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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 252 368
Rank change year-on-year -124 +116 -139
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 424 555 504
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.27% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.55% 14.14% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 291 333 338
10th Percentile £38,984 £26,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,875 £83,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £86,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 4,019 3,924 6,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 9.01% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,960 2,790 5,063
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,544 £54,285 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% -0.39% -5.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -4.63%

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 1 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 1 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 -39 168 £70,000 -12.50% 110
North of England -96 74 £65,766 +35.58% 38
South East -19 66 £60,000 +20.00% 45
South West -49 55 £57,500 +6.98% 23
North West -40 50 £65,766 +19.57% 18
Midlands -110 32 £45,000 -30.77% 19
East of England -34 17 £42,500 -26.09% 8
West Midlands -78 17 £52,500 -27.59% 14
East Midlands -68 15 £25,500 +13.33% 5
North East -48 14 £60,000 +166.67% 7
Yorkshire -63 10 £44,925 -7.38% 13
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 36 (8.49%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.08%) CMS
3 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.94%) IIS
4 4 (0.94%) JBoss
4 4 (0.94%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.47%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (8.49%) MS Visio
2 22 (5.19%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (1.89%) Trello
6 5 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.71%) Moqups
8 1 (0.24%) Notion
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 133 (31.37%) Azure
2 83 (19.58%) AWS
3 61 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (9.67%) Figma
5 35 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.13%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (5.90%) Contentsquare
7 25 (5.90%) GitHub
8 24 (5.66%) Miro
9 22 (5.19%) SaaS
10 20 (4.72%) GCP
11 19 (4.48%) Lucidchart
12 18 (4.25%) Serverless
13 14 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.07%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.59%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.36%) AWS Fargate
16 10 (2.36%) Entra ID
17 9 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.12%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.13%) Broadband
2 14 (3.30%) VPN
3 13 (3.07%) Firewall
4 8 (1.89%) IPv4
4 8 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.42%) Multicast
6 5 (1.18%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.18%) WAN
7 4 (0.94%) DNS
7 4 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
7 4 (0.94%) LAN
7 4 (0.94%) Wireless
8 3 (0.71%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) RFID
9 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.24%) DHCP
10 1 (0.24%) MPLS
10 1 (0.24%) OSPF
10 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.59%) Db2
5 10 (2.36%) DTS
6 9 (2.12%) MySQL
7 8 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (1.89%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.65%) Tableau
9 6 (1.42%) Power BI
10 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.94%) Redis
11 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.71%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
13 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 378 (89.15%) JIRA
2 43 (10.14%) Git
3 26 (6.13%) GitLab
4 24 (5.66%) Bitbucket
5 19 (4.48%) Jenkins
6 17 (4.01%) Selenium
7 10 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (1.89%) JMeter
9 8 (1.89%) Zephyr
10 7 (1.65%) MSI
10 7 (1.65%) Postman
11 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.94%) Toad
13 3 (0.71%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.71%) Maven
13 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.71%) SoapUI
13 3 (0.71%) TestRail
14 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 163 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 133 (31.37%) Finance
3 73 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.14%) Games
5 32 (7.55%) Influencing Skills
6 31 (7.31%) Legal
7 28 (6.60%) Public Sector
8 25 (5.90%) Banking
9 20 (4.72%) Law
9 20 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (3.54%) Retail
12 14 (3.30%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.83%) Automotive
13 12 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.36%) Marketing
15 9 (2.12%) Aerospace
15 9 (2.12%) Electronics
16 8 (1.89%) Advertising
17 6 (1.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (20.75%) Analyst
2 69 (16.27%) Lead
3 65 (15.33%) Business Analyst
4 51 (12.03%) Senior
5 26 (6.13%) Delivery Manager
5 26 (6.13%) Project Manager
5 26 (6.13%) Scrum Master
6 25 (5.90%) Architect
6 25 (5.90%) Developer
7 18 (4.25%) Senior Analyst
7 18 (4.25%) Technical Analyst
8 17 (4.01%) Product Manager
8 17 (4.01%) Technical Business Analyst
9 15 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.07%) Product Owner
10 13 (3.07%) Senior Business Analyst
11 11 (2.59%) Designer
11 11 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (2.59%) IT Support
12 10 (2.36%) Content Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.84%) Node.js
2 24 (5.66%) .NET
3 20 (4.72%) CSS
3 20 (4.72%) HTML
3 20 (4.72%) Middleware
4 19 (4.48%) REST
4 19 (4.48%) Spring
5 18 (4.25%) Spring Boot
6 16 (3.77%) JSON
6 16 (3.77%) React
7 14 (3.30%) Kafka
8 12 (2.83%) RESTful
9 10 (2.36%) ASP.NET
9 10 (2.36%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.36%) HTML5
10 9 (2.12%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.12%) XML
11 8 (1.89%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.89%) CSS3
12 7 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.92%) Product Ownership
2 32 (7.55%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.90%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.83%) EPoS
5 12 (2.83%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.59%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.36%) Equities
7 10 (2.36%) iSeries
7 10 (2.36%) PMI
8 8 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.65%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.42%) Eurex
11 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.50%) Windows
2 43 (10.14%) Linux
3 26 (6.13%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.18%) CentOS
7 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.71%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Unix
10 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.24%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (63.68%) Agile
2 153 (36.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 121 (28.54%) Scrum
4 116 (27.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 95 (22.41%) Roadmaps
6 93 (21.93%) DevOps
7 90 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (18.63%) AI
9 74 (17.45%) CI/CD
10 71 (16.75%) Decision-Making
11 65 (15.33%) Mentoring
11 65 (15.33%) User Experience
11 65 (15.33%) User Stories
12 64 (15.09%) Kanban
13 60 (14.15%) SDLC
14 57 (13.44%) Project Delivery
14 57 (13.44%) Requirements Gathering
14 57 (13.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 56 (13.21%) Project Management
16 51 (12.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.09%) SQL
2 62 (14.62%) Python
3 60 (14.15%) Java
4 32 (7.55%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.42%) Bash
6 22 (5.19%) C#
7 20 (4.72%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.36%) RPG
9 9 (2.12%) C++
10 8 (1.89%) Bicep
11 6 (1.42%) PHP
12 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) C
13 2 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.24%) Ada
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) Perl
14 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (13.21%) Degree
2 50 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.66%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 14 (3.30%) PMP
8 12 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 10 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.89%) CCNA
10 8 (1.89%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.89%) OSCP
10 8 (1.89%) RHCE
10 8 (1.89%) RHCSA
11 7 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.65%) CCSP
11 7 (1.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.79%) Accessibility
2 37 (8.73%) WCAG
3 35 (8.25%) QA
4 16 (3.77%) SLA
5 14 (3.30%) GDPR
6 13 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (2.83%) PMO
8 9 (2.12%) Data Quality
9 8 (1.89%) NCSC
10 7 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (1.18%) NIST
11 5 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.94%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.71%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.71%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.47%) GRC
15 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (7.78%) Docker
2 29 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 24 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.89%) Squid
4 8 (1.89%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.89%) vSphere
5 7 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.94%) KVM
7 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (8.02%) Terraform
2 30 (7.08%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.72%) Ansible
4 12 (2.83%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.12%) Packer
6 7 (1.65%) Kibana
7 6 (1.42%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.18%) Nagios
8 5 (1.18%) Podman
8 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.94%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.94%) Grafana
9 4 (0.94%) Graylog
10 3 (0.71%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 92 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.55%) Adobe
3 31 (7.31%) Oracle
4 25 (5.90%) VMware
5 24 (5.66%) Splunk
6 23 (5.42%) Atlassian
7 22 (5.19%) ServiceNow
8 19 (4.48%) Google
8 19 (4.48%) Salesforce
9 16 (3.77%) Red Hat
10 15 (3.54%) IBM
11 8 (1.89%) ION Trading
11 8 (1.89%) SAP
12 6 (1.42%) Bloomberg
12 6 (1.42%) CQG
12 6 (1.42%) Patsystems
12 6 (1.42%) Reuters
12 6 (1.42%) Trayport
12 6 (1.42%) Veeam
13 5 (1.18%) Pega