Confluence Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Confluence
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 111 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -7
Contract jobs citing Confluence 240 301 611
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.42% 1.96% 2.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.26% 19.29% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 182 417
10th Percentile £332 £363 £373
25th Percentile £400 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -1.48% -
75th Percentile £555 £600 £625
90th Percentile £645 £672 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile £55.13 £32.50 £22.16
25th Percentile £59.06 - £36.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £84.58
90th Percentile £74.25 £67.50 £86.66
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £61.25 £55.50
% change year-on-year +4.08% +10.36% +11.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

Confluence falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Confluence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Confluence trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Confluence.

Confluence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Confluence over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Confluence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Confluence.

Confluence hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Confluence over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Confluence hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) Apache
3 5 (2.08%) CMS
3 5 (2.08%) Drupal
4 4 (1.67%) WordPress
5 3 (1.25%) Camunda
5 3 (1.25%) IIS
5 3 (1.25%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.25%) SAS
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.83%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Appian
7 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (7.08%) MS Visio
3 14 (5.83%) Trello
4 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.42%) InVision
7 1 (0.42%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.42%) Actimize
2 1 (0.42%) SessionCam
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (20.42%) AWS
2 34 (14.17%) Azure
3 18 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 11 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (4.17%) GitHub
6 8 (3.33%) GCP
6 8 (3.33%) SaaS
7 7 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.92%) Slack
8 6 (2.50%) Miro
9 5 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.08%) Serverless
10 4 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.67%) PaaS
10 4 (1.67%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.25%) Alation
11 3 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.17%) HTTP
2 6 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.08%) DNS
3 5 (2.08%) SNMP
4 4 (1.67%) DHCP
4 4 (1.67%) Internet
4 4 (1.67%) SMTP
5 3 (1.25%) Firewall
5 3 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.83%) BGP
6 2 (0.83%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.83%) OSPF
6 2 (0.83%) POP3
6 2 (0.83%) SNA
6 2 (0.83%) VLAN
6 2 (0.83%) VPN
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.42%) NAS
7 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.25%) MySQL
1 15 (6.25%) Power BI
2 14 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.17%) Big Data
5 9 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (3.75%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.75%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.25%) IBM InfoSphere
10 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.83%) Dremio
11 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 218 (90.83%) JIRA
2 31 (12.92%) Git
3 22 (9.17%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 18 (7.50%) Visual Studio
5 17 (7.08%) GitLab
6 10 (4.17%) JUnit
7 9 (3.75%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.92%) Selenium
8 7 (2.92%) Subversion
9 6 (2.50%) Jasmine
9 6 (2.50%) ScriptRunner
10 5 (2.08%) Postman
11 4 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.67%) GoogleTest
11 4 (1.67%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.67%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.75%) Finance
3 53 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (18.33%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.08%) Banking
6 14 (5.83%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.92%) Marketing
9 5 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Front Office
10 4 (1.67%) Military
11 3 (1.25%) Automotive
11 3 (1.25%) Back Office
11 3 (1.25%) Legal
12 2 (0.83%) Electronics
12 2 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (23.75%) Analyst
2 39 (16.25%) Business Analyst
3 35 (14.58%) Developer
4 15 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.83%) Delphi Developer
5 14 (5.83%) Senior
6 13 (5.42%) Data Analyst
7 10 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 10 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 9 (3.75%) Architect
8 9 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.33%) Agile Business Analyst
9 8 (3.33%) Data Manager
9 8 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (2.92%) Java Engineer
10 7 (2.92%) Lead
11 6 (2.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 6 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.50%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.83%) CSS
1 14 (5.83%) HTML
1 14 (5.83%) Kafka
2 11 (4.58%) Spring Boot
3 10 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 10 (4.17%) Flash
3 10 (4.17%) REST
4 9 (3.75%) SOAP
4 9 (3.75%) Web Services
5 8 (3.33%) Spring
6 7 (2.92%) Swagger
7 6 (2.50%) Ajax
7 6 (2.50%) jQuery
7 6 (2.50%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.50%) RESTful
8 5 (2.08%) Node.js
8 5 (2.08%) Spring Batch
8 5 (2.08%) Spring Security
9 4 (1.67%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.67%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.17%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.58%) Clustering
3 6 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.67%) Legacy Code
4 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.25%) PMI
5 3 (1.25%) Replication
6 2 (0.83%) Derivative
6 2 (0.83%) FMCG
6 2 (0.83%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (0.83%) IoT
6 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.33%) Linux
2 21 (8.75%) Windows
3 10 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.75%) Unix
5 5 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.83%) zOS
7 1 (0.42%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (62.08%) Agile
2 58 (24.17%) Scrum
3 56 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (19.58%) DevOps
5 45 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (15.42%) Project Management
7 34 (14.17%) User Stories
8 33 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 30 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
11 29 (12.08%) Kanban
12 28 (11.67%) Sprint Planning
13 25 (10.42%) Software Engineering
13 25 (10.42%) TDD
13 25 (10.42%) User Experience
14 24 (10.00%) Analytics
14 24 (10.00%) Service Management
15 23 (9.58%) Sprint Retrospective
16 22 (9.17%) Microservices
16 22 (9.17%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.08%) SQL
2 41 (17.08%) Java
3 24 (10.00%) Python
4 23 (9.58%) PL/SQL
5 19 (7.92%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.50%) C#
7 14 (5.83%) Delphi
8 10 (4.17%) Bash
8 10 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.50%) Groovy
10 5 (2.08%) C
10 5 (2.08%) C++
10 5 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.67%) PHP
11 4 (1.67%) ProC
11 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.83%) JCL
12 2 (0.83%) R
12 2 (0.83%) VBScript
13 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 56 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.08%) Degree
4 12 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.17%) CCNA
6 10 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.25%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) CSPO
9 2 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) OCA
10 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.58%) QA
2 18 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.25%) PMO
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) GxP
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SEPA
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.50%) Docker
2 13 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.67%) Terraform
3 11 (4.58%) vCenter Server
4 7 (2.92%) Ansible
5 5 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (1.67%) Packer
7 3 (1.25%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.83%) Consul
8 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 2 (0.83%) Tivoli NetView
8 2 (0.83%) WSUS
9 1 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.42%) Grafana
9 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.42%) Netcool
9 1 (0.42%) Rancher
9 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 47 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 40 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 36 (15.00%) Oracle
4 15 (6.25%) VMware
5 14 (5.83%) Cisco
6 10 (4.17%) IBM
7 9 (3.75%) Google
8 6 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.67%) Commvault
9 4 (1.67%) Databricks
9 4 (1.67%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.67%) Informatica
9 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.67%) Zend
10 3 (1.25%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.25%) Palantir
10 3 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.25%) Splunk
10 3 (1.25%) Sybase