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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 245 361
Rank change year-on-year -127 +116 -129
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 436 525 492
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.20% 0.69%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.68% 13.90% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 291 304 304
10th Percentile £40,500 £30,425 £38,325
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,231 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £67,500 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +14.99% -15.48%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £90,875
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year -10.37% +14.99% -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 4,084 3,776 6,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.20% 8.61% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,956 2,736 4,345
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -2.39% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,751 £75,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -0.27%

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 31 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 31 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 -2 195 £70,000 -15.15% 165
North of England -108 75 £62,500 +28.85% 45
South East -21 65 £60,000 +9.09% 46
South West -53 57 £60,500 +15.24% 35
North West -41 44 £65,766 +19.57% 24
Midlands -115 25 £52,500 -27.59% 21
West Midlands -76 19 £52,500 -27.59% 15
North East -49 18 £60,000 +166.67% 9
East of England -40 13 £57,500 - 5
Yorkshire -61 13 £60,850 +25.45% 12
East Midlands -70 6 £54,250 +141.11% 6
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 32 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.73%) CMS
3 6 (1.38%) 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 (10.78%) MS Visio
2 26 (5.96%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (5.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.06%) 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 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.83%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.46%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 144 (33.03%) Azure
2 95 (21.79%) AWS
3 64 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.94%) Figma
5 31 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (7.11%) SaaS
6 29 (6.65%) Miro
7 25 (5.73%) GitHub
8 23 (5.28%) GCP
9 21 (4.82%) Adobe Analytics
10 20 (4.59%) Contentsquare
11 19 (4.36%) Lucidchart
12 16 (3.67%) Serverless
13 14 (3.21%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.52%) Amazon S3
16 9 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
16 9 (2.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.82%) Broadband
2 16 (3.67%) VPN
3 11 (2.52%) Firewall
4 8 (1.83%) DNS
4 8 (1.83%) IPv4
4 8 (1.83%) Multicast
4 8 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (1.61%) WAN
6 6 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (1.38%) Wireless
7 5 (1.15%) DHCP
7 5 (1.15%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.92%) LAN
8 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.69%) Network Security
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 30 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.44%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.52%) Db2
5 10 (2.29%) DTS
6 9 (2.06%) 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 4 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.69%) Metadata
11 3 (0.69%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.46%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.46%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 393 (90.14%) JIRA
2 46 (10.55%) Git
3 25 (5.73%) GitLab
4 24 (5.50%) Bitbucket
5 22 (5.05%) Jenkins
6 20 (4.59%) Selenium
7 11 (2.52%) Postman
8 10 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.06%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.83%) Zephyr
11 7 (1.61%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.61%) JMeter
11 7 (1.61%) MSI
12 5 (1.15%) Claude Code
12 5 (1.15%) SoapUI
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
1 171 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 152 (34.86%) Finance
3 89 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.26%) Games
5 31 (7.11%) Influencing Skills
6 29 (6.65%) Banking
7 28 (6.42%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (5.50%) Legal
10 20 (4.59%) Manufacturing
11 18 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (3.44%) Law
12 15 (3.44%) Retail
13 14 (3.21%) Marketing
14 11 (2.52%) Automotive
14 11 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (2.29%) Aerospace
16 9 (2.06%) Electronics
16 9 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 107 (24.54%) Analyst
2 78 (17.89%) Business Analyst
3 64 (14.68%) Lead
4 60 (13.76%) Senior
5 29 (6.65%) Project Manager
6 26 (5.96%) Delivery Manager
7 23 (5.28%) Architect
7 23 (5.28%) Developer
7 23 (5.28%) Product Owner
7 23 (5.28%) Senior Analyst
8 22 (5.05%) Technical Analyst
9 21 (4.82%) Product Manager
9 21 (4.82%) Technical Business Analyst
10 20 (4.59%) Scrum Master
11 17 (3.90%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.52%) Product Analyst
13 11 (2.52%) Product Business Analyst
13 11 (2.52%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.29%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.34%) Terraform
2 27 (6.19%) Node.js
3 26 (5.96%) HTML
3 26 (5.96%) REST
4 24 (5.50%) .NET
5 20 (4.59%) CSS
5 20 (4.59%) Middleware
6 19 (4.36%) JSON
7 17 (3.90%) Spring
7 17 (3.90%) Spring Boot
8 15 (3.44%) Kafka
8 15 (3.44%) React
9 14 (3.21%) RESTful
10 11 (2.52%) XML
11 10 (2.29%) ASP.NET
11 10 (2.29%) HTML5
12 9 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (2.06%) GraphQL
13 8 (1.83%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.83%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 73 (16.74%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.75%) EPoS
5 12 (2.75%) Equities
5 12 (2.75%) PMI
6 11 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.52%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.29%) iSeries
8 9 (2.06%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.83%) Eurex
9 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 66 (15.14%) Windows
2 47 (10.78%) Linux
3 26 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.83%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.38%) Unix
7 5 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.92%) CentOS
8 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.69%) Android
9 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (64.45%) Agile
2 156 (35.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 138 (31.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (30.96%) Scrum
5 102 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
6 101 (23.17%) AI
7 94 (21.56%) DevOps
8 93 (21.33%) Roadmaps
9 83 (19.04%) User Stories
10 79 (18.12%) Decision-Making
11 74 (16.97%) Kanban
12 73 (16.74%) Mentoring
12 73 (16.74%) Requirements Gathering
13 70 (16.06%) CI/CD
14 69 (15.83%) Project Delivery
15 68 (15.60%) Coaching
16 63 (14.45%) SDLC
17 62 (14.22%) Project Management
17 62 (14.22%) User Experience
18 60 (13.76%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 75 (17.20%) SQL
2 70 (16.06%) Python
3 62 (14.22%) Java
4 36 (8.26%) PowerShell
5 30 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.73%) Bash
7 22 (5.05%) C#
8 19 (4.36%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.98%) C++
10 10 (2.29%) RPG
11 8 (1.83%) 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 (15.14%) Degree
2 52 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.57%) PMI Certification
4 28 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.82%) Master's Degree
5 21 (4.82%) PMP
6 20 (4.59%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (3.21%) ISTQB
9 13 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.83%) CCNA
11 8 (1.83%) OSCP
11 8 (1.83%) RHCE
11 8 (1.83%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.61%) CCSP
12 7 (1.61%) CISSP
12 7 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.55%) QA
2 40 (9.17%) Accessibility
3 32 (7.34%) WCAG
4 19 (4.36%) PMO
5 12 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.52%) GDPR
7 8 (1.83%) NCSC
8 7 (1.61%) SLA
9 5 (1.15%) NIST
9 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.92%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.69%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.46%) GRC
13 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (7.80%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.65%) Docker
3 23 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.83%) Squid
4 8 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.83%) 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 26 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.59%) Ansible
3 12 (2.75%) ZABBIX
4 9 (2.06%) Packer
5 7 (1.61%) 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
1 100 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.88%) Oracle
3 27 (6.19%) Adobe
4 26 (5.96%) Atlassian
5 24 (5.50%) VMware
6 23 (5.28%) Splunk
7 21 (4.82%) ServiceNow
8 20 (4.59%) Google
9 18 (4.13%) Salesforce
10 17 (3.90%) Red Hat
11 14 (3.21%) IBM
12 10 (2.29%) ION Trading
13 8 (1.83%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.83%) CQG
13 8 (1.83%) Patsystems
13 8 (1.83%) Reuters
13 8 (1.83%) SAP
13 8 (1.83%) Trayport
14 7 (1.61%) Pega
15 6 (1.38%) Veeam