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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 67 101
Rank change year-on-year +21 +34 -40
Contract jobs citing Confluence 153 41 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.47% 2.54% 0.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 32.90% 24.85% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 24 9
10th Percentile £363 £450 £435
25th Percentile £424 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £512 £638
90th Percentile £537 £540 -
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £30.30 - -
25th Percentile £38.24 - -
Median hourly rate £53.08 - -
75th Percentile £68.31 - -
90th Percentile £73.83 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +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 465 165 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.58% 10.22% 8.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 108 119
10th Percentile £350 £275 £213
25th Percentile £413 £362 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £612
90th Percentile £643 £600 £673
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 5
10th Percentile £16.25 £34.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £20.63 £34.43 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £34.98 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.09% +118.63% -13.51%
75th Percentile £53.75 £47.80 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.95 £55.50 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £46.65 £33.04
% change year-on-year -30.33% +41.21% -31.18%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -10 71 £459 -10.35% 7
Birmingham -14 27 £425 -10.53% 2
Solihull +2 24 £488 +8.33%
Warwickshire -7 12 £450 - 3
Worcestershire +3 9 £621 +8.02%
Coventry - 6 £475 -
Staffordshire +1 4 £410 -8.89% 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 11 (7.19%) SAS
1 11 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.61%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.92%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.31%) Maximo
3 2 (1.31%) Primavera
4 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.65%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.65%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 69 (45.10%) AWS
2 33 (21.57%) Azure
3 28 (18.30%) GitHub
4 27 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (16.99%) Amazon S3
6 22 (14.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (10.46%) GCP
10 15 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (9.80%) Power Platform
10 15 (9.80%) Serverless
11 12 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (7.19%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (3.92%) AWS KMS
16 5 (3.27%) Amazon ELB
17 4 (2.61%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) MPLS
1 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.65%) VPN
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (12.42%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (9.80%) Power BI
4 11 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (6.54%) BusinessObjects
5 10 (6.54%) Pentaho
6 9 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (4.58%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.92%) MySQL
9 5 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.61%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (2.61%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.96%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.96%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.96%) Impala
11 3 (1.96%) Power Query
12 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.31%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 143 (93.46%) JIRA
2 42 (27.45%) GitLab
3 36 (23.53%) Git
4 34 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 25 (16.34%) Selenium
6 21 (13.73%) JUnit
7 19 (12.42%) Cucumber
7 19 (12.42%) JMeter
8 18 (11.76%) Bitbucket
8 18 (11.76%) WebDriver
9 12 (7.84%) Artifactory
10 11 (7.19%) Postman
11 10 (6.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (6.54%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.31%) DbUnit
12 2 (1.31%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.31%) jMock
12 2 (1.31%) Maven
12 2 (1.31%) Mockito
12 2 (1.31%) SonarQube
General
1 75 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.03%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.50%) Finance
5 12 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Automotive
9 2 (1.31%) Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Billing
9 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (17.65%) Analyst
2 20 (13.07%) Data Engineer
2 20 (13.07%) Senior
3 19 (12.42%) Scrum Master
4 15 (9.80%) Business Analyst
5 14 (9.15%) Tester
6 10 (6.54%) Automation Tester
6 10 (6.54%) Delivery Manager
6 10 (6.54%) Lead
7 9 (5.88%) Developer
7 9 (5.88%) Test Analyst
8 8 (5.23%) Senior Tester
9 7 (4.58%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.58%) Senior Automation Tester
9 7 (4.58%) Test Leader
10 6 (3.92%) Automation Test Lead
11 5 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
11 5 (3.27%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.34%) Spring
2 18 (11.76%) WireMock
3 9 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 7 (4.58%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.96%) React
5 3 (1.96%) REST
6 2 (1.31%) .NET
6 2 (1.31%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.31%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.31%) CSS
6 2 (1.31%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.31%) HTML
6 2 (1.31%) JPA
6 2 (1.31%) Node.js
6 2 (1.31%) PowerMock
6 2 (1.31%) SOAP
6 2 (1.31%) Spring Batch
6 2 (1.31%) Spring Integration
6 2 (1.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 14 (9.15%) Distributed Architecture
3 13 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.31%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.31%) PMI
7 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) BYOD
8 1 (0.65%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.65%) FPGA
8 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Verilog
8 1 (0.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.42%) Linux
2 17 (11.11%) Unix
3 7 (4.58%) Windows
4 5 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.31%) AIX
5 2 (1.31%) Solaris
6 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (79.74%) Agile
2 62 (40.52%) CI/CD
3 58 (37.91%) Scrum
3 58 (37.91%) Test Automation
4 54 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (30.72%) DevOps
6 42 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (18.95%) Microservices
9 26 (16.99%) End-to-End Testing
9 26 (16.99%) TDD
10 25 (16.34%) ETL
11 24 (15.69%) Containerisation
11 24 (15.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 24 (15.69%) Migration
11 24 (15.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 23 (15.03%) Kanban
13 22 (14.38%) Data Modelling
13 22 (14.38%) Workshop Facilitation
14 20 (13.07%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.22%) SQL
2 17 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 13 (8.50%) Java
4 11 (7.19%) Python
5 5 (3.27%) Perl
5 5 (3.27%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.96%) HiveQL
6 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.31%) C#
7 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.31%) VB
7 2 (1.31%) VBScript
8 1 (0.65%) ABAP
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.65%) Tcl
8 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 101 (66.01%) Security Cleared
2 87 (56.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.84%) Degree
4 11 (7.19%) SAFe Agilist
5 10 (6.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (5.23%) PMI Certification
7 8 (5.23%) PMP
8 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.27%) CCNA
10 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.96%) CBAP
12 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.31%) CAPM
13 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.65%) CISSP
13 1 (0.65%) CSPO
13 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.50%) QA
2 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.23%) PMO
3 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.31%) GRC
5 2 (1.31%) NIST
5 2 (1.31%) SLA
5 2 (1.31%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 37 (24.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) HDFS
3 2 (1.31%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 26 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (16.34%) Grafana
3 22 (14.38%) Terraform
4 16 (10.46%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.96%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 37 (24.18%) Oracle
2 24 (15.69%) Talend
3 20 (13.07%) Denodo
4 14 (9.15%) Atlassian
5 13 (8.50%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.88%) Informatica
7 8 (5.23%) Microsoft
8 7 (4.58%) SAP
9 5 (3.27%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.61%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.96%) Google
11 3 (1.96%) Splunk
12 2 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (1.31%) NEC
13 1 (0.65%) HP
13 1 (0.65%) OneLogin
13 1 (0.65%) Xilinx
13 1 (0.65%) Zscaler