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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 66 105
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 -69
Contract jobs citing Confluence 130 34 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.28% 2.50% 0.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.66% 23.29% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 19 4
10th Percentile £350 £422 £498
25th Percentile £405 £455 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -13.27% +2.23%
75th Percentile £492 £512 £600
90th Percentile £515 £548 £690
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
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 £63.14 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.96% +2.00% +10.62%

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 424 146 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.97% 10.74% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 85 104
10th Percentile £350 £210 £224
25th Percentile £413 £381 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +17.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £575 £625 £646
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 3
10th Percentile £23.80 £16.60 £14.24
25th Percentile £31.56 £16.94 £14.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.12 £15.65
Median % change year-on-year +174.58% +22.17% -2.00%
75th Percentile £62.38 £23.62 £35.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £41.81 £47.13
England median hourly rate £29.44 £50.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -41.12% +75.44% -5.00%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -16 55 £465 -2.52% 7
Birmingham -5 29 £425 +41.67% 1
Warwickshire - 15 £425 - 5
Solihull 0 14 £481 - 1
Worcestershire - 6 - - 2
Staffordshire +1 5 £410 -25.45% 2
Coventry - 4 £312 - 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 14 (10.77%) SAS
2 7 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (9.23%) MS Visio
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.54%) Maximo
2 2 (1.54%) Primavera
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.15%) AWS
2 31 (23.85%) Azure
3 20 (15.38%) GitHub
4 17 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (10.77%) GCP
6 12 (9.23%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (8.46%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (8.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.38%) Datadog
9 6 (4.62%) AWS KMS
9 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.85%) Serverless
11 4 (3.08%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.08%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.38%) VSAN
2 2 (1.54%) VPN
3 1 (0.77%) Firewall
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.92%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.38%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.62%) Power BI
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.31%) Apache Hive
6 3 (2.31%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.31%) Impala
6 3 (2.31%) MySQL
6 3 (2.31%) Pentaho
6 3 (2.31%) Power Query
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.77%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 115 (88.46%) JIRA
2 32 (24.62%) Git
3 22 (16.92%) Selenium
4 21 (16.15%) Jenkins
5 18 (13.85%) JUnit
6 16 (12.31%) Cucumber
6 16 (12.31%) JMeter
7 15 (11.54%) WebDriver
8 14 (10.77%) GitLab
9 11 (8.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (8.46%) Bitbucket
9 11 (8.46%) Postman
10 10 (7.69%) Zephyr
11 2 (1.54%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.54%) jMock
11 2 (1.54%) Maven
11 2 (1.54%) Mockito
11 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.77%) TestNG
General
1 71 (54.62%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.23%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (9.23%) Finance
5 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.31%) Automotive
8 2 (1.54%) Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Advertising
9 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 38 (29.23%) Analyst
2 21 (16.15%) Business Analyst
3 18 (13.85%) Tester
4 12 (9.23%) Project Manager
5 11 (8.46%) Delivery Manager
5 11 (8.46%) Senior
6 10 (7.69%) Automation Tester
7 9 (6.92%) Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Test Analyst
8 8 (6.15%) Lead
8 8 (6.15%) Scrum Master
9 7 (5.38%) Data Manager
9 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Automation Tester
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Tester
10 6 (4.62%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
10 6 (4.62%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Migration Analyst
11 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.46%) Spring
2 15 (11.54%) WireMock
3 9 (6.92%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.08%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.08%) REST
5 3 (2.31%) .NET
5 3 (2.31%) React
6 2 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.54%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.54%) CSS
6 2 (1.54%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.54%) HTML
6 2 (1.54%) Jest
6 2 (1.54%) Next.js
6 2 (1.54%) Playwright
6 2 (1.54%) SOAP
6 2 (1.54%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.46%) Distributed Architecture
4 7 (5.38%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.31%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.54%) PMI
8 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.77%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.77%) FPGA
9 1 (0.77%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Verilog
9 1 (0.77%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.23%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 6 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.31%) Unix
5 2 (1.54%) AIX
5 2 (1.54%) Solaris
6 1 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (73.85%) Agile
2 44 (33.85%) CI/CD
3 41 (31.54%) DevOps
4 40 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (30.77%) Scrum
4 40 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 34 (26.15%) Test Automation
6 30 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.77%) Migration
8 25 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
8 25 (19.23%) Microservices
8 25 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (19.23%) TDD
9 24 (18.46%) Workshop Facilitation
10 19 (14.62%) Analytics
11 18 (13.85%) Containerisation
11 18 (13.85%) Project Management
12 17 (13.08%) BDD
12 17 (13.08%) Project Delivery
12 17 (13.08%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.54%) SQL
2 13 (10.00%) Java
3 7 (5.38%) Python
4 6 (4.62%) Perl
4 6 (4.62%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.31%) HiveQL
6 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.54%) C#
7 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.77%) Bash
8 1 (0.77%) Bicep
8 1 (0.77%) C
8 1 (0.77%) C++
8 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.77%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.77%) Tcl
8 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (65.38%) Security Cleared
2 73 (56.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.77%) Degree
4 9 (6.92%) IIBA
5 8 (6.15%) PMI Certification
5 8 (6.15%) PMP
6 7 (5.38%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.85%) CCNA
8 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (3.08%) SAFe Agilist
10 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.54%) CAPM
10 2 (1.54%) CBAP
11 1 (0.77%) CISM
11 1 (0.77%) CISSP
11 1 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) GDPR
1 8 (6.15%) QA
2 6 (4.62%) PMO
3 3 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.31%) NIST
4 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) GRC
4 2 (1.54%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (23.08%) Docker
2 7 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.38%) vSphere
3 3 (2.31%) HDFS
4 2 (1.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.62%) Grafana
3 14 (10.77%) Prometheus
3 14 (10.77%) Terraform
4 7 (5.38%) vRealize
4 7 (5.38%) VxRail
5 3 (2.31%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (13.85%) Oracle
2 17 (13.08%) Atlassian
3 11 (8.46%) Talend
4 10 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 9 (6.92%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.38%) AppDynamics
6 7 (5.38%) Cisco
6 7 (5.38%) Commvault
6 7 (5.38%) Dell
6 7 (5.38%) HP
6 7 (5.38%) IBM
6 7 (5.38%) SolarWinds
6 7 (5.38%) VMware
7 6 (4.62%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.85%) SAP
9 4 (3.08%) Pega
10 3 (2.31%) Denodo
10 3 (2.31%) Informatica
11 2 (1.54%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (1.54%) NEC