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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 29 24
Rank change year-on-year +19 -5 +15
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,020 1,753 4,749
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 9.11% 6.68% 7.74%
As % of the General category 18.05% 9.80% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 552 468 1,207
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,750 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62,625 £66,050 £62,100
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -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 27,806 17,881 36,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.48% 68.11% 59.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,594 9,129 25,225
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,045
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,995 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 24 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 24 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 +59 1,943 £35,009 -26.30% 129
North West +49 1,685 £35,000 -25.53% 62
Midlands +37 1,474 £50,000 -4.76% 72
West Midlands +44 1,280 £58,375 +1.52% 38
South East +11 861 £45,000 - 231
East of England +4 433 £40,339 -25.30% 50
Yorkshire +37 242 £26,525 -39.37% 53
East Midlands +1 206 £37,500 -11.24% 34
South West -45 151 £34,500 -31.00% 68
Scotland -27 94 £52,500 -4.55% 47
Wales +9 61 £57,515 +14.75% 18
North East -21 16 £60,000 -13.43% 15
Northern Ireland -40 12 £40,000 -42.29% 5
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 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 12 (0.24%) Confluence
2 12 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.060%) Apache
4 3 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.040%) CMS
5 2 (0.040%) WordPress
6 1 (0.020%) Drupal
6 1 (0.020%) IIS
6 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 60 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.74%) Acrobat
4 34 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.100%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) MS Visio
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 5 (0.100%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.080%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
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%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (72.79%) Cloud Computing
2 146 (2.91%) Azure
3 97 (1.93%) AWS
4 66 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (1.08%) Power Platform
6 42 (0.84%) GCP
7 36 (0.72%) Entra ID
7 36 (0.72%) SaaS
8 15 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (0.26%) OneDrive
10 12 (0.24%) Asana
11 11 (0.22%) PaaS
11 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
12 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (0.18%) GitHub
14 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (0.16%) Figma
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (72.83%) Internet
2 71 (1.41%) Broadband
3 25 (0.50%) Firewall
3 25 (0.50%) VPN
4 23 (0.46%) DNS
4 23 (0.46%) LAN
5 21 (0.42%) DHCP
6 16 (0.32%) WAN
6 16 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (0.30%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.16%) 4G
8 8 (0.16%) VLAN
9 7 (0.14%) MPLS
9 7 (0.14%) Network Security
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.86%) Power BI
2 16 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 11 (0.22%) GIS
5 9 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.16%) Metadata
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.16%) Tableau
7 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.100%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.100%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.100%) Redis
9 4 (0.080%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.080%) Looker
9 4 (0.080%) MySQL
10 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.040%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (0.86%) Jenkins
2 41 (0.82%) GitLab
2 41 (0.82%) SonarQube
3 26 (0.52%) JIRA
4 17 (0.34%) Git
5 5 (0.100%) Axure RP
5 5 (0.100%) Balsamiq
5 5 (0.100%) Postman
6 4 (0.080%) JUnit
7 3 (0.060%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.060%) fastlane
7 3 (0.060%) JMeter
7 3 (0.060%) Locust
7 3 (0.060%) Mockito
8 2 (0.040%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
8 2 (0.040%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.040%) Selenium
8 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.040%) WebDriver
General
1 3,988 (79.44%) Social Skills
2 3,666 (73.03%) Banking
3 473 (9.42%) Finance
4 136 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (2.71%) Public Sector
5 128 (2.55%) Marketing
5 128 (2.55%) Retail
6 98 (1.95%) Law
7 59 (1.18%) Games
8 56 (1.12%) Legal
9 43 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (0.48%) Telecoms
12 23 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 20 (0.40%) Local Government
14 18 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.22%) Electronics
17 10 (0.20%) Documentation Skills
18 9 (0.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,811 (56.00%) Lecturer
2 199 (3.96%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.88%) Facilities Engineer
4 163 (3.25%) Senior
5 120 (2.39%) Analyst
6 84 (1.67%) Architect
7 75 (1.49%) Project Manager
8 58 (1.16%) Lead
9 55 (1.10%) Project Engineer
10 47 (0.94%) Senior Manager
11 45 (0.90%) Business Analyst
12 39 (0.78%) Salesforce Architect
13 36 (0.72%) Account Executive
14 35 (0.70%) Developer
15 34 (0.68%) Sales Manager
16 33 (0.66%) Account Manager
16 33 (0.66%) Consultant
17 31 (0.62%) Alliance Manager
18 28 (0.56%) Mechanical Engineer
18 28 (0.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.18%) REST
2 49 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
2 49 (0.98%) SOAP
2 49 (0.98%) Visualforce
3 25 (0.50%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) .NET
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
4 15 (0.30%) Web Services
5 14 (0.28%) Android SDK
6 13 (0.26%) GraphQL
7 11 (0.22%) Django
8 8 (0.16%) CSS
8 8 (0.16%) HTML
8 8 (0.16%) Middleware
8 8 (0.16%) React
8 8 (0.16%) RESTful
9 7 (0.14%) SAML
9 7 (0.14%) Spring
10 4 (0.080%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.080%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (72.71%) IoT
2 119 (2.37%) Onboarding
3 76 (1.51%) Blog
3 76 (1.51%) Product Ownership
4 71 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 49 (0.98%) Management Information System
6 45 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (0.66%) Social Media
8 32 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (0.58%) Mobile App
10 20 (0.40%) Cloud Native
11 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
12 13 (0.26%) Cyberattack
13 12 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (0.24%) Life Science
13 12 (0.24%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
15 9 (0.18%) Security Operations Centre
16 8 (0.16%) CSOC
16 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 45 (0.90%) Windows
2 30 (0.60%) Linux
3 18 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.34%) Android
5 16 (0.32%) Unix
6 6 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.100%) Debian
7 5 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.080%) VMS
9 3 (0.060%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.020%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,896 (77.61%) AI
2 3,763 (74.96%) Cybersecurity
3 3,678 (73.27%) User Experience
4 3,664 (72.99%) Machine Learning
5 3,656 (72.83%) Web Development
6 300 (5.98%) Mentoring
7 228 (4.54%) Agile
8 197 (3.92%) Inventory Management
9 195 (3.88%) Preventative Maintenance
10 193 (3.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 181 (3.61%) Problem-Solving
12 141 (2.81%) Customer Service
13 120 (2.39%) DevOps
14 114 (2.27%) Coaching
15 108 (2.15%) B2B
15 108 (2.15%) CI/CD
16 106 (2.11%) Analytics
17 95 (1.89%) Project Management
18 93 (1.85%) Decision-Making
19 87 (1.73%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 53 (1.06%) Python
2 50 (1.00%) SQL
3 49 (0.98%) Apex Code
4 42 (0.84%) Java
5 41 (0.82%) SOQL
5 41 (0.82%) SOSL
6 21 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.28%) Kotlin
8 13 (0.26%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.100%) C#
10 4 (0.080%) PHP
11 3 (0.060%) Bash
11 3 (0.060%) VB
12 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.040%) Go
12 2 (0.040%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.020%) R
13 1 (0.020%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,929 (78.27%) Degree
2 3,847 (76.63%) Postgraduate
3 3,654 (72.79%) PhD
4 3,653 (72.77%) Master's Degree
5 200 (3.98%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.88%) NVQ Level 3
7 105 (2.09%) Security Cleared
8 88 (1.75%) SC Cleared
9 30 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 27 (0.54%) PMP
12 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.46%) HNC
14 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.34%) HND
16 16 (0.32%) CISSP
17 13 (0.26%) CISM
18 12 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
19 10 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.88%) COSHH
2 54 (1.08%) QA
3 43 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (0.70%) NIST
5 30 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 28 (0.56%) Accessibility
7 22 (0.44%) GDPR
8 21 (0.42%) SLA
9 15 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.26%) PMO
10 13 (0.26%) WCAG
11 10 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.18%) COBIT
13 8 (0.16%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.16%) GRC
14 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.100%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.080%) NCSC
17 3 (0.060%) EU AI Act
18 2 (0.040%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 47 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.30%) Docker
3 11 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.12%) vSphere
5 4 (0.080%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 35 (0.70%) Terraform
2 29 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.32%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.12%) Argo
6 5 (0.100%) Autotask
6 5 (0.100%) Grafana
7 4 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.080%) AWS Copilot
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
8 3 (0.060%) SCCM
9 2 (0.040%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.040%) Nessus
9 2 (0.040%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 255 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 116 (2.31%) Salesforce
3 79 (1.57%) Adobe
4 72 (1.43%) Cisco
5 49 (0.98%) Splunk
6 39 (0.78%) Google
7 31 (0.62%) Apple
8 23 (0.46%) NEC
9 15 (0.30%) SAP
10 14 (0.28%) VMware
11 13 (0.26%) Oracle
12 12 (0.24%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.22%) Databricks
13 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.22%) Instagram
13 11 (0.22%) Pega
13 11 (0.22%) Workday
13 11 (0.22%) Wrike
14 10 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (0.20%) Fortinet