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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 127 149
Rank change year-on-year -44 +22 +13
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 67 39 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.66% 1.11% 1.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.91% 11.82% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 39 31 40
10th Percentile £47,600 £25,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £50,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -11.50% +7.62%
75th Percentile £75,375 £67,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £65,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -10.71% +19.25% -16.14%

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 421 330 615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.12% 9.43% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 228 217 357
10th Percentile £27,375 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £66,313 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% -0.87%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -43 22 £60,500 -13.57% 21
Bristol -37 18 £60,000 +33.33% 7
Devon - 11 - - 3
Somerset -26 7 £70,000 -20.00% 3
Wiltshire -18 6 £56,250 -6.25% 9
Cornwall - 2 £47,000 -
Avon - 1 £47,500 - 3
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 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.97%) CMS
3 3 (4.48%) nginx
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.49%) Apache
5 1 (1.49%) Drupal
5 1 (1.49%) IIS
5 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.99%) Simulink
4 2 (2.99%) Trello
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.87%) Azure
2 13 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.93%) AWS
4 8 (11.94%) SaaS
5 7 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.96%) Serverless
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.46%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (7.46%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.97%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (5.97%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (5.97%) Contentsquare
8 4 (5.97%) Figma
8 4 (5.97%) GitHub
8 4 (5.97%) Miro
9 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Broadband
1 4 (5.97%) IPv4
1 4 (5.97%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.99%) DNS
2 2 (2.99%) Firewall
2 2 (2.99%) LAN
2 2 (2.99%) RFID
2 2 (2.99%) WAN
2 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Geospatial Data
2 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.99%) GIS
3 2 (2.99%) Tableau
4 1 (1.49%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.49%) Redis
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (91.04%) JIRA
2 23 (34.33%) Git
3 7 (10.45%) Bitbucket
3 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.45%) MSI
4 5 (7.46%) GitLab
5 2 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.99%) git-flow
6 1 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.49%) Gatling
6 1 (1.49%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.49%) JMeter
6 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.49%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.87%) Finance
3 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.45%) Aerospace
5 7 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (10.45%) Manufacturing
5 7 (10.45%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.97%) Games
7 4 (5.97%) Legal
8 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Publishing
8 2 (2.99%) Retail
9 1 (1.49%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (14.93%) Developer
2 9 (13.43%) Senior
3 8 (11.94%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Lead
4 7 (10.45%) Product Owner
5 6 (8.96%) Project Manager
6 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Software Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Consultant
7 4 (5.97%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Scrum Master
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Consultant
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Support Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Technical Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.90%) Terraform
2 10 (14.93%) CSS
2 10 (14.93%) HTML
3 9 (13.43%) .NET
4 8 (11.94%) .NET Framework
5 7 (10.45%) .NET Core
5 7 (10.45%) ATL
5 7 (10.45%) COM
5 7 (10.45%) CSS3
5 7 (10.45%) GeoJSON
5 7 (10.45%) HTML5
5 7 (10.45%) MFC
5 7 (10.45%) REST
5 7 (10.45%) RESTful
5 7 (10.45%) WPF
6 4 (5.97%) boto
6 4 (5.97%) EDI
6 4 (5.97%) JSON
6 4 (5.97%) Middleware
6 4 (5.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (17.91%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.43%) Onboarding
4 8 (11.94%) Data Centre
5 6 (8.96%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (7.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.99%) EPoS
9 2 (2.99%) Reinsurance
9 2 (2.99%) Replication
10 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.49%) PMI
10 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (28.36%) Windows
2 10 (14.93%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.94%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.49%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (67.16%) Agile
2 28 (41.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (34.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (26.87%) CI/CD
4 18 (26.87%) DevOps
5 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (25.37%) Scrum
6 14 (20.90%) Mentoring
6 14 (20.90%) Project Delivery
7 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
7 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (19.40%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (17.91%) AI
8 12 (17.91%) User Stories
9 11 (16.42%) Analytics
9 11 (16.42%) DevSecOps
9 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
9 11 (16.42%) User Experience
9 11 (16.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 10 (14.93%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) Python
2 18 (26.87%) SQL
3 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
3 10 (14.93%) TypeScript
4 8 (11.94%) C#
5 7 (10.45%) Bicep
6 6 (8.96%) Bash
6 6 (8.96%) C++
6 6 (8.96%) Java
6 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.99%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.49%) C
8 1 (1.49%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.96%) Degree
6 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (5.97%) CCNA
7 4 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (5.97%) ISTQB
7 4 (5.97%) OSCP
7 4 (5.97%) RHCE
7 4 (5.97%) RHCSA
8 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (2.99%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.49%) CBAP
10 1 (1.49%) IIBA
10 1 (1.49%) PMP
10 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) Accessibility
2 11 (16.42%) WCAG
3 8 (11.94%) NCSC
4 7 (10.45%) QA
5 6 (8.96%) PMO
6 3 (4.48%) SLA
7 2 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (2.99%) GDPR
7 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Docker
2 13 (19.40%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.97%) Squid
4 4 (5.97%) VMware NSX
4 4 (5.97%) vSphere
5 3 (4.48%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (1.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Ansible
3 5 (7.46%) Packer
4 4 (5.97%) ZABBIX
5 3 (4.48%) Puppet
6 2 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.49%) Consul
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (43.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) VMware
3 6 (8.96%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.97%) Adobe
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Google
6 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.99%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.99%) Veeam
7 1 (1.49%) TOWER Software