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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -49 0 +42
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,708 2,766 4,148
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.24% 8.03% 6.99%
As % of the General category 5.02% 12.01% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 828 472 853
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,665 £28,746
25th Percentile £35,663 £34,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.42%
75th Percentile £69,750 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £79,900 £72,761
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

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 34,027 23,038 31,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.56% 66.87% 53.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20,969 11,301 18,223
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,749 £63,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 -67 440 £55,000 +17.02% 226
South East -44 322 £55,000 +26.44% 291
Midlands -40 271 £44,543 -10.91% 122
North West -63 243 £42,000 -10.64% 118
South West -20 237 £57,500 +37.72% 157
West Midlands -38 169 £59,250 +7.73% 66
Scotland -11 151 £52,500 +23.53% 117
East of England -13 143 £40,000 -29.82% 82
North East +4 103 £60,000 +144.20% 38
Wales -1 101 £54,000 -5.97% 23
East Midlands -37 101 £40,000 +23.08% 56
Yorkshire -2 94 £51,723 -31.04% 70
Northern Ireland -34 51 £56,901 -25.22% 49
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 41 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (1.99%) Confluence
3 28 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.88%) Apache
7 10 (0.59%) CMS
7 10 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.29%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) IIS
10 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.12%) Moodle
11 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.12%) Totara
12 1 (0.059%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.059%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 82 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.23%) Acrobat
4 17 (1.00%) Simulink
5 15 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.47%) InDesign
7 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.41%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.41%) Sketch
9 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.23%) Mathcad
11 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.12%) Maple
12 2 (0.12%) Revit
12 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.41%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.76%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.41%) Primavera
5 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.23%) SAP EHS
7 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.18%) Shopify
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.12%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.12%) SAP WM
10 1 (0.059%) Exchequer
10 1 (0.059%) Raiser’s Edge
10 1 (0.059%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 302 (17.68%) Azure
2 220 (12.88%) AWS
3 135 (7.90%) GCP
4 92 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 86 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (2.99%) GitHub
8 47 (2.75%) Serverless
9 39 (2.28%) SaaS
10 36 (2.11%) dbt
11 32 (1.87%) PaaS
12 29 (1.70%) Figma
13 27 (1.58%) Entra ID
14 26 (1.52%) IaaS
15 24 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
16 22 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
19 15 (0.88%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.46%) Broadband
2 39 (2.28%) Firewall
3 27 (1.58%) Network Security
4 24 (1.41%) VPN
5 19 (1.11%) DNS
5 19 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.05%) Internet
6 18 (1.05%) LAN
7 16 (0.94%) DHCP
7 16 (0.94%) WAN
8 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.59%) Wireless
9 9 (0.53%) SAN
9 9 (0.53%) VLAN
10 8 (0.47%) SSL
11 7 (0.41%) Ethernet
12 3 (0.18%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.18%) HTTP
12 3 (0.18%) Intranet
12 3 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.45%) Power BI
2 36 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 34 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.46%) Tableau
5 23 (1.35%) Metadata
6 18 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (0.88%) MySQL
10 14 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.82%) GIS
11 13 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 12 (0.70%) DynamoDB
12 12 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
13 11 (0.64%) Looker
14 10 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.59%) Big Data
15 9 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (4.04%) Git
2 68 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 62 (3.63%) JIRA
4 48 (2.81%) GitLab
5 25 (1.46%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.29%) Snyk
7 18 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
8 14 (0.82%) fastlane
8 14 (0.82%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.59%) Postman
10 9 (0.53%) JMeter
11 8 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.47%) Xcode
12 7 (0.41%) Gatling
12 7 (0.41%) Moq
12 7 (0.41%) MSI
13 6 (0.35%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.35%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.35%) Gradle
General
1 663 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 435 (25.47%) Finance
3 240 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (13.93%) Public Sector
5 154 (9.02%) Marketing
6 134 (7.85%) Law
7 112 (6.56%) Aerospace
8 102 (5.97%) Legal
9 88 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
10 81 (4.74%) Retail
11 63 (3.69%) Manufacturing
12 61 (3.57%) Local Government
13 47 (2.75%) Electronics
14 45 (2.63%) Games
15 41 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
16 36 (2.11%) Banking
17 28 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
18 26 (1.52%) Telecoms
19 24 (1.41%) Military
20 18 (1.05%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 344 (20.14%) Senior
2 192 (11.24%) Analyst
3 190 (11.12%) Architect
4 166 (9.72%) Lead
5 88 (5.15%) Developer
6 76 (4.45%) Sales Executive
7 64 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
8 62 (3.63%) Consultant
9 59 (3.45%) Business Analyst
10 53 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
11 52 (3.04%) Systems Engineer
12 48 (2.81%) Software Engineer
13 45 (2.63%) IT Engineer
14 41 (2.40%) Technical Architect
15 39 (2.28%) Cloud Architect
16 38 (2.22%) Senior Architect
17 32 (1.87%) Account Executive
17 32 (1.87%) IT Support
18 30 (1.76%) Designer
19 29 (1.70%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.04%) .NET
1 52 (3.04%) REST
2 42 (2.46%) CSS
3 40 (2.34%) HTML
3 40 (2.34%) RESTful
4 30 (1.76%) Node.js
5 29 (1.70%) React
6 28 (1.64%) SOAP
7 26 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
7 26 (1.52%) Visualforce
8 23 (1.35%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.17%) .NET Framework
9 20 (1.17%) EDI
9 20 (1.17%) Spring
10 19 (1.11%) XML
11 18 (1.05%) Android SDK
12 17 (1.00%) Spring Boot
13 16 (0.94%) ASP.NET
13 16 (0.94%) Entity Framework
14 13 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 129 (7.55%) Onboarding
2 122 (7.14%) Driving Licence
3 109 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 103 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
5 80 (4.68%) Cloud Native
6 70 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 61 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 48 (2.81%) Social Media
9 44 (2.58%) Cyberattack
10 35 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.87%) Mobile App
12 29 (1.70%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.11%) Credit Risk
16 18 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.05%) CSOC
16 18 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
17 16 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.21%) Windows
2 57 (3.34%) Linux
3 31 (1.81%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.41%) Android
5 22 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.17%) Unix
8 12 (0.70%) VMS
9 11 (0.64%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.23%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.059%) AIX
13 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 465 (27.22%) Agile
2 400 (23.42%) AI
3 350 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
4 265 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 257 (15.05%) CI/CD
6 245 (14.34%) Decision-Making
7 243 (14.23%) Mentoring
8 230 (13.47%) DevOps
9 198 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
10 167 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 159 (9.31%) Roadmaps
12 139 (8.14%) Analytics
13 134 (7.85%) Validation
14 128 (7.49%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 125 (7.32%) Scrum
16 124 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 120 (7.03%) Customer Service
18 117 (6.85%) Coaching
19 109 (6.38%) Software Engineering
20 102 (5.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 171 (10.01%) Python
2 134 (7.85%) SQL
3 69 (4.04%) Java
4 56 (3.28%) C#
4 56 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 49 (2.87%) PowerShell
6 34 (1.99%) TypeScript
7 30 (1.76%) MATLAB
8 29 (1.70%) Bicep
9 27 (1.58%) Bash
10 26 (1.52%) Apex Code
11 25 (1.46%) SOQL
11 25 (1.46%) SOSL
12 19 (1.11%) C++
12 19 (1.11%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.88%) Go
14 10 (0.59%) PHP
15 8 (0.47%) Ada
16 7 (0.41%) XAML
Qualifications
1 372 (21.78%) Degree
2 330 (19.32%) Security Cleared
3 304 (17.80%) SC Cleared
4 128 (7.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 99 (5.80%) DV Cleared
6 84 (4.92%) DBS Check
7 44 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 38 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 34 (1.99%) HNC
9 34 (1.99%) Master's Degree
10 33 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 31 (1.81%) PhD
12 28 (1.64%) Chartered Engineer
13 27 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.82%) CISSP
15 14 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.76%) Postgraduate
17 12 (0.70%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (11.48%) Accessibility
2 72 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.69%) SLA
4 61 (3.57%) QA
5 50 (2.93%) GDPR
6 44 (2.58%) WCAG
7 38 (2.22%) GRC
7 38 (2.22%) NIST
8 27 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (1.46%) NCSC
10 21 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.23%) GAAP
16 4 (0.23%) IFRS
16 4 (0.23%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 88 (5.15%) Docker
2 75 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.81%) Firmware
4 24 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.70%) vSphere
6 8 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.29%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.059%) IAG
9 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 91 (5.33%) Terraform
2 67 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.23%) Grafana
5 17 (1.00%) SCCM
6 12 (0.70%) Ansible
7 11 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.41%) WSUS
9 6 (0.35%) Autotask
10 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.23%) Argo
11 4 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.18%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.18%) Kibana
13 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.12%) Puppet
14 1 (0.059%) CASB
14 1 (0.059%) QRadar
14 1 (0.059%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 302 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.04%) Google
3 78 (4.57%) Adobe
4 50 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 45 (2.63%) Apple
6 44 (2.58%) Workday
7 41 (2.40%) SAP
8 38 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.11%) Cisco
10 30 (1.76%) VMware
11 29 (1.70%) Splunk
12 27 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
14 23 (1.35%) Dynatrace
15 22 (1.29%) Tenable
16 19 (1.11%) Instagram
17 15 (0.88%) Oracle
18 13 (0.76%) OpenAI
19 12 (0.70%) Facebook
19 12 (0.70%) ScienceLogic