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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 259 378
Rank change year-on-year -130 +119 -141
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 435 495 426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 1.15% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.95% 14.22% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 277 265 238
10th Percentile £39,530 £36,250 £40,524
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £92,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%

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 4,373 3,481 5,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.19% 8.12% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,976 2,505 3,311
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.09% +4.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £106,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% +4.55%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -5 203 £67,500 -16.92% 247
South East -34 66 £60,000 +14.29% 65
South West -43 63 £62,750 +25.50% 36
North of England -88 62 £60,000 +20.00% 81
North West -65 31 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Midlands -136 20 £50,000 -31.03% 33
East of England -55 17 £40,000 -30.43% 14
North East -58 17 £42,500 -15.00% 7
West Midlands -88 16 £45,000 -37.93% 23
Yorkshire -40 14 £61,675 +40.17% 42
East Midlands -79 4 £50,000 +33.33% 10
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 28 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.76%) CMS
3 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.15%) JBoss
5 4 (0.92%) Drupal
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 3 (0.69%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.46%) nginx
7 2 (0.46%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 55 (12.64%) MS Visio
2 26 (5.98%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (3.22%) Trello
6 7 (1.61%) Moqups
7 6 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.92%) Simulink
9 1 (0.23%) Notion
9 1 (0.23%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.84%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.46%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 133 (30.57%) Azure
2 92 (21.15%) AWS
3 62 (14.25%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (8.97%) SaaS
6 32 (7.36%) Miro
7 31 (7.13%) GitHub
8 24 (5.52%) Figma
9 19 (4.37%) Entra ID
10 18 (4.14%) Lucidchart
11 17 (3.91%) Serverless
12 14 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
13 13 (2.99%) GCP
14 12 (2.76%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.30%) Amazon S3
16 9 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
16 9 (2.07%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.83%) VPN
2 12 (2.76%) DNS
3 10 (2.30%) DHCP
4 8 (1.84%) Firewall
4 8 (1.84%) Multicast
4 8 (1.84%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.38%) Broadband
5 6 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (1.38%) IPv4
5 6 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (1.15%) WAN
7 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.69%) Network Security
8 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.46%) DMARC
9 2 (0.46%) LAN
9 2 (0.46%) RFID
9 2 (0.46%) SAN
9 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.53%) Metadata
4 11 (2.53%) Power BI
5 10 (2.30%) Db2
5 10 (2.30%) DTS
5 10 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.07%) MySQL
7 8 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (1.38%) Spatial Data
9 6 (1.38%) Tableau
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (1.15%) Redis
11 3 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.46%) GIS
Development Applications
1 405 (93.10%) JIRA
2 43 (9.89%) Git
3 28 (6.44%) GitLab
4 19 (4.37%) Jenkins
5 18 (4.14%) Bitbucket
5 18 (4.14%) Selenium
6 15 (3.45%) Postman
7 10 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (2.30%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.07%) Claude Code
9 8 (1.84%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.61%) JMeter
10 7 (1.61%) MSI
11 5 (1.15%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.15%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.46%) Balsamiq
13 2 (0.46%) git-flow
13 2 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 177 (40.69%) Social Skills
2 149 (34.25%) Finance
3 104 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (6.90%) Banking
5 30 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.44%) Manufacturing
7 24 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (5.06%) Retail
9 21 (4.83%) Law
9 21 (4.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 19 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (4.14%) Marketing
12 16 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (3.22%) Games
14 13 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (2.99%) Publishing
15 11 (2.53%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.84%) Automotive
16 8 (1.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 126 (28.97%) Analyst
2 92 (21.15%) Business Analyst
3 59 (13.56%) Senior
4 39 (8.97%) Lead
5 32 (7.36%) Delivery Manager
6 31 (7.13%) Developer
7 27 (6.21%) Product Owner
8 25 (5.75%) Technical Analyst
9 23 (5.29%) Technical Business Analyst
10 22 (5.06%) Product Manager
10 22 (5.06%) Project Manager
10 22 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (4.83%) Architect
12 17 (3.91%) Senior Business Analyst
13 15 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (3.45%) Support Analyst
14 14 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.99%) Senior Manager
16 12 (2.76%) Data Business Analyst
16 12 (2.76%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (7.82%) HTML
2 32 (7.36%) REST
3 30 (6.90%) Node.js
4 28 (6.44%) .NET
5 27 (6.21%) Terraform
6 22 (5.06%) Middleware
7 21 (4.83%) CSS
8 20 (4.60%) React
9 18 (4.14%) JSON
10 17 (3.91%) RESTful
10 17 (3.91%) Spring
10 17 (3.91%) Spring Boot
11 16 (3.68%) Kafka
12 14 (3.22%) Next.js
13 12 (2.76%) ASP.NET
13 12 (2.76%) GraphQL
14 11 (2.53%) XML
15 10 (2.30%) HTML5
16 9 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
16 9 (2.07%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.70%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.82%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (4.83%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.99%) Biopharmaceutical
6 13 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.76%) EPoS
7 12 (2.76%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.53%) Equities
9 10 (2.30%) Fixed Income
9 10 (2.30%) iSeries
9 10 (2.30%) PMI
10 9 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.84%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 68 (15.63%) Windows
2 47 (10.80%) Linux
3 20 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.30%) macOS
5 9 (2.07%) Unix
6 8 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.15%) CentOS
9 4 (0.92%) Android
9 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) Rocky
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (64.14%) Agile
2 139 (31.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 138 (31.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 132 (30.34%) Scrum
5 124 (28.51%) AI
6 118 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
7 113 (25.98%) User Stories
8 96 (22.07%) DevOps
9 82 (18.85%) Coaching
10 80 (18.39%) Acceptance Criteria
11 78 (17.93%) Requirements Gathering
12 77 (17.70%) Kanban
13 71 (16.32%) Mentoring
13 71 (16.32%) Project Delivery
14 70 (16.09%) Sprint Planning
15 69 (15.86%) CI/CD
16 68 (15.63%) Decision-Making
17 67 (15.40%) Business Analysis
18 58 (13.33%) Project Management
18 58 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 93 (21.38%) SQL
2 67 (15.40%) Python
3 57 (13.10%) Java
4 41 (9.43%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.36%) JavaScript
6 30 (6.90%) Bash
7 28 (6.44%) C#
8 24 (5.52%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.99%) C++
10 10 (2.30%) RPG
11 8 (1.84%) Bicep
12 4 (0.92%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.92%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.46%) C
14 2 (0.46%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.23%) Ada
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (16.55%) Degree
2 60 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 34 (7.82%) SC Cleared
4 28 (6.44%) PMI Certification
5 23 (5.29%) Master's Degree
6 18 (4.14%) PMP
7 17 (3.91%) AWS Certification
8 15 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.99%) ISTQB
10 13 (2.99%) MBA
11 10 (2.30%) CSPO
12 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.84%) IIBA
13 7 (1.61%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.61%) CBAP
13 7 (1.61%) DV Cleared
14 6 (1.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.25%) QA
2 24 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.60%) PMO
4 17 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.91%) WCAG
5 9 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.61%) GDPR
6 7 (1.61%) NCSC
7 4 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.92%) NIST
7 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.69%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.69%) SLA
9 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.23%) TARGET2
System Software
1 33 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.75%) Docker
3 19 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.61%) vSphere
5 6 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.38%) Squid
5 6 (1.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.92%) KVM
6 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.69%) Firmware
8 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.14%) Ansible
3 10 (2.30%) ZABBIX
4 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.38%) Packer
6 6 (1.38%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.15%) Kibana
8 4 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.92%) Graylog
8 4 (0.92%) Nagios
8 4 (0.92%) Podman
8 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.46%) Grafana
10 2 (0.46%) Puppet
11 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.98%) Atlassian
3 24 (5.52%) Oracle
4 21 (4.83%) VMware
5 20 (4.60%) Splunk
6 17 (3.91%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.68%) Google
7 16 (3.68%) IBM
7 16 (3.68%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.45%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.99%) Adobe
10 10 (2.30%) ION Trading
11 9 (2.07%) SAP
12 8 (1.84%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.84%) CQG
12 8 (1.84%) Patsystems
12 8 (1.84%) Pega
12 8 (1.84%) Reuters
12 8 (1.84%) Trayport
13 6 (1.38%) Apple