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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 243 365
Rank change year-on-year -132 +122 -136
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 424 553 487
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.42% 14.05% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 289 330 323
10th Percentile £39,157 £26,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 4,069 3,936 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.37% 9.04% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,983 2,795 4,816
10th Percentile £29,076 £29,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,101 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.63%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -29 167 £70,000 -12.50% 133
North of England -102 76 £65,766 +35.58% 47
South East -12 66 £60,000 +18.81% 43
South West -39 57 £58,750 +11.90% 23
North West -44 49 £65,766 +22.36% 19
Midlands -113 30 £47,500 -32.14% 25
East of England -45 17 £42,500 -26.09% 12
West Midlands -81 17 £52,500 -27.59% 19
North East -46 16 £60,000 +166.67% 10
East Midlands -69 13 £25,500 +13.33% 6
Yorkshire -54 11 £44,925 -7.38% 18
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 36 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.08%) CMS
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.94%) IIS
4 4 (0.94%) JBoss
4 4 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.71%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (9.20%) MS Visio
2 22 (5.19%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.89%) Trello
6 6 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.71%) Moqups
8 1 (0.24%) Notion
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 136 (32.08%) Azure
2 84 (19.81%) AWS
3 62 (14.62%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (9.91%) Figma
5 34 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (6.60%) Miro
7 26 (6.13%) Adobe Analytics
8 25 (5.90%) Contentsquare
8 25 (5.90%) GitHub
9 23 (5.42%) SaaS
10 20 (4.72%) Lucidchart
11 19 (4.48%) GCP
12 18 (4.25%) Serverless
13 14 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.83%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.59%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.36%) Entra ID
17 9 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.12%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.13%) Broadband
2 13 (3.07%) VPN
3 12 (2.83%) Firewall
4 8 (1.89%) IPv4
4 8 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (1.65%) Multicast
6 5 (1.18%) FIX Connectivity
6 5 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.18%) WAN
7 4 (0.94%) DNS
7 4 (0.94%) LAN
7 4 (0.94%) Wireless
8 3 (0.71%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) RFID
9 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.24%) DHCP
10 1 (0.24%) MPLS
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.59%) Db2
5 10 (2.36%) DTS
6 9 (2.12%) MySQL
7 8 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.65%) Tableau
9 6 (1.42%) Power BI
10 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
12 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.71%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.71%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
13 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 379 (89.39%) JIRA
2 45 (10.61%) Git
3 26 (6.13%) GitLab
4 25 (5.90%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.72%) Jenkins
6 17 (4.01%) Selenium
7 10 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.89%) JMeter
8 8 (1.89%) Zephyr
9 7 (1.65%) MSI
9 7 (1.65%) Postman
10 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.94%) Toad
12 3 (0.71%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.71%) Maven
12 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.71%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.71%) TestRail
13 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 164 (38.68%) Social Skills
2 134 (31.60%) Finance
3 76 (17.92%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.14%) Games
5 30 (7.08%) Influencing Skills
5 30 (7.08%) Legal
6 29 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.66%) Banking
8 21 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (4.25%) Law
10 16 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.30%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.07%) Retail
13 12 (2.83%) Automotive
13 12 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.36%) Aerospace
14 10 (2.36%) Marketing
15 9 (2.12%) Electronics
16 8 (1.89%) Advertising
16 8 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (21.46%) Analyst
2 70 (16.51%) Lead
3 66 (15.57%) Business Analyst
4 52 (12.26%) Senior
5 26 (6.13%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (5.90%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.66%) Architect
7 24 (5.66%) Developer
7 24 (5.66%) Scrum Master
8 19 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (4.25%) Product Manager
10 17 (4.01%) Technical Analyst
11 16 (3.77%) Technical Business Analyst
12 14 (3.30%) Product Owner
12 14 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.59%) Designer
14 10 (2.36%) Content Manager
14 10 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.60%) Node.js
2 24 (5.66%) .NET
3 20 (4.72%) CSS
3 20 (4.72%) HTML
4 19 (4.48%) Middleware
4 19 (4.48%) REST
5 18 (4.25%) Spring
6 17 (4.01%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.77%) JSON
7 16 (3.77%) React
8 14 (3.30%) Kafka
9 12 (2.83%) RESTful
10 10 (2.36%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.36%) GraphQL
10 10 (2.36%) HTML5
11 9 (2.12%) XML
12 8 (1.89%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.89%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.89%) CSS3
12 8 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.15%) Product Ownership
2 32 (7.55%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.90%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.83%) EPoS
5 12 (2.83%) PMI
6 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.59%) Equities
6 11 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.36%) iSeries
8 9 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.89%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.65%) Eurex
11 6 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.97%) Windows
2 44 (10.38%) Linux
3 26 (6.13%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.18%) CentOS
7 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.71%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Unix
10 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (64.15%) Agile
2 157 (37.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 126 (29.72%) Scrum
4 119 (28.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (22.64%) DevOps
6 94 (22.17%) Roadmaps
7 93 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (18.87%) AI
9 76 (17.92%) CI/CD
10 72 (16.98%) Decision-Making
11 68 (16.04%) Kanban
12 67 (15.80%) Mentoring
13 66 (15.57%) User Experience
14 65 (15.33%) User Stories
15 62 (14.62%) SDLC
16 60 (14.15%) Project Delivery
17 59 (13.92%) Requirements Gathering
17 59 (13.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 56 (13.21%) Project Management
19 54 (12.74%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.33%) Python
1 65 (15.33%) SQL
2 60 (14.15%) Java
3 33 (7.78%) PowerShell
4 32 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 24 (5.66%) Bash
6 22 (5.19%) C#
7 20 (4.72%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.59%) C++
9 10 (2.36%) RPG
10 8 (1.89%) Bicep
11 6 (1.42%) PHP
12 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) C
13 2 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) Ada
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) Perl
14 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (13.21%) Degree
2 53 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 26 (6.13%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.30%) PMP
8 12 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.89%) CCNA
10 8 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.89%) OSCP
10 8 (1.89%) RHCE
10 8 (1.89%) RHCSA
11 7 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.65%) CCSP
11 7 (1.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.03%) Accessibility
2 37 (8.73%) WCAG
3 36 (8.49%) QA
4 14 (3.30%) GDPR
4 14 (3.30%) PMO
5 13 (3.07%) SLA
6 12 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.36%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.89%) NCSC
9 6 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.18%) NIST
10 5 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.94%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.71%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.71%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.47%) GRC
14 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (8.02%) Docker
2 30 (7.08%) Active Directory
3 24 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.89%) Squid
4 8 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.89%) vSphere
5 7 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.94%) KVM
7 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (8.25%) Terraform
2 30 (7.08%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.95%) Ansible
4 12 (2.83%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.12%) Packer
6 8 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.65%) Kibana
8 6 (1.42%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.18%) Nagios
9 5 (1.18%) Podman
9 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.94%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.94%) Grafana
10 4 (0.94%) Graylog
11 3 (0.71%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.71%) Puppet
12 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 92 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.55%) Adobe
2 32 (7.55%) Oracle
3 25 (5.90%) Atlassian
3 25 (5.90%) VMware
4 24 (5.66%) Splunk
5 22 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 20 (4.72%) Salesforce
7 18 (4.25%) Google
8 17 (4.01%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.54%) IBM
10 9 (2.12%) ION Trading
11 7 (1.65%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.65%) CQG
11 7 (1.65%) Patsystems
11 7 (1.65%) Reuters
11 7 (1.65%) SAP
11 7 (1.65%) Trayport
12 6 (1.42%) Veeam
13 5 (1.18%) Pega