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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 40 59
Rank change year-on-year -28 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 91 78 51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.22% 5.26% 3.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 36.40% 38.05% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 53 37
10th Percentile £350 £306 £386
25th Percentile £401 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £515
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -17.48% -5.07%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £600
90th Percentile £639 £570 £641
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%

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 250 205 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.84% 13.82% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 123 107
10th Percentile £200 £239 £335
25th Percentile £400 £352 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £425 £507
Median % change year-on-year +15.88% -16.17% +15.89%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £611
90th Percentile £688 £598 £700
England median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £17.50 - £13.33
25th Percentile £18.50 - £13.44
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.64%
75th Percentile £25.00 - £14.06
90th Percentile £25.10 - £15.08
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.08% +34.75% -31.58%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -11 65 £502 +23.95% 11
West Yorkshire -24 25 £400 -22.89% 8
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 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) CICS
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.40%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 33 (36.26%) GitHub
2 28 (30.77%) AWS
3 26 (28.57%) Azure
4 16 (17.58%) GCP
5 7 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.59%) CloudBees
7 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.40%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.40%) SaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.20%) BrowserStack
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.20%) PaaS
9 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.20%) Firewall
2 2 (2.20%) LAN
2 2 (2.20%) Network Security
2 2 (2.20%) PSTN
2 2 (2.20%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.20%) WAN
2 2 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.10%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.30%) DTS
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.10%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.10%) Db2
5 1 (1.10%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.10%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.10%) QlikView
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (92.31%) JIRA
2 27 (29.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.09%) Git
4 8 (8.79%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.49%) GitLab
5 5 (5.49%) Selenium
5 5 (5.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.40%) Flyway
7 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.20%) Gatling
8 2 (2.20%) JMeter
8 2 (2.20%) JUnit
8 2 (2.20%) Robot Framework
8 2 (2.20%) TestNG
9 1 (1.10%) Maven
9 1 (1.10%) Subversion
9 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (34.07%) Finance
3 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.48%) Banking
5 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.40%) Legal
6 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.10%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (16.48%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) Analyst
3 10 (10.99%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.89%) Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Senior
6 7 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Consultant
7 6 (6.59%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) DBA
9 4 (4.40%) Product Manager
9 4 (4.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) SQL DBA
10 3 (3.30%) Administrator
10 3 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Mobile Product Manager
10 3 (3.30%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) REST
2 9 (9.89%) .NET
3 6 (6.59%) HTML
4 5 (5.49%) .NET Core
4 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.49%) ASP.NET
4 5 (5.49%) Kafka
4 5 (5.49%) SailPoint
4 5 (5.49%) Web Services
5 4 (4.40%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.40%) Middleware
6 3 (3.30%) LDAP
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (2.20%) pytest
7 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.10%) Flask
8 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.10%) Pandas
8 1 (1.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.79%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.30%) IoT
5 3 (3.30%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.20%) SCADA
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) AIX
2 3 (3.30%) Unix
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.20%) MVS
4 1 (1.10%) Check Point GAiA
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) Agile
2 34 (37.36%) CI/CD
3 26 (28.57%) DevOps
4 25 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (21.98%) Data Protection
5 20 (21.98%) Test Automation
6 18 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (15.38%) AI
8 13 (14.29%) User Stories
9 11 (12.09%) Microservices
9 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (10.99%) Backlog Refinement
10 10 (10.99%) ITIL
10 10 (10.99%) SDLC
11 9 (9.89%) Acceptance Criteria
11 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (8.79%) Decision-Making
12 8 (8.79%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (8.79%) Runbook
12 8 (8.79%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) SQL
2 17 (18.68%) Python
3 12 (13.19%) Java
4 9 (9.89%) Bash
4 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.69%) Kotlin
6 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.49%) C#
8 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.20%) REXX
10 1 (1.10%) COBOL
10 1 (1.10%) JCL
10 1 (1.10%) Perl
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) CISSP
5 3 (3.30%) CISM
5 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) CAPM
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) CCNP
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) GIAC
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.10%) SANS
7 1 (1.10%) SSCP
7 1 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) QA
2 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.30%) GxP
3 3 (3.30%) NIST
4 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) ISA99
4 2 (2.20%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.10%) GRC
5 1 (1.10%) HL7
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (15.38%) Docker
2 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 19 (20.88%) Ansible
1 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) NetBackup
2 6 (6.59%) Puppet
2 6 (6.59%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.30%) Foglight
4 2 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.10%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.10%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (1.10%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (20.88%) ServiceNow
3 8 (8.79%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.59%) Databricks
4 6 (6.59%) Veritas
5 5 (5.49%) Commvault
6 4 (4.40%) Centrify
6 4 (4.40%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.30%) Google
7 3 (3.30%) IBM
8 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.20%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (2.20%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.20%) F5
8 2 (2.20%) Oracle
8 2 (2.20%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.10%) Okta
9 1 (1.10%) Sonatype
9 1 (1.10%) Workday