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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 +44
Contract jobs citing Confluence 108 80 79
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.70% 5.09% 5.35%
As % of the Application Platforms category 38.71% 38.10% 40.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 57 53
10th Percentile £358 £314 £398
25th Percentile £406 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -7.77% +21.18%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £622
90th Percentile £634 £588 £644
England median daily rate £506 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.27% -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 279 210 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.56% 13.35% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 134 116
10th Percentile £240 £219 £306
25th Percentile £400 £297 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £600
90th Percentile £688 £550 £683
England median daily rate £500 £491 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -6.43% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - -
Median hourly rate £18.75 - -
75th Percentile £20.88 - -
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -17.65% +6.25%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 75 £500 +11.11% 16
West Yorkshire -12 32 £430 -21.82% 16
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 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) CICS
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (6.48%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) CA PPM
1 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.56%) GitHub
2 30 (27.78%) AWS
3 29 (26.85%) Azure
4 22 (20.37%) GCP
5 8 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.78%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (2.78%) SaaS
8 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.85%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.85%) Collibra
8 2 (1.85%) Figma
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.85%) Miro
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.93%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.93%) PaaS
9 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) Kerberos
1 3 (2.78%) Network Security
2 2 (1.85%) Firewall
2 2 (1.85%) VPN
2 2 (1.85%) WAN
2 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.93%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) LAN
3 1 (0.93%) PSTN
3 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.78%) Metadata
3 3 (2.78%) Power BI
3 3 (2.78%) Power Query
4 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.85%) Db2
4 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.93%) QlikView
5 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (94.44%) JIRA
2 16 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 8 (7.41%) Git
5 5 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (3.70%) Selenium
6 4 (3.70%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.78%) JUnit
8 2 (1.85%) Gatling
8 2 (1.85%) GitLab
8 2 (1.85%) JMeter
8 2 (1.85%) Maven
8 2 (1.85%) TestNG
8 2 (1.85%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.93%) Flyway
9 1 (0.93%) Mockito
9 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
General
1 52 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (34.26%) Finance
3 24 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.74%) Banking
5 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Legal
8 2 (1.85%) Publishing
8 2 (1.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (17.59%) Developer
2 16 (14.81%) Analyst
3 12 (11.11%) Lead
4 9 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.33%) Senior
5 8 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 5 (4.63%) Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (4.63%) Technical Manager
8 4 (3.70%) Consultant
8 4 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) PMO Manager
8 4 (3.70%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Designer
9 3 (2.78%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) REST
2 11 (10.19%) .NET
2 11 (10.19%) HTML
3 8 (7.41%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.48%) .NET Core
4 7 (6.48%) ASP.NET
4 7 (6.48%) SailPoint
4 7 (6.48%) Web Services
5 4 (3.70%) Kafka
6 3 (2.78%) LDAP
7 2 (1.85%) Middleware
7 2 (1.85%) Spring
7 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.93%) HTML5
8 1 (0.93%) ISPF
8 1 (0.93%) JSON
8 1 (0.93%) OAuth
8 1 (0.93%) OpenID
8 1 (0.93%) RESTful
8 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 13 (12.04%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.70%) Mainframe
5 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.85%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.85%) IoT
7 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.85%) SCADA
7 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.93%) iSeries
8 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 4 (3.70%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) AIX
3 3 (2.78%) Unix
4 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.85%) MVS
5 1 (0.93%) Check Point GAiA
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.00%) Agile
2 37 (34.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (32.41%) CI/CD
4 29 (26.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (22.22%) DevOps
6 20 (18.52%) Test Automation
7 16 (14.81%) Data Protection
7 16 (14.81%) Microservices
7 16 (14.81%) User Stories
8 14 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (12.04%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (12.04%) AI
9 13 (12.04%) SDLC
10 12 (11.11%) ITIL
10 12 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
11 11 (10.19%) API Development
11 11 (10.19%) Backlog Refinement
11 11 (10.19%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.85%) SQL
2 17 (15.74%) Java
3 12 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.19%) Kotlin
4 11 (10.19%) Python
5 6 (5.56%) C#
5 6 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.78%) Bash
8 2 (1.85%) COBOL
8 2 (1.85%) JCL
8 2 (1.85%) REXX
9 1 (0.93%) Perl
9 1 (0.93%) Scala
9 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.70%) CISSP
4 3 (2.78%) CISM
4 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.78%) IIBA
4 3 (2.78%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.85%) PMP
6 1 (0.93%) APMP
6 1 (0.93%) CAPM
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.93%) GIAC
6 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.93%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.44%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.63%) GRC
3 5 (4.63%) PMO
4 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.78%) GxP
5 3 (2.78%) NIST
6 2 (1.85%) ISA99
6 2 (1.85%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (13.89%) Docker
2 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 18 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.04%) Ansible
3 6 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.85%) Control-M
4 2 (1.85%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.93%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.44%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 8 (7.41%) Google
4 6 (5.56%) Centrify
4 6 (5.56%) CyberArk
5 3 (2.78%) IBM
6 2 (1.85%) BMC
6 2 (1.85%) Broadcom
6 2 (1.85%) Databricks
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle
6 2 (1.85%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.93%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.93%) BT
7 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco
7 1 (0.93%) Okta
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Workday