Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 -45
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 151 243 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.99% 5.57% 4.39%
As % of the General category 6.23% 9.85% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 88 18 47
10th Percentile - £23,520 £32,787
25th Percentile £27,707 £29,750 £39,880
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -18.18% +21.72%
75th Percentile £37,625 £56,124 £72,625
90th Percentile £56,250 £71,000 £78,622
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +7.69%

All General Skills
South West

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,425 2,467 2,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 48.02% 56.54% 53.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 1,186 1,721
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.00%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the South West over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
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 Inclusion and Diversity within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Dorset +34 53 £27,707 -45.67% 12
Devon +15 24 £35,000 - 28
Somerset -21 23 £37,026 -6.26% 21
Bristol +5 18 £34,000 -34.61% 33
Gloucestershire -36 16 £34,250 +52.90% 32
Cornwall - 9 £39,000 - 2
Wiltshire 0 8 £52,500 -4.55% 16
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
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 1 (0.66%) Drupal
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.32%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.66%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.19%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (6.62%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.97%) Azure
4 5 (3.31%) Google Analytics
5 3 (1.99%) AWS
5 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.99%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.66%) Figma
7 1 (0.66%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.66%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 32 (21.19%) Internet
2 9 (5.96%) VPN
3 3 (1.99%) Firewall
4 2 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.32%) Wireless
5 1 (0.66%) Broadband
5 1 (0.66%) DHCP
5 1 (0.66%) DNS
5 1 (0.66%) Modbus
5 1 (0.66%) RS-485
5 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.99%) Power BI
2 3 (1.99%) Tableau
3 2 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.66%) MySQL
4 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.66%) Power Query
4 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
1 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.32%) Postman
1 2 (1.32%) REST Assured
1 2 (1.32%) Selenium
2 1 (0.66%) Git
2 1 (0.66%) Jaeger
General
1 67 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 55 (36.42%) Retail
3 35 (23.18%) Banking
4 16 (10.60%) Finance
5 13 (8.61%) Marketing
6 6 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.31%) Publishing
8 4 (2.65%) Billing
9 3 (1.99%) Law
9 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.66%) Military
11 1 (0.66%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (35.10%) Senior
2 46 (30.46%) Account Manager
2 46 (30.46%) Sales Manager
3 45 (29.80%) Sales Account Manager
3 45 (29.80%) Senior Account Manager
3 45 (29.80%) Senior Manager
3 45 (29.80%) Senior Sales Manager
4 27 (17.88%) Lecturer
5 9 (5.96%) IT Support
6 7 (4.64%) IT Technician
7 6 (3.97%) Analyst
7 6 (3.97%) IT Support Technician
7 6 (3.97%) Support Technician
8 5 (3.31%) Account Executive
8 5 (3.31%) Developer
8 5 (3.31%) IT Trainer
8 5 (3.31%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.31%) Trainer
9 4 (2.65%) Business Developer
9 4 (2.65%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.65%) .NET
1 4 (2.65%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.32%) Playwright
2 2 (1.32%) REST
3 1 (0.66%) CSS
3 1 (0.66%) DOM
3 1 (0.66%) EDI
3 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.66%) Framer.js
3 1 (0.66%) HTML
3 1 (0.66%) Kafka
3 1 (0.66%) NumPy
3 1 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.66%) Pandas
3 1 (0.66%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.66%) RESTful
3 1 (0.66%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.81%) Onboarding
2 32 (21.19%) IoT
3 11 (7.28%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.64%) Blog
4 7 (4.64%) Podcast
5 5 (3.31%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.32%) iPad
8 2 (1.32%) iPhone
8 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.32%) Social Media
8 2 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.66%) Animation
9 1 (0.66%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.66%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.66%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.64%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.31%) Android
3 3 (1.99%) Windows
4 2 (1.32%) Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Debian
5 1 (0.66%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.66%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.10%) B2B
2 52 (34.44%) Customer Service
3 42 (27.81%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (27.15%) AI
5 35 (23.18%) User Experience
6 33 (21.85%) Machine Learning
6 33 (21.85%) Web Development
7 14 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (7.28%) Mentoring
9 9 (5.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (4.64%) Analytics
10 7 (4.64%) Coaching
10 7 (4.64%) Customer Experience
10 7 (4.64%) Visualisation
11 6 (3.97%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (3.97%) Storytelling
12 5 (3.31%) Agile
12 5 (3.31%) Change Control
12 5 (3.31%) Data Management
12 5 (3.31%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 4 (2.65%) Java
1 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
1 4 (2.65%) Python
2 3 (1.99%) SQL
3 2 (1.32%) C#
4 1 (0.66%) Bash
4 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.66%) Go
4 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.66%) R
4 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (29.14%) Degree
2 32 (21.19%) Master's Degree
2 32 (21.19%) PhD
2 32 (21.19%) Postgraduate
3 6 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.31%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.99%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) CEH
6 2 (1.32%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) CISM
7 1 (0.66%) CISSP
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.66%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.31%) NEBOSH
2 4 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.99%) NIST
3 3 (1.99%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.66%) COBIT
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.66%) GDPR
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.66%) P3O
5 1 (0.66%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.66%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.32%) Ansible
2 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.66%) Argo
3 1 (0.66%) CASB
3 1 (0.66%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.97%) Google
3 2 (1.32%) Apple
3 2 (1.32%) Okta
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe
4 1 (0.66%) Cisco
4 1 (0.66%) Citrix
4 1 (0.66%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.66%) MikroTik
4 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.66%) Tenable