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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 302 270
Rank change year-on-year -10 -32 -63
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 336 445 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 0.93% 1.12%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.44% 10.09% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 211 252 483
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,075 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.42%

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 2,937 4,412 5,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.48% 9.23% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,096 2,592 4,413
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,125 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +3 133 £80,000 +33.33% 64
North of England +2 50 £50,000 -13.04% 59
South East +11 43 £56,000 -2.61% 99
Midlands +18 38 £60,000 -7.69% 52
South West -32 34 £50,000 -9.09% 44
East of England +29 28 £57,500 +12.75% 40
North West -6 26 £57,500 - 24
Yorkshire -12 21 £49,500 -31.72% 28
West Midlands +15 20 £72,500 +11.54% 24
East Midlands +2 18 £42,500 +13.33% 26
North East - 3 £50,000 - 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 25 (7.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.38%) Apache
3 6 (1.79%) CMS
3 6 (1.79%) IIS
4 4 (1.19%) nginx
4 4 (1.19%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.89%) WordPress
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) Documentum
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) MTS
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) FileNet
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 23 (6.85%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (5.65%) MS Visio
3 16 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.19%) CATIA
6 4 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (1.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.60%) Sketch
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.30%) Doxygen
8 1 (0.30%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.30%) InDesign
8 1 (0.30%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.60%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.60%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.30%) Actimize
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.32%) Azure
2 37 (11.01%) AWS
3 24 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 23 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (6.55%) SaaS
6 21 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (6.25%) Figma
7 14 (4.17%) GitHub
7 14 (4.17%) Serverless
8 12 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 11 (3.27%) Adobe Analytics
9 11 (3.27%) GCP
10 10 (2.98%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.68%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.68%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.38%) Miro
13 7 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.79%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.65%) Firewall
2 14 (4.17%) DNS
3 9 (2.68%) HTTP
4 7 (2.08%) SSH
5 6 (1.79%) FTP
5 6 (1.79%) SMTP
5 6 (1.79%) VLAN
6 5 (1.49%) Internet
6 5 (1.49%) VPN
6 5 (1.49%) Wireless
7 4 (1.19%) IMAP
7 4 (1.19%) Multicast
7 4 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.89%) DHCP
8 3 (0.89%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (0.89%) Network Security
8 3 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.89%) WAN
9 2 (0.60%) Broadband
9 2 (0.60%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (4.17%) Power BI
4 13 (3.87%) MySQL
5 11 (3.27%) DB2
6 9 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.19%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 317 (94.35%) JIRA
2 41 (12.20%) Git
3 32 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 19 (5.65%) Selenium
6 14 (4.17%) GitLab
6 14 (4.17%) TeamCity
7 12 (3.57%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.38%) JUnit
9 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.79%) Postman
10 6 (1.79%) Vagrant
11 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.19%) JMeter
13 3 (0.89%) TestNG
13 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.89%) webpack
14 2 (0.60%) Gradle
14 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 99 (29.46%) Finance
3 63 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (14.29%) Banking
5 22 (6.55%) Marketing
6 19 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 17 (5.06%) Law
8 15 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.46%) Retail
9 14 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.87%) Legal
11 12 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (3.27%) Front Office
13 10 (2.98%) Billing
14 9 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (2.38%) Automotive
15 8 (2.38%) Spanish Language
16 7 (2.08%) Military
17 6 (1.79%) Advertising
17 6 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (23.21%) Analyst
2 54 (16.07%) Senior
3 53 (15.77%) Business Analyst
4 30 (8.93%) Lead
5 29 (8.63%) Developer
6 18 (5.36%) Support Analyst
7 17 (5.06%) Architect
7 17 (5.06%) Product Owner
8 16 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.46%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.57%) Lead Architect
12 11 (3.27%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.98%) Java Developer
13 10 (2.98%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.98%) Senior Business Analyst
14 9 (2.68%) Operations Engineer
14 9 (2.68%) Product Manager
14 9 (2.68%) Senior Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.44%) HTML
2 24 (7.14%) CSS
2 24 (7.14%) React
3 15 (4.46%) Node.js
4 14 (4.17%) RESTful
5 13 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (3.57%) .NET
7 11 (3.27%) Gherkin
8 10 (2.98%) REST
9 7 (2.08%) Kafka
10 6 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.79%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.79%) JSON
10 6 (1.79%) Middleware
11 5 (1.49%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.49%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.49%) LDAP
11 5 (1.49%) OAuth
11 5 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.69%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.98%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.38%) IoT
8 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.79%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.79%) Equities
9 6 (1.79%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.79%) Social Media
9 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.49%) Eurex
10 5 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.49%) PMI
10 5 (1.49%) Replication
11 4 (1.19%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.93%) Linux
2 28 (8.33%) Windows
3 10 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (1.79%) Ubuntu
4 6 (1.79%) VMS
5 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.49%) Unix
5 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.89%) Android
7 3 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.89%) Solaris
7 3 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (64.88%) Agile
2 79 (23.51%) Scrum
3 76 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 57 (16.96%) DevOps
7 54 (16.07%) CI/CD
8 52 (15.48%) User Experience
9 44 (13.10%) Roadmaps
10 40 (11.90%) Project Management
10 40 (11.90%) Sprint Planning
11 37 (11.01%) User Stories
12 36 (10.71%) Decision-Making
12 36 (10.71%) SDLC
13 35 (10.42%) Analytics
13 35 (10.42%) Kanban
14 34 (10.12%) Business Strategy
15 33 (9.82%) Business Analysis
15 33 (9.82%) Test Automation
16 27 (8.04%) AI
Programming Languages
1 73 (21.73%) SQL
2 43 (12.80%) Python
3 28 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.44%) Java
5 24 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 16 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.57%) C#
8 9 (2.68%) Bash
9 7 (2.08%) Groovy
10 3 (0.89%) RPG
10 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.60%) C
11 2 (0.60%) C++
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) XAML
12 1 (0.30%) Delphi
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) VB
12 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 60 (17.86%) Degree
2 38 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 26 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 21 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.98%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.79%) PMP
9 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.19%) CBAP
10 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.89%) CISSP
12 2 (0.60%) APMP
12 2 (0.60%) CCNA
12 2 (0.60%) CITP
12 2 (0.60%) IIBA
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 30 (8.93%) QA
3 17 (5.06%) PMO
4 12 (3.57%) WCAG
5 7 (2.08%) GDPR
6 6 (1.79%) Basel II
6 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.49%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.60%) NIST
10 2 (0.60%) SLA
11 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.30%) GMP
11 1 (0.30%) GxP
11 1 (0.30%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.30%) ITGC
11 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (7.44%) Docker
2 23 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.19%) Dovecot
4 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.19%) Postfix
4 4 (1.19%) Squid
4 4 (1.19%) vSphere
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.25%) Terraform
3 11 (3.27%) Grafana
3 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.79%) Ansible
5 6 (1.79%) Puppet
6 5 (1.49%) Kibana
6 5 (1.49%) Nessus
7 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.19%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.30%) Ambari
8 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.58%) Atlassian
3 25 (7.44%) Oracle
4 24 (7.14%) SAP
5 15 (4.46%) Adobe
5 15 (4.46%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.87%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.27%) Google
7 11 (3.27%) Siemens
8 10 (2.98%) Cisco
8 10 (2.98%) VMware
9 9 (2.68%) Qualtrics
10 7 (2.08%) IBM
11 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.49%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.49%) CQG
12 5 (1.49%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.49%) Patsystems
12 5 (1.49%) Reuters
12 5 (1.49%) Trayport