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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 131 132
Rank change year-on-year -51 +1 +36
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 48 33 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.57% 0.98% 1.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.88% 9.91% 19.66%
Number of salaries quoted 31 26 111
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +2.50% -14.53%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,375 £61,100
90th Percentile £73,250 £74,375 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,925 £65,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -6.27% +17.12% -14.62%

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 404 333 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.78% 9.88% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 234 222 588
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £70,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -12 25 £51,250 -18.00% 5
Wiltshire -15 7 £56,250 -5.49% 3
Somerset -39 5 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Cornwall - 4 £47,000 -
Devon - 4 - - 1
Bristol -30 3 £50,000 -16.67% 6
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 7 (14.58%) CMS
2 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) Drupal
4 1 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (2.08%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.17%) Trello
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Magento
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) Adobe Analytics
4 7 (14.58%) Contentsquare
4 7 (14.58%) Figma
4 7 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.42%) GCP
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
5 5 (10.42%) Serverless
6 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.33%) Google Workspace
6 4 (8.33%) Miro
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Broadband
2 6 (12.50%) Firewall
3 4 (8.33%) IPv4
3 4 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) DNS
4 2 (4.17%) LAN
4 2 (4.17%) RFID
4 2 (4.17%) WAN
4 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (81.25%) JIRA
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 6 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.50%) GitLab
4 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 5 (10.42%) MSI
5 1 (2.08%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.08%) Gatling
5 1 (2.08%) GoogleTest
5 1 (2.08%) JMeter
5 1 (2.08%) Maven
5 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.08%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Games
3 7 (14.58%) Legal
4 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 4 (8.33%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Publishing
8 1 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Lead
2 7 (14.58%) Senior
3 6 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (8.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 4 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (8.33%) Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 4 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Scrum Master
5 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Coordinator
5 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
1 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 6 (12.50%) REST
2 5 (10.42%) .NET Core
2 5 (10.42%) ATL
2 5 (10.42%) COM
2 5 (10.42%) CSS
2 5 (10.42%) CSS3
2 5 (10.42%) GeoJSON
2 5 (10.42%) HTML
2 5 (10.42%) HTML5
2 5 (10.42%) MFC
2 5 (10.42%) RESTful
2 5 (10.42%) WPF
3 4 (8.33%) boto
4 3 (6.25%) EDI
4 3 (6.25%) JSON
4 3 (6.25%) Middleware
4 3 (6.25%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.33%) IoT
3 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.17%) EPoS
5 2 (4.17%) Reinsurance
5 2 (4.17%) Replication
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.08%) Windows
2 9 (18.75%) Linux
3 8 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.08%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) Agile
2 18 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (27.08%) AI
3 13 (27.08%) DevOps
4 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (25.00%) User Experience
4 12 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
6 10 (20.83%) ITIL
6 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 10 (20.83%) Process Improvement
6 10 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
6 10 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (18.75%) Analytics
7 9 (18.75%) Customer Experience
7 9 (18.75%) DevSecOps
7 9 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.42%) Bicep
3 5 (10.42%) C#
3 5 (10.42%) Java
4 4 (8.33%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) C
5 1 (2.08%) C++
5 1 (2.08%) Embedded C
5 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.33%) CCNA
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 4 (8.33%) OSCP
4 4 (8.33%) RHCE
4 4 (8.33%) RHCSA
5 2 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CBAP
6 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.08%) Accessibility
2 12 (25.00%) WCAG
3 6 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (12.50%) NCSC
4 3 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (6.25%) GDPR
5 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.17%) QA
6 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 10 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.33%) Squid
4 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.33%) vSphere
5 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 10 (20.83%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.42%) Ansible
3 5 (10.42%) Packer
4 4 (8.33%) ZABBIX
5 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.08%) Consul
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
6 1 (2.08%) Kibana
6 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) VMware
3 7 (14.58%) Adobe
4 6 (12.50%) Google
5 4 (8.33%) Oracle
5 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.33%) Splunk
6 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.17%) Veeam
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) TOWER Software