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 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 94 99
Rank change year-on-year +25 +5 -63
Contract jobs citing Confluence 59 17 24
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.19% 0.90% 1.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.89% 11.11% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 12 18
10th Percentile £308 £361 £325
25th Percentile £450 £459 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £468
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.65% -9.40%
75th Percentile £515 £638 £551
90th Percentile £588 - £600
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +12.17%

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 247 153 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.37% 8.12% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 95 144
10th Percentile £275 £250 £264
25th Percentile £371 £354 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £434
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -2.02% -12.37%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £543
90th Percentile £588 £638 £621
England median daily rate £490 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.67% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £28.54 £20.90 £17.35
25th Percentile £30.55 £28.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.88 £43.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +138.89% +9.76%
75th Percentile £34.43 £60.25 £19.25
90th Percentile £34.76 £69.10 £19.45
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +86.05%

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
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 1 October 2025.

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 1 October 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 +29 31 £475 +11.76% 5
Shropshire - 8 £512 - 1
Solihull - 5 £404 -
Worcestershire -2 4 £575 +4.55%
Warwickshire -5 4 £613 -2.00% 3
Staffordshire +6 3 £450 - 1
Coventry -7 2 £388 -32.61% 6
Herefordshire +4 1 £575 +4.55% 1
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 12 (20.34%) nginx
2 6 (10.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.69%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.85%) AWS
2 25 (42.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 25 (42.37%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (42.37%) Amazon S3
3 24 (40.68%) Amazon ELB
3 24 (40.68%) AWS KMS
3 24 (40.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (27.12%) Azure
5 13 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (20.34%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (20.34%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (20.34%) Route 53
7 3 (5.08%) IaaS
7 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.39%) GCP
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) Lucidchart
8 2 (3.39%) PaaS
8 2 (3.39%) Serverless
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (40.68%) SMTP
2 22 (37.29%) DNS
2 22 (37.29%) Firewall
2 22 (37.29%) FTP
2 22 (37.29%) HTTP
2 22 (37.29%) SSH
3 12 (20.34%) IMAP
3 12 (20.34%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (42.37%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (23.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (20.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.08%) Big Data
4 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.08%) Power BI
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.69%) Redis
5 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 55 (93.22%) JIRA
2 26 (44.07%) Git
3 25 (42.37%) Jenkins
4 24 (40.68%) Vagrant
5 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.08%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.69%) GitLab
7 1 (1.69%) JMeter
7 1 (1.69%) Postman
7 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.69%) Selenium
7 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.69%) TestNG
7 1 (1.69%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (42.37%) Public Sector
2 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Finance
5 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Automotive
6 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Publishing
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (32.20%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (32.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 19 (32.20%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (28.81%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (28.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (20.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) Analyst
6 8 (13.56%) Business Analyst
7 5 (8.47%) Senior
8 4 (6.78%) Administrator
8 4 (6.78%) Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (6.78%) JIRA Administrator
9 3 (5.08%) Scrum Master
9 3 (5.08%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (5.08%) Technical Business Analyst
10 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) LDAP
2 2 (3.39%) .NET
2 2 (3.39%) Django
3 1 (1.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.69%) Flask
3 1 (1.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.69%) HTML
3 1 (1.69%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.69%) MACH
3 1 (1.69%) Middleware
3 1 (1.69%) OAuth
3 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.69%) pytest
3 1 (1.69%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (1.69%) Swagger
3 1 (1.69%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.29%) Replication
2 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.69%) Animation
5 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 26 (44.07%) Linux
3 24 (40.68%) Amazon Linux
3 24 (40.68%) VMS
4 10 (16.95%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.69%) AIX
5 1 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) DevOps
2 29 (49.15%) Change Management
3 25 (42.37%) Agile
4 24 (40.68%) Cloud Security
4 24 (40.68%) Configuration Management
4 24 (40.68%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (37.29%) Patch Management
6 18 (30.51%) CI/CD
7 15 (25.42%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (18.64%) Project Management
9 8 (13.56%) Project Delivery
10 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.86%) Data Management
10 7 (11.86%) Migration
10 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.17%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.17%) Scrum
11 6 (10.17%) Sprint Planning
11 6 (10.17%) Sprint Retrospective
12 5 (8.47%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) PowerShell
1 29 (49.15%) Python
2 27 (45.76%) Groovy
3 18 (30.51%) SQL
4 13 (22.03%) Java
5 12 (20.34%) Perl
6 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) R
8 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (66.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (62.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Degree
4 10 (16.95%) AWS Certification
4 10 (16.95%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.39%) PMP
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) CAPM
6 1 (1.69%) CBAP
6 1 (1.69%) CEH
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) IIBA
6 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.69%) Automotive SPICE
1 1 (1.69%) ISO 26262
1 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.69%) NIST
1 1 (1.69%) QA
1 1 (1.69%) SLA
1 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (50.85%) Docker
2 22 (37.29%) DFS Replication
3 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
3 12 (20.34%) Dovecot
3 12 (20.34%) Postfix
3 12 (20.34%) Squid
4 4 (6.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Grafana
1 25 (42.37%) Prometheus
1 25 (42.37%) Terraform
2 12 (20.34%) Nessus
3 10 (16.95%) Proxmox
4 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.78%) SCCM
6 1 (1.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (42.37%) ServiceNow
2 12 (20.34%) Jaspersoft
3 9 (15.25%) Atlassian
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.39%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) Workday