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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 58 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 +41 -13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 148 56 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.24% 3.25% 0.70%
As % of the Application Platforms category 32.17% 26.42% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 35 10
10th Percentile £366 £435 £455
25th Percentile £425 £454 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -17.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £500 £526 £638
90th Percentile £575 £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 £65.49 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.11% +0.71% +12.00%

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 460 212 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.19% 12.32% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 145 104
10th Percentile £350 £279 £255
25th Percentile £412 £368 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £612
90th Percentile £656 £598 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 3
10th Percentile - £34.10 £23.80
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.43 £35.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% -36.40% +197.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.65 £55.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £36.25
% change year-on-year -23.11% +16.61% -19.44%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 0 81 £459 -10.35% 7
Birmingham -25 23 £425 -10.53% 4
Solihull -2 19 £475 +5.56%
Warwickshire -7 9 £434 -29.14% 2
Worcestershire 0 6 £621 +8.02%
Coventry - 6 £475 -
Staffordshire -6 1 £500 +11.11% 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 (7.43%) SAS
2 10 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
3 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.35%) Primavera
3 1 (0.68%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.68%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 56 (37.84%) AWS
2 29 (19.59%) Azure
3 27 (18.24%) GitHub
4 26 (17.57%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (13.51%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (10.81%) GCP
7 15 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.14%) Serverless
8 13 (8.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 12 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.43%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.35%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) LAN
2 1 (0.68%) MPLS
2 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.14%) Power BI
4 10 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (6.76%) BusinessObjects
4 10 (6.76%) Pentaho
5 9 (6.08%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (4.05%) MySQL
7 5 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.38%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.03%) Apache Hive
9 3 (2.03%) Big Data
9 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.03%) Impala
9 3 (2.03%) Power Query
10 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 140 (94.59%) JIRA
2 42 (28.38%) GitLab
3 33 (22.30%) Jenkins
4 28 (18.92%) Git
5 25 (16.89%) Bitbucket
6 24 (16.22%) Selenium
7 20 (13.51%) JUnit
8 18 (12.16%) Cucumber
8 18 (12.16%) JMeter
8 18 (12.16%) WebDriver
9 13 (8.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (7.43%) Artifactory
11 10 (6.76%) Postman
11 10 (6.76%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.35%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.35%) Maven
12 2 (1.35%) Mockito
12 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.68%) PetaLinux
General
1 69 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (16.89%) Public Sector
4 14 (9.46%) Finance
5 13 (8.78%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Banking
8 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.35%) Billing
9 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Analyst
2 22 (14.86%) Senior
3 20 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 20 (13.51%) Scrum Master
4 17 (11.49%) Lead
5 13 (8.78%) Tester
6 12 (8.11%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.43%) JIRA Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Automation Tester
8 9 (6.08%) Test Analyst
9 8 (5.41%) Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Senior Tester
10 7 (4.73%) Senior Automation Tester
10 7 (4.73%) Test Leader
11 6 (4.05%) Automation Test Lead
11 6 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.38%) Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.38%) Systems Tester
12 5 (3.38%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.19%) Spring
2 18 (12.16%) WireMock
3 9 (6.08%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.03%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.35%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.35%) JPA
5 2 (1.35%) React
5 2 (1.35%) REST
5 2 (1.35%) SOAP
5 2 (1.35%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.68%) CSS
6 1 (0.68%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.68%) HTML
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) Web Services
6 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.46%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.73%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) BYOD
8 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) FPGA
8 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.68%) PMI
8 1 (0.68%) Verilog
8 1 (0.68%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.49%) Unix
2 9 (6.08%) Linux
3 4 (2.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.68%) AIX
4 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Solaris
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (84.46%) Agile
2 63 (42.57%) Scrum
3 62 (41.89%) CI/CD
4 55 (37.16%) Test Automation
5 52 (35.14%) DevOps
6 50 (33.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (20.27%) Migration
10 26 (17.57%) End-to-End Testing
10 26 (17.57%) Microservices
10 26 (17.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 25 (16.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 25 (16.89%) ETL
12 22 (14.86%) Data Modelling
13 21 (14.19%) Validation
13 21 (14.19%) Workshop Facilitation
14 20 (13.51%) Observability
14 20 (13.51%) TDD
15 19 (12.84%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.92%) SQL
2 17 (11.49%) PL/SQL
3 10 (6.76%) Python
4 9 (6.08%) Java
5 3 (2.03%) HiveQL
5 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.35%) VB
6 2 (1.35%) VBScript
7 1 (0.68%) ABAP
7 1 (0.68%) Bicep
7 1 (0.68%) C
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) C++
7 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) Perl
7 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.68%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 92 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 84 (56.76%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (7.43%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (6.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (4.73%) Degree
7 4 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.70%) PMP
8 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.35%) CBAP
9 2 (1.35%) CCNA
9 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CAPM
10 1 (0.68%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) QA
2 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.38%) PMO
4 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.35%) GRC
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (22.30%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (16.89%) Grafana
2 19 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.16%) Prometheus
3 18 (12.16%) Terraform
4 3 (2.03%) Ansible
5 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (22.97%) Oracle
2 24 (16.22%) Talend
3 20 (13.51%) Denodo
4 18 (12.16%) Atlassian
5 9 (6.08%) Informatica
6 8 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.38%) Splunk
8 4 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.70%) Google
8 4 (2.70%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.70%) SAP
9 2 (1.35%) NEC
10 1 (0.68%) HP
10 1 (0.68%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.68%) Proofpoint
10 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.68%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.68%) Zscaler