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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 243 334
Rank change year-on-year -119 +91 -86
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 400 561 739
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.40% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.88% 14.99% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 271 322 553
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,500 £28,226
25th Percentile £47,750 £41,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,335 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +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 3,677 3,743 8,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.35% 9.32% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,734 2,641 6,569
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,750 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,051 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £108,750
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 25 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 25 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 -53 144 £72,500 +3.57% 76
North of England -111 69 £65,766 +25.27% 38
South East -19 61 £60,000 +20.00% 47
North West -43 52 £65,766 +14.38% 21
South West -50 47 £55,000 +10.00% 22
Midlands -94 43 £45,000 -25.00% 12
East Midlands -64 26 £25,500 +13.33% 2
East of England -23 19 £32,500 -54.39% 7
West Midlands -63 17 £69,000 -4.83% 10
North East -46 10 £67,500 +200.00% 5
Yorkshire -78 7 £75,000 +54.62% 12
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 (8.75%) 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 7 (1.75%) 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
Cloud Services
1 114 (28.50%) Azure
2 68 (17.00%) AWS
3 52 (13.00%) 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 18 (4.50%) GCP
9 18 (4.50%) GitHub
10 17 (4.25%) Lucidchart
11 15 (3.75%) Power Platform
12 14 (3.50%) Miro
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
15 8 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.50%) Broadband
2 14 (3.50%) Firewall
2 14 (3.50%) VPN
3 8 (2.00%) IPv4
3 8 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (1.75%) Multicast
5 6 (1.50%) DNS
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%) DMVPN
10 1 (0.25%) MPLS
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 32 (8.00%) Git
3 24 (6.00%) GitLab
4 20 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 14 (3.50%) 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%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 147 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 131 (32.75%) Finance
3 67 (16.75%) 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 20 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.00%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.50%) Manufacturing
12 13 (3.25%) Automotive
12 13 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (3.25%) Marketing
12 13 (3.25%) Retail
13 10 (2.50%) Aerospace
14 9 (2.25%) Advertising
14 9 (2.25%) Electronics
15 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 94 (23.50%) Analyst
2 66 (16.50%) Business Analyst
2 66 (16.50%) Lead
3 43 (10.75%) Senior
4 29 (7.25%) Architect
5 26 (6.50%) Scrum Master
6 24 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
7 22 (5.50%) Developer
8 19 (4.75%) IT Support
9 17 (4.25%) Product Owner
9 17 (4.25%) Project Manager
10 16 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (3.50%) IT Analyst
11 14 (3.50%) Product Manager
11 14 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.50%) Technical Business Analyst
12 13 (3.25%) Lead Architect
12 13 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (3.00%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.50%) Node.js
2 19 (4.75%) Middleware
3 18 (4.50%) .NET
4 15 (3.75%) CSS
4 15 (3.75%) Spring
5 14 (3.50%) HTML
5 14 (3.50%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.25%) React
7 12 (3.00%) REST
8 11 (2.75%) ASP.NET
9 10 (2.50%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.50%) JSON
10 9 (2.25%) Kafka
10 9 (2.25%) RESTful
11 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.50%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.50%) HTML5
13 5 (1.25%) Jest
13 5 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.50%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.75%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.50%) Equities
7 9 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.25%) EPoS
7 9 (2.25%) PMI
7 9 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.75%) Eurex
9 7 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.75%) iSeries
10 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.75%) Windows
2 40 (10.00%) 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%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (63.75%) Agile
2 141 (35.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 103 (25.75%) Roadmaps
4 101 (25.25%) Scrum
5 91 (22.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 84 (21.00%) DevOps
7 80 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.75%) Decision-Making
9 69 (17.25%) CI/CD
10 65 (16.25%) User Experience
11 64 (16.00%) AI
12 60 (15.00%) User Stories
13 57 (14.25%) Analytics
13 57 (14.25%) SDLC
14 55 (13.75%) Kanban
15 52 (13.00%) Mentoring
16 49 (12.25%) Requirements Gathering
17 47 (11.75%) Acceptance Criteria
18 46 (11.50%) Project Management
19 44 (11.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 60 (15.00%) SQL
2 52 (13.00%) Python
3 45 (11.25%) Java
4 26 (6.50%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.00%) 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%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) C
14 1 (0.25%) Delphi
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 43 (10.75%) Degree
1 43 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 21 (5.25%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.25%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.50%) PMI Certification
5 12 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.75%) 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
11 5 (1.25%) PMP
12 4 (1.00%) CISSP
12 4 (1.00%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.75%) Accessibility
2 33 (8.25%) QA
3 31 (7.75%) WCAG
4 20 (5.00%) SLA
5 10 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.50%) GDPR
5 10 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.00%) ISO 26262
7 4 (1.00%) NCSC
7 4 (1.00%) NIST
7 4 (1.00%) PMO
7 4 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.75%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.50%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
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 28 (7.00%) Terraform
2 26 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.00%) Ansible
4 12 (3.00%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.25%) Packer
6 7 (1.75%) Kibana
7 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.25%) Grafana
7 5 (1.25%) Nagios
7 5 (1.25%) Podman
8 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
8 4 (1.00%) Graylog
8 4 (1.00%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.75%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.00%) Adobe
3 31 (7.75%) Oracle
4 28 (7.00%) ServiceNow
5 24 (6.00%) Atlassian
6 22 (5.50%) Splunk
7 21 (5.25%) VMware
8 16 (4.00%) Google
8 16 (4.00%) Salesforce
9 13 (3.25%) Red Hat
10 12 (3.00%) IBM
11 8 (2.00%) Bloomberg
11 8 (2.00%) ION Trading
11 8 (2.00%) SAP
12 7 (1.75%) CQG
12 7 (1.75%) Patsystems
12 7 (1.75%) Reuters
12 7 (1.75%) Trayport
13 6 (1.50%) Databricks
13 6 (1.50%) Veeam