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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,006 2,069 4,089
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 9.60% 7.34% 7.06%
As % of the General category 18.70% 10.79% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 525 472 1,172
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,707 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £52,225 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.49% +13.53% -16.36%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,050 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,940 £77,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,875 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +9.52% -19.23%

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 26,768 19,175 34,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 51.33% 67.99% 59.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,914 9,037 24,548
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,574 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +56 1,939 £35,009 -26.30% 137
North West +42 1,688 £35,005 -25.52% 63
Midlands +24 1,477 £50,000 -4.76% 81
West Midlands +39 1,281 £57,500 +7.88% 42
South East +8 865 £51,250 +7.89% 275
East of England -1 431 £40,000 -23.81% 42
Yorkshire +32 239 £26,525 -39.37% 48
East Midlands -1 208 £37,500 -10.71% 39
South West -40 159 £30,000 -40.00% 81
Scotland -57 68 £30,000 -45.45% 80
Wales +10 59 £63,236 +28.78% 27
Northern Ireland -30 15 £40,000 -42.29% 6
North East -25 12 £60,000 -13.43% 27
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Isle of Man - 1 £32,000 - 5
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 40 (0.80%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.080%) Confluence
5 2 (0.040%) CMS
5 2 (0.040%) WordPress
6 1 (0.020%) Drupal
6 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 60 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.74%) Acrobat
4 34 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.100%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.040%) Revit
8 2 (0.040%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.080%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.060%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Primavera
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (72.99%) Cloud Computing
2 134 (2.68%) Azure
3 93 (1.86%) AWS
4 64 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (1.14%) Power Platform
6 35 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 33 (0.66%) SaaS
8 20 (0.40%) GCP
9 12 (0.24%) Asana
10 11 (0.22%) OneDrive
10 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
11 10 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (0.20%) PaaS
12 9 (0.18%) Figma
13 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3,655 (73.01%) Internet
2 59 (1.18%) Broadband
3 23 (0.46%) VPN
4 21 (0.42%) DNS
4 21 (0.42%) LAN
5 19 (0.38%) DHCP
5 19 (0.38%) Firewall
6 14 (0.28%) WAN
7 13 (0.26%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.16%) 4G
9 7 (0.14%) MPLS
9 7 (0.14%) VLAN
10 4 (0.080%) 5G
10 4 (0.080%) BGP
10 4 (0.080%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.080%) PSTN
10 4 (0.080%) SMTP
10 4 (0.080%) WLAN
11 3 (0.060%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (0.90%) Power BI
2 13 (0.26%) GIS
3 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 11 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
5 10 (0.20%) Tableau
6 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 7 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.100%) Metadata
9 5 (0.100%) Redis
10 4 (0.080%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.080%) MySQL
10 4 (0.080%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.060%) Looker
11 3 (0.060%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.040%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.040%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.040%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 35 (0.70%) GitLab
1 35 (0.70%) Jenkins
1 35 (0.70%) SonarQube
2 19 (0.38%) JIRA
3 17 (0.34%) Git
4 5 (0.100%) Axure RP
4 5 (0.100%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.060%) JUnit
6 2 (0.040%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.040%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.040%) JMeter
6 2 (0.040%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.040%) Locust
6 2 (0.040%) Mockito
6 2 (0.040%) Postman
6 2 (0.040%) Selenium
6 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.040%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.020%) jMock
General
1 3,988 (79.66%) Social Skills
2 3,665 (73.21%) Banking
3 462 (9.23%) Finance
4 144 (2.88%) Retail
5 133 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
6 121 (2.42%) Public Sector
7 119 (2.38%) Marketing
8 100 (2.00%) Law
9 54 (1.08%) Legal
10 47 (0.94%) Games
11 45 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (0.50%) Telecoms
14 20 (0.40%) Local Government
14 20 (0.40%) Manufacturing
14 20 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.22%) Electronics
17 10 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,811 (56.15%) Lecturer
2 196 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.90%) Facilities Engineer
4 165 (3.30%) Senior
5 110 (2.20%) Analyst
6 73 (1.46%) Project Manager
7 63 (1.26%) Architect
8 62 (1.24%) Project Engineer
9 57 (1.14%) Senior Manager
10 56 (1.12%) Lead
11 48 (0.96%) Sales Manager
12 45 (0.90%) Account Manager
13 39 (0.78%) Account Executive
13 39 (0.78%) Sales Account Manager
13 39 (0.78%) Senior Account Manager
13 39 (0.78%) Senior Sales Manager
14 36 (0.72%) Business Analyst
15 33 (0.66%) Salesforce Architect
16 31 (0.62%) Alliance Manager
16 31 (0.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (1.04%) REST
2 43 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 43 (0.86%) SOAP
2 43 (0.86%) Visualforce
3 24 (0.48%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) .NET
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 14 (0.28%) Web Services
6 9 (0.18%) Django
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) Middleware
7 8 (0.16%) React
8 7 (0.14%) Android SDK
8 7 (0.14%) GraphQL
8 7 (0.14%) SAML
9 6 (0.12%) Spring
10 5 (0.100%) RESTful
11 4 (0.080%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.080%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3,651 (72.93%) IoT
2 129 (2.58%) Onboarding
3 79 (1.58%) Blog
4 76 (1.52%) Driving Licence
5 64 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 49 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 37 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (0.52%) Social Media
10 21 (0.42%) Mobile App
11 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
12 14 (0.28%) Cloud Native
13 11 (0.22%) Life Science
13 11 (0.22%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
14 10 (0.20%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.18%) Security Operations Centre
16 8 (0.16%) AI Agents
16 8 (0.16%) CSOC
16 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (0.80%) Windows
2 28 (0.56%) Linux
3 16 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.28%) Unix
5 12 (0.24%) Android
6 6 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.100%) Debian
8 4 (0.080%) VMS
8 4 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.020%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,904 (77.99%) AI
2 3,763 (75.17%) Cybersecurity
3 3,675 (73.41%) User Experience
4 3,664 (73.19%) Machine Learning
5 3,657 (73.05%) Web Development
6 290 (5.79%) Mentoring
7 196 (3.92%) Inventory Management
8 195 (3.90%) Preventative Maintenance
9 190 (3.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 182 (3.64%) Agile
11 166 (3.32%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (3.06%) Customer Service
13 128 (2.56%) B2B
14 126 (2.52%) Coaching
15 103 (2.06%) Analytics
16 101 (2.02%) Project Management
17 92 (1.84%) Decision-Making
18 91 (1.82%) DevOps
19 78 (1.56%) CI/CD
20 77 (1.54%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 45 (0.90%) Python
2 44 (0.88%) SQL
3 43 (0.86%) Apex Code
4 35 (0.70%) SOQL
4 35 (0.70%) SOSL
5 33 (0.66%) Java
6 19 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.24%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
9 6 (0.12%) C#
10 3 (0.060%) Bash
10 3 (0.060%) PHP
10 3 (0.060%) VB
11 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.040%) Go
11 2 (0.040%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.020%) R
12 1 (0.020%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,949 (78.89%) Degree
2 3,847 (76.85%) Postgraduate
3 3,654 (72.99%) PhD
4 3,653 (72.97%) Master's Degree
5 200 (4.00%) City & Guilds
6 196 (3.92%) NVQ Level 3
7 102 (2.04%) Security Cleared
8 86 (1.72%) SC Cleared
9 31 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 29 (0.58%) HNC
12 27 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (0.54%) PMP
13 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.40%) HND
15 13 (0.26%) CISSP
16 12 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.22%) MCSE
18 10 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.90%) COSHH
2 52 (1.04%) QA
3 39 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 27 (0.54%) NIST
6 22 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.42%) SLA
8 20 (0.40%) GDPR
9 16 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.28%) PMO
11 12 (0.24%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.18%) COBIT
12 9 (0.18%) WCAG
13 8 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.14%) GRC
15 5 (0.100%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.100%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.080%) EU AI Act
17 2 (0.040%) HIPAA
17 2 (0.040%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 47 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.26%) Docker
3 8 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.12%) vSphere
5 4 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.020%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 28 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (0.42%) Terraform
3 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.16%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.12%) Argo
6 5 (0.100%) Autotask
7 4 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.080%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.080%) Grafana
7 4 (0.080%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.080%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.060%) Ansible
8 3 (0.060%) CASB
8 3 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.040%) Nessus
9 2 (0.040%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.020%) SCCM
Vendors
1 261 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 109 (2.18%) Salesforce
3 79 (1.58%) Adobe
4 73 (1.46%) Cisco
5 43 (0.86%) Splunk
6 29 (0.58%) Apple
7 23 (0.46%) NEC
8 18 (0.36%) Google
9 13 (0.26%) Oracle
9 13 (0.26%) SAP
10 11 (0.22%) Databricks
10 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
10 11 (0.22%) Instagram
10 11 (0.22%) ServiceNow
10 11 (0.22%) Wrike
11 10 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.20%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.18%) VMware
12 9 (0.18%) Workday
13 8 (0.16%) New Relic