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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -42 +4 +35
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 175 192 533
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.24% 6.75% 5.13%
As % of the General category 5.21% 9.94% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 103 47 126
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,338
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,375 £35,384
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,591 £45,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.98% -8.63% -7.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £64,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,350 £72,761
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -25.00%

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 general skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 3,359 1,932 5,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 43.03% 67.96% 50.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,994 1,125 3,577
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,114 £61,000
90th Percentile £81,025 £81,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 18 June 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 18 June 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
Gloucestershire -23 61 £58,497 +8.83% 15
Bristol +1 54 £45,000 +9.76% 24
Somerset -27 27 £57,500 +82.54% 5
Wiltshire -4 18 £57,500 +2.88% 5
Dorset -38 7 £30,000 -14.29% 2
Devon -34 4 £38,000 - 3
Cornwall - 3 £38,995 -
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 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.29%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (2.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (2.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.29%) InDesign
3 4 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.29%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) Simulink
4 1 (0.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.43%) Azure
2 14 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (5.14%) GitHub
4 8 (4.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 8 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (4.57%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.57%) IaaS
4 8 (4.57%) PaaS
5 7 (4.00%) AWS
6 6 (3.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
6 6 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.43%) Serverless
7 4 (2.29%) Figma
8 3 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.71%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.14%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.14%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.00%) Firewall
2 13 (7.43%) VPN
3 10 (5.71%) Network Security
4 7 (4.00%) Internet
5 6 (3.43%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.86%) LAN
6 5 (2.86%) WAN
7 3 (1.71%) BGP
7 3 (1.71%) Broadband
8 2 (1.14%) 4G
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (1.14%) DHCP
8 2 (1.14%) DNS
8 2 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.14%) IOS XR
8 2 (1.14%) MPLS
9 1 (0.57%) RS-422
9 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.14%) GIS
3 2 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.57%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (6.29%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) JIRA
2 3 (1.71%) MSI
3 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.14%) JMeter
3 2 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.14%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.14%) Selenium
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.29%) Legal
3 22 (12.57%) Finance
4 14 (8.00%) Law
5 11 (6.29%) Aerospace
5 11 (6.29%) Marketing
6 10 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.57%) Aviation
7 8 (4.57%) Digital Health
7 8 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.57%) Local Government
8 7 (4.00%) Retail
9 5 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Avionics
10 4 (2.29%) Military
10 4 (2.29%) Multimedia
10 4 (2.29%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.71%) Billing
12 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Architect
2 28 (16.00%) Senior
3 24 (13.71%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (7.43%) Analyst
5 9 (5.14%) Enterprise Architect
6 8 (4.57%) Data Scientist
6 8 (4.57%) Programmer
7 7 (4.00%) Administrator
7 7 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 7 (4.00%) Security Specialist
8 6 (3.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 6 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) Lead
8 6 (3.43%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (2.86%) Developer
9 5 (2.86%) Development Manager
9 5 (2.86%) Systems Manager
9 5 (2.86%) Test Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.00%) CSS
1 7 (4.00%) HTML
2 6 (3.43%) RESTful
3 5 (2.86%) GeoJSON
4 4 (2.29%) .NET
5 3 (1.71%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.71%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.71%) ATL
5 3 (1.71%) COM
5 3 (1.71%) CSS3
5 3 (1.71%) HTML5
5 3 (1.71%) MFC
5 3 (1.71%) REST
5 3 (1.71%) WPF
6 2 (1.14%) Jinja
6 2 (1.14%) NETCONF
6 2 (1.14%) OpenAPI
6 2 (1.14%) Playwright
6 2 (1.14%) Swagger
6 2 (1.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.14%) Cyberattack
2 21 (12.00%) Driving Licence
3 11 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 9 (5.14%) Security Posture
6 6 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.43%) Podcast
6 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.43%) Social Media
7 5 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.29%) Digital Media
8 4 (2.29%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.14%) iPad
9 2 (1.14%) iPhone
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.57%) FMCG
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.57%) SCADA
10 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.00%) Windows
2 6 (3.43%) VMS
3 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.14%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (18.29%) AI
3 30 (17.14%) TOGAF
4 28 (16.00%) ITIL
5 26 (14.86%) DevOps
6 23 (13.14%) Time Management
7 21 (12.00%) Line Management
8 20 (11.43%) Agile
9 19 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (8.57%) Mentoring
11 14 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.43%) CI/CD
12 13 (7.43%) Incident Management
12 13 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (6.86%) CRM
13 12 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (6.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (6.29%) Analytics
14 11 (6.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 11 (6.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.86%) Python
2 11 (6.29%) Bicep
2 11 (6.29%) SQL
3 9 (5.14%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.00%) Bash
5 6 (3.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.71%) C#
7 3 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.14%) Java
8 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.57%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 36 (20.57%) Degree
2 25 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.43%) Chartered Engineer
7 5 (2.86%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.29%) PhD
8 4 (2.29%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.57%) CEH
11 1 (0.57%) CISM
11 1 (0.57%) CISSP
11 1 (0.57%) HNC
11 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.14%) NIST
2 15 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (7.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.57%) SLA
5 7 (4.00%) GRC
6 6 (3.43%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.43%) QA
6 6 (3.43%) WCAG
7 5 (2.86%) GDPR
7 5 (2.86%) NCSC
8 3 (1.71%) ARP4761
8 3 (1.71%) DO-160
9 2 (1.14%) ARP4754
9 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.14%) DO-254
9 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.57%) COBIT
10 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.43%) Docker
3 6 (3.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (3.43%) vSphere
4 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (7.43%) Terraform
2 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Argo
4 1 (0.57%) CASB
4 1 (0.57%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.57%) Kustomize
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.14%) Cisco
3 8 (4.57%) VMware
4 6 (3.43%) ScienceLogic
5 4 (2.29%) Adobe
5 4 (2.29%) HP
5 4 (2.29%) Meraki
6 3 (1.71%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.71%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.14%) Apple
7 2 (1.14%) Dell
7 2 (1.14%) Okta
8 1 (0.57%) Citrix
8 1 (0.57%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.57%) Google
8 1 (0.57%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.57%) Siemens