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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 123 115
Rank change year-on-year -46 -8 +40
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 42 34 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.54% 1.30% 2.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.38% 12.14% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 21 28 151
10th Percentile - £41,025 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,438 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £71,825 £65,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 292 280 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.78% 10.67% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 192 191 717
10th Percentile £25,460 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,701 £31,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,460 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -6.40% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,250 £70,000 £66,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -11 25 £47,500 -26.92% 10
Wiltshire -9 5 £57,500 -3.39% 6
Devon -17 4 - - 1
Cornwall - 4 £47,000 -
Dorset -19 2 - - 1
Bristol -34 2 £51,250 +11.41% 3
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 (16.67%) CMS
2 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.38%) Drupal
4 1 (2.38%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (2.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Magento
1 1 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) Adobe Analytics
3 7 (16.67%) Contentsquare
3 7 (16.67%) Figma
4 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.90%) GCP
5 5 (11.90%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) Google Workspace
6 4 (9.52%) SaaS
7 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (7.14%) GitHub
8 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) Broadband
2 6 (14.29%) Firewall
3 4 (9.52%) VPN
4 3 (7.14%) IPv4
4 3 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (4.76%) DNS
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
5 2 (4.76%) WAN
5 2 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) CockroachDB
1 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Redis
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (76.19%) JIRA
2 9 (21.43%) GitLab
3 6 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.90%) Git
5 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) Maven
5 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.76%) Checkstyle
6 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.76%) ESLint
6 2 (4.76%) Gradle
6 2 (4.76%) Mockito
6 2 (4.76%) Selenium
6 2 (4.76%) TestNG
7 1 (2.38%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.38%) GoogleTest
7 1 (2.38%) JMeter
7 1 (2.38%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Aerospace
3 7 (16.67%) Games
3 7 (16.67%) Legal
4 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Electronics
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Publishing
7 1 (2.38%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Lead
2 5 (11.90%) Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) Desktop Support
4 3 (7.14%) Coordinator
4 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) boto
1 3 (7.14%) REST
1 3 (7.14%) Spring
2 2 (4.76%) EDI
2 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.76%) JSON
2 2 (4.76%) JWT
2 2 (4.76%) Middleware
2 2 (4.76%) OAuth
2 2 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 2 (4.76%) OpenAPI
2 2 (4.76%) React
2 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.76%) Spring MVC
2 2 (4.76%) Spring Security
2 2 (4.76%) Swagger
2 2 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.38%) jQuery
3 1 (2.38%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.90%) IoT
4 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
4 4 (9.52%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.76%) PMI
6 2 (4.76%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.76%) Replication
7 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.38%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.38%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.38%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.38%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (28.57%) User Experience
4 11 (26.19%) AI
4 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (26.19%) Mentoring
5 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 10 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
5 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 10 (23.81%) Scrum
6 9 (21.43%) ITIL
6 9 (21.43%) Migration
6 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (19.05%) Customer Experience
7 8 (19.05%) Decision-Making
7 8 (19.05%) SEO
7 8 (19.05%) User Stories
8 7 (16.67%) Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) LLM
8 7 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) Python
2 7 (16.67%) Java
3 6 (14.29%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) C
7 1 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (2.38%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.14%) CCNA
4 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 3 (7.14%) OSCP
4 3 (7.14%) RHCE
4 3 (7.14%) RHCSA
5 2 (4.76%) CBAP
5 2 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.38%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 7 (16.67%) WCAG
3 6 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (7.14%) GDPR
5 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (2.38%) NCSC
6 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 8 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (16.67%) Docker
4 5 (11.90%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (7.14%) Squid
5 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
5 3 (7.14%) vSphere
6 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.52%) Ansible
2 4 (9.52%) Packer
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.14%) ZABBIX
4 2 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.76%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) Consul
5 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Google
2 8 (19.05%) VMware
3 7 (16.67%) Adobe
4 6 (14.29%) Oracle
5 5 (11.90%) Splunk
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.76%) Veeam
8 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (2.38%) TOWER Software