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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 98
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 -1
Contract jobs citing Confluence 127 57 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.56% 3.09% 0.89%
As % of the Application Platforms category 30.75% 23.27% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 35 12
10th Percentile £407 £330 £361
25th Percentile £446 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +17.65%
75th Percentile £503 £526 £638
90th Percentile £577 £588 -
England median daily rate £506 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.27% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £42.65 £27.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.74% - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.04% -3.57% +9.80%

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 413 245 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.58% 13.29% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 168 95
10th Percentile £347 £275 £250
25th Percentile £410 £375 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +11.76% -2.02%
75th Percentile £551 £538 £563
90th Percentile £665 £589 £638
England median daily rate £500 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% -6.19% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 3
10th Percentile - £28.54 £23.80
25th Percentile £16.25 £30.55 £35.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £33.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.96% -38.40% +197.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.43 £65.00
90th Percentile - £34.76 £71.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -22.67% -21.05% +18.75%

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 27 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
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 27 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 +11 81 £469 -8.47% 5
Solihull +6 22 £488 +8.33% 5
Warwickshire -9 6 £434 -29.14% 1
Coventry -16 6 £475 +22.58% 2
Birmingham -35 6 £450 -5.26% 7
Worcestershire +4 3 £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 (6.30%) SAS
2 6 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Primavera
3 1 (0.79%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.79%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.07%) AWS
2 15 (11.81%) Amazon S3
3 13 (10.24%) Azure
4 12 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.66%) GitHub
5 11 (8.66%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.66%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.66%) Serverless
6 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.30%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.72%) Google Analytics
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.15%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) WAN
2 2 (1.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.79%) Broadband
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) LAN
3 1 (0.79%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.81%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (11.02%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.66%) Power BI
3 11 (8.66%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.51%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (5.51%) BusinessObjects
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (5.51%) Pentaho
5 5 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.15%) Apache Iceberg
6 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.15%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.36%) Big Data
7 3 (2.36%) MySQL
8 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.57%) Looker
9 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 124 (97.64%) JIRA
2 29 (22.83%) GitLab
3 25 (19.69%) Jenkins
4 17 (13.39%) Git
5 16 (12.60%) Bitbucket
6 14 (11.02%) JUnit
7 11 (8.66%) Artifactory
7 11 (8.66%) Maven
8 10 (7.87%) Mockito
8 10 (7.87%) SonarQube
9 9 (7.09%) Selenium
10 8 (6.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (6.30%) Postman
10 8 (6.30%) Zephyr
11 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.36%) JMeter
11 3 (2.36%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.57%) HP UFT
General
1 59 (46.46%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.41%) Public Sector
3 29 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (7.87%) Finance
6 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.57%) Billing
8 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (18.11%) Analyst
1 23 (18.11%) Scrum Master
2 19 (14.96%) Senior
3 18 (14.17%) Data Engineer
4 16 (12.60%) Lead
5 14 (11.02%) Developer
6 11 (8.66%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.87%) Business Analyst
8 9 (7.09%) Product Manager
9 8 (6.30%) JIRA Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) Test Analyst
10 7 (5.51%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.51%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Architect
11 4 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Software Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.02%) Spring
2 12 (9.45%) REST
3 11 (8.66%) AngularJS
3 11 (8.66%) Hibernate
3 11 (8.66%) JPA
3 11 (8.66%) SOAP
3 11 (8.66%) Spring Boot
4 10 (7.87%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (7.87%) RESTful
4 10 (7.87%) Spring Cloud
4 10 (7.87%) Terraform
5 9 (7.09%) Web Services
6 6 (4.72%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.36%) WireMock
8 2 (1.57%) .NET
9 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.79%) React
9 1 (0.79%) Swagger
9 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.47%) Product Ownership
2 15 (11.81%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.36%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.79%) BYOD
6 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.02%) Unix
2 4 (3.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (86.61%) Agile
2 63 (49.61%) Scrum
3 44 (34.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (33.86%) Test Automation
5 41 (32.28%) CI/CD
5 41 (32.28%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (30.71%) DevOps
7 38 (29.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 32 (25.20%) Sprint Planning
9 28 (22.05%) Migration
10 23 (18.11%) Backlog Refinement
10 23 (18.11%) Kanban
11 20 (15.75%) Data Modelling
11 20 (15.75%) ETL
11 20 (15.75%) Sprint Retrospective
12 19 (14.96%) Containerisation
12 19 (14.96%) User Stories
13 18 (14.17%) Microservices
14 17 (13.39%) Conflict Resolution
14 17 (13.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.11%) SQL
2 14 (11.02%) PL/SQL
3 13 (10.24%) Java
4 11 (8.66%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.15%) Python
6 2 (1.57%) C#
6 2 (1.57%) VB
6 2 (1.57%) VBScript
7 1 (0.79%) ABAP
7 1 (0.79%) Bicep
7 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 66 (51.97%) Security Cleared
2 62 (48.82%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.30%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (4.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.36%) Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.79%) CBAP
7 1 (0.79%) CSPO
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) QA
2 7 (5.51%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.94%) PMO
4 2 (1.57%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (16.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.60%) Grafana
2 12 (9.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (22.05%) Oracle
2 20 (15.75%) Talend
3 17 (13.39%) Denodo
4 8 (6.30%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.72%) Google
5 6 (4.72%) Informatica
5 6 (4.72%) Splunk
6 4 (3.15%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.15%) SAP
6 4 (3.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) HP
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.79%) NEC
7 1 (0.79%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.79%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.79%) Sage