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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,082 1,676 5,315
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.50% 6.49% 8.13%
As % of the General category 17.12% 9.54% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 590 473 1,273
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,190 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,587 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,740 £52,450 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +16.56% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,220 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,000 £71,725
UK median annual salary £53,130 £55,000 £51,481
% change year-on-year -3.40% +6.84% -20.80%

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 29,685 17,569 38,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.64% 68.02% 58.43%
Number of salaries quoted 15,545 9,279 26,009
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,967 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +7.30% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

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 9 April 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 9 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
North of England +61 1,963 £37,500 -20.21% 143
North West +46 1,690 £35,000 -25.53% 65
Midlands +31 1,491 £52,500 +1.26% 78
West Midlands +41 1,287 £62,000 +14.50% 46
South East +13 866 £52,500 +16.67% 265
East of England +5 444 £45,000 -18.18% 48
Yorkshire +36 249 £27,500 -35.29% 58
East Midlands -6 216 £35,000 -16.17% 32
South West -44 161 £47,937 -4.13% 70
Scotland -24 86 £52,500 -4.55% 46
Wales -2 66 £57,515 +9.36% 19
North East -22 24 £60,000 -13.43% 21
Northern Ireland -43 14 £40,000 -42.29% 8
Channel Islands - 8 - -
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 41 (0.81%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.30%) Confluence
2 15 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.059%) Apache
4 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.059%) CMS
4 3 (0.059%) WordPress
5 2 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.020%) Drupal
6 1 (0.020%) IIS
6 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 63 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 31 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.098%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.039%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.039%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) Simulink
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.098%) Cloudability
4 5 (0.098%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.079%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.039%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.039%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.020%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.90%) Cloud Computing
2 168 (3.31%) Azure
3 103 (2.03%) AWS
4 76 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (1.12%) Power Platform
6 49 (0.96%) GCP
7 39 (0.77%) Entra ID
7 39 (0.77%) SaaS
8 19 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (0.26%) OneDrive
10 12 (0.24%) Asana
10 12 (0.24%) PaaS
10 12 (0.24%) Serverless
11 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
12 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (0.18%) GitHub
13 9 (0.18%) Google Analytics
14 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (71.94%) Internet
2 65 (1.28%) Broadband
3 27 (0.53%) Firewall
4 25 (0.49%) DNS
4 25 (0.49%) LAN
4 25 (0.49%) VPN
5 23 (0.45%) DHCP
6 19 (0.37%) WAN
7 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.16%) 4G
9 8 (0.16%) VLAN
10 7 (0.14%) MPLS
10 7 (0.14%) Network Security
11 6 (0.12%) Wireless
12 4 (0.079%) BGP
12 4 (0.079%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.079%) PSTN
12 4 (0.079%) SMTP
12 4 (0.079%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (0.91%) Power BI
2 18 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.24%) GIS
6 10 (0.20%) Metadata
6 10 (0.20%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.12%) Redis
10 5 (0.098%) Looker
10 5 (0.098%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.098%) Tableau
11 4 (0.079%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.079%) MySQL
12 2 (0.039%) Big Data
12 2 (0.039%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (0.73%) Jenkins
2 35 (0.69%) GitLab
2 35 (0.69%) SonarQube
3 29 (0.57%) JIRA
4 18 (0.35%) Git
5 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.16%) Postman
6 7 (0.14%) Snyk
7 5 (0.098%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.098%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.079%) Gatling
8 4 (0.079%) JMeter
8 4 (0.079%) JUnit
8 4 (0.079%) Locust
9 3 (0.059%) fastlane
9 3 (0.059%) Mockito
10 2 (0.039%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.039%) WebDriver
General
1 4,010 (78.91%) Social Skills
2 3,669 (72.20%) Banking
3 504 (9.92%) Finance
4 146 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
5 145 (2.85%) Public Sector
6 126 (2.48%) Marketing
7 124 (2.44%) Retail
8 112 (2.20%) Law
9 69 (1.36%) Legal
10 53 (1.04%) Games
11 42 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 29 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (0.47%) Local Government
15 22 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.28%) Aviation
18 13 (0.26%) Aerospace
18 13 (0.26%) Billing
18 13 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.31%) Lecturer
2 209 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.84%) Facilities Engineer
4 180 (3.54%) Senior
5 139 (2.74%) Analyst
6 94 (1.85%) Architect
7 75 (1.48%) Project Manager
8 67 (1.32%) Lead
9 56 (1.10%) Business Analyst
10 51 (1.00%) Project Engineer
11 43 (0.85%) Account Executive
12 40 (0.79%) IT Engineer
12 40 (0.79%) Senior Manager
13 36 (0.71%) Developer
14 33 (0.65%) Salesforce Architect
15 32 (0.63%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
17 29 (0.57%) IT Support
17 29 (0.57%) Senior Analyst
18 27 (0.53%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (1.04%) REST
2 43 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
2 43 (0.85%) SOAP
2 43 (0.85%) Visualforce
3 27 (0.53%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) .NET
5 14 (0.28%) Android SDK
6 13 (0.26%) GraphQL
7 12 (0.24%) Node.js
8 10 (0.20%) Web Services
9 8 (0.16%) CSS
9 8 (0.16%) HTML
9 8 (0.16%) Middleware
9 8 (0.16%) RESTful
10 7 (0.14%) SAML
10 7 (0.14%) Spring
11 6 (0.12%) Django
11 6 (0.12%) Playwright
12 5 (0.098%) React
13 4 (0.079%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (71.82%) IoT
2 121 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 76 (1.50%) Blog
4 71 (1.40%) Product Ownership
5 68 (1.34%) Driving Licence
6 55 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 47 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (0.71%) Social Media
9 30 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (0.57%) Mobile App
11 27 (0.53%) Cyberattack
12 20 (0.39%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.37%) Data Centre
13 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.26%) Life Science
14 13 (0.26%) Security Operations Centre
14 13 (0.26%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.22%) CSOC
15 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 57 (1.12%) Windows
2 31 (0.61%) Linux
3 24 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.33%) Android
4 17 (0.33%) Unix
5 10 (0.20%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.098%) Debian
7 5 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.079%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.079%) VMS
9 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,922 (77.17%) AI
2 3,782 (74.42%) Cybersecurity
3 3,679 (72.39%) User Experience
4 3,664 (72.10%) Machine Learning
5 3,651 (71.84%) Web Development
6 309 (6.08%) Mentoring
7 234 (4.60%) Agile
8 212 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.88%) Inventory Management
10 195 (3.84%) Preventative Maintenance
11 184 (3.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 136 (2.68%) Customer Service
13 124 (2.44%) DevOps
14 120 (2.36%) CI/CD
15 115 (2.26%) Coaching
16 110 (2.16%) Analytics
17 105 (2.07%) B2B
18 97 (1.91%) Decision-Making
19 96 (1.89%) Project Management
20 94 (1.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 64 (1.26%) Python
2 61 (1.20%) SQL
3 47 (0.92%) Java
4 43 (0.85%) Apex Code
5 35 (0.69%) SOQL
5 35 (0.69%) SOSL
6 25 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 20 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.28%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.18%) C#
10 7 (0.14%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.079%) Bash
11 4 (0.079%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.079%) PHP
12 3 (0.059%) VB
13 2 (0.039%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.039%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.039%) Go
13 2 (0.039%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3,934 (77.41%) Degree
2 3,847 (75.70%) Postgraduate
3 3,655 (71.92%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.90%) PhD
5 200 (3.94%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.84%) NVQ Level 3
7 117 (2.30%) Security Cleared
8 100 (1.97%) SC Cleared
9 31 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 27 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 26 (0.51%) PMP
13 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.37%) HNC
15 16 (0.31%) CISSP
16 15 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (0.30%) HND
17 14 (0.28%) CISM
18 12 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
19 9 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.84%) COSHH
2 54 (1.06%) QA
3 45 (0.89%) NIST
4 42 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 30 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (0.51%) SLA
8 25 (0.49%) GDPR
9 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 15 (0.30%) GRC
11 14 (0.28%) WCAG
12 11 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.22%) PMO
13 10 (0.20%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.16%) COBIT
15 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.098%) NEBOSH
17 4 (0.079%) IFRS
17 4 (0.079%) NCSC
18 3 (0.059%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 59 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (0.39%) Docker
3 13 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.12%) vSphere
6 4 (0.079%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 37 (0.73%) Terraform
2 30 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
4 6 (0.12%) Grafana
4 6 (0.12%) SCCM
5 5 (0.098%) Autotask
6 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.079%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.079%) WSUS
7 3 (0.059%) Ansible
7 3 (0.059%) CASB
7 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.039%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.039%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 269 (5.29%) Microsoft
2 115 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 84 (1.65%) Adobe
4 73 (1.44%) Cisco
5 44 (0.87%) Google
6 43 (0.85%) Splunk
7 39 (0.77%) Apple
8 23 (0.45%) NEC
9 18 (0.35%) VMware
10 17 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
10 17 (0.33%) SAP
11 16 (0.31%) ServiceNow
12 15 (0.30%) Palo Alto
13 13 (0.26%) Databricks
13 13 (0.26%) Oracle
14 11 (0.22%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.22%) Instagram
14 11 (0.22%) Pega
14 11 (0.22%) Workday