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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 66 98
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 -5
Contract jobs citing Confluence 133 58 13
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.80% 3.18% 0.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 31.82% 23.77% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 36 10
10th Percentile £407 £338 £455
25th Percentile £446 £450 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -17.39% +6.48%
75th Percentile £510 £521 £638
90th Percentile £576 £588 -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £45.64 - -
25th Percentile £50.11 - -
Median hourly rate £58.83 - -
75th Percentile £68.79 - -
90th Percentile £74.02 - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +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 418 244 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.95% 13.39% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 171 96
10th Percentile £347 £275 £250
25th Percentile £411 £369 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £556
90th Percentile £665 £595 £638
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 £61.75 £55.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +2.86%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 79 £469 -8.40% 7
Solihull +2 25 £475 +5.56% 3
Birmingham -30 9 £463 -2.63% 6
Warwickshire -10 7 £455 -25.80% 2
Coventry -15 6 £475 +22.58%
Worcestershire +3 4 £621 +8.02% 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 8 (6.02%) SAS
2 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Primavera
3 1 (0.75%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.75%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.59%) AWS
2 18 (13.53%) Amazon S3
3 16 (12.03%) GitHub
3 16 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (11.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (11.28%) Azure
5 14 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.53%) Serverless
6 13 (9.77%) Power Platform
7 11 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (8.27%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (8.27%) AWS CodePipeline
7 11 (8.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.51%) Google Analytics
11 5 (3.76%) GCP
12 4 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) LAN
2 1 (0.75%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.78%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.77%) Power BI
4 10 (7.52%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (5.26%) Pentaho
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.01%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.01%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.26%) Big Data
7 3 (2.26%) MySQL
8 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.50%) Looker
8 2 (1.50%) Power Query
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 129 (96.99%) JIRA
2 33 (24.81%) GitLab
3 29 (21.80%) Jenkins
4 20 (15.04%) Git
5 19 (14.29%) Bitbucket
6 15 (11.28%) JUnit
7 11 (8.27%) Artifactory
7 11 (8.27%) Maven
8 10 (7.52%) Mockito
8 10 (7.52%) Selenium
8 10 (7.52%) SonarQube
9 9 (6.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (6.02%) Postman
10 8 (6.02%) Zephyr
11 4 (3.01%) Cucumber
11 4 (3.01%) JMeter
11 4 (3.01%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.50%) HP UFT
13 1 (0.75%) PetaLinux
General
1 61 (45.86%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (22.56%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.52%) Finance
5 3 (2.26%) Banking
5 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.50%) Billing
6 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (19.55%) Scrum Master
2 21 (15.79%) Analyst
3 19 (14.29%) Senior
4 18 (13.53%) Data Engineer
5 16 (12.03%) Developer
5 16 (12.03%) Lead
6 11 (8.27%) Java Developer
7 9 (6.77%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) Product Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (6.02%) JIRA Engineer
8 8 (6.02%) Test Analyst
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.01%) Architect
11 4 (3.01%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.28%) Spring
1 15 (11.28%) Terraform
2 11 (8.27%) AngularJS
2 11 (8.27%) Hibernate
2 11 (8.27%) JPA
2 11 (8.27%) REST
2 11 (8.27%) Spring Boot
3 10 (7.52%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (7.52%) RESTful
3 10 (7.52%) SOAP
3 10 (7.52%) Spring Cloud
4 9 (6.77%) AWS CDK
4 9 (6.77%) Web Services
5 4 (3.01%) WireMock
6 2 (1.50%) .NET
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.75%) CSS
7 1 (0.75%) HTML
7 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 15 (11.28%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.01%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.26%) Culture of Ownership
5 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) BYOD
7 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) FPGA
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Verilog
7 1 (0.75%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Unix
2 5 (3.76%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (84.96%) Agile
2 66 (49.62%) Scrum
3 49 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
5 47 (35.34%) Test Automation
6 44 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (32.33%) DevOps
8 37 (27.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (24.81%) Sprint Planning
10 26 (19.55%) Backlog Refinement
11 25 (18.80%) Migration
12 24 (18.05%) Kanban
13 22 (16.54%) Containerisation
14 21 (15.79%) Data Modelling
14 21 (15.79%) ETL
15 20 (15.04%) Conflict Resolution
15 20 (15.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 20 (15.04%) Sprint Retrospective
16 19 (14.29%) Microservices
17 18 (13.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.55%) SQL
2 14 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 13 (9.77%) Java
4 11 (8.27%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.76%) Python
6 2 (1.50%) C#
6 2 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.50%) VB
6 2 (1.50%) VBScript
7 1 (0.75%) ABAP
7 1 (0.75%) Bicep
7 1 (0.75%) C
7 1 (0.75%) C++
7 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.75%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (0.75%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 71 (53.38%) Security Cleared
2 67 (50.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (16.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (8.27%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (6.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.26%) Degree
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CBAP
7 1 (0.75%) CSPO
7 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 7 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.76%) PMO
4 2 (1.50%) GRC
4 2 (1.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (20.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (12.78%) Grafana
2 13 (9.77%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Oracle
2 20 (15.04%) Talend
3 17 (12.78%) Denodo
4 10 (7.52%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.51%) Google
6 6 (4.51%) Informatica
6 6 (4.51%) Splunk
7 4 (3.01%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.26%) SAP
9 1 (0.75%) HP
9 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.75%) NEC
9 1 (0.75%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.75%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.75%) Sage
9 1 (0.75%) Xilinx