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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 65 96
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 -2
Contract jobs citing Confluence 131 64 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.69% 3.40% 0.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.42% 25.70% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 40 11
10th Percentile £404 £314 £355
25th Percentile £444 £446 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +21.55%
75th Percentile £497 £521 £638
90th Percentile £576 £590 -
England median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £42.65 £27.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.74% - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +7.69%

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 392 249 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.05% 13.22% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 170 91
10th Percentile £349 £275 £250
25th Percentile £407 £375 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £581 £538 £575
90th Percentile £665 £588 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 2
10th Percentile - - £20.90
25th Percentile £16.25 - £28.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.21 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% -36.72% +135.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £60.25
90th Percentile - £34.54 £69.10
England median hourly rate £28.40 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.87% -17.65% +47.83%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 84 £459 -10.42% 4
Solihull +2 22 £488 +20.67% 2
Birmingham -23 7 £475 - 13
Warwickshire -10 6 £434 -29.14% 1
Coventry -20 6 £475 +22.58%
Worcestershire +6 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 (6.11%) SAS
2 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) Primavera
3 1 (0.76%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.76%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.06%) AWS
2 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
2 15 (11.45%) Azure
3 13 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (9.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (8.40%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (8.40%) GitHub
5 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
5 11 (8.40%) Serverless
6 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 8 (6.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.58%) Google Analytics
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) WAN
2 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.76%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) LAN
3 1 (0.76%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.16%) Relational Database
4 11 (8.40%) Power BI
5 7 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.34%) BusinessObjects
5 7 (5.34%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (5.34%) Pentaho
6 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.05%) Apache Iceberg
7 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.29%) Big Data
8 3 (2.29%) MySQL
9 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.53%) Looker
10 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 128 (97.71%) JIRA
2 29 (22.14%) GitLab
3 25 (19.08%) Jenkins
4 18 (13.74%) Bitbucket
5 17 (12.98%) Git
6 14 (10.69%) JUnit
7 11 (8.40%) Artifactory
7 11 (8.40%) Maven
8 10 (7.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (7.63%) Mockito
8 10 (7.63%) SonarQube
9 9 (6.87%) Selenium
10 8 (6.11%) Postman
10 8 (6.11%) Zephyr
11 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.29%) JMeter
11 3 (2.29%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.53%) HP UFT
General
1 59 (45.04%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.19%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (25.19%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Finance
5 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.53%) Billing
7 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (20.61%) Analyst
2 21 (16.03%) Scrum Master
3 19 (14.50%) Senior
4 18 (13.74%) Data Engineer
5 16 (12.21%) Lead
6 15 (11.45%) Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Java Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Business Analyst
8 10 (7.63%) JIRA Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Test Analyst
9 9 (6.87%) Product Manager
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Delivery Manager
11 6 (4.58%) Technical Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Architect
12 4 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Lead Developer
12 4 (3.05%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (3.05%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.69%) REST
1 14 (10.69%) Spring
2 13 (9.92%) SOAP
3 11 (8.40%) AngularJS
3 11 (8.40%) Hibernate
3 11 (8.40%) JPA
3 11 (8.40%) Spring Boot
4 10 (7.63%) ActiveMQ
4 10 (7.63%) RESTful
4 10 (7.63%) Spring Cloud
4 10 (7.63%) Terraform
5 9 (6.87%) Web Services
6 6 (4.58%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.29%) .NET
7 3 (2.29%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.29%) Swagger
7 3 (2.29%) WireMock
8 2 (1.53%) React
9 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.61%) Product Ownership
2 15 (11.45%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.87%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.29%) Culture of Ownership
5 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) BYOD
7 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.69%) Unix
2 4 (3.05%) Linux
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (85.50%) Agile
2 60 (45.80%) Scrum
3 47 (35.88%) Test Automation
4 45 (34.35%) CI/CD
5 44 (33.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (32.82%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (30.53%) DevOps
8 38 (29.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (25.19%) Migration
10 30 (22.90%) Sprint Planning
11 23 (17.56%) Backlog Refinement
11 23 (17.56%) ETL
12 21 (16.03%) Containerisation
12 21 (16.03%) Data Modelling
12 21 (16.03%) User Stories
13 20 (15.27%) Kanban
14 18 (13.74%) Microservices
14 18 (13.74%) Sprint Retrospective
15 17 (12.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 16 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.08%) SQL
2 14 (10.69%) PL/SQL
3 13 (9.92%) Java
4 11 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.58%) Python
6 3 (2.29%) C#
7 2 (1.53%) VB
7 2 (1.53%) VBScript
8 1 (0.76%) ABAP
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (52.67%) Security Cleared
2 65 (49.62%) SC Cleared
3 24 (18.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.11%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (4.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.29%) Degree
7 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CBAP
8 1 (0.76%) CSPO
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.82%) PMO
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (16.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.21%) Grafana
2 12 (9.16%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (21.37%) Oracle
2 20 (15.27%) Talend
3 17 (12.98%) Denodo
4 10 (7.63%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.58%) Google
5 6 (4.58%) Informatica
5 6 (4.58%) Splunk
6 4 (3.05%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.05%) SAP
6 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.76%) HP
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.76%) NEC
7 1 (0.76%) OneLogin
7 1 (0.76%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.76%) Sage