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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 71 97
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -69
Contract jobs citing Confluence 89 26 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.43% 1.81% 0.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.65% 18.44% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 15 9
10th Percentile £339 £322 £396
25th Percentile £405 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -13.27% +1.85%
75th Percentile £492 £495 £675
90th Percentile £532 £548 £730
England median daily rate £500 £508 £540
% change year-on-year -1.48% -6.02% -1.82%
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +16.82%

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 361 141 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.93% 9.80% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 81 103
10th Percentile £363 £208 £214
25th Percentile £421 £381 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +8.24% -14.14%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £631
90th Percentile £581 £600 £686
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
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% +16.78%
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% +17.05%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -26 27 £475 -0.42% 4
Birmingham -3 20 £450 +25.00% 9
Warwickshire - 12 £375 - 6
Solihull +6 11 £500 - 1
Coventry - 8 £316 - 3
Staffordshire +1 4 £410 -25.45% 1
Worcestershire - 3 - - 1
Herefordshire - 1 £575 -
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 9 (10.11%) SAS
2 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.62%) WebLogic
4 4 (4.49%) nginx
5 3 (3.37%) CMS
6 1 (1.12%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (14.61%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (4.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.25%) Maximo
3 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.19%) AWS
2 22 (24.72%) Azure
3 13 (14.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (14.61%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (14.61%) Amazon S3
4 12 (13.48%) AWS KMS
4 12 (13.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (12.36%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (7.87%) Datadog
6 7 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (6.74%) Amazon Glacier
7 6 (6.74%) Route 53
8 4 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.49%) GitHub
9 3 (3.37%) Google Workspace
9 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.25%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
2 8 (8.99%) VSAN
3 6 (6.74%) DNS
3 6 (6.74%) FTP
3 6 (6.74%) HTTP
3 6 (6.74%) SMTP
3 6 (6.74%) SSH
4 4 (4.49%) IMAP
4 4 (4.49%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.12%) LAN
5 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.12%) SSL
5 1 (1.12%) VPN
5 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.25%) Redis
6 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.12%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 74 (83.15%) JIRA
2 21 (23.60%) Git
3 9 (10.11%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.74%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.37%) JUnit
5 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.25%) DbUnit
6 2 (2.25%) jMock
6 2 (2.25%) Maven
6 2 (2.25%) Mockito
7 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.12%) JMeter
7 1 (1.12%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.12%) Postman
7 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.12%) Selenium
7 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.12%) TestNG
General
1 51 (57.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.22%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (8.99%) Finance
6 5 (5.62%) Automotive
6 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.37%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.37%) Publishing
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Analyst
2 20 (22.47%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.11%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.87%) Delivery Manager
4 7 (7.87%) Developer
4 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 6 (6.74%) Tester
6 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (5.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Migration Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Penetration Tester
6 5 (5.62%) SAS Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) SAS Business Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Storage Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Spring
1 9 (10.11%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.49%) HTML
2 4 (4.49%) LDAP
2 4 (4.49%) REST
3 3 (3.37%) .NET
4 2 (2.25%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.25%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.25%) JPA
4 2 (2.25%) Node.js
4 2 (2.25%) PowerMock
4 2 (2.25%) RESTful
4 2 (2.25%) SOAP
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Spring Integration
4 2 (2.25%) Web Services
4 2 (2.25%) YAML
5 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.87%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (6.74%) Replication
4 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.25%) PMI
7 1 (1.12%) Animation
7 1 (1.12%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.12%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.12%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.58%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) Windows
3 6 (6.74%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.74%) VMS
4 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.25%) AIX
5 2 (2.25%) Solaris
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (56.18%) Agile
2 30 (33.71%) DevOps
3 27 (30.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.35%) Scrum
5 18 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (16.85%) Change Management
7 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (16.85%) Workshop Facilitation
8 14 (15.73%) User Stories
9 13 (14.61%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (12.36%) Business Analysis
10 11 (12.36%) Kanban
10 11 (12.36%) Migration
10 11 (12.36%) Project Management
10 11 (12.36%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (11.24%) Acceptance Criteria
11 10 (11.24%) Analytics
11 10 (11.24%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) SQL
2 11 (12.36%) Java
3 9 (10.11%) Python
4 8 (8.99%) Perl
4 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.74%) Groovy
5 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.25%) Bicep
8 1 (1.12%) Bash
8 1 (1.12%) C#
8 1 (1.12%) Go
8 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (56.18%) Security Cleared
2 42 (47.19%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.98%) Degree
4 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
4 9 (10.11%) IIBA
5 7 (7.87%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.87%) PMI Certification
5 7 (7.87%) PMP
6 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.37%) CCNA
8 2 (2.25%) CAPM
8 2 (2.25%) CBAP
9 1 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.12%) CISM
9 1 (1.12%) CISSP
9 1 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.99%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.49%) NIST
2 4 (4.49%) PMO
2 4 (4.49%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) NCSC
3 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Docker
2 8 (8.99%) vSphere
3 7 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (6.74%) DFS Replication
4 6 (6.74%) Postfix
5 4 (4.49%) Dovecot
5 4 (4.49%) Squid
6 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (17.98%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.36%) Terraform
3 9 (10.11%) Grafana
4 7 (7.87%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.87%) vRealize
4 7 (7.87%) VxRail
5 4 (4.49%) Nessus
5 4 (4.49%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) ServiceNow
2 8 (8.99%) VMware
3 7 (7.87%) AppDynamics
3 7 (7.87%) Cisco
3 7 (7.87%) Commvault
3 7 (7.87%) Dell
3 7 (7.87%) HP
3 7 (7.87%) IBM
3 7 (7.87%) SolarWinds
4 6 (6.74%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.74%) Jaspersoft
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.74%) Oracle
4 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.49%) Google
5 4 (4.49%) Pega
5 4 (4.49%) SAP
6 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.12%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.12%) Sage