Blog Job Trends in the South West

Blogs
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 165 219
Rank change year-on-year -56 +54 +4
Permanent jobs citing Blog 24 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.23% 0.14% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.99% 0.39% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £33,250 - -
25th Percentile £34,375 £29,000 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £30,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -70.00% +49.98%
75th Percentile £49,375 £46,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £57,250 £56,200 -
England median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -38.91%

All Generic Skills
South West

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,416 1,272 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.96% 35.54% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 742 1,026
10th Percentile £29,200 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.76%

Blog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Blog relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Blog job vacancy trend in the South West

Blog
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Blog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Blog

Blog
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Blog in the South West over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Blog in the South West

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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 Blog within the South West region over the 6 months to 6 October 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 -27 18 £60,000 +100.00% 10
Gloucestershire - 2 £40,000 - 1
Dorset -7 1 £35,000 -41.67% 1
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Blog
England

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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:

Applications
1 2 (8.33%) InDesign
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Slack
3 6 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) Figma
6 1 (4.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DMZ
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
General
1 20 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 18 (75.00%) Finance
3 14 (58.33%) Legal
4 10 (41.67%) Marketing
5 5 (20.83%) Local Government
5 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Interaction Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing Executive
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Interaction Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 4 (16.67%) Social Media
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (8.33%) NHS
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Coaching
2 9 (37.50%) Community of Practice
3 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
5 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (25.00%) Kanban
5 6 (25.00%) Line Management
5 6 (25.00%) Runbook
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.83%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.83%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (16.67%) Presales
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) High Availability
8 3 (12.50%) IT Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) SIEM
8 3 (12.50%) Software Delivery
8 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) Bash
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (12.50%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (12.50%) CASP
3 3 (12.50%) CISM
3 3 (12.50%) CISSP
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) NCSC
2 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 2 (8.33%) GRC
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (8.33%) JSP 440
3 2 (8.33%) NIST
3 2 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (4.17%) PMO
4 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Adobe
1 3 (12.50%) Intel
2 1 (4.17%) Apple
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) HubSpot
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) YouTube