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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 128 156
Rank change year-on-year -50 +28 -4
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 62 40 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.59% 1.12% 1.01%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.96% 12.20% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 37 31 34
10th Percentile £47,750 £25,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £65,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £59,350
% change year-on-year -14.29% +17.94% -15.21%

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 444 328 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.21% 9.18% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 246 211 295
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% -6.63% +2.68%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -54 21 £62,750 -10.36% 14
Bristol -38 18 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Devon - 9 - - 3
Somerset -21 7 £70,000 -20.00% 2
Wiltshire -19 5 £56,250 -3.67% 15
Avon - 1 £47,500 - 1
Cornwall - 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 4 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.23%) CMS
2 2 (3.23%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (3.23%) Simulink
4 2 (3.23%) Trello
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (14.52%) AWS
4 8 (12.90%) SaaS
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (9.68%) Serverless
6 5 (8.06%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (8.06%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.45%) Miro
8 3 (4.84%) GitHub
8 3 (4.84%) Lucidchart
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) IPv4
1 4 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.23%) Broadband
2 2 (3.23%) RFID
3 1 (1.61%) DMARC
3 1 (1.61%) FTP
3 1 (1.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.23%) GIS
3 2 (3.23%) Tableau
4 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (96.77%) JIRA
2 23 (37.10%) Git
3 7 (11.29%) Bitbucket
3 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (11.29%) MSI
4 5 (8.06%) GitLab
5 2 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.23%) git-flow
6 1 (1.61%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.61%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.29%) Aerospace
4 7 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (11.29%) Manufacturing
4 7 (11.29%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Games
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Publishing
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Developer
2 8 (12.90%) Analyst
2 8 (12.90%) Senior
3 7 (11.29%) Product Owner
4 6 (9.68%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Software Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Consultant
6 4 (6.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Scrum Master
6 4 (6.45%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (6.45%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.84%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Support Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Support
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Support Consultant
8 2 (3.23%) Project Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) CSS
2 10 (16.13%) HTML
3 8 (12.90%) .NET
4 7 (11.29%) .NET Core
4 7 (11.29%) .NET Framework
4 7 (11.29%) ATL
4 7 (11.29%) COM
4 7 (11.29%) CSS3
4 7 (11.29%) GeoJSON
4 7 (11.29%) HTML5
4 7 (11.29%) MFC
4 7 (11.29%) REST
4 7 (11.29%) RESTful
4 7 (11.29%) WPF
5 4 (6.45%) boto
5 4 (6.45%) EDI
5 4 (6.45%) JSON
5 4 (6.45%) Middleware
5 4 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.97%) Product Ownership
2 12 (19.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (14.52%) Data Centre
3 9 (14.52%) Onboarding
4 6 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (8.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (8.06%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.23%) EPoS
8 2 (3.23%) Reinsurance
9 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.61%) PMI
9 1 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.61%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Agile
2 28 (45.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (30.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (27.42%) CI/CD
4 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (27.42%) Scrum
5 16 (25.81%) DevOps
6 13 (20.97%) Containerisation
6 13 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (20.97%) Requirements Gathering
7 12 (19.35%) Project Delivery
7 12 (19.35%) User Stories
8 11 (17.74%) DevSecOps
8 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
8 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
9 10 (16.13%) AI
9 10 (16.13%) Coaching
9 10 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (16.13%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (35.48%) Python
2 16 (25.81%) SQL
3 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 8 (12.90%) C#
5 7 (11.29%) Bicep
6 6 (9.68%) Bash
6 6 (9.68%) C++
6 6 (9.68%) Java
6 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.23%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.61%) C
8 1 (1.61%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.68%) AWS Certification
4 6 (9.68%) Degree
5 4 (6.45%) CCNA
5 4 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.45%) ISTQB
5 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.45%) OSCP
5 4 (6.45%) RHCE
5 4 (6.45%) RHCSA
6 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.61%) CBAP
8 1 (1.61%) IIBA
8 1 (1.61%) PMP
8 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) Accessibility
2 9 (14.52%) WCAG
3 7 (11.29%) NCSC
4 6 (9.68%) PMO
4 6 (9.68%) QA
5 3 (4.84%) SLA
6 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (20.97%) Docker
2 11 (17.74%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (8.06%) vSphere
5 4 (6.45%) Squid
5 4 (6.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.61%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (1.61%) Firmware
7 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.68%) Ansible
3 4 (6.45%) Packer
3 4 (6.45%) ZABBIX
4 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.23%) Puppet
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (43.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.68%) VMware
3 4 (6.45%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) Splunk
4 3 (4.84%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) Adobe
5 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.61%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) Dell
6 1 (1.61%) Okta
6 1 (1.61%) Proofpoint
6 1 (1.61%) Veeam