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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 115 131
Rank change year-on-year -54 +16 +41
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 48 39 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.61% 1.36% 1.68%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.87% 12.30% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29 32 132
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -13.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £73,475 £65,750
England median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% -15.38%

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 346 317 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.38% 11.03% 8.36%
Number of salaries quoted 205 219 685
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,875 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,657
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.57% +0.33%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,393 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £66,050
England median annual salary £50,588 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.02% +10.00% -12.28%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -16 25 £51,250 -21.15% 5
Wiltshire -10 7 £56,250 -5.49% 5
Devon -29 4 - -
Cornwall - 4 £47,000 -
Somerset -33 3 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Bristol -38 3 £52,500 +14.13% 6
Dorset -8 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 7 (14.58%) CMS
2 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) Drupal
4 1 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (2.08%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.17%) Trello
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Magento
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Adobe Analytics
3 7 (14.58%) Contentsquare
3 7 (14.58%) Figma
4 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.42%) GCP
5 5 (10.42%) GitHub
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
5 5 (10.42%) Serverless
6 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.33%) Google Workspace
7 3 (6.25%) Lucidchart
8 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Broadband
2 6 (12.50%) Firewall
3 4 (8.33%) IPv4
3 4 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (4.17%) DNS
4 2 (4.17%) LAN
4 2 (4.17%) RFID
4 2 (4.17%) WAN
4 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (4.17%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.17%) Tableau
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.08%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (81.25%) JIRA
2 9 (18.75%) GitLab
3 8 (16.67%) Git
4 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (6.25%) Maven
6 3 (6.25%) MSI
6 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.17%) Checkstyle
7 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.17%) ESLint
7 2 (4.17%) Gradle
7 2 (4.17%) JUnit
7 2 (4.17%) Mockito
7 2 (4.17%) Selenium
7 2 (4.17%) TestNG
8 1 (2.08%) Gatling
8 1 (2.08%) GoogleTest
8 1 (2.08%) Vagrant
8 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Games
3 7 (14.58%) Legal
4 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Aerospace
5 5 (10.42%) Retail
6 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Publishing
8 1 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Lead
2 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Senior
3 4 (8.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 4 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (8.33%) Analyst
3 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 4 (8.33%) Developer
3 4 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Coordinator
4 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Scrum Master
5 2 (4.17%) IT Support
5 2 (4.17%) Manual Tester
5 2 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 2 (4.17%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (8.33%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 4 (8.33%) boto
3 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.25%) ATL
3 3 (6.25%) COM
3 3 (6.25%) CSS
3 3 (6.25%) CSS3
3 3 (6.25%) EDI
3 3 (6.25%) GeoJSON
3 3 (6.25%) HTML
3 3 (6.25%) HTML5
3 3 (6.25%) JSON
3 3 (6.25%) MFC
3 3 (6.25%) Middleware
3 3 (6.25%) RESTful
3 3 (6.25%) Spring
3 3 (6.25%) WPF
3 3 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.58%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (8.33%) IoT
4 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (4.17%) EPoS
5 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) Reinsurance
5 2 (4.17%) Replication
6 1 (2.08%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Linux
1 10 (20.83%) Windows
2 7 (14.58%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.08%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (56.25%) Agile
2 17 (35.42%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (27.08%) AI
3 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
4 12 (25.00%) DevOps
4 12 (25.00%) User Experience
5 11 (22.92%) Migration
6 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 10 (20.83%) Decision-Making
6 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (20.83%) ITIL
6 10 (20.83%) Mentoring
6 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.83%) Process Improvement
6 10 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
6 10 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.83%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 9 (18.75%) Analytics
8 8 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) Python
2 7 (14.58%) Java
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.25%) Bicep
5 3 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) C
6 1 (2.08%) C++
6 1 (2.08%) Embedded C
6 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) DV Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.33%) CCNA
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 4 (8.33%) OSCP
4 4 (8.33%) RHCE
4 4 (8.33%) RHCSA
5 2 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.92%) Accessibility
2 10 (20.83%) WCAG
3 6 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (8.33%) NCSC
5 3 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (6.25%) GDPR
6 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 10 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 9 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (10.42%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (8.33%) Squid
5 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
5 4 (8.33%) vSphere
6 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.67%) Terraform
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (10.42%) Ansible
4 5 (10.42%) Packer
5 4 (8.33%) ZABBIX
6 3 (6.25%) Grafana
6 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.25%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.17%) FortiGate
8 1 (2.08%) Consul
8 1 (2.08%) Kibana
8 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) VMware
3 8 (16.67%) Google
4 7 (14.58%) Adobe
5 6 (12.50%) Oracle
5 6 (12.50%) Splunk
6 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.17%) Veeam
8 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (2.08%) TOWER Software