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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 100 125
Rank change year-on-year +6 +25 -30
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,074 769 848
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.67% 2.52% 1.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.45% 21.90% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 476 564
10th Percentile £325 £313 £363
25th Percentile £402 £412 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £539
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -6.27% -2.05%
75th Percentile £613 £624 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 27
10th Percentile £26.55 £55.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £30.16 £60.38 £51.88
Median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £66.73 £64.38 £70.95
90th Percentile £79.23 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.23 £62.50 £67.41
% change year-on-year -30.83% -7.29% +26.00%

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 3,913 3,511 4,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 11.53% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,701 2,167 2,873
10th Percentile £300 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
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% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 69 171
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.11 £22.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £25.28 £41.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.34% +49.09% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.25 £63.75 £49.54
90th Percentile £81.10 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £48.82 £24.00
% change year-on-year -46.10% +103.40% +29.73%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +10 961 £500 -1.48% 211
UK excluding London +9 570 £475 -5.00% 180
London -9 417 £525 +5.00% 61
Work from Home -22 271 £475 - 121
North of England +14 204 £450 -11.33% 35
Midlands +17 127 £444 -3.53% 34
Yorkshire -9 107 £500 -8.85% 14
South West +11 100 £725 +26.09% 34
North West +30 91 £405 -10.00% 21
West Midlands +5 89 £450 -5.66% 26
South East -23 76 £500 +5.26% 51
Scotland +10 46 £456 +7.35% 9
East Midlands -2 36 £411 -2.14% 8
East of England -26 21 £425 +4.68% 17
North East -11 6 £388 -13.89%
Wales -6 3 £400 -24.17% 4
Northern Ireland -2 2 £458 - 1

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 90 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.35%) nginx
3 15 (1.40%) CMS
4 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.84%) SAS
6 8 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.65%) Apache
8 5 (0.47%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.37%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.28%) Traefik
11 2 (0.19%) CICS
11 2 (0.19%) FileNet
11 2 (0.19%) IIS
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 110 (10.24%) Microsoft Project
2 104 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (9.22%) Microsoft Office
4 91 (8.47%) MS Visio
5 73 (6.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.47%) Notion
8 4 (0.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.19%) InDesign
9 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.093%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.093%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.093%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.093%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.093%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.65%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Summit
7 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.093%) Endur
7 1 (0.093%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.093%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.093%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.093%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 180 (16.76%) AWS
2 159 (14.80%) Azure
3 122 (11.36%) GitHub
4 75 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 34 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 31 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (2.79%) Miro
8 30 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (2.70%) GCP
9 29 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (2.70%) SaaS
10 28 (2.61%) Serverless
11 27 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (2.42%) Lucidchart
13 24 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.77%) Figma
16 18 (1.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.72%) Firewall
2 21 (1.96%) VPN
3 19 (1.77%) DNS
3 19 (1.77%) SSH
3 19 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 19 (1.77%) WAN
4 18 (1.68%) Network Security
5 13 (1.21%) LAN
5 13 (1.21%) SSL
6 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.93%) Ethernet
7 10 (0.93%) FTP
7 10 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.84%) HTTP
8 9 (0.84%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.84%) VSAN
9 7 (0.65%) Modbus
9 7 (0.65%) RS-232
9 7 (0.65%) RS-485
9 7 (0.65%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.84%) Power BI
2 42 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (3.91%) Tableau
3 33 (3.07%) NoSQL
4 25 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 22 (2.05%) Metadata
7 19 (1.77%) SQL Server
8 18 (1.68%) Big Data
9 16 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.21%) DocumentDB
10 13 (1.21%) Hadoop
11 10 (0.93%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (0.74%) Redis
13 7 (0.65%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.65%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (0.56%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 983 (91.53%) JIRA
2 127 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 111 (10.34%) Git
4 60 (5.59%) GitLab
5 43 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 33 (3.07%) Selenium
7 28 (2.61%) SonarQube
7 28 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 27 (2.51%) Postman
9 17 (1.58%) Cucumber
10 16 (1.49%) JUnit
11 11 (1.02%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.02%) Maven
12 9 (0.84%) Android Studio
12 9 (0.84%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.84%) ScriptRunner
13 7 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.65%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.56%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 479 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 318 (29.61%) Finance
3 211 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (16.85%) Banking
5 142 (13.22%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (4.56%) Military
8 31 (2.89%) Retail
9 30 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.23%) Retail Banking
13 23 (2.14%) Investment Banking
13 23 (2.14%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.96%) Legal
15 16 (1.49%) Marketing
16 15 (1.40%) Front Office
17 13 (1.21%) Automotive
17 13 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 242 (22.53%) Analyst
2 208 (19.37%) Business Analyst
3 113 (10.52%) Architect
4 104 (9.68%) Project Manager
5 81 (7.54%) Senior
6 80 (7.45%) Developer
7 74 (6.89%) Lead
8 47 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
9 35 (3.26%) Technical Business Analyst
10 33 (3.07%) Scrum Master
11 30 (2.79%) Consultant
11 30 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (2.79%) Senior Business Analyst
11 30 (2.79%) Service Architect
12 29 (2.70%) Tester
13 28 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
14 24 (2.23%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.23%) Product Owner
15 23 (2.14%) Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.15%) REST
2 38 (3.54%) RESTful
3 36 (3.35%) Kafka
4 33 (3.07%) Spring
5 27 (2.51%) HTML
6 26 (2.42%) Spring Boot
7 25 (2.33%) .NET
7 25 (2.33%) JSON
8 21 (1.96%) SOAP
9 19 (1.77%) Playwright
10 18 (1.68%) Node.js
10 18 (1.68%) XML
11 17 (1.58%) OAuth
12 15 (1.40%) ADO
12 15 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
12 15 (1.40%) React
12 15 (1.40%) YAML
13 13 (1.21%) LDAP
13 13 (1.21%) Swagger
14 12 (1.12%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 178 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 48 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 44 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.96%) PMI
6 21 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.93%) NHS
12 10 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 9 (0.84%) Equities
13 9 (0.84%) Reference Data
13 9 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 86 (8.01%) Linux
2 62 (5.77%) Windows
3 21 (1.96%) Unix
4 16 (1.49%) Android
5 11 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.93%) VMS
7 8 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
9 6 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.19%) AIX
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (60.89%) Agile
2 308 (28.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (24.95%) DevOps
4 244 (22.72%) Scrum
5 223 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (17.69%) CI/CD
7 176 (16.39%) Project Management
8 171 (15.92%) User Stories
9 164 (15.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 160 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 141 (13.13%) Acceptance Criteria
12 122 (11.36%) Change Management
13 115 (10.71%) Project Delivery
13 115 (10.71%) Roadmaps
14 112 (10.43%) Decision-Making
15 110 (10.24%) Migration
16 104 (9.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 104 (9.68%) Test Automation
17 103 (9.59%) Workshop Facilitation
18 97 (9.03%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 149 (13.87%) Python
2 119 (11.08%) SQL
3 76 (7.08%) Java
4 58 (5.40%) PowerShell
5 54 (5.03%) JavaScript
6 28 (2.61%) Bash
7 21 (1.96%) TypeScript
8 19 (1.77%) C#
9 13 (1.21%) Go
10 10 (0.93%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.84%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.84%) C++
12 8 (0.74%) Perl
13 7 (0.65%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.56%) Groovy
14 6 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.28%) C
15 3 (0.28%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 318 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 269 (25.05%) SC Cleared
3 219 (20.39%) Degree
4 57 (5.31%) PMI Certification
5 53 (4.93%) PMP
6 52 (4.84%) TOGAF Certification
7 48 (4.47%) CISSP
8 45 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 40 (3.72%) CISM
10 33 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (2.89%) Master's Degree
12 27 (2.51%) DV Cleared
13 22 (2.05%) CBAP
14 16 (1.49%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.40%) IIBA
16 12 (1.12%) CSPO
16 12 (1.12%) MBA
17 11 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
18 10 (0.93%) PhD
18 10 (0.93%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.03%) QA
2 39 (3.63%) GDPR
3 37 (3.45%) PMO
4 32 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 28 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.05%) NIST
7 19 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.12%) GRC
10 11 (1.02%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.84%) Basel III
12 8 (0.74%) PSD2
13 7 (0.65%) WCAG
14 6 (0.56%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.47%) NCSC
15 5 (0.47%) SLA
16 4 (0.37%) COBIT
16 4 (0.37%) MiFID
16 4 (0.37%) P3O
17 3 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (8.29%) Docker
2 18 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.02%) Squid
5 10 (0.93%) vSphere
6 7 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.65%) Firmware
7 6 (0.56%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.56%) Postfix
8 4 (0.37%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.093%) etcd
11 1 (0.093%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 98 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 79 (7.36%) Terraform
3 61 (5.68%) Ansible
4 30 (2.79%) Grafana
4 30 (2.79%) OPNET
5 20 (1.86%) Consul
6 19 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.58%) Packer
8 14 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.21%) Puppet
10 11 (1.02%) NetBackup
11 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.93%) vRealize
12 7 (0.65%) VxRail
13 6 (0.56%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.47%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.47%) Istio
14 5 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.37%) Nessus
15 4 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 125 (11.64%) Atlassian
2 111 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 78 (7.26%) ServiceNow
4 51 (4.75%) Oracle
5 47 (4.38%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.45%) Remedy
7 32 (2.98%) BiZZdesign
8 29 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 23 (2.14%) IBM
9 23 (2.14%) SAP
10 22 (2.05%) VMware
11 20 (1.86%) Cisco
12 18 (1.68%) Commvault
12 18 (1.68%) Sonatype
13 17 (1.58%) HP
14 16 (1.49%) CyberArk
14 16 (1.49%) Google
15 15 (1.40%) Splunk
16 14 (1.30%) CheckPoint
16 14 (1.30%) Dell