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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 244 340
Rank change year-on-year -136 +96 -107
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 404 565 700
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.30% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.47% 14.47% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 280 329 521
10th Percentile £38,750 £26,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £47,688 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,245 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +8.25% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,600 £98,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 3,859 3,905 8,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 9.01% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,874 2,763 6,312
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £91,250 £110,000 £115,000
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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -45 153 £70,500 -6.00% 77
North of England -100 71 £65,766 +35.58% 21
South East -2 62 £60,000 +20.00% 43
North West -41 52 £65,766 +19.57% 14
South West -43 48 £55,000 +7.32% 19
Midlands -94 38 £45,000 -30.77% 19
East Midlands -71 21 £25,500 +13.33% 4
East of England -27 17 £42,500 -26.09% 7
West Midlands -78 17 £56,750 -21.72% 15
North East -52 12 £63,750 +183.33% 1
Yorkshire -75 7 £67,925 +40.03% 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 35 (8.66%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.43%) CMS
3 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.24%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.50%) Documentum
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (6.93%) MS Visio
2 20 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.98%) Trello
5 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Moqups
7 1 (0.25%) Notion
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.24%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.50%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 118 (29.21%) Azure
2 73 (18.07%) AWS
3 54 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (9.16%) Figma
5 30 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.44%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.19%) Contentsquare
8 23 (5.69%) GitHub
8 23 (5.69%) SaaS
9 20 (4.95%) Lucidchart
10 19 (4.70%) GCP
10 19 (4.70%) Miro
11 16 (3.96%) Serverless
12 14 (3.47%) Power Platform
13 13 (3.22%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.48%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (2.23%) Google Workspace
16 8 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (1.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.44%) Broadband
2 16 (3.96%) VPN
3 13 (3.22%) Firewall
4 8 (1.98%) IPv4
4 8 (1.98%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.49%) DNS
6 5 (1.24%) Multicast
7 4 (0.99%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.99%) WAN
7 4 (0.99%) Wireless
8 3 (0.74%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (0.74%) LAN
8 3 (0.74%) Network Security
9 2 (0.50%) BGP
9 2 (0.50%) RFID
9 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) MPLS
10 1 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.68%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.22%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.72%) Db2
5 10 (2.48%) DTS
6 9 (2.23%) MySQL
7 8 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.73%) Power BI
8 7 (1.73%) Tableau
9 5 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.74%) Big Data
11 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.74%) Redis
11 3 (0.74%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.74%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 356 (88.12%) JIRA
2 37 (9.16%) Git
3 26 (6.44%) GitLab
4 22 (5.45%) Bitbucket
5 17 (4.21%) Jenkins
6 14 (3.47%) Selenium
7 9 (2.23%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (1.73%) JMeter
9 7 (1.73%) Zephyr
10 5 (1.24%) MSI
11 4 (0.99%) Postman
11 4 (0.99%) Toad
12 3 (0.74%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.74%) Maven
12 3 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.74%) TestRail
13 2 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 152 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 125 (30.94%) Finance
3 67 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.64%) Games
5 30 (7.43%) Legal
6 27 (6.68%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (5.69%) Banking
7 23 (5.69%) Public Sector
8 20 (4.95%) Law
9 19 (4.70%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.71%) Retail
11 13 (3.22%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.97%) Automotive
13 11 (2.72%) Marketing
14 10 (2.48%) Aerospace
15 9 (2.23%) Advertising
15 9 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (2.23%) Electronics
16 5 (1.24%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (21.78%) Analyst
2 67 (16.58%) Lead
3 60 (14.85%) Business Analyst
4 44 (10.89%) Senior
5 28 (6.93%) Architect
6 27 (6.68%) Scrum Master
7 24 (5.94%) Delivery Manager
7 24 (5.94%) Developer
8 20 (4.95%) Project Manager
9 19 (4.70%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (4.21%) Technical Business Analyst
11 16 (3.96%) IT Support
11 16 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.71%) Product Owner
13 14 (3.47%) Product Manager
13 14 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.72%) IT Analyst
14 11 (2.72%) IT Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) IT Support Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.18%) Node.js
2 22 (5.45%) Middleware
3 21 (5.20%) .NET
4 19 (4.70%) Spring
5 18 (4.46%) CSS
5 18 (4.46%) Spring Boot
6 17 (4.21%) HTML
7 15 (3.71%) React
8 14 (3.47%) REST
9 13 (3.22%) Kafka
10 12 (2.97%) JSON
11 11 (2.72%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.72%) RESTful
12 10 (2.48%) GraphQL
13 9 (2.23%) AngularJS
14 8 (1.98%) HTML5
15 7 (1.73%) XML
16 6 (1.49%) .NET Framework
16 6 (1.49%) ARM Templates
16 6 (1.49%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 62 (15.35%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 26 (6.44%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.97%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.97%) EPoS
4 12 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.48%) iSeries
6 9 (2.23%) Equities
6 9 (2.23%) PMI
7 7 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 7 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.24%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.14%) Windows
2 39 (9.65%) Linux
3 23 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.24%) CentOS
6 5 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (64.36%) Agile
2 146 (36.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 107 (26.49%) Scrum
4 100 (24.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 99 (24.50%) Roadmaps
6 84 (20.79%) DevOps
7 80 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.57%) CI/CD
9 67 (16.58%) Decision-Making
10 66 (16.34%) AI
11 63 (15.59%) User Experience
12 61 (15.10%) User Stories
13 59 (14.60%) Mentoring
14 55 (13.61%) SDLC
15 54 (13.37%) Analytics
16 53 (13.12%) Kanban
17 51 (12.62%) Requirements Gathering
18 47 (11.63%) Project Delivery
19 46 (11.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 45 (11.14%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 59 (14.60%) SQL
2 56 (13.86%) Java
3 54 (13.37%) Python
4 30 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.44%) PowerShell
6 20 (4.95%) Bash
7 18 (4.46%) C#
8 17 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.48%) RPG
10 6 (1.49%) Bicep
10 6 (1.49%) C++
10 6 (1.49%) PHP
11 3 (0.74%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.50%) C
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 51 (12.62%) Degree
2 44 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 17 (4.21%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.72%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.98%) CCNA
9 8 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.98%) OSCP
9 8 (1.98%) PMP
9 8 (1.98%) RHCE
9 8 (1.98%) RHCSA
10 6 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (1.49%) CCSP
10 6 (1.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.63%) Accessibility
2 34 (8.42%) WCAG
3 31 (7.67%) QA
4 18 (4.46%) SLA
5 13 (3.22%) GDPR
6 12 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.73%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.49%) NCSC
9 5 (1.24%) PMO
10 4 (0.99%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.99%) NIST
10 4 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.74%) GRC
11 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.74%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
12 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (7.18%) Docker
2 23 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.98%) Squid
4 8 (1.98%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.98%) vSphere
5 6 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.99%) KVM
6 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.74%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (7.43%) Terraform
2 27 (6.68%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.21%) Ansible
4 12 (2.97%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.23%) Packer
6 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.73%) Kibana
8 5 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.24%) Nagios
8 5 (1.24%) Podman
9 4 (0.99%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.99%) Grafana
9 4 (0.99%) Graylog
9 4 (0.99%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.74%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.92%) Adobe
3 28 (6.93%) Oracle
3 28 (6.93%) ServiceNow
4 24 (5.94%) Splunk
5 21 (5.20%) VMware
6 20 (4.95%) Atlassian
7 18 (4.46%) Google
7 18 (4.46%) Salesforce
8 15 (3.71%) IBM
9 14 (3.47%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.48%) SAP
11 6 (1.49%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.49%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.49%) Veeam
12 5 (1.24%) CQG
12 5 (1.24%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.24%) Patsystems
12 5 (1.24%) Reuters
12 5 (1.24%) Trayport