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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 37 31
Rank change year-on-year -27 -6 +33
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 216 185 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.51% 5.42% 5.75%
As % of the General category 5.73% 8.58% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 115 49 94
10th Percentile £28,610 £26,250 £28,136
25th Percentile £39,498 £36,250 £35,528
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -13.71% -4.37%
75th Percentile £70,625 £58,035 £62,425
90th Percentile £76,051 £82,500 £74,869
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3,771 2,157 4,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.90% 63.14% 48.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,210 1,311 2,725
10th Percentile £28,125 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £64,328 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 28 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 28 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 +17 79 £40,000 -0.62% 34
Gloucestershire -35 60 £58,497 +37.64% 26
Somerset -23 39 £57,500 +51.32% 16
Wiltshire -7 18 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Dorset -36 13 £30,000 -14.29% 9
Devon -24 4 £38,000 - 7
Cornwall - 2 £54,498 - 3
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 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.78%) Confluence
3 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.85%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.85%) InDesign
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.85%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.46%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.83%) Azure
2 25 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (8.33%) GitHub
4 14 (6.48%) Azure Key Vault
4 14 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (6.48%) IaaS
4 14 (6.48%) PaaS
5 13 (6.02%) Serverless
6 12 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 12 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 11 (5.09%) AWS
8 8 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.31%) GCP
10 5 (2.31%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.85%) Figma
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.87%) VPN
2 14 (6.48%) Firewall
3 9 (4.17%) Network Security
4 8 (3.70%) LAN
4 8 (3.70%) WAN
5 7 (3.24%) Internet
5 7 (3.24%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.85%) VLAN
7 3 (1.39%) DNS
8 2 (0.93%) DHCP
9 1 (0.46%) BGP
9 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.46%) RS-422
9 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.46%) SSL
9 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.39%) Power BI
4 2 (0.93%) Big Data
4 2 (0.93%) GIS
4 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.93%) Metadata
5 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.46%) SQLite
5 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (8.80%) Git
2 8 (3.70%) JIRA
3 6 (2.78%) MSI
4 4 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.39%) GitLab
5 3 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.93%) JMeter
6 2 (0.93%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 87 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.52%) Finance
3 26 (12.04%) Legal
4 25 (11.57%) Law
5 15 (6.94%) Aerospace
6 14 (6.48%) Marketing
7 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 11 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (4.17%) Aviation
10 9 (4.17%) Local Government
11 8 (3.70%) Digital Health
12 7 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.78%) Avionics
13 6 (2.78%) Military
13 6 (2.78%) Retail
14 5 (2.31%) Banking
15 4 (1.85%) Multimedia
16 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 43 (19.91%) Architect
2 36 (16.67%) Senior
3 24 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 22 (10.19%) Analyst
5 12 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 12 (5.56%) Programmer
6 10 (4.63%) Developer
7 9 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
8 8 (3.70%) Data Scientist
9 7 (3.24%) Administrator
9 7 (3.24%) Lead
9 7 (3.24%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (3.24%) Security Specialist
10 6 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 6 (2.78%) Development Manager
10 6 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.78%) Sales Executive
10 6 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 6 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.09%) .NET
1 11 (5.09%) RESTful
2 10 (4.63%) CSS
2 10 (4.63%) HTML
3 8 (3.70%) GeoJSON
4 6 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 6 (2.78%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.78%) ATL
4 6 (2.78%) COM
4 6 (2.78%) CSS3
4 6 (2.78%) HTML5
4 6 (2.78%) MFC
4 6 (2.78%) REST
4 6 (2.78%) WPF
5 5 (2.31%) React
6 4 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.85%) EDI
7 3 (1.39%) Node.js
7 3 (1.39%) Spring
7 3 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.89%) Cyberattack
2 25 (11.57%) Driving Licence
3 17 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (6.94%) Onboarding
5 14 (6.48%) Security Posture
6 12 (5.56%) Cloud Native
6 12 (5.56%) Podcast
6 12 (5.56%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.78%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.85%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.85%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.85%) Social Media
11 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.39%) Replication
12 2 (0.93%) FMCG
13 1 (0.46%) Management Information System
13 1 (0.46%) Robotics
13 1 (0.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.43%) Windows
2 12 (5.56%) VMS
3 5 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.39%) Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Solaris
6 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.07%) AI
2 43 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (18.98%) DevOps
4 38 (17.59%) Agile
5 32 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 32 (14.81%) TOGAF
6 25 (11.57%) ITIL
7 24 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (11.11%) Time Management
8 22 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (10.19%) Line Management
8 22 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (9.26%) DevSecOps
9 20 (9.26%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.80%) Analytics
10 19 (8.80%) Decision-Making
11 18 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 17 (7.87%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (7.41%) Computer Science
13 16 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.04%) Python
2 20 (9.26%) Bicep
2 20 (9.26%) SQL
3 14 (6.48%) PowerShell
4 12 (5.56%) Bash
4 12 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 9 (4.17%) C#
5 9 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.31%) Java
8 3 (1.39%) C++
9 2 (0.93%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.46%) Ada
10 1 (0.46%) Ada 95
10 1 (0.46%) C
10 1 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.46%) Ladder Logic
10 1 (0.46%) Rust
10 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (18.98%) Degree
2 35 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.04%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.87%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.70%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.78%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.85%) PhD
9 4 (1.85%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.93%) AAT
10 2 (0.93%) ACCA
10 2 (0.93%) CIMA
10 2 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.46%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.50%) NIST
2 15 (6.94%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.09%) WCAG
5 10 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (4.17%) SLA
7 8 (3.70%) NCSC
8 7 (3.24%) GRC
9 6 (2.78%) QA
10 4 (1.85%) GDPR
11 3 (1.39%) ARP4761
11 3 (1.39%) DO-160
12 2 (0.93%) ARP4754
12 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.93%) DO-254
13 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.46%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 19 (8.80%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.02%) Docker
4 12 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (5.56%) vSphere
5 3 (1.39%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (11.57%) Terraform
2 14 (6.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (0.46%) Ansible
5 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.48%) VMware
3 12 (5.56%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (3.24%) Cisco
5 4 (1.85%) Adobe
5 4 (1.85%) HP
5 4 (1.85%) Meraki
6 3 (1.39%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.39%) OneLogin
7 2 (0.93%) Dell
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle
8 1 (0.46%) Google
8 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.46%) IFS
8 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.46%) Siemens