Confluence Contracts

Confluence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 112 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 -29 +19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 726 1,277 2,591
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 2.28% 2.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.07% 20.95% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 886 1,743
10th Percentile £358 £357 £390
25th Percentile £463 £458 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.38% +8.25%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £619
90th Percentile £706 £798 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 32
10th Percentile £25.03 £22.16 £38.52
25th Percentile £37.56 £38.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £63.75 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -17.86% +20.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.25 £80.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -23.33% +19.05%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,252 6,095 10,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,271 7,550
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 148 208
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +125.27% +10.98%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -35 573 £538 -2.27% 174
UK excluding London -3 374 £538 +7.50% 125
London -35 284 £538 -10.42% 65
Work from Home -14 277 £522 -0.57% 93
South West +26 100 £550 - 8
Scotland +55 99 £575 +35.29% 16
South East +11 91 £450 -9.32% 37
North of England -33 49 £538 +3.37% 27
Yorkshire +1 23 £600 +20.00% 6
North West -7 23 £500 +5.26% 21
East of England -25 19 £411 -17.75% 9
Midlands -39 15 £416 -20.86% 23
East Midlands +14 8 £345 -53.57% 3
West Midlands -53 7 £550 +4.76% 20
North East -5 3 £575 -25.81%
Wales +17 2 £550 +4.76% 5

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (6.75%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.99%) SharePoint Server
4 13 (1.79%) nginx
5 10 (1.38%) Apache
6 9 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.96%) CMS
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.55%) Appian
9 4 (0.55%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.28%) JBoss
10 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.28%) WildFly
11 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (5.51%) MS Visio
3 31 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
4 30 (4.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 3 (0.41%) Windchill
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.28%) InDesign
7 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.28%) Simulink
7 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.14%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.14%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 9 (1.24%) SAP Hybris
2 7 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.83%) ION MarketView
3 6 (0.83%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.41%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.41%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.28%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 152 (20.94%) Azure
2 128 (17.63%) AWS
3 56 (7.71%) GitHub
4 51 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 49 (6.75%) GCP
6 40 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (4.13%) Azure Stack
8 27 (3.72%) Slack
9 22 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (2.89%) SaaS
11 19 (2.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 17 (2.34%) PaaS
13 16 (2.20%) Serverless
14 15 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (2.07%) Kong
15 14 (1.93%) Apigee
15 14 (1.93%) OpenShift
16 13 (1.79%) BrowserStack
16 13 (1.79%) Power Automate
16 13 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (7.85%) Firewall
2 40 (5.51%) DNS
3 32 (4.41%) TCP/IP
4 31 (4.27%) BGP
5 24 (3.31%) DHCP
6 21 (2.89%) SNMP
7 17 (2.34%) VPN
8 16 (2.20%) Software-Defined Radio
9 15 (2.07%) HTTP
10 10 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
11 7 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (0.83%) Kerberos
12 6 (0.83%) SSL
12 6 (0.83%) VLAN
13 5 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (0.69%) HTTPS
13 5 (0.69%) NAS
13 5 (0.69%) SAN
13 5 (0.69%) VSAN
14 4 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.92%) Power BI
2 28 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (3.44%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.93%) MongoDB
5 14 (1.93%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.79%) MySQL
6 13 (1.79%) Tableau
7 10 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.24%) Big Data
9 8 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.10%) Metadata
10 6 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.83%) OLAP
10 6 (0.83%) OLTP
11 5 (0.69%) Apache Hive
11 5 (0.69%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.69%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 666 (91.74%) JIRA
2 117 (16.12%) Git
3 109 (15.01%) Jenkins
4 89 (12.26%) Bitbucket
5 64 (8.82%) GitLab
6 35 (4.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 29 (3.99%) JMeter
8 24 (3.31%) Postman
9 23 (3.17%) Eclipse
10 18 (2.48%) Cypress.io
11 17 (2.34%) Robot Framework
12 16 (2.20%) GoogleTest
13 15 (2.07%) Selenium
13 15 (2.07%) TeamCity
14 14 (1.93%) Appium
14 14 (1.93%) JUnit
15 11 (1.52%) CircleCI
15 11 (1.52%) Cucumber
16 10 (1.38%) Travis CI
17 9 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 242 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 143 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (15.56%) Finance
4 106 (14.60%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.16%) Banking
6 28 (3.86%) Aerospace
7 24 (3.31%) Military
8 21 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.34%) Retail
11 15 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.07%) Marketing
11 15 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.79%) Front Office
13 12 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.83%) Automotive
15 6 (0.83%) Legal
16 5 (0.69%) Electronics
16 5 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (17.49%) Analyst
2 72 (9.92%) Developer
3 69 (9.50%) Business Analyst
4 67 (9.23%) Senior
5 49 (6.75%) Architect
6 45 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 41 (5.65%) Project Manager
8 38 (5.23%) Test Engineer
9 25 (3.44%) Lead
9 25 (3.44%) Product Manager
10 23 (3.17%) Applications Engineer
11 22 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
11 22 (3.03%) Integration Engineer
11 22 (3.03%) JIRA Engineer
11 22 (3.03%) Software Engineer
11 22 (3.03%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 21 (2.89%) Support Engineer
13 20 (2.75%) Applications Support
14 19 (2.62%) Applications Support Engineer
14 19 (2.62%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.61%) REST
2 38 (5.23%) XML
3 36 (4.96%) .NET
4 34 (4.68%) HTML
5 32 (4.41%) CSS
6 29 (3.99%) React
7 27 (3.72%) .NET Core
8 26 (3.58%) Kafka
9 25 (3.44%) Spring
9 25 (3.44%) Web Services
10 24 (3.31%) JSON
11 23 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
12 22 (3.03%) Spring Boot
13 21 (2.89%) LDAP
14 16 (2.20%) SOAP
15 15 (2.07%) Node.js
15 15 (2.07%) RESTful
16 14 (1.93%) Middleware
16 14 (1.93%) WebdriverIO
17 12 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.68%) Private Cloud
3 29 (3.99%) Data Centre
4 25 (3.44%) PKI
5 24 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 14 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.65%) Fixed Income
8 12 (1.65%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.52%) Derivative
10 10 (1.38%) Clustering
10 10 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.38%) Wiki
11 8 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.96%) Replication
13 6 (0.83%) DataPower
13 6 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 133 (18.32%) Linux
2 92 (12.67%) Windows
3 29 (3.99%) Unix
4 26 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.83%) Android
8 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.69%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (57.58%) Agile
2 162 (22.31%) DevOps
3 133 (18.32%) Scrum
4 107 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 106 (14.60%) CI/CD
6 102 (14.05%) Project Management
7 98 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 75 (10.33%) Test Automation
9 73 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
9 73 (10.06%) Service Management
10 68 (9.37%) User Stories
11 61 (8.40%) Migration
12 60 (8.26%) Software Engineering
13 53 (7.30%) Workflow
14 52 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (7.16%) Kanban
15 47 (6.47%) ITIL
15 47 (6.47%) Waterfall
16 46 (6.34%) Roadmaps
17 45 (6.20%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (17.91%) Python
2 81 (11.16%) Java
3 78 (10.74%) PowerShell
4 68 (9.37%) SQL
5 62 (8.54%) JavaScript
6 43 (5.92%) Bash
7 29 (3.99%) C++
8 21 (2.89%) Go
9 20 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.48%) Groovy
11 14 (1.93%) C
11 14 (1.93%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.24%) C#
13 6 (0.83%) Rust
14 5 (0.69%) Ruby
15 4 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.41%) ABAP
16 3 (0.41%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (35.12%) Security Cleared
2 200 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 98 (13.50%) Degree
4 45 (6.20%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 18 (2.48%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.48%) MCSA
6 18 (2.48%) MCSE
6 18 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 7 (0.96%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.83%) PMP
11 5 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.69%) CCNA
11 5 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.95%) QA
2 33 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
3 26 (3.58%) PMO
4 20 (2.75%) GDPR
5 10 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.24%) NCSC
7 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.10%) GxP
7 8 (1.10%) NIST
8 7 (0.96%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.83%) Dodd-Frank
9 6 (0.83%) EMIR
9 6 (0.83%) MiFID
9 6 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
System Software
1 69 (9.50%) Docker
2 47 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.34%) Firmware
5 15 (2.07%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.83%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.55%) Snort
8 4 (0.55%) vSphere
9 1 (0.14%) HDFS
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 97 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 79 (10.88%) Ansible
3 66 (9.09%) Terraform
4 27 (3.72%) Grafana
4 27 (3.72%) PowerCLI
5 23 (3.17%) Kibana
6 22 (3.03%) Prometheus
7 18 (2.48%) SCOM
8 16 (2.20%) Packer
8 16 (2.20%) Puppet
9 14 (1.93%) logstash
10 12 (1.65%) Consul
11 11 (1.52%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
13 7 (0.96%) Rancher
14 6 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
14 6 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.69%) Tivoli
15 5 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 175 (24.10%) Atlassian
2 106 (14.60%) Microsoft
3 54 (7.44%) VMware
4 45 (6.20%) Oracle
5 43 (5.92%) Google
6 34 (4.68%) SAP
7 32 (4.41%) ServiceNow
8 30 (4.13%) Splunk
9 27 (3.72%) Dell
9 27 (3.72%) HP
10 20 (2.75%) Cisco
11 13 (1.79%) IBM
11 13 (1.79%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.65%) Adobe
12 12 (1.65%) Bloomberg
13 10 (1.38%) ION Trading
13 10 (1.38%) MarketAxess
13 10 (1.38%) Tradeweb
14 8 (1.10%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.10%) Red Hat