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 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,047 1,701 5,100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.84% 6.57% 8.07%
As % of the General category 17.55% 9.68% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 574 467 1,233
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -20.70%
75th Percentile £63,165 £65,968 £61,445
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,100 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -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 28,751 17,580 37,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.34% 67.89% 58.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15,100 9,184 25,513
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,929 £26,045
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £51,058 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +7.49% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,784 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +61 1,951 £36,255 -23.67% 143
North West +48 1,684 £35,000 -25.53% 65
Midlands +36 1,477 £51,250 -2.38% 78
West Midlands +46 1,283 £60,000 +9.09% 46
South East +12 864 £52,500 +16.67% 265
East of England +5 439 £40,678 -26.04% 48
Yorkshire +34 245 £26,525 -39.37% 58
East Midlands 0 206 £37,500 -11.24% 32
South West -48 156 £35,000 -30.00% 70
Scotland -26 93 £52,500 -4.55% 46
Wales 0 63 £57,515 +11.99% 19
North East -18 22 £60,000 -13.43% 21
Northern Ireland -42 13 £40,000 -42.29% 8
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 40 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 14 (0.28%) Confluence
3 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.059%) Apache
5 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.040%) CMS
6 2 (0.040%) WordPress
7 1 (0.020%) Drupal
7 1 (0.020%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.020%) IIS
7 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 60 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 32 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.099%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.079%) 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 (0.099%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.079%) 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 (72.40%) Cloud Computing
2 153 (3.03%) Azure
3 100 (1.98%) AWS
4 69 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 43 (0.85%) GCP
7 36 (0.71%) Entra ID
7 36 (0.71%) SaaS
8 16 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (0.26%) OneDrive
10 12 (0.24%) Asana
10 12 (0.24%) 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%) dbt
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (72.44%) Internet
2 71 (1.41%) Broadband
3 25 (0.50%) Firewall
3 25 (0.50%) VPN
4 24 (0.48%) LAN
5 23 (0.46%) DNS
6 21 (0.42%) DHCP
7 17 (0.34%) WAN
7 17 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.16%) 4G
9 8 (0.16%) VLAN
10 7 (0.14%) MPLS
10 7 (0.14%) Network Security
11 4 (0.079%) 5G
11 4 (0.079%) BGP
11 4 (0.079%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.079%) PSTN
11 4 (0.079%) SMTP
11 4 (0.079%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.85%) Power BI
2 16 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.22%) GIS
6 10 (0.20%) Metadata
6 10 (0.20%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.12%) Tableau
10 5 (0.099%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.099%) Redis
11 4 (0.079%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.079%) Looker
11 4 (0.079%) MySQL
12 2 (0.040%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 41 (0.81%) GitLab
2 41 (0.81%) SonarQube
3 28 (0.55%) JIRA
4 17 (0.34%) Git
5 6 (0.12%) Postman
6 5 (0.099%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.099%) Balsamiq
6 5 (0.099%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.079%) JMeter
7 4 (0.079%) JUnit
7 4 (0.079%) Locust
8 3 (0.059%) fastlane
8 3 (0.059%) Mockito
9 2 (0.040%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.040%) LabVIEW
9 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.040%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.040%) Xcode
9 2 (0.040%) Zephyr
General
1 3,998 (79.22%) Social Skills
2 3,668 (72.68%) Banking
3 484 (9.59%) Finance
4 147 (2.91%) Public Sector
5 140 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (2.58%) Marketing
7 126 (2.50%) Retail
8 108 (2.14%) Law
9 65 (1.29%) Legal
10 59 (1.17%) Games
11 42 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (0.53%) Manufacturing
14 22 (0.44%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.40%) Local Government
16 17 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.24%) Aviation
19 11 (0.22%) Aerospace
19 11 (0.22%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.70%) Lecturer
2 204 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.86%) Facilities Engineer
4 169 (3.35%) Senior
5 124 (2.46%) Analyst
6 90 (1.78%) Architect
7 75 (1.49%) Project Manager
8 62 (1.23%) Lead
9 55 (1.09%) Project Engineer
10 50 (0.99%) Business Analyst
11 47 (0.93%) Senior Manager
12 41 (0.81%) Account Executive
13 39 (0.77%) Salesforce Architect
14 36 (0.71%) Developer
15 33 (0.65%) Consultant
16 32 (0.63%) IT Engineer
17 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
17 31 (0.61%) Sales Manager
18 29 (0.57%) Account Manager
19 28 (0.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.17%) REST
2 49 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
2 49 (0.97%) SOAP
2 49 (0.97%) Visualforce
3 26 (0.52%) 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 (0.079%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.079%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (72.32%) IoT
2 125 (2.48%) Onboarding
3 77 (1.53%) Product Ownership
4 76 (1.51%) Blog
5 70 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 50 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 45 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (0.65%) Social Media
9 31 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (0.57%) Mobile App
11 20 (0.40%) Cloud Native
12 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
13 17 (0.34%) Cyberattack
14 13 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.26%) Life Science
15 12 (0.24%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
17 10 (0.20%) Security Operations Centre
18 9 (0.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 8 (0.16%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 50 (0.99%) Windows
2 31 (0.61%) Linux
3 20 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.34%) Android
4 17 (0.34%) Unix
5 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.099%) Debian
7 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.079%) VMS
9 3 (0.059%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,902 (77.31%) AI
2 3,766 (74.62%) Cybersecurity
3 3,678 (72.87%) User Experience
4 3,664 (72.60%) Machine Learning
5 3,656 (72.44%) Web Development
6 301 (5.96%) Mentoring
7 237 (4.70%) Agile
8 197 (3.90%) Inventory Management
9 195 (3.86%) Preventative Maintenance
9 195 (3.86%) Problem-Solving
10 193 (3.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 139 (2.75%) Customer Service
12 124 (2.46%) DevOps
13 115 (2.28%) Coaching
14 111 (2.20%) CI/CD
15 109 (2.16%) Analytics
16 107 (2.12%) B2B
17 96 (1.90%) Decision-Making
18 94 (1.86%) Project Management
19 93 (1.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 57 (1.13%) Python
2 54 (1.07%) SQL
3 49 (0.97%) Apex Code
4 44 (0.87%) Java
5 41 (0.81%) SOQL
5 41 (0.81%) SOSL
6 22 (0.44%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.28%) Kotlin
7 14 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.12%) C#
9 4 (0.079%) PHP
10 3 (0.059%) Bash
10 3 (0.059%) VB
11 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.040%) Go
11 2 (0.040%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.040%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.020%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,933 (77.93%) Degree
2 3,847 (76.22%) Postgraduate
3 3,655 (72.42%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (72.40%) PhD
5 200 (3.96%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.86%) NVQ Level 3
7 112 (2.22%) Security Cleared
8 95 (1.88%) SC Cleared
9 30 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 26 (0.52%) PMP
12 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 22 (0.44%) HNC
14 17 (0.34%) CISSP
14 17 (0.34%) HND
15 14 (0.28%) CISM
15 14 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.86%) COSHH
2 55 (1.09%) QA
3 44 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (0.77%) NIST
5 32 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 30 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 23 (0.46%) GDPR
8 21 (0.42%) SLA
9 15 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.28%) WCAG
11 12 (0.24%) PMO
12 10 (0.20%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.18%) COBIT
13 9 (0.18%) Data Quality
14 8 (0.16%) GRC
15 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.099%) NEBOSH
17 4 (0.079%) IFRS
17 4 (0.079%) NCSC
18 3 (0.059%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 51 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.32%) Docker
3 12 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.12%) vSphere
5 4 (0.079%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 36 (0.71%) Terraform
2 29 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
4 6 (0.12%) Grafana
5 5 (0.099%) Autotask
5 5 (0.099%) SCCM
6 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.079%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.059%) Ansible
7 3 (0.059%) CASB
7 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.059%) WSUS
8 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.040%) Nessus
8 2 (0.040%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 256 (5.07%) Microsoft
2 117 (2.32%) Salesforce
3 79 (1.57%) Adobe
4 72 (1.43%) Cisco
5 49 (0.97%) Splunk
6 41 (0.81%) Google
7 33 (0.65%) Apple
8 23 (0.46%) NEC
9 16 (0.32%) SAP
9 16 (0.32%) VMware
10 12 (0.24%) Oracle
11 11 (0.22%) Databricks
11 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
11 11 (0.22%) Instagram
11 11 (0.22%) Pega
11 11 (0.22%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.22%) Workday
11 11 (0.22%) Wrike
12 10 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.20%) Fortinet