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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 239 335
Rank change year-on-year -136 +96 -91
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 400 570 723
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.35% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.59% 14.78% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 273 332 540
10th Percentile £36,500 £26,550 £30,450
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,005 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,500 £61,123 £55,250
% change year-on-year -1.02% +10.63% -15.00%

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 3,778 3,856 8,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.38% 9.12% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 2,720 6,556
10th Percentile £28,675 £29,738 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £72,000 £76,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -41 145 £72,500 -3.33% 125
North of England -103 70 £65,766 +28.32% 50
South East -25 62 £60,000 +20.00% 59
North West -47 52 £65,766 +19.57% 27
South West -56 48 £55,000 +10.00% 23
Midlands -97 40 £45,000 -30.77% 21
East Midlands -58 25 £25,500 +13.33% 9
East of England -30 18 £32,500 -44.68% 9
West Midlands -69 15 £65,000 -10.34% 12
North East -43 10 £67,500 +200.00% 3
Yorkshire -75 8 £75,000 +54.62% 20
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 34 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.50%) CMS
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.25%) IIS
5 4 (1.00%) Documentum
5 4 (1.00%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (7.25%) MS Visio
2 20 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.00%) Trello
5 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Notion
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.25%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.50%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.00%) Azure
2 68 (17.00%) AWS
3 54 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (9.00%) Figma
5 27 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.50%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.25%) Contentsquare
8 24 (6.00%) SaaS
9 20 (5.00%) GitHub
10 19 (4.75%) GCP
10 19 (4.75%) Lucidchart
11 15 (3.75%) Miro
11 15 (3.75%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.75%) Serverless
12 12 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 12 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
13 9 (2.25%) PaaS
14 8 (2.00%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.50%) Broadband
2 15 (3.75%) VPN
3 14 (3.50%) Firewall
4 8 (2.00%) IPv4
4 8 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.50%) DNS
6 5 (1.25%) Multicast
6 5 (1.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.00%) LAN
7 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.00%) Wireless
8 3 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.50%) BGP
9 2 (0.50%) Network Security
9 2 (0.50%) RFID
9 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.50%) WLAN
10 1 (0.25%) ATM
10 1 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.50%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.50%) Db2
3 10 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 9 (2.25%) DTS
5 8 (2.00%) Power BI
6 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.75%) MySQL
6 7 (1.75%) Tableau
7 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.75%) Big Data
9 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.75%) Redis
9 3 (0.75%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 352 (88.00%) JIRA
2 35 (8.75%) Git
3 23 (5.75%) GitLab
4 21 (5.25%) Bitbucket
5 15 (3.75%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.75%) Selenium
7 7 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.25%) JMeter
8 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.00%) MSI
9 4 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.00%) Toad
10 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.75%) Maven
10 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.75%) TestRail
11 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.50%) Subversion
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 153 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 132 (33.00%) Finance
3 67 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.00%) Games
5 34 (8.50%) Legal
6 27 (6.75%) Banking
7 26 (6.50%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (6.00%) Law
9 18 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.25%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.50%) Retail
12 13 (3.25%) Automotive
12 13 (3.25%) Manufacturing
13 12 (3.00%) Marketing
14 10 (2.50%) Aerospace
15 9 (2.25%) Advertising
15 9 (2.25%) Electronics
16 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (1.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 91 (22.75%) Analyst
2 65 (16.25%) Lead
3 63 (15.75%) Business Analyst
4 44 (11.00%) Senior
5 30 (7.50%) Architect
6 27 (6.75%) Scrum Master
7 24 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
8 23 (5.75%) Developer
9 18 (4.50%) IT Support
9 18 (4.50%) Project Manager
10 17 (4.25%) Technical Analyst
11 16 (4.00%) Product Owner
12 15 (3.75%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.75%) Technical Business Analyst
13 12 (3.00%) Lead Architect
13 12 (3.00%) Product Manager
13 12 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (3.00%) Support Analyst
14 11 (2.75%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.25%) Node.js
2 21 (5.25%) Middleware
3 20 (5.00%) .NET
4 17 (4.25%) Spring
5 16 (4.00%) CSS
5 16 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 15 (3.75%) HTML
7 13 (3.25%) React
8 12 (3.00%) Kafka
8 12 (3.00%) REST
9 11 (2.75%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.50%) GraphQL
10 10 (2.50%) JSON
10 10 (2.50%) RESTful
11 8 (2.00%) AngularJS
12 7 (1.75%) HTML5
13 6 (1.50%) ARM Templates
14 5 (1.25%) CSS3
14 5 (1.25%) Jest
14 5 (1.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.50%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.75%) EPoS
7 10 (2.50%) PMI
8 9 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.25%) Equities
8 9 (2.25%) iSeries
8 9 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.25%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.75%) Windows
2 39 (9.75%) Linux
3 22 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.25%) CentOS
6 5 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (63.25%) Agile
2 141 (35.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 103 (25.75%) Scrum
4 102 (25.50%) Roadmaps
5 94 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 86 (21.50%) DevOps
7 80 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.75%) Decision-Making
9 68 (17.00%) CI/CD
10 65 (16.25%) AI
11 64 (16.00%) User Experience
12 59 (14.75%) User Stories
13 57 (14.25%) Analytics
14 55 (13.75%) Kanban
15 54 (13.50%) SDLC
16 53 (13.25%) Mentoring
17 48 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
18 44 (11.00%) Acceptance Criteria
18 44 (11.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 43 (10.75%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.75%) SQL
2 54 (13.50%) Python
3 49 (12.25%) Java
4 27 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.00%) Bash
7 17 (4.25%) C#
8 14 (3.50%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.25%) RPG
10 6 (1.50%) PHP
11 5 (1.25%) Bicep
11 5 (1.25%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) Delphi
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) VB
14 1 (0.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 45 (11.25%) Degree
1 45 (11.25%) Security Cleared
2 23 (5.75%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.50%) AWS Certification
4 16 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 12 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.25%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.00%) CCNA
9 8 (2.00%) OSCP
9 8 (2.00%) RHCE
9 8 (2.00%) RHCSA
10 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.50%) PMP
11 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.75%) Accessibility
2 32 (8.00%) WCAG
3 29 (7.25%) QA
4 20 (5.00%) SLA
5 10 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.50%) GDPR
5 10 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.25%) NCSC
8 4 (1.00%) ISO 26262
8 4 (1.00%) NIST
8 4 (1.00%) PMO
8 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.50%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (7.00%) Docker
2 23 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.00%) Squid
4 8 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.00%) vSphere
5 6 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.00%) KVM
8 3 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (7.50%) Terraform
2 26 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.25%) Ansible
4 12 (3.00%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.25%) Packer
6 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.75%) Kibana
8 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.25%) Nagios
8 5 (1.25%) Podman
9 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
9 4 (1.00%) Grafana
9 4 (1.00%) Graylog
9 4 (1.00%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.75%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.00%) Adobe
3 29 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 28 (7.00%) Oracle
5 23 (5.75%) Atlassian
6 22 (5.50%) Splunk
7 21 (5.25%) VMware
8 16 (4.00%) Google
8 16 (4.00%) Salesforce
9 14 (3.50%) IBM
10 13 (3.25%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.75%) SAP
12 6 (1.50%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.50%) Databricks
12 6 (1.50%) ION Trading
12 6 (1.50%) Veeam
13 5 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.25%) Patsystems
13 5 (1.25%) Reuters
13 5 (1.25%) Trayport