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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -49 +10 +28
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,937 2,800 3,482
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.33% 8.10% 6.23%
As % of the General category 5.31% 12.30% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 899 487 671
10th Percentile £28,350 £25,600 £28,745
25th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%

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 36,464 22,773 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.85% 65.84% 53.14%
Number of salaries quoted 22,677 11,130 14,496
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -65 485 £50,000 +12.36% 320
South East -29 419 £56,000 +1.82% 407
Midlands -49 296 £46,000 -3.16% 233
North West -58 279 £42,000 +0.40% 185
South West -12 264 £55,000 +57.14% 286
West Midlands -40 177 £59,250 +7.73% 147
East of England -2 171 £42,500 -22.73% 154
Scotland -11 156 £50,000 +25.00% 299
North East +13 120 £60,000 +144.20% 60
East Midlands -34 118 £38,000 +16.92% 86
Wales -8 101 £53,000 -3.64% 43
Yorkshire -15 86 £46,053 -45.82% 77
Northern Ireland -46 51 £74,742 -3.21% 99
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 44 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.86%) Confluence
4 18 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.77%) Apache
7 12 (0.62%) CMS
8 10 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.31%) WordPress
10 5 (0.26%) Moodle
11 4 (0.21%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.10%) Totara
13 1 (0.052%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.052%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 104 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.93%) Simulink
5 13 (0.67%) Revit
6 10 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.52%) Maple
6 10 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.41%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.41%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.41%) InDesign
8 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
9 7 (0.36%) Sketch
9 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
10 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
11 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.21%) Mathcad
12 2 (0.10%) InVision
Business Applications
1 24 (1.24%) Cloudability
2 21 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.62%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.57%) Primavera
6 10 (0.52%) SAP EHS
6 10 (0.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 9 (0.46%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.21%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.15%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.15%) SAP R/3
10 3 (0.15%) Shopify
11 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
11 2 (0.10%) NEC Housing
11 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 334 (17.24%) Azure
2 238 (12.29%) AWS
3 134 (6.92%) GCP
4 104 (5.37%) Power Platform
5 102 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (2.94%) Serverless
8 56 (2.89%) GitHub
9 39 (2.01%) SaaS
10 37 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 32 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
12 31 (1.60%) dbt
13 30 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
14 29 (1.50%) PaaS
15 28 (1.45%) IaaS
16 27 (1.39%) Figma
17 26 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
17 26 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
19 21 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.12%) Firewall
2 31 (1.60%) Network Security
3 28 (1.45%) Internet
4 22 (1.14%) 5G
4 22 (1.14%) VPN
5 21 (1.08%) Ethernet
6 20 (1.03%) DNS
6 20 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.83%) Modbus
8 15 (0.77%) LAN
9 13 (0.67%) DHCP
9 13 (0.67%) Profibus
9 13 (0.67%) WAN
10 11 (0.57%) Broadband
11 10 (0.52%) SAN
12 9 (0.46%) VLAN
12 9 (0.46%) Wireless
13 8 (0.41%) SSL
13 8 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.31%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (4.13%) Power BI
2 46 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (1.39%) Tableau
4 21 (1.08%) Metadata
4 21 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 18 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 18 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 17 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (0.88%) MySQL
7 16 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.72%) DynamoDB
10 12 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 11 (0.57%) Big Data
11 11 (0.57%) GIS
12 10 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 92 (4.75%) Git
2 64 (3.30%) JIRA
3 53 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.60%) GitLab
5 22 (1.14%) Snyk
6 21 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.72%) fastlane
7 14 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 10 (0.52%) Gatling
9 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.46%) JMeter
10 8 (0.41%) Postman
10 8 (0.41%) Xcode
11 7 (0.36%) Moq
11 7 (0.36%) MSI
11 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.31%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.31%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.31%) Gradle
12 6 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 794 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 522 (26.95%) Finance
3 292 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 162 (8.36%) Marketing
6 159 (8.21%) Law
7 140 (7.23%) Aerospace
8 117 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
9 106 (5.47%) Legal
10 104 (5.37%) Retail
11 85 (4.39%) Manufacturing
12 72 (3.72%) Local Government
13 69 (3.56%) Electronics
14 57 (2.94%) Telecoms
15 44 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (1.91%) Banking
17 29 (1.50%) Military
18 21 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.93%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 379 (19.57%) Senior
2 203 (10.48%) Lead
3 187 (9.65%) Architect
4 181 (9.34%) Analyst
5 100 (5.16%) Developer
6 96 (4.96%) Sales Executive
7 79 (4.08%) Consultant
8 66 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
9 59 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
10 58 (2.99%) Software Engineer
11 56 (2.89%) Business Analyst
12 51 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (2.22%) Senior Architect
14 39 (2.01%) IT Engineer
15 38 (1.96%) Cloud Architect
15 38 (1.96%) Technical Architect
16 36 (1.86%) Designer
17 34 (1.76%) Project Engineer
18 31 (1.60%) IT Support
18 31 (1.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (4.34%) Terraform
2 56 (2.89%) .NET
3 47 (2.43%) CSS
3 47 (2.43%) HTML
4 43 (2.22%) RESTful
5 35 (1.81%) React
6 32 (1.65%) Node.js
6 32 (1.65%) XML
7 31 (1.60%) EDI
7 31 (1.60%) REST
8 27 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 22 (1.14%) .NET Framework
10 20 (1.03%) Spring
11 18 (0.93%) ASP.NET
11 18 (0.93%) Entity Framework
12 17 (0.88%) Spring Boot
13 16 (0.83%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.83%) XSLT
14 15 (0.77%) JSON
15 14 (0.72%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 177 (9.14%) Driving Licence
2 153 (7.90%) Onboarding
3 109 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 93 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 91 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 87 (4.49%) Cloud Native
7 73 (3.77%) Data Centre
8 49 (2.53%) Social Media
9 46 (2.37%) Public Cloud
10 40 (2.07%) Cyberattack
11 30 (1.55%) Algorithms
12 29 (1.50%) SCADA
13 25 (1.29%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
15 23 (1.19%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
16 22 (1.14%) FPGA
17 21 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
18 20 (1.03%) Credit Risk
19 19 (0.98%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.09%) Windows
2 57 (2.94%) Linux
3 31 (1.60%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.24%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.93%) VMS
7 15 (0.77%) Unix
8 14 (0.72%) Android
9 13 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.26%) VxWorks
11 4 (0.21%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.15%) Solaris
13 2 (0.10%) AIX
13 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (25.45%) Agile
2 444 (22.92%) AI
3 406 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
4 324 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 288 (14.87%) Mentoring
6 282 (14.56%) Decision-Making
7 246 (12.70%) CI/CD
8 233 (12.03%) DevOps
9 223 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 218 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
11 167 (8.62%) Roadmaps
12 159 (8.21%) Customer Service
13 149 (7.69%) Validation
14 144 (7.43%) Analytics
15 143 (7.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 140 (7.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 133 (6.87%) Collaborative Working
18 129 (6.66%) Software Engineering
19 125 (6.45%) Coaching
20 122 (6.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (8.67%) Python
2 129 (6.66%) SQL
3 76 (3.92%) C#
4 69 (3.56%) JavaScript
5 60 (3.10%) Java
6 50 (2.58%) PowerShell
7 39 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.65%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.55%) Bicep
10 26 (1.34%) Bash
11 22 (1.14%) C++
12 17 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.77%) Go
14 10 (0.52%) ABAP
14 10 (0.52%) Ada
14 10 (0.52%) Ruby
15 9 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.41%) PHP
17 7 (0.36%) C
17 7 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 435 (22.46%) Degree
2 370 (19.10%) Security Cleared
3 342 (17.66%) SC Cleared
4 157 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (7.12%) DBS Check
6 113 (5.83%) DV Cleared
7 82 (4.23%) HNC
8 49 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 47 (2.43%) Azure Certification
10 46 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 44 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
12 31 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.55%) PhD
14 27 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 27 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (0.93%) CISSP
16 17 (0.88%) HND
17 16 (0.83%) ACCA
17 16 (0.83%) CIMA
18 13 (0.67%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (13.53%) Accessibility
2 91 (4.70%) QA
3 81 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.36%) SLA
5 64 (3.30%) GDPR
6 50 (2.58%) WCAG
7 37 (1.91%) NIST
8 36 (1.86%) GRC
9 32 (1.65%) NCSC
10 29 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 21 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.26%) GAAP
15 5 (0.26%) IFRS
15 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.21%) DO-160
16 4 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (4.13%) Docker
2 77 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.07%) Firmware
4 25 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.62%) vSphere
7 8 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.26%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.052%) IAG
10 1 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (1.14%) Grafana
4 17 (0.88%) SCCM
5 12 (0.62%) Ansible
6 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.36%) WSUS
8 6 (0.31%) Kibana
9 4 (0.21%) Argo
9 4 (0.21%) Autotask
10 3 (0.15%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.10%) Puppet
11 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.052%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.052%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.052%) QRadar
12 1 (0.052%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.052%) VxRail
Vendors
1 341 (17.60%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.34%) Google
3 81 (4.18%) SAP
4 62 (3.20%) Adobe
5 52 (2.68%) Apple
6 49 (2.53%) Workday
7 36 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 35 (1.81%) Cisco
9 33 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.70%) VMware
10 28 (1.45%) Dynatrace
11 26 (1.34%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (1.14%) Facebook
13 22 (1.14%) Tenable
14 20 (1.03%) Instagram
14 20 (1.03%) Oracle
15 14 (0.72%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.72%) Splunk
16 13 (0.67%) Databricks