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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 125 119
Rank change year-on-year -33 -6 +50
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 36 54 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.59% 1.66% 2.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.08% 13.92% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17 41 143
10th Percentile £25,500 £40,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +46.67% -25.16%
75th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £69,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.29%

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 325 388 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.35% 11.96% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 208 217 667
10th Percentile £25,885 £30,825 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +3.26% +2.22%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,425 £73,804 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +5 18 £42,500 -34.62% 11
Bristol +6 10 £38,000 -17.39% 8
Wiltshire -7 3 £50,000 - 9
Dorset -28 3 - - 2
Cornwall - 2 - - 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 3 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
1 7 (19.44%) SaaS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) GCP
2 4 (11.11%) Google Workspace
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.11%) Serverless
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.56%) Adobe Analytics
4 2 (5.56%) Contentsquare
4 2 (5.56%) Figma
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 2 (5.56%) Slack
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.56%) CockroachDB
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (88.89%) JIRA
2 7 (19.44%) GitLab
3 5 (13.89%) JUnit
4 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 4 (11.11%) Git
5 3 (8.33%) Maven
6 2 (5.56%) Checkstyle
6 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (5.56%) ESLint
6 2 (5.56%) Gradle
6 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.56%) Mockito
6 2 (5.56%) Selenium
6 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.56%) TestNG
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.33%) Retail
6 2 (5.56%) Games
6 2 (5.56%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Social Housing
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (11.11%) Desktop Support
3 4 (11.11%) Graduate
3 4 (11.11%) Graduate Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Graduate Support Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Junior
3 4 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Junior Support Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Support Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Coordinator
4 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) React
2 3 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 3 (8.33%) JSF
2 3 (8.33%) PrimeFaces
2 3 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (8.33%) Spring
3 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.56%) JWT
3 2 (5.56%) OAuth
3 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Security
3 2 (5.56%) Swagger
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.78%) jQuery
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
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (36.11%) Scrum
3 10 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
4 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (22.22%) User Stories
5 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
5 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (19.44%) User Experience
6 6 (16.67%) AI
6 6 (16.67%) ITIL
6 6 (16.67%) Project Management
6 6 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (13.89%) Business Analysis
7 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
7 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (13.89%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) CBAP
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.56%) IIBA
3 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (5.56%) WCAG
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kibana
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) Google
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 4 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.56%) Adobe
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco
5 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) VMware
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud