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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 316 261
Rank change year-on-year +5 -55 -54
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 335 429 579
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.89% 1.17%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.45% 9.75% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 213 245 475
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,767 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.72%

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 2,925 4,402 5,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.57% 9.17% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,108 2,590 4,183
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,263
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +7.55% -3.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +10 137 £79,500 +32.50% 44
North of England +16 46 £50,000 -13.04% 46
South East +12 46 £57,500 -2.13% 67
Midlands +25 38 £60,000 -7.69% 39
South West -26 32 £50,000 -9.09% 29
East of England +24 29 £57,500 +5.99% 27
North West +4 24 £53,750 -6.52% 22
West Midlands +12 20 £72,500 +11.54% 24
Yorkshire +2 19 £49,500 +16.47% 20
East Midlands +3 18 £42,500 +6.25% 15
North East - 3 £50,000 - 5
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 27 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.39%) Apache
3 6 (1.79%) CMS
3 6 (1.79%) IIS
4 4 (1.19%) nginx
4 4 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.90%) WordPress
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) MTS
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) FileNet
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 24 (7.16%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (5.67%) MS Visio
3 18 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
4 16 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.19%) CATIA
5 4 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (1.19%) Trello
6 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.60%) Sketch
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.30%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.30%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.30%) InDesign
7 1 (0.30%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.49%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.60%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.60%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.30%) Actimize
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.09%) Azure
2 36 (10.75%) AWS
3 24 (7.16%) Power Platform
4 23 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (5.97%) Figma
5 20 (5.97%) SaaS
6 19 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.48%) Serverless
8 14 (4.18%) GitHub
9 13 (3.88%) Power Automate
10 11 (3.28%) Adobe Analytics
10 11 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.28%) GCP
11 10 (2.99%) Entra ID
11 10 (2.99%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.39%) Amazon ELB
13 8 (2.39%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) Firewall
2 15 (4.48%) DNS
3 10 (2.99%) HTTP
4 8 (2.39%) SSH
5 7 (2.09%) FTP
5 7 (2.09%) SMTP
6 6 (1.79%) Internet
6 6 (1.79%) VLAN
6 6 (1.79%) Wireless
7 4 (1.19%) IMAP
7 4 (1.19%) Multicast
7 4 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.19%) VPN
8 3 (0.90%) DHCP
8 3 (0.90%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.60%) Broadband
9 2 (0.60%) Network Security
9 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.60%) SSL
9 2 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.34%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.88%) MySQL
3 13 (3.88%) Power BI
4 11 (3.28%) DB2
5 10 (2.99%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.09%) BusinessObjects
7 7 (2.09%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.90%) Power Query
11 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 317 (94.63%) JIRA
2 47 (14.03%) Git
3 33 (9.85%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.16%) Bitbucket
5 19 (5.67%) Selenium
6 15 (4.48%) TeamCity
7 13 (3.88%) GitLab
8 12 (3.58%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.39%) JUnit
10 7 (2.09%) Vagrant
10 7 (2.09%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.79%) Postman
12 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.19%) JMeter
13 4 (1.19%) webpack
14 3 (0.90%) TestNG
14 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.60%) Fiddler
15 2 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 140 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 97 (28.96%) Finance
3 64 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.33%) Banking
5 22 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.27%) Marketing
7 16 (4.78%) Law
7 16 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.48%) Retail
9 13 (3.88%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.58%) Billing
10 12 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.58%) Legal
11 10 (2.99%) Front Office
12 9 (2.69%) Automotive
12 9 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (2.39%) Spanish Language
14 7 (2.09%) Military
15 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (22.09%) Analyst
2 52 (15.52%) Senior
3 51 (15.22%) Business Analyst
4 30 (8.96%) Developer
5 29 (8.66%) Lead
6 18 (5.37%) Product Owner
7 17 (5.07%) Senior Manager
8 16 (4.78%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.78%) Support Analyst
9 13 (3.88%) Architect
10 12 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.28%) Operations Engineer
11 11 (3.28%) Support Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Java Developer
13 9 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.69%) Junior
13 9 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.69%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (2.69%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.69%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.76%) HTML
1 26 (7.76%) React
2 25 (7.46%) CSS
3 17 (5.07%) Node.js
4 15 (4.48%) RESTful
5 13 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (3.58%) .NET
7 11 (3.28%) Gherkin
8 10 (2.99%) REST
9 8 (2.39%) Kafka
10 7 (2.09%) GraphQL
11 6 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.79%) JSON
11 6 (1.79%) Middleware
12 5 (1.49%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.49%) LDAP
12 5 (1.49%) OAuth
12 5 (1.49%) OpenAPI
12 5 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.43%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.58%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.69%) IoT
8 7 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.79%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.79%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.79%) Social Media
9 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.49%) Equities
10 5 (1.49%) Eurex
10 5 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.49%) Replication
11 4 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.55%) Linux
2 29 (8.66%) Windows
3 10 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.09%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (2.09%) VMS
5 6 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.49%) Unix
6 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.19%) Android
7 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.90%) Solaris
8 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (65.37%) Agile
2 78 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (22.39%) Scrum
4 67 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (15.82%) DevOps
6 53 (15.82%) User Experience
7 50 (14.93%) CI/CD
8 43 (12.84%) Project Management
9 40 (11.94%) Roadmaps
9 40 (11.94%) Sprint Planning
10 37 (11.04%) User Stories
11 35 (10.45%) SDLC
12 34 (10.15%) Analytics
13 33 (9.85%) Business Strategy
13 33 (9.85%) Test Automation
14 32 (9.55%) Business Analysis
14 32 (9.55%) Decision-Making
14 32 (9.55%) Kanban
15 28 (8.36%) AI
Programming Languages
1 69 (20.60%) SQL
2 42 (12.54%) Python
3 29 (8.66%) JavaScript
4 28 (8.36%) Java
5 26 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 18 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.58%) C#
8 9 (2.69%) Bash
9 8 (2.39%) Groovy
10 3 (0.90%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.90%) Perl
10 3 (0.90%) RPG
10 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.60%) C
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) XAML
12 1 (0.30%) Delphi
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 62 (18.51%) Degree
2 37 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.79%) PMP
8 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.19%) CBAP
8 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.19%) SAP Certification
9 3 (0.90%) ACCA
9 3 (0.90%) CIMA
9 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.90%) CISSP
10 2 (0.60%) CCNA
10 2 (0.60%) IIBA
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.25%) Accessibility
2 30 (8.96%) QA
3 17 (5.07%) PMO
4 12 (3.58%) WCAG
5 7 (2.09%) GDPR
5 7 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.79%) Basel II
7 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.60%) NIST
8 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.30%) COBIT
9 1 (0.30%) GMP
9 1 (0.30%) GxP
9 1 (0.30%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.30%) ITGC
9 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (7.76%) Docker
2 23 (6.87%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.19%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.19%) Postfix
4 4 (1.19%) Squid
4 4 (1.19%) vSphere
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (7.16%) Terraform
2 23 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.58%) Grafana
4 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.79%) Ansible
6 6 (1.79%) Puppet
7 5 (1.49%) Kibana
7 5 (1.49%) Nessus
8 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.19%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.30%) Ambari
9 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.63%) Atlassian
3 25 (7.46%) Oracle
3 25 (7.46%) SAP
4 16 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.48%) Adobe
6 14 (4.18%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.28%) Google
8 10 (2.99%) Siemens
9 9 (2.69%) Cisco
9 9 (2.69%) Qualtrics
9 9 (2.69%) VMware
10 7 (2.09%) IBM
11 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.49%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.49%) CQG
12 5 (1.49%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.49%) Patsystems
12 5 (1.49%) Reuters
12 5 (1.49%) Trayport