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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 62 99
Rank change year-on-year +5 +37 -61
Contract jobs citing Confluence 123 33 9
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.10% 2.44% 0.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.09% 24.09% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 19 5
10th Percentile £350 £422 £475
25th Percentile £409 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -13.27% +2.04%
75th Percentile £492 £512 £675
90th Percentile £515 £548 £720
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £25.66 - -
25th Percentile £26.66 - -
Median hourly rate £45.36 - -
75th Percentile £68.31 - -
90th Percentile £73.83 - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £63.75 £61.25
% change year-on-year -1.18% +4.08% +12.39%

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 454 137 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.12% 10.14% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 81 103
10th Percentile £363 £210 £225
25th Percentile £421 £381 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% +18.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £535 £541 £565
90th Percentile £562 £625 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 3
10th Percentile £23.80 £16.60 £14.24
25th Percentile £25.55 £16.94 £14.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.12 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +174.58% +22.17% -2.00%
75th Percentile £62.38 £23.62 £35.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £41.81 £47.13
England median hourly rate £28.88 £52.50 £28.01
% change year-on-year -44.99% +87.45% +22.76%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -23 47 £468 -1.80% 5
Birmingham +1 30 £425 +41.67% 5
Warwickshire - 15 £400 - 4
Solihull +1 13 £481 - 1
Worcestershire - 6 - - 1
Staffordshire +3 5 £410 -25.45% 2
Coventry - 5 £312 - 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 14 (11.38%) SAS
2 7 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.07%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.81%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (9.76%) MS Visio
2 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.63%) Maximo
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 59 (47.97%) AWS
2 31 (25.20%) Azure
3 19 (15.45%) GitHub
4 16 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (11.38%) GCP
6 11 (8.94%) Amazon S3
7 10 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.69%) Datadog
9 6 (4.88%) AWS KMS
9 6 (4.88%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.07%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.25%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.25%) Serverless
12 3 (2.44%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) VSAN
2 2 (1.63%) Firewall
2 2 (1.63%) VPN
3 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.89%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.69%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.88%) Power BI
4 4 (3.25%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.44%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.44%) Impala
5 3 (2.44%) MySQL
5 3 (2.44%) Pentaho
5 3 (2.44%) Power Query
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.81%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 107 (86.99%) JIRA
2 32 (26.02%) Git
3 20 (16.26%) Jenkins
4 18 (14.63%) JUnit
5 16 (13.01%) Cucumber
5 16 (13.01%) JMeter
5 16 (13.01%) Selenium
6 15 (12.20%) WebDriver
7 13 (10.57%) GitLab
8 11 (8.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
10 5 (4.07%) Postman
11 4 (3.25%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.63%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.63%) jMock
12 2 (1.63%) Maven
12 2 (1.63%) Mockito
12 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 68 (55.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.76%) Finance
5 11 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.25%) Automotive
10 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.63%) Banking
10 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (26.02%) Analyst
2 21 (17.07%) Business Analyst
3 18 (14.63%) Tester
4 12 (9.76%) Project Manager
5 10 (8.13%) Automation Tester
5 10 (8.13%) Senior
6 9 (7.32%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (7.32%) Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) Data Manager
8 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 7 (5.69%) Senior Automation Tester
8 7 (5.69%) Senior Tester
9 6 (4.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
9 6 (4.88%) Scrum Master
9 6 (4.88%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Migration Analyst
10 5 (4.07%) Penetration Tester
10 5 (4.07%) SAS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.51%) Spring
2 15 (12.20%) WireMock
3 9 (7.32%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.25%) REST
5 3 (2.44%) .NET
5 3 (2.44%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.44%) HTML
5 3 (2.44%) React
6 2 (1.63%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.63%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.63%) CSS
6 2 (1.63%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.63%) Jest
6 2 (1.63%) Next.js
6 2 (1.63%) Playwright
6 2 (1.63%) SOAP
6 2 (1.63%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
1 13 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 7 (5.69%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.63%) PMI
8 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.81%) FPGA
8 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Verilog
8 1 (0.81%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 8 (6.50%) Windows
3 6 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.44%) Unix
5 2 (1.63%) AIX
5 2 (1.63%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (70.73%) Agile
2 43 (34.96%) CI/CD
3 40 (32.52%) DevOps
4 39 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (31.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 38 (30.89%) Scrum
6 27 (21.95%) Test Automation
7 25 (20.33%) Microservices
7 25 (20.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (20.33%) TDD
8 24 (19.51%) Workshop Facilitation
9 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (17.07%) Migration
11 19 (15.45%) End-to-End Testing
12 18 (14.63%) Analytics
13 17 (13.82%) BDD
13 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
13 17 (13.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 17 (13.82%) Project Management
13 17 (13.82%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.20%) SQL
2 13 (10.57%) Java
3 7 (5.69%) Python
4 6 (4.88%) Perl
4 6 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.44%) HiveQL
6 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.63%) C#
7 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.81%) Bash
8 1 (0.81%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) C
8 1 (0.81%) C++
8 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.81%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.81%) Tcl
8 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (64.23%) Security Cleared
2 67 (54.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.38%) Degree
4 9 (7.32%) IIBA
5 8 (6.50%) PMI Certification
5 8 (6.50%) PMP
6 7 (5.69%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.07%) CCNA
8 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (2.44%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.63%) CAPM
11 2 (1.63%) CBAP
12 1 (0.81%) CISM
12 1 (0.81%) CISSP
12 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) GDPR
1 8 (6.50%) QA
2 6 (4.88%) PMO
3 4 (3.25%) NIST
4 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.63%) GRC
5 2 (1.63%) NCSC
5 2 (1.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 29 (23.58%) Docker
2 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.69%) vSphere
3 3 (2.44%) HDFS
4 2 (1.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.45%) Grafana
3 14 (11.38%) Prometheus
4 13 (10.57%) Terraform
5 7 (5.69%) vRealize
5 7 (5.69%) VxRail
6 3 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (13.82%) Atlassian
2 12 (9.76%) Oracle
3 10 (8.13%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.69%) AppDynamics
5 7 (5.69%) Cisco
5 7 (5.69%) Commvault
5 7 (5.69%) Dell
5 7 (5.69%) HP
5 7 (5.69%) IBM
5 7 (5.69%) SolarWinds
5 7 (5.69%) Talend
5 7 (5.69%) VMware
6 6 (4.88%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.07%) SAP
8 4 (3.25%) Pega
9 3 (2.44%) Denodo
9 3 (2.44%) Informatica
10 2 (1.63%) Google
10 2 (1.63%) Jaspersoft