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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -54 +1 +45
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,600 2,776 4,204
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.13% 8.08% 7.01%
As % of the General category 4.80% 12.08% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 802 484 910
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,425
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,000 £35,673
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -15.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £80,000 £73,299
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,046
% change year-on-year - +3.68% -18.39%

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 33,356 22,983 32,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.48% 66.88% 53.75%
Number of salaries quoted 20,537 11,287 18,686
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,070
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.29% -6.53%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -67 429 £55,000 +17.02% 223
South East -52 297 £55,000 +26.44% 283
Midlands -49 265 £45,000 -10.00% 126
North West -66 239 £42,000 -8.70% 142
South West -24 225 £57,500 +35.29% 157
West Midlands -41 165 £59,764 +8.66% 75
Scotland -17 133 £52,500 +23.53% 93
East of England -15 127 £40,000 -29.82% 58
East Midlands -45 99 £40,000 +23.08% 50
Wales -6 98 £55,159 +0.29% 32
North East +4 96 £60,000 +144.20% 29
Yorkshire 0 94 £52,445 -30.07% 52
Northern Ireland -49 35 £56,901 -25.22% 59
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 42 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (1.88%) Confluence
2 30 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.94%) Apache
3 15 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.56%) CMS
7 5 (0.31%) WordPress
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.13%) Moodle
9 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.13%) Totara
10 1 (0.063%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.063%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 78 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.31%) Acrobat
4 15 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.63%) Simulink
6 9 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.50%) InDesign
7 8 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.38%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.38%) Sketch
9 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Mathcad
9 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Maple
10 2 (0.13%) Revit
10 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.63%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.25%) Primavera
5 4 (0.25%) SAP EHS
5 4 (0.25%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.19%) Shopify
6 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.063%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.063%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.063%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 285 (17.81%) Azure
2 198 (12.38%) AWS
3 123 (7.69%) GCP
4 89 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 83 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (2.81%) GitHub
7 45 (2.81%) Serverless
8 35 (2.19%) dbt
9 32 (2.00%) SaaS
10 29 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 28 (1.75%) PaaS
12 27 (1.69%) Figma
13 23 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 22 (1.38%) IaaS
15 21 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
16 19 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (0.94%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.88%) Broadband
2 40 (2.50%) Firewall
3 26 (1.63%) VPN
4 23 (1.44%) Network Security
5 21 (1.31%) LAN
6 20 (1.25%) DNS
7 19 (1.19%) TCP/IP
7 19 (1.19%) WAN
8 18 (1.13%) Internet
9 17 (1.06%) DHCP
10 12 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.63%) Wireless
12 9 (0.56%) SAN
12 9 (0.56%) VLAN
13 7 (0.44%) SSL
14 3 (0.19%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.19%) Intranet
14 3 (0.19%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.19%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.63%) Power BI
2 33 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 32 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.50%) Tableau
5 21 (1.31%) Metadata
6 18 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (1.00%) MySQL
9 15 (0.94%) GIS
10 14 (0.88%) NoSQL
11 13 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 13 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
12 11 (0.69%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.63%) Looker
14 9 (0.56%) Redis
15 8 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 61 (3.81%) Git
3 52 (3.25%) JIRA
4 47 (2.94%) GitLab
5 26 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.38%) Snyk
7 14 (0.88%) fastlane
8 13 (0.81%) LabVIEW
9 12 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.63%) Postman
11 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.50%) JMeter
11 8 (0.50%) Xcode
12 7 (0.44%) Moq
12 7 (0.44%) MSI
13 6 (0.38%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.38%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.38%) Gatling
13 6 (0.38%) Gradle
General
1 615 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 386 (24.13%) Finance
3 226 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 224 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 145 (9.06%) Marketing
6 125 (7.81%) Law
7 102 (6.38%) Legal
8 86 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
9 80 (5.00%) Retail
10 76 (4.75%) Aerospace
11 61 (3.81%) Local Government
12 51 (3.19%) Manufacturing
13 48 (3.00%) Games
14 36 (2.25%) Electronics
14 36 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (2.06%) Banking
16 26 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.38%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.00%) Automotive
18 16 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 338 (21.13%) Senior
2 187 (11.69%) Analyst
3 179 (11.19%) Architect
4 139 (8.69%) Lead
5 88 (5.50%) Developer
6 73 (4.56%) Sales Executive
7 63 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
8 56 (3.50%) Business Analyst
9 50 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
10 49 (3.06%) Consultant
11 48 (3.00%) IT Engineer
12 44 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
13 40 (2.50%) Technical Architect
14 38 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
14 38 (2.38%) Senior Architect
15 37 (2.31%) Software Engineer
16 32 (2.00%) Account Executive
17 29 (1.81%) IT Manager
17 29 (1.81%) IT Support
17 29 (1.81%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.25%) REST
2 44 (2.75%) .NET
3 41 (2.56%) CSS
4 39 (2.44%) HTML
5 38 (2.38%) RESTful
6 29 (1.81%) SOAP
7 27 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
7 27 (1.69%) Node.js
7 27 (1.69%) Visualforce
8 26 (1.63%) React
9 20 (1.25%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.25%) EDI
10 19 (1.19%) .NET Framework
10 19 (1.19%) Android SDK
10 19 (1.19%) XML
11 16 (1.00%) Spring
12 15 (0.94%) Entity Framework
13 14 (0.88%) GraphQL
13 14 (0.88%) Spring Boot
14 13 (0.81%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 120 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 117 (7.31%) Driving Licence
3 106 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 100 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 72 (4.50%) Cloud Native
6 65 (4.06%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.88%) Social Media
9 44 (2.75%) Cyberattack
10 35 (2.19%) Mobile App
11 26 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.44%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.31%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.19%) Credit Risk
16 18 (1.13%) CSOC
16 18 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
17 15 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.13%) Windows
2 50 (3.13%) Linux
3 29 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.56%) Android
5 21 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.25%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.06%) Unix
8 13 (0.81%) VMS
9 9 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.19%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.13%) Solaris
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.063%) AIX
13 1 (0.063%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (26.56%) Agile
2 371 (23.19%) AI
3 302 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
4 248 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 244 (15.25%) CI/CD
6 231 (14.44%) Decision-Making
7 221 (13.81%) Mentoring
8 217 (13.56%) DevOps
9 189 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
10 152 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 150 (9.38%) Roadmaps
12 135 (8.44%) Analytics
13 120 (7.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 119 (7.44%) Scrum
15 118 (7.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 118 (7.38%) Validation
16 114 (7.13%) Customer Service
17 99 (6.19%) Coaching
18 97 (6.06%) Technology Strategy
19 96 (6.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 154 (9.63%) Python
2 127 (7.94%) SQL
3 63 (3.94%) Java
4 52 (3.25%) JavaScript
5 47 (2.94%) C#
5 47 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 33 (2.06%) TypeScript
7 29 (1.81%) Bicep
8 27 (1.69%) Apex Code
9 26 (1.63%) Bash
9 26 (1.63%) SOQL
9 26 (1.63%) SOSL
10 21 (1.31%) MATLAB
11 20 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.00%) C++
14 14 (0.88%) Go
15 10 (0.63%) PHP
16 7 (0.44%) Swift
16 7 (0.44%) XAML
Qualifications
1 340 (21.25%) Degree
2 284 (17.75%) Security Cleared
3 263 (16.44%) SC Cleared
4 91 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (5.13%) DBS Check
6 63 (3.94%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 35 (2.19%) Azure Certification
9 33 (2.06%) HNC
10 30 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 28 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 27 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (1.63%) PhD
14 24 (1.50%) Chartered Engineer
15 14 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.81%) CISSP
16 13 (0.81%) Postgraduate
17 12 (0.75%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (9.56%) Accessibility
2 71 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.81%) SLA
4 51 (3.19%) GDPR
4 51 (3.19%) QA
5 43 (2.69%) WCAG
6 37 (2.31%) NIST
7 36 (2.25%) GRC
8 28 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.38%) NCSC
10 21 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.25%) GAAP
13 4 (0.25%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) ARP4761
14 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (4.94%) Docker
2 73 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.38%) Firmware
5 13 (0.81%) vSphere
6 12 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) IAG
10 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (5.25%) Terraform
2 58 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.13%) Grafana
5 16 (1.00%) SCCM
6 9 (0.56%) Ansible
6 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.38%) Autotask
7 6 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.38%) WSUS
8 4 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.19%) Argo
9 3 (0.19%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.13%) Kibana
10 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.063%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.063%) CASB
11 1 (0.063%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.063%) QRadar
Vendors
1 292 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.00%) Google
3 76 (4.75%) Adobe
4 51 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.75%) Apple
6 38 (2.38%) Cisco
6 38 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.88%) SAP
7 30 (1.88%) VMware
8 29 (1.81%) Splunk
9 28 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.69%) Workday
11 26 (1.63%) CrowdStrike
12 22 (1.38%) Tenable
13 21 (1.31%) Dynatrace
14 17 (1.06%) Instagram
15 14 (0.88%) Oracle
16 13 (0.81%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.75%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.69%) Pega