Confluence Contracts in the West Midlands

Confluence
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 105 61
Rank change year-on-year +36 -44 -26
Contract jobs citing Confluence 38 10 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.46% 0.48% 3.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.20% 5.95% 29.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 55
10th Percentile £450 £395 £277
25th Percentile £455 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £512 £594 £550
90th Percentile £541 £638 £600
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%

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 157 168 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.15% 8.13% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 115 188
10th Percentile £275 £213 £275
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £540
90th Percentile £600 £674 £596
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £34.10 £14.59 £12.63
25th Percentile £34.43 £15.65 £13.56
Median hourly rate £34.98 £16.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +118.63% +4.92% -10.29%
75th Percentile £47.80 £55.00 £17.06
90th Percentile £55.50 £67.00 £18.08
England median hourly rate £48.56 £32.12 £48.50
% change year-on-year +51.21% -33.78% +122.99%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the West Midlands

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the West Midlands

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily 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 6 July 2025. 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
Birmingham +27 15 £475 - 13
Shropshire - 14 £512 - 7
Staffordshire +4 3 £500 - 6
Solihull - 3 £450 - 2
Warwickshire -2 2 - - 7
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) nginx
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (26.32%) Amazon S3
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon ELB
3 8 (21.05%) AWS KMS
3 8 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (15.79%) Amazon Glacier
5 4 (10.53%) Azure
6 3 (7.89%) IaaS
6 3 (7.89%) PaaS
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.26%) Boomi
7 2 (5.26%) OCI
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS
7 2 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) DNS
1 8 (21.05%) Firewall
1 8 (21.05%) HTTP
1 8 (21.05%) SMTP
2 6 (15.79%) FTP
2 6 (15.79%) SSH
3 4 (10.53%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (5.26%) DHCP
4 2 (5.26%) IMAP
4 2 (5.26%) SAN
4 2 (5.26%) SSL
4 2 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (15.79%) Big Data
2 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (97.37%) JIRA
2 13 (34.21%) Git
2 13 (34.21%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.05%) Vagrant
4 6 (15.79%) GitLab
5 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
6 3 (7.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (7.89%) JMeter
6 3 (7.89%) Postman
6 3 (7.89%) REST Assured
6 3 (7.89%) ScriptRunner
6 3 (7.89%) Selenium
6 3 (7.89%) TestNG
6 3 (7.89%) Travis CI
7 2 (5.26%) Maven
7 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (23.68%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Marketing
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Engagement Manager
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Data Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) JIRA Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) LDAP
2 3 (7.89%) YAML
3 2 (5.26%) Django
3 2 (5.26%) MACH
4 1 (2.63%) .NET
4 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Replication
2 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
3 8 (21.05%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (21.05%) VMS
4 3 (7.89%) Unix
5 2 (5.26%) CentOS
5 2 (5.26%) Debian
5 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Agile
2 18 (47.37%) DevOps
3 9 (23.68%) Change Management
3 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
3 9 (23.68%) Project Management
4 8 (21.05%) Agile Project Management
4 8 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 8 (21.05%) Patch Management
4 8 (21.05%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
5 7 (18.42%) Analytics
6 6 (15.79%) Migration
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (13.16%) Regression Testing
8 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
8 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (10.53%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Python
2 11 (28.95%) Groovy
3 9 (23.68%) PowerShell
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 8 (21.05%) Java
5 6 (15.79%) Perl
6 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
7 4 (10.53%) Bash
8 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
9 2 (5.26%) R
10 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
10 1 (2.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) CEH
3 3 (7.89%) CISSP
3 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (2.63%) ISO 26262
2 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Docker
2 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) DFS Replication
3 2 (5.26%) Dovecot
3 2 (5.26%) Postfix
3 2 (5.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Terraform
2 8 (21.05%) Grafana
2 8 (21.05%) Prometheus
3 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.53%) Nessus
5 3 (7.89%) Kibana
6 2 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Atlassian
2 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Sophos
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce