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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 92 103
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -71
Contract jobs citing Confluence 62 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.02% 1.00% 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.39% 11.38% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 14 16
10th Percentile £312 £372 £344
25th Percentile £427 £477 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £454
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +9.09% -15.58%
75th Percentile £513 £634 £606
90th Percentile £593 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
England median hourly rate £63.40 £70.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -9.43% +9.80% +12.88%

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 304 167 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.79% 8.75% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 103 132
10th Percentile £300 £208 £224
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +8.24% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £588 £638 £662
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £20.11 £22.44 £17.39
25th Percentile - £25.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +78.08% +30.36%
75th Percentile £32.21 £54.38 £19.25
90th Percentile £34.43 £66.75 £19.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +54.55% +35.87%

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 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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
Birmingham +24 31 £475 +21.02% 10
Warwickshire -5 5 £613 -2.00% 2
Coventry -10 5 £352 -41.38% 1
Shropshire -37 5 £440 -7.81% 2
Solihull - 5 £404 -
Worcestershire - 4 £575 -
Staffordshire +3 2 £450 - 2
Herefordshire -11 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 12 (19.35%) nginx
2 9 (14.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.84%) CMS
4 1 (1.61%) IIS
4 1 (1.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (11.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.61%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) AWS
2 24 (38.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 24 (38.71%) Amazon EC2
2 24 (38.71%) Amazon ELB
2 24 (38.71%) Amazon S3
2 24 (38.71%) AWS KMS
2 24 (38.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 20 (32.26%) Azure
4 14 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (19.35%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (19.35%) Route 53
6 3 (4.84%) Datadog
6 3 (4.84%) Google Workspace
6 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) GCP
7 2 (3.23%) GitHub
7 2 (3.23%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (38.71%) Firewall
1 24 (38.71%) SMTP
2 22 (35.48%) DNS
2 22 (35.48%) FTP
2 22 (35.48%) HTTP
2 22 (35.48%) SSH
3 12 (19.35%) IMAP
3 12 (19.35%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (6.45%) VSAN
5 1 (1.61%) LAN
5 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.71%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.84%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (83.87%) JIRA
2 26 (41.94%) Git
3 24 (38.71%) Jenkins
3 24 (38.71%) Vagrant
4 5 (8.06%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (43.55%) Public Sector
2 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.84%) Automotive
6 3 (4.84%) Publishing
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
8 1 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (37.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (30.65%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (30.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 19 (30.65%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (27.42%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (27.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (19.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 11 (17.74%) Analyst
6 10 (16.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 8 (12.90%) Business Analyst
8 4 (6.45%) Administrator
8 4 (6.45%) JIRA Administrator
9 3 (4.84%) Consultant
9 3 (4.84%) Content Editor
9 3 (4.84%) Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Scrum Master
9 3 (4.84%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (4.84%) Technical Business Analyst
10 2 (3.23%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) LDAP
2 3 (4.84%) HTML
3 2 (3.23%) .NET
3 2 (3.23%) YAML
4 1 (1.61%) Django
4 1 (1.61%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.61%) Flask
4 1 (1.61%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.61%) Middleware
4 1 (1.61%) OAuth
4 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.61%) pytest
4 1 (1.61%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) Spring
4 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.61%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.61%) Swagger
4 1 (1.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (35.48%) Replication
2 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.61%) Animation
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 31 (50.00%) Linux
2 29 (46.77%) Windows
3 24 (38.71%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (38.71%) VMS
4 10 (16.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.61%) AIX
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.61%) Solaris
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) DevOps
2 28 (45.16%) Change Management
3 24 (38.71%) Cloud Security
3 24 (38.71%) Configuration Management
3 24 (38.71%) Platform Engineering
4 22 (35.48%) Patch Management
5 19 (30.65%) Agile
6 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
7 12 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.29%) Data Management
9 7 (11.29%) Project Management
9 7 (11.29%) Scrum
10 5 (8.06%) Coaching
10 5 (8.06%) ITIL
10 5 (8.06%) Migration
10 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.06%) Waterfall
10 5 (8.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 30 (48.39%) PowerShell
2 27 (43.55%) Python
3 24 (38.71%) Groovy
4 18 (29.03%) SQL
5 13 (20.97%) Java
5 13 (20.97%) Perl
6 2 (3.23%) Bicep
6 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (1.61%) Go
7 1 (1.61%) R
7 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 35 (56.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (22.58%) Degree
4 11 (17.74%) Azure Certification
5 10 (16.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.23%) PMP
7 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.61%) CAPM
7 1 (1.61%) CBAP
7 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) NCSC
2 1 (1.61%) SLA
2 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (45.16%) Docker
2 22 (35.48%) DFS Replication
3 12 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 12 (19.35%) Dovecot
3 12 (19.35%) Postfix
3 12 (19.35%) Squid
4 4 (6.45%) Firmware
4 4 (6.45%) vSphere
5 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (40.32%) Grafana
1 25 (40.32%) Prometheus
1 25 (40.32%) Terraform
2 12 (19.35%) Nessus
3 10 (16.13%) Proxmox
4 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.45%) SCCM
6 3 (4.84%) vRealize
6 3 (4.84%) VxRail
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (38.71%) ServiceNow
2 12 (19.35%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (9.68%) Atlassian
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.45%) VMware
5 3 (4.84%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 3 (4.84%) Commvault
5 3 (4.84%) Dell
5 3 (4.84%) Google
5 3 (4.84%) HP
5 3 (4.84%) IBM
5 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
6 2 (3.23%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Databricks
7 1 (1.61%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) Workday