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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 117 139
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +43
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 34 71 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.66% 1.74% 1.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.33% 17.27% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17 49 74
10th Percentile - £38,200 -
25th Percentile £25,500 £46,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +46.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £56,813
90th Percentile £78,500 £65,900 £65,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.43%

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 329 411 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.37% 10.08% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 189 238 479
10th Percentile £26,050 £30,750 £30,408
25th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £48,918 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +8.71% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,125 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.31% +8.57% -4.55%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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
Bristol +20 16 £38,000 -17.39% 10
Gloucestershire -4 12 £73,750 +13.46% 13
Dorset -17 3 - - 6
Wiltshire +8 2 £51,250 -8.89% 6
Somerset -16 1 £87,500 - 5
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 (14.71%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) MS Visio
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (2.94%) Doxygen
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) SaaS
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Fargate
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.82%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Serverless
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) Pulumi
4 2 (5.88%) Slack
5 1 (2.94%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (94.12%) JIRA
2 9 (26.47%) GitLab
3 7 (20.59%) Git
3 7 (20.59%) JUnit
4 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
4 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.88%) Checkstyle
5 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.88%) ESLint
5 2 (5.88%) Gradle
5 2 (5.88%) Maven
5 2 (5.88%) Mockito
5 2 (5.88%) Selenium
5 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
5 2 (5.88%) TestNG
6 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.88%) Social Housing
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Games
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Business Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Graduate
3 6 (17.65%) Graduate Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Graduate Support Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Junior
3 6 (17.65%) Junior Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Junior Support Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Support Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Product Manager
5 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Apache NiFi
1 5 (14.71%) React
2 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
2 4 (11.76%) JSF
2 4 (11.76%) PrimeFaces
2 4 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 2 (5.88%) JWT
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth
3 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.88%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.88%) Spring MVC
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Security
3 2 (5.88%) Swagger
3 2 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.88%) IoT
3 2 (5.88%) PMI
3 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Smart Home
4 1 (2.94%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) Scrum
3 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 8 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.59%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 6 (17.65%) User Stories
8 5 (14.71%) Business Analysis
8 5 (14.71%) Project Delivery
8 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 4 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
9 4 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 3 (8.82%) Migration
10 3 (8.82%) Project Management
10 3 (8.82%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 10 (29.41%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) C
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) DV Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) CBAP
3 2 (5.88%) CCNA
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.88%) IIBA
3 2 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kibana
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) VMware