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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 256 303
Rank change year-on-year -83 +47 -80
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 393 435 752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.17% 0.91%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.91% 11.86% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 253 316 600
10th Percentile £32,750 £23,375 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £40,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £60,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% +8.60% -15.00%
75th Percentile £83,640 £72,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,766 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.61% +8.11% -14.62%

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 3,301 3,667 8,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.32% 9.88% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 2,657 6,523
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.34%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,700 £110,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -33 147 £75,000 +25.00% 60
North of England -95 73 £64,133 +22.16% 25
North West -17 58 £65,766 +14.38% 12
Midlands -53 49 £45,000 +20.00% 21
South East -40 40 £65,000 +57.58% 38
South West -52 37 £47,500 -13.64% 9
East of England +3 30 £38,500 -35.83% 13
East Midlands -42 30 £25,500 +13.33% 7
West Midlands -30 19 £69,000 +6.15% 14
Yorkshire -99 10 £60,000 +23.69% 9
North East -41 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 38 (9.67%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.87%) CMS
3 8 (2.04%) IIS
4 6 (1.53%) Apache
4 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.02%) Documentum
6 4 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.51%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (7.12%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (4.33%) MS Visio
3 14 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.02%) Trello
7 1 (0.25%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.25%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.02%) Fidessa
1 4 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.25%) Actimize
3 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.25%) Magento
3 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.25%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.25%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.25%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 81 (20.61%) Azure
2 42 (10.69%) AWS
3 36 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (7.89%) Figma
5 26 (6.62%) Adobe Analytics
6 25 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (6.36%) SaaS
7 22 (5.60%) GCP
8 20 (5.09%) Contentsquare
8 20 (5.09%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.05%) PaaS
10 11 (2.80%) Miro
11 10 (2.54%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.29%) GitHub
13 8 (2.04%) Slack
14 6 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.53%) Google Workspace
15 5 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.27%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.85%) Broadband
2 15 (3.82%) Firewall
3 11 (2.80%) VPN
4 9 (2.29%) DNS
5 6 (1.53%) WAN
6 5 (1.27%) LAN
7 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.02%) Wireless
8 3 (0.76%) Multicast
8 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.76%) WLAN
9 2 (0.51%) BGP
9 2 (0.51%) DMVPN
9 2 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.51%) IPv4
9 2 (0.51%) Network Security
9 2 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.16%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.05%) Power BI
4 10 (2.54%) DB2
5 7 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.27%) Tableau
7 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.02%) MySQL
7 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (0.76%) Big Data
8 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 356 (90.59%) JIRA
2 24 (6.11%) Bitbucket
2 24 (6.11%) Git
3 23 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.09%) Selenium
5 15 (3.82%) Cucumber
5 15 (3.82%) GitLab
6 9 (2.29%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.27%) JUnit
7 5 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.27%) TestRail
7 5 (1.27%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.02%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.02%) JMeter
8 4 (1.02%) Maven
8 4 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (1.02%) Postman
8 4 (1.02%) Toad
9 2 (0.51%) Checkstyle
General
1 154 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 134 (34.10%) Finance
3 63 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (13.74%) Banking
5 35 (8.91%) Games
6 31 (7.89%) Legal
7 27 (6.87%) Law
8 23 (5.85%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.33%) Marketing
11 16 (4.07%) Manufacturing
12 15 (3.82%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.80%) Advertising
13 11 (2.80%) Automotive
13 11 (2.80%) Retail
14 9 (2.29%) Electronics
14 9 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (2.04%) Billing
16 6 (1.53%) Aerospace
17 5 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 85 (21.63%) Analyst
2 63 (16.03%) Lead
3 60 (15.27%) Business Analyst
4 46 (11.70%) Senior
5 28 (7.12%) Architect
6 21 (5.34%) IT Support
7 20 (5.09%) Developer
7 20 (5.09%) Project Manager
8 19 (4.83%) Lead Architect
8 19 (4.83%) Scrum Master
9 18 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 15 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.56%) IT Engineer
11 14 (3.56%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (3.56%) Product Owner
12 13 (3.31%) IT Analyst
12 13 (3.31%) Technical Analyst
13 12 (3.05%) Support Analyst
14 11 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.07%) React
2 14 (3.56%) CSS
3 13 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (3.05%) HTML
5 11 (2.80%) Node.js
5 11 (2.80%) RESTful
6 10 (2.54%) Gherkin
6 10 (2.54%) Middleware
6 10 (2.54%) REST
7 9 (2.29%) .NET
8 6 (1.53%) JSON
8 6 (1.53%) Kafka
9 5 (1.27%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.27%) OAuth
9 5 (1.27%) Spring
9 5 (1.27%) Web Services
10 4 (1.02%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.02%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.02%) Swagger
11 3 (0.76%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 69 (17.56%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.29%) PMI
7 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.78%) IoT
9 6 (1.53%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.53%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
10 5 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (1.27%) Equities
11 4 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.87%) Linux
2 24 (6.11%) Windows
3 14 (3.56%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.51%) Android
8 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.51%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (68.45%) Agile
2 122 (31.04%) Continuous Improvement
3 100 (25.45%) Scrum
4 98 (24.94%) Roadmaps
5 94 (23.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 71 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (17.81%) DevOps
8 68 (17.30%) User Experience
9 67 (17.05%) CI/CD
10 59 (15.01%) Analytics
11 56 (14.25%) Decision-Making
12 54 (13.74%) Kanban
12 54 (13.74%) Sprint Planning
13 53 (13.49%) AI
14 51 (12.98%) User Stories
15 47 (11.96%) Project Management
16 45 (11.45%) SDLC
17 42 (10.69%) Acceptance Criteria
17 42 (10.69%) Mentoring
18 41 (10.43%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 60 (15.27%) SQL
2 38 (9.67%) Python
3 31 (7.89%) Java
4 20 (5.09%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.82%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.80%) Bash
7 8 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.76%) C#
8 3 (0.76%) RPG
9 2 (0.51%) Delphi
9 2 (0.51%) PHP
9 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.51%) VB
9 2 (0.51%) VB6
10 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.25%) C
10 1 (0.25%) C++
10 1 (0.25%) Groovy
10 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (15.01%) Degree
2 42 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.36%) SC Cleared
4 21 (5.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (4.33%) PMI Certification
6 12 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.54%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.29%) PMP
10 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.02%) CCNA
12 4 (1.02%) CITP
13 3 (0.76%) CBAP
13 3 (0.76%) CISSP
13 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.41%) Accessibility
2 28 (7.12%) QA
3 22 (5.60%) WCAG
4 20 (5.09%) SLA
5 12 (3.05%) PMO
6 10 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.54%) GDPR
7 8 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.53%) Basel II
8 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.02%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.76%) NIST
10 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.51%) GRC
11 2 (0.51%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.51%) MiFID
11 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (6.87%) Docker
2 22 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.51%) Squid
5 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.83%) Terraform
3 12 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (2.29%) Ansible
5 5 (1.27%) Grafana
5 5 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.27%) Puppet
6 4 (1.02%) Functional Safety
6 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.76%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.76%) Kibana
7 3 (0.76%) Packer
8 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.51%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.25%) Consul
9 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.25%) Nagios
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.18%) Atlassian
3 28 (7.12%) Adobe
4 26 (6.62%) Oracle
5 25 (6.36%) ServiceNow
6 21 (5.34%) Google
7 19 (4.83%) SAP
8 17 (4.33%) Salesforce
9 13 (3.31%) VMware
10 12 (3.05%) Siemens
11 10 (2.54%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.04%) Splunk
13 6 (1.53%) Cisco
13 6 (1.53%) IBM
14 5 (1.27%) Bloomberg
14 5 (1.27%) Databricks
15 4 (1.02%) CQG
15 4 (1.02%) MuleSoft
15 4 (1.02%) Reuters
15 4 (1.02%) YouTube