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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 257 356
Rank change year-on-year -122 +99 -123
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 449 506 469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.16% 0.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.67% 13.87% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 295 289 278
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,150 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £48,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +19.25% -16.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £100,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -13.04%

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 4,210 3,649 6,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 8.39% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,034 2,629 3,907
10th Percentile £29,076 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +0.60%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £109,000 £136,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -0.09%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -16 199 £69,000 -16.36% 155
North of England -83 71 £60,000 +23.69% 45
South East -10 66 £60,000 +2.13% 40
South West -57 63 £60,500 +21.00% 34
North West -43 40 £60,000 +11.63% 23
Midlands -119 29 £51,250 -29.31% 20
West Midlands -75 23 £51,250 -29.31% 19
North East -45 18 £60,000 +166.67% 8
East of England -54 15 £36,000 -37.39% 14
Yorkshire -59 13 £60,850 +28.11% 14
East Midlands -66 6 £54,250 +52.82% 1
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 32 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.79%) CMS
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.89%) IIS
4 4 (0.89%) JBoss
4 4 (0.89%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.67%) Drupal
5 3 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (11.36%) MS Visio
2 27 (6.01%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.00%) Trello
6 7 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (1.11%) Moqups
8 2 (0.45%) Simulink
9 1 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (2.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.78%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 143 (31.85%) Azure
2 96 (21.38%) AWS
3 62 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.69%) Figma
5 37 (8.24%) SaaS
6 32 (7.13%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (6.46%) Miro
8 26 (5.79%) GitHub
9 23 (5.12%) GCP
10 21 (4.68%) Adobe Analytics
11 20 (4.45%) Contentsquare
12 19 (4.23%) Lucidchart
13 18 (4.01%) Entra ID
14 17 (3.79%) Serverless
15 14 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
17 11 (2.45%) Amazon S3
18 10 (2.23%) Power Platform
19 9 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
19 9 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.68%) Broadband
2 20 (4.45%) VPN
3 12 (2.67%) DNS
4 11 (2.45%) Firewall
5 9 (2.00%) DHCP
6 8 (1.78%) IPv4
6 8 (1.78%) Multicast
6 8 (1.78%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.56%) WAN
8 6 (1.34%) FIX Connectivity
8 6 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.34%) Wireless
9 5 (1.11%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.89%) LAN
11 3 (0.67%) Network Security
12 2 (0.45%) BGP
12 2 (0.45%) RFID
12 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.34%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.45%) Db2
5 10 (2.23%) DTS
6 9 (2.00%) MySQL
6 9 (2.00%) Power BI
7 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (1.56%) Tableau
8 6 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.11%) Redis
10 4 (0.89%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.67%) Metadata
11 3 (0.67%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.45%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.45%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 405 (90.20%) JIRA
2 49 (10.91%) Git
3 25 (5.57%) GitLab
4 24 (5.35%) Bitbucket
5 22 (4.90%) Jenkins
6 20 (4.45%) Selenium
7 11 (2.45%) Postman
8 10 (2.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.78%) Zephyr
11 7 (1.56%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.56%) JMeter
11 7 (1.56%) MSI
12 6 (1.34%) Claude Code
13 5 (1.11%) SoapUI
14 4 (0.89%) Toad
15 3 (0.67%) TestRail
16 2 (0.45%) git-flow
16 2 (0.45%) SonarQube
16 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 176 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 157 (34.97%) Finance
3 97 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.80%) Games
5 29 (6.46%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.24%) Banking
7 27 (6.01%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (5.57%) Manufacturing
10 23 (5.12%) Legal
11 18 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (3.79%) Law
13 16 (3.56%) Marketing
14 15 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (3.34%) Retail
15 13 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (2.67%) Aerospace
16 12 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (2.45%) Automotive
18 9 (2.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 115 (25.61%) Analyst
2 81 (18.04%) Business Analyst
3 66 (14.70%) Lead
4 63 (14.03%) Senior
5 29 (6.46%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.24%) Product Owner
7 25 (5.57%) Delivery Manager
7 25 (5.57%) Senior Analyst
8 24 (5.35%) Developer
9 23 (5.12%) Architect
9 23 (5.12%) Technical Analyst
10 22 (4.90%) Technical Business Analyst
11 21 (4.68%) Product Manager
12 17 (3.79%) Scrum Master
12 17 (3.79%) Senior Business Analyst
13 14 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.90%) Support Analyst
15 12 (2.67%) Senior Manager
16 11 (2.45%) Product Analyst
16 11 (2.45%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.13%) Terraform
2 30 (6.68%) HTML
3 27 (6.01%) Node.js
3 27 (6.01%) REST
4 24 (5.35%) .NET
5 21 (4.68%) CSS
6 20 (4.45%) Middleware
7 19 (4.23%) JSON
8 17 (3.79%) Spring
8 17 (3.79%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.56%) React
10 15 (3.34%) Kafka
11 14 (3.12%) RESTful
12 11 (2.45%) XML
13 10 (2.23%) ASP.NET
13 10 (2.23%) HTML5
14 9 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
14 9 (2.00%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.78%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.78%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.59%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.67%) EPoS
6 12 (2.67%) Equities
6 12 (2.67%) PMI
6 12 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (2.23%) iSeries
9 9 (2.00%) Biopharmaceutical
9 9 (2.00%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.78%) Eurex
10 8 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 69 (15.37%) Windows
2 48 (10.69%) Linux
3 26 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.78%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.56%) Unix
7 6 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.11%) CentOS
8 5 (1.11%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.67%) Android
11 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.22%) Rocky
11 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (64.81%) Agile
2 164 (36.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 141 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 139 (30.96%) Scrum
5 115 (25.61%) AI
6 108 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (20.94%) User Stories
8 92 (20.49%) DevOps
8 92 (20.49%) Roadmaps
9 82 (18.26%) Decision-Making
10 80 (17.82%) Mentoring
11 79 (17.59%) Requirements Gathering
12 77 (17.15%) Kanban
13 76 (16.93%) Coaching
14 73 (16.26%) Project Delivery
15 68 (15.14%) Acceptance Criteria
15 68 (15.14%) CI/CD
15 68 (15.14%) User Experience
16 66 (14.70%) Sprint Planning
17 62 (13.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (18.26%) SQL
2 72 (16.04%) Python
3 62 (13.81%) Java
4 40 (8.91%) PowerShell
5 31 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 28 (6.24%) Bash
7 22 (4.90%) C#
8 20 (4.45%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.90%) C++
10 10 (2.23%) RPG
11 8 (1.78%) Bicep
12 5 (1.11%) PHP
13 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.45%) C
14 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.45%) Ruby
15 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.22%) Groovy
15 1 (0.22%) Perl
15 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (16.70%) Degree
2 56 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.13%) PMI Certification
4 30 (6.68%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.35%) Master's Degree
6 20 (4.45%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.45%) PMP
7 16 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.12%) ISTQB
9 14 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.00%) MBA
11 8 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.78%) CCNA
11 8 (1.78%) OSCP
11 8 (1.78%) RHCE
11 8 (1.78%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.56%) CCSP
12 7 (1.56%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.80%) QA
2 39 (8.69%) Accessibility
3 32 (7.13%) WCAG
4 20 (4.45%) PMO
5 13 (2.90%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.23%) GDPR
8 8 (1.78%) NCSC
9 7 (1.56%) SLA
10 5 (1.11%) NIST
10 5 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.89%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.45%) GRC
14 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (8.02%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.46%) Docker
3 23 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.78%) Squid
4 8 (1.78%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.78%) vSphere
5 7 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.89%) KVM
8 3 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.67%) Firmware
8 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.45%) Ansible
3 12 (2.67%) ZABBIX
4 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.00%) Packer
5 6 (1.34%) Kibana
5 6 (1.34%) Proxmox
5 6 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.89%) Functional Safety
7 4 (0.89%) Graylog
7 4 (0.89%) Nagios
7 4 (0.89%) Podman
8 3 (0.67%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 105 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.68%) Oracle
3 28 (6.24%) Atlassian
4 27 (6.01%) Adobe
5 24 (5.35%) VMware
6 23 (5.12%) Splunk
7 21 (4.68%) Google
8 20 (4.45%) ServiceNow
9 18 (4.01%) Red Hat
9 18 (4.01%) Salesforce
10 14 (3.12%) IBM
11 10 (2.23%) ION Trading
12 8 (1.78%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.78%) CQG
12 8 (1.78%) Patsystems
12 8 (1.78%) Pega
12 8 (1.78%) Reuters
12 8 (1.78%) SAP
12 8 (1.78%) Trayport
13 6 (1.34%) Veeam