Confluence Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Confluence
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 109 106
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 251 289 538
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.58% 1.96% 2.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.55% 17.26% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 196 359
10th Percentile £325 £358 £368
25th Percentile £400 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £551 £588 £600
90th Percentile £642 £666 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £54.50 £29.50 £26.01
25th Percentile £57.50 £36.25 £41.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -30.43% -17.86%
75th Percentile £70.63 - £61.19
90th Percentile £75.50 - £70.75
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +9.80% +10.87% -15.15%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

Confluence falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,113 1,674 2,640
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.43% 11.36% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 1,228 1,855
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 36 71
10th Percentile £36.14 £16.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £56.88 £22.61 £22.16
Median hourly rate £63.50 £31.14 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.93% -43.39% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66.00 £45.41 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £73.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £31.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +65.56% -39.60% +128.26%

Confluence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Confluence trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Confluence.

Confluence daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Confluence over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Confluence daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Confluence.

Confluence hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Confluence over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Confluence hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.39%) Apache
3 5 (1.99%) CMS
4 4 (1.59%) Camunda
4 4 (1.59%) Drupal
4 4 (1.59%) WordPress
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) IIS
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.80%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (7.97%) MS Visio
3 14 (5.58%) Trello
4 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.40%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.40%) InVision
7 1 (0.40%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Actimize
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.40%) Shopify
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.12%) AWS
2 41 (16.33%) Azure
3 16 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.78%) SaaS
5 11 (4.38%) GitHub
6 9 (3.59%) GCP
7 7 (2.79%) Serverless
8 6 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.39%) Miro
9 5 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.99%) Slack
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.59%) IaaS
10 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.37%) DNS
2 14 (5.58%) VPN
3 10 (3.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.59%) BGP
5 8 (3.19%) DHCP
5 8 (3.19%) IPsec
6 7 (2.79%) MPLS
6 7 (2.79%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.39%) VLAN
8 5 (1.99%) SMTP
8 5 (1.99%) SSL
9 4 (1.59%) Firewall
9 4 (1.59%) HTTP
9 4 (1.59%) Internet
9 4 (1.59%) SNMP
10 2 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (0.80%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.80%) OSPF
10 2 (0.80%) SNA
10 2 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.78%) Power BI
2 12 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.98%) Big Data
3 10 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.59%) MySQL
4 9 (3.59%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.79%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (1.99%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.20%) IBM InfoSphere
8 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.80%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 229 (91.24%) JIRA
2 31 (12.35%) Git
3 24 (9.56%) Jenkins
4 23 (9.16%) Bitbucket
5 19 (7.57%) GitLab
6 11 (4.38%) Visual Studio
7 9 (3.59%) Selenium
8 8 (3.19%) JUnit
8 8 (3.19%) Subversion
9 7 (2.79%) ScriptRunner
10 6 (2.39%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.39%) Maven
10 6 (2.39%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.99%) Postman
11 5 (1.99%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.59%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 112 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.90%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (21.12%) Finance
4 48 (19.12%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.56%) Banking
6 9 (3.59%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Automotive
10 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.59%) Legal
10 4 (1.59%) Military
11 3 (1.20%) Marketing
11 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.80%) Electronics
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 2 (0.80%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (23.11%) Analyst
2 45 (17.93%) Business Analyst
3 30 (11.95%) Developer
4 16 (6.37%) Project Manager
5 13 (5.18%) Senior
6 12 (4.78%) Data Analyst
7 10 (3.98%) Architect
7 10 (3.98%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 8 (3.19%) Agile Business Analyst
8 8 (3.19%) Data Manager
8 8 (3.19%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (3.19%) Delphi Developer
8 8 (3.19%) Lead
8 8 (3.19%) Network Engineer
8 8 (3.19%) Software Engineer
8 8 (3.19%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (2.79%) Administrator
9 7 (2.79%) Java Developer
9 7 (2.79%) Scrum Master
9 7 (2.79%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.58%) CSS
2 13 (5.18%) HTML
2 13 (5.18%) Kafka
3 11 (4.38%) Spring Boot
4 10 (3.98%) Flash
5 9 (3.59%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.59%) React
5 9 (3.59%) REST
6 8 (3.19%) Node.js
7 7 (2.79%) jQuery
7 7 (2.79%) NETCONF
7 7 (2.79%) RESTCONF
8 6 (2.39%) Ajax
8 6 (2.39%) SOAP
8 6 (2.39%) Spring
8 6 (2.39%) Web Services
9 5 (1.99%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.99%) RESTful
10 4 (1.59%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (1.59%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.15%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.38%) Clustering
3 10 (3.98%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.19%) PKI
5 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.59%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.59%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.20%) PMI
8 3 (1.20%) Replication
9 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.80%) Derivative
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.16%) Linux
2 20 (7.97%) Windows
3 8 (3.19%) Unix
4 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.80%) Android
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.80%) zOS
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (60.96%) Agile
2 58 (23.11%) Scrum
3 53 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (20.32%) DevOps
5 44 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (14.74%) CI/CD
6 37 (14.74%) Project Management
7 36 (14.34%) User Stories
8 35 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (11.95%) Service Management
10 29 (11.55%) Acceptance Criteria
10 29 (11.55%) Sprint Planning
10 29 (11.55%) Validation
11 27 (10.76%) Microservices
12 25 (9.96%) Kanban
12 25 (9.96%) Migration
12 25 (9.96%) Sprint Retrospective
13 24 (9.56%) TDD
14 23 (9.16%) Workshop Facilitation
15 22 (8.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.73%) SQL
2 45 (17.93%) Java
3 27 (10.76%) Python
4 20 (7.97%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.37%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.58%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.78%) C#
8 8 (3.19%) Delphi
8 8 (3.19%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.79%) Bash
9 7 (2.79%) Groovy
10 5 (1.99%) C
10 5 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.59%) C++
11 4 (1.59%) PHP
11 4 (1.59%) ProC
12 2 (0.80%) JCL
12 2 (0.80%) R
12 2 (0.80%) VBScript
13 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 37 (14.74%) Degree
4 17 (6.77%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (4.78%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.98%) CCNA
8 7 (2.79%) CCNP
9 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.39%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.59%) PMP
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.80%) CBAP
11 2 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.80%) VCAP
12 1 (0.40%) CSPO
12 1 (0.40%) IIBA
12 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.76%) QA
2 17 (6.77%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) PMO
4 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.80%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) GxP
5 2 (0.80%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) SEPA
6 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (7.97%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (6.37%) Docker
4 12 (4.78%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.19%) Active Directory
5 8 (3.19%) vSphere
6 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (8.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.17%) Terraform
3 14 (5.58%) Ansible
4 13 (5.18%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.99%) Tivoli
6 4 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (1.20%) PowerCLI
7 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.80%) Packer
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) Puppet
8 2 (0.80%) Tivoli NetView
8 2 (0.80%) WSUS
9 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.40%) Netcool
9 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 43 (17.13%) Atlassian
2 38 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.55%) Oracle
4 28 (11.16%) VMware
5 21 (8.37%) Cisco
6 10 (3.98%) IBM
7 6 (2.39%) Citrix
7 6 (2.39%) Google
7 6 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.99%) SAP
8 5 (1.99%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.99%) Veeam
9 4 (1.59%) Commvault
9 4 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.59%) Zend
10 3 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.20%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.20%) Veracode
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