Onboarding Job Trends in the South West

Onboarding
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 114 188
Rank change year-on-year +4 +74 +21
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 100 36 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.35% 1.35% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.78% 3.43% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 73 31 60
10th Percentile £27,707 £25,625 £27,600
25th Percentile £28,000 £38,750 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +3.45% +4.82%
75th Percentile £45,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £54,750 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -25.81%

All Generic Skills
South West

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,475 1,051 2,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.86% 39.51% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 892 587 2,042
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,938 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,058 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% +2.12% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £65,375
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,300 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in the South West

Onboarding
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the South West over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the South West

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 April 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 -4 39 £35,000 -39.13% 8
Bristol -3 19 £45,130 -35.53% 21
Wiltshire -1 17 £35,000 +37.25% 7
Dorset -14 11 £28,500 -28.75% 13
Somerset -22 10 £30,780 -67.60% 11
Devon -27 2 £42,250 -32.40% 11
Cornwall - 1 - - 23
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
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 3 (3.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Trello
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (20.00%) SaaS
3 10 (10.00%) AWS
4 3 (3.00%) Asana
4 3 (3.00%) ClickUp
4 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.00%) Stripe
5 2 (2.00%) IaaS
5 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (1.00%) Azure
6 1 (1.00%) dbt
6 1 (1.00%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) Firewall
1 9 (9.00%) LAN
1 9 (9.00%) Unified Communications
1 9 (9.00%) VLAN
1 9 (9.00%) WAN
1 9 (9.00%) WebEx
2 8 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (3.00%) VoIP
3 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.00%) DAB
5 1 (1.00%) Broadband
5 1 (1.00%) SSH
5 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
General
1 61 (61.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.00%) Retail
3 18 (18.00%) Finance
4 17 (17.00%) Marketing
5 14 (14.00%) Telecoms
6 11 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (10.00%) Legal
8 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
9 8 (8.00%) Banking
10 7 (7.00%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (5.00%) Financial Institution
11 5 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (4.00%) Advertising
12 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (18.00%) Account Manager
2 13 (13.00%) Senior
2 13 (13.00%) Support Technician
3 11 (11.00%) IT Technician
4 10 (10.00%) Sales Account Manager
4 10 (10.00%) Sales Manager
4 10 (10.00%) Senior Account Manager
4 10 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 10 (10.00%) Senior Sales Manager
5 9 (9.00%) IT Support
6 8 (8.00%) Coordinator
6 8 (8.00%) IT Manager
6 8 (8.00%) IT Support Technician
7 6 (6.00%) Collaboration Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) Consultant
7 6 (6.00%) Help Desk Support
7 6 (6.00%) Help Desk Support Technician
7 6 (6.00%) Help Desk Technician
7 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) ICT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.00%) XMPP
2 1 (1.00%) Laravel
2 1 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.00%) React
2 1 (1.00%) RESTful
2 1 (1.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 9 (9.00%) FlexPod
3 9 (9.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (9.00%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.00%) Replication
5 6 (6.00%) EPoS
6 3 (3.00%) Insider Threat
7 2 (2.00%) Social Media
8 1 (1.00%) Blog
8 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.00%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.00%) PKI
8 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.00%) Windows
2 9 (9.00%) Linux
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.00%) Customer Service
2 18 (18.00%) Business Development
2 18 (18.00%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (17.00%) Client Onboarding
4 16 (16.00%) B2B
5 11 (11.00%) Project Management
6 10 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (8.00%) CRM
7 8 (8.00%) Data Management
7 8 (8.00%) Performance Management
8 7 (7.00%) Information Security
8 7 (7.00%) Process Improvement
9 6 (6.00%) Analytics
9 6 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (6.00%) Cost Reduction
9 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (6.00%) Risk Management
10 5 (5.00%) Contract Negotiation
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.00%) Python
2 3 (3.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.00%) PHP
3 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (9.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 3 (3.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.00%) NCSC
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (6.00%) vSphere
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Ansible
1 9 (9.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 9 (9.00%) Grafana
2 7 (7.00%) Terraform
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Splunk
3 9 (9.00%) Cisco
3 9 (9.00%) Fortinet
3 9 (9.00%) Palo Alto
4 6 (6.00%) NetApp
4 6 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 6 (6.00%) VMware
5 5 (5.00%) HubSpot
6 4 (4.00%) Apple
7 3 (3.00%) Google
8 1 (1.00%) Databricks
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle
8 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.00%) Siemens
8 1 (1.00%) Thales