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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 150 148
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +58
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 40 63 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.94% 1.04% 1.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.67% 13.58% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 27 42 57
10th Percentile £25,500 £37,050 £35,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,313 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £69,050 £91,934
England median annual salary £67,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.67% -14.29% +12.00%

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 375 464 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.85% 7.68% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 226 281 450
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £48,279
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +3.57% +13.60%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £80,063
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +41 18 £45,000 -18.18% 15
Gloucestershire +8 10 £70,000 +7.69% 16
Dorset -7 9 £47,500 -5.00% 6
Wiltshire +17 2 £51,250 -6.82% 7
Somerset -5 1 £87,500 - 4
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 (10.00%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (2.50%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) SaaS
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (7.50%) Azure
3 3 (7.50%) Serverless
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (5.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.50%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.50%) Miro
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (2.50%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.50%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (95.00%) JIRA
2 13 (32.50%) Git
3 6 (15.00%) GitLab
4 5 (12.50%) JUnit
5 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
7 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.50%) Selenium
8 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Analyst
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Graduate
2 6 (15.00%) Graduate Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Graduate Support Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Junior
2 6 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Junior Support Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Support Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 4 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Android Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Strategic Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) React
2 6 (15.00%) .NET
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (10.00%) OkHttp
3 4 (10.00%) Retrofit
4 3 (7.50%) Hibernate
4 3 (7.50%) JSF
4 3 (7.50%) PrimeFaces
5 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.00%) Avalonia
5 2 (5.00%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.00%) Middleware
5 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (5.00%) REST
5 2 (5.00%) Vue
5 2 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) IoT
3 2 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.50%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Android
3 2 (5.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (27.50%) Scrum
4 10 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 8 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (17.50%) Project Management
8 6 (15.00%) Analytics
8 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 5 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 5 (12.50%) Data Management
9 5 (12.50%) Programme Management
9 5 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
10 4 (10.00%) Cryptography
10 4 (10.00%) MVVM
10 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 6 (15.00%) C#
3 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (10.00%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.00%) C
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) Degree
3 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) CCNA
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) IIBA
6 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kibana
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Samsung
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Workday