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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 240 360
Rank change year-on-year -138 +120 -137
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 430 548 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.26% 0.67%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.50% 13.92% 7.34%
Number of salaries quoted 292 325 319
10th Percentile £39,280 £26,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,688 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £99,000 £95,400
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 4,096 3,937 6,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 9.03% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,992 2,790 4,787
10th Percentile £29,008 £29,225 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,844 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.10% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.26% -5.11%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -31 171 £70,000 -12.50% 129
North of England -95 77 £65,766 +35.58% 48
South East -24 66 £60,000 +18.81% 43
South West -44 58 £57,500 +9.52% 24
North West -37 49 £65,766 +19.57% 19
Midlands -105 30 £47,500 -33.33% 22
East of England -43 17 £42,500 -26.09% 12
North East -44 17 £60,000 +166.67% 10
West Midlands -73 17 £52,500 -27.59% 19
East Midlands -64 13 £25,500 +13.33% 3
Yorkshire -67 11 £44,925 -7.38% 19
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 36 (8.37%) SharePoint
2 30 (6.98%) CMS
3 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.93%) IIS
4 4 (0.93%) JBoss
4 4 (0.93%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (9.07%) MS Visio
2 22 (5.12%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (2.09%) Trello
6 6 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.93%) Moqups
8 1 (0.23%) Notion
8 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.63%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 139 (32.33%) Azure
2 88 (20.47%) AWS
3 62 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (10.00%) Figma
5 35 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (6.51%) Miro
7 26 (6.05%) Adobe Analytics
8 25 (5.81%) Contentsquare
8 25 (5.81%) GitHub
9 24 (5.58%) SaaS
10 21 (4.88%) GCP
11 20 (4.65%) Lucidchart
12 18 (4.19%) Serverless
13 14 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.79%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.56%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.33%) Entra ID
17 9 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (2.09%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.05%) Broadband
2 14 (3.26%) VPN
3 13 (3.02%) Firewall
4 8 (1.86%) IPv4
4 8 (1.86%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (1.63%) Multicast
6 6 (1.40%) WAN
7 5 (1.16%) FIX Connectivity
7 5 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.16%) Wireless
8 4 (0.93%) DNS
8 4 (0.93%) LAN
9 3 (0.70%) Network Security
10 2 (0.47%) BGP
10 2 (0.47%) RFID
10 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.23%) DHCP
11 1 (0.23%) MPLS
11 1 (0.23%) OSPF
11 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (3.49%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.56%) Db2
5 10 (2.33%) DTS
6 9 (2.09%) MySQL
7 8 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (1.63%) Tableau
9 6 (1.40%) Power BI
10 5 (1.16%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.93%) Redis
12 3 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.70%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.47%) Mixpanel
13 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 384 (89.30%) JIRA
2 45 (10.47%) Git
3 26 (6.05%) GitLab
4 25 (5.81%) Bitbucket
5 20 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 18 (4.19%) Selenium
7 10 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.86%) JMeter
8 8 (1.86%) Postman
8 8 (1.86%) Zephyr
9 7 (1.63%) MSI
10 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.93%) Toad
12 3 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.70%) Maven
12 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.70%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.70%) TestRail
13 2 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 166 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 138 (32.09%) Finance
3 78 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.00%) Games
5 30 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
5 30 (6.98%) Legal
5 30 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.58%) Banking
7 21 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (4.42%) Law
9 17 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (3.26%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.02%) Retail
12 12 (2.79%) Automotive
12 12 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.33%) Aerospace
13 10 (2.33%) Marketing
14 9 (2.09%) Electronics
15 8 (1.86%) Advertising
15 8 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (21.16%) Analyst
2 70 (16.28%) Lead
3 66 (15.35%) Business Analyst
4 52 (12.09%) Senior
5 26 (6.05%) Delivery Manager
5 26 (6.05%) Project Manager
6 24 (5.58%) Architect
6 24 (5.58%) Developer
6 24 (5.58%) Scrum Master
7 20 (4.65%) Product Manager
8 19 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (3.95%) Technical Analyst
10 16 (3.72%) Product Owner
10 16 (3.72%) Technical Business Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.56%) Designer
13 10 (2.33%) Content Manager
13 10 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.51%) Node.js
2 24 (5.58%) .NET
3 20 (4.65%) CSS
3 20 (4.65%) HTML
3 20 (4.65%) REST
4 19 (4.42%) Middleware
5 18 (4.19%) Spring
6 17 (3.95%) Spring Boot
7 16 (3.72%) JSON
7 16 (3.72%) React
8 15 (3.49%) Kafka
9 13 (3.02%) RESTful
10 10 (2.33%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.33%) GraphQL
10 10 (2.33%) HTML5
11 9 (2.09%) XML
12 8 (1.86%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.86%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.86%) CSS3
12 8 (1.86%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.42%) Product Ownership
2 33 (7.67%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.79%) EPoS
5 12 (2.79%) PMI
6 11 (2.56%) Equities
6 11 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 10 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 10 (2.33%) iSeries
8 8 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.86%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.63%) Eurex
10 6 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.02%) Windows
2 44 (10.23%) Linux
3 27 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.63%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.40%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.16%) CentOS
7 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.70%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Unix
10 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.23%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (63.95%) Agile
2 159 (36.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 129 (30.00%) Scrum
4 121 (28.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 97 (22.56%) DevOps
5 97 (22.56%) Roadmaps
6 95 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (19.53%) AI
8 77 (17.91%) CI/CD
9 72 (16.74%) Decision-Making
10 71 (16.51%) Kanban
11 68 (15.81%) Mentoring
12 67 (15.58%) User Experience
12 67 (15.58%) User Stories
13 64 (14.88%) SDLC
14 62 (14.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 60 (13.95%) Project Delivery
16 59 (13.72%) Requirements Gathering
17 58 (13.49%) Project Management
18 54 (12.56%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.35%) SQL
2 65 (15.12%) Python
3 62 (14.42%) Java
4 33 (7.67%) PowerShell
5 32 (7.44%) JavaScript
6 24 (5.58%) Bash
7 22 (5.12%) C#
8 20 (4.65%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.56%) C++
10 10 (2.33%) RPG
11 8 (1.86%) Bicep
12 6 (1.40%) PHP
13 3 (0.70%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.47%) C
14 2 (0.47%) Ruby
15 1 (0.23%) Ada
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (13.26%) Degree
2 54 (12.56%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 27 (6.28%) PMI Certification
5 20 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (3.49%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.49%) PMP
8 13 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.79%) ISTQB
10 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (1.86%) CCNA
11 8 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.86%) OSCP
11 8 (1.86%) RHCE
11 8 (1.86%) RHCSA
12 7 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.63%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.86%) Accessibility
2 38 (8.84%) QA
3 37 (8.60%) WCAG
4 14 (3.26%) GDPR
4 14 (3.26%) PMO
4 14 (3.26%) SLA
5 12 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.86%) NCSC
8 6 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.16%) NIST
9 5 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.93%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.70%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.47%) GRC
13 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (8.14%) Docker
2 31 (7.21%) Active Directory
3 24 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.86%) Squid
4 8 (1.86%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.86%) vSphere
5 7 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.93%) KVM
7 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (8.37%) Terraform
2 30 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 21 (4.88%) Ansible
4 12 (2.79%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.09%) Packer
6 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.63%) Kibana
8 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
8 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.16%) Nagios
9 5 (1.16%) Podman
9 5 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.93%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.93%) Grafana
10 4 (0.93%) Graylog
11 3 (0.70%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.70%) Puppet
12 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.44%) Adobe
2 32 (7.44%) Oracle
3 25 (5.81%) Atlassian
3 25 (5.81%) VMware
4 24 (5.58%) Splunk
5 22 (5.12%) ServiceNow
6 20 (4.65%) Salesforce
7 19 (4.42%) Google
8 17 (3.95%) Red Hat
9 15 (3.49%) IBM
10 9 (2.09%) ION Trading
11 7 (1.63%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.63%) CQG
11 7 (1.63%) Patsystems
11 7 (1.63%) Reuters
11 7 (1.63%) SAP
11 7 (1.63%) Trayport
12 6 (1.40%) Veeam
13 5 (1.16%) Pega