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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 241 324
Rank change year-on-year -133 +83 -79
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 400 562 735
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.37% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.79% 14.91% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 270 323 550
10th Percentile £35,875 £26,500 £28,685
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,170 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £91,375
UK median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% -15.38%

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 3,708 3,770 8,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.37% 9.21% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,760 2,652 6,576
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,579
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £110,000
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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -37 144 £72,500 +1.75% 83
North of England -120 70 £65,766 +25.27% 41
South East -11 61 £60,000 +23.08% 53
North West -39 52 £65,766 +14.38% 23
South West -58 48 £55,000 +10.00% 29
Midlands -104 42 £45,000 -30.77% 17
East Midlands -50 26 £25,500 +13.33% 5
East of England -22 18 £32,500 -45.83% 6
West Midlands -69 16 £69,000 -4.83% 12
North East -46 10 £67,500 +200.00% 5
Yorkshire -82 8 £75,000 +54.62% 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 34 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.50%) CMS
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.25%) IIS
5 4 (1.00%) Documentum
5 4 (1.00%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (6.75%) MS Visio
2 22 (5.50%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.00%) Trello
5 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Notion
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.50%) Workfront
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (28.50%) Azure
2 68 (17.00%) AWS
3 53 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (9.00%) Figma
5 27 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.50%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.25%) Contentsquare
8 24 (6.00%) SaaS
9 19 (4.75%) GCP
9 19 (4.75%) GitHub
10 17 (4.25%) Lucidchart
11 15 (3.75%) Miro
11 15 (3.75%) Power Platform
12 14 (3.50%) Serverless
13 11 (2.75%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.25%) PaaS
15 8 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (2.00%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.50%) Broadband
2 15 (3.75%) VPN
3 14 (3.50%) Firewall
4 8 (2.00%) IPv4
4 8 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.50%) DNS
5 6 (1.50%) Multicast
6 5 (1.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.00%) LAN
7 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.00%) Wireless
8 3 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.50%) BGP
9 2 (0.50%) Network Security
9 2 (0.50%) RFID
9 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.50%) WLAN
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.00%) Db2
4 8 (2.00%) Power BI
5 7 (1.75%) DTS
5 7 (1.75%) MySQL
5 7 (1.75%) Tableau
6 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.75%) Big Data
8 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.75%) Redis
8 3 (0.75%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 354 (88.50%) JIRA
2 33 (8.25%) Git
3 24 (6.00%) GitLab
4 20 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 15 (3.75%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.00%) Selenium
7 7 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.25%) JMeter
9 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.00%) Maven
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.00%) Toad
11 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.75%) JUnit
11 3 (0.75%) MSI
11 3 (0.75%) TestRail
12 2 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 150 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 132 (33.00%) Finance
3 66 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.00%) Games
5 35 (8.75%) Legal
6 28 (7.00%) Banking
7 26 (6.50%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (6.00%) Law
9 19 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.00%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.50%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.50%) Retail
12 13 (3.25%) Automotive
12 13 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (3.00%) Marketing
14 10 (2.50%) Aerospace
15 9 (2.25%) Advertising
15 9 (2.25%) Electronics
16 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (23.00%) Analyst
2 66 (16.50%) Lead
3 64 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 43 (10.75%) Senior
5 29 (7.25%) Architect
6 27 (6.75%) Scrum Master
7 24 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
8 22 (5.50%) Developer
9 18 (4.50%) IT Support
9 18 (4.50%) Project Manager
10 17 (4.25%) Product Owner
11 16 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
12 14 (3.50%) IT Analyst
12 14 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (3.50%) Technical Business Analyst
13 13 (3.25%) Lead Architect
13 13 (3.25%) Product Manager
14 12 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.00%) Support Analyst
15 11 (2.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.50%) Node.js
2 19 (4.75%) .NET
2 19 (4.75%) Middleware
3 15 (3.75%) CSS
3 15 (3.75%) Spring
4 14 (3.50%) HTML
4 14 (3.50%) Spring Boot
5 13 (3.25%) React
6 12 (3.00%) REST
7 11 (2.75%) ASP.NET
8 10 (2.50%) GraphQL
8 10 (2.50%) JSON
9 9 (2.25%) Kafka
9 9 (2.25%) RESTful
10 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.50%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.50%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.50%) HTML5
12 5 (1.25%) Jest
12 5 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.25%) Product Ownership
2 32 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.50%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.25%) EPoS
7 9 (2.25%) Equities
7 9 (2.25%) PMI
7 9 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.75%) iSeries
10 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.50%) Eurex
10 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.75%) Windows
2 39 (9.75%) Linux
3 22 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.25%) CentOS
6 5 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.50%) Unix
8 1 (0.25%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (63.75%) Agile
2 142 (35.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 103 (25.75%) Roadmaps
4 102 (25.50%) Scrum
5 94 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 86 (21.50%) DevOps
7 79 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.75%) Decision-Making
9 68 (17.00%) CI/CD
10 65 (16.25%) AI
10 65 (16.25%) User Experience
11 59 (14.75%) User Stories
12 57 (14.25%) Analytics
13 56 (14.00%) Kanban
14 55 (13.75%) SDLC
15 52 (13.00%) Mentoring
16 48 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
17 46 (11.50%) Acceptance Criteria
17 46 (11.50%) Project Management
18 45 (11.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 60 (15.00%) SQL
2 53 (13.25%) Python
3 45 (11.25%) Java
4 26 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 25 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.25%) Bash
7 16 (4.00%) C#
8 13 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.75%) RPG
10 6 (1.50%) PHP
11 4 (1.00%) Bicep
11 4 (1.00%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) Delphi
14 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.25%) Go
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 44 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.75%) Degree
3 22 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.25%) AWS Certification
5 15 (3.75%) PMI Certification
6 12 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.25%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.00%) CCNA
9 8 (2.00%) OSCP
9 8 (2.00%) RHCE
9 8 (2.00%) RHCSA
10 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.50%) PMP
11 4 (1.00%) CISSP
11 4 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.50%) Accessibility
2 31 (7.75%) QA
2 31 (7.75%) WCAG
3 20 (5.00%) SLA
4 10 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.50%) GDPR
4 10 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.00%) ISO 26262
6 4 (1.00%) NCSC
6 4 (1.00%) NIST
6 4 (1.00%) PMO
6 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.75%) ISO 8583
7 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) MiFID
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (7.00%) Docker
2 23 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.00%) Squid
4 8 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.00%) vSphere
5 6 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.00%) KVM
8 3 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (7.25%) Terraform
2 26 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.25%) Ansible
4 12 (3.00%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.25%) Packer
6 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.75%) Kibana
8 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.25%) Grafana
8 5 (1.25%) Nagios
8 5 (1.25%) Podman
9 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
9 4 (1.00%) Graylog
9 4 (1.00%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.75%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.00%) Adobe
3 30 (7.50%) Oracle
4 29 (7.25%) ServiceNow
5 23 (5.75%) Atlassian
6 22 (5.50%) Splunk
7 21 (5.25%) VMware
8 17 (4.25%) Google
9 16 (4.00%) Salesforce
10 13 (3.25%) Red Hat
11 12 (3.00%) IBM
12 8 (2.00%) SAP
13 7 (1.75%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.75%) ION Trading
14 6 (1.50%) CQG
14 6 (1.50%) Databricks
14 6 (1.50%) Patsystems
14 6 (1.50%) Reuters
14 6 (1.50%) Trayport
14 6 (1.50%) Veeam