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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 64 98
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 -10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 123 56 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.57% 3.15% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.45% 24.14% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 34 10
10th Percentile £406 £433 £455
25th Percentile £432 £455 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% -17.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £512 £532 £638
90th Percentile £587 £588 -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £45.64 - -
25th Percentile £50.11 - -
Median hourly rate £58.83 - -
75th Percentile £68.79 - -
90th Percentile £74.02 - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 404 232 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.71% 13.06% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 160 101
10th Percentile £350 £275 £255
25th Percentile £413 £369 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +13.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £575
90th Percentile £670 £596 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.43 £35.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% -36.40% +197.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £55.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £38.50
% change year-on-year -25.79% +13.75% -18.95%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 0 70 £459 -10.35% 11
Solihull +2 22 £475 +5.56% 3
Birmingham -32 12 £425 -10.53% 6
Warwickshire -6 7 £455 -25.80% 3
Coventry - 6 £475 - 1
Worcestershire +1 4 £621 +8.02% 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 8 (6.50%) SAS
2 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.81%) Primavera
3 1 (0.81%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.81%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.21%) AWS
2 20 (16.26%) GitHub
2 20 (16.26%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (15.45%) Amazon S3
4 18 (14.63%) Azure
5 15 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (12.20%) Serverless
6 14 (11.38%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (8.94%) AWS CodePipeline
8 11 (8.94%) Power Platform
8 11 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.88%) GCP
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.25%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.63%) WAN
2 1 (0.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.81%) Firewall
2 1 (0.81%) LAN
2 1 (0.81%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.82%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.94%) Power BI
4 7 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.69%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (5.69%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (5.69%) Pentaho
5 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.25%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.44%) Big Data
8 3 (2.44%) MySQL
9 2 (1.63%) Power Query
10 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 119 (96.75%) JIRA
2 36 (29.27%) GitLab
3 29 (23.58%) Jenkins
4 21 (17.07%) Git
5 19 (15.45%) Bitbucket
6 15 (12.20%) JUnit
7 13 (10.57%) Selenium
8 11 (8.94%) Artifactory
9 9 (7.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (6.50%) Maven
10 8 (6.50%) Mockito
10 8 (6.50%) Postman
10 8 (6.50%) SonarQube
10 8 (6.50%) Zephyr
11 7 (5.69%) Cucumber
11 7 (5.69%) JMeter
11 7 (5.69%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.63%) HP UFT
13 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.81%) PetaLinux
General
1 56 (45.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.14%) Public Sector
3 25 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.13%) Finance
5 9 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.44%) Banking
6 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.63%) Billing
7 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (17.07%) Scrum Master
1 21 (17.07%) Senior
2 19 (15.45%) Analyst
3 18 (14.63%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.20%) Lead
5 13 (10.57%) Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.50%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.50%) JIRA Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Test Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Product Manager
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Tester
9 5 (4.07%) Tester
10 4 (3.25%) Architect
10 4 (3.25%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.01%) Terraform
2 15 (12.20%) Spring
3 9 (7.32%) AWS CDK
4 8 (6.50%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (6.50%) AngularJS
4 8 (6.50%) Hibernate
4 8 (6.50%) JPA
4 8 (6.50%) REST
4 8 (6.50%) SOAP
4 8 (6.50%) Spring Boot
4 8 (6.50%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (5.69%) RESTful
5 7 (5.69%) Web Services
5 7 (5.69%) WireMock
6 2 (1.63%) React
7 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.81%) HTML
7 1 (0.81%) Jest
7 1 (0.81%) Next.js
7 1 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.57%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Culture of Ownership
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) BYOD
7 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.81%) FPGA
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.81%) Verilog
7 1 (0.81%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.38%) Unix
2 5 (4.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (87.80%) Agile
2 58 (47.15%) Scrum
3 48 (39.02%) CI/CD
3 48 (39.02%) Test Automation
4 45 (36.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (34.96%) DevOps
6 37 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (28.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (19.51%) Migration
8 24 (19.51%) Sprint Planning
9 22 (17.89%) Backlog Refinement
10 21 (17.07%) Kanban
11 20 (16.26%) Data Modelling
11 20 (16.26%) ETL
11 20 (16.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 19 (15.45%) Containerisation
12 19 (15.45%) Microservices
13 17 (13.82%) ITIL
14 16 (13.01%) Conflict Resolution
14 16 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.51%) SQL
2 14 (11.38%) PL/SQL
3 10 (8.13%) Java
4 9 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.88%) Python
6 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.63%) VB
6 2 (1.63%) VBScript
7 1 (0.81%) ABAP
7 1 (0.81%) Bicep
7 1 (0.81%) C
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 69 (56.10%) Security Cleared
2 65 (52.85%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (8.94%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (7.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.44%) Degree
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CBAP
7 1 (0.81%) CSPO
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.13%) QA
2 7 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.07%) PMO
4 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) GRC
5 2 (1.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (21.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (14.63%) Grafana
2 14 (11.38%) Prometheus
3 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (22.76%) Oracle
2 20 (16.26%) Talend
3 17 (13.82%) Denodo
4 10 (8.13%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.88%) Informatica
7 5 (4.07%) Splunk
8 4 (3.25%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.25%) Google
8 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.44%) SAP
10 1 (0.81%) HP
10 1 (0.81%) Microsoft
10 1 (0.81%) NEC
10 1 (0.81%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.81%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.81%) Sage
10 1 (0.81%) Xilinx