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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 244 329
Rank change year-on-year -121 +85 -80
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 401 559 736
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 1.39% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.94% 14.99% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 272 321 549
10th Percentile £32,875 £26,500 £27,976
25th Percentile £47,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% +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 3,664 3,729 8,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.33% 9.30% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,726 2,629 6,557
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,301 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £107,500
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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -32 145 £72,500 +3.57% 88
North of England -114 68 £65,766 +25.27% 42
South East -13 61 £60,000 +20.00% 43
North West -45 52 £65,766 +14.38% 23
South West -56 47 £55,000 +10.00% 24
Midlands -93 44 £45,000 -25.00% 14
East Midlands -59 27 £25,500 +13.33% 2
East of England -29 19 £32,500 -54.39% 9
West Midlands -58 17 £69,000 -4.83% 12
North East -43 9 £67,500 +200.00% 4
Yorkshire -89 7 £75,000 +54.62% 15
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 35 (8.73%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.48%) 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 Airflow
6 3 (0.75%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Drupal
8 1 (0.25%) nginx
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (6.48%) MS Visio
2 23 (5.74%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.00%) Trello
5 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Notion
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.50%) Workfront
5 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 113 (28.18%) Azure
2 67 (16.71%) AWS
3 52 (12.97%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.98%) Figma
5 27 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (6.48%) Adobe Analytics
7 25 (6.23%) Contentsquare
8 24 (5.99%) SaaS
9 18 (4.49%) GCP
9 18 (4.49%) GitHub
10 17 (4.24%) Lucidchart
11 15 (3.74%) Power Platform
12 14 (3.49%) Miro
12 14 (3.49%) Serverless
13 11 (2.74%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.24%) PaaS
15 8 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (2.00%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.48%) Broadband
2 14 (3.49%) Firewall
2 14 (3.49%) VPN
3 8 (2.00%) IPv4
3 8 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (1.75%) Multicast
5 6 (1.50%) DNS
6 5 (1.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.00%) LAN
7 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.00%) Wireless
8 3 (0.75%) FIX Connectivity
9 2 (0.50%) BGP
9 2 (0.50%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.50%) Network Security
9 2 (0.50%) RFID
9 2 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.50%) WLAN
10 1 (0.25%) DHCP
10 1 (0.25%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 8 (2.00%) Db2
4 8 (2.00%) Power BI
5 7 (1.75%) DTS
5 7 (1.75%) MySQL
5 7 (1.75%) Tableau
6 6 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.50%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.75%) Big Data
8 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.75%) Redis
8 3 (0.75%) Spatial Data
9 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 355 (88.53%) JIRA
2 32 (7.98%) Git
3 24 (5.99%) GitLab
4 20 (4.99%) Bitbucket
5 14 (3.49%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.99%) Selenium
7 7 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.25%) JMeter
9 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
10 4 (1.00%) Maven
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.00%) Toad
11 3 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.75%) JUnit
11 3 (0.75%) MSI
11 3 (0.75%) TestRail
12 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 148 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 131 (32.67%) Finance
3 66 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.97%) Games
5 36 (8.98%) Legal
6 29 (7.23%) Banking
7 25 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
7 25 (6.23%) Law
8 20 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.99%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.49%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.24%) Automotive
11 13 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.24%) Marketing
11 13 (3.24%) Retail
12 10 (2.49%) Aerospace
13 9 (2.24%) Advertising
13 9 (2.24%) Electronics
14 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 94 (23.44%) Analyst
2 66 (16.46%) Business Analyst
3 65 (16.21%) Lead
4 43 (10.72%) Senior
5 29 (7.23%) Architect
6 26 (6.48%) Scrum Master
7 24 (5.99%) Delivery Manager
8 22 (5.49%) Developer
9 19 (4.74%) IT Support
10 18 (4.49%) Product Owner
11 17 (4.24%) Project Manager
12 16 (3.99%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (3.49%) IT Analyst
13 14 (3.49%) Product Manager
13 14 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
14 13 (3.24%) Lead Architect
14 13 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.99%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (2.99%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.49%) Node.js
2 19 (4.74%) Middleware
3 18 (4.49%) .NET
4 15 (3.74%) CSS
4 15 (3.74%) Spring
5 14 (3.49%) HTML
5 14 (3.49%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.24%) React
7 12 (2.99%) REST
8 11 (2.74%) ASP.NET
9 10 (2.49%) GraphQL
9 10 (2.49%) JSON
10 9 (2.24%) Kafka
10 9 (2.24%) RESTful
11 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.50%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.50%) HTML5
13 5 (1.25%) Jest
13 5 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.21%) Product Ownership
2 34 (8.48%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.74%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.49%) Equities
7 9 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (2.24%) EPoS
7 9 (2.24%) PMI
7 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.75%) Eurex
9 7 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.75%) iSeries
10 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.47%) Windows
2 39 (9.73%) Linux
3 21 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.25%) CentOS
6 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Unix
9 1 (0.25%) Android
9 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (64.09%) Agile
2 141 (35.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 103 (25.69%) Roadmaps
4 102 (25.44%) Scrum
5 92 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 84 (20.95%) DevOps
7 80 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (17.71%) Decision-Making
9 69 (17.21%) CI/CD
10 66 (16.46%) User Experience
11 64 (15.96%) AI
12 59 (14.71%) User Stories
13 57 (14.21%) Analytics
13 57 (14.21%) SDLC
14 56 (13.97%) Kanban
15 51 (12.72%) Mentoring
16 48 (11.97%) Acceptance Criteria
16 48 (11.97%) Requirements Gathering
17 47 (11.72%) Project Management
18 45 (11.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 60 (14.96%) SQL
2 52 (12.97%) Python
3 44 (10.97%) Java
4 26 (6.48%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.74%) PowerShell
6 21 (5.24%) Bash
7 16 (3.99%) C#
8 13 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.75%) RPG
10 6 (1.50%) PHP
11 4 (1.00%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
14 1 (0.25%) C
14 1 (0.25%) Delphi
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.25%) VB6
Qualifications
1 44 (10.97%) Security Cleared
2 43 (10.72%) Degree
3 22 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.49%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.24%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.00%) CCNA
9 8 (2.00%) OSCP
9 8 (2.00%) RHCE
9 8 (2.00%) RHCSA
10 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.25%) PMP
12 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.00%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.72%) Accessibility
2 34 (8.48%) QA
3 31 (7.73%) WCAG
4 20 (4.99%) SLA
5 10 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.24%) GDPR
6 9 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.00%) ISO 26262
8 4 (1.00%) NCSC
8 4 (1.00%) PMO
9 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.75%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.75%) NIST
9 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 14001
10 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (6.98%) Docker
2 22 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.00%) Squid
4 8 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 8 (2.00%) 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 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (6.98%) Terraform
2 26 (6.48%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.99%) Ansible
4 12 (2.99%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.24%) Packer
6 7 (1.75%) Kibana
7 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.25%) Grafana
7 5 (1.25%) Nagios
7 5 (1.25%) Podman
8 4 (1.00%) Functional Safety
8 4 (1.00%) Graylog
8 4 (1.00%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
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 71 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.98%) Adobe
3 30 (7.48%) Oracle
4 27 (6.73%) ServiceNow
5 25 (6.23%) Atlassian
6 21 (5.24%) Splunk
7 20 (4.99%) VMware
8 16 (3.99%) Google
8 16 (3.99%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.99%) IBM
9 12 (2.99%) Red Hat
10 8 (2.00%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.00%) ION Trading
10 8 (2.00%) SAP
11 7 (1.75%) CQG
11 7 (1.75%) Patsystems
11 7 (1.75%) Reuters
11 7 (1.75%) Trayport
12 6 (1.50%) Databricks
12 6 (1.50%) Veeam