Confluence Job Trends in the North of England

Confluence
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Confluence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 149 245
Rank change year-on-year -95 +96 -10
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 73 117 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.42% 1.71% 0.83%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.72% 19.15% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 46 80 122
10th Percentile £44,125 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £28,844 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,133 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.16% -25.00% +10.65%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £99,654
England median annual salary £65,766 £60,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year +9.61% +8.60% -15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 623 611 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.62% 8.95% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 496 428 1,172
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,446 £77,500 £76,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.34%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Confluence job vacancy trend in the North of England

Confluence
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Confluence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Confluence

Confluence
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Confluence in the North of England

Confluence
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North West -17 58 £65,766 +14.38% 10
Yorkshire -99 10 £60,000 +23.69% 9
North East -41 5 £67,500 +200.00% 4
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (10.96%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.74%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.37%) FrameMaker
3 1 (1.37%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) Azure
2 15 (20.55%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.96%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.59%) AWS
5 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.48%) Dropbox
6 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.11%) GCP
7 3 (4.11%) SaaS
8 2 (2.74%) Boomi
8 2 (2.74%) Dagster
8 2 (2.74%) dbt
8 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.74%) Figma
8 2 (2.74%) Lucidchart
8 2 (2.74%) Miro
8 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.37%) Amplience
9 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) Power BI
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (4.11%) Tableau
2 2 (2.74%) Data Vault
2 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.37%) Big Data
3 1 (1.37%) Looker
3 1 (1.37%) Mixpanel
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 72 (98.63%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Git
2 1 (1.37%) GitLab
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) PyCharm
2 1 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (34.25%) Finance
2 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Manufacturing
4 9 (12.33%) Banking
5 8 (10.96%) Games
6 7 (9.59%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Marketing
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Publishing
9 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Lead
2 14 (19.18%) Architect
3 12 (16.44%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (15.07%) Lead Architect
4 11 (15.07%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 9 (12.33%) Analyst
6 7 (9.59%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (8.22%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.22%) Project Manager
7 6 (8.22%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.85%) Senior
9 4 (5.48%) Head of Digital
9 4 (5.48%) Software Delivery Manager
9 4 (5.48%) Software Manager
10 3 (4.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 3 (4.11%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (4.11%) Service Transition Manager
10 3 (4.11%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (4.11%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) PySpark
2 2 (2.74%) .NET
2 2 (2.74%) Middleware
2 2 (2.74%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.37%) CSS
3 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.37%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.37%) HTML
3 1 (1.37%) JPA
3 1 (1.37%) JWT
3 1 (1.37%) MACH
3 1 (1.37%) OAuth
3 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.37%) RESTful
3 1 (1.37%) SAML
3 1 (1.37%) Swagger
3 1 (1.37%) XML
3 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.48%) PMI
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
1 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (71.23%) Agile
2 27 (36.99%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (34.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (34.25%) DevOps
4 24 (32.88%) Scrum
5 18 (24.66%) Business Strategy
5 18 (24.66%) Kanban
5 18 (24.66%) Roadmaps
6 17 (23.29%) CI/CD
7 16 (21.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (20.55%) ERP
9 12 (16.44%) Coaching
10 11 (15.07%) CAD
10 11 (15.07%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (15.07%) PLM
10 11 (15.07%) Project Management
10 11 (15.07%) SDLC
11 10 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (13.70%) Software Delivery
11 10 (13.70%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.96%) Python
1 8 (10.96%) SQL
2 3 (4.11%) Java
3 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
3 5 (6.85%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.74%) PMP
4 2 (2.74%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.37%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) PMO
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) GRC
3 1 (1.37%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) SAP
2 11 (15.07%) Siemens
3 8 (10.96%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.85%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.74%) Adobe
6 2 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.74%) Google
6 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.74%) Splunk
7 1 (1.37%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.37%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.37%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle
7 1 (1.37%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.37%) Thales
7 1 (1.37%) Veracode
7 1 (1.37%) Workday