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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 276 304
Rank change year-on-year -65 +28 -76
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 389 420 778
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 1.11% 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.00% 11.46% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 250 299 602
10th Percentile £32,500 £21,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,438 £39,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £58,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.42% +3.54% -13.08%
75th Percentile £83,640 £74,375 £75,772
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.19% -13.08%

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 3,242 3,665 8,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.05% 9.69% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,377 2,658 6,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,246 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £93,750
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 1 May 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 May 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 -45 149 £75,000 +15.38% 97
North of England -98 72 £64,133 +22.16% 33
North West -22 58 £65,766 +14.38% 14
Midlands -39 46 £45,000 +20.00% 38
South East -28 41 £65,000 +69.93% 44
South West -58 37 £47,500 -13.64% 25
East of England +2 30 £38,500 -11.49% 18
East Midlands -42 28 £25,500 +13.33% 12
West Midlands -33 18 £69,000 +6.15% 26
Yorkshire -104 9 £60,000 +23.69% 14
North East -40 5 £67,500 +200.00% 6
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 40 (10.28%) SharePoint
2 32 (8.23%) CMS
3 8 (2.06%) IIS
4 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.03%) Apache
5 4 (1.03%) Documentum
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.51%) JBoss
7 2 (0.51%) MTS
8 1 (0.26%) Drupal
8 1 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (6.68%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (4.37%) MS Visio
3 12 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.51%) Trello
7 1 (0.26%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.03%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Actimize
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Magento
4 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 80 (20.57%) Azure
2 49 (12.60%) AWS
3 37 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (9.00%) Figma
5 28 (7.20%) Adobe Analytics
6 25 (6.43%) Contentsquare
6 25 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (5.40%) SaaS
8 18 (4.63%) GCP
9 17 (4.37%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.57%) Miro
10 10 (2.57%) PaaS
11 9 (2.31%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.06%) GitHub
12 8 (2.06%) Slack
13 6 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.54%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.03%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.20%) Broadband
2 14 (3.60%) Firewall
3 12 (3.08%) VPN
4 8 (2.06%) DNS
5 6 (1.54%) WAN
6 5 (1.29%) LAN
7 4 (1.03%) IPv4
7 4 (1.03%) Multicast
7 4 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.03%) Wireless
8 3 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.77%) WLAN
9 2 (0.51%) BGP
9 2 (0.51%) DMVPN
9 2 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 2 (0.51%) Network Security
9 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.26%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.57%) DB2
4 9 (2.31%) Power BI
5 5 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.29%) MySQL
5 5 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.77%) Big Data
7 3 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.77%) Tableau
8 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.51%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.26%) Looker
Development Applications
1 348 (89.46%) JIRA
2 26 (6.68%) Bitbucket
3 25 (6.43%) Git
4 22 (5.66%) Jenkins
5 20 (5.14%) Selenium
6 18 (4.63%) GitLab
7 14 (3.60%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.31%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.29%) JUnit
9 5 (1.29%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.29%) TestRail
9 5 (1.29%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.03%) JMeter
10 4 (1.03%) Maven
10 4 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.03%) Toad
11 3 (0.77%) Postman
12 2 (0.51%) Charles Proxy
General
1 153 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 133 (34.19%) Finance
3 56 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (13.11%) Banking
5 43 (11.05%) Games
6 36 (9.25%) Legal
7 27 (6.94%) Law
8 21 (5.40%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.11%) Manufacturing
11 14 (3.60%) Marketing
12 13 (3.34%) Automotive
13 12 (3.08%) Public Sector
14 11 (2.83%) Retail
15 10 (2.57%) Electronics
16 9 (2.31%) Advertising
16 9 (2.31%) Aerospace
16 9 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (1.80%) Billing
18 5 (1.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 79 (20.31%) Analyst
2 67 (17.22%) Lead
3 58 (14.91%) Business Analyst
4 43 (11.05%) Senior
5 29 (7.46%) Architect
6 22 (5.66%) Developer
7 21 (5.40%) IT Support
7 21 (5.40%) Scrum Master
8 19 (4.88%) Lead Architect
8 19 (4.88%) Project Manager
9 18 (4.63%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
10 16 (4.11%) Product Owner
11 14 (3.60%) IT Engineer
11 14 (3.60%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.34%) IT Analyst
12 13 (3.34%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (2.83%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.88%) React
2 15 (3.86%) CSS
3 13 (3.34%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (3.34%) HTML
4 12 (3.08%) Node.js
5 11 (2.83%) RESTful
6 10 (2.57%) Gherkin
6 10 (2.57%) REST
7 9 (2.31%) .NET
7 9 (2.31%) Middleware
8 5 (1.29%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (1.29%) GraphQL
8 5 (1.29%) Kafka
8 5 (1.29%) Web Services
9 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.03%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.03%) React Native
9 4 (1.03%) Redux
9 4 (1.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.45%) Product Ownership
2 31 (7.97%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.57%) Mobile App
4 10 (2.57%) PMI
5 9 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.54%) Credit Risk
7 6 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.54%) Equities
7 6 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.54%) Market Risk
7 6 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (1.29%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.29%) IoT
9 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.03%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.97%) Linux
2 26 (6.68%) Windows
3 15 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.51%) Android
7 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (66.84%) Agile
2 126 (32.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 102 (26.22%) Roadmaps
4 97 (24.94%) Scrum
5 86 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (18.51%) User Experience
7 68 (17.48%) DevOps
8 67 (17.22%) CI/CD
9 66 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (15.17%) Decision-Making
11 57 (14.65%) Analytics
12 54 (13.88%) AI
13 53 (13.62%) Sprint Planning
14 52 (13.37%) Kanban
15 47 (12.08%) Project Management
16 46 (11.83%) SDLC
16 46 (11.83%) User Stories
17 44 (11.31%) Mentoring
18 43 (11.05%) Customer Experience
19 40 (10.28%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 55 (14.14%) SQL
2 37 (9.51%) Python
3 33 (8.48%) Java
4 23 (5.91%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.08%) Bash
7 10 (2.57%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.29%) C#
9 3 (0.77%) RPG
10 2 (0.51%) C++
10 2 (0.51%) Delphi
10 2 (0.51%) PHP
10 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.51%) VB
10 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.51%) VB6
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (13.88%) Degree
2 41 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 21 (5.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.37%) PMI Certification
5 16 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.08%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.83%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.80%) PMP
9 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.03%) CCNA
11 4 (1.03%) CITP
11 4 (1.03%) OSCP
11 4 (1.03%) RHCE
11 4 (1.03%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.28%) Accessibility
2 28 (7.20%) WCAG
3 26 (6.68%) QA
4 20 (5.14%) SLA
5 10 (2.57%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.57%) PMO
6 9 (2.31%) GDPR
7 7 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.54%) Basel II
8 6 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.03%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.51%) GRC
11 2 (0.51%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.51%) MiFID
11 2 (0.51%) NIST
11 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (7.20%) Docker
2 24 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.03%) Squid
5 4 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.03%) vSphere
6 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.51%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.14%) Terraform
3 11 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (2.57%) Ansible
5 6 (1.54%) Grafana
6 5 (1.29%) Packer
6 5 (1.29%) ZABBIX
7 4 (1.03%) Functional Safety
7 4 (1.03%) Kibana
7 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.03%) Puppet
8 3 (0.77%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.77%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.26%) Consul
10 1 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.26%) Graylog
10 1 (0.26%) Podman
10 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 60 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.80%) Atlassian
3 32 (8.23%) Adobe
4 28 (7.20%) Oracle
5 25 (6.43%) ServiceNow
6 18 (4.63%) Google
7 17 (4.37%) SAP
8 16 (4.11%) Salesforce
9 15 (3.86%) VMware
10 11 (2.83%) Siemens
11 10 (2.57%) Red Hat
12 9 (2.31%) Splunk
13 7 (1.80%) IBM
14 5 (1.29%) Bloomberg
14 5 (1.29%) Databricks
15 4 (1.03%) CQG
15 4 (1.03%) ION Trading
15 4 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 4 (1.03%) Reuters
15 4 (1.03%) YouTube