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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 264 286
Rank change year-on-year -62 +22 -63
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 378 429 753
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.71% 11.91% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 235 307 605
10th Percentile £31,250 £21,250 £30,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,766 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.42% +1.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,500 £57,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.30% -11.15%

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 3,229 3,603 8,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.59% 9.86% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 2,611 6,369
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,813 £38,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,438 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
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 1 April 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 April 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 -42 138 £75,000 +25.00% 72
North of England -95 70 £65,766 +27.08% 41
North West -23 52 £65,766 +14.38% 20
Midlands -32 49 £43,000 -1.71% 31
South East -36 43 £65,000 +49.43% 50
South West -44 35 £47,500 -13.64% 21
East Midlands -36 32 £25,500 +13.33% 12
East of England -2 27 £38,500 -35.83% 15
West Midlands -22 17 £72,000 +10.77% 19
Yorkshire -93 12 £60,000 +23.69% 10
North East -28 6 £63,750 +183.33% 11
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 33 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 22 (5.82%) CMS
3 8 (2.12%) Apache
3 8 (2.12%) IIS
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.06%) Documentum
5 4 (1.06%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.06%) WordPress
6 2 (0.53%) MTS
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 27 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.23%) MS Visio
3 15 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.32%) Trello
6 1 (0.26%) CATIA
6 1 (0.26%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.26%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.06%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.26%) Actimize
4 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.26%) Magento
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.26%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 76 (20.11%) Azure
2 38 (10.05%) AWS
3 30 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (7.94%) Figma
4 28 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (7.41%) SaaS
5 27 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
6 23 (6.08%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.03%) GCP
8 15 (3.97%) Contentsquare
9 12 (3.17%) PaaS
10 10 (2.65%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.65%) GitHub
11 9 (2.38%) Miro
12 8 (2.12%) Slack
13 6 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.59%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.59%) Serverless
14 5 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.50%) Broadband
2 13 (3.44%) Firewall
3 11 (2.91%) VPN
4 9 (2.38%) DNS
5 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.79%) Multicast
6 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.79%) WAN
7 2 (0.53%) BGP
7 2 (0.53%) DHCP
7 2 (0.53%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.53%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.53%) HTTP
7 2 (0.53%) LAN
7 2 (0.53%) Network Security
7 2 (0.53%) VLAN
7 2 (0.53%) Wireless
7 2 (0.53%) WLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.97%) Power BI
3 13 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.38%) DB2
5 7 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.32%) Tableau
8 4 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.06%) MySQL
8 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.79%) Big Data
9 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.79%) Power Query
10 2 (0.53%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 347 (91.80%) JIRA
2 26 (6.88%) Git
3 23 (6.08%) Bitbucket
4 19 (5.03%) Jenkins
5 16 (4.23%) Selenium
6 14 (3.70%) GitLab
7 13 (3.44%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.38%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.59%) JUnit
10 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.06%) JMeter
10 4 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.79%) Maven
11 3 (0.79%) Postman
11 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.79%) TestRail
11 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.79%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.53%) Charles Proxy
General
1 144 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 127 (33.60%) Finance
3 68 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (15.34%) Banking
5 31 (8.20%) Law
6 28 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
7 27 (7.14%) Legal
8 25 (6.61%) Games
9 22 (5.82%) Marketing
10 18 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (4.76%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.97%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.91%) Retail
13 10 (2.65%) Advertising
14 9 (2.38%) Billing
15 7 (1.85%) Automotive
15 7 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.59%) Military
17 5 (1.32%) Front Office
17 5 (1.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 79 (20.90%) Analyst
2 57 (15.08%) Lead
3 53 (14.02%) Business Analyst
4 47 (12.43%) Senior
5 28 (7.41%) Architect
6 21 (5.56%) IT Support
7 19 (5.03%) Developer
7 19 (5.03%) Lead Architect
8 18 (4.76%) Scrum Master
8 18 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 17 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.97%) IT Engineer
10 15 (3.97%) Project Manager
10 15 (3.97%) Senior Manager
11 14 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (3.44%) Support Analyst
13 12 (3.17%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.91%) IT Analyst
14 11 (2.91%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.50%) React
2 13 (3.44%) CSS
3 12 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (2.91%) HTML
5 10 (2.65%) REST
5 10 (2.65%) RESTful
6 9 (2.38%) Gherkin
6 9 (2.38%) Middleware
6 9 (2.38%) Node.js
7 8 (2.12%) .NET
8 7 (1.85%) JSON
9 5 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.32%) Kafka
9 5 (1.32%) OAuth
9 5 (1.32%) Spring
10 4 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.06%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.06%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.06%) Web Services
11 3 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 31 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.85%) IoT
6 7 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.85%) PMI
7 6 (1.59%) Credit Risk
7 6 (1.59%) Market Risk
7 6 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.32%) Equities
8 5 (1.32%) Social Media
8 5 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.35%) Linux
2 23 (6.08%) Windows
3 10 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.06%) Unix
6 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.79%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.53%) Android
8 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (68.78%) Agile
2 107 (28.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 94 (24.87%) Scrum
4 92 (24.34%) Roadmaps
5 89 (23.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (17.72%) CI/CD
7 67 (17.72%) User Experience
8 66 (17.46%) DevOps
9 58 (15.34%) Analytics
10 53 (14.02%) Decision-Making
11 50 (13.23%) Sprint Planning
12 47 (12.43%) User Stories
13 46 (12.17%) AI
13 46 (12.17%) Kanban
14 43 (11.38%) Business Strategy
14 43 (11.38%) Customer Experience
15 42 (11.11%) SDLC
16 41 (10.85%) Project Management
17 38 (10.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (15.61%) SQL
2 35 (9.26%) Python
3 29 (7.67%) Java
4 19 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.44%) PowerShell
6 9 (2.38%) Bash
6 9 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.79%) RPG
8 2 (0.53%) C#
8 2 (0.53%) Delphi
8 2 (0.53%) PHP
8 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.53%) VB
8 2 (0.53%) VB6
9 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.26%) Go
9 1 (0.26%) Groovy
9 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (14.29%) Degree
2 43 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.70%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.12%) PMP
9 6 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.06%) CISSP
10 4 (1.06%) CITP
11 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CCNA
12 2 (0.53%) CISM
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (10.85%) Accessibility
2 21 (5.56%) QA
3 20 (5.29%) WCAG
4 19 (5.03%) SLA
5 11 (2.91%) GDPR
5 11 (2.91%) PMO
6 7 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.59%) Basel II
8 4 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.79%) NIST
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.26%) GMP
11 1 (0.26%) GxP
11 1 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (6.08%) Docker
2 20 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.76%) Terraform
3 13 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.85%) Ansible
5 6 (1.59%) Puppet
6 5 (1.32%) Grafana
6 5 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.06%) Kibana
7 4 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.53%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.26%) Ambari
9 1 (0.26%) Consul
9 1 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.26%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.26%) Podman
9 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 28 (7.41%) Adobe
4 24 (6.35%) Oracle
5 23 (6.08%) ServiceNow
6 20 (5.29%) Google
6 20 (5.29%) SAP
7 17 (4.50%) Salesforce
8 13 (3.44%) Siemens
9 10 (2.65%) VMware
10 9 (2.38%) Qualtrics
11 7 (1.85%) Cisco
11 7 (1.85%) IBM
11 7 (1.85%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.59%) Splunk
13 5 (1.32%) Bloomberg
14 4 (1.06%) CQG
14 4 (1.06%) OpenText
14 4 (1.06%) Patsystems
14 4 (1.06%) Reuters