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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 40 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -40
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 185 261 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.18% 4.40% 4.94%
As % of the General category 7.69% 9.11% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 94 22 59
10th Percentile £27,706 £24,000 £32,092
25th Percentile £27,707 £31,147 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £42,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% -15.50% -0.43%
75th Percentile £38,000 £56,124 £75,000
90th Percentile £56,250 £77,375 £85,977
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +12.00%

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 2,407 2,864 2,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 54.33% 48.23% 55.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 1,481 1,832
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £38,750 £39,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +52 84 £27,707 -45.67% 4
Gloucestershire -29 26 £37,500 - 21
Devon +25 21 £35,000 - 8
Bristol +19 21 £29,250 -4.71% 29
Somerset -8 21 £38,000 -24.00% 13
Wiltshire +5 7 £52,500 -8.70% 7
Cornwall - 5 £39,000 - 1
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 (0.54%) Drupal
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.08%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.08%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.08%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.08%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.54%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.97%) Cloud Computing
2 21 (11.35%) AWS
3 12 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.78%) Azure
5 5 (2.70%) Google Analytics
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.62%) GCP
6 3 (1.62%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.62%) Serverless
7 1 (0.54%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Boomi
7 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.54%) Figma
7 1 (0.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.51%) Internet
2 11 (5.95%) VPN
3 7 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.16%) Firewall
5 3 (1.62%) Modbus
6 2 (1.08%) ADSL
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.08%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (1.08%) MPLS
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
6 2 (1.08%) Wireless
7 1 (0.54%) DHCP
7 1 (0.54%) DNS
7 1 (0.54%) Intranet
7 1 (0.54%) RS-485
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.16%) MySQL
1 4 (2.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (1.62%) CockroachDB
2 3 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.62%) Power BI
2 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.62%) Tableau
3 2 (1.08%) Big Data
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.08%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) Power Query
4 1 (0.54%) Redis
4 1 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.24%) Selenium
3 4 (2.16%) JUnit
4 3 (1.62%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.62%) Git
4 3 (1.62%) Locust
5 2 (1.08%) Maven
5 2 (1.08%) Mockito
5 2 (1.08%) Postman
5 2 (1.08%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 55 (29.73%) Retail
3 47 (25.41%) Finance
4 40 (21.62%) Banking
5 34 (18.38%) Law
6 33 (17.84%) Marketing
7 12 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.24%) Publishing
9 4 (2.16%) Back Office
9 4 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Billing
11 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Games
11 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.54%) Electronics
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (29.19%) Senior
2 46 (24.86%) Sales Manager
3 45 (24.32%) Account Manager
3 45 (24.32%) Sales Account Manager
3 45 (24.32%) Senior Account Manager
3 45 (24.32%) Senior Manager
3 45 (24.32%) Senior Sales Manager
4 23 (12.43%) Software Engineer
5 20 (10.81%) Lecturer
6 12 (6.49%) Lead
7 11 (5.95%) Python Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Python Software Engineer
8 10 (5.41%) IT Support
9 8 (4.32%) IT Technician
9 8 (4.32%) Java Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) IT Support Technician
10 7 (3.78%) Support Technician
11 5 (2.70%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.95%) Spring
2 9 (4.86%) Kafka
2 9 (4.86%) React
3 8 (4.32%) REST
4 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.70%) CSS
5 5 (2.70%) HTML
5 5 (2.70%) Playwright
6 4 (2.16%) .NET
6 4 (2.16%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.16%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.62%) Node.js
7 3 (1.62%) pytest
7 3 (1.62%) RESTful
8 2 (1.08%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.08%) Java EE
8 2 (1.08%) JMS
9 1 (0.54%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.54%) DOM
9 1 (0.54%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 42 (22.70%) Onboarding
2 24 (12.97%) IoT
3 12 (6.49%) Podcast
4 10 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 10 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.24%) Blog
5 6 (3.24%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.70%) e-Learning
7 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.62%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.62%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.62%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.62%) Social Media
9 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.08%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.08%) Motion Graphics
9 2 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.08%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.24%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.70%) Android
3 3 (1.62%) Windows
4 2 (1.08%) Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Debian
5 1 (0.54%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.65%) B2B
1 53 (28.65%) Customer Service
2 51 (27.57%) AI
3 43 (23.24%) Machine Learning
4 35 (18.92%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (16.76%) User Experience
6 30 (16.22%) Agile
7 25 (13.51%) Software Engineering
7 25 (13.51%) Web Development
8 23 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (10.81%) CI/CD
9 20 (10.81%) SDLC
10 18 (9.73%) Operational Stability
10 18 (9.73%) Visualisation
11 16 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.11%) Decision-Making
13 14 (7.57%) Community of Practice
13 14 (7.57%) Mentoring
14 12 (6.49%) Analytics
15 10 (5.41%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.81%) Java
2 15 (8.11%) Python
3 11 (5.95%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.86%) SQL
5 2 (1.08%) C#
6 1 (0.54%) C++
6 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.54%) Go
6 1 (0.54%) R
6 1 (0.54%) Rust
6 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (18.38%) Degree
2 25 (13.51%) Master's Degree
3 24 (12.97%) PhD
3 24 (12.97%) Postgraduate
4 5 (2.70%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.08%) CCDA
6 2 (1.08%) CCDP
6 2 (1.08%) CCNA
6 2 (1.08%) CCNP
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) CEH
7 1 (0.54%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.54%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (1.62%) NIST
3 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) ISO 19650
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) P3O
4 1 (0.54%) PMO
4 1 (0.54%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (4.32%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.62%) Ansible
3 3 (1.62%) Terraform
4 2 (1.08%) CASB
4 2 (1.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.24%) Google
2 6 (3.24%) Oracle
3 5 (2.70%) Cisco
3 5 (2.70%) Databricks
3 5 (2.70%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.16%) Juniper
4 4 (2.16%) Meraki
4 4 (2.16%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.08%) Adobe
6 2 (1.08%) Aerohive Networks
6 2 (1.08%) Ekahau
6 2 (1.08%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.08%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (1.08%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.08%) Sybase
7 1 (0.54%) Apple
7 1 (0.54%) Okta
7 1 (0.54%) Salesforce