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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 +32
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 191 186 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.26% 5.52% 5.51%
As % of the General category 5.15% 8.73% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 109 48 105
10th Percentile £28,870 £26,125 £30,967
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,545 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -12.91% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,400 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £82,500 £72,761
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 3,707 2,131 4,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.85% 63.23% 49.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 1,289 3,011
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.66%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,150
% change year-on-year - +1.57% -9.75%

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 22 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 22 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 +12 65 £40,000 -0.62% 31
Gloucestershire -28 60 £58,497 +23.15% 12
Somerset -24 37 £57,500 +51.32% 6
Wiltshire -13 16 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Dorset -37 7 £30,000 -14.29% 6
Devon -24 4 £38,000 - 2
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 16 (8.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.62%) Confluence
3 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.09%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (2.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.09%) InDesign
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.09%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.52%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.99%) Azure
2 24 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (8.90%) GitHub
4 14 (7.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 14 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (7.33%) IaaS
4 14 (7.33%) PaaS
5 12 (6.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (6.28%) Azure Functions
5 12 (6.28%) Serverless
6 9 (4.71%) AWS
7 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.09%) Figma
9 4 (2.09%) GCP
10 3 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.05%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.05%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.90%) VPN
2 14 (7.33%) Firewall
3 9 (4.71%) Network Security
4 7 (3.66%) Internet
5 5 (2.62%) LAN
5 5 (2.62%) WAN
6 4 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.05%) DHCP
7 2 (1.05%) DNS
8 1 (0.52%) BGP
8 1 (0.52%) RS-422
8 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (3.66%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.05%) GIS
3 2 (1.05%) Power BI
4 1 (0.52%) Big Data
4 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.52%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.52%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (8.90%) Git
2 5 (2.62%) JIRA
2 5 (2.62%) MSI
3 3 (1.57%) GitLab
3 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.05%) JMeter
4 2 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 79 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.57%) Finance
2 24 (12.57%) Legal
3 19 (9.95%) Law
4 12 (6.28%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.76%) Marketing
5 11 (5.76%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.24%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.19%) Aviation
7 8 (4.19%) Digital Health
7 8 (4.19%) Local Government
8 7 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.66%) Retail
9 5 (2.62%) Avionics
10 4 (2.09%) Military
10 4 (2.09%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.05%) Aeronautics
11 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (17.80%) Senior
2 33 (17.28%) Architect
3 24 (12.57%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (10.99%) Analyst
5 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 12 (6.28%) Programmer
6 9 (4.71%) Developer
6 9 (4.71%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (4.19%) Data Scientist
8 7 (3.66%) Administrator
9 6 (3.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 6 (3.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.14%) Security Specialist
9 6 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.14%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 6 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.62%) Development Manager
10 5 (2.62%) Lead
10 5 (2.62%) Sales Executive
10 5 (2.62%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.24%) RESTful
2 9 (4.71%) CSS
2 9 (4.71%) HTML
3 8 (4.19%) .NET
4 7 (3.66%) GeoJSON
5 5 (2.62%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.62%) .NET Framework
5 5 (2.62%) ATL
5 5 (2.62%) COM
5 5 (2.62%) CSS3
5 5 (2.62%) HTML5
5 5 (2.62%) MFC
5 5 (2.62%) REST
5 5 (2.62%) WPF
6 4 (2.09%) EDI
7 3 (1.57%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.57%) Node.js
7 3 (1.57%) React
7 3 (1.57%) Spring
7 3 (1.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.71%) Cyberattack
2 25 (13.09%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.38%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (7.33%) Security Posture
5 12 (6.28%) Onboarding
5 12 (6.28%) Podcast
5 12 (6.28%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.09%) Digital Media
8 4 (2.09%) Graphic Design
8 4 (2.09%) Social Media
9 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.52%) FMCG
11 1 (0.52%) SCADA
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.04%) Windows
2 12 (6.28%) VMS
3 4 (2.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (20.42%) AI
1 39 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (19.90%) DevOps
3 30 (15.71%) Agile
3 30 (15.71%) TOGAF
4 26 (13.61%) CI/CD
5 25 (13.09%) ITIL
6 23 (12.04%) Time Management
7 22 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (11.52%) Line Management
8 19 (9.95%) DevSecOps
9 18 (9.42%) Mentoring
10 17 (8.90%) Analytics
10 17 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 16 (8.38%) Decision-Making
11 16 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (7.85%) Cloud Security
12 15 (7.85%) Root Cause Analysis
13 14 (7.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.99%) Python
2 19 (9.95%) Bicep
3 18 (9.42%) SQL
4 15 (7.85%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.28%) Bash
5 12 (6.28%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.62%) C#
6 5 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.57%) Java
8 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.52%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 38 (19.90%) Degree
2 28 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.95%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.90%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.71%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.14%) Chartered Engineer
8 5 (2.62%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.09%) PhD
9 4 (2.09%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.05%) AAT
11 2 (1.05%) ACCA
11 2 (1.05%) CIMA
11 2 (1.05%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.52%) CEH
12 1 (0.52%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.66%) NIST
2 12 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (5.24%) WCAG
5 7 (3.66%) NCSC
6 6 (3.14%) GRC
6 6 (3.14%) SLA
7 4 (2.09%) GDPR
7 4 (2.09%) QA
8 3 (1.57%) ARP4761
8 3 (1.57%) DO-160
9 2 (1.05%) ARP4754
9 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.05%) DO-254
10 1 (0.52%) COBIT
10 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (7.85%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.28%) Docker
3 12 (6.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.28%) vSphere
4 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (11.52%) Terraform
2 11 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.52%) CASB
4 1 (0.52%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 48 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.33%) VMware
3 12 (6.28%) ScienceLogic
4 7 (3.66%) Cisco
5 4 (2.09%) Adobe
5 4 (2.09%) HP
5 4 (2.09%) Meraki
6 3 (1.57%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.57%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.57%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.05%) Dell
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Siemens
8 1 (0.52%) Tenable