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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 261 379
Rank change year-on-year -123 +118 -143
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 450 495 442
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.14% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.42% 14.02% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 289 272 252
10th Percentile £39,950 £36,375 £40,075
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -16.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £102,250 £91,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -15.48%

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 4,317 3,530 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.15% 8.14% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,996 2,533 3,471
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,285 £55,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -2.19% +0.63%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -10 208 £67,500 -18.18% 361
North of England -83 68 £60,000 +26.32% 117
South East -41 65 £60,000 +7.14% 103
South West -45 65 £62,750 +25.50% 58
North West -49 37 £60,000 +9.09% 56
Midlands -129 21 £47,500 -34.48% 60
North East -44 18 £48,750 - 19
East of England -58 18 £40,000 -30.43% 50
West Midlands -90 17 £45,000 -37.93% 38
Yorkshire -51 13 £60,850 +38.30% 43
East Midlands -86 4 £50,000 +33.33% 22
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 30 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.78%) CMS
3 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) JBoss
5 4 (0.89%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.67%) Drupal
6 3 (0.67%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.44%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 58 (12.89%) MS Visio
2 26 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (2.89%) Trello
6 7 (1.56%) Moqups
7 6 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.67%) Simulink
9 1 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.22%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.78%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Shopify
4 1 (0.22%) Actimize
4 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 140 (31.11%) Azure
2 97 (21.56%) AWS
3 65 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (8.67%) SaaS
6 33 (7.33%) Miro
7 31 (6.89%) Figma
8 30 (6.67%) GitHub
9 19 (4.22%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.22%) Lucidchart
10 17 (3.78%) Serverless
11 16 (3.56%) GCP
12 14 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.44%) Power Platform
15 10 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
15 10 (2.22%) Amazon S3
15 10 (2.22%) Contentsquare
16 9 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.67%) VPN
2 14 (3.11%) DNS
3 11 (2.44%) Broadband
4 10 (2.22%) DHCP
4 10 (2.22%) Firewall
5 8 (1.78%) IPv4
5 8 (1.78%) Multicast
5 8 (1.78%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.56%) WAN
7 6 (1.33%) FIX Connectivity
8 5 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.89%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.89%) LAN
10 3 (0.67%) Network Security
10 3 (0.67%) Wireless
11 2 (0.44%) RFID
11 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.22%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.78%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.22%) Db2
4 10 (2.22%) DTS
4 10 (2.22%) Metadata
4 10 (2.22%) Power BI
5 9 (2.00%) MySQL
6 8 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.11%) Redis
8 5 (1.11%) Spatial Data
8 5 (1.11%) Tableau
9 3 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 416 (92.44%) JIRA
2 44 (9.78%) Git
3 28 (6.22%) GitLab
4 22 (4.89%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.44%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.44%) Selenium
6 15 (3.33%) Postman
7 10 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (2.00%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.78%) Claude Code
10 7 (1.56%) JMeter
10 7 (1.56%) MSI
10 7 (1.56%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.11%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.44%) Balsamiq
12 2 (0.44%) JUnit
12 2 (0.44%) Maven
12 2 (0.44%) Mocha
12 2 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 181 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 148 (32.89%) Finance
3 102 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.11%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.44%) Banking
6 29 (6.44%) Manufacturing
7 22 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (4.89%) Games
8 20 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (4.44%) Law
8 20 (4.44%) Retail
9 18 (4.00%) Marketing
9 18 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 16 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.89%) Legal
11 13 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.67%) Aerospace
13 11 (2.44%) Publishing
14 10 (2.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 126 (28.00%) Analyst
2 92 (20.44%) Business Analyst
3 59 (13.11%) Senior
4 46 (10.22%) Lead
5 33 (7.33%) Delivery Manager
6 30 (6.67%) Developer
7 28 (6.22%) Product Owner
8 26 (5.78%) Technical Analyst
9 25 (5.56%) Project Manager
10 24 (5.33%) Technical Business Analyst
11 23 (5.11%) Product Manager
12 21 (4.67%) Architect
12 21 (4.67%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.11%) Scrum Master
13 14 (3.11%) Senior Business Analyst
13 14 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.11%) Support Analyst
14 13 (2.89%) Senior Manager
15 11 (2.44%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.33%) HTML
2 31 (6.89%) REST
3 29 (6.44%) Node.js
3 29 (6.44%) Terraform
4 26 (5.78%) .NET
5 22 (4.89%) Middleware
6 21 (4.67%) CSS
7 19 (4.22%) React
8 18 (4.00%) JSON
9 17 (3.78%) Kafka
9 17 (3.78%) Spring
9 17 (3.78%) Spring Boot
10 16 (3.56%) RESTful
11 13 (2.89%) Next.js
12 12 (2.67%) ASP.NET
13 11 (2.44%) GraphQL
13 11 (2.44%) XML
14 10 (2.22%) HTML5
15 9 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (1.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.33%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (4.67%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.67%) Biopharmaceutical
8 12 (2.67%) EPoS
8 12 (2.67%) PMI
8 12 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 11 (2.44%) Equities
10 10 (2.22%) iSeries
11 9 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 9 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.00%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.78%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.78%) Windows
2 50 (11.11%) Linux
3 24 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.00%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.00%) Unix
5 8 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.33%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.11%) CentOS
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.67%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.22%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (63.78%) Agile
2 152 (33.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 139 (30.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 135 (30.00%) Scrum
5 126 (28.00%) AI
6 116 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
7 111 (24.67%) User Stories
8 97 (21.56%) DevOps
9 83 (18.44%) Coaching
10 82 (18.22%) Requirements Gathering
11 80 (17.78%) Acceptance Criteria
12 79 (17.56%) Kanban
13 75 (16.67%) Decision-Making
14 74 (16.44%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.44%) Project Delivery
15 70 (15.56%) CI/CD
15 70 (15.56%) Sprint Planning
16 66 (14.67%) Roadmaps
17 65 (14.44%) Business Analysis
18 61 (13.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.67%) SQL
2 70 (15.56%) Python
3 60 (13.33%) Java
4 42 (9.33%) PowerShell
5 33 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 32 (7.11%) Bash
7 26 (5.78%) C#
8 24 (5.33%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.89%) C++
10 10 (2.22%) RPG
11 8 (1.78%) Bicep
12 4 (0.89%) PHP
13 3 (0.67%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.67%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.44%) C
14 2 (0.44%) Ruby
15 1 (0.22%) Ada
15 1 (0.22%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.22%) Perl
15 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (16.22%) Degree
2 60 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 23 (5.11%) Master's Degree
6 19 (4.22%) AWS Certification
7 18 (4.00%) PMP
8 16 (3.56%) ISTQB
8 16 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.67%) MBA
12 9 (2.00%) CSPO
13 8 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (1.78%) CBAP
13 8 (1.78%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.78%) IIBA
13 8 (1.78%) OSCP
13 8 (1.78%) RHCE
13 8 (1.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (14.22%) QA
2 30 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.89%) WCAG
4 21 (4.67%) PMO
5 18 (4.00%) Data Quality
6 11 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.00%) GDPR
8 7 (1.56%) NCSC
9 4 (0.89%) NIST
9 4 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.89%) SLA
10 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.44%) GRC
11 2 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.22%) Docker
3 22 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.78%) Squid
4 8 (1.78%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.78%) vSphere
5 7 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.89%) KVM
6 4 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.67%) Firmware
7 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.44%) Ansible
3 12 (2.67%) ZABBIX
4 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.78%) Packer
6 6 (1.33%) Kibana
6 6 (1.33%) Proxmox
6 6 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.89%) Graylog
7 4 (0.89%) Nagios
7 4 (0.89%) Podman
7 4 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.67%) Grafana
8 3 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.44%) Puppet
10 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 108 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 28 (6.22%) Oracle
4 24 (5.33%) VMware
5 22 (4.89%) Splunk
6 19 (4.22%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.78%) Adobe
7 17 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.56%) Google
8 16 (3.56%) Salesforce
9 15 (3.33%) IBM
10 10 (2.22%) ION Trading
10 10 (2.22%) SAP
11 8 (1.78%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.78%) CQG
11 8 (1.78%) Patsystems
11 8 (1.78%) Pega
11 8 (1.78%) Reuters
11 8 (1.78%) Trayport
12 6 (1.33%) Veeam