Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -36 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,212 2,665 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 7.74% 5.25%
As % of the General category 5.79% 11.77% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 905 483 503
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £28,796
25th Percentile £35,150 £29,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,241 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 38,202 22,637 27,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.24% 65.77% 54.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,705 11,159 12,214
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
North of England -47 596 £47,500 - 358
South East -14 465 £56,000 +1.82% 205
Midlands -24 378 £46,000 -3.16% 145
North West -49 341 £42,000 -10.14% 200
South West -21 266 £40,000 +31.15% 126
East of England +15 208 £37,750 -33.77% 95
West Midlands -31 196 £59,250 +7.73% 108
East Midlands -1 181 £43,353 +33.39% 37
North East +14 145 £65,500 +166.59% 69
Scotland -19 144 £35,000 +16.67% 205
Wales +7 114 £54,000 -1.82% 35
Yorkshire +5 110 £43,027 -49.38% 89
Northern Ireland -45 48 £74,742 -1.69% 76
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 45 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.72%) CMS
4 28 (1.27%) Confluence
5 21 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.72%) Apache
8 10 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.23%) Moodle
9 5 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.090%) Totara
12 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.045%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.045%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 117 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 115 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.95%) Maple
5 18 (0.81%) Simulink
6 17 (0.77%) Revit
7 15 (0.68%) AutoCAD
8 13 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
9 10 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.45%) Notion
9 10 (0.45%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.36%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.36%) InDesign
11 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
12 7 (0.32%) Sketch
13 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
14 4 (0.18%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 25 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.86%) Cloudability
4 15 (0.68%) SAP EHS
4 15 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 12 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.50%) Primavera
7 9 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
9 4 (0.18%) Shopify
10 3 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.14%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP R/3
11 2 (0.090%) Academy Housing
11 2 (0.090%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 330 (14.92%) Azure
2 261 (11.80%) AWS
3 126 (5.70%) GCP
4 112 (5.06%) SaaS
5 107 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 98 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (2.71%) GitHub
9 59 (2.67%) Serverless
10 45 (2.03%) Entra ID
11 38 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
12 35 (1.58%) dbt
13 33 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
14 31 (1.40%) PaaS
15 30 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (1.31%) IaaS
17 28 (1.27%) Figma
18 27 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
19 23 (1.04%) Amazon S3
19 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.76%) Internet
2 36 (1.63%) Firewall
3 35 (1.58%) Ethernet
4 33 (1.49%) Modbus
5 27 (1.22%) Network Security
5 27 (1.22%) Profibus
6 26 (1.18%) 5G
6 26 (1.18%) VPN
7 23 (1.04%) DNS
7 23 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 13 (0.59%) DHCP
8 13 (0.59%) LAN
9 12 (0.54%) SAN
10 11 (0.50%) SSL
11 10 (0.45%) VLAN
11 10 (0.45%) WAN
12 9 (0.41%) HTTP
13 6 (0.27%) Wireless
14 4 (0.18%) NAS
14 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.71%) Power BI
2 45 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.90%) Tableau
4 25 (1.13%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 23 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.95%) GIS
8 19 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 19 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (0.86%) MySQL
9 18 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (0.77%) Metadata
11 16 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (0.68%) Big Data
12 15 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.45%) Power Query
15 9 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 107 (4.84%) Git
2 56 (2.53%) JIRA
3 49 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.54%) GitLab
5 20 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.68%) Snyk
7 14 (0.63%) LabVIEW
8 13 (0.59%) Gatling
9 11 (0.50%) fastlane
9 11 (0.50%) JMeter
10 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.36%) MSI
13 7 (0.32%) Moq
14 6 (0.27%) Xcode
15 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.23%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.23%) Gradle
15 5 (0.23%) JUnit
16 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
General
1 947 (42.81%) Social Skills
2 645 (29.16%) Finance
3 332 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 289 (13.07%) Marketing
6 177 (8.00%) Law
7 150 (6.78%) Aerospace
8 140 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
9 139 (6.28%) Retail
10 114 (5.15%) Legal
11 98 (4.43%) Manufacturing
12 83 (3.75%) Local Government
13 78 (3.53%) Electronics
13 78 (3.53%) Telecoms
14 73 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
15 63 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (2.22%) Banking
17 29 (1.31%) Military
18 27 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 24 (1.08%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 379 (17.13%) Senior
2 233 (10.53%) Lead
3 170 (7.69%) Analyst
4 152 (6.87%) Architect
5 137 (6.19%) Sales Executive
6 116 (5.24%) Developer
7 98 (4.43%) Consultant
8 70 (3.16%) Account Executive
9 59 (2.67%) Project Engineer
10 56 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
11 55 (2.49%) Software Engineer
12 51 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
13 49 (2.22%) Design Engineer
14 48 (2.17%) Electrical Engineer
15 46 (2.08%) Business Analyst
16 37 (1.67%) Designer
16 37 (1.67%) Sales Account Executive
16 37 (1.67%) Technical Architect
17 36 (1.63%) Project Manager
17 36 (1.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (3.93%) Terraform
2 67 (3.03%) CSS
3 55 (2.49%) .NET
4 49 (2.22%) HTML
5 47 (2.12%) RESTful
6 43 (1.94%) REST
7 38 (1.72%) XML
8 33 (1.49%) EDI
8 33 (1.49%) React
9 32 (1.45%) Node.js
10 29 (1.31%) Spring
11 27 (1.22%) .NET Core
12 26 (1.18%) Middleware
12 26 (1.18%) Spring Boot
13 24 (1.08%) Kafka
14 22 (0.99%) .NET Framework
15 19 (0.86%) LangChain
16 18 (0.81%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.81%) JWT
16 18 (0.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 267 (12.07%) Onboarding
2 226 (10.22%) Driving Licence
3 135 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
4 107 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 97 (4.39%) Cloud Native
6 91 (4.11%) Product Ownership
7 69 (3.12%) Marketing Technology
8 68 (3.07%) Social Media
9 58 (2.62%) Data Centre
10 54 (2.44%) SCADA
11 46 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 34 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
14 27 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.22%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.04%) FPGA
17 22 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 22 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 126 (5.70%) Windows
2 60 (2.71%) Linux
3 27 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.90%) VMS
6 17 (0.77%) Android
7 15 (0.68%) macOS
8 13 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.54%) Unix
10 5 (0.23%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Solaris
12 2 (0.090%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.045%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (25.95%) AI
2 528 (23.87%) Agile
3 449 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
4 413 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 313 (14.15%) Mentoring
6 309 (13.97%) Decision-Making
7 275 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 242 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 229 (10.35%) DevOps
10 216 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
11 200 (9.04%) Analytics
12 194 (8.77%) Roadmaps
13 191 (8.63%) Customer Service
14 184 (8.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 183 (8.27%) Validation
16 168 (7.59%) Coaching
17 167 (7.55%) Collaborative Working
18 159 (7.19%) CRM
19 153 (6.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 138 (6.24%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 183 (8.27%) Python
2 140 (6.33%) SQL
3 90 (4.07%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.39%) C#
5 69 (3.12%) Java
6 49 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 39 (1.76%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.40%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.36%) Bicep
10 25 (1.13%) Bash
11 23 (1.04%) C++
12 17 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.68%) Go
14 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.50%) Ruby
16 10 (0.45%) ABAP
16 10 (0.45%) Ada
16 10 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.36%) C
17 8 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 529 (23.92%) Degree
2 416 (18.81%) Security Cleared
3 365 (16.50%) SC Cleared
4 186 (8.41%) DBS Check
5 165 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 145 (6.56%) HNC
7 122 (5.52%) DV Cleared
8 107 (4.84%) Master's Degree
9 53 (2.40%) AWS Certification
9 53 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 52 (2.35%) Chartered Engineer
11 35 (1.58%) HND
12 34 (1.54%) PhD
13 28 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (0.72%) Postgraduate
17 15 (0.68%) CISSP
18 13 (0.59%) ACCA
18 13 (0.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (12.84%) Accessibility
2 112 (5.06%) QA
3 94 (4.25%) Data Quality
4 68 (3.07%) GDPR
5 65 (2.94%) SLA
6 52 (2.35%) WCAG
7 36 (1.63%) NCSC
8 32 (1.45%) GRC
9 29 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 20 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.90%) NIST
11 14 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
16 3 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 87 (3.93%) Docker
2 73 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.85%) Firmware
4 21 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.54%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.14%) NFS
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.090%) IAG
12 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.31%) Grafana
3 26 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.63%) Ansible
5 14 (0.63%) SCCM
6 9 (0.41%) Kibana
7 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 4 (0.18%) Autotask
8 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) WSUS
9 2 (0.090%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.090%) Puppet
9 2 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.045%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.045%) QRadar
10 1 (0.045%) SCOM
10 1 (0.045%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.045%) VxRail
Vendors
1 388 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.34%) Samsung
3 94 (4.25%) TikTok
4 93 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 93 (4.20%) SAP
5 83 (3.75%) Adobe
6 72 (3.25%) Google
7 47 (2.12%) Workday
8 42 (1.90%) Apple
9 37 (1.67%) Cisco
10 31 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.36%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.31%) Facebook
13 26 (1.18%) Instagram
14 25 (1.13%) Oracle
15 23 (1.04%) VMware
16 19 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 18 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
18 17 (0.77%) Botify
19 15 (0.68%) Tenable