Hybrid/Remote Confluence Contract Job Trends

Confluence
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 107 99
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Confluence 382 234 296
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.84% 2.42% 2.36%
As % of the Application Platforms category 29.09% 20.76% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 180 185
10th Percentile £400 £306 £352
25th Percentile £440 £380 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -1.57% -3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £622
90th Percentile £671 £650 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £59.19 £39.40 -
25th Percentile £65.92 £40.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £42.00 £67.02
Median % change year-on-year +60.64% -37.33% +3.29%
75th Percentile £68.77 £43.00 -
90th Percentile £77.49 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £66.70 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% -4.71% +9.80%

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 1,313 1,127 1,608
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.75% 11.65% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 764 1,104
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £417 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £700
90th Percentile £669 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 25 10
10th Percentile £16.33 £18.93 £15.76
25th Percentile £26.51 £20.50 £17.08
Median hourly rate £41.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -16.67% -37.39%
75th Percentile £67.47 £64.50 £42.50
90th Percentile £85.67 £65.25 £58.45
UK median hourly rate £28.40 £34.43 £37.25
% change year-on-year -17.53% -7.57% +4.20%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Confluence job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Confluence over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Confluence daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Confluence over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Confluence hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 21 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.14%) Apache
2 12 (3.14%) SAS
3 8 (2.09%) nginx
4 6 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.31%) Camunda
5 5 (1.31%) Traefik
6 4 (1.05%) CICS
7 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.52%) CMS
8 2 (0.52%) IIS
8 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (6.81%) MS Visio
2 11 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.79%) Trello
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) Notion
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Primavera
2 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.26%) Actimize
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.26%) OneSumX
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 119 (31.15%) AWS
2 93 (24.35%) Azure
3 43 (11.26%) Amazon S3
4 33 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (8.12%) GitHub
6 28 (7.33%) Power Platform
7 25 (6.54%) Serverless
8 23 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (4.97%) Miro
11 17 (4.45%) Amazon EMR
12 16 (4.19%) dbt
12 16 (4.19%) Figma
13 15 (3.93%) GCP
14 14 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (2.88%) Slack
15 11 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (2.62%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.19%) DNS
2 12 (3.14%) Firewall
3 9 (2.36%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.09%) HTTP
5 7 (1.83%) Network Security
5 7 (1.83%) SSL
6 6 (1.57%) DHCP
7 5 (1.31%) SSH
8 3 (0.79%) Broadband
8 3 (0.79%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.79%) VPN
9 2 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.26%) Intranet
10 1 (0.26%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.26%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.16%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (7.07%) Power BI
3 19 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (4.19%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (3.66%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.09%) MySQL
8 7 (1.83%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.83%) Oracle Database
8 7 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (1.83%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.57%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.31%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.31%) Metadata
10 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.05%) Db2
11 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.05%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 348 (91.10%) JIRA
2 49 (12.83%) GitLab
3 46 (12.04%) Git
4 29 (7.59%) Jenkins
5 15 (3.93%) Selenium
6 14 (3.66%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.40%) Artifactory
7 13 (3.40%) Postman
7 13 (3.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (3.14%) Zephyr
9 11 (2.88%) JUnit
10 10 (2.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.36%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.83%) JMeter
12 7 (1.83%) Maven
12 7 (1.83%) Mockito
12 7 (1.83%) SonarQube
13 6 (1.57%) Liquibase
13 6 (1.57%) REST Assured
General
1 135 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 100 (26.18%) Public Sector
3 81 (21.20%) Finance
4 67 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (8.12%) Banking
6 20 (5.24%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.19%) Retail
8 15 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (3.14%) Military
10 8 (2.09%) Marketing
11 7 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.83%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.83%) Legal
11 7 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.31%) Billing
14 4 (1.05%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Local Government
15 3 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (18.59%) Analyst
2 51 (13.35%) Business Analyst
3 39 (10.21%) Developer
4 34 (8.90%) Senior
5 31 (8.12%) Data Engineer
6 30 (7.85%) Lead
7 26 (6.81%) Architect
7 26 (6.81%) Consultant
8 14 (3.66%) Scrum Master
9 12 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
9 12 (3.14%) Product Owner
10 11 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (2.88%) Product Manager
10 11 (2.88%) Project Manager
11 10 (2.62%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.36%) Test Analyst
12 9 (2.36%) User Researcher
13 8 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (2.09%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.52%) Terraform
2 18 (4.71%) React
3 17 (4.45%) REST
4 14 (3.66%) JSON
5 13 (3.40%) SOAP
6 11 (2.88%) AngularJS
6 11 (2.88%) PySpark
6 11 (2.88%) Spring
6 11 (2.88%) Spring Boot
7 10 (2.62%) ADO
7 10 (2.62%) HTML
8 9 (2.36%) .NET
9 8 (2.09%) CSS
9 8 (2.09%) Hibernate
9 8 (2.09%) Loki
9 8 (2.09%) Middleware
9 8 (2.09%) RESTful
9 8 (2.09%) XML
10 7 (1.83%) JPA
10 7 (1.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.18%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.90%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.14%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.09%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.09%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.09%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.31%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.31%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.05%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.85%) Linux
2 23 (6.02%) Unix
3 18 (4.71%) Windows
4 7 (1.83%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.79%) Android
6 3 (0.79%) zOS
7 2 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.26%) MVS
8 1 (0.26%) SUSE
8 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (64.66%) Agile
2 108 (28.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 103 (26.96%) DevOps
4 91 (23.82%) CI/CD
5 84 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (21.73%) Scrum
7 78 (20.42%) Migration
8 77 (20.16%) User Stories
9 68 (17.80%) Test Automation
10 63 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 58 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (13.61%) Acceptance Criteria
13 48 (12.57%) SDLC
13 48 (12.57%) User Acceptance Testing
14 45 (11.78%) Business Analysis
15 42 (10.99%) AI
16 40 (10.47%) Requirements Gathering
16 40 (10.47%) Roadmaps
16 40 (10.47%) Sprint Planning
17 39 (10.21%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 87 (22.77%) SQL
2 56 (14.66%) Python
3 30 (7.85%) Java
4 22 (5.76%) Bash
5 21 (5.50%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.24%) PL/SQL
7 15 (3.93%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.40%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.83%) C#
10 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.79%) Go
11 3 (0.79%) Groovy
11 3 (0.79%) JCL
11 3 (0.79%) Perl
12 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.52%) COBOL
12 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.52%) Scala
12 2 (0.52%) Swift
13 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (41.88%) Security Cleared
2 149 (39.01%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (9.16%) Degree
5 21 (5.50%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.83%) CBAP
9 6 (1.57%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.31%) IIBA
10 5 (1.31%) PMP
11 3 (0.79%) CISSP
11 3 (0.79%) CSPO
11 3 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.52%) CISM
12 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.26%) CEH
13 1 (0.26%) OSCP
13 1 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.69%) QA
2 32 (8.38%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.93%) PMO
5 10 (2.62%) WCAG
6 6 (1.57%) GDPR
7 5 (1.31%) JSP 440
7 5 (1.31%) NCSC
8 4 (1.05%) SLA
9 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.52%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) HL7
10 1 (0.26%) ISA99
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (8.64%) Docker
2 15 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (6.28%) Grafana
2 22 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.66%) Ansible
4 11 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.09%) Argo
6 6 (1.57%) Packer
7 5 (1.31%) Istio
7 5 (1.31%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.05%) Control-M
8 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.79%) Consul
9 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.52%) Kibana
10 2 (0.52%) SELinux
11 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.26%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.26%) MAINVIEW
11 1 (0.26%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 51 (13.35%) Oracle
2 44 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 21 (5.50%) Talend
5 20 (5.24%) Atlassian
6 17 (4.45%) Denodo
7 16 (4.19%) Informatica
8 13 (3.40%) IBM
9 11 (2.88%) Google
10 9 (2.36%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.57%) SAP
12 5 (1.31%) Databricks
12 5 (1.31%) Splunk
12 5 (1.31%) Tanium
12 5 (1.31%) Veracode
12 5 (1.31%) VMware
12 5 (1.31%) webMethods
13 4 (1.05%) Adobe
13 4 (1.05%) Murex
13 4 (1.05%) Red Hat