Confluence Job Trends in the South West

Confluence
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Confluence skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 123 116
Rank change year-on-year -38 -7 +53
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 36 41 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.51% 1.50% 2.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.65% 12.97% 21.24%
Number of salaries quoted 14 35 159
10th Percentile - £41,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £69,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £65,766 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.61% +4.35% -11.54%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 309 316 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.39% 11.59% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 192 224 743
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,938 £35,000 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £58,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,850 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -11.50%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in the South West

Confluence
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Confluence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Confluence

Confluence
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the South West over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Confluence in the South West

Confluence
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Gloucestershire -9 18 £42,500 -34.62% 9
Bristol -11 6 £51,250 +11.41% 2
Devon -13 3 - - 3
Dorset -25 3 - -
Cornwall - 3 £47,000 -
Wiltshire - 3 £57,500 - 1
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (13.89%) CMS
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.78%) Drupal
4 1 (2.78%) IIS
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.78%) nginx
4 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Magento
1 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
1 7 (19.44%) SaaS
2 5 (13.89%) Adobe Analytics
2 5 (13.89%) Contentsquare
2 5 (13.89%) Figma
2 5 (13.89%) GCP
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.11%) Google Workspace
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.33%) GitHub
4 3 (8.33%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) Slack
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Broadband
1 5 (13.89%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) LAN
3 1 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.56%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Redis
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (77.78%) JIRA
2 6 (16.67%) GitLab
3 4 (11.11%) JUnit
4 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.33%) Git
4 3 (8.33%) Maven
5 2 (5.56%) Checkstyle
5 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.56%) ESLint
5 2 (5.56%) Gradle
5 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.56%) Mockito
5 2 (5.56%) Selenium
5 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.56%) TestNG
6 1 (2.78%) Gatling
6 1 (2.78%) JMeter
6 1 (2.78%) Vagrant
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Games
4 5 (13.89%) Legal
5 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (8.33%) Retail
7 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Social Housing
8 1 (2.78%) Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Analyst
1 6 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 3 (8.33%) Coordinator
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Product Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) React
1 3 (8.33%) REST
1 3 (8.33%) Spring
2 2 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.56%) JSF
2 2 (5.56%) JWT
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
2 2 (5.56%) PrimeFaces
2 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
2 2 (5.56%) Spring Security
2 2 (5.56%) Swagger
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.78%) jQuery
3 1 (2.78%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 6 (16.67%) IoT
3 5 (13.89%) Data Centre
4 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 4 (11.11%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (5.56%) PMI
6 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) Smart Home
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.78%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (30.56%) Scrum
4 10 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
4 10 (27.78%) User Experience
5 9 (25.00%) AI
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) ITIL
6 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 8 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) User Stories
8 6 (16.67%) Analytics
8 6 (16.67%) Customer Experience
8 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 6 (16.67%) DevOps
8 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 6 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Java
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) CBAP
4 2 (5.56%) CCNA
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.56%) IIBA
4 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (13.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (13.89%) WCAG
3 3 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (5.56%) GDPR
5 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.78%) NCSC
5 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Kibana
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Consul
4 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.78%) Packer
4 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) Adobe
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (8.33%) VMware
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk
7 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) TOWER Software
7 1 (2.78%) Veeam