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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 65 104
Rank change year-on-year +23 +39 -36
Contract jobs citing Confluence 161 46 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.64% 2.83% 0.57%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.33% 27.06% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 28 9
10th Percentile £379 £450 £435
25th Percentile £421 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £638
90th Percentile £558 £588 -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £38.24 - -
Median hourly rate £53.08 - -
75th Percentile £68.31 - -
90th Percentile £73.83 - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.64% +0.71% +9.80%

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 483 170 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.92% 10.45% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 112 113
10th Percentile £350 £275 £251
25th Percentile £411 £362 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £612
90th Percentile £640 £600 £648
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £16.25 £34.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £20.63 £34.43 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +118.63% -13.51%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £55.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £31.71
% change year-on-year -24.58% +35.89% -31.33%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -12 80 £459 -10.35% 6
Birmingham -14 28 £425 -10.53% 3
Solihull +3 25 £488 +8.33%
Warwickshire -8 9 £434 -38.00% 2
Worcestershire +3 8 £621 +8.02%
Coventry - 6 £475 -
Staffordshire -5 4 £410 -8.89% 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 11 (6.83%) SAS
1 11 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.48%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (8.07%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.73%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.86%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.24%) Primavera
4 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.62%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.62%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 68 (42.24%) AWS
2 32 (19.88%) Azure
3 27 (16.77%) GitHub
4 26 (16.15%) Amazon S3
4 26 (16.15%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (13.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (9.94%) GCP
9 15 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (9.32%) Power Platform
9 15 (9.32%) Serverless
10 12 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (6.83%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.73%) AWS KMS
15 5 (3.11%) Amazon ELB
16 4 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Broadband
1 1 (0.62%) MPLS
1 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.62%) VPN
1 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.80%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.32%) Power BI
4 11 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.21%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (6.21%) Pentaho
6 9 (5.59%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (4.35%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.73%) MySQL
9 5 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (2.48%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.48%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.86%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.86%) Big Data
11 3 (1.86%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.86%) Impala
11 3 (1.86%) Power Query
12 2 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 151 (93.79%) JIRA
2 42 (26.09%) GitLab
3 36 (22.36%) Git
4 35 (21.74%) Jenkins
5 25 (15.53%) Selenium
6 24 (14.91%) Bitbucket
7 22 (13.66%) JUnit
8 19 (11.80%) Cucumber
8 19 (11.80%) JMeter
9 18 (11.18%) WebDriver
10 15 (9.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (7.45%) Artifactory
12 11 (6.83%) Postman
13 10 (6.21%) Zephyr
14 3 (1.86%) Maven
14 3 (1.86%) Mockito
14 3 (1.86%) SonarQube
15 2 (1.24%) DbUnit
15 2 (1.24%) HP UFT
15 2 (1.24%) jMock
General
1 79 (49.07%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (16.15%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.70%) Finance
5 13 (8.07%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.86%) Banking
8 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Automotive
9 2 (1.24%) Billing
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (16.77%) Analyst
2 21 (13.04%) Senior
3 20 (12.42%) Data Engineer
4 19 (11.80%) Scrum Master
5 15 (9.32%) Business Analyst
6 14 (8.70%) Tester
7 13 (8.07%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) Automation Tester
8 10 (6.21%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (6.21%) JIRA Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Test Analyst
10 8 (4.97%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.97%) Senior Tester
11 7 (4.35%) Senior Automation Tester
11 7 (4.35%) Test Leader
12 6 (3.73%) Automation Test Lead
12 6 (3.73%) Product Manager
13 5 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
13 5 (3.11%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.53%) Spring
2 18 (11.18%) WireMock
3 9 (5.59%) AWS CDK
4 7 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.48%) REST
6 3 (1.86%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.86%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.86%) JPA
6 3 (1.86%) SOAP
6 3 (1.86%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) Node.js
7 2 (1.24%) PowerMock
7 2 (1.24%) React
7 2 (1.24%) Spring Batch
7 2 (1.24%) Spring Integration
7 2 (1.24%) Web Services
8 1 (0.62%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.62%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.62%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 13 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.24%) PMI
8 1 (0.62%) BYOD
8 1 (0.62%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) FPGA
8 1 (0.62%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Verilog
8 1 (0.62%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.56%) Linux
1 17 (10.56%) Unix
2 6 (3.73%) Windows
3 4 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.24%) AIX
4 2 (1.24%) Solaris
5 1 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (81.37%) Agile
2 67 (41.61%) CI/CD
3 65 (40.37%) Scrum
4 56 (34.78%) Test Automation
5 55 (34.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (33.54%) DevOps
7 46 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (18.63%) Migration
10 29 (18.01%) Microservices
11 26 (16.15%) End-to-End Testing
12 25 (15.53%) ETL
12 25 (15.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 25 (15.53%) TDD
13 24 (14.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 24 (14.91%) Workshop Facilitation
14 23 (14.29%) Containerisation
15 22 (13.66%) Data Modelling
15 22 (13.66%) Kanban
16 21 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.88%) SQL
2 17 (10.56%) PL/SQL
3 13 (8.07%) Java
4 11 (6.83%) Python
5 4 (2.48%) Perl
5 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.86%) HiveQL
7 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.24%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.24%) VB
7 2 (1.24%) VBScript
8 1 (0.62%) ABAP
8 1 (0.62%) C
8 1 (0.62%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) C++
8 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.62%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.62%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 102 (63.35%) Security Cleared
2 91 (56.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (7.45%) Degree
5 11 (6.83%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (5.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (4.97%) PMI Certification
7 8 (4.97%) PMP
8 6 (3.73%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.48%) CCNA
10 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.86%) CBAP
12 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.24%) CAPM
13 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.62%) CISM
13 1 (0.62%) CISSP
13 1 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.21%) QA
2 8 (4.97%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.97%) PMO
3 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.24%) GRC
5 2 (1.24%) NIST
5 2 (1.24%) SLA
5 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 36 (22.36%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) HDFS
3 2 (1.24%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (16.15%) Grafana
2 24 (14.91%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.42%) Terraform
4 17 (10.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.86%) Ansible
6 1 (0.62%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 36 (22.36%) Oracle
2 24 (14.91%) Talend
3 20 (12.42%) Atlassian
3 20 (12.42%) Denodo
4 14 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.59%) Informatica
6 8 (4.97%) SAP
7 7 (4.35%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.11%) Google
8 5 (3.11%) Splunk
9 4 (2.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.24%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.24%) NEC
11 1 (0.62%) HP
11 1 (0.62%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.62%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.62%) Zscaler