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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +44
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 3,850 2,694 5,688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.88% 9.37% 8.27%
As % of the General category 12.56% 13.24% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 634 495 1,287
10th Percentile £26,306 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,359 £81,250 £71,440
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 30,651 20,342 39,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.83% 70.77% 57.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16,612 9,532 26,387
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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
Midlands +15 1,466 £47,500 -5.00% 96
North of England -4 1,361 £50,000 +6.38% 153
West Midlands +31 1,300 £59,527 +8.23% 45
North West -2 1,140 £40,000 -14.89% 76
South East -17 470 £52,500 +5.92% 223
East of England +6 248 £40,000 -24.53% 49
Yorkshire +7 185 £50,000 -1.48% 57
East Midlands -22 178 £36,250 +11.54% 50
South West -34 146 £57,500 +10.58% 67
Scotland -23 87 £50,000 -9.09% 42
Wales -4 67 £53,000 +0.78% 19
North East -16 36 £58,750 -15.33% 21
Northern Ireland -34 16 £40,000 -51.69% 6
Channel Islands - 2 - -
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 47 (1.22%) SharePoint
2 21 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.39%) Confluence
4 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.13%) Apache
5 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.052%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.052%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.052%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.052%) WordPress
8 1 (0.026%) IIS
8 1 (0.026%) Moodle
8 1 (0.026%) Totara
8 1 (0.026%) WildFly
Applications
1 62 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.96%) Acrobat
4 26 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.13%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.052%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.052%) Trello
8 1 (0.026%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.026%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.026%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.16%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.13%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.10%) Academy Housing
5 2 (0.052%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.052%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.026%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.026%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.026%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.026%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,321 (60.29%) Cloud Computing
2 216 (5.61%) Azure
3 138 (3.58%) AWS
4 91 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (2.03%) GCP
6 73 (1.90%) Power Platform
7 36 (0.94%) Entra ID
8 34 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (0.83%) SaaS
10 25 (0.65%) Serverless
11 24 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (0.36%) PaaS
13 13 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (0.34%) GitHub
14 12 (0.31%) Asana
14 12 (0.31%) OneDrive
14 12 (0.31%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.29%) Figma
15 11 (0.29%) Sprout Social
16 10 (0.26%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2,324 (60.36%) Internet
2 63 (1.64%) Broadband
3 36 (0.94%) Firewall
4 24 (0.62%) DNS
5 23 (0.60%) DHCP
6 22 (0.57%) LAN
6 22 (0.57%) WAN
7 21 (0.55%) VPN
8 15 (0.39%) Network Security
8 15 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.21%) 4G
9 8 (0.21%) VLAN
10 7 (0.18%) MPLS
10 7 (0.18%) Wireless
11 4 (0.10%) BGP
11 4 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.10%) PSTN
11 4 (0.10%) SMTP
11 4 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (1.56%) Power BI
2 22 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.34%) Data Lake
4 13 (0.34%) GIS
4 13 (0.34%) Metadata
5 11 (0.29%) MySQL
5 11 (0.29%) SQL Server
6 10 (0.26%) Tableau
7 8 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (0.18%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.18%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.16%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.16%) Redis
10 5 (0.13%) Big Data
10 5 (0.13%) Looker
10 5 (0.13%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 37 (0.96%) GitLab
3 34 (0.88%) SonarQube
4 31 (0.81%) JIRA
5 22 (0.57%) Snyk
6 20 (0.52%) Git
7 10 (0.26%) Postman
8 8 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.18%) fastlane
9 7 (0.18%) Moq
10 5 (0.13%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.13%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.10%) Gatling
11 4 (0.10%) JMeter
11 4 (0.10%) JUnit
11 4 (0.10%) Locust
11 4 (0.10%) Xcode
12 3 (0.078%) Crashlytics
12 3 (0.078%) Gradle
General
1 2,719 (70.62%) Social Skills
2 2,333 (60.60%) Banking
3 479 (12.44%) Finance
4 168 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
5 162 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 124 (3.22%) Marketing
7 114 (2.96%) Law
8 103 (2.68%) Retail
9 82 (2.13%) Legal
10 54 (1.40%) Games
11 42 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 38 (0.99%) Local Government
13 32 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 19 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.36%) Billing
18 13 (0.34%) Automotive
18 13 (0.34%) Aviation
18 13 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,741 (45.22%) Lecturer
2 242 (6.29%) Senior
3 213 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
4 195 (5.06%) Facilities Engineer
5 178 (4.62%) Analyst
6 122 (3.17%) Architect
7 68 (1.77%) Project Manager
8 60 (1.56%) Business Analyst
9 54 (1.40%) Lead
10 53 (1.38%) Senior Analyst
11 51 (1.32%) IT Engineer
12 47 (1.22%) Account Executive
13 45 (1.17%) Project Engineer
14 39 (1.01%) Developer
15 36 (0.94%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (0.86%) Salesforce Architect
17 32 (0.83%) Sales Executive
18 31 (0.81%) Alliance Manager
18 31 (0.81%) Senior Architect
19 30 (0.78%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.25%) REST
2 39 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
2 39 (1.01%) SOAP
2 39 (1.01%) Visualforce
3 24 (0.62%) EDI
4 18 (0.47%) .NET
5 16 (0.42%) Android SDK
6 13 (0.34%) GraphQL
7 12 (0.31%) RESTful
8 10 (0.26%) XML
9 8 (0.21%) Entity Framework
9 8 (0.21%) Web Services
10 7 (0.18%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.18%) CSS
10 7 (0.18%) HTML
10 7 (0.18%) SAML
10 7 (0.18%) XSLT
11 6 (0.16%) Django
11 6 (0.16%) Node.js
11 6 (0.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2,316 (60.16%) IoT
2 120 (3.12%) Onboarding
3 90 (2.34%) Product Ownership
4 84 (2.18%) Driving Licence
5 64 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 46 (1.19%) Cyberattack
8 40 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 38 (0.99%) Social Media
10 35 (0.91%) Blog
11 32 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 26 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (0.65%) Cloud Native
14 18 (0.47%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
16 16 (0.42%) CSOC
17 15 (0.39%) Life Science
18 11 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.29%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.29%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 69 (1.79%) Windows
2 38 (0.99%) Linux
3 31 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 19 (0.49%) Android
5 16 (0.42%) Unix
6 13 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.10%) Debian
9 4 (0.10%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,611 (67.82%) AI
2 2,490 (64.68%) Cybersecurity
3 2,357 (61.22%) User Experience
4 2,338 (60.73%) Machine Learning
5 2,319 (60.23%) Web Development
6 336 (8.73%) Mentoring
7 246 (6.39%) Agile
8 213 (5.53%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (5.17%) Inventory Management
10 196 (5.09%) Preventative Maintenance
11 178 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 146 (3.79%) CI/CD
13 133 (3.45%) DevOps
14 126 (3.27%) Customer Service
15 122 (3.17%) Decision-Making
16 116 (3.01%) Analytics
17 112 (2.91%) Coaching
18 105 (2.73%) Roadmaps
19 95 (2.47%) B2B
20 79 (2.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (2.13%) Python
2 79 (2.05%) SQL
3 46 (1.19%) Java
4 39 (1.01%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.88%) SOQL
5 34 (0.88%) SOSL
6 30 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 24 (0.62%) JavaScript
8 18 (0.47%) C#
9 16 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.26%) Bash
12 7 (0.18%) C++
12 7 (0.18%) XAML
13 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.10%) PHP
15 3 (0.078%) Bicep
15 3 (0.078%) Swift
15 3 (0.078%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.052%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,616 (67.95%) Degree
2 2,520 (65.45%) Postgraduate
3 2,323 (60.34%) Master's Degree
4 2,321 (60.29%) PhD
5 195 (5.06%) City & Guilds
5 195 (5.06%) NVQ Level 3
6 148 (3.84%) Security Cleared
7 130 (3.38%) SC Cleared
8 54 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 47 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 36 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.60%) HNC
14 20 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.49%) HND
16 17 (0.44%) CISM
16 17 (0.44%) CISSP
17 13 (0.34%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (5.06%) COSHH
2 55 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 55 (1.43%) QA
3 45 (1.17%) NIST
4 40 (1.04%) GDPR
4 40 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (0.91%) Data Quality
6 34 (0.88%) GRC
7 32 (0.83%) SLA
8 29 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (0.47%) WCAG
10 16 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.29%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.16%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.13%) COBIT
14 5 (0.13%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.10%) GAAP
15 4 (0.10%) IFRS
15 4 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 70 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 28 (0.73%) Docker
3 26 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.16%) vSphere
6 3 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.026%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (1.01%) Terraform
2 35 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (0.55%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.21%) SCCM
6 6 (0.16%) Autotask
6 6 (0.16%) Grafana
7 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.10%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.10%) WSUS
8 3 (0.078%) CASB
8 3 (0.078%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.052%) Ansible
9 2 (0.052%) Argo
9 2 (0.052%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.052%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.052%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.052%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 294 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 109 (2.83%) Adobe
3 106 (2.75%) Salesforce
4 72 (1.87%) Cisco
5 61 (1.58%) Apple
6 49 (1.27%) Google
7 43 (1.12%) Splunk
8 37 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 33 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
10 32 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 24 (0.62%) Tenable
12 21 (0.55%) VMware
13 16 (0.42%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.36%) Databricks
14 14 (0.36%) Instagram
15 13 (0.34%) SAP
16 11 (0.29%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.29%) Meraki
16 11 (0.29%) Workday
16 11 (0.29%) Wrike