Confluence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Confluence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 251 361
Rank change year-on-year -132 +110 -131
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 506 592 548
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.19% 0.70%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.99% 14.39% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 327 304 318
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,625 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £81,325
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.07% -11.60%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,604 4,113 6,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.06% 8.29% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,221 2,752 4,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -2.39% -2.70%
75th Percentile £71,235 £75,000 £88,788
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.44%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in the UK

Confluence
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence

Confluence
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 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
England -116 446 £62,500 -10.71% 406
UK excluding London -180 272 £60,000 +4.35% 224
London 0 199 £69,000 -16.36% 236
Work from Home -111 177 £55,000 -15.38% 535
North of England -83 71 £60,000 +23.69% 47
South East -31 64 £60,000 +3.45% 49
South West -47 63 £60,500 +21.00% 44
North West -43 40 £60,000 +11.63% 28
Midlands -136 27 £50,000 -31.03% 28
West Midlands -86 22 £47,500 -34.48% 24
Wales -59 19 £55,395 -20.86% 4
North East -46 18 £60,000 +166.67% 7
East of England -56 15 £36,000 -37.39% 14
Scotland -42 13 £50,625 -27.68% 25
Yorkshire -58 13 £60,850 +28.11% 12
East Midlands -76 5 £54,250 +52.82% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £57,500 -

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 22 (4.35%) CMS
3 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.99%) IIS
4 5 (0.99%) JBoss
5 4 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.79%) Drupal
5 4 (0.79%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (10.87%) MS Visio
2 33 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
3 29 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.78%) Trello
7 5 (0.99%) Moqups
8 2 (0.40%) Simulink
9 1 (0.20%) Notion
9 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.78%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 161 (31.82%) Azure
2 117 (23.12%) AWS
3 66 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (7.31%) SaaS
6 35 (6.92%) GitHub
7 34 (6.72%) Figma
8 32 (6.32%) Miro
9 25 (4.94%) GCP
10 23 (4.55%) Serverless
11 20 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.95%) Lucidchart
12 19 (3.75%) Entra ID
13 17 (3.36%) Power Platform
14 16 (3.16%) Adobe Analytics
15 15 (2.96%) Contentsquare
16 14 (2.77%) Amazon S3
17 13 (2.57%) Anthropic Claude
18 11 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
19 10 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.15%) Firewall
1 21 (4.15%) VPN
2 18 (3.56%) Broadband
3 12 (2.37%) DNS
4 9 (1.78%) DHCP
4 9 (1.78%) Multicast
4 9 (1.78%) Wireless
5 8 (1.58%) IPv4
5 8 (1.58%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (1.58%) WAN
6 7 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.99%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.79%) LAN
9 4 (0.79%) Network Security
10 3 (0.59%) BGP
11 2 (0.40%) OSPF
11 2 (0.40%) RFID
11 2 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.16%) MySQL
4 14 (2.77%) MongoDB
5 12 (2.37%) DTS
5 12 (2.37%) Power BI
6 11 (2.17%) Db2
7 10 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.38%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (1.38%) Tableau
10 5 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.99%) Redis
10 5 (0.99%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.59%) Metadata
12 3 (0.59%) Spatial Data
13 2 (0.40%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.40%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 460 (90.91%) JIRA
2 58 (11.46%) Git
3 31 (6.13%) Jenkins
4 25 (4.94%) GitLab
5 24 (4.74%) Selenium
6 23 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.17%) Postman
8 10 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (1.98%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.78%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.38%) JMeter
10 7 (1.38%) MSI
10 7 (1.38%) Zephyr
11 6 (1.19%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.99%) Gatling
12 5 (0.99%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.79%) JUnit
14 3 (0.59%) Appium
14 3 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 188 (37.15%) Finance
2 187 (36.96%) Social Skills
3 105 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (6.13%) Influencing Skills
6 31 (6.13%) Manufacturing
7 30 (5.93%) Games
8 29 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (5.14%) Banking
10 21 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (3.95%) Law
11 20 (3.95%) Marketing
12 19 (3.75%) Legal
13 17 (3.36%) Aerospace
13 17 (3.36%) Retail
14 16 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
15 14 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (2.57%) Automotive
17 10 (1.98%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 120 (23.72%) Analyst
2 86 (17.00%) Business Analyst
3 78 (15.42%) Senior
4 70 (13.83%) Lead
5 35 (6.92%) Developer
6 32 (6.32%) Project Manager
7 31 (6.13%) Architect
8 29 (5.73%) Product Owner
9 26 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
10 24 (4.74%) Delivery Manager
10 24 (4.74%) Product Manager
11 23 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
12 22 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
13 18 (3.56%) Senior Business Analyst
14 17 (3.36%) Scrum Master
15 15 (2.96%) Senior Developer
15 15 (2.96%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (2.57%) Support Analyst
17 12 (2.37%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.91%) HTML
2 37 (7.31%) Terraform
3 34 (6.72%) Node.js
4 31 (6.13%) REST
5 28 (5.53%) CSS
6 26 (5.14%) React
7 25 (4.94%) .NET
7 25 (4.94%) Spring
8 24 (4.74%) Spring Boot
9 21 (4.15%) Middleware
10 19 (3.75%) JSON
11 18 (3.56%) RESTful
12 16 (3.16%) HTML5
12 16 (3.16%) Kafka
13 14 (2.77%) CSS3
13 14 (2.77%) Playwright
14 13 (2.57%) GraphQL
15 12 (2.37%) Next.js
15 12 (2.37%) XML
16 11 (2.17%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.38%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.11%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.13%) Cloud Native
4 29 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.96%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.57%) Equities
6 13 (2.57%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.37%) Biopharmaceutical
7 12 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 12 (2.37%) EPoS
7 12 (2.37%) PMI
8 11 (2.17%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.98%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.98%) iSeries
10 9 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (1.78%) Eurex
11 8 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.21%) Windows
2 60 (11.86%) Linux
3 35 (6.92%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.37%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.78%) Mac OS
5 9 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.78%) Unix
6 8 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.19%) Android
8 5 (0.99%) CentOS
8 5 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.59%) AIX
11 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.20%) Rocky
11 1 (0.20%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (64.82%) Agile
2 180 (35.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 150 (29.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 149 (29.45%) Scrum
5 125 (24.70%) AI
5 125 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (20.55%) DevOps
7 100 (19.76%) User Stories
8 95 (18.77%) Roadmaps
9 91 (17.98%) Decision-Making
10 86 (17.00%) CI/CD
10 86 (17.00%) Coaching
11 84 (16.60%) Kanban
12 82 (16.21%) Requirements Gathering
13 80 (15.81%) Project Delivery
13 80 (15.81%) Sprint Planning
14 79 (15.61%) Mentoring
15 77 (15.22%) Acceptance Criteria
16 71 (14.03%) SDLC
17 70 (13.83%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (18.38%) SQL
2 76 (15.02%) Java
2 76 (15.02%) Python
3 41 (8.10%) JavaScript
4 40 (7.91%) PowerShell
5 30 (5.93%) TypeScript
6 28 (5.53%) Bash
7 23 (4.55%) C#
8 13 (2.57%) C++
9 10 (1.98%) RPG
10 8 (1.58%) Bicep
10 8 (1.58%) PHP
10 8 (1.58%) Ruby
11 4 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.59%) Ada
12 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.59%) Swift
13 2 (0.40%) C
13 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 90 (17.79%) Degree
2 81 (16.01%) Security Cleared
3 48 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 34 (6.72%) PMI Certification
5 28 (5.53%) Master's Degree
6 22 (4.35%) PMP
7 20 (3.95%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (2.77%) ISTQB
10 14 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.37%) DV Cleared
11 12 (2.37%) MBA
12 8 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (1.58%) CCNA
12 8 (1.58%) CSPO
12 8 (1.58%) OSCP
12 8 (1.58%) RHCE
12 8 (1.58%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.45%) QA
2 48 (9.49%) Accessibility
3 36 (7.11%) WCAG
4 21 (4.15%) PMO
5 16 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 12 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.17%) GDPR
8 8 (1.58%) NCSC
9 7 (1.38%) SLA
10 5 (0.99%) NIST
10 5 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.79%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.40%) GRC
13 2 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (9.49%) Active Directory
2 42 (8.30%) Docker
3 29 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.77%) vSphere
5 11 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.58%) Squid
6 8 (1.58%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.79%) Firmware
8 4 (0.79%) KVM
9 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 36 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 22 (4.35%) Ansible
3 12 (2.37%) ZABBIX
4 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.78%) Packer
6 8 (1.58%) Grafana
7 6 (1.19%) Kibana
7 6 (1.19%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.99%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.79%) Graylog
9 4 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.79%) Nagios
9 4 (0.79%) Podman
10 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.59%) Puppet
11 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 123 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.92%) Oracle
3 30 (5.93%) VMware
4 29 (5.73%) Atlassian
5 24 (4.74%) Adobe
6 23 (4.55%) Splunk
7 22 (4.35%) Google
7 22 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 19 (3.75%) Salesforce
9 18 (3.56%) Red Hat
10 14 (2.77%) IBM
11 12 (2.37%) Cisco
11 12 (2.37%) Veeam
12 11 (2.17%) ION Trading
13 10 (1.98%) Meraki
14 9 (1.78%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.78%) OneLogin
14 9 (1.78%) Patsystems
14 9 (1.78%) Reuters
14 9 (1.78%) Trayport