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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 262 362
Rank change year-on-year -102 +100 -120
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 462 486 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.13% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.82% 13.66% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 303 270 274
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,625 £51,250 £47,500
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 £68,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £102,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,500 £70,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -13.57% +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 4,269 3,557 6,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.17% 8.28% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 2,567 3,739
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 21 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 21 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 -14 210 £68,000 -17.58% 360
North of England -83 71 £60,000 +23.08% 86
South East -43 67 £60,000 - 85
South West -43 66 £62,750 +25.50% 50
North West -58 40 £60,000 +9.09% 52
Midlands -136 26 £50,000 -31.03% 44
West Midlands -95 21 £45,000 -37.93% 31
North East -43 18 £60,000 +9.09% 13
East of England -63 15 £38,000 -33.91% 40
Yorkshire -42 13 £60,850 +35.22% 21
East Midlands -72 5 £54,250 +50.69% 13
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 33 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.76%) CMS
3 7 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.87%) JBoss
4 4 (0.87%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.65%) Drupal
5 3 (0.65%) IIS
6 2 (0.43%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 55 (11.90%) MS Visio
2 28 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (2.38%) Trello
6 7 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (1.30%) Moqups
8 2 (0.43%) Simulink
9 1 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.22%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.73%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.43%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 146 (31.60%) Azure
2 98 (21.21%) AWS
3 63 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (8.23%) SaaS
5 35 (7.58%) Figma
5 35 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.71%) Miro
7 27 (5.84%) GitHub
8 21 (4.55%) GCP
9 19 (4.11%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.11%) Lucidchart
10 17 (3.68%) Serverless
11 16 (3.46%) Adobe Analytics
12 15 (3.25%) Contentsquare
13 14 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.81%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (2.38%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.16%) Amazon S3
17 9 (1.95%) AWS Fargate
17 9 (1.95%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.55%) VPN
2 16 (3.46%) Broadband
3 13 (2.81%) DNS
4 11 (2.38%) Firewall
5 10 (2.16%) DHCP
6 8 (1.73%) IPv4
6 8 (1.73%) Multicast
6 8 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.52%) WAN
8 6 (1.30%) FIX Connectivity
9 5 (1.08%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.08%) Wireless
10 4 (0.87%) LAN
11 3 (0.65%) Network Security
12 2 (0.43%) BGP
12 2 (0.43%) RFID
12 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.38%) Db2
5 10 (2.16%) DTS
5 10 (2.16%) Power BI
6 9 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.95%) MySQL
7 7 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (1.52%) Metadata
7 7 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.52%) Tableau
8 6 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.08%) Redis
10 3 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.65%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.43%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 422 (91.34%) JIRA
2 49 (10.61%) Git
3 25 (5.41%) GitLab
4 22 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 22 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.33%) Selenium
6 14 (3.03%) Postman
7 10 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.73%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.52%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.52%) MSI
10 7 (1.52%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.30%) JMeter
12 5 (1.08%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.43%) Balsamiq
13 2 (0.43%) Maven
13 2 (0.43%) Mocha
13 2 (0.43%) Subversion
13 2 (0.43%) Toad
General
1 183 (39.61%) Social Skills
2 157 (33.98%) Finance
3 102 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (6.49%) Games
5 30 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.28%) Manufacturing
7 27 (5.84%) Banking
8 25 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (4.33%) Law
10 19 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (4.11%) Marketing
11 18 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (3.90%) Legal
12 17 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 17 (3.68%) Retail
13 13 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.60%) Aerospace
15 11 (2.38%) Automotive
16 9 (1.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 123 (26.62%) Analyst
2 88 (19.05%) Business Analyst
3 62 (13.42%) Senior
4 60 (12.99%) Lead
5 30 (6.49%) Delivery Manager
5 30 (6.49%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.06%) Developer
6 28 (6.06%) Product Owner
7 25 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
8 23 (4.98%) Senior Analyst
8 23 (4.98%) Technical Business Analyst
9 22 (4.76%) Architect
9 22 (4.76%) Product Manager
10 16 (3.46%) Scrum Master
10 16 (3.46%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.03%) Support Analyst
12 13 (2.81%) Senior Manager
13 12 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (2.38%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.58%) HTML
2 31 (6.71%) Terraform
3 28 (6.06%) Node.js
3 28 (6.06%) REST
4 24 (5.19%) .NET
5 23 (4.98%) CSS
6 20 (4.33%) Middleware
7 19 (4.11%) JSON
8 18 (3.90%) React
9 17 (3.68%) Spring
9 17 (3.68%) Spring Boot
10 15 (3.25%) Kafka
10 15 (3.25%) RESTful
11 11 (2.38%) Next.js
11 11 (2.38%) XML
12 10 (2.16%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.16%) HTML5
13 9 (1.95%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (1.95%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.73%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.97%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.36%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.81%) PMI
7 12 (2.60%) Biopharmaceutical
7 12 (2.60%) EPoS
7 12 (2.60%) Equities
7 12 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (2.16%) iSeries
9 9 (1.95%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.95%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.73%) Eurex
10 8 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.15%) Windows
2 49 (10.61%) Linux
3 25 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.95%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.73%) Unix
6 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.08%) CentOS
8 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.65%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.22%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (63.85%) Agile
2 164 (35.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 146 (31.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 139 (30.09%) Scrum
5 122 (26.41%) AI
6 116 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (22.73%) User Stories
8 93 (20.13%) DevOps
9 84 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 83 (17.97%) Requirements Gathering
11 82 (17.75%) Decision-Making
12 80 (17.32%) Coaching
13 79 (17.10%) Kanban
14 78 (16.88%) Project Delivery
15 76 (16.45%) Acceptance Criteria
16 74 (16.02%) Mentoring
17 70 (15.15%) Sprint Planning
18 69 (14.94%) CI/CD
19 66 (14.29%) Project Management
20 65 (14.07%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.13%) SQL
2 73 (15.80%) Python
3 61 (13.20%) Java
4 41 (8.87%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.93%) JavaScript
6 30 (6.49%) Bash
7 24 (5.19%) C#
8 22 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.81%) C++
10 10 (2.16%) RPG
11 8 (1.73%) Bicep
12 4 (0.87%) PHP
13 3 (0.65%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.43%) C
14 2 (0.43%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.43%) 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 81 (17.53%) Degree
2 59 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.93%) PMI Certification
4 31 (6.71%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.63%) Master's Degree
6 19 (4.11%) AWS Certification
6 19 (4.11%) PMP
7 16 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (3.25%) ISTQB
8 15 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.60%) MBA
10 8 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.73%) CCNA
10 8 (1.73%) CSPO
10 8 (1.73%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.73%) OSCP
10 8 (1.73%) RHCE
10 8 (1.73%) RHCSA
11 7 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.77%) QA
2 34 (7.36%) Accessibility
3 27 (5.84%) WCAG
4 22 (4.76%) PMO
5 18 (3.90%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.16%) GDPR
8 7 (1.52%) NCSC
9 6 (1.30%) SLA
10 5 (1.08%) NIST
10 5 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.65%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.65%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.43%) GRC
12 2 (0.43%) MiFID
12 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (7.79%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.84%) Docker
3 23 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.73%) Squid
4 8 (1.73%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.73%) vSphere
5 7 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.87%) KVM
8 3 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.65%) Firmware
8 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.11%) Ansible
3 12 (2.60%) ZABBIX
4 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.73%) Packer
6 6 (1.30%) Kibana
6 6 (1.30%) Proxmox
6 6 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.87%) Graylog
8 4 (0.87%) Nagios
8 4 (0.87%) Podman
9 3 (0.65%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.43%) Grafana
10 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.49%) Atlassian
3 29 (6.28%) Oracle
4 24 (5.19%) VMware
5 23 (4.98%) Adobe
5 23 (4.98%) Splunk
6 19 (4.11%) Google
6 19 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 18 (3.90%) Red Hat
7 18 (3.90%) Salesforce
8 14 (3.03%) IBM
9 10 (2.16%) ION Trading
9 10 (2.16%) SAP
10 8 (1.73%) Bloomberg
10 8 (1.73%) CQG
10 8 (1.73%) Patsystems
10 8 (1.73%) Pega
10 8 (1.73%) Reuters
10 8 (1.73%) Trayport
11 6 (1.30%) Veeam