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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 235 311
Rank change year-on-year -110 +76 -69
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 393 544 763
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.39% 0.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.41% 15.00% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 262 302 582
10th Percentile £32,500 £21,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,125 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,375 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 3,444 3,627 8,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.14% 9.30% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,528 6,564
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £37,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,438
90th Percentile £93,738 £110,000 £100,000
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -38 145 £75,000 +7.14% 127
North of England -110 64 £65,766 +22.36% 33
South East -12 55 £62,500 +31.58% 54
North West -44 52 £65,766 +2.92% 20
Midlands -84 46 £45,000 +20.00% 29
South West -52 41 £52,500 - 26
East Midlands -58 28 £25,500 +13.33% 10
East of England -10 25 £32,500 -60.61% 17
West Midlands -58 18 £69,000 -4.83% 19
Yorkshire -91 7 £75,000 +54.62% 9
North East -45 5 £67,500 +200.00% 4
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 41 (10.43%) SharePoint
2 33 (8.40%) CMS
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.27%) IIS
5 4 (1.02%) Documentum
5 4 (1.02%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.76%) Apache
6 3 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.76%) JBoss
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (5.60%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (4.83%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.76%) Trello
6 1 (0.25%) Notion
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.53%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.51%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.43%) Azure
2 63 (16.03%) AWS
3 42 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (9.41%) Figma
5 30 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.87%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.36%) Contentsquare
8 23 (5.85%) SaaS
9 19 (4.83%) GCP
10 16 (4.07%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.82%) GitHub
12 11 (2.80%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.80%) Lucidchart
13 10 (2.54%) Miro
14 9 (2.29%) PaaS
14 9 (2.29%) Slack
15 8 (2.04%) Amazon S3
15 8 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.04%) Serverless
16 7 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.87%) Broadband
2 16 (4.07%) Firewall
3 14 (3.56%) VPN
4 8 (2.04%) IPv4
4 8 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.53%) DNS
5 6 (1.53%) Multicast
5 6 (1.53%) WAN
6 5 (1.27%) LAN
7 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.02%) Wireless
8 3 (0.76%) Network Security
8 3 (0.76%) WLAN
9 2 (0.51%) BGP
9 2 (0.51%) DMVPN
9 2 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.04%) DB2
3 8 (2.04%) MySQL
3 8 (2.04%) Power BI
4 6 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.02%) DTS
6 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.76%) Big Data
7 3 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.76%) Spatial Data
7 3 (0.76%) Tableau
8 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 351 (89.31%) JIRA
2 27 (6.87%) Git
3 22 (5.60%) GitLab
4 21 (5.34%) Bitbucket
5 18 (4.58%) Jenkins
6 15 (3.82%) Selenium
7 9 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.27%) Maven
8 5 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.27%) TestRail
8 5 (1.27%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.02%) JMeter
9 4 (1.02%) JUnit
9 4 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.02%) Toad
10 3 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.76%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.76%) Postman
10 3 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 145 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 124 (31.55%) Finance
3 56 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.94%) Games
5 36 (9.16%) Legal
6 35 (8.91%) Banking
7 26 (6.62%) Law
8 23 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.33%) Manufacturing
9 17 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.56%) Marketing
11 13 (3.31%) Automotive
11 13 (3.31%) Public Sector
11 13 (3.31%) Retail
12 11 (2.80%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.54%) Electronics
13 10 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (2.29%) Advertising
15 6 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.53%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (20.61%) Analyst
2 70 (17.81%) Lead
3 57 (14.50%) Business Analyst
4 46 (11.70%) Senior
5 29 (7.38%) Architect
6 26 (6.62%) Scrum Master
7 24 (6.11%) Developer
8 22 (5.60%) IT Support
9 18 (4.58%) Delivery Manager
9 18 (4.58%) Project Manager
10 16 (4.07%) Lead Architect
10 16 (4.07%) Product Owner
10 16 (4.07%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.82%) IT Engineer
11 15 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (3.56%) IT Analyst
12 14 (3.56%) Product Manager
13 13 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.33%) React
2 15 (3.82%) .NET
2 15 (3.82%) CSS
2 15 (3.82%) Node.js
3 13 (3.31%) HTML
3 13 (3.31%) Middleware
4 11 (2.80%) ASP.NET
4 11 (2.80%) GraphQL
5 10 (2.54%) REST
6 9 (2.29%) RESTful
6 9 (2.29%) Spring
7 8 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.27%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.27%) Gherkin
9 5 (1.27%) JSON
9 5 (1.27%) Kafka
9 5 (1.27%) React Native
9 5 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.54%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.38%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.05%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.29%) Equities
5 9 (2.29%) PMI
6 8 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.53%) Eurex
7 6 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.27%) EPoS
8 5 (1.27%) IoT
8 5 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.67%) Linux
2 35 (8.91%) Windows
3 19 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.02%) CentOS
6 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.76%) Android
7 3 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.51%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (63.87%) Agile
2 130 (33.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 103 (26.21%) Roadmaps
4 99 (25.19%) Scrum
5 89 (22.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (19.08%) DevOps
7 73 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
8 70 (17.81%) User Experience
9 66 (16.79%) CI/CD
10 62 (15.78%) Decision-Making
11 60 (15.27%) AI
12 54 (13.74%) Analytics
13 53 (13.49%) SDLC
14 52 (13.23%) Kanban
14 52 (13.23%) User Stories
15 51 (12.98%) Mentoring
16 47 (11.96%) Sprint Planning
17 45 (11.45%) Project Management
18 43 (10.94%) Acceptance Criteria
19 40 (10.18%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.23%) SQL
2 46 (11.70%) Python
3 37 (9.41%) Java
4 26 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.34%) Bash
5 21 (5.34%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.31%) C#
7 12 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.27%) PHP
8 5 (1.27%) RPG
9 4 (1.02%) C++
10 3 (0.76%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.51%) Ruby
11 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.25%) C
12 1 (0.25%) Delphi
12 1 (0.25%) Groovy
12 1 (0.25%) VB
12 1 (0.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (11.70%) Degree
2 40 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 15 (3.82%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.29%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.04%) CCNA
9 8 (2.04%) OSCP
9 8 (2.04%) RHCE
9 8 (2.04%) RHCSA
10 7 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.53%) PMP
12 4 (1.02%) CITP
13 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.69%) Accessibility
2 30 (7.63%) QA
3 29 (7.38%) WCAG
4 20 (5.09%) SLA
5 10 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.04%) GDPR
6 8 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.27%) PMO
9 4 (1.02%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.51%) Basel II
11 2 (0.51%) GRC
11 2 (0.51%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.51%) MiFID
11 2 (0.51%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (6.62%) Docker
2 24 (6.11%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.04%) Squid
4 8 (2.04%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.04%) vSphere
5 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.02%) KVM
8 3 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.76%) Firmware
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (6.11%) Kubernetes
1 24 (6.11%) Terraform
2 15 (3.82%) Ansible
3 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.05%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.29%) Packer
6 6 (1.53%) Grafana
7 5 (1.27%) Kibana
8 4 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.02%) Functional Safety
8 4 (1.02%) Graylog
8 4 (1.02%) Nagios
8 4 (1.02%) Podman
8 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.02%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.76%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.76%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.40%) Adobe
3 32 (8.14%) Oracle
4 29 (7.38%) Atlassian
5 25 (6.36%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.83%) VMware
7 17 (4.33%) Splunk
8 16 (4.07%) Google
8 16 (4.07%) Salesforce
9 15 (3.82%) SAP
10 12 (3.05%) Red Hat
11 11 (2.80%) IBM
12 8 (2.04%) Siemens
13 7 (1.78%) Bloomberg
14 6 (1.53%) CQG
14 6 (1.53%) ION Trading
14 6 (1.53%) Patsystems
14 6 (1.53%) Reuters
14 6 (1.53%) Trayport
14 6 (1.53%) Veeam