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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 63 97
Rank change year-on-year +20 +34 -19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 158 55 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.52% 3.24% 0.65%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.55% 26.07% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 35 9
10th Percentile £382 £347 £435
25th Percentile £425 £452 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £500 £526 £638
90th Percentile £576 £588 -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.47 - -
25th Percentile £52.20 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £71.38 - -
90th Percentile £75.05 - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% +0.71% +9.80%

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 471 211 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.48% 12.43% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 143 104
10th Percentile £350 £278 £255
25th Percentile £413 £368 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £612
90th Percentile £656 £599 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 4
10th Percentile - £34.10 £15.76
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.43 £15.91
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% -1.46% +91.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.65 £55.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.09 £33.04
% change year-on-year -18.77% +30.44% -28.33%

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 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -1 83 £459 -10.35% 6
Birmingham -14 25 £425 -10.53% 5
Solihull +1 24 £488 +8.33%
Warwickshire -10 9 £434 -29.14% 2
Worcestershire +3 6 £621 +8.02%
Coventry - 6 £475 -
Staffordshire -5 2 £455 +1.11% 2
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 11 (6.96%) SAS
2 9 (5.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.80%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.63%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.63%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.87%) AWS
2 30 (18.99%) Azure
3 27 (17.09%) GitHub
4 26 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (15.19%) Amazon S3
6 20 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (12.03%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (10.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (10.13%) GCP
10 15 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (9.49%) Power Platform
10 15 (9.49%) Serverless
11 12 (7.59%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (6.96%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.16%) Amazon ELB
15 4 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.53%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Broadband
1 1 (0.63%) MPLS
1 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
1 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.03%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.49%) Power BI
4 10 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (6.33%) BusinessObjects
4 10 (6.33%) Pentaho
5 9 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (5.70%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (3.80%) MySQL
7 5 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.16%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.90%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.90%) Big Data
9 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.90%) Impala
9 3 (1.90%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.90%) Power Query
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 148 (93.67%) JIRA
2 42 (26.58%) GitLab
3 34 (21.52%) Git
4 33 (20.89%) Jenkins
5 25 (15.82%) Bitbucket
6 24 (15.19%) Selenium
7 20 (12.66%) JUnit
8 18 (11.39%) Cucumber
8 18 (11.39%) JMeter
8 18 (11.39%) WebDriver
9 15 (9.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (6.96%) Artifactory
11 10 (6.33%) Postman
11 10 (6.33%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.27%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.27%) Maven
12 2 (1.27%) Mockito
12 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.63%) PetaLinux
General
1 77 (48.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (17.09%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.86%) Finance
4 14 (8.86%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.90%) Banking
7 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Automotive
9 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (17.09%) Analyst
2 23 (14.56%) Senior
3 20 (12.66%) Data Engineer
4 19 (12.03%) Scrum Master
5 17 (10.76%) Lead
6 15 (9.49%) Business Analyst
7 13 (8.23%) Tester
8 11 (6.96%) JIRA Engineer
9 10 (6.33%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (5.70%) Automation Tester
10 9 (5.70%) Test Analyst
11 8 (5.06%) Developer
11 8 (5.06%) Senior Tester
12 7 (4.43%) Senior Automation Tester
12 7 (4.43%) Test Leader
13 6 (3.80%) Automation Test Lead
13 6 (3.80%) Product Manager
13 6 (3.80%) Project Manager
14 5 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
14 5 (3.16%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.56%) Spring
2 18 (11.39%) WireMock
3 9 (5.70%) AWS CDK
4 5 (3.16%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.27%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.27%) JPA
5 2 (1.27%) React
5 2 (1.27%) REST
5 2 (1.27%) SOAP
5 2 (1.27%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.63%) CSS
6 1 (0.63%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.63%) HTML
6 1 (0.63%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.63%) RESTful
6 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.86%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.43%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.27%) PMI
8 1 (0.63%) BYOD
8 1 (0.63%) FPGA
8 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Verilog
8 1 (0.63%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.76%) Unix
2 12 (7.59%) Linux
3 4 (2.53%) Windows
4 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.27%) AIX
5 2 (1.27%) Solaris
6 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (83.54%) Agile
2 64 (40.51%) CI/CD
2 64 (40.51%) Scrum
3 56 (35.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (34.81%) Test Automation
5 53 (33.54%) DevOps
6 46 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (19.62%) Migration
9 28 (17.72%) Microservices
10 26 (16.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 26 (16.46%) End-to-End Testing
10 26 (16.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 25 (15.82%) ETL
12 23 (14.56%) Workshop Facilitation
13 22 (13.92%) Data Modelling
13 22 (13.92%) TDD
14 21 (13.29%) Kanban
14 21 (13.29%) Validation
15 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.62%) SQL
2 17 (10.76%) PL/SQL
3 11 (6.96%) Java
4 10 (6.33%) Python
5 3 (1.90%) HiveQL
5 3 (1.90%) Perl
5 3 (1.90%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.27%) VB
6 2 (1.27%) VBScript
7 1 (0.63%) ABAP
7 1 (0.63%) C
7 1 (0.63%) C#
7 1 (0.63%) C++
7 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.63%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 99 (62.66%) Security Cleared
2 91 (57.59%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.96%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (5.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (5.70%) Degree
6 6 (3.80%) PMI Certification
6 6 (3.80%) PMP
7 3 (1.90%) CBAP
7 3 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) CAPM
8 2 (1.27%) CCNA
9 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.63%) CISM
9 1 (0.63%) CISSP
9 1 (0.63%) CSPO
9 1 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.70%) QA
2 8 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.80%) PMO
4 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.27%) GRC
6 2 (1.27%) NIST
6 2 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.63%) GDPR
7 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 33 (20.89%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (15.82%) Grafana
2 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 18 (11.39%) Prometheus
3 18 (11.39%) Terraform
4 3 (1.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.63%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 35 (22.15%) Oracle
2 24 (15.19%) Talend
3 20 (12.66%) Denodo
4 18 (11.39%) Atlassian
5 13 (8.23%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.70%) Informatica
7 5 (3.16%) SAP
7 5 (3.16%) Splunk
8 4 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.53%) Google
8 4 (2.53%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.53%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.27%) NEC
11 1 (0.63%) HP
11 1 (0.63%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.63%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.63%) Zscaler