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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 248 309
Rank change year-on-year -85 +61 -76
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 391 525 772
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.35% 0.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.92% 13.97% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 255 298 598
10th Percentile £33,500 £21,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £47,250 £39,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +7.62% -14.23%
75th Percentile £83,640 £75,938 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.62% -14.23%

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 3,279 3,757 8,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.06% 9.64% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,416 2,652 6,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -11.31%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,588 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.02% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -28 153 £75,000 +15.38% 75
North of England -131 69 £65,766 +25.27% 26
North West -51 56 £65,766 +14.38% 12
Midlands -83 46 £45,000 +26.76% 28
South East -27 43 £65,000 +69.93% 40
South West -47 38 £47,500 -5.00% 16
East of England +2 28 £32,500 -45.83% 7
East Midlands -49 28 £25,500 +13.33% 4
West Midlands -50 18 £69,000 +6.15% 24
Yorkshire -98 8 £60,000 +23.69% 11
North East -50 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 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 32 (8.18%) CMS
3 7 (1.79%) IIS
3 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.02%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) Documentum
5 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) MTS
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.51%) Trello
7 1 (0.26%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
7 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.02%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Actimize
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Magento
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 83 (21.23%) Azure
2 55 (14.07%) AWS
3 36 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (8.95%) Figma
5 27 (6.91%) Adobe Analytics
6 26 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (6.39%) Contentsquare
8 21 (5.37%) SaaS
9 19 (4.86%) GCP
10 16 (4.09%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.07%) GitHub
12 10 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.56%) PaaS
13 9 (2.30%) Miro
13 9 (2.30%) Slack
14 6 (1.53%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.53%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.53%) Serverless
15 5 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.91%) Broadband
2 14 (3.58%) Firewall
3 12 (3.07%) VPN
4 8 (2.05%) DNS
5 7 (1.79%) WAN
6 5 (1.28%) IPv4
6 5 (1.28%) LAN
6 5 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.02%) Multicast
7 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.02%) Wireless
8 3 (0.77%) BGP
8 3 (0.77%) Network Security
8 3 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.77%) WLAN
9 2 (0.51%) DMVPN
9 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.51%) MPLS
9 2 (0.51%) OSPF
9 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.44%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.56%) DB2
4 8 (2.05%) Power BI
5 7 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.28%) MySQL
6 5 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (0.77%) Big Data
8 3 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.77%) Tableau
9 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.51%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 351 (89.77%) JIRA
2 27 (6.91%) Git
3 26 (6.65%) Bitbucket
4 21 (5.37%) Jenkins
5 20 (5.12%) GitLab
5 20 (5.12%) Selenium
6 14 (3.58%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.05%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.28%) JUnit
8 5 (1.28%) Maven
8 5 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.28%) TestRail
8 5 (1.28%) Zephyr
9 4 (1.02%) JMeter
9 4 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (1.02%) Toad
10 3 (0.77%) Postman
11 2 (0.51%) Charles Proxy
General
1 152 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 130 (33.25%) Finance
3 54 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.28%) Banking
5 43 (11.00%) Games
6 36 (9.21%) Legal
7 27 (6.91%) Law
8 22 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.09%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.58%) Marketing
12 13 (3.32%) Automotive
13 12 (3.07%) Public Sector
13 12 (3.07%) Retail
14 10 (2.56%) Aerospace
14 10 (2.56%) Electronics
15 9 (2.30%) Advertising
15 9 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (1.79%) Billing
17 5 (1.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 78 (19.95%) Analyst
2 68 (17.39%) Lead
3 58 (14.83%) Business Analyst
4 42 (10.74%) Senior
5 29 (7.42%) Architect
6 24 (6.14%) Developer
7 21 (5.37%) IT Support
7 21 (5.37%) Scrum Master
8 18 (4.60%) Lead Architect
8 18 (4.60%) Project Manager
9 17 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.09%) Product Owner
11 14 (3.58%) IT Engineer
11 14 (3.58%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.32%) IT Analyst
13 12 (3.07%) Product Manager
13 12 (3.07%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.37%) React
2 15 (3.84%) CSS
3 14 (3.58%) Node.js
4 13 (3.32%) HTML
4 13 (3.32%) RESTful
5 12 (3.07%) .NET
5 12 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.81%) REST
7 9 (2.30%) Gherkin
7 9 (2.30%) GraphQL
7 9 (2.30%) Middleware
8 8 (2.05%) ASP.NET
9 6 (1.53%) Spring
10 5 (1.28%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.28%) Kafka
10 5 (1.28%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.28%) Web Services
11 4 (1.02%) OAuth
11 4 (1.02%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.37%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.67%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.56%) PMI
6 9 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.53%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.53%) Equities
8 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.53%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.28%) IoT
9 5 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (1.02%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.02%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.44%) Linux
2 27 (6.91%) Windows
3 16 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.51%) Android
7 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.51%) CentOS
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.51%) Unix
7 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (65.47%) Agile
2 124 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 101 (25.83%) Roadmaps
4 96 (24.55%) Scrum
5 84 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (18.41%) User Experience
7 68 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 68 (17.39%) DevOps
8 66 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.09%) Decision-Making
10 55 (14.07%) AI
10 55 (14.07%) Analytics
11 51 (13.04%) Kanban
11 51 (13.04%) Sprint Planning
12 47 (12.02%) Mentoring
12 47 (12.02%) User Stories
13 46 (11.76%) SDLC
14 45 (11.51%) Project Management
15 40 (10.23%) Customer Experience
16 39 (9.97%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.81%) SQL
2 41 (10.49%) Python
3 36 (9.21%) Java
4 26 (6.65%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.60%) PowerShell
6 15 (3.84%) Bash
7 12 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.30%) C#
9 3 (0.77%) C++
9 3 (0.77%) PHP
9 3 (0.77%) RPG
10 2 (0.51%) Delphi
10 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.51%) VB
10 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.51%) VB6
11 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.26%) Go
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (13.30%) Degree
2 42 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.09%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.53%) PMP
10 5 (1.28%) CCNA
10 5 (1.28%) OSCP
10 5 (1.28%) RHCE
10 5 (1.28%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.02%) CITP
12 3 (0.77%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.49%) Accessibility
2 27 (6.91%) QA
2 27 (6.91%) WCAG
3 20 (5.12%) SLA
4 10 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.30%) GDPR
6 8 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.05%) PMO
7 6 (1.53%) Basel II
7 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.02%) ISO 26262
9 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.51%) GRC
10 2 (0.51%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.51%) MiFID
10 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (7.16%) Docker
2 24 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.28%) Squid
4 5 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.28%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.28%) vSphere
5 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.51%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) KVM
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.88%) Terraform
3 12 (3.07%) Ansible
3 12 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (1.53%) Grafana
4 6 (1.53%) Packer
4 6 (1.53%) ZABBIX
5 4 (1.02%) Functional Safety
5 4 (1.02%) Kibana
5 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.77%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.77%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.77%) Puppet
6 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.51%) Nagios
7 2 (0.51%) Podman
8 1 (0.26%) Graylog
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 61 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.49%) Atlassian
3 32 (8.18%) Adobe
4 28 (7.16%) Oracle
5 25 (6.39%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.35%) Google
7 16 (4.09%) SAP
8 15 (3.84%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.84%) VMware
9 12 (3.07%) Splunk
10 11 (2.81%) Red Hat
11 10 (2.56%) Siemens
12 7 (1.79%) IBM
13 5 (1.28%) Bloomberg
13 5 (1.28%) Databricks
14 4 (1.02%) CQG
14 4 (1.02%) ION Trading
14 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
14 4 (1.02%) Trayport
14 4 (1.02%) YouTube