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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,226 2,613 2,649
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 7.59% 5.28%
As % of the General category 5.77% 11.55% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 911 482 495
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £28,847
25th Percentile £35,250 £29,313 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,241 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%

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 38,573 22,627 27,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.38% 65.76% 54.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,935 11,194 11,998
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,085 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -13.83% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,825 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,560
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.79% -4.07%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -46 599 £48,750 +2.63% 402
South East -14 473 £56,000 +1.82% 242
Midlands -29 376 £46,000 -3.16% 158
North West -49 344 £42,000 -10.14% 227
South West -14 270 £40,000 +31.15% 141
East of England +13 210 £38,000 -33.33% 110
West Midlands -35 192 £59,250 +7.73% 116
East Midlands +2 183 £43,353 +33.39% 42
North East +14 144 £66,000 +168.62% 72
Scotland -20 143 £35,000 +16.67% 240
Wales +4 113 £53,500 -2.73% 39
Yorkshire +15 111 £46,053 -45.82% 103
Northern Ireland -49 49 £74,742 -1.69% 65
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 46 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.71%) CMS
4 29 (1.30%) Confluence
5 21 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.72%) Apache
8 10 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.27%) WordPress
10 5 (0.22%) Moodle
11 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.090%) Totara
13 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.045%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 120 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
2 115 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.94%) Maple
5 18 (0.81%) Simulink
6 17 (0.76%) Revit
7 15 (0.67%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.54%) Notion
10 10 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
10 10 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
10 10 (0.45%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.36%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.36%) InDesign
12 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.31%) Sketch
14 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.18%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 26 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.67%) Cloudability
3 15 (0.67%) SAP EHS
3 15 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.49%) Primavera
6 9 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
8 4 (0.18%) Shopify
9 3 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.13%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.13%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.13%) SAP R/3
10 2 (0.090%) Academy Housing
10 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 332 (14.91%) Azure
2 258 (11.59%) AWS
3 122 (5.48%) GCP
4 112 (5.03%) SaaS
5 108 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 100 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (2.70%) GitHub
9 56 (2.52%) Serverless
10 47 (2.11%) Entra ID
11 39 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
12 36 (1.62%) dbt
13 33 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 31 (1.39%) PaaS
15 30 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (1.30%) Figma
16 29 (1.30%) IaaS
17 27 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (1.03%) Amazon S3
18 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.75%) Internet
2 36 (1.62%) Firewall
3 35 (1.57%) Ethernet
4 33 (1.48%) Modbus
5 28 (1.26%) 5G
6 27 (1.21%) Network Security
6 27 (1.21%) Profibus
7 26 (1.17%) VPN
8 23 (1.03%) DNS
8 23 (1.03%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.58%) DHCP
9 13 (0.58%) LAN
10 12 (0.54%) SAN
11 11 (0.49%) SSL
12 10 (0.45%) VLAN
12 10 (0.45%) WAN
13 9 (0.40%) HTTP
14 6 (0.27%) Wireless
15 4 (0.18%) Broadband
15 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (3.73%) Power BI
2 45 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.89%) Tableau
4 25 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 23 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.94%) GIS
8 20 (0.90%) MySQL
9 19 (0.85%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.81%) NoSQL
11 17 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.76%) Metadata
12 16 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (0.67%) Big Data
13 15 (0.67%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (0.45%) Power Query
16 9 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
16 9 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 109 (4.90%) Git
2 57 (2.56%) JIRA
3 49 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.53%) GitLab
5 20 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (0.63%) LabVIEW
7 13 (0.58%) Gatling
8 11 (0.49%) fastlane
8 11 (0.49%) JMeter
8 11 (0.49%) Snyk
9 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.40%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.36%) MSI
12 7 (0.31%) Moq
13 6 (0.27%) Xcode
14 5 (0.22%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.22%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.22%) Gradle
14 5 (0.22%) JUnit
15 4 (0.18%) Claude Code
General
1 950 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 650 (29.20%) Finance
3 337 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 305 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 294 (13.21%) Marketing
6 177 (7.95%) Law
7 152 (6.83%) Aerospace
8 144 (6.47%) Organisational Skills
9 140 (6.29%) Retail
10 114 (5.12%) Legal
11 100 (4.49%) Manufacturing
12 83 (3.73%) Local Government
13 78 (3.50%) Electronics
13 78 (3.50%) Telecoms
14 73 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
15 65 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
16 48 (2.16%) Banking
17 29 (1.30%) Military
18 27 (1.21%) Financial Institution
19 26 (1.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 377 (16.94%) Senior
2 236 (10.60%) Lead
3 163 (7.32%) Analyst
4 149 (6.69%) Architect
5 135 (6.06%) Sales Executive
6 119 (5.35%) Developer
7 98 (4.40%) Consultant
8 70 (3.14%) Account Executive
9 60 (2.70%) Project Engineer
10 55 (2.47%) Software Engineer
11 51 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
11 51 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
12 49 (2.20%) Design Engineer
13 48 (2.16%) Electrical Engineer
14 44 (1.98%) Business Analyst
15 37 (1.66%) Designer
15 37 (1.66%) Sales Account Executive
15 37 (1.66%) Technical Architect
16 36 (1.62%) Project Manager
16 36 (1.62%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (3.95%) Terraform
2 68 (3.05%) CSS
3 55 (2.47%) .NET
4 51 (2.29%) HTML
5 47 (2.11%) RESTful
6 44 (1.98%) REST
7 38 (1.71%) XML
8 35 (1.57%) React
9 33 (1.48%) EDI
10 32 (1.44%) Node.js
11 29 (1.30%) Spring
12 27 (1.21%) .NET Core
13 26 (1.17%) Middleware
13 26 (1.17%) Spring Boot
14 24 (1.08%) Kafka
15 22 (0.99%) .NET Framework
16 19 (0.85%) AngularJS
16 19 (0.85%) LangChain
17 18 (0.81%) Entity Framework
17 18 (0.81%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 266 (11.95%) Onboarding
2 229 (10.29%) Driving Licence
3 135 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 107 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 97 (4.36%) Cloud Native
6 94 (4.22%) Product Ownership
7 70 (3.14%) Marketing Technology
8 68 (3.05%) Social Media
9 54 (2.43%) SCADA
10 53 (2.38%) Data Centre
11 46 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.44%) Algorithms
13 31 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
14 28 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
15 27 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
17 23 (1.03%) FPGA
18 22 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
19 21 (0.94%) Data Structures
19 21 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 127 (5.71%) Windows
2 60 (2.70%) Linux
3 27 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.90%) VMS
6 17 (0.76%) Android
7 15 (0.67%) macOS
8 13 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.54%) Unix
10 5 (0.22%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
12 2 (0.090%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.045%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (25.56%) AI
2 537 (24.12%) Agile
3 460 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
4 423 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 316 (14.20%) Decision-Making
6 315 (14.15%) Mentoring
7 280 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 243 (10.92%) CI/CD
9 234 (10.51%) DevOps
10 209 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
11 206 (9.25%) Analytics
12 197 (8.85%) Roadmaps
13 195 (8.76%) Customer Service
14 190 (8.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 181 (8.13%) Validation
16 173 (7.77%) Coaching
17 170 (7.64%) Collaborative Working
18 161 (7.23%) CRM
19 156 (7.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 137 (6.15%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 184 (8.27%) Python
2 146 (6.56%) SQL
3 92 (4.13%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.37%) C#
5 69 (3.10%) Java
6 49 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 41 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.39%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.35%) Bicep
10 25 (1.12%) Bash
11 23 (1.03%) C++
12 17 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (0.67%) Go
14 11 (0.49%) Ruby
15 10 (0.45%) ABAP
15 10 (0.45%) Ada
15 10 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.40%) PHP
17 8 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 532 (23.90%) Degree
2 419 (18.82%) Security Cleared
3 367 (16.49%) SC Cleared
4 189 (8.49%) DBS Check
5 166 (7.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 147 (6.60%) HNC
7 122 (5.48%) DV Cleared
8 107 (4.81%) Master's Degree
9 54 (2.43%) Azure Certification
10 52 (2.34%) Chartered Engineer
11 49 (2.20%) AWS Certification
12 36 (1.62%) HND
13 34 (1.53%) PhD
14 28 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.72%) Postgraduate
18 15 (0.67%) CISSP
19 13 (0.58%) ACCA
19 13 (0.58%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (13.07%) Accessibility
2 116 (5.21%) QA
3 96 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 69 (3.10%) GDPR
5 67 (3.01%) SLA
6 53 (2.38%) WCAG
7 36 (1.62%) NCSC
8 29 (1.30%) GRC
8 29 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (0.90%) NIST
10 14 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.27%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
15 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (4.00%) Docker
2 75 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.84%) Firmware
4 21 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.54%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.13%) NFS
10 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.090%) IAG
12 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.30%) Grafana
3 26 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.63%) Ansible
5 14 (0.63%) SCCM
6 9 (0.40%) Kibana
7 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 4 (0.18%) Autotask
8 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.13%) WSUS
9 2 (0.090%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.090%) Puppet
10 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.045%) Nessus
10 1 (0.045%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.045%) QRadar
10 1 (0.045%) SCOM
10 1 (0.045%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 390 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.31%) Samsung
3 95 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 94 (4.22%) TikTok
5 93 (4.18%) SAP
6 81 (3.64%) Adobe
7 72 (3.23%) Google
8 47 (2.11%) Workday
9 38 (1.71%) Apple
10 37 (1.66%) Cisco
11 31 (1.39%) Dynatrace
12 29 (1.30%) Facebook
13 26 (1.17%) Instagram
13 26 (1.17%) ServiceNow
14 25 (1.12%) Oracle
15 23 (1.03%) VMware
16 17 (0.76%) Botify
17 15 (0.67%) Databricks
17 15 (0.67%) Dell
17 15 (0.67%) Palo Alto