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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 79 103
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -74
Contract jobs citing Confluence 71 26 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.89% 1.69% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.94% 19.12% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 14 8
10th Percentile £321 £372 £393
25th Percentile £377 £461 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £484 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% -5.66% -5.09%
75th Percentile £489 £539 £688
90th Percentile £561 £575 £733
England median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%

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 356 136 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.50% 8.86% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 79 92
10th Percentile £360 £210 £213
25th Percentile £425 £381 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +10.59% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £628
90th Percentile £584 £608 £687
England median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile £18.69 £16.55 £15.83
25th Percentile - £16.88 £17.31
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% - +20.12%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £19.00
90th Percentile £57.38 £25.64 £19.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +76.47% +30.77%

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 2 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 2 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 -35 21 £475 -0.42%
Birmingham -1 17 £475 +31.94% 8
Warwickshire -1 12 £375 -40.00% 13
Coventry - 8 £316 - 5
Solihull 0 3 £345 - 1
Worcestershire - 3 £575 - 1
Staffordshire +1 1 £338 -38.64%
Herefordshire -20 1 £575 +4.55%
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 (12.68%) SAS
2 7 (9.86%) nginx
3 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
4 3 (4.23%) CMS
5 1 (1.41%) IIS
5 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (12.68%) MS Visio
2 7 (9.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Maximo
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.07%) AWS
2 20 (28.17%) Azure
3 11 (15.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon ELB
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon S3
4 10 (14.08%) AWS KMS
5 9 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (9.86%) Datadog
6 7 (9.86%) Route 53
7 4 (5.63%) GitHub
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (4.23%) Google Workspace
8 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.41%) n8n
10 1 (1.41%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) Firewall
2 10 (14.08%) DNS
2 10 (14.08%) FTP
2 10 (14.08%) HTTP
2 10 (14.08%) SMTP
2 10 (14.08%) SSH
3 8 (11.27%) VSAN
4 7 (9.86%) IMAP
4 7 (9.86%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.41%) LAN
5 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.41%) SSL
5 1 (1.41%) VPN
5 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (9.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.41%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 59 (83.10%) JIRA
2 14 (19.72%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 10 (14.08%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (50.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Finance
5 4 (5.63%) Automotive
5 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.23%) Publishing
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Analyst
2 16 (22.54%) Business Analyst
3 10 (14.08%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (11.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) Project Manager
8 5 (7.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Migration Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Penetration Tester
8 5 (7.04%) SAS Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) SAS Business Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Tester
9 4 (5.63%) Pega Business Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) LDAP
2 4 (5.63%) HTML
3 3 (4.23%) .NET
3 3 (4.23%) Spring
3 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.82%) REST
4 2 (2.82%) RESTful
4 2 (2.82%) YAML
5 1 (1.41%) CSS3
5 1 (1.41%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.41%) Flask
5 1 (1.41%) HTML5
5 1 (1.41%) Kafka
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.41%) pytest
5 1 (1.41%) React
5 1 (1.41%) SignalR
5 1 (1.41%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Replication
2 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.86%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Animation
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.80%) Linux
2 15 (21.13%) Windows
3 10 (14.08%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (14.08%) VMS
4 7 (9.86%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (52.11%) Agile
2 29 (40.85%) DevOps
3 19 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (19.72%) CI/CD
5 13 (18.31%) Change Management
6 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.90%) Scrum
6 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (15.49%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (15.49%) User Stories
7 11 (15.49%) Workshop Facilitation
8 10 (14.08%) Business Analysis
8 10 (14.08%) Cloud Security
8 10 (14.08%) Configuration Management
8 10 (14.08%) Migration
8 10 (14.08%) Patch Management
8 10 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (12.68%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (12.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) PowerShell
1 13 (18.31%) SQL
2 12 (16.90%) Python
3 10 (14.08%) Groovy
4 5 (7.04%) Java
4 5 (7.04%) Perl
5 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) Bicep
6 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) C#
7 1 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (56.34%) Security Cleared
2 34 (47.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.31%) Degree
4 9 (12.68%) AWS Certification
4 9 (12.68%) IIBA
5 8 (11.27%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.82%) CCNA
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) NCSC
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Docker
2 10 (14.08%) DFS Replication
3 8 (11.27%) vSphere
4 7 (9.86%) Dovecot
4 7 (9.86%) Postfix
4 7 (9.86%) Squid
4 7 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.41%) Firmware
6 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Terraform
2 11 (15.49%) Grafana
2 11 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (15.49%) Prometheus
3 7 (9.86%) Nessus
3 7 (9.86%) Proxmox
3 7 (9.86%) vRealize
3 7 (9.86%) VxRail
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) ServiceNow
2 8 (11.27%) VMware
3 7 (9.86%) AppDynamics
3 7 (9.86%) Cisco
3 7 (9.86%) Commvault
3 7 (9.86%) Dell
3 7 (9.86%) HP
3 7 (9.86%) IBM
3 7 (9.86%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (9.86%) SolarWinds
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.63%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.63%) Pega
6 3 (4.23%) Google
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle
6 3 (4.23%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.41%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.41%) Sage
8 1 (1.41%) Talend