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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 97 117
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,180 861 778
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.23% 2.63% 1.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.50% 24.07% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 601 531
10th Percentile £358 £316 £350
25th Percentile £423 £405 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £599 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £681 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £528
% change year-on-year -0.42% -9.95% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 23
10th Percentile £41.37 £57.75 £25.26
25th Percentile £56.68 £65.00 £38.38
Median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £70.61 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £76.90 £81.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.29% - +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 4,628 3,577 4,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.75% 10.92% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,058 2,341 2,920
10th Percentile £306 £288 £272
25th Percentile £405 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -4.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 87 123
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +39.00% -40.95%
75th Percentile £61.57 £67.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.41 £79.25 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £46.65 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% +55.50% -25.00%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 1,039 £500 -2.44% 177
UK excluding London -8 640 £473 -0.42% 118
London -19 450 £529 -4.69% 84
Work from Home +14 403 £500 +9.89% 85
Midlands +36 194 £459 -0.22% 18
North of England -27 193 £455 +7.06% 29
West Midlands +23 166 £459 -3.37% 15
North West -20 96 £449 +8.07% 12
South East -34 95 £500 -2.15% 39
Yorkshire -24 92 £455 +7.06% 10
South West -11 70 £540 -6.09% 17
Scotland -10 64 £525 +15.07% 3
East of England -14 27 £350 -24.32% 6
East Midlands +2 26 £425 +30.37% 3
Wales -15 8 £650 +36.84% 1
North East -46 8 £480 -12.73% 7

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 (8.31%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.78%) SAS
3 13 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.10%) nginx
4 9 (0.76%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) Apache
6 6 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.42%) JBoss
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.25%) Camunda
9 3 (0.25%) CICS
9 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.085%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.085%) Mule
11 1 (0.085%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (7.37%) MS Visio
2 66 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 36 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (0.59%) Trello
7 6 (0.51%) Notion
8 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.25%) Final Cut Pro
9 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) CATIA
10 1 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.76%) Temenos T24
3 8 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.51%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.34%) Actimize
6 4 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.25%) Primavera
7 3 (0.25%) Summit
8 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.17%) BASE24
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.17%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.17%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.085%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 279 (23.64%) AWS
2 277 (23.47%) Azure
3 128 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
4 127 (10.76%) GitHub
5 89 (7.54%) Power Platform
6 80 (6.78%) Amazon S3
7 57 (4.83%) GCP
8 55 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (4.41%) Serverless
11 50 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (3.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 37 (3.14%) Miro
15 36 (3.05%) SaaS
16 33 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
16 33 (2.80%) Entra ID
17 27 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
18 26 (2.20%) Figma
19 21 (1.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.29%) Firewall
2 21 (1.78%) DNS
3 17 (1.44%) WAN
4 14 (1.19%) Network Security
4 14 (1.19%) SSH
5 12 (1.02%) SSL
5 12 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (0.93%) LAN
7 10 (0.85%) HTTP
7 10 (0.85%) Unified Communications
8 9 (0.76%) VPN
9 7 (0.59%) PSTN
10 6 (0.51%) OpenVPN
10 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.42%) DHCP
12 4 (0.34%) Broadband
12 4 (0.34%) MPLS
13 3 (0.25%) Internet
13 3 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.44%) Power BI
2 61 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 34 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 29 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (2.37%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.29%) MongoDB
9 23 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
10 22 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.53%) Tableau
13 17 (1.44%) Metadata
14 15 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
15 14 (1.19%) NoSQL
15 14 (1.19%) Oracle Database
16 13 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (1.02%) Pentaho
17 12 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1,066 (90.34%) JIRA
2 168 (14.24%) Git
3 126 (10.68%) Jenkins
4 102 (8.64%) GitLab
5 55 (4.66%) Bitbucket
5 55 (4.66%) Selenium
6 35 (2.97%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.88%) JUnit
8 32 (2.71%) JMeter
9 28 (2.37%) Postman
9 28 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 24 (2.03%) Zephyr
12 21 (1.78%) Artifactory
13 20 (1.69%) Cypress.io
14 19 (1.61%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.02%) SonarQube
16 11 (0.93%) REST Assured
17 9 (0.76%) Maven
17 9 (0.76%) MSI
General
1 481 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 320 (27.12%) Finance
3 207 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (16.78%) Public Sector
5 167 (14.15%) Banking
6 51 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (3.22%) Retail
8 30 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 24 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (1.95%) Legal
11 21 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.78%) Military
12 17 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.44%) Retail Banking
13 15 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.19%) Marketing
15 13 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (20.17%) Analyst
2 177 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 131 (11.10%) Senior
4 117 (9.92%) Developer
5 109 (9.24%) Lead
6 68 (5.76%) Architect
7 60 (5.08%) Scrum Master
8 50 (4.24%) Data Engineer
9 49 (4.15%) Consultant
10 47 (3.98%) Project Manager
11 45 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
12 37 (3.14%) Product Owner
13 29 (2.46%) Tester
14 28 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
15 24 (2.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (2.03%) Product Manager
15 24 (2.03%) Test Analyst
16 22 (1.86%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (1.86%) Technical Analyst
17 21 (1.78%) Business Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.27%) REST
2 44 (3.73%) JSON
3 40 (3.39%) .NET
4 38 (3.22%) Spring
5 32 (2.71%) RESTful
6 31 (2.63%) React
7 29 (2.46%) AngularJS
8 28 (2.37%) HTML
9 24 (2.03%) XML
10 23 (1.95%) .NET Core
10 23 (1.95%) CSS
11 21 (1.78%) PySpark
11 21 (1.78%) SOAP
11 21 (1.78%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.69%) ADO
13 19 (1.61%) .NET Framework
13 19 (1.61%) WireMock
14 18 (1.53%) Kafka
14 18 (1.53%) Node.js
15 17 (1.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 188 (15.93%) Product Ownership
2 71 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.75%) Cloud Native
4 29 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.46%) Virtual Team
5 26 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 18 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.02%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (7.03%) Linux
2 63 (5.34%) Windows
3 36 (3.05%) Unix
4 14 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.76%) Android
7 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.42%) AIX
8 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.25%) Solaris
9 3 (0.25%) zOS
10 2 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.085%) Check Point GAiA
11 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE
11 1 (0.085%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (65.34%) Agile
2 356 (30.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 340 (28.81%) DevOps
4 305 (25.85%) Scrum
5 292 (24.75%) CI/CD
6 235 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 201 (17.03%) Test Automation
9 177 (15.00%) User Stories
10 172 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 168 (14.24%) Migration
12 129 (10.93%) Kanban
13 127 (10.76%) Acceptance Criteria
13 127 (10.76%) Sprint Planning
14 122 (10.34%) Roadmaps
15 121 (10.25%) SDLC
16 117 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
17 115 (9.75%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (9.66%) AI
19 111 (9.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.56%) SQL
2 185 (15.68%) Python
3 96 (8.14%) Java
4 57 (4.83%) JavaScript
5 51 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 46 (3.90%) Bash
7 44 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 42 (3.56%) C#
9 39 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.10%) Bicep
11 12 (1.02%) Groovy
11 12 (1.02%) Kotlin
12 11 (0.93%) Perl
12 11 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.34%) Korn
15 4 (0.34%) VBA
16 3 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 413 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 344 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 124 (10.51%) Degree
4 60 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 60 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.22%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.80%) PMP
7 24 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.03%) CISSP
8 20 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 16 (1.36%) CISM
11 16 (1.36%) SAFe Agilist
12 13 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.02%) CBAP
14 11 (0.93%) IIBA
15 9 (0.76%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.68%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (9.66%) QA
2 64 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 60 (5.08%) PMO
4 41 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.29%) GDPR
6 22 (1.86%) WCAG
7 20 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.53%) NIST
9 16 (1.36%) NCSC
10 12 (1.02%) GRC
11 9 (0.76%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.59%) SLA
13 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.42%) HL7
14 5 (0.42%) MiFID
14 5 (0.42%) SEPA
15 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 105 (8.90%) Docker
2 37 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.42%) Squid
4 5 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.25%) Ceph
5 3 (0.25%) HDFS
5 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.17%) Postfix
6 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.085%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 131 (11.10%) Terraform
2 94 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.85%) Ansible
4 61 (5.17%) Grafana
5 33 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (1.10%) Argo
8 13 (1.10%) Puppet
9 9 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.59%) Control-M
10 7 (0.59%) Istio
11 6 (0.51%) Consul
12 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.42%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.34%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.34%) Podman
13 4 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 141 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.31%) ServiceNow
3 90 (7.63%) Oracle
4 83 (7.03%) Atlassian
5 48 (4.07%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.47%) SAP
7 34 (2.88%) IBM
8 32 (2.71%) Talend
9 28 (2.37%) Denodo
10 27 (2.29%) Google
11 25 (2.12%) Databricks
11 25 (2.12%) Splunk
12 23 (1.95%) Informatica
12 23 (1.95%) Red Hat
13 16 (1.36%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.36%) VMware
14 13 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.02%) Commvault
16 11 (0.93%) Adobe
17 9 (0.76%) Cisco