Self-Motivation Job Trends in the South West

Self-Motivation
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 83 52
Rank change year-on-year -18 -31 +61
Permanent jobs citing Self-Motivation 101 69 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.43% 2.63% 4.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.07% 6.62% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 57 43 249
10th Percentile £25,900 £25,250 £24,300
25th Percentile £30,780 £27,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.76% -4.54%
75th Percentile £50,000 £49,784 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £77,000 £64,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -27.27%

All Generic Skills
South West

Self-Motivation 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 1,428 1,042 2,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.18% 39.73% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 864 597 2,039
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,989
25th Percentile £33,500 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -15.38%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in the South West

Self-Motivation
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Self-Motivation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Self-Motivation

Self-Motivation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in the South West over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Self-Motivation in the South West

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Somerset -4 23 £34,000 -2.86% 12
Gloucestershire -12 23 £29,000 -14.07% 20
Devon -14 18 £40,525 - 15
Bristol -14 16 £60,000 -6.98% 20
Dorset -16 11 £35,000 -12.50% 6
Wiltshire -22 10 £27,650 -7.83% 13
Self-Motivation
England

Self-Motivation
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 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.96%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.99%) Apache
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.98%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.98%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.99%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.92%) GitHub
2 7 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.95%) Azure
4 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
4 4 (3.96%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.99%) AWS
6 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.99%) GCP
6 1 (0.99%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.90%) WAN
2 9 (8.91%) SD-WAN
3 8 (7.92%) 5G
4 6 (5.94%) LAN
4 6 (5.94%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (4.95%) DNS
6 4 (3.96%) HTTP
6 4 (3.96%) SMTP
6 4 (3.96%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.98%) Bluetooth
7 2 (1.98%) Firewall
7 2 (1.98%) VPN
7 2 (1.98%) Wireless
8 1 (0.99%) AMQP
8 1 (0.99%) ATM
8 1 (0.99%) DHCP
8 1 (0.99%) Modbus
8 1 (0.99%) NAS
8 1 (0.99%) SAN
8 1 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) Power BI
1 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.99%) Big Data
4 1 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.99%) Power Query
4 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Git
2 8 (7.92%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.99%) Postman
3 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 37 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.82%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Electronics
5 9 (8.91%) Finance
5 9 (8.91%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.93%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.94%) Advertising
7 6 (5.94%) Legal
8 5 (4.95%) Aerospace
8 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.96%) Law
9 4 (3.96%) Social Housing
10 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.98%) Brand Awareness
11 2 (1.98%) Marketing
11 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.98%) Retail
12 1 (0.99%) Billing
12 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (10.89%) Analyst
2 10 (9.90%) Software Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Business Development Manager
3 9 (8.91%) Business Manager
3 9 (8.91%) Development Manager
3 9 (8.91%) IT Support
3 9 (8.91%) Test Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Account Manager
4 8 (7.92%) Product Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Product Test Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Verification Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Senior
5 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.93%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (5.94%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Technical Support
6 6 (5.94%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) pytest
2 2 (1.98%) HTML
3 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.99%) gRPC
3 1 (0.99%) Material-UI
3 1 (0.99%) Node.js
3 1 (0.99%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.99%) React
3 1 (0.99%) REST
3 1 (0.99%) Spring
3 1 (0.99%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Onboarding
2 12 (11.88%) Driving Licence
3 8 (7.92%) Self-Driving Car
4 5 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.96%) GNSS
5 4 (3.96%) IoT
5 4 (3.96%) Replication
5 4 (3.96%) Satnav
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.97%) EPoS
6 3 (2.97%) Insider Threat
6 3 (2.97%) LIMS
6 3 (2.97%) NHS
7 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.98%) FPGA
7 2 (1.98%) Industry 4.0
7 2 (1.98%) SCADA
7 2 (1.98%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.73%) Windows
2 11 (10.89%) Linux
3 8 (7.92%) Unix
4 5 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.98%) Debian
5 2 (1.98%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.99%) CentOS
6 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.99%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (21.78%) B2B
2 22 (21.78%) Business Development
3 18 (17.82%) Validation
4 17 (16.83%) Customer Service
5 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
6 14 (13.86%) Agile
6 14 (13.86%) Collaborative Culture
6 14 (13.86%) Test Automation
7 12 (11.88%) Coaching
8 11 (10.89%) Mathematics
9 10 (9.90%) Kalman Filter
10 9 (8.91%) Mentoring
10 9 (8.91%) Project Management
10 9 (8.91%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.91%) Test Scripting
11 8 (7.92%) Physics
11 8 (7.92%) System Testing
11 8 (7.92%) Test Assurance
11 8 (7.92%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.82%) Python
2 10 (9.90%) SQL
3 8 (7.92%) C++
3 8 (7.92%) MATLAB
4 4 (3.96%) C
5 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.98%) Embedded C
6 2 (1.98%) Embedded C++
6 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.98%) Rust
6 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.98%) VBA
7 1 (0.99%) Java
7 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.74%) Degree
2 20 (19.80%) Security Cleared
3 14 (13.86%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.91%) HND
5 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.97%) ECDL
6 3 (2.97%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.97%) PMP
7 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.99%) HNC
8 1 (0.99%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.99%) GDPR
2 1 (0.99%) JSP 440
2 1 (0.99%) P3O
2 1 (0.99%) PMO
2 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.97%) Firmware
2 1 (0.99%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.98%) Ansible
2 2 (1.98%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.99%) Puppet
3 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.96%) HubSpot
2 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.97%) Apple
3 3 (2.97%) Oracle
4 2 (1.98%) Adobe
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco
5 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.99%) Google
5 1 (0.99%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.99%) SaltStack