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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 251 361
Rank change year-on-year -120 +110 -142
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 430 542 485
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.23% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.50% 13.94% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 284 322 315
10th Percentile £40,150 £27,000 £37,700
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%

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 4,094 3,889 6,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.32% 8.84% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,958 2,798 4,664
10th Percentile £29,691 £29,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,588 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,818
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.45% -4.75%

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 17 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 17 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 -27 178 £70,000 -15.15% 214
North of England -93 79 £65,766 +35.58% 64
South East -30 67 £60,000 +14.29% 42
South West -56 56 £60,500 +15.24% 37
North West -46 48 £65,766 +22.36% 29
Midlands -113 26 £51,250 -26.79% 24
North East -53 18 £60,000 +166.67% 13
West Midlands -68 18 £56,750 -21.72% 21
East of England -43 14 £57,500 - 11
Yorkshire -56 13 £60,850 +25.45% 22
East Midlands -67 8 £50,000 +122.22% 2
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 35 (8.14%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.21%) CMS
3 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.93%) IIS
4 4 (0.93%) JBoss
4 4 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.47%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 24 (5.58%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.09%) Trello
6 7 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.93%) Moqups
8 1 (0.23%) Notion
8 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.86%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.47%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Magento
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 141 (32.79%) Azure
2 92 (21.40%) AWS
3 61 (14.19%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (10.00%) Figma
5 35 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (6.74%) Miro
7 26 (6.05%) Adobe Analytics
8 25 (5.81%) Contentsquare
8 25 (5.81%) GitHub
9 24 (5.58%) SaaS
10 21 (4.88%) GCP
11 19 (4.42%) Lucidchart
12 17 (3.95%) Serverless
13 14 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.79%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.56%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.33%) Entra ID
17 9 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.09%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.05%) Broadband
2 13 (3.02%) VPN
3 12 (2.79%) Firewall
4 8 (1.86%) IPv4
4 8 (1.86%) Multicast
4 8 (1.86%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.40%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (1.40%) WAN
6 5 (1.16%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.16%) Wireless
7 4 (0.93%) DNS
7 4 (0.93%) LAN
8 3 (0.70%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) RFID
9 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.23%) MPLS
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
10 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.56%) Db2
5 10 (2.33%) DTS
6 9 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.09%) MySQL
7 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (1.63%) Power BI
7 7 (1.63%) Tableau
8 5 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.93%) Redis
10 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.70%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.47%) Metadata
11 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 384 (89.30%) JIRA
2 44 (10.23%) Git
3 24 (5.58%) Bitbucket
3 24 (5.58%) GitLab
4 20 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 18 (4.19%) Selenium
6 10 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.86%) Postman
8 7 (1.63%) JMeter
8 7 (1.63%) MSI
8 7 (1.63%) Zephyr
9 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.93%) Toad
11 3 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.70%) TestRail
12 2 (0.47%) git-flow
12 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 169 (39.30%) Social Skills
2 143 (33.26%) Finance
3 81 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.53%) Games
5 29 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
5 29 (6.74%) Legal
6 28 (6.51%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.81%) Banking
8 23 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.19%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.95%) Law
11 13 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (3.02%) Marketing
11 13 (3.02%) Retail
12 10 (2.33%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.33%) Automotive
13 9 (2.09%) Electronics
13 9 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 96 (22.33%) Analyst
2 71 (16.51%) Business Analyst
3 68 (15.81%) Lead
4 59 (13.72%) Senior
5 26 (6.05%) Delivery Manager
5 26 (6.05%) Project Manager
6 24 (5.58%) Architect
7 23 (5.35%) Developer
8 22 (5.12%) Scrum Master
8 22 (5.12%) Senior Analyst
9 20 (4.65%) Product Manager
10 18 (4.19%) Product Owner
11 17 (3.95%) Senior Business Analyst
12 16 (3.72%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
14 14 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.56%) Designer
16 10 (2.33%) Content Manager
16 10 (2.33%) Senior Developer
17 9 (2.09%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.51%) Node.js
2 24 (5.58%) .NET
2 24 (5.58%) HTML
3 20 (4.65%) CSS
3 20 (4.65%) Middleware
3 20 (4.65%) REST
4 17 (3.95%) Spring
4 17 (3.95%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.72%) JSON
6 15 (3.49%) Kafka
6 15 (3.49%) React
7 13 (3.02%) RESTful
8 10 (2.33%) ASP.NET
8 10 (2.33%) HTML5
9 9 (2.09%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (2.09%) GraphQL
9 9 (2.09%) XML
10 8 (1.86%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.86%) CSS3
11 7 (1.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.35%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.74%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.79%) EPoS
5 12 (2.79%) Equities
6 11 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.56%) PMI
7 10 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.33%) iSeries
7 10 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.09%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.86%) Eurex
9 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.72%) Windows
2 44 (10.23%) Linux
3 26 (6.05%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.93%) CentOS
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.70%) Android
8 3 (0.70%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (64.19%) Agile
2 161 (37.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 129 (30.00%) Scrum
4 126 (29.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 98 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (22.33%) Roadmaps
7 94 (21.86%) DevOps
8 93 (21.63%) AI
9 78 (18.14%) Decision-Making
10 74 (17.21%) User Stories
11 73 (16.98%) CI/CD
12 71 (16.51%) Kanban
13 70 (16.28%) Mentoring
14 67 (15.58%) User Experience
15 66 (15.35%) Project Delivery
16 64 (14.88%) Requirements Gathering
16 64 (14.88%) SDLC
17 60 (13.95%) Coaching
17 60 (13.95%) Project Management
18 59 (13.72%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 67 (15.58%) SQL
2 65 (15.12%) Python
3 62 (14.42%) Java
4 32 (7.44%) PowerShell
5 31 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.35%) Bash
7 22 (5.12%) C#
8 19 (4.42%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.79%) C++
10 10 (2.33%) RPG
11 8 (1.86%) Bicep
12 5 (1.16%) PHP
13 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.47%) C
14 2 (0.47%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) Ada
15 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (14.65%) Degree
2 54 (12.56%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.51%) PMI Certification
5 20 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 19 (4.42%) Master's Degree
7 17 (3.95%) PMP
8 16 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.79%) ISTQB
11 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.86%) CCNA
12 8 (1.86%) OSCP
12 8 (1.86%) RHCE
12 8 (1.86%) RHCSA
13 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (1.63%) CCSP
13 7 (1.63%) CISSP
14 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.16%) Accessibility
2 41 (9.53%) QA
3 37 (8.60%) WCAG
4 17 (3.95%) PMO
5 13 (3.02%) GDPR
6 12 (2.79%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.09%) SLA
8 8 (1.86%) NCSC
9 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.16%) NIST
9 5 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.93%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.70%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.47%) GRC
13 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (7.44%) Docker
2 31 (7.21%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Squid
4 8 (1.86%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.86%) vSphere
5 7 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.93%) KVM
8 3 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.70%) Firmware
8 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (7.91%) Terraform
2 27 (6.28%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.65%) Ansible
4 12 (2.79%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.09%) Packer
6 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.40%) Kibana
7 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.93%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.93%) Graylog
9 4 (0.93%) Nagios
9 4 (0.93%) Podman
10 3 (0.70%) Grafana
10 3 (0.70%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 97 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.44%) Adobe
3 31 (7.21%) Oracle
4 24 (5.58%) Atlassian
4 24 (5.58%) VMware
5 23 (5.35%) Splunk
6 22 (5.12%) ServiceNow
7 19 (4.42%) Google
7 19 (4.42%) Salesforce
8 17 (3.95%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.49%) IBM
10 10 (2.33%) ION Trading
11 8 (1.86%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.86%) CQG
11 8 (1.86%) Patsystems
11 8 (1.86%) Reuters
11 8 (1.86%) Trayport
12 6 (1.40%) SAP
12 6 (1.40%) Veeam
13 5 (1.16%) Pega