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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 22 77
Rank change year-on-year -14 +55 -13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 112 66 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.69% 6.90% 1.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 40.73% 44.90% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 39 23
10th Percentile £312 £404 -
25th Percentile £414 £458 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +22.35% -22.73%
75th Percentile £537 £623 £506
90th Percentile £588 £670 £680
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
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 275 147 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.98% 15.38% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 83 132
10th Percentile £200 £212 £182
25th Percentile £350 £401 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £477 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +12.24% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £571 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £615
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
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 £42.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -35.98% +65.05% +32.05%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -21 78 £513 -1.44% 10
West Yorkshire -16 32 £500 -20.00% 9
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 9 (8.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.89%) CICS
3 1 (0.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.89%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 21 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (5.36%) MS Visio
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.54%) GitHub
2 18 (16.07%) Azure
3 9 (8.04%) CloudBees
3 9 (8.04%) GCP
4 8 (7.14%) AWS
5 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.46%) Azure Storage
7 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.57%) Cohesity
7 4 (3.57%) SaaS
8 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.79%) OCI
9 2 (1.79%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.89%) Apigee
10 1 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.89%) Kong
10 1 (0.89%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.36%) Firewall
2 5 (4.46%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.68%) LAN
3 3 (2.68%) Network Security
3 3 (2.68%) WAN
4 2 (1.79%) SSH
4 2 (1.79%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.89%) DNS
5 1 (0.89%) FCoE
5 1 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.89%) HTTP
5 1 (0.89%) Multicast
5 1 (0.89%) NGFW
5 1 (0.89%) SAN
5 1 (0.89%) SMS
5 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.68%) Power BI
2 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.89%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 104 (92.86%) JIRA
2 35 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 16 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (8.93%) GitLab
5 3 (2.68%) Git
6 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.89%) Selenium
6 1 (0.89%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.89%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (38.39%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.04%) Finance
3 25 (22.32%) Banking
4 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Retail
7 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.89%) Front Office
9 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (19.64%) Analyst
2 20 (17.86%) Business Analyst
3 18 (16.07%) Architect
4 16 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (11.61%) Automation Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Technical Analyst
5 13 (11.61%) Technical Business Analyst
6 11 (9.82%) Lead
6 11 (9.82%) Security Architect
7 10 (8.93%) Project Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Security Solutions Architect
8 9 (8.04%) Data Protection Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Lead Architect
10 7 (6.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.36%) Designer
12 5 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) Lead Security Architect
12 5 (4.46%) Tester
13 4 (3.57%) Security Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) OAuth
1 9 (8.04%) SAML
2 6 (5.36%) Middleware
3 5 (4.46%) JWT
4 4 (3.57%) REST
5 3 (2.68%) RESTful
6 2 (1.79%) .NET
6 2 (1.79%) Kafka
6 2 (1.79%) LDAP
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.79%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.89%) FHIR
7 1 (0.89%) JSON
7 1 (0.89%) SOAP
7 1 (0.89%) XML
7 1 (0.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.93%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.79%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.79%) NHS
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) Clustering
6 1 (0.89%) CMDB
6 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.89%) FMCG
6 1 (0.89%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.89%) PDA
6 1 (0.89%) PKI
6 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) MVS
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Solaris
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.07%) Agile
1 46 (41.07%) DevOps
2 39 (34.82%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 32 (28.57%) Scrum
5 25 (22.32%) Identity Access Management
6 23 (20.54%) User Stories
7 22 (19.64%) Decision-Making
7 22 (19.64%) Migration
8 20 (17.86%) UML
9 19 (16.96%) Privileged Access Management
9 19 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.07%) Software Engineering
11 17 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (15.18%) Visualisation
12 16 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
12 16 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
13 15 (13.39%) Secrets Management
13 15 (13.39%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.54%) Python
2 14 (12.50%) Bash
3 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.57%) SQL
5 2 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (19.64%) Degree
2 21 (18.75%) CISM
2 21 (18.75%) CISSP
3 13 (11.61%) TOGAF Certification
4 12 (10.71%) Master's Degree
5 10 (8.93%) PhD
5 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.46%) PMP
8 3 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.68%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.57%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) COBIT
3 2 (1.79%) NIST
3 2 (1.79%) PMO
3 2 (1.79%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) HL7
4 1 (0.89%) P3O
4 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.89%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.89%) KVM
2 1 (0.89%) NFS
2 1 (0.89%) SRDF
2 1 (0.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.89%) Xen
Systems Management
1 34 (30.36%) Ansible
2 13 (11.61%) NetBackup
3 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.36%) Puppet
5 4 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.57%) Terraform
6 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.89%) Grafana
7 1 (0.89%) Kibana
7 1 (0.89%) logstash
7 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) BiZZdesign
2 18 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.39%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.39%) Sonatype
4 14 (12.50%) CyberArk
5 13 (11.61%) Commvault
6 12 (10.71%) Centrify
7 11 (9.82%) Splunk
8 9 (8.04%) Veritas
9 5 (4.46%) Thycotic
10 4 (3.57%) Oracle
11 3 (2.68%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.68%) Cisco
11 3 (2.68%) F5
12 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.79%) Dell
12 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.79%) Google
12 2 (1.79%) HP
12 2 (1.79%) VMware