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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 127 131
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 +59
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 32 66 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.64% 1.49% 2.19%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.22% 15.14% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19 44 79
10th Percentile - £37,525 -
25th Percentile £25,500 £45,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +24.91% -11.94%
75th Percentile £59,375 £65,000 £58,500
90th Percentile £76,750 £69,500 £80,558
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.76% +8.80%

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 347 436 533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.98% 9.82% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 203 260 458
10th Percentile £26,600 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,400
England median annual salary £50,500 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.41% +3.64% -

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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
Bristol +22 16 £38,000 -30.91% 3
Gloucestershire +3 12 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Wiltshire +11 2 £51,250 -8.89% 1
Somerset -9 1 £87,500 - 2
Dorset -13 1 - - 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 5 (15.63%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.13%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) SaaS
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.13%) Lucidchart
5 1 (3.13%) Miro
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (93.75%) JIRA
2 7 (21.88%) Git
3 6 (18.75%) GitLab
4 5 (15.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (15.63%) JUnit
5 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
5 2 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Social Housing
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Graduate
2 6 (18.75%) Graduate Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Graduate Support Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Junior
2 6 (18.75%) Junior Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Junior Support Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) SQL Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) SQL Support Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Support Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) C# Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) React
2 5 (15.63%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (12.50%) .NET
3 4 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 4 (12.50%) JSF
3 4 (12.50%) PrimeFaces
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.25%) Avalonia
4 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
4 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 2 (6.25%) REST
4 2 (6.25%) WPF
5 1 (3.13%) EDI
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) JSON
5 1 (3.13%) Middleware
5 1 (3.13%) Qt
5 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (6.25%) IoT
2 2 (6.25%) PMI
2 2 (6.25%) Smart Home
3 1 (3.13%) Cybercrime
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Scrum
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Sprint Planning
4 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.88%) User Stories
5 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (12.50%) Service Management
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (9.38%) Change Management
8 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (9.38%) Project Management
8 3 (9.38%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.00%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 6 (18.75%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (6.25%) C
6 2 (6.25%) C++
6 2 (6.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) CBAP
3 2 (6.25%) CCNA
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.13%) IIBA
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) IEC 62304
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kibana
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Atlassian
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce