Confluence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Confluence
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Confluence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Confluence over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 114 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 +14
Contract jobs citing Confluence 398 510 914
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.94% 2.17% 3.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.97% 19.42% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 371 631
10th Percentile £355 £304 £386
25th Percentile £463 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £586
90th Percentile £700 £695 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 26
10th Percentile £55.63 £22.16 £38.68
25th Percentile £62.19 £43.98 £47.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% +20.69%
75th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £86.66 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year +8.70% -12.27% +17.04%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Confluence is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,733 2,626 3,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.46% 11.17% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,882 2,639
10th Percentile £209 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 100 152
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.45 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.67 £15.20
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +50.00% +1.14%
75th Percentile £50.47 £65.81 £44.27
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.12 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £28.01 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -37.76% +87.50% +6.67%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Scotland +67 119 £575 +35.29% 7
South East +32 99 £500 -4.31% 47
South West +29 99 £550 -2.22% 16
North of England -38 46 £525 +0.96% 32
Yorkshire -1 23 £575 +10.05% 14
North West -6 21 £500 +5.26% 18
East of England -19 19 £410 -18.00% 16
Midlands -62 16 £416 -21.68% 22
East Midlands +24 8 £345 -53.57% 5
West Midlands -67 8 £550 +2.23% 17
North East -3 2 - -
Wales +17 1 - - 4
Confluence
UK

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (11.06%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.79%) SharePoint Server
3 29 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.76%) Apache
6 4 (1.01%) Appian
6 4 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.50%) WildFly
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.27%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Simulink
6 1 (0.25%) InVision
6 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (2.01%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (1.01%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 89 (22.36%) Azure
2 52 (13.07%) AWS
3 34 (8.54%) Azure Stack
4 28 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.78%) GitHub
6 20 (5.03%) GCP
7 17 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.02%) Kong
9 11 (2.76%) Apigee
10 10 (2.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.76%) Collibra
11 7 (1.76%) PaaS
11 7 (1.76%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.01%) SaaS
13 4 (1.01%) Serverless
13 4 (1.01%) Slack
14 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.06%) Firewall
2 37 (9.30%) BGP
3 28 (7.04%) DNS
4 20 (5.03%) TCP/IP
5 17 (4.27%) DHCP
6 16 (4.02%) SNMP
7 15 (3.77%) Software-Defined Radio
8 14 (3.52%) VPN
9 8 (2.01%) HTTP
10 6 (1.51%) VSAN
11 5 (1.26%) 5G
12 4 (1.01%) Skype
12 4 (1.01%) SSL
13 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (0.50%) LAN
13 2 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
13 2 (0.50%) OSPF
13 2 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.50%) WAN
13 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.03%) Power BI
2 14 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.76%) Metadata
6 7 (1.76%) Tableau
7 5 (1.26%) MySQL
7 5 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.01%) Big Data
8 4 (1.01%) OLAP
8 4 (1.01%) OLTP
8 4 (1.01%) Oracle OLAP
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.75%) Couchbase
9 3 (0.75%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 382 (95.98%) JIRA
2 66 (16.58%) Git
3 64 (16.08%) Bitbucket
3 64 (16.08%) Jenkins
4 32 (8.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 25 (6.28%) GitLab
6 21 (5.28%) Eclipse
7 18 (4.52%) Postman
8 16 (4.02%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.02%) Robot Framework
9 15 (3.77%) GoogleTest
10 14 (3.52%) JUnit
11 10 (2.51%) IntelliJ
12 8 (2.01%) CircleCI
12 8 (2.01%) Travis CI
13 7 (1.76%) JMeter
14 6 (1.51%) PyCharm
15 5 (1.26%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.26%) Selenium
15 5 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 175 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.61%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (19.60%) Public Sector
4 46 (11.56%) Finance
5 25 (6.28%) Aerospace
6 21 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.77%) Military
8 16 (4.02%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.76%) Banking
10 10 (2.51%) Marketing
11 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.01%) Retail
13 6 (1.51%) Electronics
13 6 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.26%) Automotive
14 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Police
16 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 61 (15.33%) Analyst
2 46 (11.56%) Senior
3 45 (11.31%) Developer
4 31 (7.79%) Business Analyst
5 25 (6.28%) Test Engineer
6 24 (6.03%) Architect
7 22 (5.53%) Integration Engineer
7 22 (5.53%) Product Manager
7 22 (5.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 19 (4.77%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.52%) Delivery Manager
9 18 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.27%) Microsoft Engineer
10 17 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 15 (3.77%) Senior Manager
12 14 (3.52%) Java Developer
12 14 (3.52%) JIRA Engineer
13 13 (3.27%) Lead
14 12 (3.02%) Applications Engineer
14 12 (3.02%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.04%) .NET
2 27 (6.78%) .NET Core
3 26 (6.53%) HTML
4 24 (6.03%) CSS
4 24 (6.03%) REST
5 19 (4.77%) Kafka
6 17 (4.27%) Spring
6 17 (4.27%) XML
7 16 (4.02%) Apache Camel
7 16 (4.02%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.27%) J2EE
8 13 (3.27%) React
8 13 (3.27%) Web Services
9 12 (3.02%) JSON
10 11 (2.76%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (2.51%) Node.js
12 9 (2.26%) SOAP
12 9 (2.26%) YAML
13 8 (2.01%) RESTful
14 6 (1.51%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.30%) Private Cloud
2 26 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.53%) PKI
4 17 (4.27%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.26%) Clustering
9 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.01%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.01%) DataPower
10 4 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.01%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (20.85%) Linux
2 82 (20.60%) Windows
3 19 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.76%) Unix
6 5 (1.26%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.50%) VMS
9 1 (0.25%) AIX
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (54.52%) Agile
2 68 (17.09%) Scrum
3 66 (16.58%) DevOps
4 65 (16.33%) Project Management
5 59 (14.82%) Service Management
6 53 (13.32%) CI/CD
7 52 (13.07%) Continuous Integration
7 52 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 51 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (11.31%) ITIL
10 41 (10.30%) Capacity Management
11 39 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (8.79%) Network Management
12 35 (8.79%) Roadmaps
13 34 (8.54%) Security Monitoring
13 34 (8.54%) User Stories
14 31 (7.79%) Task Automation
14 31 (7.79%) Workflow
15 30 (7.54%) ITSM
16 29 (7.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (20.10%) Python
2 59 (14.82%) PowerShell
3 53 (13.32%) SQL
4 42 (10.55%) Java
5 35 (8.79%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.53%) C++
7 21 (5.28%) Bash
8 10 (2.51%) Go
9 9 (2.26%) Groovy
10 8 (2.01%) C
11 6 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.26%) C#
12 5 (1.26%) Scala
13 2 (0.50%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.25%) ABAP
14 1 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 181 (45.48%) Security Cleared
2 131 (32.91%) SC Cleared
3 54 (13.57%) Degree
4 46 (11.56%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 17 (4.27%) MCSE
6 17 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (4.02%) MCSA
8 15 (3.77%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.51%) CCNA
9 6 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.26%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.75%) HNC
12 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.75%) PMP
13 2 (0.50%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.80%) Government Security Classifications
2 21 (5.28%) QA
3 19 (4.77%) PMO
4 8 (2.01%) GDPR
4 8 (2.01%) GxP
5 6 (1.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (1.51%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (1.51%) NCSC
6 5 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.26%) NIST
7 4 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.50%) IFRS
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.25%) MISRA
10 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
System Software
1 33 (8.29%) Docker
2 32 (8.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.79%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.77%) Firmware
5 13 (3.27%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.51%) VirtualBox
8 4 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.01%) vSphere
9 1 (0.25%) HDFS
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.25%) Snort
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (13.07%) Ansible
2 33 (8.29%) Kubernetes
3 30 (7.54%) Terraform
4 25 (6.28%) PowerCLI
4 25 (6.28%) SCOM
5 19 (4.77%) Kibana
6 9 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (2.26%) Grafana
6 9 (2.26%) Puppet
7 8 (2.01%) Docker Swarm
7 8 (2.01%) logstash
7 8 (2.01%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.01%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.26%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) OPNET
12 1 (0.25%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 141 (35.43%) Atlassian
2 71 (17.84%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.55%) VMware
4 25 (6.28%) SAP
5 22 (5.53%) Dell
5 22 (5.53%) HP
5 22 (5.53%) Oracle
6 20 (5.03%) Google
7 13 (3.27%) Splunk
8 10 (2.51%) Cisco
9 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
10 8 (2.01%) Adobe
10 8 (2.01%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.51%) Databricks
11 6 (1.51%) IBM
12 5 (1.26%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.01%) F5
13 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.01%) TSYS
14 2 (0.50%) Talend