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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 106 136
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,119 743 756
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.42% 2.52% 1.73%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.29% 22.00% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 487 494
10th Percentile £340 £324 £363
25th Percentile £405 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -9.77% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £724 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £486 £538
% change year-on-year -2.72% -9.53% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 18
10th Percentile £26.99 £51.78 £24.10
25th Percentile £55.04 £58.47 £37.56
Median hourly rate £63.32 £63.75 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.08% +14.49%
75th Percentile £74.88 £75.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.43 £78.13 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £63.75 £66.25
% change year-on-year -0.39% -3.77% +23.83%

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 4,257 3,378 4,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.20% 11.47% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,914 2,262 2,862
10th Percentile £308 £275 £250
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £453 £450
% change year-on-year +4.86% +0.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 83 162
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.80 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £41.91 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% +42.07% -7.09%
75th Percentile £73.88 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £67.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £48.82 £24.43
% change year-on-year +7.55% +99.82% +8.58%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +6 999 £500 - 242
UK excluding London 0 600 £473 -2.72% 174
London +10 425 £523 +4.50% 110
Work from Home +7 309 £478 +6.11% 154
North of England -1 199 £447 +7.45% 28
Midlands +15 173 £450 -5.66% 27
West Midlands +11 130 £450 -5.66% 17
North West +13 106 £438 +8.83% 14
South West +12 97 £725 +28.89% 22
Yorkshire -32 87 £468 +4.24% 11
South East -57 70 £500 +1.52% 56
Scotland -9 45 £525 +15.07% 13
East Midlands -4 40 £416 -7.19% 10
East of England -33 19 £350 -17.60% 26
North East -14 6 £365 -28.78% 3
Wales -10 5 £606 +27.63% 4
Northern Ireland - 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 98 (8.76%) SharePoint
2 33 (2.95%) nginx
3 16 (1.43%) SAS
4 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.71%) CMS
6 5 (0.45%) Apache
6 5 (0.45%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) CICS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) Mendix
Applications
1 103 (9.20%) Microsoft Project
2 94 (8.40%) MS Visio
3 92 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 80 (7.15%) Microsoft Office
5 68 (6.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.80%) Trello
7 5 (0.45%) Notion
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.089%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.089%) InDesign
8 1 (0.089%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.089%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.54%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.27%) Actimize
6 3 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.18%) Summit
7 2 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.089%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 213 (19.03%) AWS
2 207 (18.50%) Azure
3 125 (11.17%) GitHub
4 93 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.49%) GCP
6 39 (3.49%) SaaS
7 35 (3.13%) Miro
8 34 (3.04%) Amazon S3
9 33 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (2.95%) Serverless
10 30 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (2.32%) Entra ID
12 25 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
14 23 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.88%) OpenShift
16 19 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.41%) Firewall
2 19 (1.70%) VPN
3 18 (1.61%) Network Security
3 18 (1.61%) SSL
3 18 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 18 (1.61%) WAN
4 15 (1.34%) LAN
5 13 (1.16%) DNS
5 13 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (0.89%) Ethernet
6 10 (0.89%) Unified Communications
7 8 (0.71%) VSAN
8 7 (0.63%) Modbus
8 7 (0.63%) OpenVPN
8 7 (0.63%) PSTN
8 7 (0.63%) RS-232
8 7 (0.63%) RS-485
8 7 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.45%) BIG-IP
9 5 (0.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.81%) Power BI
2 54 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 38 (3.40%) Tableau
4 36 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (2.59%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.32%) Metadata
7 25 (2.23%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.79%) SQL Server
9 17 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (1.43%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.25%) Big Data
12 13 (1.16%) DocumentDB
13 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.89%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.80%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.71%) Relational Database
17 7 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1,032 (92.23%) JIRA
2 143 (12.78%) Git
3 121 (10.81%) Jenkins
4 63 (5.63%) GitLab
5 54 (4.83%) Selenium
6 49 (4.38%) Bitbucket
7 34 (3.04%) Postman
8 33 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 28 (2.50%) JUnit
10 26 (2.32%) Cucumber
11 24 (2.14%) JMeter
12 23 (2.06%) SonarQube
13 16 (1.43%) WebDriver
13 16 (1.43%) Zephyr
14 14 (1.25%) Cypress.io
15 13 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 13 (1.16%) ScriptRunner
16 10 (0.89%) Maven
16 10 (0.89%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.71%) IntelliJ
General
1 465 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 326 (29.13%) Finance
3 216 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (17.16%) Banking
5 164 (14.66%) Public Sector
6 53 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (4.56%) Military
8 36 (3.22%) Retail
9 32 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.23%) Retail Banking
12 24 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (2.06%) Legal
14 17 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.43%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.43%) Marketing
16 15 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
16 15 (1.34%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.98%) Front Office
18 10 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 260 (23.24%) Analyst
2 217 (19.39%) Business Analyst
3 108 (9.65%) Architect
4 102 (9.12%) Senior
5 94 (8.40%) Developer
6 88 (7.86%) Project Manager
7 72 (6.43%) Lead
8 45 (4.02%) Scrum Master
9 41 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
10 36 (3.22%) Tester
11 34 (3.04%) Consultant
11 34 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 30 (2.68%) Service Architect
14 27 (2.41%) Banking Analyst
14 27 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
14 27 (2.41%) Technical Business Analyst
15 26 (2.32%) Banking Business Analyst
16 25 (2.23%) Test Analyst
17 24 (2.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.08%) REST
2 47 (4.20%) Spring
3 34 (3.04%) RESTful
4 26 (2.32%) Kafka
4 26 (2.32%) Spring Boot
5 25 (2.23%) HTML
6 24 (2.14%) ADO
6 24 (2.14%) React
7 21 (1.88%) JSON
7 21 (1.88%) Node.js
8 18 (1.61%) .NET
8 18 (1.61%) Playwright
8 18 (1.61%) WireMock
9 16 (1.43%) OAuth
9 16 (1.43%) SOAP
10 14 (1.25%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.25%) OpenID
10 14 (1.25%) Swagger
11 13 (1.16%) CSS
11 13 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (16.71%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.66%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 21 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.61%) PMI
8 17 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
11 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.80%) Equities
13 9 (0.80%) Security Posture
13 9 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.58%) Linux
2 48 (4.29%) Windows
3 14 (1.25%) Android
4 13 (1.16%) Unix
5 11 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
7 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (64.08%) Agile
2 309 (27.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 294 (26.27%) DevOps
4 270 (24.13%) Scrum
5 227 (20.29%) CI/CD
6 225 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
7 184 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (16.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 176 (15.73%) User Stories
10 158 (14.12%) Project Management
11 149 (13.32%) Acceptance Criteria
12 139 (12.42%) Test Automation
13 130 (11.62%) Migration
14 121 (10.81%) Kanban
15 119 (10.63%) Change Management
15 119 (10.63%) Roadmaps
16 117 (10.46%) Workshop Facilitation
17 109 (9.74%) Project Delivery
18 108 (9.65%) Decision-Making
19 103 (9.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 159 (14.21%) Python
2 139 (12.42%) SQL
3 85 (7.60%) Java
4 64 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 55 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 37 (3.31%) Bash
7 29 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 18 (1.61%) C#
9 13 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.89%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.89%) C++
11 9 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.71%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.63%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.54%) Perl
15 4 (0.36%) C
15 4 (0.36%) Groovy
15 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 403 (36.01%) Security Cleared
2 343 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 175 (15.64%) Degree
4 52 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.47%) PMI Certification
6 48 (4.29%) PMP
7 44 (3.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 33 (2.95%) CISSP
9 29 (2.59%) DV Cleared
10 25 (2.23%) CISM
10 25 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (2.06%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.70%) CBAP
12 19 (1.70%) IIBA
13 17 (1.52%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.43%) SAFe Agilist
15 15 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (1.07%) MBA
17 8 (0.71%) Azure Certification
18 7 (0.63%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.31%) QA
2 44 (3.93%) Data Quality
2 44 (3.93%) PMO
3 41 (3.66%) GDPR
4 25 (2.23%) NIST
5 24 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.61%) GRC
8 12 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.80%) Basel III
10 8 (0.71%) SLA
11 6 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.54%) MiFID
11 6 (0.54%) PSD2
12 5 (0.45%) HL7
12 5 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.36%) P3O
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (9.03%) Docker
2 15 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.89%) Squid
5 7 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.63%) Firmware
5 7 (0.63%) vSphere
6 3 (0.27%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Ceph
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 89 (7.95%) Terraform
3 59 (5.27%) Ansible
4 37 (3.31%) Grafana
5 30 (2.68%) OPNET
6 27 (2.41%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.97%) Consul
8 20 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.43%) Packer
9 16 (1.43%) Puppet
10 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.80%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.71%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.63%) vRealize
13 7 (0.63%) VxRail
14 6 (0.54%) Istio
15 5 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
16 4 (0.36%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.36%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 143 (12.78%) Atlassian
2 105 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 98 (8.76%) ServiceNow
4 52 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 43 (3.84%) Oracle
6 34 (3.04%) Remedy
7 33 (2.95%) SAP
8 27 (2.41%) Red Hat
9 22 (1.97%) Splunk
10 21 (1.88%) Databricks
11 19 (1.70%) BiZZdesign
12 18 (1.61%) IBM
13 16 (1.43%) Cisco
14 15 (1.34%) Commvault
14 15 (1.34%) Google
14 15 (1.34%) Talend
15 14 (1.25%) MuleSoft
16 13 (1.16%) Sonatype
16 13 (1.16%) VMware
17 11 (0.98%) HP