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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 250 364
Rank change year-on-year -137 +114 -146
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 429 541 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.24% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.54% 13.81% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 289 325 315
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £99,000 £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 4,071 3,917 6,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.33% 8.95% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,949 2,792 4,739
10th Percentile £29,711 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -2.39% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.25%

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 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 13 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 -34 178 £70,000 -15.15% 252
North of England -90 79 £65,766 +35.58% 66
South East -6 65 £60,000 +14.29% 46
South West -36 54 £60,250 +14.76% 35
North West -34 49 £65,766 +22.36% 30
Midlands -120 28 £50,000 -29.82% 27
West Midlands -75 18 £56,750 -21.72% 23
North East -49 17 £60,000 +166.67% 14
East of England -45 15 £45,000 -21.74% 14
Yorkshire -52 13 £60,850 +25.45% 22
East Midlands -72 10 £46,250 +105.56% 3
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 37 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.23%) 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 41 (9.56%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.36%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.10%) 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%) Fidessa
2 7 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 140 (32.63%) Azure
2 90 (20.98%) AWS
3 62 (14.45%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (10.02%) Figma
5 35 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (6.76%) Miro
7 26 (6.06%) Adobe Analytics
8 25 (5.83%) Contentsquare
8 25 (5.83%) GitHub
9 23 (5.36%) SaaS
10 21 (4.90%) GCP
11 19 (4.43%) Lucidchart
12 17 (3.96%) Serverless
13 14 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.80%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.80%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.33%) Entra ID
16 9 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.10%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.06%) Broadband
2 13 (3.03%) VPN
3 12 (2.80%) 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 (1.17%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.17%) 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%) ATM
10 1 (0.23%) MPLS
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.56%) Db2
5 10 (2.33%) DTS
6 9 (2.10%) MySQL
7 8 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.63%) Power BI
8 7 (1.63%) Tableau
9 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.93%) Redis
11 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.70%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.47%) Metadata
12 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 383 (89.28%) JIRA
2 44 (10.26%) Git
3 24 (5.59%) Bitbucket
3 24 (5.59%) GitLab
4 20 (4.66%) Jenkins
5 18 (4.20%) Selenium
6 10 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.86%) JMeter
7 8 (1.86%) Postman
7 8 (1.86%) Zephyr
8 7 (1.63%) MSI
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
1 166 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 140 (32.63%) Finance
3 77 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.79%) Games
5 31 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
6 29 (6.76%) Legal
6 29 (6.76%) Public Sector
7 26 (6.06%) Banking
8 23 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.20%) Law
10 16 (3.73%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.80%) Retail
12 11 (2.56%) Automotive
12 11 (2.56%) Marketing
13 10 (2.33%) Aerospace
14 9 (2.10%) Electronics
14 9 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.86%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 95 (22.14%) Analyst
2 70 (16.32%) Business Analyst
2 70 (16.32%) Lead
3 55 (12.82%) Senior
4 25 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
4 25 (5.83%) Project Manager
5 24 (5.59%) Architect
5 24 (5.59%) Scrum Master
6 23 (5.36%) Developer
7 21 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
8 20 (4.66%) Product Manager
9 17 (3.96%) Technical Analyst
10 16 (3.73%) Product Owner
10 16 (3.73%) Senior Business Analyst
10 16 (3.73%) Technical Business Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.56%) Designer
13 10 (2.33%) Content Manager
13 10 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.10%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.53%) Node.js
2 24 (5.59%) .NET
3 22 (5.13%) HTML
4 20 (4.66%) CSS
4 20 (4.66%) REST
5 19 (4.43%) Middleware
6 17 (3.96%) Spring
6 17 (3.96%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.73%) JSON
8 15 (3.50%) Kafka
8 15 (3.50%) React
9 13 (3.03%) RESTful
10 10 (2.33%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.33%) HTML5
11 9 (2.10%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.10%) GraphQL
11 9 (2.10%) XML
12 8 (1.86%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.86%) CSS3
13 7 (1.63%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.92%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.23%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.59%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.43%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.80%) EPoS
5 12 (2.80%) Equities
6 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.56%) PMI
7 10 (2.33%) iSeries
7 10 (2.33%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.10%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.86%) Eurex
9 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.29%) Windows
2 43 (10.02%) Linux
3 26 (6.06%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.63%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.93%) CentOS
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.70%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (63.87%) Agile
2 161 (37.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 129 (30.07%) Scrum
4 124 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 95 (22.14%) DevOps
5 95 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (22.14%) Roadmaps
6 87 (20.28%) AI
7 75 (17.48%) CI/CD
8 74 (17.25%) Decision-Making
9 71 (16.55%) Kanban
10 70 (16.32%) User Stories
11 69 (16.08%) Mentoring
12 66 (15.38%) SDLC
13 65 (15.15%) User Experience
14 63 (14.69%) Project Delivery
15 62 (14.45%) Requirements Gathering
16 61 (14.22%) Project Management
16 61 (14.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 57 (13.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.38%) SQL
2 65 (15.15%) Python
3 62 (14.45%) Java
4 32 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 31 (7.23%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.36%) Bash
7 22 (5.13%) C#
8 19 (4.43%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.80%) C++
10 10 (2.33%) RPG
11 8 (1.86%) Bicep
12 5 (1.17%) 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%) Groovy
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (13.99%) Degree
2 53 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.29%) PMI Certification
5 20 (4.66%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.96%) Master's Degree
7 16 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (3.73%) PMP
8 13 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.80%) ISTQB
10 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.86%) CCNA
11 8 (1.86%) OSCP
11 8 (1.86%) RHCE
11 8 (1.86%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.63%) CCSP
12 7 (1.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.42%) Accessibility
2 38 (8.86%) QA
3 37 (8.62%) WCAG
4 17 (3.96%) PMO
5 14 (3.26%) GDPR
6 12 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.56%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.56%) SLA
8 8 (1.86%) NCSC
9 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.17%) NIST
9 5 (1.17%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) MiFID
13 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.69%) Docker
2 30 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.36%) 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 (1.17%) 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 35 (8.16%) Terraform
2 28 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.66%) Ansible
4 12 (2.80%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.10%) Packer
6 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.40%) Kibana
7 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.17%) 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%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 96 (22.38%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.46%) Adobe
2 32 (7.46%) Oracle
3 25 (5.83%) Atlassian
4 24 (5.59%) VMware
5 23 (5.36%) Splunk
6 21 (4.90%) ServiceNow
7 20 (4.66%) Salesforce
8 19 (4.43%) Google
9 17 (3.96%) Red Hat
10 15 (3.50%) IBM
11 10 (2.33%) ION Trading
12 8 (1.86%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.86%) CQG
12 8 (1.86%) Patsystems
12 8 (1.86%) Reuters
12 8 (1.86%) Trayport
13 7 (1.63%) SAP
14 6 (1.40%) Veeam
15 5 (1.17%) Pega