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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 32 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 +8 +1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,507 2,311 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.64% 5.20% 5.96%
As % of the General category 11.60% 8.93% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 509 518 732
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,425 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,668 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,163 £53,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% -2.45% +2.49%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,600 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,616 25,866 18,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.25% 58.21% 63.30%
Number of salaries quoted 12,257 11,214 13,484
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +31 905 £32,500 -40.91% 155
North West +23 778 £35,000 -38.27% 102
South East +16 669 £52,500 -12.50% 443
East of England +5 288 £58,250 +29.44% 55
Midlands +30 278 £46,022 -8.52% 117
West Midlands +24 176 £47,500 -9.52% 69
South West -13 167 £28,500 -32.94% 79
Scotland -17 159 £25,835 -53.03% 95
Yorkshire +10 115 £26,450 -48.39% 29
East Midlands +17 102 £35,000 -12.50% 46
Wales -6 32 £59,541 +13.21% 28
North East -9 12 £46,250 -28.85% 24
Northern Ireland -17 9 £76,024 +22.19% 13
Channel Islands - 6 - - 2
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 - 1
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 16 (0.64%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.28%) Apache
4 4 (0.16%) Camunda
4 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.080%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.040%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.040%) Drupal
7 1 (0.040%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.040%) WildFly
7 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.68%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.24%) Revit
6 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.16%) Civil 3D
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.12%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.12%) Simulink
9 2 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.040%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.040%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.040%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 13 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.080%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.080%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.040%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.040%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.040%) Primavera
5 1 (0.040%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,337 (53.33%) Cloud Computing
2 83 (3.31%) AWS
3 78 (3.11%) Azure
4 70 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (1.87%) Power Platform
6 28 (1.12%) SaaS
7 25 (1.00%) Entra ID
8 14 (0.56%) GCP
9 11 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (0.44%) Serverless
10 9 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (0.36%) Amazon S3
10 9 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.36%) Google Analytics
11 7 (0.28%) PaaS
12 6 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.24%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (0.24%) Figma
12 6 (0.24%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1,350 (53.85%) Internet
2 16 (0.64%) Broadband
2 16 (0.64%) Firewall
2 16 (0.64%) LAN
3 12 (0.48%) VPN
4 11 (0.44%) DNS
5 10 (0.40%) WAN
6 8 (0.32%) DHCP
7 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.16%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.080%) HTTP
9 2 (0.080%) Network Security
9 2 (0.080%) SAN
9 2 (0.080%) SSH
9 2 (0.080%) VLAN
9 2 (0.080%) Wireless
10 1 (0.040%) DMZ
10 1 (0.040%) Intranet
10 1 (0.040%) MPLS
10 1 (0.040%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (1.56%) Power BI
2 15 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 15 (0.60%) Tableau
3 12 (0.48%) Big Data
4 11 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 11 (0.44%) SQL Server
5 9 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (0.32%) GIS
6 8 (0.32%) Power Query
7 7 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.24%) KDB
8 6 (0.24%) Kdb+
9 5 (0.20%) Apache Hive
9 5 (0.20%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.16%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 24 (0.96%) JIRA
3 15 (0.60%) Git
3 15 (0.60%) GitLab
3 15 (0.60%) SonarQube
4 10 (0.40%) JUnit
5 9 (0.36%) Maven
6 8 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 8 (0.32%) Selenium
7 5 (0.20%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.16%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.16%) webpack
9 3 (0.12%) Gradle
9 3 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.12%) Vite
10 2 (0.080%) Locust
10 2 (0.080%) Postman
10 2 (0.080%) REST Assured
General
1 1,695 (67.61%) Social Skills
2 1,398 (55.76%) Banking
3 332 (13.24%) Finance
4 186 (7.42%) Law
5 153 (6.10%) Marketing
6 141 (5.62%) Retail
7 137 (5.46%) Public Sector
8 132 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
9 57 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (2.15%) Legal
11 33 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.68%) French Language
15 17 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.64%) Automotive
16 16 (0.64%) Games
17 15 (0.60%) Swedish Language
18 13 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,072 (42.76%) Lecturer
2 174 (6.94%) Senior
3 106 (4.23%) Software Engineer
4 100 (3.99%) Lead
5 85 (3.39%) Senior Manager
6 77 (3.07%) Analyst
7 71 (2.83%) Project Engineer
8 63 (2.51%) Microsoft Specialist
9 59 (2.35%) Java Engineer
10 57 (2.27%) Sales Manager
11 56 (2.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 52 (2.07%) Architect
13 46 (1.83%) Account Manager
14 45 (1.79%) Sales Account Manager
14 45 (1.79%) Senior Account Manager
14 45 (1.79%) Senior Sales Manager
15 43 (1.72%) Project Manager
16 36 (1.44%) Support Engineer
17 35 (1.40%) IT Support
18 29 (1.16%) Account Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.23%) Spring
2 42 (1.68%) React
3 40 (1.60%) REST
4 34 (1.36%) Kafka
5 28 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 24 (0.96%) EDI
7 21 (0.84%) SOAP
8 19 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
8 19 (0.76%) Visualforce
9 18 (0.72%) Node.js
10 17 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.64%) HTML
12 15 (0.60%) CSS
12 15 (0.60%) RESTful
12 15 (0.60%) Web Services
13 10 (0.40%) .NET
14 9 (0.36%) Django
15 8 (0.32%) PySpark
16 7 (0.28%) Playwright
17 6 (0.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,337 (53.33%) IoT
2 75 (2.99%) Blog
3 66 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 61 (2.43%) Driving Licence
5 43 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 38 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 36 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 30 (1.20%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (1.12%) Product Ownership
10 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Licensing
11 16 (0.64%) Social Media
12 15 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.56%) FMCG
14 13 (0.52%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
16 11 (0.44%) Podcast
17 9 (0.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 9 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (0.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.64%) Windows
2 12 (0.48%) Linux
3 9 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.32%) Unix
5 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.20%) Android
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Debian
10 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.040%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,661 (66.25%) AI
2 1,427 (56.92%) Cybersecurity
3 1,401 (55.88%) Machine Learning
4 1,353 (53.97%) User Experience
5 1,343 (53.57%) Web Development
6 222 (8.86%) Agile
7 193 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
9 179 (7.14%) Customer Service
10 137 (5.46%) Software Engineering
11 136 (5.42%) Decision-Making
12 113 (4.51%) CI/CD
13 110 (4.39%) B2B
14 104 (4.15%) Coaching
14 104 (4.15%) CRM
15 98 (3.91%) SDLC
16 88 (3.51%) Community of Practice
17 86 (3.43%) Mentoring
18 85 (3.39%) Operational Stability
18 85 (3.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (3.75%) Java
2 69 (2.75%) SQL
3 59 (2.35%) Python
4 32 (1.28%) JavaScript
5 19 (0.76%) Apex Code
6 15 (0.60%) SOQL
6 15 (0.60%) SOSL
7 12 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.44%) C#
8 11 (0.44%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.16%) Go
10 4 (0.16%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.16%) R
11 3 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.080%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.080%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.080%) C++
12 2 (0.080%) PHP
12 2 (0.080%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,699 (67.77%) Degree
2 1,336 (53.29%) Master's Degree
3 1,334 (53.21%) Postgraduate
4 1,333 (53.17%) PhD
5 44 (1.76%) Security Cleared
6 38 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 26 (1.04%) PMP
8 25 (1.00%) DBS Check
8 25 (1.00%) HNC
9 20 (0.80%) HND
10 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.64%) MCSE
12 14 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
14 10 (0.40%) CISSP
15 8 (0.32%) CISM
15 8 (0.32%) City & Guilds
16 6 (0.24%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (1.48%) QA
2 28 (1.12%) SLA
3 21 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (0.84%) NIST
4 18 (0.72%) Accessibility
4 18 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (0.60%) GDPR
5 15 (0.60%) PMO
6 10 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.20%) COBIT
8 5 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.20%) WCAG
9 4 (0.16%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.16%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.16%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.080%) GRC
11 2 (0.080%) NCSC
12 1 (0.040%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 41 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.48%) Docker
4 3 (0.12%) HDFS
4 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.040%) iptables
6 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.92%) Terraform
3 15 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.36%) Grafana
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.16%) Argo
7 3 (0.12%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.12%) SCCM
8 2 (0.080%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.080%) Nessus
8 2 (0.080%) Netcool
8 2 (0.080%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.080%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.040%) CASB
9 1 (0.040%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.040%) Nagios
9 1 (0.040%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 252 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 56 (2.23%) Cisco
3 49 (1.95%) Salesforce
4 37 (1.48%) NEC
5 36 (1.44%) Oracle
6 30 (1.20%) Splunk
7 29 (1.16%) Adobe
8 24 (0.96%) Apple
9 21 (0.84%) Google
10 20 (0.80%) Palo Alto
11 16 (0.64%) Databricks
11 16 (0.64%) VMware
12 14 (0.56%) Dell
13 13 (0.52%) SAP
14 12 (0.48%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.40%) Juniper
16 9 (0.36%) Dynatrace
17 8 (0.32%) Autodesk
17 8 (0.32%) McAfee
18 5 (0.20%) IBM