Confluence Contracts in the West Midlands

Confluence
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 102 38
Rank change year-on-year +40 -64 +1
Contract jobs citing Confluence 35 9 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.60% 0.46% 5.41%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.93% 6.34% 41.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 100
10th Percentile £392 £505 £375
25th Percentile £455 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +2.23% +19.56%
75th Percentile £515 - £540
90th Percentile £555 £670 £600
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.27% +4.76%

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 135 142 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.04% 7.29% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 229
10th Percentile £259 £213 £273
25th Percentile £381 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £540
90th Percentile £625 £645 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £16.55 £14.24 £12.62
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.77 £13.55
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.65 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -2.00% -7.42%
75th Percentile £20.24 £35.33 £17.80
90th Percentile £36.39 £47.13 £18.37
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the West Midlands

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily 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 1 May 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
Shropshire - 20 £512 - 1
Birmingham +26 10 £300 -36.84% 9
Staffordshire +3 2 £550 - 11
Solihull - 1 - -
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 1 (2.86%) Appian
1 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.71%) Open Workbench
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (5.71%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.71%) Boomi
3 2 (5.71%) IaaS
3 2 (5.71%) OCI
3 2 (5.71%) PaaS
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DHCP
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
1 2 (5.71%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (5.71%) SAN
1 2 (5.71%) SSL
1 2 (5.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Big Data
1 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.71%) IDMS
3 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.86%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 34 (97.14%) JIRA
2 8 (22.86%) GitLab
3 6 (17.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (17.14%) Bitbucket
4 5 (14.29%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.57%) JMeter
5 3 (8.57%) Postman
5 3 (8.57%) REST Assured
5 3 (8.57%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (8.57%) Selenium
5 3 (8.57%) TestNG
5 3 (8.57%) Travis CI
6 2 (5.71%) CA Gen
6 2 (5.71%) Maven
6 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Engagement Manager
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Data Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) JIRA Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Tester
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.71%) QA Leader
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Scrum Master
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Django
1 2 (5.71%) LDAP
1 2 (5.71%) MACH
1 2 (5.71%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (2.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) CentOS
2 2 (5.71%) Debian
2 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) Project Management
3 10 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 8 (22.86%) Agile Project Management
4 8 (22.86%) Analytics
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Scrum
8 4 (11.43%) Asset Management
8 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
8 4 (11.43%) Microservices
8 4 (11.43%) Security Testing
8 4 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 3 (8.57%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Python
3 6 (17.14%) Shell Script
4 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 3 (8.57%) Groovy
6 2 (5.71%) COBOL
6 2 (5.71%) Java
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 3 (8.57%) CEH
4 3 (8.57%) CISSP
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.57%) Degree
5 2 (5.71%) ISEB
5 2 (5.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Kibana
3 2 (5.71%) Nessus
3 2 (5.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.43%) IBM
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Sophos
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Databricks
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Talend