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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 63 105
Rank change year-on-year +12 +42 -67
Contract jobs citing Confluence 123 35 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.33% 2.65% 0.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 29.64% 25.74% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 20 8
10th Percentile £350 £350 £393
25th Percentile £405 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -2.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £488 £512 £688
90th Percentile £500 £545 £733
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £25.88 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £50.03 - -
England median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.26% - +17.92%

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 415 136 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.61% 10.31% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 77 111
10th Percentile £363 £209 £219
25th Percentile £415 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £460 £413
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +11.52% -17.50%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £600
90th Percentile £573 £593 £662
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £21.40 £16.55 £14.59
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.88 £15.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% - +25.74%
75th Percentile £36.72 £20.24 £18.75
90th Percentile £68.93 £25.64 £19.05
England median hourly rate £27.21 £50.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -45.58% +96.08% +13.33%

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 18 March 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the West Midlands

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 18 March 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
Shropshire -25 44 £465 -3.83% 8
Birmingham -3 29 £425 +18.06% 7
Solihull +5 15 £463 - 2
Warwickshire - 15 £400 - 2
Coventry - 7 £312 - 1
Staffordshire +1 5 £410 -25.45% 3
Worcestershire - 5 - - 1
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 12 (9.76%) SAS
2 10 (8.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.07%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (9.76%) MS Visio
2 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.63%) Maximo
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.81%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.72%) AWS
2 30 (24.39%) Azure
3 18 (14.63%) GitHub
4 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (10.57%) GCP
6 11 (8.94%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.69%) Datadog
9 6 (4.88%) AWS KMS
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.25%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.25%) Serverless
12 3 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.50%) VSAN
2 3 (2.44%) Firewall
3 2 (1.63%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) LAN
4 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.81%) SSL
4 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.69%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (3.25%) Power BI
4 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.44%) Impala
4 3 (2.44%) MySQL
4 3 (2.44%) Pentaho
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.81%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Power Query
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 105 (85.37%) JIRA
2 29 (23.58%) Git
3 19 (15.45%) Jenkins
4 17 (13.82%) JUnit
5 15 (12.20%) Cucumber
5 15 (12.20%) JMeter
5 15 (12.20%) Selenium
6 14 (11.38%) WebDriver
7 12 (9.76%) GitLab
8 10 (8.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
9 5 (4.07%) Postman
10 4 (3.25%) Zephyr
11 2 (1.63%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.63%) jMock
11 2 (1.63%) Maven
11 2 (1.63%) Mockito
11 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 67 (54.47%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.57%) Finance
5 12 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.88%) Automotive
8 6 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.44%) Publishing
10 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (26.02%) Analyst
2 21 (17.07%) Business Analyst
3 17 (13.82%) Tester
4 12 (9.76%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.32%) Automation Tester
5 9 (7.32%) Senior
6 8 (6.50%) Lead
7 7 (5.69%) Data Manager
7 7 (5.69%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (5.69%) Developer
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Scrum Master
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Automation Tester
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Tester
9 5 (4.07%) Migration Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) SAS Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) SAS Business Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.70%) Spring
2 14 (11.38%) WireMock
3 9 (7.32%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.07%) HTML
5 4 (3.25%) REST
6 3 (2.44%) .NET
6 3 (2.44%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.44%) React
7 2 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.63%) CSS
7 2 (1.63%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.63%) Jest
7 2 (1.63%) Next.js
7 2 (1.63%) Playwright
7 2 (1.63%) SOAP
7 2 (1.63%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.63%) PMI
9 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (20.33%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 6 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.44%) Unix
5 2 (1.63%) AIX
5 2 (1.63%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (68.29%) Agile
2 39 (31.71%) CI/CD
2 39 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (30.89%) DevOps
4 36 (29.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (29.27%) Scrum
5 26 (21.14%) Test Automation
6 24 (19.51%) Microservices
6 24 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (19.51%) TDD
7 23 (18.70%) Workshop Facilitation
8 20 (16.26%) Migration
8 20 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.63%) End-to-End Testing
10 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
10 17 (13.82%) Project Management
11 16 (13.01%) BDD
11 16 (13.01%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 16 (13.01%) Test Strategy
11 16 (13.01%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.57%) Java
1 13 (10.57%) SQL
2 6 (4.88%) Perl
2 6 (4.88%) Python
2 6 (4.88%) Shell Script
3 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.44%) HiveQL
4 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.63%) Bicep
5 2 (1.63%) C#
5 2 (1.63%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.81%) Bash
6 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (61.79%) Security Cleared
2 64 (52.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) Degree
4 9 (7.32%) IIBA
5 8 (6.50%) PMI Certification
5 8 (6.50%) PMP
6 7 (5.69%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.07%) CCNA
8 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.44%) SAFe Agilist
10 2 (1.63%) CAPM
10 2 (1.63%) CBAP
11 1 (0.81%) CISM
11 1 (0.81%) CISSP
11 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) GDPR
2 7 (5.69%) QA
3 6 (4.88%) PMO
4 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.25%) NIST
5 2 (1.63%) NCSC
5 2 (1.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 27 (21.95%) Docker
2 8 (6.50%) vSphere
3 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.44%) HDFS
5 2 (1.63%) Postfix
6 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (23.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.63%) Grafana
3 13 (10.57%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.76%) Terraform
5 7 (5.69%) vRealize
5 7 (5.69%) VxRail
6 3 (2.44%) Ansible
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (12.20%) Atlassian
2 13 (10.57%) Oracle
3 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) VMware
4 7 (5.69%) AppDynamics
4 7 (5.69%) Cisco
4 7 (5.69%) Commvault
4 7 (5.69%) Dell
4 7 (5.69%) HP
4 7 (5.69%) IBM
4 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.69%) SolarWinds
4 7 (5.69%) Talend
5 6 (4.88%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.07%) SAP
7 4 (3.25%) Google
7 4 (3.25%) Pega
8 3 (2.44%) Denodo
8 3 (2.44%) Informatica
8 3 (2.44%) Salesforce