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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 247 359
Rank change year-on-year -123 +112 -126
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 435 532 499
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.21% 0.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.66% 13.99% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 288 310 318
10th Percentile £40,728 £27,000 £38,175
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,250 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +14.57% -13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,250 £67,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -10.07% +14.14% -9.69%

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 4,080 3,802 6,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 8.67% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,947 2,756 4,582
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £54,793
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.18% -0.96%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -9 190 £68,000 -18.81% 292
North of England -86 77 £62,500 +28.85% 77
South East -20 66 £60,000 +14.29% 52
South West -54 58 £60,500 +15.24% 45
North West -40 46 £65,766 +22.36% 42
Midlands -112 25 £52,500 -27.59% 27
West Midlands -81 19 £52,500 -27.59% 19
North East -49 18 £60,000 +166.67% 13
East of England -56 13 £57,500 - 11
Yorkshire -60 13 £60,850 +25.45% 22
East Midlands -65 6 £54,250 +141.11% 8
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 34 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.98%) CMS
3 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.92%) IIS
4 4 (0.92%) JBoss
4 4 (0.92%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.69%) nginx
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.46%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (10.80%) MS Visio
2 25 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.07%) Trello
6 7 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (1.15%) Moqups
8 1 (0.23%) Notion
8 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.84%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 145 (33.33%) Azure
2 97 (22.30%) AWS
3 63 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.97%) Figma
5 33 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (7.13%) SaaS
7 30 (6.90%) Miro
8 25 (5.75%) GitHub
9 24 (5.52%) GCP
10 21 (4.83%) Adobe Analytics
11 20 (4.60%) Contentsquare
12 19 (4.37%) Lucidchart
13 16 (3.68%) Serverless
14 13 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.99%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.53%) Amazon S3
16 10 (2.30%) Power Platform
17 9 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
17 9 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.83%) Broadband
2 16 (3.68%) VPN
3 12 (2.76%) Firewall
4 8 (1.84%) IPv4
4 8 (1.84%) Multicast
4 8 (1.84%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (1.61%) DNS
5 7 (1.61%) WAN
6 6 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (1.38%) Wireless
7 5 (1.15%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.92%) DHCP
8 4 (0.92%) LAN
9 3 (0.69%) Network Security
9 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.46%) BGP
10 2 (0.46%) RFID
10 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.13%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.53%) Db2
5 10 (2.30%) DTS
6 9 (2.07%) MySQL
7 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (1.61%) Power BI
7 7 (1.61%) Tableau
8 6 (1.38%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.15%) Redis
10 3 (0.69%) Metadata
10 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.69%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.46%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.46%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 392 (90.11%) JIRA
2 46 (10.57%) Git
3 25 (5.75%) GitLab
4 24 (5.52%) Bitbucket
5 22 (5.06%) Jenkins
6 20 (4.60%) Selenium
7 11 (2.53%) Postman
8 10 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.07%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.07%) Zephyr
10 8 (1.84%) JMeter
11 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.61%) MSI
12 5 (1.15%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.92%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.92%) Toad
14 3 (0.69%) TestRail
15 2 (0.46%) git-flow
15 2 (0.46%) SonarQube
15 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 151 (34.71%) Finance
3 88 (20.23%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.82%) Games
5 29 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 29 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.44%) Banking
7 24 (5.52%) Legal
7 24 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.60%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (3.45%) Law
10 15 (3.45%) Marketing
11 14 (3.22%) Retail
12 11 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.30%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.30%) Automotive
14 9 (2.07%) Electronics
15 8 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (23.91%) Analyst
2 76 (17.47%) Business Analyst
3 67 (15.40%) Lead
4 61 (14.02%) Senior
5 28 (6.44%) Project Manager
6 26 (5.98%) Delivery Manager
7 23 (5.29%) Architect
7 23 (5.29%) Developer
7 23 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
8 22 (5.06%) Product Manager
8 22 (5.06%) Product Owner
9 20 (4.60%) Scrum Master
9 20 (4.60%) Technical Analyst
10 19 (4.37%) Technical Business Analyst
11 17 (3.91%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.53%) Product Analyst
13 11 (2.53%) Product Business Analyst
13 11 (2.53%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.30%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.59%) Terraform
2 27 (6.21%) Node.js
3 26 (5.98%) HTML
4 25 (5.75%) REST
5 24 (5.52%) .NET
6 20 (4.60%) CSS
6 20 (4.60%) Middleware
7 18 (4.14%) JSON
8 17 (3.91%) Spring
8 17 (3.91%) Spring Boot
9 15 (3.45%) Kafka
9 15 (3.45%) React
10 14 (3.22%) RESTful
11 11 (2.53%) XML
12 10 (2.30%) ASP.NET
12 10 (2.30%) HTML5
13 9 (2.07%) FIX Protocol
13 9 (2.07%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.84%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.84%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.55%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.44%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.06%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.76%) EPoS
5 12 (2.76%) Equities
5 12 (2.76%) PMI
6 11 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.30%) iSeries
8 9 (2.07%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.07%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.84%) Eurex
9 8 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.94%) Windows
2 46 (10.57%) Linux
3 26 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.15%) Unix
7 4 (0.92%) CentOS
7 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.69%) Android
9 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (63.68%) Agile
2 158 (36.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 136 (31.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 134 (30.80%) Scrum
5 103 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (22.99%) AI
7 94 (21.61%) DevOps
8 93 (21.38%) Roadmaps
9 81 (18.62%) User Stories
10 79 (18.16%) Decision-Making
11 73 (16.78%) Kanban
12 71 (16.32%) CI/CD
12 71 (16.32%) Requirements Gathering
13 70 (16.09%) Mentoring
14 69 (15.86%) Project Delivery
15 66 (15.17%) Coaching
16 63 (14.48%) Project Management
16 63 (14.48%) User Experience
17 62 (14.25%) SDLC
18 59 (13.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 73 (16.78%) SQL
2 69 (15.86%) Python
3 62 (14.25%) Java
4 35 (8.05%) PowerShell
5 30 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.52%) Bash
7 22 (5.06%) C#
8 19 (4.37%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.99%) C++
10 10 (2.30%) RPG
11 8 (1.84%) Bicep
12 5 (1.15%) PHP
13 3 (0.69%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.46%) C
14 2 (0.46%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) Ada
15 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (15.17%) Degree
2 53 (12.18%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.59%) PMI Certification
4 29 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.83%) Master's Degree
5 21 (4.83%) PMP
6 20 (4.60%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (3.22%) ISTQB
9 13 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.84%) CCNA
11 8 (1.84%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.84%) OSCP
11 8 (1.84%) RHCE
11 8 (1.84%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.61%) CCSP
12 7 (1.61%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.34%) QA
2 40 (9.20%) Accessibility
3 32 (7.36%) WCAG
4 19 (4.37%) PMO
5 12 (2.76%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.53%) GDPR
7 8 (1.84%) NCSC
7 8 (1.84%) SLA
8 5 (1.15%) NIST
8 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.92%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.69%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.69%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.46%) GRC
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.23%) MiFID
12 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 30 (6.90%) Docker
3 23 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.84%) Squid
4 8 (1.84%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.84%) vSphere
5 7 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.92%) KVM
8 3 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.69%) Firmware
8 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.60%) Ansible
3 12 (2.76%) ZABBIX
4 9 (2.07%) Packer
5 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.38%) Kibana
6 6 (1.38%) Proxmox
6 6 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (0.92%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.92%) Graylog
8 4 (0.92%) Nagios
8 4 (0.92%) Podman
9 3 (0.69%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.69%) Puppet
10 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.46%) Grafana
Vendors
1 103 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.90%) Oracle
3 27 (6.21%) Adobe
4 25 (5.75%) Atlassian
5 24 (5.52%) VMware
6 23 (5.29%) Splunk
7 21 (4.83%) Google
8 20 (4.60%) ServiceNow
9 19 (4.37%) Salesforce
10 17 (3.91%) Red Hat
11 14 (3.22%) IBM
12 10 (2.30%) ION Trading
13 8 (1.84%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.84%) CQG
13 8 (1.84%) Patsystems
13 8 (1.84%) Reuters
13 8 (1.84%) SAP
13 8 (1.84%) Trayport
14 7 (1.61%) Pega
15 6 (1.38%) Veeam