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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 69 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 -74
Contract jobs citing Confluence 99 31 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.70% 2.15% 0.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.38% 21.53% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 19 9
10th Percentile £346 £344 £396
25th Percentile £403 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -13.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £490 £512 £675
90th Percentile £500 £548 £730
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
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 £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +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 390 144 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.58% 10.01% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 85 103
10th Percentile £363 £209 £214
25th Percentile £422 £400 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +10.59% -14.14%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £603
90th Percentile £575 £595 £685
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £20.20 £16.55 £14.94
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.88 £16.39
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% +2.86% +16.78%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £18.63
90th Percentile £47.33 £25.64 £18.95
England median hourly rate £27.21 £47.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -42.72% +84.47% +16.20%

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 21 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 21 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 -37 29 £475 -3.06% 7
Birmingham +7 27 £446 +23.96% 9
Solihull +6 13 £463 - 1
Warwickshire - 12 £375 - 4
Coventry - 8 £316 - 3
Staffordshire +5 5 £410 -25.45% 1
Worcestershire - 3 - - 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 9 (9.09%) SAS
2 8 (8.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.05%) WebLogic
4 4 (4.04%) nginx
5 3 (3.03%) CMS
6 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (13.13%) MS Visio
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (4.04%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.02%) Maximo
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 49 (49.49%) AWS
2 27 (27.27%) Azure
3 13 (13.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (13.13%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (13.13%) Amazon S3
4 12 (12.12%) AWS KMS
4 12 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (8.08%) GCP
6 8 (8.08%) GitHub
7 7 (7.07%) Datadog
7 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.06%) Amazon Glacier
8 6 (6.06%) Route 53
9 5 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.03%) Google Workspace
11 3 (3.03%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) Firewall
2 8 (8.08%) VSAN
3 6 (6.06%) DNS
3 6 (6.06%) FTP
3 6 (6.06%) HTTP
3 6 (6.06%) SMTP
3 6 (6.06%) SSH
4 4 (4.04%) IMAP
4 4 (4.04%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.01%) LAN
5 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.01%) SSL
5 1 (1.01%) VPN
5 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (13.13%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.01%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.01%) Power Query
6 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (82.83%) JIRA
2 28 (28.28%) Git
3 14 (14.14%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.11%) JUnit
5 9 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 9 (9.09%) JMeter
5 9 (9.09%) Selenium
6 8 (8.08%) WebDriver
7 6 (6.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (6.06%) Vagrant
8 2 (2.02%) DbUnit
8 2 (2.02%) GitLab
8 2 (2.02%) jMock
8 2 (2.02%) Maven
8 2 (2.02%) Mockito
8 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.01%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.01%) TestNG
General
1 56 (56.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (10.10%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (9.09%) Finance
7 5 (5.05%) Automotive
7 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.03%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.03%) Publishing
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (30.30%) Analyst
2 22 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.11%) Tester
4 10 (10.10%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.07%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (7.07%) Lead
6 6 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 5 (5.05%) Automation Tester
7 5 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Migration Analyst
7 5 (5.05%) Penetration Tester
7 5 (5.05%) SAS Analyst
7 5 (5.05%) SAS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.17%) Spring
2 9 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 8 (8.08%) WireMock
4 4 (4.04%) HTML
4 4 (4.04%) LDAP
4 4 (4.04%) REST
5 2 (2.02%) .NET
5 2 (2.02%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.02%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.02%) JPA
5 2 (2.02%) Node.js
5 2 (2.02%) PowerMock
5 2 (2.02%) SOAP
5 2 (2.02%) Spring Batch
5 2 (2.02%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Spring Integration
5 2 (2.02%) Web Services
5 2 (2.02%) YAML
6 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.07%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.06%) Replication
4 5 (5.05%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.02%) PMI
8 1 (1.01%) Animation
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.01%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.01%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.29%) Linux
2 13 (13.13%) Windows
3 6 (6.06%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.06%) VMS
4 4 (4.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.02%) AIX
5 2 (2.02%) Solaris
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.57%) Agile
2 31 (31.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (28.28%) DevOps
4 26 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (25.25%) CI/CD
6 21 (21.21%) Scrum
7 20 (20.20%) Workshop Facilitation
8 17 (17.17%) Microservices
8 17 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (17.17%) TDD
9 16 (16.16%) User Stories
10 15 (15.15%) Change Management
11 13 (13.13%) Kanban
11 13 (13.13%) Mentoring
11 13 (13.13%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (12.12%) Project Management
13 11 (11.11%) Business Analysis
13 11 (11.11%) Migration
13 11 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.13%) SQL
2 11 (11.11%) Java
3 8 (8.08%) Perl
3 8 (8.08%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.07%) Python
5 6 (6.06%) Groovy
5 6 (6.06%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.02%) Bicep
6 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.01%) Bash
7 1 (1.01%) C#
7 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 46 (46.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.17%) Degree
4 9 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 9 (9.09%) IIBA
5 8 (8.08%) PMI Certification
5 8 (8.08%) PMP
6 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.03%) CCNA
8 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.02%) CAPM
9 2 (2.02%) CBAP
10 1 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.01%) CISM
10 1 (1.01%) CISSP
10 1 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) GDPR
2 6 (6.06%) PMO
3 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.04%) NIST
3 4 (4.04%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) NCSC
4 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 21 (21.21%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) vSphere
3 7 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.06%) DFS Replication
4 6 (6.06%) Postfix
5 4 (4.04%) Dovecot
5 4 (4.04%) Squid
6 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 15 (15.15%) Grafana
3 13 (13.13%) Prometheus
4 11 (11.11%) Terraform
5 7 (7.07%) vRealize
5 7 (7.07%) VxRail
6 4 (4.04%) Nessus
6 4 (4.04%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (13.13%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.08%) VMware
3 7 (7.07%) AppDynamics
3 7 (7.07%) Cisco
3 7 (7.07%) Commvault
3 7 (7.07%) Dell
3 7 (7.07%) HP
3 7 (7.07%) IBM
3 7 (7.07%) SolarWinds
4 6 (6.06%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (6.06%) Oracle
4 6 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.05%) SAP
6 4 (4.04%) Google
6 4 (4.04%) Pega
7 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.01%) Sage
8 1 (1.01%) Talend