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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 33 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +14
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,804 2,556 1,830
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.05% 5.00% 5.64%
As % of the General category 12.23% 9.21% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 497 518 777
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,923 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +8.17%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,241 £79,225 £84,056
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +8.33%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,933 27,754 20,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 65.87% 54.24% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 11,178 12,362 14,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,095 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% -0.99% -1.94%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 9 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +35 1,342 £47,500 -13.64% 169
North West +26 1,262 £45,974 -10.56% 92
South East -5 440 £55,000 +0.30% 320
Midlands +26 377 £47,500 -14.63% 113
Scotland -9 315 £30,000 -42.86% 94
West Midlands +35 215 £55,000 -4.35% 70
South West -4 175 £30,000 -20.00% 85
East Midlands +9 162 £31,250 -11.00% 42
East of England -29 133 £55,250 +22.78% 52
Yorkshire -14 56 £85,000 +78.95% 49
North East +4 24 £24,570 -62.20% 30
Wales 0 19 £57,429 -6.55% 12
Northern Ireland -5 12 £76,024 +29.29% 16
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 -
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
1 159 (5.67%) Confluence
2 26 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 25 (0.89%) SharePoint
4 16 (0.57%) Apache
5 12 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.32%) CMS
7 8 (0.29%) Camunda
7 8 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.071%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.036%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.036%) IIS
11 1 (0.036%) Mendix
11 1 (0.036%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.036%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.53%) AutoCAD
4 11 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.29%) Revit
6 6 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 6 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.21%) Civil 3D
6 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.18%) Navisworks
7 5 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.11%) Simulink
8 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.071%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.036%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.036%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.036%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.036%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.036%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.036%) Primavera
5 1 (0.036%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.036%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 604 (21.54%) AWS
2 581 (20.72%) Azure
3 359 (12.80%) GCP
4 75 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 47 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
7 39 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (0.78%) SaaS
10 18 (0.64%) Amazon S3
11 17 (0.61%) Entra ID
12 16 (0.57%) Serverless
13 15 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
16 9 (0.32%) GitHub
16 9 (0.32%) npm
17 8 (0.29%) Power Automate
18 7 (0.25%) PaaS
18 7 (0.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 730 (26.03%) VPN
2 412 (14.69%) DNS
3 260 (9.27%) Cisco IOS
4 69 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 37 (1.32%) WAN
6 32 (1.14%) LAN
7 31 (1.11%) Firewall
8 23 (0.82%) Internet
8 23 (0.82%) Network Security
9 20 (0.71%) DHCP
10 15 (0.53%) Broadband
11 14 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.39%) SAN
13 10 (0.36%) Wireless
14 8 (0.29%) MPLS
14 8 (0.29%) SMTP
15 7 (0.25%) NAS
15 7 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.21%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (9.34%) SQL Server
2 48 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
3 47 (1.68%) Power BI
4 30 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 28 (1.00%) Big Data
6 26 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 19 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (0.53%) Tableau
11 12 (0.43%) KDB
11 12 (0.43%) Kdb+
11 12 (0.43%) MySQL
12 11 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 11 (0.39%) Power Query
13 9 (0.32%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (0.32%) Metadata
13 9 (0.32%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 308 (10.98%) Cucumber
2 282 (10.06%) JIRA
3 264 (9.42%) Maven
4 262 (9.34%) GitLab
5 260 (9.27%) SonarQube
6 257 (9.17%) Selenium
7 251 (8.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 246 (8.77%) Bitbucket
9 62 (2.21%) Robot Framework
10 44 (1.57%) Jenkins
11 24 (0.86%) Git
12 21 (0.75%) JUnit
13 13 (0.46%) Cypress.io
14 10 (0.36%) webpack
15 7 (0.25%) Vite
16 6 (0.21%) Gradle
17 4 (0.14%) Locust
17 4 (0.14%) Mockito
17 4 (0.14%) Subversion
18 3 (0.11%) ERwin
General
1 1,052 (37.52%) Finance
2 815 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
3 527 (18.79%) Law
4 496 (17.69%) Social Skills
5 376 (13.41%) Banking
6 297 (10.59%) Legal
7 225 (8.02%) Retail
8 199 (7.10%) Marketing
9 172 (6.13%) Public Sector
10 109 (3.89%) Investment Banking
11 93 (3.32%) Telecoms
12 90 (3.21%) Corporate Banking
13 57 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
14 51 (1.82%) Electronics
14 51 (1.82%) Manufacturing
15 23 (0.82%) Games
15 23 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 21 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
18 17 (0.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 638 (22.75%) Software Engineer
2 475 (16.94%) Developer
3 444 (15.83%) Software Developer
4 349 (12.45%) Senior
5 290 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 191 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 170 (6.06%) Lead
8 112 (3.99%) Java Engineer
8 112 (3.99%) Java Software Engineer
9 75 (2.67%) Analyst
10 69 (2.46%) Test Engineer
11 67 (2.39%) Test Automation Engineer
12 65 (2.32%) Senior Manager
13 64 (2.28%) Support Engineer
14 63 (2.25%) Microsoft Specialist
15 61 (2.18%) Architect
16 60 (2.14%) Lead Software Engineer
17 48 (1.71%) Python Engineer
18 47 (1.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 47 (1.68%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (12.66%) Spring
2 328 (11.70%) React
3 320 (11.41%) Kafka
4 310 (11.06%) Spring Boot
5 274 (9.77%) HTML
6 269 (9.59%) CSS
7 262 (9.34%) Elastic Stack
8 255 (9.09%) JPA
9 246 (8.77%) Redux
10 219 (7.81%) Node.js
11 215 (7.67%) .NET
12 169 (6.03%) Hibernate
13 147 (5.24%) REST
14 119 (4.24%) RESTful
15 97 (3.46%) Jest
16 93 (3.32%) HTML5
17 92 (3.28%) Sass
18 90 (3.21%) CSS3
19 46 (1.64%) Pandas
20 38 (1.36%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1,102 (39.30%) Cyberattack
2 274 (9.77%) Product Ownership
3 256 (9.13%) Enterprise Software
4 234 (8.35%) Linux Command Line
5 201 (7.17%) Self-Motivation
6 92 (3.28%) Algorithms
7 79 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 72 (2.57%) Cloud Native
9 68 (2.43%) e-Learning
10 57 (2.03%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.32%) Driving Licence
12 36 (1.28%) Data Centre
13 32 (1.14%) Social Media
14 31 (1.11%) Management Information System
15 29 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 20 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
17 18 (0.64%) Microsoft Licensing
18 16 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
19 15 (0.53%) Reference Data
20 14 (0.50%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 946 (33.74%) Linux
2 696 (24.82%) Android
3 389 (13.87%) Windows
4 23 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
7 4 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,218 (43.44%) Agile
2 949 (33.84%) Line Management
3 717 (25.57%) Mathematics
4 688 (24.54%) Software Engineering
5 662 (23.61%) DevOps
6 535 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
7 496 (17.69%) Mentoring
8 480 (17.12%) CI/CD
9 458 (16.33%) Design Patterns
10 454 (16.19%) OO
11 445 (15.87%) SDLC
12 443 (15.80%) Microservices
13 432 (15.41%) OOP
14 427 (15.23%) Android Development
15 403 (14.37%) AI
16 395 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 374 (13.34%) Test Automation
18 344 (12.27%) Risk Management
19 334 (11.91%) Containerisation
20 321 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (37.30%) Python
2 1,026 (36.59%) Java
3 607 (21.65%) C++
3 607 (21.65%) Go
4 577 (20.58%) JavaScript
5 363 (12.95%) SQL
6 349 (12.45%) PowerShell
7 325 (11.59%) Bash
8 209 (7.45%) Rust
9 117 (4.17%) TypeScript
10 19 (0.68%) C#
11 14 (0.50%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.50%) SOQL
11 14 (0.50%) SOSL
12 11 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.32%) C
14 8 (0.29%) PHP
14 8 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.21%) R
16 4 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 678 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 625 (22.29%) DV Cleared
3 383 (13.66%) Degree
4 181 (6.46%) AWS Certification
5 174 (6.21%) AWS Certified Developer
6 173 (6.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 51 (1.82%) HND
8 42 (1.50%) SC Cleared
9 27 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 20 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (0.61%) HNC
12 16 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
13 15 (0.53%) MCSE
14 13 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.39%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.39%) CCNA
15 11 (0.39%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.36%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (12.62%) QA
2 250 (8.92%) NCSC
3 110 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 24 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (0.78%) NIST
5 22 (0.78%) SLA
6 16 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.50%) GDPR
8 11 (0.39%) PMO
9 9 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.21%) COBIT
10 6 (0.21%) PMBOK
11 4 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.14%) ISO 19650
12 3 (0.11%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.036%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.036%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.036%) IFRS
13 1 (0.036%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.036%) P3O
System Software
1 985 (35.13%) Docker
2 275 (9.81%) Hyper-V
3 274 (9.77%) vSphere
4 260 (9.27%) VMware NSX
5 58 (2.07%) Active Directory
6 31 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.25%) Terminal Services
9 6 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.18%) HDFS
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.036%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 725 (25.86%) Ansible
2 373 (13.30%) Kubernetes
3 346 (12.34%) Terraform
4 17 (0.61%) Grafana
4 17 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.46%) Puppet
5 13 (0.46%) vCenter Server
6 12 (0.43%) vMotion
7 7 (0.25%) Nagios
7 7 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.21%) CASB
8 6 (0.21%) PowerCLI
8 6 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.21%) vRealize
9 4 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.14%) Netcool
9 4 (0.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 4 (0.14%) SCCM
9 4 (0.14%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.071%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 373 (13.30%) Cisco
2 301 (10.73%) Splunk
3 284 (10.13%) Microsoft
4 276 (9.84%) Juniper
5 260 (9.27%) 3PAR
6 246 (8.77%) Solace
7 87 (3.10%) Oracle
8 68 (2.43%) IBM
9 66 (2.35%) Red Hat
10 40 (1.43%) EMC
11 38 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 33 (1.18%) VMware
13 31 (1.11%) ServiceNow
14 30 (1.07%) Adobe
14 30 (1.07%) Google
15 29 (1.03%) Apple
15 29 (1.03%) Dell
16 23 (0.82%) Databricks
17 21 (0.75%) Fortinet