Confluence Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Confluence
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 87 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 -69
Contract jobs citing Confluence 73 23 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.30% 1.27% 0.95%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.03% 13.86% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 16 15
10th Percentile £306 £328 £340
25th Percentile £397 £461 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +16.47% -21.15%
75th Percentile £488 £628 £588
90th Percentile £588 £638 £705
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
England median hourly rate £62.82 £62.50 £66.13
% change year-on-year +0.51% -5.49% +32.27%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 317 166 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.34% 9.18% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 95 124
10th Percentile £316 £209 £213
25th Percentile £413 £391 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £588 £638 £671
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile £17.27 £16.55 £17.39
25th Percentile £23.66 £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% -1.37% +14.28%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile - £25.64 £19.40
England median hourly rate £33.89 £42.50 £26.39
% change year-on-year -20.27% +61.05% +35.33%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Confluence job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the West Midlands

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Confluence

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 December 2025. 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
Birmingham +20 31 £475 +31.94% 5
Shropshire -36 10 £450 -6.93% 3
Warwickshire -5 8 £488 -22.00% 4
Coventry -9 8 £316 -47.33% 2
Solihull - 4 £358 -
Worcestershire - 4 £575 - 1
Staffordshire +2 2 £338 - 3
Herefordshire -12 1 £575 +4.55%
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 11 (15.07%) nginx
2 9 (12.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) CMS
4 1 (1.37%) IIS
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (16.44%) MS Visio
2 11 (15.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.37%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.84%) AWS
2 24 (32.88%) Azure
3 22 (30.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 21 (28.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 21 (28.77%) Amazon EC2
4 21 (28.77%) Amazon ELB
4 21 (28.77%) Amazon S3
4 21 (28.77%) AWS KMS
5 13 (17.81%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (15.07%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (15.07%) Route 53
7 10 (13.70%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (9.59%) Datadog
9 3 (4.11%) GitHub
9 3 (4.11%) Google Workspace
9 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.74%) GCP
10 2 (2.74%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.51%) Firewall
2 21 (28.77%) SMTP
3 20 (27.40%) DNS
3 20 (27.40%) FTP
3 20 (27.40%) HTTP
3 20 (27.40%) SSH
4 11 (15.07%) IMAP
4 11 (15.07%) OpenLDAP
5 8 (10.96%) VSAN
6 1 (1.37%) LAN
6 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.37%) SSL
6 1 (1.37%) VPN
6 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.77%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.11%) Power BI
5 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.74%) Redis
6 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.37%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 58 (79.45%) JIRA
2 24 (32.88%) Git
3 21 (28.77%) Jenkins
3 21 (28.77%) Vagrant
4 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 27 (36.99%) Public Sector
3 14 (19.18%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Finance
5 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Automotive
6 3 (4.11%) Publishing
7 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Analyst
1 20 (27.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (24.66%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (24.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 18 (24.66%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (21.92%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (21.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 13 (17.81%) Business Analyst
5 11 (15.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) JIRA Administrator
8 4 (5.48%) Pega Business Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Storage Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Lead
9 3 (4.11%) Scrum Master
9 3 (4.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) LDAP
2 3 (4.11%) HTML
3 2 (2.74%) .NET
3 2 (2.74%) Middleware
3 2 (2.74%) RESTful
3 2 (2.74%) Spring
3 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.74%) YAML
4 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.37%) Kafka
4 1 (1.37%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth
4 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.37%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) SignalR
4 1 (1.37%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.37%) Swagger
4 1 (1.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (27.40%) Replication
2 7 (9.59%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (9.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Animation
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 33 (45.21%) Linux
2 27 (36.99%) Windows
3 21 (28.77%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (28.77%) VMS
4 10 (13.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) AIX
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) Solaris
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.84%) DevOps
2 29 (39.73%) Agile
3 26 (35.62%) Change Management
4 21 (28.77%) Cloud Security
4 21 (28.77%) Configuration Management
4 21 (28.77%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (27.40%) Patch Management
6 16 (21.92%) CI/CD
7 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.07%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (12.33%) Project Management
11 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.96%) Scrum
12 7 (9.59%) Containerisation
12 7 (9.59%) Data Management
12 7 (9.59%) Decision-Making
12 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (8.22%) Mentoring
13 6 (8.22%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.99%) PowerShell
2 24 (32.88%) Python
3 21 (28.77%) Groovy
4 17 (23.29%) SQL
5 11 (15.07%) Java
5 11 (15.07%) Perl
6 2 (2.74%) Bicep
6 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.37%) Bash
7 1 (1.37%) Go
7 1 (1.37%) R
7 1 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (50.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (46.58%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.29%) Degree
4 11 (15.07%) Azure Certification
5 10 (13.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.11%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.11%) PMP
7 1 (1.37%) CAPM
7 1 (1.37%) CBAP
7 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) NIST
2 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) PMO
3 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (35.62%) Docker
2 20 (27.40%) DFS Replication
3 11 (15.07%) Dovecot
3 11 (15.07%) Postfix
3 11 (15.07%) Squid
4 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
5 8 (10.96%) vSphere
6 7 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (5.48%) Firmware
8 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (30.14%) Grafana
1 22 (30.14%) Prometheus
1 22 (30.14%) Terraform
2 11 (15.07%) Nessus
3 10 (13.70%) Proxmox
4 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
5 7 (9.59%) vRealize
5 7 (9.59%) VxRail
6 4 (5.48%) SCCM
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (28.77%) ServiceNow
2 11 (15.07%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (10.96%) VMware
4 7 (9.59%) AppDynamics
4 7 (9.59%) Cisco
4 7 (9.59%) Commvault
4 7 (9.59%) Dell
4 7 (9.59%) HP
4 7 (9.59%) IBM
4 7 (9.59%) SolarWinds
5 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.85%) Atlassian
7 4 (5.48%) Pega
8 3 (4.11%) Google
8 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.74%) Oracle
9 2 (2.74%) SAP
10 1 (1.37%) Proofpoint
10 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.37%) Sage