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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 79 103
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 -73
Contract jobs citing Confluence 82 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.58% 1.58% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.43% 17.61% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 15 8
10th Percentile £316 £378 £393
25th Percentile £377 £466 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £490 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% -4.39% -5.09%
75th Percentile £492 £563 £688
90th Percentile £588 £633 £733
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +43.68%

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 350 142 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.29% 8.96% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 85 92
10th Percentile £322 £210 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £611
90th Percentile £588 £626 £680
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £18.69 £16.55 £17.39
25th Percentile - £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% -1.37% +21.79%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.25
90th Percentile £57.38 £25.64 £19.40
England median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -35.08% +74.63% +35.44%

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 January 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 January 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
Birmingham +11 27 £475 +31.94% 7
Shropshire -26 22 £473 -0.94% 2
Warwickshire -2 10 £375 -40.00% 9
Coventry -7 8 £316 -47.33% 1
Worcestershire - 4 £575 - 1
Solihull - 3 £345 - 1
Staffordshire +4 2 £338 -
Herefordshire -18 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 10 (12.20%) nginx
2 8 (9.76%) SAS
2 8 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.66%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) IIS
4 1 (1.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (13.41%) MS Visio
2 10 (12.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.22%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (41.46%) AWS
2 23 (28.05%) Azure
3 17 (20.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon ELB
4 16 (19.51%) Amazon S3
4 16 (19.51%) AWS KMS
5 12 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (12.20%) Route 53
7 7 (8.54%) Datadog
8 6 (7.32%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (3.66%) GitHub
9 3 (3.66%) Google Workspace
9 3 (3.66%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.66%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.22%) GCP
11 1 (1.22%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.17%) Firewall
2 16 (19.51%) DNS
2 16 (19.51%) FTP
2 16 (19.51%) HTTP
2 16 (19.51%) SMTP
2 16 (19.51%) SSH
3 10 (12.20%) IMAP
3 10 (12.20%) OpenLDAP
4 8 (9.76%) VSAN
5 1 (1.22%) LAN
5 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.22%) SSL
5 1 (1.22%) VPN
5 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (3.66%) Power BI
5 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
6 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.22%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 68 (82.93%) JIRA
2 19 (23.17%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 16 (19.51%) Vagrant
4 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.83%) Public Sector
3 14 (17.07%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.20%) Finance
6 7 (8.54%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.66%) Automotive
8 3 (3.66%) Publishing
9 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.22%) Legal
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Analyst
2 22 (26.83%) Business Analyst
3 16 (19.51%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (17.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (12.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 8 (9.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (7.32%) Project Manager
10 5 (6.10%) Penetration Tester
10 5 (6.10%) Tester
11 4 (4.88%) Administrator
11 4 (4.88%) Migration Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) SAS Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) SAS Business Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
11 4 (4.88%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) LDAP
2 3 (3.66%) HTML
3 2 (2.44%) .NET
3 2 (2.44%) RESTful
3 2 (2.44%) Spring
3 2 (2.44%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.44%) YAML
4 1 (1.22%) Django
4 1 (1.22%) Flask
4 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.22%) Kafka
4 1 (1.22%) Middleware
4 1 (1.22%) OAuth
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.22%) pytest
4 1 (1.22%) REST
4 1 (1.22%) SignalR
4 1 (1.22%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.22%) Swagger
4 1 (1.22%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Replication
2 7 (8.54%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (8.54%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) Animation
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (34.15%) Linux
2 23 (28.05%) Windows
3 16 (19.51%) Amazon Linux
3 16 (19.51%) VMS
4 10 (12.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.22%) AIX
5 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.22%) Solaris
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.78%) Agile
2 36 (43.90%) DevOps
3 21 (25.61%) Change Management
3 21 (25.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (19.51%) Cloud Security
4 16 (19.51%) Configuration Management
4 16 (19.51%) Patch Management
4 16 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
5 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (14.63%) Business Analysis
8 12 (14.63%) Project Management
8 12 (14.63%) Workshop Facilitation
9 11 (13.41%) Migration
9 11 (13.41%) User Stories
10 10 (12.20%) Analytics
10 10 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (12.20%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (12.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) PowerShell
2 19 (23.17%) Python
3 16 (19.51%) Groovy
3 16 (19.51%) SQL
4 7 (8.54%) Java
4 7 (8.54%) Perl
5 2 (2.44%) Bicep
5 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.22%) Bash
6 1 (1.22%) Go
6 1 (1.22%) R
6 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (52.44%) Security Cleared
2 41 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.73%) Degree
4 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
5 10 (12.20%) AWS Certification
6 9 (10.98%) IIBA
7 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.66%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.66%) PMP
8 1 (1.22%) CAPM
8 1 (1.22%) CBAP
8 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) GDPR
2 3 (3.66%) NIST
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) NCSC
4 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
4 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Docker
2 16 (19.51%) DFS Replication
3 10 (12.20%) Dovecot
3 10 (12.20%) Postfix
3 10 (12.20%) Squid
4 8 (9.76%) vSphere
5 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (7.32%) Active Directory
7 4 (4.88%) Firmware
8 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (20.73%) Grafana
1 17 (20.73%) Prometheus
1 17 (20.73%) Terraform
2 10 (12.20%) Nessus
2 10 (12.20%) Proxmox
3 8 (9.76%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.54%) vRealize
4 7 (8.54%) VxRail
5 4 (4.88%) SCCM
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) ServiceNow
2 10 (12.20%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (9.76%) VMware
4 7 (8.54%) AppDynamics
4 7 (8.54%) Atlassian
4 7 (8.54%) Cisco
4 7 (8.54%) Commvault
4 7 (8.54%) Dell
4 7 (8.54%) HP
4 7 (8.54%) IBM
4 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.54%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.88%) Pega
6 3 (3.66%) Google
6 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle
7 2 (2.44%) SAP
8 1 (1.22%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.22%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.22%) Sage