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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 66 97
Rank change year-on-year +29 +31 -54
Contract jobs citing Confluence 151 37 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.78% 2.65% 0.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category 34.71% 26.62% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 17 4
10th Percentile £352 £375 £498
25th Percentile £415 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% -6.91% +2.61%
75th Percentile £492 £515 -
90th Percentile £524 £555 -
England median daily rate £500 £511 £538
% change year-on-year -2.15% -4.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £32.35 - -
25th Percentile £43.38 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.38 - -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% +8.70%

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 435 139 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.77% 9.96% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 81 102
10th Percentile £349 £275 £213
25th Percentile £413 £381 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £389
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +18.25% -18.11%
75th Percentile £525 £543 £547
90th Percentile £575 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 4
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.46 £14.41
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.75 £15.21
Median hourly rate £52.50 £18.00 £15.83
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% +13.74% +3.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £20.24 £25.75
90th Percentile £71.38 £44.47 £43.30
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.52
% change year-on-year -46.67% +90.81% -26.63%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -11 70 £466 -9.00% 8
Birmingham -5 28 £425 +41.67% 1
Solihull +8 21 £488 -
Warwickshire -7 15 £425 - 1
Worcestershire - 8 £616 - 1
Staffordshire 0 5 £410 -18.00%
Coventry - 4 £475 - 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 18 (11.92%) SAS
2 11 (7.28%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.65%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (9.27%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (4.64%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.32%) Maximo
2 2 (1.32%) Primavera
2 2 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (46.36%) AWS
2 29 (19.21%) Azure
3 26 (17.22%) GitHub
4 23 (15.23%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (14.57%) Amazon S3
6 21 (13.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (11.26%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (11.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (9.93%) Power Platform
9 14 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (9.27%) GCP
9 14 (9.27%) Serverless
10 11 (7.28%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (6.62%) AWS CodePipeline
12 8 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.97%) AWS KMS
14 5 (3.31%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) VPN
1 2 (1.32%) VSAN
2 1 (0.66%) Broadband
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) MPLS
2 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.66%) SSL
2 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.93%) Power BI
4 11 (7.28%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.62%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (5.96%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.64%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.64%) Pentaho
8 6 (3.97%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.65%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (2.65%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.99%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.99%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.99%) Impala
11 3 (1.99%) MySQL
11 3 (1.99%) Power Query
12 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 142 (94.04%) JIRA
2 31 (20.53%) Git
3 30 (19.87%) GitLab
4 27 (17.88%) Jenkins
5 22 (14.57%) Selenium
6 18 (11.92%) JUnit
7 17 (11.26%) Bitbucket
8 16 (10.60%) Cucumber
8 16 (10.60%) JMeter
9 15 (9.93%) WebDriver
10 11 (7.28%) Postman
11 10 (6.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (6.62%) Zephyr
12 7 (4.64%) Artifactory
13 2 (1.32%) DbUnit
13 2 (1.32%) jMock
13 2 (1.32%) Maven
13 2 (1.32%) Mockito
13 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.66%) TestNG
General
1 78 (51.66%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.57%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.27%) Finance
5 12 (7.95%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (6.62%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Automotive
9 2 (1.32%) Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Advertising
10 1 (0.66%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (24.50%) Analyst
2 23 (15.23%) Business Analyst
3 18 (11.92%) Tester
4 17 (11.26%) Senior
5 15 (9.93%) Scrum Master
6 14 (9.27%) Data Engineer
7 11 (7.28%) Delivery Manager
7 11 (7.28%) Project Manager
8 10 (6.62%) Automation Tester
9 9 (5.96%) Developer
9 9 (5.96%) Test Analyst
10 7 (4.64%) Senior Automation Tester
10 7 (4.64%) Senior Tester
11 6 (3.97%) Data Manager
11 6 (3.97%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.97%) Lead
11 6 (3.97%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 5 (3.31%) Penetration Tester
12 5 (3.31%) SAS Analyst
12 5 (3.31%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.23%) Spring
2 15 (9.93%) WireMock
3 8 (5.30%) AWS CDK
3 8 (5.30%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.65%) REST
5 3 (1.99%) .NET
5 3 (1.99%) React
6 2 (1.32%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.32%) CSS
6 2 (1.32%) HTML
6 2 (1.32%) Jest
6 2 (1.32%) JPA
6 2 (1.32%) Next.js
6 2 (1.32%) Playwright
6 2 (1.32%) SOAP
6 2 (1.32%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.28%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.32%) PMI
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.66%) FPGA
8 1 (0.66%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Verilog
8 1 (0.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.58%) Linux
2 12 (7.95%) Unix
3 8 (5.30%) Windows
4 5 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.32%) AIX
5 2 (1.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (75.50%) Agile
2 54 (35.76%) CI/CD
3 52 (34.44%) DevOps
4 51 (33.77%) Scrum
5 50 (33.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (31.79%) Test Automation
7 47 (31.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (21.19%) Migration
9 28 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (17.22%) Microservices
11 25 (16.56%) End-to-End Testing
11 25 (16.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (16.56%) Workshop Facilitation
12 24 (15.89%) Containerisation
12 24 (15.89%) TDD
13 23 (15.23%) Analytics
14 21 (13.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 21 (13.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 20 (13.25%) ETL
16 19 (12.58%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.88%) SQL
2 12 (7.95%) Java
2 12 (7.95%) PL/SQL
3 11 (7.28%) Python
4 5 (3.31%) Perl
4 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.99%) HiveQL
7 2 (1.32%) C#
7 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.66%) Bash
8 1 (0.66%) Bicep
8 1 (0.66%) C
8 1 (0.66%) C++
8 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.66%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.66%) Tcl
8 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (70.20%) Security Cleared
2 93 (61.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.61%) Degree
4 10 (6.62%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (5.96%) IIBA
6 8 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (5.30%) PMI Certification
6 8 (5.30%) PMP
7 7 (4.64%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.31%) CCNA
9 5 (3.31%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.32%) CAPM
10 2 (1.32%) CBAP
11 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.66%) CISM
11 1 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) Accessibility
1 8 (5.30%) GDPR
1 8 (5.30%) QA
2 7 (4.64%) PMO
3 4 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.32%) GRC
5 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.66%) NCSC
6 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (23.84%) Docker
2 3 (1.99%) HDFS
3 2 (1.32%) Postfix
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (18.54%) Kubernetes
2 23 (15.23%) Grafana
3 22 (14.57%) Terraform
4 14 (9.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.99%) Ansible
6 2 (1.32%) vRealize
6 2 (1.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (19.21%) Oracle
2 16 (10.60%) Atlassian
2 16 (10.60%) Talend
3 15 (9.93%) Denodo
4 10 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.96%) Informatica
5 9 (5.96%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.31%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.31%) SAP
7 4 (2.65%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco
8 2 (1.32%) Dell
8 2 (1.32%) HP
8 2 (1.32%) IBM
8 2 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (1.32%) NEC
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.32%) VMware