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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 134 135
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +66
Permanent jobs citing Confluence 36 67 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.76% 1.28% 1.87%
As % of the Application Platforms category 9.94% 14.76% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23 43 70
10th Percentile £25,500 £37,350 -
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £44,516
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +23.55% -11.35%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £73,400 £69,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 362 454 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.68% 8.66% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 214 269 457
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,600 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £78,000 £80,000
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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +34 17 £45,000 -18.18% 9
Gloucestershire +2 11 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Dorset -4 5 £45,000 -7.69% 5
Wiltshire +17 2 £51,250 -8.89% 2
Somerset -10 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 5 (13.89%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.78%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) SaaS
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
3 3 (8.33%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.78%) Miro
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.78%) Internet
1 1 (2.78%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (97.22%) JIRA
2 12 (33.33%) Git
3 6 (16.67%) GitLab
4 5 (13.89%) Bitbucket
4 5 (13.89%) JUnit
5 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Analyst
2 9 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Graduate
3 6 (16.67%) Graduate Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Graduate Support Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Junior
3 6 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Junior Support Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) SQL Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) SQL Support Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Android Developer
6 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) React
2 5 (13.89%) .NET
2 5 (13.89%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (11.11%) Android Jetpack
3 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 4 (11.11%) Jetpack Compose
3 4 (11.11%) JSF
3 4 (11.11%) OkHttp
3 4 (11.11%) PrimeFaces
3 4 (11.11%) Retrofit
4 3 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.56%) Avalonia
5 2 (5.56%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.56%) Node.js
5 2 (5.56%) REST
5 2 (5.56%) WPF
6 1 (2.78%) HTML
6 1 (2.78%) JSON
6 1 (2.78%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Cybercrime
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.78%) PMI
3 1 (2.78%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Android
3 2 (5.56%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (30.56%) Scrum
3 9 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 5 (13.89%) User Stories
7 4 (11.11%) Android Development
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.11%) Cryptography
7 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.11%) Microservices
7 4 (11.11%) Mobile Development
7 4 (11.11%) MVVM
7 4 (11.11%) Project Management
7 4 (11.11%) Storage Management
7 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 8 (22.22%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.67%) Java
5 5 (13.89%) C#
6 4 (11.11%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.56%) C
7 2 (5.56%) C++
7 2 (5.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CBAP
4 1 (2.78%) IIBA
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) IEC 62304
2 1 (2.78%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kibana
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Samsung
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce