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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 266 370
Rank change year-on-year -123 +104 -132
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 443 495 446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.14% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.32% 14.08% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 283 270 255
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,299
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -16.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -15.48%

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 4,294 3,516 5,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.13% 8.12% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,976 2,520 3,466
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,738 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +1.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £55,762
% change year-on-year -7.41% -3.16% +1.31%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -16 206 £67,500 -18.18% 340
North of England -75 66 £60,000 +26.32% 101
South East -42 65 £60,000 +10.60% 97
South West -49 64 £65,000 +30.00% 51
North West -62 36 £60,000 +9.09% 48
Midlands -137 20 £50,000 -31.03% 49
North East -47 17 £42,500 - 13
East of England -59 17 £40,000 -30.43% 42
West Midlands -90 16 £45,000 -37.93% 32
Yorkshire -50 13 £60,850 +38.30% 40
East Midlands -80 4 £50,000 +33.33% 17
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 29 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 17 (3.84%) CMS
3 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.13%) JBoss
5 4 (0.90%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.68%) Drupal
6 3 (0.68%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.45%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 57 (12.87%) MS Visio
2 25 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (2.93%) Trello
6 7 (1.58%) Moqups
7 6 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.68%) Simulink
9 1 (0.23%) Notion
9 1 (0.23%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.81%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 138 (31.15%) Azure
2 97 (21.90%) AWS
3 64 (14.45%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (8.80%) SaaS
5 33 (7.45%) Miro
6 31 (7.00%) Figma
7 30 (6.77%) GitHub
8 18 (4.06%) Entra ID
8 18 (4.06%) Lucidchart
9 17 (3.84%) Serverless
10 16 (3.61%) GCP
11 14 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.93%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.48%) Power Platform
14 10 (2.26%) Adobe Analytics
14 10 (2.26%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.26%) Contentsquare
15 9 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.03%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.74%) VPN
2 13 (2.93%) DNS
3 11 (2.48%) Broadband
4 10 (2.26%) DHCP
5 9 (2.03%) Firewall
6 8 (1.81%) IPv4
6 8 (1.81%) Multicast
6 8 (1.81%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.35%) FIX Connectivity
8 6 (1.35%) WAN
9 4 (0.90%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.68%) LAN
10 3 (0.68%) Network Security
10 3 (0.68%) Wireless
11 2 (0.45%) RFID
11 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.23%) DKIM
12 1 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 21 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (3.84%) MongoDB
4 10 (2.26%) Db2
4 10 (2.26%) DTS
4 10 (2.26%) Metadata
4 10 (2.26%) Power BI
5 9 (2.03%) MySQL
6 8 (1.81%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.58%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.58%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.13%) Redis
8 5 (1.13%) Spatial Data
8 5 (1.13%) Tableau
9 3 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.45%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 410 (92.55%) JIRA
2 44 (9.93%) Git
3 28 (6.32%) GitLab
4 22 (4.97%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.51%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.29%) Selenium
7 15 (3.39%) Postman
8 10 (2.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (2.03%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.03%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.81%) Claude Code
11 7 (1.58%) JMeter
11 7 (1.58%) MSI
12 6 (1.35%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.13%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.45%) Balsamiq
14 2 (0.45%) JUnit
14 2 (0.45%) Maven
14 2 (0.45%) Mocha
14 2 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 179 (40.41%) Social Skills
2 148 (33.41%) Finance
3 101 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
5 30 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 29 (6.55%) Banking
6 29 (6.55%) Manufacturing
7 22 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (4.97%) Games
8 20 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (4.51%) Law
8 20 (4.51%) Retail
9 18 (4.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (3.84%) Marketing
11 16 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.93%) Legal
12 13 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.71%) Aerospace
14 11 (2.48%) Publishing
15 10 (2.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 123 (27.77%) Analyst
2 90 (20.32%) Business Analyst
3 58 (13.09%) Senior
4 46 (10.38%) Lead
5 33 (7.45%) Delivery Manager
6 30 (6.77%) Developer
7 27 (6.09%) Product Owner
8 26 (5.87%) Technical Analyst
9 24 (5.42%) Project Manager
9 24 (5.42%) Technical Business Analyst
10 23 (5.19%) Product Manager
11 21 (4.74%) Architect
12 20 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.16%) Senior Business Analyst
13 14 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.16%) Support Analyst
14 13 (2.93%) Scrum Master
14 13 (2.93%) Senior Manager
15 11 (2.48%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.45%) HTML
2 31 (7.00%) REST
3 29 (6.55%) Node.js
3 29 (6.55%) Terraform
4 26 (5.87%) .NET
5 21 (4.74%) CSS
5 21 (4.74%) Middleware
6 19 (4.29%) React
7 18 (4.06%) JSON
8 17 (3.84%) Kafka
8 17 (3.84%) Spring
8 17 (3.84%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.61%) RESTful
10 13 (2.93%) Next.js
11 12 (2.71%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.48%) GraphQL
12 11 (2.48%) XML
13 10 (2.26%) HTML5
14 9 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (1.81%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 77 (17.38%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.67%) Onboarding
3 21 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (2.71%) Biopharmaceutical
7 12 (2.71%) EPoS
7 12 (2.71%) PMI
7 12 (2.71%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.48%) Equities
9 10 (2.26%) iSeries
10 9 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (2.03%) Fixed Income
10 9 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.03%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 70 (15.80%) Windows
2 49 (11.06%) Linux
3 23 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.03%) Mac OS
4 9 (2.03%) Unix
5 8 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.13%) CentOS
8 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.68%) Android
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) Rocky
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (63.88%) Agile
2 147 (33.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 138 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 134 (30.25%) Scrum
5 125 (28.22%) AI
6 116 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (24.83%) User Stories
8 96 (21.67%) DevOps
9 83 (18.74%) Coaching
10 81 (18.28%) Requirements Gathering
11 79 (17.83%) Acceptance Criteria
12 78 (17.61%) Kanban
13 75 (16.93%) Decision-Making
14 74 (16.70%) Mentoring
15 73 (16.48%) Project Delivery
16 70 (15.80%) CI/CD
17 68 (15.35%) Sprint Planning
18 66 (14.90%) Roadmaps
19 65 (14.67%) Business Analysis
20 61 (13.77%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (20.77%) SQL
2 70 (15.80%) Python
3 60 (13.54%) Java
4 42 (9.48%) PowerShell
5 33 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 32 (7.22%) Bash
7 26 (5.87%) C#
8 24 (5.42%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.93%) C++
10 10 (2.26%) RPG
11 8 (1.81%) Bicep
12 4 (0.90%) PHP
13 3 (0.68%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.45%) C
14 2 (0.45%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) Ada
15 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (16.25%) Degree
2 60 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.77%) PMI Certification
5 23 (5.19%) Master's Degree
6 19 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 18 (4.06%) PMP
8 16 (3.61%) ISTQB
8 16 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.71%) MBA
12 9 (2.03%) CSPO
13 8 (1.81%) CBAP
13 8 (1.81%) CCNA
13 8 (1.81%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.81%) IIBA
13 8 (1.81%) OSCP
13 8 (1.81%) RHCE
13 8 (1.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.00%) QA
2 29 (6.55%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.97%) WCAG
4 20 (4.51%) PMO
5 18 (4.06%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.81%) GDPR
8 7 (1.58%) NCSC
9 4 (0.90%) NIST
9 4 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.90%) SLA
10 3 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.68%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.45%) GRC
12 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 26262
12 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (7.90%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.32%) Docker
3 21 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.81%) Squid
4 8 (1.81%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.81%) vSphere
5 6 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.90%) KVM
6 4 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.68%) Firmware
8 2 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.51%) Ansible
3 12 (2.71%) ZABBIX
4 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.81%) Packer
5 6 (1.35%) Kibana
5 6 (1.35%) Proxmox
5 6 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.90%) Graylog
6 4 (0.90%) Nagios
6 4 (0.90%) Podman
6 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (0.68%) Grafana
7 3 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.45%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.55%) Atlassian
3 27 (6.09%) Oracle
4 23 (5.19%) VMware
5 22 (4.97%) Splunk
6 18 (4.06%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.84%) Adobe
7 17 (3.84%) Red Hat
8 16 (3.61%) Google
8 16 (3.61%) Salesforce
9 15 (3.39%) IBM
10 10 (2.26%) ION Trading
11 9 (2.03%) SAP
12 8 (1.81%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.81%) CQG
12 8 (1.81%) Patsystems
12 8 (1.81%) Pega
12 8 (1.81%) Reuters
12 8 (1.81%) Trayport
13 6 (1.35%) Apple