 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (14.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 143 (12.73%) Acceptance Criteria
11 122 (10.86%) Change Management
12 121 (10.77%) Test Automation
13 120 (10.69%) Decision-Making
14 118 (10.51%) Roadmaps
15 117 (10.42%) Migration
16 115 (10.24%) Project Delivery
17 109 (9.71%) Workshop Facilitation
18 104 (9.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 97 (8.64%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 159 (14.16%) Python
2 130 (11.58%) SQL
3 75 (6.68%) Java
4 61 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 53 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.03%) Bash
7 23 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 20 (1.78%) C#
9 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.98%) Go
11 9 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.80%) C++
12 7 (0.62%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.62%) Perl
13 6 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.36%) Groovy
16 3 (0.27%) Bicep
16 3 (0.27%) HiveQL
16 3 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 333 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 280 (24.93%) SC Cleared
3 222 (19.77%) Degree
4 60 (5.34%) PMI Certification
5 56 (4.99%) PMP
6 52 (4.63%) TOGAF Certification
7 49 (4.36%) CISSP
8 45 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 41 (3.65%) CISM
10 36 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (2.85%) Master's Degree
12 26 (2.32%) DV Cleared
13 23 (2.05%) CBAP
14 17 (1.51%) IIBA
15 16 (1.42%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
17 12 (1.07%) MBA
18 11 (0.98%) CSPO
19 10 (0.89%) PhD
19 10 (0.89%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (8.37%) QA
2 45 (4.01%) GDPR
3 41 (3.65%) PMO
4 34 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 24 (2.14%) NIST
7 19 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.07%) GRC
10 10 (0.89%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.80%) Basel III
12 8 (0.71%) WCAG
13 7 (0.62%) PSD2
14 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.53%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.45%) NCSC
15 5 (0.45%) SLA
16 4 (0.36%) COBIT
16 4 (0.36%) P3O
System Software
1 98 (8.73%) Docker
2 18 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 11 (0.98%) Squid
5 9 (0.80%) vSphere
6 7 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.62%) Firmware
7 5 (0.45%) Postfix
8 4 (0.36%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.27%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.27%) HDFS
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.089%) etcd
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 114 (10.15%) Kubernetes
2 80 (7.12%) Terraform
3 67 (5.97%) Ansible
4 39 (3.47%) Grafana
5 30 (2.67%) OPNET
6 25 (2.23%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.87%) Consul
8 17 (1.51%) Packer
9 16 (1.42%) Puppet
9 16 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.16%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.89%) vRealize
13 7 (0.62%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.62%) VxRail
14 5 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.45%) Istio
15 4 (0.36%) HP ALM
16 3 (0.27%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 127 (11.31%) Atlassian
2 115 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 77 (6.86%) ServiceNow
4 58 (5.16%) Oracle
5 50 (4.45%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.21%) Remedy
7 32 (2.85%) BiZZdesign
7 32 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 24 (2.14%) SAP
9 23 (2.05%) IBM
10 22 (1.96%) VMware
11 20 (1.78%) Commvault
12 19 (1.69%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.60%) CyberArk
14 17 (1.51%) Cisco
15 16 (1.42%) Databricks
15 16 (1.42%) Google
16 15 (1.34%) HP
16 15 (1.34%) Splunk
17 13 (1.16%) Dell