Confluence Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Confluence
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 52 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 31 27 25
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 2.29% 3.29% 3.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 35.63% 31.76% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 15
10th Percentile £313 £450 £400
25th Percentile £400 £491 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +20.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £588
90th Percentile £623 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.10% -2.91% +20.47%

All Application Platform Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 87 85 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.42% 10.37% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 55 48
10th Percentile £308 £235 £359
25th Percentile £400 £326 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £627 £538 £573
90th Percentile £688 £588 £665
Yorkshire median daily rate £477 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.91% -12.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.25 - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 - -

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Confluence job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in West Yorkshire

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Confluence

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Leeds -9 27 £425 -22.73% 19
Bradford - 3 £463 - 1
Halifax -7 1 £550 +7.32% 1
Huddersfield - 1 £350 -
Confluence
Yorkshire

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 8 (25.81%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
4 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) BrowserStack
5 2 (6.45%) Figma
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Miro
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Network Security
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
3 1 (3.23%) Internet
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) WAN
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) DocumentDB
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (93.55%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.45%) Gatling
2 2 (6.45%) JMeter
2 2 (6.45%) JUnit
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) TestNG
3 1 (3.23%) Flyway
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
5 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.45%) Legal
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Business Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) PMO Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Technical Business Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) QA Tester
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Service Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Service Delivery Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.23%) PySpark
1 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.23%) Check Point GAiA
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Agile
2 12 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (25.81%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (25.81%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (22.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (22.58%) ITIL
6 6 (19.35%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (19.35%) AI
6 6 (19.35%) Backlog Refinement
6 6 (19.35%) Project Delivery
6 6 (19.35%) User Stories
7 5 (16.13%) DevOps
7 5 (16.13%) Software Delivery
7 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Digital Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) SDLC
8 4 (12.90%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) Scala
3 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) APMP
3 1 (3.23%) CAPM
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 5 (16.13%) PMO
3 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (9.68%) GxP
5 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.23%) NIST
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.45%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.23%) Brio
5 1 (3.23%) BT
5 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco
5 1 (3.23%) Databricks
5 1 (3.23%) F5
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) IBM
5 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.23%) Workday