Role that manages user permissions, space and page access, and most administrative options

There are two ways that the term "Confluence Administrator" is used.

The first is technical, where "Confluence Administrator" is the name of an individual user and group permissions role. Selecting this role grants a user or a group the ability to create and delete spaces, create users and groups, manage apps, and configure most–though, not all–Confluence administrative configuration options.

The second use of "Confluence Administrator" is more colloquial. It simply refers to a user that has, or is a member of a group that has, the above-mentioned permissions role.

There are two important further considerations:

  1. Unfortunately, it is easy to confuse the confluence-administrators group with the Confluence Administrator role. Just know that the confluence-administrators group is an out-of-the-box group in Confluence that has been assigned the permissions role of Confluence Administrator. Any individual user in this group can be referred to as a Confluence Administrator. (What's confusing is that you may create a different group, say, technical-librarians, that also has the Confluence Administrator role and whose members may also be called Confluence Administrators)

  2. System Administrator is another role (and colloquialism) used in Confluence. Like Confluence Administrator, it can be applied to users or groups. However, unlike the Confluence Administrator role, the System Administrator is granted full access to all the administrative and configuration options. Please see the

    Global Permissions Overview page of the Atlassian Confluence documentation for a complete list of differences between these roles.

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