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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 98 97
Rank change year-on-year +33 -1 -65
Contract jobs citing Confluence 57 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.10% 0.68% 1.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.08% 8.67% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 10 18
10th Percentile £338 £455 £325
25th Percentile £450 £550 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +7.98% +6.50%
75th Percentile £521 £638 £551
90th Percentile £588 - £600
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%

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 247 150 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.45% 7.86% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 95 142
10th Percentile £275 £250 £275
25th Percentile £375 £319 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £540
90th Percentile £595 £638 £606
England median daily rate £498 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £34.10 £23.80 £17.31
25th Percentile £34.43 £35.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £34.98 £55.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +201.37% +10.94%
75th Percentile £47.80 £65.00 £19.13
90th Percentile £55.50 £71.00 £19.50
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -12.74% +4.40% +116.67%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +27 31 £475 - 7
Shropshire - 9 £512 - 5
Worcestershire -1 4 £575 +4.55% 1
Warwickshire -7 4 £613 -2.00% 6
Staffordshire +5 3 £450 - 2
Solihull - 3 £450 -
Herefordshire +8 1 £575 +4.55% 2
Coventry -7 1 £388 -32.61% 6
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (21.05%) nginx
2 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (7.02%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.75%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 25 (43.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 25 (43.86%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (43.86%) Amazon S3
3 24 (42.11%) Amazon ELB
3 24 (42.11%) AWS KMS
3 24 (42.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 17 (29.82%) Azure
5 13 (22.81%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (21.05%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (21.05%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (21.05%) Route 53
7 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.26%) IaaS
9 2 (3.51%) GCP
9 2 (3.51%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) Lucidchart
9 2 (3.51%) PaaS
9 2 (3.51%) Serverless
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (42.11%) SMTP
2 22 (38.60%) DNS
2 22 (38.60%) Firewall
2 22 (38.60%) FTP
2 22 (38.60%) HTTP
2 22 (38.60%) SSH
3 12 (21.05%) IMAP
3 12 (21.05%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.86%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (24.56%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (21.05%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.26%) Big Data
4 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.26%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Redis
5 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 54 (94.74%) JIRA
2 26 (45.61%) Git
3 25 (43.86%) Jenkins
4 24 (42.11%) Vagrant
5 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.26%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.75%) GitLab
7 1 (1.75%) JMeter
7 1 (1.75%) Postman
7 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
7 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.75%) TestNG
7 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (45.61%) Public Sector
2 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.30%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Finance
5 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Automotive
7 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 19 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (29.82%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (29.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (17.54%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) Analyst
6 8 (14.04%) Business Analyst
7 5 (8.77%) Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior
8 4 (7.02%) Administrator
8 4 (7.02%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (7.02%) JIRA Administrator
9 3 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
10 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) LDAP
2 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) Django
3 1 (1.75%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.75%) Flask
3 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.75%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.75%) MACH
3 1 (1.75%) Middleware
3 1 (1.75%) OAuth
3 1 (1.75%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.75%) pytest
3 1 (1.75%) RESTful
3 1 (1.75%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (1.75%) Swagger
3 1 (1.75%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Replication
2 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Animation
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) PMI
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (49.12%) Windows
2 26 (45.61%) Linux
3 24 (42.11%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (42.11%) VMS
4 10 (17.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.75%) AIX
5 1 (1.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) DevOps
2 29 (50.88%) Change Management
3 24 (42.11%) Agile
3 24 (42.11%) Cloud Security
3 24 (42.11%) Configuration Management
3 24 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (38.60%) Patch Management
5 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 15 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (19.30%) Project Management
8 8 (14.04%) Project Delivery
9 7 (12.28%) Data Management
9 7 (12.28%) Migration
9 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
11 5 (8.77%) Analytics
11 5 (8.77%) ITIL
11 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.77%) Workflow
11 5 (8.77%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.88%) PowerShell
1 29 (50.88%) Python
2 27 (47.37%) Groovy
3 19 (33.33%) SQL
4 13 (22.81%) Java
5 12 (21.05%) Perl
6 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
7 2 (3.51%) R
8 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.75%) Bicep
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 37 (64.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.81%) Degree
4 10 (17.54%) AWS Certification
4 10 (17.54%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PMP
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) CAPM
6 1 (1.75%) CBAP
6 1 (1.75%) CEH
6 1 (1.75%) CISSP
6 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) IIBA
6 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.75%) Automotive SPICE
1 1 (1.75%) ISO 26262
1 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.75%) NIST
1 1 (1.75%) QA
1 1 (1.75%) SLA
1 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (52.63%) Docker
2 22 (38.60%) DFS Replication
3 12 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 12 (21.05%) Dovecot
3 12 (21.05%) Postfix
3 12 (21.05%) Squid
4 4 (7.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (43.86%) Grafana
1 25 (43.86%) Prometheus
1 25 (43.86%) Terraform
2 12 (21.05%) Nessus
3 10 (17.54%) Proxmox
4 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.02%) SCCM
6 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (43.86%) ServiceNow
2 12 (21.05%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (15.79%) Atlassian
4 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.51%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Databricks
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) Workday