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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 25 78
Rank change year-on-year -14 +53 -15
Contract jobs citing Confluence 108 69 29
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.53% 6.91% 1.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 39.56% 44.81% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 40 24
10th Percentile £298 £412 -
25th Percentile £417 £464 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +25.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £537 £626 £538
90th Percentile £581 £672 £688
England median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.61% -5.68% -
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 273 154 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.98% 15.42% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 86 136
10th Percentile £200 £215 £186
25th Percentile £313 £404 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £484 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +13.82% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £575
90th Percentile £613 £719 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 11
10th Percentile £13.88 - £11.30
25th Percentile - £40.50 £14.09
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +140.40% -37.41%
75th Percentile - £41.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - - £26.78
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -35.98% +66.67% +35.10%

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 23 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 23 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 -23 75 £500 -6.37% 11
West Yorkshire -20 30 £519 -17.00% 9
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
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 10 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) CICS
2 1 (0.93%) CMS
2 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (12.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (5.56%) MS Visio
5 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.67%) Azure
1 18 (16.67%) GitHub
2 9 (8.33%) CloudBees
2 9 (8.33%) GCP
3 8 (7.41%) AWS
4 6 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.63%) Azure Storage
6 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.70%) Cohesity
7 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.85%) OCI
8 2 (1.85%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.93%) Apigee
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.93%) Kong
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.93%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Firewall
2 5 (4.63%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.85%) Network Security
3 2 (1.85%) NGFW
3 2 (1.85%) SMS
3 2 (1.85%) SSH
4 1 (0.93%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.93%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) FCoE
4 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.93%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) Multicast
4 1 (0.93%) NAS
4 1 (0.93%) SAN
4 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
4 1 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.78%) Power BI
2 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 100 (92.59%) JIRA
2 30 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (9.26%) GitLab
5 3 (2.78%) Git
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.93%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 35 (32.41%) Finance
3 21 (19.44%) Banking
4 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.70%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.37%) Analyst
2 19 (17.59%) Business Analyst
3 18 (16.67%) Architect
4 16 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (12.96%) Technical Analyst
5 14 (12.96%) Technical Business Analyst
6 13 (12.04%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (10.19%) Security Architect
8 10 (9.26%) Lead
8 10 (9.26%) Project Manager
8 10 (9.26%) Security Solutions Architect
9 9 (8.33%) Data Protection Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Data Engineer
11 7 (6.48%) Lead Architect
11 7 (6.48%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.63%) Designer
12 5 (4.63%) Lead Security Architect
12 5 (4.63%) Tester
13 4 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (3.70%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) OAuth
1 9 (8.33%) SAML
2 6 (5.56%) Middleware
3 5 (4.63%) JWT
4 3 (2.78%) REST
5 2 (1.85%) .NET
5 2 (1.85%) Kafka
5 2 (1.85%) LDAP
5 2 (1.85%) RESTful
5 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.93%) FHIR
6 1 (0.93%) JSON
6 1 (0.93%) SOAP
6 1 (0.93%) XML
6 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.85%) NHS
5 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) CMDB
6 1 (0.93%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.93%) FMCG
6 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.93%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.93%) PDA
6 1 (0.93%) PKI
6 1 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) MVS
2 1 (0.93%) Solaris
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.59%) Agile
2 44 (40.74%) DevOps
3 38 (35.19%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (29.63%) Scrum
5 30 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 25 (23.15%) Identity Access Management
7 23 (21.30%) User Stories
8 21 (19.44%) Decision-Making
9 20 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (17.59%) Migration
10 19 (17.59%) Privileged Access Management
10 19 (17.59%) UML
11 18 (16.67%) Project Management
12 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (15.74%) Software Engineering
12 17 (15.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (15.74%) Visualisation
13 16 (14.81%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (13.89%) Data Protection
14 15 (13.89%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.52%) Python
2 13 (12.04%) Bash
3 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.70%) SQL
5 2 (1.85%) Java
6 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (18.52%) CISM
1 20 (18.52%) CISSP
2 19 (17.59%) Degree
3 12 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 12 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
4 11 (10.19%) Security Cleared
5 10 (9.26%) PhD
6 8 (7.41%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.63%) PMP
8 3 (2.78%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) COBIT
2 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.85%) PMO
2 2 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) HL7
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) P3O
3 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.93%) KVM
2 1 (0.93%) NFS
2 1 (0.93%) SRDF
2 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (26.85%) Ansible
2 13 (12.04%) NetBackup
3 9 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.56%) Puppet
5 4 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.70%) Terraform
6 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) Kibana
6 1 (0.93%) logstash
6 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (17.59%) BiZZdesign
2 18 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.96%) CyberArk
3 14 (12.96%) Red Hat
4 13 (12.04%) Commvault
5 12 (11.11%) Centrify
6 11 (10.19%) Sonatype
7 9 (8.33%) Veritas
8 7 (6.48%) Splunk
9 5 (4.63%) Thycotic
10 4 (3.70%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.70%) Cisco
10 4 (3.70%) Oracle
11 3 (2.78%) F5
12 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.85%) Dell
12 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.85%) Google
12 2 (1.85%) HP
12 2 (1.85%) VMware