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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 243 360
Rank change year-on-year -122 +117 -133
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 415 557 545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.28% 0.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.45% 14.26% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 287 331 379
10th Percentile £38,891 £26,500 £36,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,625 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £100,000 £93,750
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 3,972 3,907 7,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 9.00% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,772 5,277
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,285 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.40% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £80,000
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% -4.81%

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 28 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 28 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 -45 165 £69,000 -12.38% 84
North of England -97 73 £65,766 +35.58% 30
South East +1 63 £60,000 +19.40% 39
North West -35 51 £65,766 +19.57% 12
South West -40 51 £56,250 +7.14% 17
Midlands -112 34 £45,000 -30.77% 18
East of England -32 17 £42,500 -26.09% 6
East Midlands -63 17 £25,500 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -64 17 £52,500 -27.59% 15
North East -42 14 £63,750 +183.33% 7
Yorkshire -76 8 £67,925 +40.03% 11
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 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.23%) CMS
3 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.96%) IIS
4 4 (0.96%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.72%) JBoss
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (7.95%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.54%) Microsoft Project
3 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.93%) Trello
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.48%) Moqups
8 1 (0.24%) Notion
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 2 (0.48%) Workfront
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (30.12%) Azure
2 77 (18.55%) AWS
3 56 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (9.64%) Figma
5 31 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.27%) Adobe Analytics
6 26 (6.27%) Miro
7 25 (6.02%) Contentsquare
8 24 (5.78%) GitHub
9 22 (5.30%) SaaS
10 20 (4.82%) GCP
11 19 (4.58%) Lucidchart
12 16 (3.86%) Serverless
13 13 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.65%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
16 9 (2.17%) Google Workspace
17 8 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.27%) Broadband
2 15 (3.61%) VPN
3 13 (3.13%) Firewall
4 8 (1.93%) IPv4
4 8 (1.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.45%) Multicast
6 5 (1.20%) DNS
7 4 (0.96%) FIX Connectivity
7 4 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.96%) WAN
7 4 (0.96%) Wireless
8 3 (0.72%) LAN
8 3 (0.72%) Network Security
9 2 (0.48%) BGP
9 2 (0.48%) RFID
9 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.24%) DHCP
10 1 (0.24%) MPLS
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.65%) Db2
5 10 (2.41%) DTS
6 9 (2.17%) MySQL
7 8 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.93%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.69%) Tableau
9 6 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (1.45%) Power BI
10 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.72%) Redis
11 3 (0.72%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.48%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.24%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 368 (88.67%) JIRA
2 40 (9.64%) Git
3 26 (6.27%) GitLab
4 23 (5.54%) Bitbucket
5 18 (4.34%) Jenkins
6 16 (3.86%) Selenium
7 10 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (1.93%) JMeter
8 8 (1.93%) Zephyr
9 6 (1.45%) MSI
9 6 (1.45%) Postman
10 4 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.96%) Toad
11 3 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.72%) Maven
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.72%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.72%) TestRail
12 2 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 161 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 127 (30.60%) Finance
3 69 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.36%) Games
5 32 (7.71%) Legal
6 31 (7.47%) Influencing Skills
7 28 (6.75%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.78%) Banking
9 21 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (4.58%) Law
11 16 (3.86%) Retail
12 15 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (3.37%) Manufacturing
14 12 (2.89%) Automotive
15 11 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (2.41%) Marketing
17 9 (2.17%) Aerospace
17 9 (2.17%) Electronics
18 8 (1.93%) Advertising
19 6 (1.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 89 (21.45%) Analyst
2 68 (16.39%) Lead
3 62 (14.94%) Business Analyst
4 48 (11.57%) Senior
5 27 (6.51%) Scrum Master
6 26 (6.27%) Delivery Manager
7 24 (5.78%) Architect
8 23 (5.54%) Developer
9 22 (5.30%) Project Manager
10 20 (4.82%) Technical Analyst
11 18 (4.34%) Technical Business Analyst
12 17 (4.10%) Product Manager
13 16 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (3.61%) Product Owner
15 14 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (2.89%) IT Support
17 11 (2.65%) Designer
17 11 (2.65%) Senior Business Analyst
18 10 (2.41%) Content Manager
18 10 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.99%) Node.js
2 22 (5.30%) .NET
3 20 (4.82%) CSS
3 20 (4.82%) Middleware
4 19 (4.58%) HTML
4 19 (4.58%) Spring
5 18 (4.34%) Spring Boot
6 15 (3.61%) React
7 14 (3.37%) JSON
7 14 (3.37%) REST
8 13 (3.13%) Kafka
9 11 (2.65%) RESTful
10 10 (2.41%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.41%) GraphQL
11 9 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.17%) HTML5
11 9 (2.17%) XML
12 7 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 7 (1.69%) CSS3
13 6 (1.45%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.70%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.23%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.37%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.89%) EPoS
5 12 (2.89%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.41%) Equities
7 10 (2.41%) iSeries
7 10 (2.41%) PMI
8 8 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.69%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.45%) Eurex
10 6 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.57%) Windows
2 41 (9.88%) Linux
3 24 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.45%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.45%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.20%) CentOS
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Unix
9 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (64.34%) Agile
2 151 (36.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 116 (27.95%) Scrum
4 114 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 94 (22.65%) Roadmaps
6 86 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (20.48%) DevOps
8 72 (17.35%) AI
9 71 (17.11%) CI/CD
10 67 (16.14%) Decision-Making
11 65 (15.66%) User Experience
12 61 (14.70%) Kanban
12 61 (14.70%) Mentoring
13 60 (14.46%) SDLC
13 60 (14.46%) User Stories
14 55 (13.25%) Project Delivery
14 55 (13.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 54 (13.01%) Project Management
16 53 (12.77%) Requirements Gathering
17 51 (12.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 62 (14.94%) SQL
2 58 (13.98%) Python
3 57 (13.73%) Java
4 31 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.51%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.06%) Bash
7 20 (4.82%) C#
8 18 (4.34%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.41%) RPG
10 9 (2.17%) C++
11 7 (1.69%) Bicep
12 6 (1.45%) PHP
13 3 (0.72%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.48%) C
14 2 (0.48%) Ruby
15 1 (0.24%) Ada
15 1 (0.24%) Groovy
15 1 (0.24%) Perl
15 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (13.01%) Degree
2 47 (11.33%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.54%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.86%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.13%) PMP
8 12 (2.89%) ISTQB
9 10 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.93%) CCNA
10 8 (1.93%) OSCP
10 8 (1.93%) RHCE
10 8 (1.93%) RHCSA
11 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.69%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.45%) CCSP
12 6 (1.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.81%) Accessibility
2 36 (8.67%) WCAG
3 33 (7.95%) QA
4 16 (3.86%) SLA
5 13 (3.13%) GDPR
6 12 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.65%) PMO
8 9 (2.17%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.69%) NCSC
10 6 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.96%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.96%) NIST
11 4 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.72%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.48%) GRC
13 2 (0.48%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 30 (7.23%) Docker
2 25 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 22 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.93%) Squid
4 8 (1.93%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.93%) vSphere
5 6 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.96%) KVM
6 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (7.71%) Terraform
2 28 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.58%) Ansible
4 12 (2.89%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.17%) Packer
6 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.69%) Kibana
8 5 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.20%) Nagios
8 5 (1.20%) Podman
8 5 (1.20%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.96%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.96%) Grafana
9 4 (0.96%) Graylog
9 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.72%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.71%) Adobe
3 30 (7.23%) Oracle
4 24 (5.78%) Splunk
5 23 (5.54%) ServiceNow
6 22 (5.30%) VMware
7 20 (4.82%) Atlassian
7 20 (4.82%) Salesforce
8 19 (4.58%) Google
9 15 (3.61%) IBM
10 14 (3.37%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.93%) ION Trading
11 8 (1.93%) SAP
12 6 (1.45%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.45%) CQG
12 6 (1.45%) Patsystems
12 6 (1.45%) Reuters
12 6 (1.45%) Trayport
12 6 (1.45%) Veeam
13 5 (1.20%) Pega