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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 72 99
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -69
Contract jobs citing Confluence 76 27 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.04% 1.82% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.09% 19.42% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 16 8
10th Percentile £322 £384 £393
25th Percentile £381 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -6.93% -5.09%
75th Percentile £488 £518 £688
90th Percentile £500 £575 £733
England median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £25.66 - -
25th Percentile £26.66 - -
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -32.80% - +16.82%

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 344 139 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.76% 9.39% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 82 98
10th Percentile £358 £210 £217
25th Percentile £413 £386 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +8.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £605
90th Percentile £581 £599 £682
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £20.20 £16.55 £15.83
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.88 £17.31
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% - +20.12%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.00
90th Percentile £47.33 £25.64 £19.25
England median hourly rate £25.42 £42.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -40.20% +66.67% +15.91%

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 9 February 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
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 9 February 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 -30 22 £475 -0.42% 1
Birmingham 0 19 £459 +27.43% 7
Warwickshire 0 12 £375 -40.00% 12
Coventry - 8 £316 - 6
Solihull +2 5 £345 -
Staffordshire +5 3 £410 -25.45%
Worcestershire - 3 - - 1
Herefordshire -20 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 9 (11.84%) SAS
2 6 (7.89%) nginx
2 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.95%) CMS
4 2 (2.63%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.32%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) MS Visio
2 6 (7.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Maximo
1 2 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) AWS
2 22 (28.95%) Azure
3 10 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (13.16%) Amazon S3
3 10 (13.16%) AWS KMS
4 9 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon ELB
5 8 (10.53%) Route 53
6 7 (9.21%) Datadog
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (5.26%) GitHub
9 3 (3.95%) Google Workspace
9 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.32%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.47%) Firewall
2 8 (10.53%) DNS
2 8 (10.53%) FTP
2 8 (10.53%) HTTP
2 8 (10.53%) SMTP
2 8 (10.53%) SSH
2 8 (10.53%) VSAN
3 6 (7.89%) IMAP
3 6 (7.89%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.32%) SSL
4 1 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.32%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 64 (84.21%) JIRA
2 15 (19.74%) Git
3 11 (14.47%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.53%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.95%) JUnit
5 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.63%) DbUnit
6 2 (2.63%) jMock
6 2 (2.63%) Maven
6 2 (2.63%) Mockito
7 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.32%) JMeter
7 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.32%) Selenium
7 1 (1.32%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.32%) TestNG
General
1 41 (53.95%) Social Skills
2 18 (23.68%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (9.21%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.21%) Finance
5 5 (6.58%) Automotive
6 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.95%) Publishing
8 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Analyst
2 16 (21.05%) Business Analyst
3 8 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 6 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Tester
6 5 (6.58%) Migration Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Penetration Tester
6 5 (6.58%) SAS Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) SAS Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Pega Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) LDAP
1 6 (7.89%) Spring
1 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.26%) HTML
2 4 (5.26%) REST
3 3 (3.95%) .NET
4 2 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.63%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.63%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.63%) JPA
4 2 (2.63%) Node.js
4 2 (2.63%) PowerMock
4 2 (2.63%) RESTful
4 2 (2.63%) SOAP
4 2 (2.63%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.63%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Spring Integration
4 2 (2.63%) Web Services
4 2 (2.63%) YAML
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.53%) Replication
3 7 (9.21%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Animation
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.32%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 26 (34.21%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) Windows
3 8 (10.53%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (10.53%) VMS
4 6 (7.89%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) Agile
2 30 (39.47%) DevOps
3 23 (30.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 16 (21.05%) Scrum
6 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (15.79%) User Stories
7 12 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (14.47%) Change Management
8 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (14.47%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (13.16%) Business Analysis
9 10 (13.16%) Containerisation
9 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.16%) Migration
9 10 (13.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (11.84%) Analytics
10 9 (11.84%) Data Governance
10 9 (11.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.11%) SQL
2 11 (14.47%) Python
3 10 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 8 (10.53%) Groovy
4 8 (10.53%) Java
5 5 (6.58%) Perl
6 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
8 1 (1.32%) C#
8 1 (1.32%) Go
8 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (55.26%) Security Cleared
2 34 (44.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (19.74%) Degree
4 11 (14.47%) AWS Certification
5 9 (11.84%) Azure Certification
5 9 (11.84%) IIBA
6 4 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.26%) PMI Certification
6 4 (5.26%) PMP
7 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.95%) CCNA
7 3 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) GDPR
2 4 (5.26%) QA
3 3 (3.95%) PMO
4 2 (2.63%) NCSC
4 2 (2.63%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (23.68%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) DFS Replication
2 8 (10.53%) Postfix
2 8 (10.53%) vSphere
3 7 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.89%) Dovecot
4 6 (7.89%) Squid
5 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Kubernetes
1 13 (17.11%) Terraform
2 11 (14.47%) Grafana
3 9 (11.84%) Prometheus
4 7 (9.21%) vRealize
4 7 (9.21%) VxRail
5 6 (7.89%) Nessus
5 6 (7.89%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) ServiceNow
2 8 (10.53%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (10.53%) VMware
3 7 (9.21%) AppDynamics
3 7 (9.21%) Cisco
3 7 (9.21%) Commvault
3 7 (9.21%) Dell
3 7 (9.21%) HP
3 7 (9.21%) IBM
3 7 (9.21%) SolarWinds
4 6 (7.89%) Atlassian
4 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.26%) Google
5 4 (5.26%) Oracle
5 4 (5.26%) Pega
6 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.95%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.32%) Sage