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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 65 105
Rank change year-on-year +24 +40 -50
Contract jobs citing Confluence 156 36 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.86% 2.52% 0.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.91% 24.32% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 19 4
10th Percentile £360 £445 £498
25th Percentile £421 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £492 £514 -
90th Percentile £535 £548 -
England median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% -4.71% -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 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.36% +7.69% +13.04%

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 460 148 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.33% 10.38% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 92 109
10th Percentile £350 £264 £243
25th Percentile £413 £372 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £452 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% +12.88% -15.79%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £550
90th Percentile £594 £600 £673
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 5
10th Percentile £16.25 £34.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.44 £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 £68.93 £55.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -38.10% +75.00% -36.84%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -7 77 £462 -9.77% 1
Birmingham -8 28 £425 -10.53% 5
Solihull +7 24 £488 +8.33%
Warwickshire -7 12 £425 - 4
Worcestershire - 9 £621 -
Staffordshire -3 4 £410 -18.00% 1
Coventry - 3 £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 (12.82%) SAS
2 11 (7.05%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.56%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.28%) Maximo
3 2 (1.28%) Primavera
4 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (50.00%) AWS
2 29 (18.59%) Azure
2 29 (18.59%) GitHub
3 27 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
4 26 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 22 (14.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (13.46%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (10.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (10.26%) GCP
9 15 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (9.62%) Power Platform
9 15 (9.62%) Serverless
10 12 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (7.05%) AWS CodePipeline
12 9 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.85%) AWS KMS
14 5 (3.21%) Amazon ELB
14 5 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Broadband
1 1 (0.64%) MPLS
1 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.64%) VPN
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.03%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.18%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.62%) Power BI
4 11 (7.05%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.41%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (6.41%) Pentaho
6 9 (5.77%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (4.49%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.85%) MySQL
9 5 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.21%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.92%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.92%) Impala
11 3 (1.92%) Power Query
12 2 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 146 (93.59%) JIRA
2 42 (26.92%) GitLab
3 36 (23.08%) Git
4 34 (21.79%) Jenkins
5 25 (16.03%) Selenium
6 21 (13.46%) JUnit
7 19 (12.18%) Cucumber
7 19 (12.18%) JMeter
8 18 (11.54%) Bitbucket
8 18 (11.54%) WebDriver
9 12 (7.69%) Artifactory
10 11 (7.05%) Postman
11 10 (6.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (6.41%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.28%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.28%) jMock
12 2 (1.28%) Maven
12 2 (1.28%) Mockito
12 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
General
1 80 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 32 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.97%) Finance
5 12 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (7.05%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Automotive
10 2 (1.28%) Banking
10 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Advertising
11 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.64%) Retail
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (21.79%) Analyst
2 22 (14.10%) Business Analyst
3 20 (12.82%) Data Engineer
4 18 (11.54%) Senior
5 17 (10.90%) Tester
6 16 (10.26%) Scrum Master
7 11 (7.05%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (6.41%) Automation Tester
8 10 (6.41%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.77%) Developer
9 9 (5.77%) Test Analyst
10 8 (5.13%) Senior Tester
11 7 (4.49%) Senior Automation Tester
12 6 (3.85%) Data Manager
12 6 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Lead
12 6 (3.85%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
13 5 (3.21%) Migration Analyst
13 5 (3.21%) SAS Business Analyst
13 5 (3.21%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.03%) Spring
2 18 (11.54%) WireMock
3 9 (5.77%) AWS CDK
4 7 (4.49%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.92%) .NET
5 3 (1.92%) React
5 3 (1.92%) REST
6 2 (1.28%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.28%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.28%) CSS
6 2 (1.28%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.28%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.28%) HTML
6 2 (1.28%) JPA
6 2 (1.28%) Node.js
6 2 (1.28%) PowerMock
6 2 (1.28%) SOAP
6 2 (1.28%) Spring Batch
6 2 (1.28%) Spring Integration
6 2 (1.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.97%) Distributed Architecture
3 13 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.28%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.28%) PMI
7 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.64%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.64%) FPGA
8 1 (0.64%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Verilog
8 1 (0.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.82%) Linux
2 17 (10.90%) Unix
3 8 (5.13%) Windows
4 5 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.28%) AIX
5 2 (1.28%) Solaris
6 1 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (76.92%) Agile
2 61 (39.10%) CI/CD
3 56 (35.90%) Test Automation
4 52 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (33.33%) DevOps
5 51 (32.69%) Scrum
6 47 (30.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (20.51%) Migration
8 28 (17.95%) Microservices
9 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
10 26 (16.67%) TDD
10 26 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
11 25 (16.03%) Containerisation
11 25 (16.03%) ETL
12 24 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 23 (14.74%) Analytics
14 22 (14.10%) Data Modelling
14 22 (14.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 22 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.44%) SQL
2 17 (10.90%) PL/SQL
3 12 (7.69%) Java
4 11 (7.05%) Python
5 5 (3.21%) Perl
5 5 (3.21%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.92%) HiveQL
6 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.28%) C#
7 2 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.64%) Bash
8 1 (0.64%) Bicep
8 1 (0.64%) C
8 1 (0.64%) C++
8 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.64%) Tcl
8 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 113 (72.44%) Security Cleared
2 100 (64.10%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.05%) SAFe Agilist
4 10 (6.41%) Degree
5 9 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (5.77%) IIBA
6 7 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.49%) PMI Certification
6 7 (4.49%) PMP
7 6 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (3.21%) CCNA
8 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.28%) CAPM
9 2 (1.28%) CBAP
10 1 (0.64%) CISM
10 1 (0.64%) CISSP
10 1 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) QA
2 8 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.13%) GDPR
3 7 (4.49%) PMO
4 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.28%) GRC
6 2 (1.28%) NIST
6 2 (1.28%) SLA
6 2 (1.28%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 38 (24.36%) Docker
2 3 (1.92%) HDFS
3 2 (1.28%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 25 (16.03%) Grafana
3 23 (14.74%) Terraform
4 16 (10.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (23.72%) Oracle
2 24 (15.38%) Talend
3 20 (12.82%) Denodo
4 16 (10.26%) Atlassian
5 13 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.77%) Informatica
6 9 (5.77%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.21%) SAP
8 4 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.28%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (1.28%) NEC
11 1 (0.64%) Google
11 1 (0.64%) Splunk
11 1 (0.64%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.64%) Zscaler