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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 67 99
Rank change year-on-year +14 +32 -70
Contract jobs citing Confluence 111 32 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.05% 2.36% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.21% 23.19% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 20 8
10th Percentile £334 £350 £393
25th Percentile £388 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £477 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% -2.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £488 £512 £688
90th Percentile £500 £545 £733
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 £27.21 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -29.23% -7.08% +25.73%

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 408 138 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.87% 10.18% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 83 102
10th Percentile £359 £208 £213
25th Percentile £413 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £460 £423
Median % change year-on-year +4.57% +8.88% -14.65%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £600
90th Percentile £575 £598 £662
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £20.20 £16.55 £14.94
25th Percentile £25.00 £16.88 £16.39
Median hourly rate £27.21 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.17% +2.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £20.24 £18.63
90th Percentile £47.33 £25.64 £18.95
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -39.53% +74.76% +14.44%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -25 39 £465 -3.83% 10
Birmingham +1 27 £434 +20.49% 6
Warwickshire - 13 £375 - 2
Solihull +4 12 £463 -
Coventry - 8 £316 - 1
Staffordshire +1 5 £410 -25.45% 2
Worcestershire - 4 - - 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 12 (10.81%) SAS
2 8 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.50%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.70%) CMS
5 1 (0.90%) IIS
5 1 (0.90%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) MS Visio
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Maximo
3 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.14%) AWS
2 27 (24.32%) Azure
3 11 (9.91%) GCP
4 10 (9.01%) GitHub
5 9 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.21%) AWS KMS
6 8 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (6.31%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (6.31%) Datadog
7 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.50%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.70%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.70%) Route 53
11 2 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.21%) VSAN
2 5 (4.50%) Firewall
3 2 (1.80%) DNS
3 2 (1.80%) FTP
3 2 (1.80%) HTTP
3 2 (1.80%) SMTP
3 2 (1.80%) SSH
4 1 (0.90%) IMAP
4 1 (0.90%) LAN
4 1 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.70%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.70%) Impala
5 3 (2.70%) MySQL
5 3 (2.70%) Pentaho
5 3 (2.70%) Power BI
6 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.90%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.90%) Power Query
7 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 94 (84.68%) JIRA
2 27 (24.32%) Git
3 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 14 (12.61%) JUnit
5 12 (10.81%) Cucumber
5 12 (10.81%) JMeter
5 12 (10.81%) Selenium
6 11 (9.91%) WebDriver
7 10 (9.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
9 6 (5.41%) GitLab
10 5 (4.50%) Postman
11 4 (3.60%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.80%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.80%) jMock
12 2 (1.80%) Maven
12 2 (1.80%) Mockito
12 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.80%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.90%) TestNG
General
1 58 (52.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.71%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (8.11%) Finance
7 6 (5.41%) Automotive
7 6 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.70%) Publishing
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (29.73%) Analyst
2 22 (19.82%) Business Analyst
3 14 (12.61%) Tester
4 10 (9.01%) Project Manager
5 8 (7.21%) Lead
6 7 (6.31%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 6 (5.41%) Automation Tester
7 6 (5.41%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Developer
8 5 (4.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Migration Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Penetration Tester
8 5 (4.50%) SAS Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) SAS Business Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Senior
8 5 (4.50%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Test Leader
9 4 (3.60%) SAP Project Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.02%) Spring
2 11 (9.91%) WireMock
3 9 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.60%) HTML
4 4 (3.60%) REST
5 2 (1.80%) .NET
5 2 (1.80%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.80%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.80%) JPA
5 2 (1.80%) Node.js
5 2 (1.80%) PowerMock
5 2 (1.80%) SOAP
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Integration
5 2 (1.80%) Web Services
5 2 (1.80%) YAML
6 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.90%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Distributed Architecture
2 7 (6.31%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) PMI
6 2 (1.80%) Replication
7 1 (0.90%) Animation
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.90%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.42%) Linux
2 10 (9.01%) Windows
3 6 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.70%) Unix
5 2 (1.80%) AIX
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.80%) Solaris
5 2 (1.80%) VMS
6 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (63.06%) Agile
2 35 (31.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 31 (27.93%) DevOps
5 29 (26.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (25.23%) Scrum
7 21 (18.92%) Workshop Facilitation
8 20 (18.02%) Microservices
8 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (18.02%) TDD
9 19 (17.12%) Migration
9 19 (17.12%) Test Automation
10 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (14.41%) User Stories
12 15 (13.51%) End-to-End Testing
13 14 (12.61%) Mentoring
14 13 (11.71%) Analytics
14 13 (11.71%) Containerisation
14 13 (11.71%) Requirements Gathering
14 13 (11.71%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.71%) Java
1 13 (11.71%) SQL
2 7 (6.31%) Perl
3 6 (5.41%) Python
3 6 (5.41%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.70%) HiveQL
5 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.80%) Bicep
6 2 (1.80%) Groovy
6 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.90%) Bash
7 1 (0.90%) C#
7 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (58.56%) Security Cleared
2 54 (48.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.41%) Degree
4 9 (8.11%) IIBA
4 9 (8.11%) PMI Certification
4 9 (8.11%) PMP
5 7 (6.31%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.60%) CCNA
7 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.80%) CAPM
9 2 (1.80%) CBAP
10 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.90%) CISM
10 1 (0.90%) CISSP
10 1 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) GDPR
2 6 (5.41%) PMO
2 6 (5.41%) QA
3 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.60%) NIST
4 2 (1.80%) NCSC
4 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 21 (18.92%) Docker
2 8 (7.21%) vSphere
3 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.70%) HDFS
4 3 (2.70%) Postfix
5 2 (1.80%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.90%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.90%) Squid
6 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (22.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.32%) Grafana
3 12 (10.81%) Prometheus
4 8 (7.21%) Terraform
5 7 (6.31%) vRealize
5 7 (6.31%) VxRail
6 3 (2.70%) Ansible
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.90%) Nessus
7 1 (0.90%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (11.71%) Oracle
2 10 (9.01%) Atlassian
3 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 8 (7.21%) VMware
5 7 (6.31%) AppDynamics
5 7 (6.31%) Cisco
5 7 (6.31%) Commvault
5 7 (6.31%) Dell
5 7 (6.31%) HP
5 7 (6.31%) IBM
5 7 (6.31%) SolarWinds
5 7 (6.31%) Talend
6 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
6 6 (5.41%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.50%) SAP
8 4 (3.60%) Google
8 4 (3.60%) Pega
9 3 (2.70%) Informatica
9 3 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (2.70%) Salesforce