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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 60 104
Rank change year-on-year +20 +44 -49
Contract jobs citing Confluence 155 35 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.80% 2.51% 0.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.77% 23.81% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 18 4
10th Percentile £359 £388 £498
25th Percentile £420 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% -10.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £492 £514 -
90th Percentile £536 £552 -
England median daily rate £488 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -4.83% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £32.35 - -
25th Percentile £43.38 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.38 - -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £70.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -10.36% +9.80% +10.87%

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 459 147 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.21% 10.52% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 92 109
10th Percentile £350 £264 £213
25th Percentile £413 £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £457 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +14.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £588 £600 £654
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 5
10th Percentile £16.25 £34.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £25.00 £34.43 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +118.63% +4.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.15 £55.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +75.00% -38.46%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -11 74 £465 -9.18% 4
Birmingham -6 28 £425 +9.68% 1
Solihull +7 23 £488 - 1
Warwickshire -6 14 £425 - 2
Worcestershire - 9 £621 -
Staffordshire -2 4 £410 -18.00%
Coventry - 4 £475 - 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 20 (12.90%) SAS
2 11 (7.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (9.03%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.87%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.94%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.29%) Maximo
3 2 (1.29%) Primavera
4 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (47.74%) AWS
2 29 (18.71%) Azure
3 27 (17.42%) GitHub
4 25 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (14.19%) Amazon S3
6 21 (13.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (10.97%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (10.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 15 (9.68%) GCP
9 15 (9.68%) Power Platform
10 14 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (9.03%) Serverless
11 11 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
13 8 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (3.87%) AWS KMS
15 5 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
15 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) MPLS
1 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.65%) VPN
1 1 (0.65%) VSAN
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.68%) Power BI
4 11 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.45%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (5.81%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (4.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.52%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.52%) Pentaho
8 5 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.58%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (2.58%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.94%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.94%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.94%) Impala
10 3 (1.94%) MySQL
10 3 (1.94%) Power Query
11 2 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 147 (94.84%) JIRA
2 37 (23.87%) GitLab
3 32 (20.65%) Git
4 29 (18.71%) Jenkins
5 24 (15.48%) Selenium
6 20 (12.90%) JUnit
7 18 (11.61%) Cucumber
7 18 (11.61%) JMeter
8 17 (10.97%) Bitbucket
8 17 (10.97%) WebDriver
9 12 (7.74%) Artifactory
10 11 (7.10%) Postman
11 10 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (6.45%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.29%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.29%) jMock
12 2 (1.29%) Maven
12 2 (1.29%) Mockito
12 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
General
1 79 (50.97%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.55%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.03%) Finance
5 12 (7.74%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (7.10%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.87%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.29%) Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (23.23%) Analyst
2 23 (14.84%) Business Analyst
3 18 (11.61%) Senior
3 18 (11.61%) Tester
4 17 (10.97%) Data Engineer
5 15 (9.68%) Scrum Master
6 11 (7.10%) Delivery Manager
6 11 (7.10%) Project Manager
7 10 (6.45%) Automation Tester
8 9 (5.81%) Developer
8 9 (5.81%) Test Analyst
9 8 (5.16%) Senior Tester
10 7 (4.52%) Senior Automation Tester
11 6 (3.87%) Data Manager
11 6 (3.87%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Lead
11 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
12 5 (3.23%) Migration Analyst
12 5 (3.23%) SAS Business Analyst
12 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.48%) Spring
2 17 (10.97%) WireMock
3 8 (5.16%) AWS CDK
4 7 (4.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.94%) .NET
5 3 (1.94%) React
5 3 (1.94%) REST
6 2 (1.29%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.29%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.29%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.29%) CSS
6 2 (1.29%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.29%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.29%) HTML
6 2 (1.29%) JPA
6 2 (1.29%) Node.js
6 2 (1.29%) SOAP
6 2 (1.29%) Spring Batch
6 2 (1.29%) Spring Integration
6 2 (1.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.39%) Distributed Architecture
2 13 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.94%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.29%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.29%) PMI
6 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.65%) FPGA
7 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Verilog
7 1 (0.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.61%) Linux
2 17 (10.97%) Unix
3 8 (5.16%) Windows
4 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.29%) AIX
5 2 (1.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (77.42%) Agile
2 56 (36.13%) CI/CD
3 55 (35.48%) Test Automation
4 52 (33.55%) DevOps
5 51 (32.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (32.90%) Scrum
6 46 (29.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (21.29%) Migration
8 28 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (17.42%) Microservices
10 26 (16.77%) End-to-End Testing
10 26 (16.77%) Workshop Facilitation
11 25 (16.13%) TDD
12 24 (15.48%) Containerisation
12 24 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (14.84%) Analytics
13 23 (14.84%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 22 (14.19%) Data Modelling
14 22 (14.19%) ETL
15 21 (13.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.65%) SQL
2 17 (10.97%) PL/SQL
3 12 (7.74%) Java
4 11 (7.10%) Python
5 5 (3.23%) Perl
5 5 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.94%) HiveQL
6 3 (1.94%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.29%) C#
7 2 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) Bicep
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.65%) Tcl
8 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (70.97%) Security Cleared
2 97 (62.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.74%) Degree
4 10 (6.45%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (5.81%) IIBA
6 8 (5.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (5.16%) PMI Certification
6 8 (5.16%) PMP
7 7 (4.52%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.23%) CCNA
9 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.29%) CAPM
10 2 (1.29%) CBAP
11 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.65%) CISSP
11 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) QA
2 8 (5.16%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.16%) GDPR
3 7 (4.52%) PMO
4 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.29%) GRC
6 2 (1.29%) NIST
6 2 (1.29%) SLA
6 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 36 (23.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.94%) HDFS
3 2 (1.29%) Postfix
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 24 (15.48%) Grafana
3 22 (14.19%) Terraform
4 15 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.94%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) vRealize
6 1 (0.65%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (21.94%) Oracle
2 21 (13.55%) Talend
3 20 (12.90%) Denodo
4 16 (10.32%) Atlassian
5 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.81%) Informatica
6 9 (5.81%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.23%) SAP
8 4 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.29%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.29%) NEC
11 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.65%) Cisco
11 1 (0.65%) Commvault
11 1 (0.65%) HP
11 1 (0.65%) IBM
11 1 (0.65%) VMware
11 1 (0.65%) Zscaler