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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 111 102
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 -6
Contract jobs citing Confluence 239 298 596
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.41% 1.96% 2.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.08% 19.08% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 184 403
10th Percentile £331 £360 £371
25th Percentile £400 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% -2.76% -
75th Percentile £553 £600 £625
90th Percentile £639 £672 £724
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £55.13 £32.50 £22.16
25th Percentile £59.06 - £35.75
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 £85.61
90th Percentile £74.25 £67.50 £86.66
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +10.62% +13.00%

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 1,134 1,562 2,896
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.46% 10.25% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 1,098 2,032
10th Percentile £313 £290 £313
25th Percentile £405 £395 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.15% -1.73%
75th Percentile £630 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 73
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.40
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 £66.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.30
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £26.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +54.72% -41.11% +102.25%

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 4 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 4 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 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.51%) Apache
3 5 (2.09%) CMS
3 5 (2.09%) Drupal
4 4 (1.67%) WordPress
5 3 (1.26%) Camunda
5 3 (1.26%) IIS
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.84%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) SAS
7 1 (0.42%) Appian
7 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (13.39%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (7.11%) MS Visio
3 14 (5.86%) Trello
4 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.42%) InVision
7 1 (0.42%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.42%) Actimize
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) SessionCam
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.08%) AWS
2 33 (13.81%) Azure
3 17 (7.11%) Power Platform
4 11 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (4.18%) GitHub
6 8 (3.35%) SaaS
7 7 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.93%) GCP
7 7 (2.93%) Slack
8 6 (2.51%) Miro
9 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.09%) 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 (1.26%) Alation
11 3 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.18%) HTTP
2 6 (2.51%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.09%) DNS
3 5 (2.09%) SNMP
4 4 (1.67%) DHCP
4 4 (1.67%) Internet
4 4 (1.67%) SMTP
5 3 (1.26%) Firewall
5 3 (1.26%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.84%) BGP
6 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.84%) OSPF
6 2 (0.84%) POP3
6 2 (0.84%) SNA
6 2 (0.84%) VLAN
6 2 (0.84%) 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 14 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (5.86%) MySQL
1 14 (5.86%) Power BI
2 13 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.18%) Big Data
5 9 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.93%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.26%) IBM InfoSphere
9 3 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 217 (90.79%) JIRA
2 31 (12.97%) Git
3 21 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.53%) Visual Studio
5 17 (7.11%) Bitbucket
6 16 (6.69%) GitLab
7 10 (4.18%) JUnit
8 9 (3.77%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.93%) Selenium
9 7 (2.93%) Subversion
10 6 (2.51%) Jasmine
10 6 (2.51%) ScriptRunner
11 5 (2.09%) Postman
12 4 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.67%) GoogleTest
12 4 (1.67%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.67%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.67%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.27%) Finance
3 53 (22.18%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (18.41%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.11%) Banking
6 14 (5.86%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.93%) Marketing
9 5 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Automotive
10 4 (1.67%) Front Office
10 4 (1.67%) Military
11 3 (1.26%) Back Office
11 3 (1.26%) Legal
11 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.84%) Electronics
12 2 (0.84%) Law
12 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (23.85%) Analyst
2 39 (16.32%) Business Analyst
3 35 (14.64%) Developer
4 16 (6.69%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.86%) Delphi Developer
5 14 (5.86%) Senior
6 13 (5.44%) Data Analyst
7 10 (4.18%) Software Engineer
7 10 (4.18%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 9 (3.77%) Architect
8 9 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.35%) Agile Business Analyst
9 8 (3.35%) Data Manager
9 8 (3.35%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (2.93%) Java Engineer
10 7 (2.93%) Lead
10 7 (2.93%) Scrum Master
11 6 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (2.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.86%) CSS
1 14 (5.86%) HTML
1 14 (5.86%) Kafka
2 11 (4.60%) Spring Boot
3 10 (4.18%) AngularJS
3 10 (4.18%) Flash
3 10 (4.18%) REST
4 9 (3.77%) SOAP
4 9 (3.77%) Web Services
5 8 (3.35%) Spring
6 7 (2.93%) Swagger
7 6 (2.51%) Ajax
7 6 (2.51%) jQuery
7 6 (2.51%) OpenAPI
7 6 (2.51%) RESTful
8 5 (2.09%) Node.js
8 5 (2.09%) Spring Batch
8 5 (2.09%) Spring Security
9 4 (1.67%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.67%) CodeIgniter
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.64%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.60%) Clustering
3 6 (2.51%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (2.51%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.67%) Legacy Code
5 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.26%) PMI
6 3 (1.26%) Replication
7 2 (0.84%) Derivative
7 2 (0.84%) FMCG
7 2 (0.84%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (0.84%) IoT
7 2 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.39%) Linux
2 21 (8.79%) Windows
3 10 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.35%) Unix
5 5 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.84%) 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 (62.34%) Agile
2 58 (24.27%) Scrum
3 55 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (19.25%) DevOps
5 45 (18.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (15.48%) Project Management
7 34 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (13.81%) User Stories
9 31 (12.97%) CI/CD
10 30 (12.55%) Acceptance Criteria
11 29 (12.13%) Kanban
11 29 (12.13%) Sprint Planning
12 25 (10.46%) TDD
12 25 (10.46%) User Experience
13 24 (10.04%) Service Management
13 24 (10.04%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.04%) Sprint Retrospective
14 23 (9.62%) Analytics
14 23 (9.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 22 (9.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.76%) SQL
2 40 (16.74%) Java
3 23 (9.62%) Python
4 22 (9.21%) PL/SQL
5 19 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.53%) C#
7 14 (5.86%) Delphi
8 10 (4.18%) Bash
8 10 (4.18%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.51%) Groovy
10 5 (2.09%) C
10 5 (2.09%) C++
10 5 (2.09%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.67%) PHP
11 4 (1.67%) ProC
11 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.84%) JCL
12 2 (0.84%) R
12 2 (0.84%) VBScript
13 1 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 54 (22.59%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.13%) Degree
4 12 (5.02%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (4.18%) CCNA
6 10 (4.18%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.67%) PMP
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.84%) CSPO
11 2 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.42%) CISSP
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.42%) OCA
12 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.62%) QA
2 18 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.93%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.26%) PMO
5 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 2 (0.84%) GxP
5 2 (0.84%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
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 (7.53%) Docker
2 13 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (4.18%) Active Directory
4 10 (4.18%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.69%) Terraform
3 11 (4.60%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.51%) Ansible
5 5 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (1.67%) Packer
7 3 (1.26%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.84%) Consul
8 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.84%) Puppet
8 2 (0.84%) Tivoli NetView
8 2 (0.84%) WSUS
9 1 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.42%) Netcool
9 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.42%) Rancher
9 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 47 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 39 (16.32%) Atlassian
3 35 (14.64%) Oracle
4 15 (6.28%) VMware
5 14 (5.86%) Cisco
6 10 (4.18%) IBM
7 9 (3.77%) Google
8 6 (2.51%) 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%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.67%) Zend
10 3 (1.26%) Informatica
10 3 (1.26%) Palantir
10 3 (1.26%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.26%) SAP
10 3 (1.26%) Splunk
10 3 (1.26%) Sybase