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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 252 364
Rank change year-on-year -122 +112 -137
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 428 542 482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.24% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.51% 13.94% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 286 324 314
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,650 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,100
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +11.88% -10.62%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £99,250 £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 4,073 3,889 6,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.32% 8.89% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,944 2,777 4,738
10th Percentile £29,516 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,938 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,794 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -6.19%

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 14 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 14 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 -28 176 £70,000 -15.15% 119
North of England -94 81 £65,766 +35.58% 45
South East -19 65 £60,000 +14.29% 39
South West -43 54 £60,250 +14.76% 26
North West -35 50 £65,766 +22.36% 18
Midlands -109 27 £50,000 -28.57% 22
North East -52 18 £60,000 +166.67% 9
West Midlands -75 18 £56,750 -21.72% 18
East of England -41 15 £45,000 -21.74% 10
Yorkshire -63 13 £60,850 +25.45% 18
East Midlands -70 9 £50,000 +122.22% 3
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 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.24%) CMS
3 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.93%) IIS
4 4 (0.93%) JBoss
4 4 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.47%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (9.81%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.37%) Microsoft Project
3 20 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.10%) Trello
6 7 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.93%) Moqups
8 1 (0.23%) Notion
8 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.87%) Fidessa
2 7 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 141 (32.94%) Azure
2 90 (21.03%) AWS
3 62 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (10.05%) Figma
5 35 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (6.78%) Miro
7 26 (6.07%) Adobe Analytics
8 25 (5.84%) Contentsquare
8 25 (5.84%) GitHub
9 23 (5.37%) SaaS
10 21 (4.91%) GCP
11 19 (4.44%) Lucidchart
12 17 (3.97%) Serverless
13 14 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.80%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.80%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.34%) Entra ID
16 9 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.10%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.07%) Broadband
2 13 (3.04%) VPN
3 12 (2.80%) Firewall
4 8 (1.87%) IPv4
4 8 (1.87%) Multicast
4 8 (1.87%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.40%) FIX Connectivity
5 6 (1.40%) WAN
6 5 (1.17%) Kerberos
6 5 (1.17%) Wireless
7 4 (0.93%) DNS
7 4 (0.93%) LAN
8 3 (0.70%) Network Security
9 2 (0.47%) BGP
9 2 (0.47%) RFID
9 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.23%) ATM
10 1 (0.23%) MPLS
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
10 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.57%) Db2
5 10 (2.34%) DTS
6 9 (2.10%) MySQL
7 8 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.64%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.64%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.64%) Power BI
8 7 (1.64%) Tableau
9 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.93%) Redis
11 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.70%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.47%) Metadata
12 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 382 (89.25%) JIRA
2 44 (10.28%) Git
3 24 (5.61%) Bitbucket
3 24 (5.61%) GitLab
4 20 (4.67%) Jenkins
5 18 (4.21%) Selenium
6 10 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.87%) Postman
8 7 (1.64%) JMeter
8 7 (1.64%) MSI
8 7 (1.64%) Zephyr
9 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.93%) Toad
11 3 (0.70%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.70%) TestRail
12 2 (0.47%) git-flow
12 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 167 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 141 (32.94%) Finance
3 79 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.81%) Games
5 31 (7.24%) Influencing Skills
6 29 (6.78%) Legal
7 28 (6.54%) Public Sector
8 26 (6.07%) Banking
9 24 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (3.97%) Law
12 15 (3.50%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.80%) Retail
14 11 (2.57%) Automotive
14 11 (2.57%) Marketing
15 10 (2.34%) Aerospace
16 9 (2.10%) Electronics
16 9 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 95 (22.20%) Analyst
2 70 (16.36%) Business Analyst
3 68 (15.89%) Lead
4 55 (12.85%) Senior
5 26 (6.07%) Delivery Manager
6 25 (5.84%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.61%) Scrum Master
8 23 (5.37%) Architect
8 23 (5.37%) Developer
9 22 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
10 20 (4.67%) Product Manager
11 17 (3.97%) Senior Business Analyst
12 16 (3.74%) Product Owner
12 16 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (3.50%) Technical Business Analyst
14 13 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.57%) Designer
16 10 (2.34%) Content Manager
16 10 (2.34%) Senior Developer
17 9 (2.10%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.54%) Node.js
2 24 (5.61%) .NET
3 22 (5.14%) HTML
4 20 (4.67%) CSS
4 20 (4.67%) REST
5 19 (4.44%) Middleware
6 17 (3.97%) Spring
6 17 (3.97%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.74%) JSON
8 15 (3.50%) Kafka
8 15 (3.50%) React
9 13 (3.04%) RESTful
10 10 (2.34%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.34%) HTML5
11 9 (2.10%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.10%) GraphQL
11 9 (2.10%) XML
12 8 (1.87%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.87%) CSS3
13 7 (1.64%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.95%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.24%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.44%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.80%) EPoS
5 12 (2.80%) Equities
6 11 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.57%) Distributed Architecture
6 11 (2.57%) PMI
7 10 (2.34%) iSeries
7 10 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.10%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (1.87%) Eurex
9 8 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.55%) Windows
2 44 (10.28%) Linux
3 26 (6.07%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.93%) CentOS
7 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.70%) Android
8 3 (0.70%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (63.79%) Agile
2 161 (37.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 129 (30.14%) Scrum
4 123 (28.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (22.43%) Roadmaps
6 95 (22.20%) DevOps
7 89 (20.79%) AI
8 76 (17.76%) Decision-Making
9 75 (17.52%) CI/CD
10 71 (16.59%) Kanban
11 70 (16.36%) Mentoring
11 70 (16.36%) User Stories
12 66 (15.42%) SDLC
12 66 (15.42%) User Experience
13 64 (14.95%) Project Delivery
14 62 (14.49%) Requirements Gathering
15 61 (14.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 60 (14.02%) Project Management
17 58 (13.55%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.19%) Python
1 65 (15.19%) SQL
2 62 (14.49%) Java
3 32 (7.48%) PowerShell
4 31 (7.24%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.37%) Bash
6 22 (5.14%) C#
7 19 (4.44%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.80%) C++
9 10 (2.34%) RPG
10 8 (1.87%) Bicep
11 5 (1.17%) PHP
12 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.47%) C
13 2 (0.47%) Ruby
14 1 (0.23%) Ada
14 1 (0.23%) Groovy
14 1 (0.23%) Perl
14 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (14.02%) Degree
2 54 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.31%) PMI Certification
5 20 (4.67%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.97%) Master's Degree
7 16 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (3.74%) PMP
8 13 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.80%) ISTQB
10 11 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.87%) CCNA
11 8 (1.87%) OSCP
11 8 (1.87%) RHCE
11 8 (1.87%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.64%) CCSP
12 7 (1.64%) CISSP
13 6 (1.40%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.45%) Accessibility
2 38 (8.88%) QA
3 37 (8.64%) WCAG
4 17 (3.97%) PMO
5 14 (3.27%) GDPR
6 12 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.57%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.34%) SLA
9 8 (1.87%) NCSC
10 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.17%) NIST
10 5 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.93%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.70%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.47%) GRC
14 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (7.48%) Docker
2 30 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.87%) Squid
4 8 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.87%) vSphere
5 7 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.93%) KVM
8 3 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.70%) Firmware
8 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (7.94%) Terraform
2 27 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.67%) Ansible
4 12 (2.80%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.10%) Packer
6 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.40%) Kibana
7 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.93%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.93%) Graylog
9 4 (0.93%) Nagios
9 4 (0.93%) Podman
10 3 (0.70%) Grafana
10 3 (0.70%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.70%) Puppet
11 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 96 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.48%) Adobe
2 32 (7.48%) Oracle
3 25 (5.84%) Atlassian
4 24 (5.61%) VMware
5 23 (5.37%) Splunk
6 21 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 20 (4.67%) Salesforce
8 19 (4.44%) Google
9 17 (3.97%) Red Hat
10 15 (3.50%) IBM
11 10 (2.34%) ION Trading
12 8 (1.87%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.87%) CQG
12 8 (1.87%) Patsystems
12 8 (1.87%) Reuters
12 8 (1.87%) Trayport
13 6 (1.40%) SAP
13 6 (1.40%) Veeam
14 5 (1.17%) Pega