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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -48 0 +42
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,754 2,775 4,143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.27% 7.99% 6.93%
As % of the General category 5.14% 11.98% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 845 481 844
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,600 £28,573
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,448 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £80,000 £73,750
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 34,101 23,169 32,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.19% 66.69% 54.02%
Number of salaries quoted 21,044 11,336 18,193
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £62,500 £63,750
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 13 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 13 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 -65 441 £52,500 +11.70% 261
South East -40 335 £56,000 +12.00% 297
Midlands -52 274 £45,000 -8.16% 146
North West -61 245 £42,000 -8.70% 149
South West -18 242 £57,500 +48.39% 183
West Midlands -37 167 £59,250 +7.73% 80
Scotland -8 159 £52,500 +31.25% 140
East of England -3 154 £40,000 -29.82% 86
East Midlands -37 106 £40,000 +23.08% 66
North East +4 102 £60,000 +144.20% 38
Wales +2 102 £53,500 -6.84% 31
Yorkshire +13 94 £51,000 -36.25% 74
Northern Ireland -31 55 £73,801 -3.01% 50
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 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (2.05%) Confluence
3 28 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 17 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.86%) Apache
7 10 (0.57%) CMS
7 10 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.29%) WordPress
9 4 (0.23%) IIS
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.11%) Moodle
10 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.11%) Totara
11 1 (0.057%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.057%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 84 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.03%) Simulink
4 15 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.74%) Acrobat
6 9 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.46%) InDesign
7 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.46%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.40%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.40%) Sketch
9 6 (0.34%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.23%) Mathcad
11 3 (0.17%) Maple
11 3 (0.17%) Revit
11 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.37%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.74%) Workday HCM
4 11 (0.63%) Primavera
5 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.29%) SAP EHS
6 5 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.17%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.17%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.17%) SAP WM
8 3 (0.17%) Shopify
9 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.057%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 308 (17.56%) Azure
2 224 (12.77%) AWS
3 135 (7.70%) GCP
4 92 (5.25%) Power Platform
5 87 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (2.96%) GitHub
8 47 (2.68%) Serverless
9 41 (2.34%) SaaS
10 36 (2.05%) dbt
11 33 (1.88%) PaaS
12 28 (1.60%) Entra ID
12 28 (1.60%) Figma
13 27 (1.54%) IaaS
14 25 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
15 23 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
16 22 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (0.86%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.11%) Firewall
2 36 (2.05%) Broadband
3 27 (1.54%) Network Security
4 22 (1.25%) VPN
5 20 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.08%) DNS
7 18 (1.03%) Internet
8 17 (0.97%) LAN
9 16 (0.91%) DHCP
10 15 (0.86%) WAN
11 10 (0.57%) Ethernet
11 10 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.57%) Wireless
12 9 (0.51%) SAN
12 9 (0.51%) VLAN
13 7 (0.40%) SSL
14 4 (0.23%) Modbus
14 4 (0.23%) Unified Communications
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
15 3 (0.17%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.33%) Power BI
2 39 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.48%) Tableau
5 22 (1.25%) Metadata
6 20 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 17 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 17 (0.97%) MySQL
8 16 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.74%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.74%) DynamoDB
10 13 (0.74%) GIS
11 11 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
12 10 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.57%) Big Data
12 10 (0.57%) Looker
13 9 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (4.10%) Git
2 65 (3.71%) JIRA
3 63 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.45%) GitLab
5 22 (1.25%) Snyk
6 20 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
6 20 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 14 (0.80%) fastlane
7 14 (0.80%) LabVIEW
8 9 (0.51%) JMeter
8 9 (0.51%) Postman
9 8 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.46%) Xcode
10 7 (0.40%) Gatling
10 7 (0.40%) Moq
10 7 (0.40%) MSI
11 6 (0.34%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.34%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 684 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 457 (26.05%) Finance
3 256 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (14.03%) Public Sector
5 156 (8.89%) Marketing
6 141 (8.04%) Law
7 130 (7.41%) Aerospace
8 101 (5.76%) Legal
9 91 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
10 83 (4.73%) Retail
11 68 (3.88%) Manufacturing
12 63 (3.59%) Local Government
13 55 (3.14%) Electronics
14 45 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (2.34%) Games
16 35 (2.00%) Banking
17 33 (1.88%) Telecoms
18 29 (1.65%) Military
18 29 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
19 18 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 357 (20.35%) Senior
2 194 (11.06%) Analyst
3 191 (10.89%) Architect
4 178 (10.15%) Lead
5 90 (5.13%) Developer
6 78 (4.45%) Sales Executive
7 68 (3.88%) Consultant
8 67 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
9 62 (3.53%) Business Analyst
10 54 (3.08%) Software Engineer
10 54 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
11 52 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.62%) IT Engineer
13 41 (2.34%) Technical Architect
14 40 (2.28%) Senior Architect
15 39 (2.22%) Cloud Architect
16 32 (1.82%) Account Executive
16 32 (1.82%) Designer
17 30 (1.71%) IT Support
18 29 (1.65%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.19%) .NET
2 47 (2.68%) REST
3 44 (2.51%) CSS
4 42 (2.39%) HTML
5 41 (2.34%) RESTful
6 31 (1.77%) Node.js
6 31 (1.77%) React
7 26 (1.48%) .NET Core
8 23 (1.31%) SOAP
9 22 (1.25%) .NET Framework
10 21 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
10 21 (1.20%) Visualforce
10 21 (1.20%) XML
11 20 (1.14%) EDI
11 20 (1.14%) Spring
12 18 (1.03%) Android SDK
12 18 (1.03%) Entity Framework
13 17 (0.97%) ASP.NET
13 17 (0.97%) Spring Boot
14 15 (0.86%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 131 (7.47%) Driving Licence
2 120 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 107 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
4 105 (5.99%) Product Ownership
5 82 (4.68%) Cloud Native
6 70 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 62 (3.53%) Data Centre
8 52 (2.96%) Social Media
9 43 (2.45%) Cyberattack
10 40 (2.28%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.77%) Mobile App
12 30 (1.71%) Algorithms
13 23 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.25%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.20%) FPGA
16 20 (1.14%) Credit Risk
17 19 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
18 18 (1.03%) Life Science
19 17 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.21%) Windows
2 58 (3.31%) Linux
3 31 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.43%) Android
5 22 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 22 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.08%) Unix
7 12 (0.68%) VMS
8 11 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.29%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.057%) AIX
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (27.54%) Agile
2 416 (23.72%) AI
3 371 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
4 273 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 260 (14.82%) Decision-Making
6 258 (14.71%) CI/CD
7 252 (14.37%) Mentoring
8 232 (13.23%) DevOps
9 199 (11.35%) Cybersecurity
10 178 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 162 (9.24%) Roadmaps
12 143 (8.15%) Analytics
13 139 (7.92%) Validation
14 132 (7.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 125 (7.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 121 (6.90%) Coaching
16 121 (6.90%) Customer Service
17 120 (6.84%) Scrum
18 117 (6.67%) Software Engineering
19 110 (6.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 173 (9.86%) Python
2 133 (7.58%) SQL
3 74 (4.22%) Java
4 60 (3.42%) C#
5 59 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 50 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 34 (1.94%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.82%) MATLAB
9 29 (1.65%) Bicep
10 27 (1.54%) Bash
11 21 (1.20%) Apex Code
11 21 (1.20%) C++
12 20 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 20 (1.14%) SOQL
12 20 (1.14%) SOSL
13 19 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
14 15 (0.86%) Go
15 10 (0.57%) PHP
16 9 (0.51%) Ada
17 7 (0.40%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 393 (22.41%) Degree
2 354 (20.18%) Security Cleared
3 330 (18.81%) SC Cleared
4 141 (8.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 112 (6.39%) DV Cleared
6 93 (5.30%) DBS Check
7 44 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 43 (2.45%) HNC
9 38 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 38 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 33 (1.88%) Chartered Engineer
12 32 (1.82%) PhD
13 27 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.86%) CISSP
16 13 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.68%) ACCA
17 12 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.49%) Accessibility
2 73 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.71%) QA
4 63 (3.59%) SLA
5 52 (2.96%) GDPR
6 44 (2.51%) WCAG
7 37 (2.11%) GRC
8 36 (2.05%) NIST
9 25 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 25 (1.43%) NCSC
10 22 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.23%) DO-160
15 4 (0.23%) GAAP
15 4 (0.23%) IFRS
15 4 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 89 (5.07%) Docker
2 75 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.17%) Firmware
4 24 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.68%) vSphere
6 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.29%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.057%) IAG
9 1 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 92 (5.25%) Terraform
2 68 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.14%) Grafana
5 18 (1.03%) SCCM
6 12 (0.68%) Ansible
7 11 (0.63%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.40%) WSUS
9 5 (0.29%) Autotask
10 4 (0.23%) Argo
10 4 (0.23%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.17%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.11%) Puppet
13 1 (0.057%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.057%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.057%) Nessus
13 1 (0.057%) SCOM
Vendors
1 298 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.02%) Google
3 71 (4.05%) Adobe
4 53 (3.02%) SAP
5 50 (2.85%) Workday
6 47 (2.68%) Apple
7 45 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.05%) Cisco
10 30 (1.71%) VMware
11 26 (1.48%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
13 24 (1.37%) Splunk
14 23 (1.31%) Dynatrace
15 22 (1.25%) Tenable
16 19 (1.08%) Instagram
17 18 (1.03%) Oracle
18 14 (0.80%) Facebook
19 13 (0.74%) OpenAI
20 12 (0.68%) ScienceLogic