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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 266 277
Rank change year-on-year -61 +11 -63
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 362 436 729
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.11% 0.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.68% 11.30% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 223 285 602
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +2.21% -9.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,404
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 3,099 3,859 7,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.80% 9.80% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,226 2,572 6,163
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,050 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £88,750
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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -23 140 £75,000 +25.00% 92
North of England -69 65 £60,000 +14.29% 29
Midlands -22 45 £40,000 -24.53% 35
North West -19 44 £62,500 +8.70% 13
South East -20 38 £56,000 +24.44% 77
South West -32 34 £47,500 -13.64% 33
East Midlands -20 33 £31,500 -10.64% 13
East of England +17 25 £38,500 -23.00% 19
Yorkshire -66 16 £57,500 +18.54% 12
West Midlands -25 12 £75,000 +15.38% 22
North East -18 5 £55,000 +144.44% 4
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 31 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.70%) CMS
3 7 (1.93%) Apache
3 7 (1.93%) IIS
4 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.10%) Documentum
5 4 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.83%) WordPress
7 2 (0.55%) MTS
8 1 (0.28%) FileNet
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (6.91%) Microsoft Project
2 18 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (4.70%) MS Visio
4 14 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.10%) Trello
7 3 (0.83%) CATIA
8 1 (0.28%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.28%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Fidessa
1 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.28%) Actimize
3 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.28%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.61%) Azure
2 32 (8.84%) AWS
3 30 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.01%) SaaS
5 27 (7.46%) Figma
6 24 (6.63%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.80%) Adobe Analytics
8 13 (3.59%) GCP
9 12 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 10 (2.76%) Contentsquare
10 10 (2.76%) Miro
10 10 (2.76%) PaaS
11 9 (2.49%) GitHub
12 8 (2.21%) Slack
13 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
13 7 (1.93%) Serverless
14 6 (1.66%) Google Workspace
15 5 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (1.38%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.87%) Firewall
2 12 (3.31%) Broadband
3 11 (3.04%) VPN
4 9 (2.49%) DNS
5 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.10%) VLAN
6 3 (0.83%) Multicast
6 3 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.83%) WAN
7 2 (0.55%) DHCP
7 2 (0.55%) DMVPN
7 2 (0.55%) FIX Connectivity
7 2 (0.55%) HTTP
7 2 (0.55%) LAN
7 2 (0.55%) Network Security
7 2 (0.55%) WLAN
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.28%) MPLS
8 1 (0.28%) SSH
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.42%) Power BI
3 14 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.76%) DB2
5 8 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.38%) MySQL
8 4 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.83%) Big Data
9 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.83%) Power Query
9 3 (0.83%) Tableau
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 335 (92.54%) JIRA
2 24 (6.63%) Git
3 21 (5.80%) Bitbucket
4 20 (5.52%) Jenkins
5 16 (4.42%) Selenium
6 15 (4.14%) GitLab
7 14 (3.87%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.76%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.66%) JUnit
10 4 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.83%) JMeter
11 3 (0.83%) Maven
11 3 (0.83%) Postman
11 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.83%) TestRail
11 3 (0.83%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.55%) Charles Proxy
General
1 144 (39.78%) Social Skills
2 111 (30.66%) Finance
3 71 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (14.64%) Banking
5 33 (9.12%) Law
6 24 (6.63%) Legal
7 23 (6.35%) Marketing
8 22 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (5.25%) Games
9 19 (5.25%) Public Sector
10 18 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (4.14%) Manufacturing
12 12 (3.31%) Retail
13 10 (2.76%) Advertising
14 7 (1.93%) Billing
14 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.93%) Spanish Language
15 6 (1.66%) Military
16 5 (1.38%) Front Office
17 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 81 (22.38%) Analyst
2 58 (16.02%) Business Analyst
3 47 (12.98%) Senior
4 42 (11.60%) Lead
5 24 (6.63%) Architect
5 24 (6.63%) Developer
6 21 (5.80%) IT Support
7 18 (4.97%) Lead Architect
7 18 (4.97%) Support Engineer
8 16 (4.42%) Scrum Master
8 16 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.14%) IT Engineer
9 15 (4.14%) Support Analyst
10 14 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (3.87%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.87%) Senior Manager
11 13 (3.59%) IT Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.31%) Product Owner
13 10 (2.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.97%) React
2 14 (3.87%) CSS
3 13 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (3.31%) HTML
5 11 (3.04%) Node.js
5 11 (3.04%) RESTful
6 10 (2.76%) Gherkin
6 10 (2.76%) REST
7 9 (2.49%) Middleware
8 6 (1.66%) Kafka
9 5 (1.38%) .NET
9 5 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.38%) OAuth
9 5 (1.38%) Spring
10 4 (1.10%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.10%) Hibernate
10 4 (1.10%) JSON
10 4 (1.10%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.10%) SOAP
10 4 (1.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 33 (9.12%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.93%) IoT
7 7 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.66%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.66%) Market Risk
8 6 (1.66%) PMI
8 6 (1.66%) Video\Live Streaming
8 6 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.38%) Equities
9 5 (1.38%) Social Media
10 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.08%) Linux
2 21 (5.80%) Windows
3 8 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.10%) Unix
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.55%) Android
8 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (68.78%) Agile
2 101 (27.90%) Continuous Improvement
3 91 (25.14%) Scrum
4 79 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (20.17%) Roadmaps
6 66 (18.23%) User Experience
7 62 (17.13%) DevOps
8 60 (16.57%) CI/CD
9 51 (14.09%) Analytics
10 49 (13.54%) Sprint Planning
11 47 (12.98%) Decision-Making
11 47 (12.98%) User Stories
12 44 (12.15%) Project Management
13 42 (11.60%) AI
14 41 (11.33%) Business Strategy
15 40 (11.05%) Kanban
16 39 (10.77%) SDLC
17 38 (10.50%) Customer Experience
18 34 (9.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.85%) SQL
2 28 (7.73%) Python
3 26 (7.18%) Java
4 19 (5.25%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.59%) PowerShell
6 10 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.49%) Bash
8 3 (0.83%) C#
8 3 (0.83%) RPG
9 2 (0.55%) Delphi
9 2 (0.55%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.55%) VB
9 2 (0.55%) VB6
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) Groovy
10 1 (0.28%) PHP
10 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (16.02%) Degree
2 42 (11.60%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.59%) PMI Certification
7 11 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.21%) PMP
9 7 (1.93%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.10%) CBAP
11 4 (1.10%) CITP
12 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.83%) CISSP
12 3 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.55%) CCNA
13 2 (0.55%) CSPO
13 2 (0.55%) IIBA
13 2 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.22%) Accessibility
2 25 (6.91%) QA
3 16 (4.42%) SLA
3 16 (4.42%) WCAG
4 13 (3.59%) PMO
5 11 (3.04%) GDPR
6 6 (1.66%) Basel II
6 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.55%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) GRC
10 1 (0.28%) ITGC
10 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (6.08%) Docker
2 21 (5.80%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.83%) vSphere
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.59%) Terraform
4 6 (1.66%) Ansible
5 5 (1.38%) Grafana
5 5 (1.38%) Puppet
6 4 (1.10%) Kibana
6 4 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.28%) Ambari
8 1 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.28%) Nagios
8 1 (0.28%) Podman
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 66 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.60%) Atlassian
3 23 (6.35%) Oracle
4 22 (6.08%) Adobe
4 22 (6.08%) SAP
5 20 (5.52%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.70%) Salesforce
7 15 (4.14%) Google
8 13 (3.59%) Siemens
9 10 (2.76%) VMware
10 9 (2.49%) Cisco
10 9 (2.49%) Qualtrics
11 8 (2.21%) IBM
12 6 (1.66%) Red Hat
13 5 (1.38%) Bloomberg
13 5 (1.38%) Splunk
14 4 (1.10%) Patsystems
14 4 (1.10%) Pega
14 4 (1.10%) Reuters
14 4 (1.10%) Trayport