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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 266 363
Rank change year-on-year -115 +97 -130
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 453 483 468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 1.12% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.52% 13.62% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 298 266 265
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £70,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% +19.25% -16.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £103,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £59,350
% change year-on-year -14.29% +17.94% -12.07%

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 4,305 3,546 6,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.16% 8.21% 8.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,021 2,552 3,631
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 £70,250 £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 26 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 26 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 -7 208 £67,500 -18.18% 360
North of England -74 68 £60,000 +26.32% 88
South East -26 65 £60,000 +3.45% 99
South West -50 65 £62,750 +25.50% 53
North West -54 38 £60,000 +11.63% 47
Midlands -129 24 £50,000 -31.03% 41
West Midlands -86 20 £45,000 -37.93% 31
North East -47 17 £51,250 -6.82% 11
East of England -54 17 £40,000 -30.43% 40
Yorkshire -46 13 £60,850 +35.22% 30
East Midlands -69 4 £50,000 +35.14% 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 33 (7.28%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.75%) CMS
3 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.10%) JBoss
5 4 (0.88%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.66%) Drupal
6 3 (0.66%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 57 (12.58%) MS Visio
2 28 (6.18%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (2.87%) Trello
6 7 (1.55%) Moqups
7 6 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.66%) Simulink
9 1 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.22%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.77%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) 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
1 142 (31.35%) Azure
2 98 (21.63%) AWS
3 65 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.61%) SaaS
5 37 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.84%) Figma
6 31 (6.84%) Miro
7 27 (5.96%) GitHub
8 19 (4.19%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.19%) GCP
8 19 (4.19%) Lucidchart
9 17 (3.75%) Serverless
10 14 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.87%) Anthropic Claude
12 11 (2.43%) Adobe Analytics
13 10 (2.21%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.21%) Contentsquare
13 10 (2.21%) Power Platform
14 9 (1.99%) AWS Fargate
14 9 (1.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.64%) VPN
2 13 (2.87%) DNS
3 11 (2.43%) Broadband
4 10 (2.21%) DHCP
4 10 (2.21%) Firewall
5 8 (1.77%) IPv4
5 8 (1.77%) Multicast
5 8 (1.77%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.55%) WAN
7 6 (1.32%) FIX Connectivity
8 5 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.10%) Wireless
9 4 (0.88%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.88%) LAN
10 3 (0.66%) Network Security
11 2 (0.44%) RFID
11 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.43%) Db2
5 10 (2.21%) DTS
6 9 (1.99%) Metadata
6 9 (1.99%) MySQL
6 9 (1.99%) Power BI
7 8 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.55%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.55%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.10%) Redis
9 5 (1.10%) Tableau
10 3 (0.66%) Electronic Patient Records
10 3 (0.66%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 419 (92.49%) JIRA
2 46 (10.15%) Git
3 26 (5.74%) GitLab
4 23 (5.08%) Jenkins
5 22 (4.86%) Bitbucket
6 21 (4.64%) Selenium
7 15 (3.31%) Postman
8 10 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (2.21%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.99%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.55%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.55%) JMeter
10 7 (1.55%) MSI
10 7 (1.55%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.10%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
12 2 (0.44%) Maven
12 2 (0.44%) Mocha
12 2 (0.44%) Subversion
12 2 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 179 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 152 (33.55%) Finance
3 103 (22.74%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
5 31 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.40%) Manufacturing
7 27 (5.96%) Banking
8 24 (5.30%) Games
9 22 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (4.42%) Law
11 19 (4.19%) Marketing
12 18 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (3.97%) Retail
13 17 (3.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (2.87%) Legal
14 13 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (2.65%) Aerospace
16 11 (2.43%) Automotive
17 10 (2.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (27.37%) Analyst
2 91 (20.09%) Business Analyst
3 61 (13.47%) Senior
4 50 (11.04%) Lead
5 31 (6.84%) Delivery Manager
6 30 (6.62%) Project Manager
7 28 (6.18%) Developer
8 27 (5.96%) Product Owner
9 25 (5.52%) Technical Analyst
10 24 (5.30%) Technical Business Analyst
11 23 (5.08%) Product Manager
12 22 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
13 20 (4.42%) Architect
14 15 (3.31%) Scrum Master
14 15 (3.31%) Senior Business Analyst
15 14 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (3.09%) Support Analyst
16 13 (2.87%) Senior Manager
17 12 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
18 11 (2.43%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.73%) HTML
2 30 (6.62%) REST
3 28 (6.18%) Node.js
3 28 (6.18%) Terraform
4 23 (5.08%) .NET
4 23 (5.08%) CSS
5 21 (4.64%) Middleware
6 19 (4.19%) JSON
7 18 (3.97%) React
8 17 (3.75%) Spring
8 17 (3.75%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.53%) Kafka
10 15 (3.31%) RESTful
11 11 (2.43%) Next.js
11 11 (2.43%) XML
12 10 (2.21%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.21%) HTML5
13 9 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (1.99%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.77%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.44%) Product Ownership
2 35 (7.73%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (4.86%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.87%) PMI
8 12 (2.65%) Biopharmaceutical
8 12 (2.65%) EPoS
8 12 (2.65%) Equities
8 12 (2.65%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.21%) iSeries
10 9 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.99%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.99%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.77%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.67%) Windows
2 50 (11.04%) Linux
3 24 (5.30%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.99%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.99%) Unix
5 8 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.32%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.10%) CentOS
8 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.66%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.22%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (63.80%) Agile
2 155 (34.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 144 (31.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (29.80%) Scrum
5 123 (27.15%) AI
6 119 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (23.84%) User Stories
8 94 (20.75%) DevOps
9 84 (18.54%) Requirements Gathering
10 79 (17.44%) Acceptance Criteria
10 79 (17.44%) Coaching
11 78 (17.22%) Kanban
11 78 (17.22%) Project Delivery
12 75 (16.56%) Decision-Making
13 74 (16.34%) Roadmaps
14 71 (15.67%) CI/CD
15 69 (15.23%) Sprint Planning
16 68 (15.01%) Mentoring
17 65 (14.35%) Project Management
18 63 (13.91%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 95 (20.97%) SQL
2 71 (15.67%) Python
3 61 (13.47%) Java
4 41 (9.05%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 31 (6.84%) Bash
7 24 (5.30%) C#
8 22 (4.86%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.87%) C++
10 10 (2.21%) RPG
11 8 (1.77%) Bicep
12 4 (0.88%) PHP
13 3 (0.66%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.66%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.44%) C
14 2 (0.44%) Ruby
15 1 (0.22%) Ada
15 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 82 (18.10%) Degree
2 60 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.06%) PMI Certification
3 32 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.74%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.19%) AWS Certification
5 19 (4.19%) PMP
6 16 (3.53%) ISTQB
6 16 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.65%) MBA
9 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.77%) CBAP
9 8 (1.77%) CCNA
9 8 (1.77%) CSPO
9 8 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.77%) OSCP
9 8 (1.77%) RHCE
9 8 (1.77%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (13.69%) QA
2 29 (6.40%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.86%) PMO
3 22 (4.86%) WCAG
4 20 (4.42%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.99%) GDPR
7 7 (1.55%) NCSC
8 5 (1.10%) SLA
9 4 (0.88%) NIST
9 4 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.66%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.66%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.44%) GRC
11 2 (0.44%) MiFID
11 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.22%) EMIR
12 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (7.95%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.40%) Docker
3 22 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.77%) Squid
4 8 (1.77%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.77%) vSphere
5 7 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) KVM
6 4 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.66%) Firmware
7 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.19%) Ansible
3 12 (2.65%) ZABBIX
4 9 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.77%) Packer
6 6 (1.32%) Kibana
6 6 (1.32%) Proxmox
6 6 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.88%) Graylog
7 4 (0.88%) Nagios
7 4 (0.88%) Podman
7 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.66%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.66%) Grafana
8 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 110 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.40%) Atlassian
3 28 (6.18%) Oracle
4 24 (5.30%) VMware
5 22 (4.86%) Splunk
6 19 (4.19%) Google
7 18 (3.97%) Adobe
7 18 (3.97%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.97%) ServiceNow
8 17 (3.75%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.31%) IBM
10 10 (2.21%) ION Trading
10 10 (2.21%) SAP
11 8 (1.77%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.77%) CQG
11 8 (1.77%) Patsystems
11 8 (1.77%) Pega
11 8 (1.77%) Reuters
11 8 (1.77%) Trayport
12 6 (1.32%) Veeam