Confluence Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Confluence
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 25 80
Rank change year-on-year -15 +55 -13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 109 63 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.58% 6.68% 1.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.22% 44.37% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 36 22
10th Percentile £311 £403 -
25th Percentile £407 £445 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +25.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £537 £626 £513
90th Percentile £588 £695 £684
England median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%

All Application Platform Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 271 142 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.86% 15.06% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 78 132
10th Percentile £206 £209 £190
25th Percentile £352 £398 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% +11.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £667 £615
England median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile £13.88 - £11.67
25th Percentile - £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +173.33% -44.95%
75th Percentile - £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - - £25.82
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +76.47% +30.77%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in Yorkshire

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Confluence

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
South Yorkshire -18 75 £513 -4.03% 9
West Yorkshire -16 32 £500 -20.00% 10
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (19.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (12.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (5.50%) MS Visio
5 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.18%) GitHub
2 17 (15.60%) Azure
3 8 (7.34%) CloudBees
3 8 (7.34%) GCP
4 7 (6.42%) AWS
5 6 (5.50%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.59%) Azure Storage
7 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.67%) Cohesity
7 4 (3.67%) SaaS
8 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.83%) OCI
9 2 (1.83%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.92%) Apigee
10 1 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.92%) Kong
10 1 (0.92%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) Firewall
1 5 (4.59%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.75%) Network Security
3 2 (1.83%) LAN
3 2 (1.83%) SSH
3 2 (1.83%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.83%) WAN
3 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.92%) DNS
4 1 (0.92%) HTTP
4 1 (0.92%) NGFW
4 1 (0.92%) SMS
4 1 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.92%) Power Query
2 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 102 (93.58%) JIRA
2 33 (30.28%) Jenkins
3 15 (13.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (8.26%) GitLab
5 3 (2.75%) Git
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.92%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.92%) Selenium
6 1 (0.92%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.92%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.94%) Finance
3 25 (22.94%) Banking
4 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Retail
7 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.92%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.92%) Front Office
9 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.18%) Analyst
2 20 (18.35%) Business Analyst
3 17 (15.60%) Architect
4 15 (13.76%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (11.93%) Technical Analyst
5 13 (11.93%) Technical Business Analyst
6 12 (11.01%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) Security Architect
8 10 (9.17%) Lead
8 10 (9.17%) Project Manager
8 10 (9.17%) Security Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.34%) Data Protection Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Lead Architect
10 7 (6.42%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.50%) Designer
12 5 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.59%) Lead Security Architect
12 5 (4.59%) Tester
13 4 (3.67%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) OAuth
1 9 (8.26%) SAML
2 5 (4.59%) JWT
2 5 (4.59%) Middleware
3 4 (3.67%) REST
4 3 (2.75%) RESTful
5 2 (1.83%) .NET
5 2 (1.83%) Kafka
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.92%) FHIR
6 1 (0.92%) JSON
6 1 (0.92%) LDAP
6 1 (0.92%) SOAP
6 1 (0.92%) XML
6 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.17%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.83%) NHS
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.92%) CMDB
6 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.92%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.92%) FMCG
6 1 (0.92%) PDA
6 1 (0.92%) PKI
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Agile
2 45 (41.28%) DevOps
3 39 (35.78%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (30.28%) CI/CD
5 31 (28.44%) Scrum
6 24 (22.02%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (20.18%) Decision-Making
7 22 (20.18%) Migration
7 22 (20.18%) User Stories
8 20 (18.35%) UML
9 19 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (16.51%) Privileged Access Management
10 18 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.51%) Software Engineering
11 17 (15.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (15.60%) Visualisation
12 16 (14.68%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (13.76%) Computer Science
13 15 (13.76%) Process Improvement
13 15 (13.76%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Python
2 13 (11.93%) Bash
3 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.75%) SQL
6 1 (0.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Degree
2 21 (19.27%) CISM
2 21 (19.27%) CISSP
3 13 (11.93%) TOGAF Certification
4 12 (11.01%) Master's Degree
5 10 (9.17%) PhD
5 10 (9.17%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.59%) PMP
8 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (2.75%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) COBIT
2 2 (1.83%) NIST
2 2 (1.83%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) HL7
3 1 (0.92%) P3O
3 1 (0.92%) PMO
3 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.92%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.92%) Docker
1 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (29.36%) Ansible
2 12 (11.01%) NetBackup
3 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.59%) Puppet
5 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.75%) Terraform
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.92%) Grafana
8 1 (0.92%) Kibana
8 1 (0.92%) logstash
8 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (18.35%) BiZZdesign
2 16 (14.68%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.76%) Sonatype
4 14 (12.84%) CyberArk
4 14 (12.84%) Red Hat
5 12 (11.01%) Centrify
5 12 (11.01%) Commvault
6 11 (10.09%) Splunk
7 8 (7.34%) Veritas
8 5 (4.59%) Thycotic
9 3 (2.75%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.75%) Oracle
10 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.83%) Cisco
10 2 (1.83%) Dell
10 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.83%) F5
10 2 (1.83%) HP
11 1 (0.92%) Pega
11 1 (0.92%) Tradeweb