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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -62 +11 +44
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,368 3,076 5,488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.01% 10.14% 6.93%
As % of the General category 4.50% 14.32% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 687 476 1,316
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -24.40%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,875 £71,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 30,416 21,482 43,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.58% 70.79% 54.36%
Number of salaries quoted 18,631 9,787 27,724
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,625 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -72 385 £52,500 +11.70% 118
Midlands -50 276 £44,543 -15.16% 80
North West -56 235 £47,000 - 71
South East -77 232 £47,500 +18.75% 167
South West -34 186 £57,500 +27.78% 65
West Midlands -31 173 £58,375 +1.58% 41
East of England -48 113 £40,000 -26.27% 48
East Midlands -46 103 £35,000 +12.90% 39
Scotland -36 90 £47,500 -5.00% 36
Yorkshire -17 89 £52,445 -38.30% 33
Wales 0 81 £54,000 -9.78% 22
North East -17 61 £57,500 +134.03% 14
Northern Ireland -34 15 £40,000 -47.43% 28
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 35 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.61%) Confluence
4 12 (0.88%) Apache
5 10 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.37%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) Moodle
8 2 (0.15%) Totara
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.073%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 62 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.70%) Acrobat
4 14 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.58%) InDesign
6 8 (0.58%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.22%) Sketch
8 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.15%) InVision
9 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.15%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.073%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.75%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.073%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.073%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 237 (17.32%) Azure
2 135 (9.87%) AWS
3 89 (6.51%) GCP
4 83 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 70 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (2.70%) Serverless
8 34 (2.49%) Entra ID
9 31 (2.27%) GitHub
10 26 (1.90%) SaaS
11 25 (1.83%) PaaS
12 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
13 22 (1.61%) Figma
14 20 (1.46%) IaaS
15 16 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.02%) Asana
16 14 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (0.95%) Firebase
17 13 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.61%) Broadband
2 43 (3.14%) Firewall
3 29 (2.12%) VPN
4 21 (1.54%) DNS
5 20 (1.46%) DHCP
5 20 (1.46%) Network Security
5 20 (1.46%) WAN
6 19 (1.39%) LAN
7 18 (1.32%) Internet
8 17 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.51%) VLAN
10 7 (0.51%) Wireless
11 6 (0.44%) 4G
12 5 (0.37%) MPLS
12 5 (0.37%) SAN
13 4 (0.29%) BGP
13 4 (0.29%) SMTP
13 4 (0.29%) SSL
13 4 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.97%) Power BI
2 25 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.46%) Tableau
4 16 (1.17%) GIS
5 15 (1.10%) Metadata
5 15 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.02%) MySQL
7 13 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
8 12 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 10 (0.73%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.66%) Looker
12 8 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.51%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (4.02%) Jenkins
2 45 (3.29%) GitLab
3 40 (2.92%) JIRA
4 37 (2.70%) Git
5 34 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.61%) Snyk
7 14 (1.02%) fastlane
8 10 (0.73%) Postman
9 8 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.58%) Xcode
10 7 (0.51%) Moq
11 6 (0.44%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.44%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.44%) Gradle
11 6 (0.44%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.29%) Gatling
13 4 (0.29%) LabVIEW
13 4 (0.29%) Locust
14 3 (0.22%) MSI
General
1 466 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.91%) Finance
3 177 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 169 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (9.36%) Marketing
6 103 (7.53%) Law
7 98 (7.16%) Legal
8 94 (6.87%) Retail
9 67 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (4.02%) Games
11 49 (3.58%) Local Government
12 31 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.54%) Banking
15 16 (1.17%) Electronics
15 16 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.95%) Automotive
16 13 (0.95%) Aviation
16 13 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 276 (20.18%) Senior
2 184 (13.45%) Analyst
3 125 (9.14%) Architect
4 68 (4.97%) Lead
5 61 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
6 59 (4.31%) Developer
7 58 (4.24%) Sales Executive
8 57 (4.17%) Business Analyst
9 52 (3.80%) IT Engineer
10 38 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (2.70%) Account Executive
11 37 (2.70%) Project Manager
12 33 (2.41%) Salesforce Architect
12 33 (2.41%) Senior Architect
13 31 (2.27%) IT Manager
13 31 (2.27%) IT Support
14 27 (1.97%) Cloud Architect
15 26 (1.90%) Business Manager
15 26 (1.90%) Consultant
16 25 (1.83%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.87%) REST
2 39 (2.85%) SOAP
3 37 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 37 (2.70%) Visualforce
4 26 (1.90%) RESTful
5 22 (1.61%) .NET
5 22 (1.61%) CSS
5 22 (1.61%) HTML
6 19 (1.39%) Android SDK
6 19 (1.39%) EDI
7 15 (1.10%) Node.js
8 13 (0.95%) GraphQL
9 12 (0.88%) XML
10 11 (0.80%) React
11 10 (0.73%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.66%) Web Services
13 8 (0.58%) Entity Framework
14 7 (0.51%) iOS SDK
14 7 (0.51%) Spring Boot
14 7 (0.51%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 112 (8.19%) Onboarding
2 109 (7.97%) Product Ownership
3 93 (6.80%) Driving Licence
4 79 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.44%) Cyberattack
6 47 (3.44%) Social Media
7 44 (3.22%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.92%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.32%) Credit Risk
12 17 (1.24%) CSOC
12 17 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.95%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.88%) Graphic Design
17 11 (0.80%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 85 (6.21%) Windows
2 43 (3.14%) Linux
3 35 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.68%) Android
5 19 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.10%) Unix
7 14 (1.02%) VMS
8 13 (0.95%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) Debian
11 4 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (22.00%) Agile
2 290 (21.20%) AI
3 228 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 200 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 188 (13.74%) CI/CD
6 176 (12.87%) Decision-Making
7 174 (12.72%) DevOps
8 166 (12.13%) Mentoring
9 154 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
10 134 (9.80%) Roadmaps
11 132 (9.65%) Analytics
12 122 (8.92%) Customer Service
13 115 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 107 (7.82%) Scrum
15 99 (7.24%) Coaching
16 88 (6.43%) B2B
17 85 (6.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 83 (6.07%) CRM
19 81 (5.92%) Technology Strategy
20 77 (5.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.33%) SQL
2 110 (8.04%) Python
3 50 (3.65%) Java
4 43 (3.14%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.70%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.49%) SOQL
6 34 (2.49%) SOSL
7 30 (2.19%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.75%) C#
9 22 (1.61%) Bash
9 22 (1.61%) Bicep
10 19 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 19 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.51%) C++
12 7 (0.51%) Swift
12 7 (0.51%) XAML
13 6 (0.44%) PHP
14 4 (0.29%) Go
14 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 272 (19.88%) Degree
2 151 (11.04%) Security Cleared
3 133 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.56%) DBS Check
5 33 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 25 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.46%) HNC
11 15 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (1.02%) Chartered Engineer
13 13 (0.95%) CISSP
14 12 (0.88%) Postgraduate
15 11 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.80%) SANS
16 10 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.73%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.80%) SLA
4 51 (3.73%) GDPR
5 39 (2.85%) NIST
5 39 (2.85%) QA
6 36 (2.63%) GRC
7 35 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (2.27%) WCAG
9 24 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.73%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) COBIT
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 4 (0.29%) IFRS
15 3 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 71 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 49 (3.58%) Docker
3 26 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.17%) vSphere
6 12 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.073%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (4.46%) Terraform
2 33 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.66%) Autotask
5 8 (0.58%) Grafana
5 8 (0.58%) SCCM
5 8 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.29%) Ansible
6 4 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.29%) WSUS
7 3 (0.22%) Argo
7 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) CASB
8 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 278 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.94%) Adobe
3 82 (5.99%) Salesforce
4 59 (4.31%) Google
5 56 (4.09%) Cisco
6 43 (3.14%) Apple
7 36 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.63%) Splunk
8 32 (2.34%) Palo Alto
9 30 (2.19%) VMware
10 29 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
11 23 (1.68%) Tenable
12 14 (1.02%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.02%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.02%) Instagram
13 13 (0.95%) SAP
14 11 (0.80%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.80%) Pega
14 11 (0.80%) Workday
14 11 (0.80%) Wrike