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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 68 100
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 -7
Contract jobs citing Confluence 122 56 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.52% 3.17% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.05% 24.24% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 33 10
10th Percentile £407 £430 £455
25th Percentile £436 £453 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% -17.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £514 £538 £638
90th Percentile £585 £588 -
England median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.47 - -
25th Percentile £52.20 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.38 - -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
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 406 231 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.72% 13.09% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 156 100
10th Percentile £347 £276 £255
25th Percentile £411 £373 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +15.85% -8.89%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £584
90th Percentile £670 £600 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 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 £68.65 £55.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £38.00
% change year-on-year -23.11% +11.24% -20.00%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 +5 72 £459 -10.35% 5
Solihull 0 16 £475 +5.56% 1
Birmingham -32 13 £425 -10.53% 4
Warwickshire -4 8 £455 -25.80% 1
Coventry - 6 £475 -
Worcestershire +2 5 £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 (6.56%) SAS
1 8 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.64%) Primavera
2 2 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.82%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.82%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.25%) AWS
2 20 (16.39%) GitHub
2 20 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
3 19 (15.57%) Azure
4 15 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (12.30%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (12.30%) Serverless
5 14 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (9.84%) Power Platform
6 12 (9.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (9.02%) AWS CodePipeline
8 10 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.92%) GCP
11 4 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.28%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.64%) WAN
2 1 (0.82%) Broadband
2 1 (0.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) LAN
2 1 (0.82%) MPLS
2 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.93%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (9.84%) Power BI
3 10 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.74%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (5.74%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (5.74%) Pentaho
5 5 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.10%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.46%) Big Data
7 3 (2.46%) MySQL
8 2 (1.64%) Power Query
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 117 (95.90%) JIRA
2 36 (29.51%) GitLab
3 23 (18.85%) Jenkins
4 19 (15.57%) Bitbucket
5 15 (12.30%) Git
6 13 (10.66%) Selenium
7 11 (9.02%) Artifactory
8 9 (7.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (7.38%) JUnit
9 8 (6.56%) Postman
9 8 (6.56%) Zephyr
10 7 (5.74%) Cucumber
10 7 (5.74%) JMeter
10 7 (5.74%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.64%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.64%) Maven
11 2 (1.64%) Mockito
11 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.82%) PetaLinux
General
1 57 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.85%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.30%) Finance
5 5 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.64%) Billing
8 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (16.39%) Scrum Master
2 19 (15.57%) Analyst
3 18 (14.75%) Data Engineer
3 18 (14.75%) Senior
4 12 (9.84%) Lead
5 9 (7.38%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) JIRA Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Test Analyst
7 7 (5.74%) Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.92%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Architect
9 5 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Tester
9 5 (4.10%) Tester
10 4 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) SC Cleared Project Manager
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.93%) Terraform
2 9 (7.38%) AWS CDK
2 9 (7.38%) Spring
3 7 (5.74%) WireMock
4 2 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.64%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.64%) JPA
4 2 (1.64%) React
4 2 (1.64%) REST
4 2 (1.64%) SOAP
4 2 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.82%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.82%) HTML
5 1 (0.82%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.82%) RESTful
5 1 (0.82%) Web Services
5 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.74%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.82%) BYOD
6 1 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.82%) FPGA
6 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.82%) Verilog
6 1 (0.82%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.48%) Unix
2 6 (4.92%) Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (87.70%) Agile
2 56 (45.90%) Scrum
3 48 (39.34%) DevOps
4 43 (35.25%) CI/CD
5 42 (34.43%) Test Automation
6 40 (32.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (20.49%) Migration
9 25 (20.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 21 (17.21%) Data Modelling
11 20 (16.39%) ETL
12 17 (13.93%) ITIL
13 16 (13.11%) Conflict Resolution
13 16 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (13.11%) Sprint Planning
14 15 (12.30%) Analytics
14 15 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (12.30%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 15 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.67%) SQL
2 14 (11.48%) PL/SQL
3 7 (5.74%) Python
4 5 (4.10%) Java
5 3 (2.46%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.64%) VB
6 2 (1.64%) VBScript
7 1 (0.82%) ABAP
7 1 (0.82%) Bicep
7 1 (0.82%) C
7 1 (0.82%) C#
7 1 (0.82%) C++
7 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.82%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.82%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 74 (60.66%) Security Cleared
2 69 (56.56%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (9.02%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (7.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.46%) Degree
7 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.82%) CBAP
8 1 (0.82%) CCNA
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.82%) CSPO
8 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.10%) PMO
4 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.64%) GRC
5 2 (1.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (18.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (9.84%) Grafana
2 8 (6.56%) Prometheus
3 7 (5.74%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.82%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (22.95%) Oracle
2 20 (16.39%) Talend
3 17 (13.93%) Denodo
4 15 (12.30%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.92%) Informatica
7 5 (4.10%) Splunk
8 4 (3.28%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.28%) Google
8 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.46%) Microsoft
9 3 (2.46%) SAP
10 2 (1.64%) NEC
11 1 (0.82%) HP
11 1 (0.82%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.82%) Proofpoint
11 1 (0.82%) Sage
11 1 (0.82%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.82%) Zscaler