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 16 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -28
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 195 255 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.56% 4.26% 5.76%
As % of the General category 8.17% 9.01% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 88 21 59
10th Percentile - £24,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £27,707 £30,279 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -25.00% -0.43%
75th Percentile £38,188 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £78,750 £85,977
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +12.75%

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 common skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,388 2,830 2,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 55.90% 47.28% 56.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,488 1,453 1,869
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,875 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +50 92 £27,707 -45.67% 6
Gloucestershire -25 26 £37,500 - 33
Somerset -9 23 £38,000 -24.00% 18
Bristol +20 21 £29,250 +5.04% 39
Devon +18 21 £35,000 - 7
Wiltshire +4 7 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Cornwall - 5 £39,000 -
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 (0.51%) Drupal
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.03%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.03%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.03%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 29 (14.87%) AWS
2 24 (12.31%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.10%) Azure
5 5 (2.56%) Google Analytics
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.05%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (2.05%) GCP
6 4 (2.05%) Serverless
7 3 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.54%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.03%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (0.51%) Boomi
9 1 (0.51%) Figma
9 1 (0.51%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.33%) Internet
2 11 (5.64%) VPN
3 7 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.05%) Firewall
5 3 (1.54%) Modbus
6 2 (1.03%) ADSL
6 2 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.03%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (1.03%) MPLS
6 2 (1.03%) WAN
6 2 (1.03%) Wireless
7 1 (0.51%) DHCP
7 1 (0.51%) DNS
7 1 (0.51%) Intranet
7 1 (0.51%) RS-485
7 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.08%) MySQL
2 5 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.05%) CockroachDB
3 4 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.54%) Big Data
4 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.54%) Power BI
4 3 (1.54%) Tableau
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.03%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (1.03%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.51%) Power Query
6 1 (0.51%) Redis
6 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.10%) Selenium
3 6 (3.08%) JUnit
4 4 (2.05%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.05%) Git
4 4 (2.05%) Locust
5 3 (1.54%) Maven
5 3 (1.54%) Mockito
6 2 (1.03%) Postman
6 2 (1.03%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 60 (30.77%) Finance
3 49 (25.13%) Retail
4 48 (24.62%) Banking
4 48 (24.62%) Law
5 41 (21.03%) Marketing
6 16 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.08%) Publishing
8 5 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.05%) Back Office
9 4 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.54%) Games
10 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Billing
11 2 (1.03%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.51%) Military
12 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.51%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (25.64%) Senior
2 42 (21.54%) Sales Manager
3 41 (21.03%) Account Manager
3 41 (21.03%) Sales Account Manager
3 41 (21.03%) Senior Account Manager
3 41 (21.03%) Senior Manager
3 41 (21.03%) Senior Sales Manager
4 33 (16.92%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.26%) Lecturer
6 15 (7.69%) Lead
6 15 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 15 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Java Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) IT Support
9 8 (4.10%) IT Technician
10 7 (3.59%) IT Support Technician
10 7 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Support Technician
10 7 (3.59%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.21%) Spring
2 13 (6.67%) Kafka
2 13 (6.67%) React
3 11 (5.64%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.13%) REST
5 7 (3.59%) CSS
5 7 (3.59%) HTML
6 6 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.08%) Playwright
7 4 (2.05%) .NET
7 4 (2.05%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.05%) Node.js
7 4 (2.05%) pytest
7 4 (2.05%) RESTful
8 3 (1.54%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.54%) Java EE
8 3 (1.54%) JMS
9 2 (1.03%) HTML5
10 1 (0.51%) NumPy
10 1 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (21.54%) Onboarding
2 24 (12.31%) IoT
3 14 (7.18%) Algorithms
3 14 (7.18%) Podcast
3 14 (7.18%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.08%) Blog
5 6 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.08%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.56%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.05%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.54%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.54%) Social Media
9 2 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.03%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Motion Graphics
9 2 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.56%) Android
3 3 (1.54%) Windows
4 2 (1.03%) Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Debian
5 1 (0.51%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (30.26%) AI
2 51 (26.15%) Machine Learning
3 48 (24.62%) Customer Service
4 47 (24.10%) B2B
5 41 (21.03%) Agile
6 36 (18.46%) Software Engineering
7 35 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (16.92%) User Experience
9 28 (14.36%) CI/CD
9 28 (14.36%) SDLC
10 27 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (13.33%) Operational Stability
12 25 (12.82%) Web Development
13 23 (11.79%) Visualisation
14 22 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (10.26%) Community of Practice
15 20 (10.26%) Decision-Making
16 14 (7.18%) Analytics
16 14 (7.18%) Mentoring
17 12 (6.15%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.36%) Java
2 19 (9.74%) Python
3 15 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.15%) SQL
5 2 (1.03%) C#
5 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) C++
6 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.51%) Go
6 1 (0.51%) R
6 1 (0.51%) Rust
6 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (17.95%) Degree
2 25 (12.82%) Master's Degree
3 24 (12.31%) PhD
3 24 (12.31%) Postgraduate
4 6 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.03%) CCDA
6 2 (1.03%) CCDP
6 2 (1.03%) CCNA
6 2 (1.03%) CCNP
6 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) CEH
7 1 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.51%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (1.54%) NIST
3 2 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.51%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) P3O
4 1 (0.51%) PMO
4 1 (0.51%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (6.15%) Docker
2 4 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) iptables
Systems Management
1 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.05%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) CASB
4 2 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (5.13%) Microsoft
1 10 (5.13%) Oracle
2 7 (3.59%) Databricks
3 6 (3.08%) Google
4 5 (2.56%) Cisco
4 5 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.05%) Juniper
5 4 (2.05%) Meraki
5 4 (2.05%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.54%) Sybase
7 2 (1.03%) Adobe
7 2 (1.03%) Aerohive Networks
7 2 (1.03%) Ekahau
7 2 (1.03%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (1.03%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.51%) MikroTik
8 1 (0.51%) Okta
8 1 (0.51%) SnapLogic