Confluence Job Trends in England

Confluence
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Confluence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 261 366
Rank change year-on-year -105 +105 -129
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 447 503 468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.16% 0.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.82% 13.93% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 293 286 277
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £47,688 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +19.25% -16.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -13.04%

All Application Platform Skills
England

Confluence falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,130 3,611 6,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.12% 8.35% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 2,601 3,841
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -6.63% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £130,446
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -2.70%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Confluence job vacancy trend in England

Confluence
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Confluence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Confluence

Confluence
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Confluence in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Confluence in England

Confluence
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the England region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -8 199 £69,000 -16.36% 370
North of England -82 71 £60,000 +24.99% 81
South East -29 64 £60,000 +3.45% 61
South West -55 63 £60,500 +21.00% 57
North West -42 40 £60,000 +14.29% 51
Midlands -124 28 £50,000 -31.03% 38
West Midlands -81 23 £47,500 -34.48% 31
North East -47 18 £60,000 +166.67% 9
East of England -52 15 £36,000 -37.39% 25
Yorkshire -43 13 £60,850 +28.11% 21
East Midlands -74 5 £54,250 +52.82% 7
Confluence
UK

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 32 (7.16%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.92%) CMS
3 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.89%) Drupal
4 4 (0.89%) IIS
4 4 (0.89%) JBoss
4 4 (0.89%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (11.41%) MS Visio
2 28 (6.26%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.01%) Trello
6 7 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (1.12%) Moqups
8 2 (0.45%) Simulink
9 1 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.79%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 144 (32.21%) Azure
2 98 (21.92%) AWS
3 61 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.28%) SaaS
5 34 (7.61%) Figma
6 32 (7.16%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (6.49%) Miro
8 26 (5.82%) GitHub
9 23 (5.15%) GCP
10 19 (4.25%) Lucidchart
11 18 (4.03%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.80%) Serverless
13 16 (3.58%) Adobe Analytics
14 15 (3.36%) Contentsquare
15 14 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.91%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (2.46%) Amazon S3
17 11 (2.46%) Power Platform
18 9 (2.01%) Amazon ECS
18 9 (2.01%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.47%) VPN
2 16 (3.58%) Broadband
3 12 (2.68%) DNS
4 11 (2.46%) Firewall
5 9 (2.01%) DHCP
6 8 (1.79%) IPv4
6 8 (1.79%) Multicast
6 8 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.57%) WAN
8 6 (1.34%) FIX Connectivity
8 6 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.34%) Wireless
9 5 (1.12%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.89%) LAN
11 3 (0.67%) Network Security
12 2 (0.45%) BGP
12 2 (0.45%) RFID
12 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.46%) Db2
5 10 (2.24%) DTS
5 10 (2.24%) Power BI
6 9 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.01%) MySQL
7 7 (1.57%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (1.57%) Tableau
8 6 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.12%) Redis
10 4 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.67%) Metadata
11 3 (0.67%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.45%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 408 (91.28%) JIRA
2 49 (10.96%) Git
3 25 (5.59%) GitLab
4 23 (5.15%) Bitbucket
5 22 (4.92%) Jenkins
6 19 (4.25%) Selenium
7 11 (2.46%) Postman
8 10 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.01%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.57%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.57%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.57%) JMeter
10 7 (1.57%) MSI
10 7 (1.57%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.12%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.45%) Balsamiq
12 2 (0.45%) Maven
12 2 (0.45%) Mocha
12 2 (0.45%) Subversion
12 2 (0.45%) Toad
General
1 171 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 157 (35.12%) Finance
3 95 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.71%) Games
4 30 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.26%) Manufacturing
6 27 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (5.82%) Banking
7 26 (5.82%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.47%) Law
8 20 (4.47%) Marketing
9 19 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (4.03%) Legal
11 17 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
12 15 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (3.36%) Retail
13 12 (2.68%) Aerospace
13 12 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (2.46%) Automotive
15 9 (2.01%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 114 (25.50%) Analyst
2 80 (17.90%) Business Analyst
3 65 (14.54%) Senior
4 63 (14.09%) Lead
5 29 (6.49%) Product Owner
6 28 (6.26%) Project Manager
7 25 (5.59%) Developer
7 25 (5.59%) Senior Analyst
8 24 (5.37%) Delivery Manager
9 23 (5.15%) Architect
10 22 (4.92%) Technical Analyst
11 21 (4.70%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.70%) Technical Business Analyst
12 18 (4.03%) Scrum Master
13 17 (3.80%) Senior Business Analyst
14 14 (3.13%) Senior Manager
14 14 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.91%) Support Analyst
16 11 (2.46%) Product Analyst
16 11 (2.46%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.61%) HTML
2 32 (7.16%) Terraform
3 27 (6.04%) Node.js
3 27 (6.04%) REST
4 24 (5.37%) .NET
5 22 (4.92%) CSS
6 20 (4.47%) Middleware
7 18 (4.03%) JSON
8 17 (3.80%) React
8 17 (3.80%) Spring
8 17 (3.80%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.36%) Kafka
10 14 (3.13%) RESTful
11 11 (2.46%) XML
12 10 (2.24%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.24%) HTML5
13 9 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (2.01%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.01%) Next.js
14 8 (1.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.57%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.92%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.68%) Biopharmaceutical
6 12 (2.68%) EPoS
6 12 (2.68%) Equities
6 12 (2.68%) PMI
6 12 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (2.24%) iSeries
9 9 (2.01%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.79%) Eurex
10 8 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.44%) Windows
2 48 (10.74%) Linux
3 26 (5.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.57%) Unix
7 6 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.12%) CentOS
8 5 (1.12%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.67%) Android
11 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.22%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (64.21%) Agile
2 164 (36.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 141 (31.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 139 (31.10%) Scrum
5 115 (25.73%) AI
6 109 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (21.48%) User Stories
8 91 (20.36%) DevOps
9 90 (20.13%) Roadmaps
10 81 (18.12%) Decision-Making
11 80 (17.90%) Coaching
12 78 (17.45%) Kanban
12 78 (17.45%) Requirements Gathering
13 76 (17.00%) Mentoring
14 73 (16.33%) Project Delivery
15 70 (15.66%) Acceptance Criteria
15 70 (15.66%) Sprint Planning
16 69 (15.44%) CI/CD
17 63 (14.09%) User Experience
18 62 (13.87%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (18.79%) SQL
2 71 (15.88%) Python
3 62 (13.87%) Java
4 40 (8.95%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.16%) JavaScript
6 28 (6.26%) Bash
7 22 (4.92%) C#
8 21 (4.70%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.91%) C++
10 10 (2.24%) RPG
11 8 (1.79%) Bicep
12 5 (1.12%) PHP
13 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.45%) C
14 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.45%) Ruby
15 1 (0.22%) Ada
15 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.22%) Groovy
15 1 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (17.23%) Degree
2 57 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.16%) PMI Certification
4 31 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 27 (6.04%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.47%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.47%) PMP
7 16 (3.58%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.13%) ISTQB
9 14 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.68%) MBA
11 8 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.79%) CCNA
11 8 (1.79%) CSPO
11 8 (1.79%) OSCP
11 8 (1.79%) RHCE
11 8 (1.79%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.57%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.86%) QA
2 34 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.04%) WCAG
4 21 (4.70%) PMO
5 14 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.24%) GDPR
8 8 (1.79%) NCSC
9 7 (1.57%) SLA
10 5 (1.12%) NIST
10 5 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.89%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.45%) GRC
13 2 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.22%) MiFID
14 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.49%) Docker
3 23 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.79%) Squid
4 8 (1.79%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.79%) vSphere
5 7 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.89%) KVM
8 3 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.67%) Firmware
8 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.47%) Ansible
3 12 (2.68%) ZABBIX
4 9 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.01%) Packer
5 6 (1.34%) Kibana
5 6 (1.34%) Proxmox
5 6 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.89%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.89%) Graylog
7 4 (0.89%) Nagios
7 4 (0.89%) Podman
8 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.45%) Grafana
9 2 (0.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 105 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.26%) Atlassian
2 28 (6.26%) Oracle
3 24 (5.37%) VMware
4 23 (5.15%) Adobe
4 23 (5.15%) Splunk
5 21 (4.70%) Google
6 20 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 19 (4.25%) Salesforce
8 18 (4.03%) Red Hat
9 14 (3.13%) IBM
10 10 (2.24%) ION Trading
11 8 (1.79%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.79%) CQG
11 8 (1.79%) Patsystems
11 8 (1.79%) Pega
11 8 (1.79%) Reuters
11 8 (1.79%) SAP
11 8 (1.79%) Trayport
12 6 (1.34%) Veeam