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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 33 29
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 +36
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 206 185 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.43% 5.47% 5.64%
As % of the General category 5.52% 8.67% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 113 49 95
10th Percentile £28,480 £26,250 £30,279
25th Percentile £38,995 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £58,035 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,151 £82,500 £74,568
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -21.43%

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 3,729 2,134 4,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.96% 63.04% 49.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 1,294 2,820
10th Percentile £28,063 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,507 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -2.99% -2.91%
75th Percentile £63,813 £63,977 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £79,950
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 25 July 2026.

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 25 July 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 +18 73 £38,125 -5.28% 28
Gloucestershire -35 60 £58,497 +37.64% 11
Somerset -20 38 £57,500 +51.32% 9
Wiltshire -9 18 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Dorset -37 11 £30,000 -14.29% 7
Devon -22 4 £38,000 - 5
Cornwall - 1 £38,995 - 2
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 17 (8.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.91%) Confluence
3 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 19 (9.22%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.94%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (1.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.94%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.94%) InDesign
3 4 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.94%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.49%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.49%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.36%) Azure
2 25 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (8.74%) GitHub
4 14 (6.80%) Azure Key Vault
4 14 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (6.80%) IaaS
4 14 (6.80%) PaaS
5 13 (6.31%) Serverless
6 12 (5.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (5.83%) Azure Functions
7 11 (5.34%) AWS
8 8 (3.88%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.43%) GCP
11 4 (1.94%) Figma
11 4 (1.94%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.25%) VPN
2 13 (6.31%) Firewall
3 9 (4.37%) Network Security
4 8 (3.88%) LAN
4 8 (3.88%) WAN
5 7 (3.40%) Internet
5 7 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.94%) VLAN
7 3 (1.46%) DNS
8 2 (0.97%) DHCP
9 1 (0.49%) BGP
9 1 (0.49%) RS-422
9 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.49%) SSL
9 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (3.88%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.97%) Big Data
3 2 (0.97%) GIS
3 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.97%) Metadata
3 2 (0.97%) Power BI
4 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.49%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.49%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.49%) SQLite
4 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (9.22%) Git
2 8 (3.88%) JIRA
3 6 (2.91%) MSI
4 4 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.46%) GitLab
6 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.97%) JMeter
6 2 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.97%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 85 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.02%) Finance
3 25 (12.14%) Legal
4 23 (11.17%) Law
5 14 (6.80%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.80%) Marketing
6 12 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (4.37%) Local Government
9 8 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.88%) Aviation
9 8 (3.88%) Digital Health
10 7 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.91%) Retail
12 5 (2.43%) Avionics
12 5 (2.43%) Military
13 4 (1.94%) Multimedia
14 3 (1.46%) Banking
15 2 (0.97%) Aeronautics
15 2 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (18.45%) Architect
2 36 (17.48%) Senior
3 24 (11.65%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (10.19%) Analyst
5 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 12 (5.83%) Programmer
6 10 (4.85%) Developer
7 9 (4.37%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (3.88%) Data Scientist
9 7 (3.40%) Administrator
9 7 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (2.91%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 6 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.91%) Lead
10 6 (2.91%) Sales Executive
10 6 (2.91%) Security Specialist
10 6 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.91%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 6 (2.91%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (2.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.34%) RESTful
2 10 (4.85%) .NET
2 10 (4.85%) CSS
2 10 (4.85%) HTML
3 8 (3.88%) GeoJSON
4 6 (2.91%) .NET Core
4 6 (2.91%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.91%) ATL
4 6 (2.91%) COM
4 6 (2.91%) CSS3
4 6 (2.91%) HTML5
4 6 (2.91%) MFC
4 6 (2.91%) REST
4 6 (2.91%) WPF
5 4 (1.94%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.94%) EDI
5 4 (1.94%) React
6 3 (1.46%) Node.js
6 3 (1.46%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.46%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.56%) Cyberattack
2 25 (12.14%) Driving Licence
3 16 (7.77%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (7.28%) Onboarding
5 14 (6.80%) Security Posture
6 12 (5.83%) Podcast
6 12 (5.83%) Public Cloud
7 11 (5.34%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.91%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.43%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.94%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.94%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.94%) Social Media
11 3 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.49%) FMCG
12 1 (0.49%) SCADA
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.08%) Windows
2 12 (5.83%) VMS
3 5 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.97%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (22.82%) AI
2 41 (19.90%) DevOps
2 41 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.48%) Agile
4 31 (15.05%) CI/CD
4 31 (15.05%) TOGAF
5 25 (12.14%) ITIL
6 24 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (11.65%) Time Management
7 22 (10.68%) Line Management
8 21 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (9.71%) DevSecOps
9 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
9 20 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (9.22%) Analytics
10 19 (9.22%) Decision-Making
11 18 (8.74%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 16 (7.77%) Observability
13 15 (7.28%) Root Cause Analysis
13 15 (7.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.62%) Python
2 20 (9.71%) Bicep
2 20 (9.71%) SQL
3 14 (6.80%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.83%) Bash
4 12 (5.83%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.40%) C#
7 6 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.94%) Java
9 2 (0.97%) C++
9 2 (0.97%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.49%) Go
10 1 (0.49%) Ladder Logic
10 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (19.42%) Degree
2 34 (16.50%) Security Cleared
3 25 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.25%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.34%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.88%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.91%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.94%) PhD
9 4 (1.94%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.97%) AAT
10 2 (0.97%) ACCA
10 2 (0.97%) CIMA
10 2 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.49%) APMG
11 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.11%) NIST
2 14 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.34%) WCAG
5 10 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (4.37%) SLA
7 8 (3.88%) NCSC
8 6 (2.91%) GRC
8 6 (2.91%) QA
9 4 (1.94%) GDPR
10 3 (1.46%) ARP4761
10 3 (1.46%) DO-160
11 2 (0.97%) ARP4754
11 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.97%) DO-254
12 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (9.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.31%) Docker
4 12 (5.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.83%) vSphere
5 3 (1.46%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (12.14%) Terraform
2 14 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.46%) SCCM
5 1 (0.49%) Ansible
5 1 (0.49%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (25.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.80%) VMware
3 12 (5.83%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (3.40%) Cisco
5 4 (1.94%) Adobe
5 4 (1.94%) HP
5 4 (1.94%) Meraki
6 3 (1.46%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.46%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.46%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.97%) Dell
8 1 (0.49%) Google
8 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.49%) Siemens