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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 239 310
Rank change year-on-year -112 +71 -73
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 399 540 759
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.40% 0.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.53% 15.01% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 266 300 580
10th Percentile £32,500 £21,250 £30,450
25th Percentile £47,563 £42,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,125 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -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 3,460 3,597 8,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.16% 9.30% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,574 2,502 6,539
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,125 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £97,695
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 30 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 30 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 -39 150 £75,000 +7.14% 90
North of England -129 64 £65,766 +19.57% 20
South East -15 55 £62,500 +28.21% 45
North West -40 52 £65,766 +4.06% 12
Midlands -89 47 £45,000 +20.00% 14
South West -46 41 £51,250 -2.38% 12
East Midlands -50 29 £25,500 +13.33% 4
East of England -17 25 £32,500 -60.61% 13
West Midlands -61 18 £69,000 -4.83% 10
Yorkshire -93 7 £75,000 +54.62% 5
North East -48 5 £67,500 +200.00% 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 41 (10.28%) SharePoint
2 33 (8.27%) CMS
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.25%) IIS
5 4 (1.00%) Documentum
5 4 (1.00%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.75%) Apache
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (5.01%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.75%) Trello
6 1 (0.25%) Notion
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.50%) Workfront
4 1 (0.25%) Actimize
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (24.56%) Azure
2 62 (15.54%) AWS
3 42 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (9.27%) Figma
5 30 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (6.77%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.27%) Contentsquare
8 23 (5.76%) SaaS
9 19 (4.76%) GCP
10 16 (4.01%) GitHub
10 16 (4.01%) Power Platform
11 11 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 11 (2.76%) Lucidchart
12 10 (2.51%) Miro
13 9 (2.26%) PaaS
13 9 (2.26%) Slack
14 8 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.75%) Serverless
16 6 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.77%) Broadband
2 16 (4.01%) Firewall
3 14 (3.51%) VPN
4 7 (1.75%) IPv4
4 7 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (1.50%) DNS
5 6 (1.50%) Multicast
5 6 (1.50%) WAN
6 5 (1.25%) LAN
7 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.00%) Wireless
8 3 (0.75%) Network Security
8 3 (0.75%) WLAN
9 2 (0.50%) BGP
9 2 (0.50%) DMVPN
9 2 (0.50%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.50%) HTTP
9 2 (0.50%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.52%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.26%) DB2
4 8 (2.01%) MySQL
4 8 (2.01%) Power BI
5 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.00%) DTS
7 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (0.75%) Big Data
8 3 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.75%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.75%) Spatial Data
8 3 (0.75%) Tableau
9 2 (0.50%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 357 (89.47%) JIRA
2 28 (7.02%) Git
3 21 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 21 (5.26%) GitLab
4 18 (4.51%) Jenkins
5 16 (4.01%) Selenium
6 10 (2.51%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.25%) Maven
7 5 (1.25%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.25%) TestRail
7 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.00%) JMeter
8 4 (1.00%) JUnit
8 4 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (1.00%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.00%) Toad
9 3 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 148 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 129 (32.33%) Finance
3 57 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.78%) Games
5 38 (9.52%) Banking
6 36 (9.02%) Legal
7 26 (6.52%) Law
8 23 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 17 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (3.51%) Marketing
11 13 (3.26%) Automotive
11 13 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 13 (3.26%) Retail
12 11 (2.76%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.51%) Electronics
13 10 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (2.26%) Advertising
15 6 (1.50%) Billing
15 6 (1.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (20.80%) Analyst
2 70 (17.54%) Lead
3 59 (14.79%) Business Analyst
4 46 (11.53%) Senior
5 30 (7.52%) Architect
6 26 (6.52%) Scrum Master
7 25 (6.27%) Developer
8 22 (5.51%) IT Support
9 18 (4.51%) Delivery Manager
9 18 (4.51%) Project Manager
10 16 (4.01%) Lead Architect
10 16 (4.01%) Product Owner
10 16 (4.01%) Support Engineer
11 15 (3.76%) IT Engineer
11 15 (3.76%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (3.51%) IT Analyst
12 14 (3.51%) Product Manager
12 14 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.51%) React
2 16 (4.01%) CSS
2 16 (4.01%) Node.js
3 15 (3.76%) .NET
4 14 (3.51%) HTML
5 13 (3.26%) Middleware
6 11 (2.76%) ASP.NET
6 11 (2.76%) GraphQL
7 10 (2.51%) REST
7 10 (2.51%) RESTful
8 9 (2.26%) Spring
9 8 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.01%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.50%) Gherkin
11 6 (1.50%) Kafka
12 5 (1.25%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.25%) ARM Templates
12 5 (1.25%) React Native
12 5 (1.25%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.54%) Product Ownership
2 29 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.01%) Mobile App
4 12 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.51%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.51%) PMI
7 9 (2.26%) Equities
8 8 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.50%) Eurex
9 6 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.25%) EPoS
10 5 (1.25%) IoT
10 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.27%) Linux
2 34 (8.52%) Windows
3 18 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.25%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.00%) CentOS
6 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.75%) Android
7 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (63.66%) Agile
2 130 (32.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 104 (26.07%) Roadmaps
4 100 (25.06%) Scrum
5 90 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 75 (18.80%) DevOps
7 74 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.79%) User Experience
9 67 (16.79%) CI/CD
10 62 (15.54%) Decision-Making
11 60 (15.04%) AI
12 55 (13.78%) Analytics
13 53 (13.28%) Kanban
13 53 (13.28%) SDLC
13 53 (13.28%) User Stories
14 51 (12.78%) Mentoring
15 49 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
16 45 (11.28%) Project Management
17 44 (11.03%) Acceptance Criteria
18 40 (10.03%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.53%) SQL
2 46 (11.53%) Python
3 37 (9.27%) Java
4 27 (6.77%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 20 (5.01%) Bash
7 13 (3.26%) C#
8 12 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.25%) PHP
9 5 (1.25%) RPG
10 4 (1.00%) C++
11 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.50%) Ruby
12 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.25%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (11.78%) Degree
2 42 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.01%) PMI Certification
5 14 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.01%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.75%) CCNA
11 7 (1.75%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.75%) OSCP
11 7 (1.75%) RHCE
11 7 (1.75%) RHCSA
12 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.50%) PMP
13 4 (1.00%) CITP
14 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 30 (7.52%) QA
3 29 (7.27%) WCAG
4 20 (5.01%) SLA
5 11 (2.76%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.01%) GDPR
6 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.25%) PMO
9 4 (1.00%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.75%) Basel II
10 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.50%) GRC
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.50%) MiFID
11 2 (0.50%) NIST
11 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (6.52%) Docker
2 23 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.75%) Squid
4 7 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.75%) vSphere
5 6 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.00%) KVM
8 3 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) Firmware
9 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (6.27%) Kubernetes
1 25 (6.27%) Terraform
2 14 (3.51%) Ansible
3 13 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.76%) ZABBIX
5 8 (2.01%) Packer
6 6 (1.50%) Grafana
7 5 (1.25%) Kibana
8 4 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
8 4 (1.00%) Graylog
8 4 (1.00%) Nagios
8 4 (1.00%) Podman
8 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.00%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.75%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.27%) Adobe
3 31 (7.77%) Atlassian
3 31 (7.77%) Oracle
4 25 (6.27%) ServiceNow
5 18 (4.51%) VMware
6 16 (4.01%) Google
6 16 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 16 (4.01%) Splunk
7 15 (3.76%) SAP
8 11 (2.76%) IBM
8 11 (2.76%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.01%) Siemens
10 7 (1.75%) Bloomberg
11 6 (1.50%) CQG
11 6 (1.50%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.50%) Patsystems
11 6 (1.50%) Reuters
11 6 (1.50%) Trayport
11 6 (1.50%) Veeam