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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 243 331
Rank change year-on-year -141 +88 -103
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 411 562 668
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.30% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.58% 14.49% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 286 329 496
10th Percentile £38,750 £26,500 £30,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £62,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +10.62% -13.08%
75th Percentile £82,188 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +11.61% -13.85%

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 3,884 3,878 7,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 8.97% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,899 2,743 6,098
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,125
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% -11.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.16%

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 18 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 18 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 -27 160 £70,000 -6.67% 66
North of England -116 70 £65,766 +35.58% 25
South East -11 62 £60,000 +20.00% 40
North West -38 51 £65,766 +19.57% 16
South West -44 49 £55,000 +7.32% 15
Midlands -105 38 £45,000 -30.77% 19
East Midlands -52 21 £25,500 +13.33% 3
East of England -27 17 £42,500 -26.09% 7
West Midlands -71 17 £56,750 -21.72% 16
North East -51 12 £63,750 +183.33% 2
Yorkshire -75 7 £67,925 +40.03% 7
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 (8.52%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.30%) CMS
3 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.22%) IIS
5 4 (0.97%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.73%) JBoss
7 2 (0.49%) Apache
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.49%) Documentum
8 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (6.81%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.60%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.95%) Trello
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.24%) Moqups
7 1 (0.24%) Notion
7 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.46%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.49%) Shopify
4 2 (0.49%) Workfront
5 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.24%) Magento
5 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 121 (29.44%) Azure
2 74 (18.00%) AWS
3 54 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (9.00%) Figma
5 32 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.08%) Contentsquare
8 24 (5.84%) SaaS
9 23 (5.60%) GitHub
10 22 (5.35%) Miro
11 20 (4.87%) Lucidchart
12 19 (4.62%) GCP
13 16 (3.89%) Serverless
14 14 (3.41%) Power Platform
15 13 (3.16%) Amazon S3
15 13 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (2.43%) AWS Fargate
17 9 (2.19%) Entra ID
17 9 (2.19%) Google Workspace
18 8 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.33%) Broadband
2 16 (3.89%) VPN
3 13 (3.16%) Firewall
4 8 (1.95%) IPv4
4 8 (1.95%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.46%) DNS
5 6 (1.46%) Multicast
6 4 (0.97%) FIX Connectivity
6 4 (0.97%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.97%) WAN
6 4 (0.97%) Wireless
7 3 (0.73%) LAN
7 3 (0.73%) Network Security
8 2 (0.49%) BGP
8 2 (0.49%) RFID
8 2 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.24%) DHCP
9 1 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.24%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.16%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.68%) Db2
5 10 (2.43%) DTS
6 9 (2.19%) MySQL
7 8 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.95%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.70%) Power BI
8 7 (1.70%) Tableau
9 5 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.97%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.73%) Big Data
11 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.73%) Redis
11 3 (0.73%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.49%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 363 (88.32%) JIRA
2 37 (9.00%) Git
3 26 (6.33%) GitLab
4 22 (5.35%) Bitbucket
5 17 (4.14%) Jenkins
6 14 (3.41%) Selenium
7 9 (2.19%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.70%) JMeter
9 7 (1.70%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.22%) MSI
11 4 (0.97%) Postman
11 4 (0.97%) Toad
12 3 (0.73%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.73%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.73%) Maven
12 3 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.73%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.73%) TestRail
13 2 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 157 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 129 (31.39%) Finance
3 69 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.46%) Games
5 31 (7.54%) Legal
6 29 (7.06%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (5.60%) Banking
7 23 (5.60%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.87%) Law
8 20 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.65%) Retail
10 12 (2.92%) Automotive
10 12 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.68%) Marketing
12 10 (2.43%) Aerospace
13 9 (2.19%) Advertising
13 9 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.19%) Electronics
14 6 (1.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 90 (21.90%) Analyst
2 68 (16.55%) Lead
3 62 (15.09%) Business Analyst
4 44 (10.71%) Senior
5 27 (6.57%) Architect
5 27 (6.57%) Scrum Master
6 24 (5.84%) Delivery Manager
6 24 (5.84%) Developer
7 22 (5.35%) Project Manager
8 19 (4.62%) Technical Analyst
9 17 (4.14%) Technical Business Analyst
10 16 (3.89%) IT Support
11 15 (3.65%) Product Manager
11 15 (3.65%) Product Owner
11 15 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.68%) IT Analyst
13 11 (2.68%) IT Engineer
13 11 (2.68%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (2.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.06%) Node.js
2 22 (5.35%) Middleware
3 21 (5.11%) .NET
4 19 (4.62%) Spring
5 18 (4.38%) CSS
5 18 (4.38%) Spring Boot
6 17 (4.14%) HTML
7 15 (3.65%) React
8 14 (3.41%) REST
9 13 (3.16%) Kafka
10 12 (2.92%) JSON
11 11 (2.68%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.68%) RESTful
12 10 (2.43%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.19%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.95%) HTML5
15 7 (1.70%) XML
16 6 (1.46%) .NET Framework
16 6 (1.46%) CSS3
16 6 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.33%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.06%) Onboarding
3 26 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.92%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.92%) EPoS
4 12 (2.92%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.43%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.43%) Equities
5 10 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.43%) iSeries
6 9 (2.19%) PMI
7 8 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
8 7 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.70%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.46%) Eurex
9 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (11.68%) Windows
2 41 (9.98%) Linux
3 24 (5.84%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.46%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.22%) CentOS
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.49%) Android
8 2 (0.49%) Unix
9 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (64.23%) Agile
2 148 (36.01%) Continuous Improvement
3 110 (26.76%) Scrum
4 103 (25.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 100 (24.33%) Roadmaps
6 84 (20.44%) DevOps
7 82 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.27%) CI/CD
9 68 (16.55%) Decision-Making
10 66 (16.06%) AI
11 63 (15.33%) User Experience
12 61 (14.84%) User Stories
13 59 (14.36%) Mentoring
14 56 (13.63%) SDLC
15 55 (13.38%) Kanban
16 54 (13.14%) Analytics
17 52 (12.65%) Requirements Gathering
18 50 (12.17%) Project Delivery
18 50 (12.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 48 (11.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (14.84%) SQL
2 56 (13.63%) Java
3 54 (13.14%) Python
4 30 (7.30%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.57%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.11%) Bash
7 18 (4.38%) C#
8 17 (4.14%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.43%) RPG
10 6 (1.46%) Bicep
10 6 (1.46%) C++
10 6 (1.46%) PHP
11 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.49%) C
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.24%) VB
13 1 (0.24%) VB6
Qualifications
1 53 (12.90%) Degree
2 45 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.62%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.14%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (2.92%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.68%) ISTQB
9 10 (2.43%) PMP
10 9 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.95%) CCNA
11 8 (1.95%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.95%) OSCP
11 8 (1.95%) RHCE
11 8 (1.95%) RHCSA
12 6 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (1.46%) CCSP
12 6 (1.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.44%) Accessibility
2 34 (8.27%) WCAG
3 31 (7.54%) QA
4 19 (4.62%) SLA
5 13 (3.16%) GDPR
6 12 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.70%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.46%) NCSC
8 6 (1.46%) PMO
9 4 (0.97%) ISO 26262
9 4 (0.97%) NIST
9 4 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.73%) GRC
10 3 (0.73%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.73%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.49%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (7.06%) Docker
2 25 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 22 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.95%) Squid
4 8 (1.95%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.95%) vSphere
5 6 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.97%) KVM
6 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (7.30%) Terraform
2 27 (6.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.14%) Ansible
4 12 (2.92%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.19%) Packer
6 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.70%) Kibana
8 5 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.22%) Nagios
8 5 (1.22%) Podman
8 5 (1.22%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.97%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.97%) Grafana
9 4 (0.97%) Graylog
9 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.73%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 80 (19.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.79%) Adobe
3 29 (7.06%) Oracle
4 28 (6.81%) ServiceNow
5 24 (5.84%) Splunk
6 22 (5.35%) Atlassian
6 22 (5.35%) VMware
7 18 (4.38%) Google
7 18 (4.38%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.65%) IBM
9 14 (3.41%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.19%) SAP
11 8 (1.95%) ION Trading
12 7 (1.70%) Bloomberg
13 6 (1.46%) CQG
13 6 (1.46%) Patsystems
13 6 (1.46%) Reuters
13 6 (1.46%) Trayport
13 6 (1.46%) Veeam
14 5 (1.22%) MuleSoft