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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 31 27
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 4,947 2,223 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 11.69% 6.15% 7.08%
As % of the General category 20.79% 9.65% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 519 458 705
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,425 £29,400
25th Percentile £27,707 £41,250 £39,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,929 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.74% -0.91% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,678 £80,070
UK median annual salary £49,600 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 23,790 23,033 19,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.20% 63.68% 59.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,289 9,476 14,019
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,575 £67,500 £65,552
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +50 1,921 £32,500 -40.37% 147
North West +36 1,700 £34,178 -32.06% 58
Midlands +45 1,454 £47,500 -7.22% 118
West Midlands +56 1,281 £47,500 -9.52% 65
South East +15 885 £54,000 -10.00% 330
East of England +12 421 £45,000 - 92
Yorkshire +32 214 £26,100 -50.29% 56
East Midlands +13 185 £35,000 -15.66% 52
South West -23 152 £28,500 -32.94% 93
Scotland -71 57 £25,835 -53.03% 54
Wales +12 45 £68,958 +31.12% 28
Northern Ireland -17 14 £76,024 +27.92% 11
Channel Islands - 8 - - 1
North East -5 7 £65,000 +9.37% 33
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 - 1
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 32 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.020%) Drupal
4 1 (0.020%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.020%) WildFly
4 1 (0.020%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.061%) Revit
6 3 (0.061%) Simulink
7 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.020%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.020%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.020%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.020%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.020%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.020%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.020%) Primavera
5 1 (0.020%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 3,651 (73.80%) Cloud Computing
2 105 (2.12%) Azure
3 68 (1.37%) AWS
4 64 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (0.93%) Power Platform
6 35 (0.71%) SaaS
7 28 (0.57%) Entra ID
8 11 (0.22%) OneDrive
9 9 (0.18%) Google Analytics
10 8 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.14%) GCP
12 6 (0.12%) Figma
12 6 (0.12%) PaaS
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (0.081%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.081%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3,662 (74.02%) Internet
2 23 (0.46%) Broadband
3 15 (0.30%) VPN
4 14 (0.28%) LAN
5 12 (0.24%) DNS
6 11 (0.22%) Firewall
7 9 (0.18%) DHCP
8 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.12%) WAN
10 5 (0.10%) MPLS
11 4 (0.081%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.081%) PSTN
11 4 (0.081%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.040%) 4G
12 2 (0.040%) HTTP
12 2 (0.040%) Network Security
12 2 (0.040%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.040%) SSH
12 2 (0.040%) VLAN
12 2 (0.040%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (0.73%) Power BI
2 13 (0.26%) Tableau
3 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (0.20%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.16%) GIS
5 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.081%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.081%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.061%) Metadata
8 3 (0.061%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.040%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.040%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.020%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.020%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.020%) MySQL
10 1 (0.020%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (0.40%) JIRA
2 17 (0.34%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.30%) GitLab
3 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
4 9 (0.18%) Git
5 6 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 6 (0.12%) Selenium
6 5 (0.10%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.10%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.081%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.061%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.061%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.040%) Postman
9 2 (0.040%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.020%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.020%) jMock
10 1 (0.020%) JUnit
General
1 3,979 (80.43%) Social Skills
2 3,658 (73.94%) Banking
3 424 (8.57%) Finance
4 140 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 139 (2.81%) Retail
6 130 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (1.88%) Law
8 86 (1.74%) Marketing
9 53 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 44 (0.89%) Legal
11 28 (0.57%) Telecoms
12 26 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 20 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 17 (0.34%) French Language
16 16 (0.32%) Automotive
17 15 (0.30%) Games
17 15 (0.30%) Swedish Language
18 12 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,811 (56.82%) Lecturer
2 199 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.94%) Facilities Engineer
4 164 (3.32%) Senior
5 89 (1.80%) Analyst
6 85 (1.72%) Project Engineer
6 85 (1.72%) Senior Manager
7 62 (1.25%) Lead
8 58 (1.17%) Sales Manager
9 56 (1.13%) Project Manager
10 54 (1.09%) Architect
11 51 (1.03%) Microsoft Specialist
12 47 (0.95%) Account Manager
13 45 (0.91%) Sales Account Manager
13 45 (0.91%) Senior Account Manager
13 45 (0.91%) Senior Sales Manager
14 39 (0.79%) Account Executive
15 37 (0.75%) Alliance Manager
16 33 (0.67%) Mechanical Engineer
17 31 (0.63%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (0.57%) EDI
2 25 (0.51%) REST
3 21 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (0.42%) SOAP
3 21 (0.42%) Visualforce
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 12 (0.24%) .NET
6 9 (0.18%) React
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) Web Services
8 7 (0.14%) Middleware
9 6 (0.12%) Django
9 6 (0.12%) Playwright
9 6 (0.12%) Spring
10 4 (0.081%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.081%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.081%) RESTful
11 2 (0.040%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.040%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3,652 (73.82%) IoT
2 84 (1.70%) Onboarding
3 79 (1.60%) Blog
4 70 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 38 (0.77%) Management Information System
6 33 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 26 (0.53%) Product Ownership
8 23 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (0.44%) Data Centre
10 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.26%) Cloud Native
12 12 (0.24%) FMCG
12 12 (0.24%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.20%) SCADA
14 9 (0.18%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.18%) Life Science
14 9 (0.18%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.18%) Social Media
15 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.16%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 31 (0.63%) Windows
2 11 (0.22%) Linux
3 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.14%) Android
5 6 (0.12%) Unix
5 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.020%) Debian
7 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,932 (79.48%) AI
2 3,762 (76.05%) Cybersecurity
3 3,673 (74.25%) User Experience
4 3,656 (73.90%) Web Development
5 3,654 (73.86%) Machine Learning
6 282 (5.70%) Mentoring
7 197 (3.98%) Inventory Management
8 195 (3.94%) Preventative Maintenance
9 168 (3.40%) Customer Service
10 156 (3.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 140 (2.83%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (2.67%) Coaching
13 123 (2.49%) Agile
14 114 (2.30%) B2B
15 104 (2.10%) CRM
16 98 (1.98%) Decision-Making
17 76 (1.54%) Analytics
17 76 (1.54%) Project Management
18 69 (1.39%) Time Management
19 64 (1.29%) GTM Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (0.59%) SQL
2 22 (0.44%) Java
2 22 (0.44%) Python
3 21 (0.42%) Apex Code
4 18 (0.36%) JavaScript
5 15 (0.30%) SOQL
5 15 (0.30%) SOSL
6 9 (0.18%) C#
7 6 (0.12%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.061%) Bash
8 3 (0.061%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (0.040%) Go
9 2 (0.040%) PHP
9 2 (0.040%) R
10 1 (0.020%) Bicep
10 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.020%) Ruby
10 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,998 (80.82%) Degree
2 3,844 (77.70%) Postgraduate
3 3,650 (73.78%) Master's Degree
4 3,649 (73.76%) PhD
5 203 (4.10%) City & Guilds
6 196 (3.96%) NVQ Level 3
7 49 (0.99%) Security Cleared
8 45 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 28 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 26 (0.53%) HNC
11 25 (0.51%) PMP
12 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.44%) HND
14 19 (0.38%) MCSE
15 13 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.26%) CISSP
15 13 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
16 11 (0.22%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.94%) COSHH
2 45 (0.91%) QA
3 31 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (0.46%) NIST
5 21 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (0.36%) SLA
7 15 (0.30%) PMO
8 14 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.28%) GDPR
9 9 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.12%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.10%) COBIT
11 5 (0.10%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.10%) WCAG
12 4 (0.081%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.081%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.061%) GRC
13 3 (0.061%) ISO 19650
14 2 (0.040%) NCSC
System Software
1 50 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.12%) Docker
4 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.040%) vSphere
6 1 (0.020%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.30%) Terraform
3 13 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
5 5 (0.10%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.061%) Ansible
6 3 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.040%) Nessus
7 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.040%) SCCM
8 1 (0.020%) CASB
8 1 (0.020%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.020%) Grafana
8 1 (0.020%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 275 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 74 (1.50%) Salesforce
3 66 (1.33%) Cisco
4 46 (0.93%) Apple
5 45 (0.91%) Adobe
6 38 (0.77%) NEC
7 23 (0.46%) Splunk
8 18 (0.36%) Palo Alto
9 17 (0.34%) Google
10 14 (0.28%) Oracle
11 11 (0.22%) SAP
12 9 (0.18%) Databricks
13 8 (0.16%) New Relic
13 8 (0.16%) VMware
14 7 (0.14%) Dell
14 7 (0.14%) Sparx
15 6 (0.12%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.12%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.12%) Planon
15 6 (0.12%) Snow