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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -42 +17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,173 2,802 2,597
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.52% 8.07% 5.01%
As % of the General category 5.71% 12.28% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 903 484 537
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £28,745
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.49% -7.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,241 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -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 38,049 22,820 28,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.14% 65.72% 54.17%
Number of salaries quoted 23,606 11,073 12,556
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,087
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 8 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 8 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 -49 588 £48,750 +4.31% 660
South East -31 454 £56,000 +1.82% 500
Midlands -32 371 £45,000 -5.26% 309
North West -50 337 £42,000 -8.64% 376
South West -20 262 £42,000 +23.53% 270
East of England +6 205 £37,750 -31.67% 228
West Midlands -34 195 £58,375 +6.14% 203
East Midlands -6 175 £40,629 +25.01% 106
North East +19 142 £65,500 +166.59% 105
Scotland -20 142 £35,000 +16.67% 433
Yorkshire +11 109 £37,977 -55.32% 179
Wales +1 109 £54,000 -1.82% 75
Northern Ireland -46 49 £74,742 -3.21% 121
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 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.79%) CMS
4 27 (1.24%) Confluence
5 20 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.69%) Apache
8 10 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.28%) WordPress
10 5 (0.23%) Moodle
11 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.092%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.092%) Totara
13 1 (0.046%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.046%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.046%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 120 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 117 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.87%) Maple
5 17 (0.78%) Simulink
6 16 (0.74%) Revit
7 13 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.55%) AutoCAD
9 10 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.46%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
11 8 (0.37%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.37%) InDesign
12 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
12 7 (0.32%) Sketch
13 6 (0.28%) Notion
14 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.18%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 25 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.87%) Cloudability
4 14 (0.64%) SAP EHS
4 14 (0.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 12 (0.55%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.51%) Primavera
7 9 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
9 4 (0.18%) Shopify
10 3 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.14%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP R/3
11 2 (0.092%) Academy Housing
11 2 (0.092%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 326 (15.00%) Azure
2 257 (11.83%) AWS
3 125 (5.75%) GCP
4 112 (5.15%) SaaS
5 107 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 98 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
8 57 (2.62%) Serverless
9 55 (2.53%) GitHub
10 42 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 38 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 33 (1.52%) dbt
13 30 (1.38%) PaaS
14 29 (1.33%) IaaS
15 28 (1.29%) Figma
15 28 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 38 (1.75%) Internet
2 36 (1.66%) Firewall
3 33 (1.52%) Ethernet
4 30 (1.38%) Modbus
5 27 (1.24%) Network Security
6 25 (1.15%) 5G
6 25 (1.15%) Profibus
7 22 (1.01%) DNS
7 22 (1.01%) VPN
8 20 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.64%) LAN
10 13 (0.60%) DHCP
11 12 (0.55%) SAN
12 11 (0.51%) WAN
13 10 (0.46%) SSL
13 10 (0.46%) VLAN
14 9 (0.41%) HTTP
15 7 (0.32%) Wireless
16 4 (0.18%) Broadband
16 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (3.73%) Power BI
2 44 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.93%) Tableau
4 24 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 19 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 19 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (0.87%) MySQL
8 17 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.78%) GIS
8 17 (0.78%) Metadata
8 17 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.69%) Big Data
9 15 (0.69%) DynamoDB
10 14 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.46%) Looker
13 9 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 105 (4.83%) Git
2 54 (2.49%) JIRA
3 48 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.47%) GitLab
5 19 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.69%) Snyk
7 14 (0.64%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.55%) Gatling
9 11 (0.51%) fastlane
9 11 (0.51%) JMeter
10 10 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.37%) MSI
13 7 (0.32%) Moq
14 6 (0.28%) Xcode
15 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.23%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.23%) Gradle
16 4 (0.18%) Claude Code
16 4 (0.18%) JUnit
General
1 935 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 633 (29.13%) Finance
3 323 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (13.25%) Marketing
5 286 (13.16%) Public Sector
6 171 (7.87%) Law
7 147 (6.76%) Aerospace
8 139 (6.40%) Retail
9 138 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
10 110 (5.06%) Legal
11 98 (4.51%) Manufacturing
12 83 (3.82%) Local Government
13 75 (3.45%) Electronics
14 73 (3.36%) Telecoms
15 72 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
16 63 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
17 46 (2.12%) Banking
18 31 (1.43%) Military
19 26 (1.20%) Financial Institution
20 24 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 371 (17.07%) Senior
2 226 (10.40%) Lead
3 170 (7.82%) Analyst
4 151 (6.95%) Architect
5 137 (6.30%) Sales Executive
6 111 (5.11%) Developer
7 92 (4.23%) Consultant
8 71 (3.27%) Account Executive
9 56 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
10 55 (2.53%) Software Engineer
11 53 (2.44%) Project Engineer
12 52 (2.39%) Systems Engineer
13 47 (2.16%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.07%) Design Engineer
14 45 (2.07%) Electrical Engineer
15 37 (1.70%) Designer
15 37 (1.70%) Sales Account Executive
16 36 (1.66%) Technical Architect
17 35 (1.61%) Project Manager
18 33 (1.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (3.82%) Terraform
2 59 (2.72%) CSS
3 55 (2.53%) .NET
4 47 (2.16%) HTML
5 46 (2.12%) RESTful
6 37 (1.70%) REST
7 35 (1.61%) React
8 34 (1.56%) Node.js
8 34 (1.56%) XML
9 33 (1.52%) EDI
10 27 (1.24%) .NET Core
11 26 (1.20%) Spring
12 23 (1.06%) Spring Boot
13 22 (1.01%) .NET Framework
14 21 (0.97%) Kafka
15 20 (0.92%) Middleware
16 19 (0.87%) LangChain
17 18 (0.83%) AngularJS
17 18 (0.83%) ASP.NET
17 18 (0.83%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 263 (12.10%) Onboarding
2 213 (9.80%) Driving Licence
3 129 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
4 107 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 93 (4.28%) Cloud Native
6 88 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 68 (3.13%) Social Media
8 63 (2.90%) Marketing Technology
9 61 (2.81%) Data Centre
10 50 (2.30%) SCADA
11 46 (2.12%) Public Cloud
12 34 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
13 26 (1.20%) Security Posture
14 25 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
15 24 (1.10%) Cyberattack
16 23 (1.06%) FPGA
17 22 (1.01%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 124 (5.71%) Windows
2 59 (2.72%) Linux
3 28 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 20 (0.92%) VMS
5 14 (0.64%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.64%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.60%) Android
7 12 (0.55%) Unix
8 5 (0.23%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.14%) AIX
9 3 (0.14%) Solaris
10 2 (0.092%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (26.09%) AI
2 507 (23.33%) Agile
3 433 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
4 399 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 304 (13.99%) Mentoring
6 300 (13.81%) Decision-Making
7 267 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 239 (11.00%) CI/CD
9 225 (10.35%) DevOps
10 218 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
11 194 (8.93%) Roadmaps
12 193 (8.88%) Analytics
13 186 (8.56%) Customer Service
14 174 (8.01%) Validation
15 171 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 166 (7.64%) Coaching
17 162 (7.46%) CRM
18 160 (7.36%) Collaborative Working
19 145 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 140 (6.44%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 178 (8.19%) Python
2 135 (6.21%) SQL
3 83 (3.82%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.45%) C#
5 65 (2.99%) Java
6 47 (2.16%) PowerShell
7 41 (1.89%) TypeScript
8 30 (1.38%) Bicep
8 30 (1.38%) MATLAB
9 25 (1.15%) Bash
10 23 (1.06%) C++
11 16 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (0.69%) Go
13 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.51%) Ruby
14 10 (0.46%) ABAP
14 10 (0.46%) Ada
15 9 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.37%) C
17 7 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 517 (23.79%) Degree
2 406 (18.68%) Security Cleared
3 357 (16.43%) SC Cleared
4 183 (8.42%) DBS Check
5 166 (7.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 135 (6.21%) HNC
7 121 (5.57%) DV Cleared
8 101 (4.65%) Master's Degree
9 54 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 51 (2.35%) AWS Certification
11 48 (2.21%) Chartered Engineer
12 34 (1.56%) HND
13 33 (1.52%) PhD
14 29 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.74%) CISSP
18 15 (0.69%) Postgraduate
19 14 (0.64%) ACCA
19 14 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (12.38%) Accessibility
2 109 (5.02%) QA
3 90 (4.14%) Data Quality
4 67 (3.08%) GDPR
4 67 (3.08%) SLA
5 50 (2.30%) WCAG
6 35 (1.61%) NCSC
7 31 (1.43%) GRC
8 26 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.01%) NIST
10 20 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
17 2 (0.092%) GxP
System Software
1 87 (4.00%) Docker
2 73 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.89%) Firmware
4 22 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.55%) vSphere
8 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.14%) NFS
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.092%) IAG
12 1 (0.046%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.046%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.046%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.24%) Grafana
3 23 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.64%) Ansible
4 14 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.60%) SCCM
6 9 (0.41%) Kibana
7 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 4 (0.18%) Autotask
8 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) WSUS
9 2 (0.092%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.092%) Puppet
9 2 (0.092%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.046%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.046%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.046%) QRadar
10 1 (0.046%) SCOM
10 1 (0.046%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.046%) VxRail
Vendors
1 386 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.42%) Samsung
3 94 (4.33%) TikTok
4 90 (4.14%) Salesforce
4 90 (4.14%) SAP
5 83 (3.82%) Adobe
6 73 (3.36%) Google
7 47 (2.16%) Workday
8 42 (1.93%) Apple
9 37 (1.70%) Cisco
10 31 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 29 (1.33%) Facebook
11 29 (1.33%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.20%) Instagram
12 26 (1.20%) VMware
13 24 (1.10%) Oracle
14 19 (0.87%) Palo Alto
15 18 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
16 17 (0.78%) Botify
17 15 (0.69%) Tenable