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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -65 +11 +44
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,366 3,072 5,359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.00% 10.05% 6.95%
As % of the General category 4.47% 14.22% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 691 477 1,304
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,062
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -24.40%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £81,750 £71,250
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 30,531 21,610 42,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.64% 70.71% 54.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,747 9,876 27,173
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,705 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -74 380 £52,500 +11.70% 121
Midlands -49 271 £44,543 -15.16% 95
South East -83 234 £52,500 +31.25% 171
North West -60 231 £47,000 - 70
South West -34 187 £57,500 +9.52% 71
West Midlands -32 169 £57,500 - 52
East of England -48 114 £40,000 -29.82% 43
East Midlands -48 102 £35,000 +16.67% 43
Scotland -40 90 £47,500 -5.00% 36
Yorkshire -22 87 £52,445 -38.30% 35
Wales -2 85 £54,000 -9.78% 29
North East -11 62 £57,500 +134.03% 16
Northern Ireland -33 15 £40,000 -47.43% 29
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 35 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.76%) Confluence
4 12 (0.88%) Apache
5 10 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.51%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.37%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) Moodle
8 2 (0.15%) Totara
8 2 (0.15%) WordPress
9 1 (0.073%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 63 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.71%) Acrobat
4 13 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.59%) InDesign
6 8 (0.59%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.29%) Sketch
8 4 (0.29%) Trello
9 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.15%) InVision
10 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.15%) PlantUML
11 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.073%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.76%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.073%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.073%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.073%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 233 (17.06%) Azure
2 127 (9.30%) AWS
3 90 (6.59%) GCP
4 80 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
5 77 (5.64%) Power Platform
6 73 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (2.86%) Serverless
8 34 (2.49%) GitHub
9 31 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 27 (1.98%) PaaS
11 25 (1.83%) SaaS
12 23 (1.68%) Figma
12 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (1.54%) IaaS
14 17 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (1.17%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (1.02%) Asana
17 13 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (0.95%) Firebase
17 13 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.47%) Broadband
2 42 (3.07%) Firewall
3 30 (2.20%) VPN
4 20 (1.46%) DNS
4 20 (1.46%) Network Security
4 20 (1.46%) WAN
5 19 (1.39%) DHCP
5 19 (1.39%) LAN
6 18 (1.32%) Internet
7 17 (1.24%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.51%) VLAN
9 7 (0.51%) Wireless
10 6 (0.44%) 4G
11 5 (0.37%) MPLS
11 5 (0.37%) SAN
12 4 (0.29%) BGP
12 4 (0.29%) SMTP
12 4 (0.29%) SSL
12 4 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (4.98%) Power BI
2 25 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.46%) Tableau
4 16 (1.17%) GIS
5 15 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (1.10%) Metadata
5 15 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 14 (1.02%) MySQL
7 13 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 12 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
8 12 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.66%) Looker
11 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.59%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.51%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 56 (4.10%) Jenkins
2 46 (3.37%) GitLab
3 42 (3.07%) JIRA
4 38 (2.78%) Git
5 34 (2.49%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.61%) Snyk
7 14 (1.02%) fastlane
8 10 (0.73%) Postman
9 8 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.59%) Xcode
10 7 (0.51%) Moq
11 6 (0.44%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.44%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.44%) Gradle
11 6 (0.44%) JMeter
11 6 (0.44%) LabVIEW
12 5 (0.37%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.29%) Gatling
13 4 (0.29%) Locust
14 3 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 473 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.94%) Finance
3 182 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 166 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (9.37%) Marketing
6 105 (7.69%) Law
7 98 (7.17%) Legal
8 94 (6.88%) Retail
9 71 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (4.03%) Games
11 50 (3.66%) Local Government
12 31 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.54%) Banking
15 18 (1.32%) Electronics
16 17 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.02%) Aviation
18 13 (0.95%) Automotive
18 13 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 280 (20.50%) Senior
2 182 (13.32%) Analyst
3 125 (9.15%) Architect
4 68 (4.98%) Lead
5 62 (4.54%) Senior Analyst
6 60 (4.39%) Developer
6 60 (4.39%) Sales Executive
7 55 (4.03%) Business Analyst
8 51 (3.73%) IT Engineer
9 38 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (2.71%) Account Executive
11 36 (2.64%) Project Manager
12 33 (2.42%) Salesforce Architect
12 33 (2.42%) Senior Architect
13 31 (2.27%) IT Manager
13 31 (2.27%) IT Support
14 27 (1.98%) Cloud Architect
15 26 (1.90%) Business Manager
15 26 (1.90%) Consultant
16 25 (1.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.88%) REST
2 39 (2.86%) SOAP
3 37 (2.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 37 (2.71%) Visualforce
4 27 (1.98%) RESTful
5 23 (1.68%) .NET
5 23 (1.68%) CSS
5 23 (1.68%) HTML
6 19 (1.39%) Android SDK
6 19 (1.39%) EDI
7 16 (1.17%) Node.js
8 13 (0.95%) GraphQL
9 12 (0.88%) React
9 12 (0.88%) XML
10 10 (0.73%) .NET Framework
11 9 (0.66%) Web Services
12 8 (0.59%) Entity Framework
12 8 (0.59%) Spring
12 8 (0.59%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.51%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.13%) Onboarding
2 109 (7.98%) Product Ownership
3 94 (6.88%) Driving Licence
4 80 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
5 54 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.44%) Cyberattack
6 47 (3.44%) Social Media
7 46 (3.37%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.07%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.86%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.32%) Credit Risk
12 17 (1.24%) CSOC
12 17 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.95%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.88%) Graphic Design
16 12 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 86 (6.30%) Windows
2 40 (2.93%) Linux
3 34 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.68%) Android
5 18 (1.32%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.17%) VMS
7 13 (0.95%) Unix
7 13 (0.95%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.29%) Debian
10 4 (0.29%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (22.25%) Agile
2 285 (20.86%) AI
3 234 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 191 (13.98%) CI/CD
6 181 (13.25%) Decision-Making
7 176 (12.88%) DevOps
8 163 (11.93%) Mentoring
9 152 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
10 136 (9.96%) Roadmaps
11 131 (9.59%) Analytics
12 121 (8.86%) Customer Service
13 118 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 109 (7.98%) Scrum
15 94 (6.88%) Coaching
16 90 (6.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 88 (6.44%) B2B
18 84 (6.15%) Technology Strategy
19 83 (6.08%) CRM
20 76 (5.56%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 115 (8.42%) SQL
2 111 (8.13%) Python
3 49 (3.59%) Java
4 45 (3.29%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.71%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.49%) SOQL
6 34 (2.49%) SOSL
7 28 (2.05%) JavaScript
8 24 (1.76%) Bicep
8 24 (1.76%) C#
9 22 (1.61%) Bash
10 19 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 19 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 19 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.51%) C++
11 7 (0.51%) Swift
11 7 (0.51%) XAML
12 6 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.44%) PHP
13 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 276 (20.20%) Degree
2 153 (11.20%) Security Cleared
3 135 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 77 (5.64%) DBS Check
5 33 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.05%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.46%) HNC
10 15 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (1.02%) Chartered Engineer
12 13 (0.95%) CISSP
12 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 12 (0.88%) Postgraduate
14 11 (0.81%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.81%) SANS
15 10 (0.73%) CISM
15 10 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.88%) SLA
4 51 (3.73%) GDPR
5 39 (2.86%) NIST
5 39 (2.86%) QA
6 36 (2.64%) GRC
7 35 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (2.34%) WCAG
9 24 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.73%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) COBIT
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 4 (0.29%) IFRS
15 3 (0.22%) ARP4761
System Software
1 70 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.51%) Docker
3 26 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (1.24%) vSphere
6 13 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.073%) Firmware
8 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (4.39%) Terraform
2 32 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.66%) Autotask
5 8 (0.59%) Grafana
5 8 (0.59%) SCCM
6 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.29%) WSUS
8 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.15%) Ansible
9 2 (0.15%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.073%) Argo
10 1 (0.073%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.073%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 274 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.88%) Adobe
3 77 (5.64%) Salesforce
4 58 (4.25%) Google
5 52 (3.81%) Cisco
6 40 (2.93%) Apple
7 36 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.56%) Splunk
9 32 (2.34%) Palo Alto
10 31 (2.27%) VMware
11 29 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
12 23 (1.68%) Tenable
13 15 (1.10%) Instagram
13 15 (1.10%) SAP
14 14 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 14 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.88%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.81%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.81%) Workday
16 11 (0.81%) Wrike