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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -51 0 +44
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,635 2,770 4,199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.16% 8.05% 6.99%
As % of the General category 4.87% 12.03% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 814 477 893
10th Percentile £28,350 £25,990 £28,745
25th Percentile £35,447 £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 £69,938 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £79,400 £73,299
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year - +0.75% -16.02%

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 33,547 23,023 32,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.35% 66.90% 53.87%
Number of salaries quoted 20,650 11,292 18,578
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.67% -6.14%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,082
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 5 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 5 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 -67 431 £55,000 +17.02% 287
South East -51 303 £55,000 +26.44% 293
Midlands -52 267 £45,000 -10.00% 152
North West -64 240 £42,000 -6.67% 180
South West -21 232 £57,500 +37.72% 187
West Midlands -38 164 £60,000 +9.09% 91
Scotland -15 141 £52,500 +23.53% 102
East of England -16 132 £40,000 -29.82% 71
East Midlands -37 102 £40,000 +23.08% 60
Wales +4 100 £54,500 -0.91% 22
North East +4 96 £60,000 +144.20% 33
Yorkshire +2 95 £51,723 -31.04% 74
Northern Ireland -48 38 £56,901 -25.22% 52
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 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (1.96%) Confluence
3 29 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.92%) Apache
7 10 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.55%) CMS
9 5 (0.31%) WordPress
10 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
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 (0.061%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.061%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 80 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.28%) Acrobat
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.73%) Simulink
6 9 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.49%) InDesign
7 8 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.37%) Sketch
10 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.18%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.12%) Maple
11 2 (0.12%) Revit
11 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.47%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.67%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.24%) SAP EHS
5 4 (0.24%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.061%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.061%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.061%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.061%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.061%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 292 (17.86%) Azure
2 206 (12.60%) AWS
3 128 (7.83%) GCP
4 90 (5.50%) Power Platform
5 84 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 50 (3.06%) GitHub
8 46 (2.81%) Serverless
9 36 (2.20%) dbt
10 33 (2.02%) SaaS
11 28 (1.71%) PaaS
12 27 (1.65%) Entra ID
12 27 (1.65%) Figma
13 24 (1.47%) IaaS
14 23 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
16 21 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
16 21 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
18 15 (0.92%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.75%) Broadband
2 39 (2.39%) Firewall
3 26 (1.59%) Network Security
4 24 (1.47%) VPN
5 19 (1.16%) DNS
5 19 (1.16%) LAN
6 18 (1.10%) Internet
6 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.04%) WAN
8 16 (0.98%) DHCP
9 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.61%) Wireless
11 9 (0.55%) SAN
12 8 (0.49%) SSL
12 8 (0.49%) VLAN
13 5 (0.31%) Ethernet
14 3 (0.18%) Intranet
14 3 (0.18%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.18%) Unified Communications
15 2 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.65%) Power BI
2 33 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.53%) Tableau
5 21 (1.28%) Metadata
6 18 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (0.98%) MySQL
9 15 (0.92%) GIS
9 15 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
11 12 (0.73%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.61%) Looker
13 9 (0.55%) Big Data
13 9 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (4.10%) Jenkins
2 64 (3.91%) Git
3 56 (3.43%) JIRA
4 49 (3.00%) GitLab
5 26 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.35%) Snyk
7 14 (0.86%) fastlane
7 14 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
8 12 (0.73%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.61%) Postman
10 8 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.49%) JMeter
10 8 (0.49%) Xcode
11 7 (0.43%) Moq
11 7 (0.43%) MSI
12 6 (0.37%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.37%) Gatling
12 6 (0.37%) Gradle
General
1 632 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 403 (24.65%) Finance
3 231 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.99%) Marketing
6 127 (7.77%) Law
7 102 (6.24%) Legal
8 89 (5.44%) Aerospace
9 85 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
10 80 (4.89%) Retail
11 62 (3.79%) Local Government
12 55 (3.36%) Manufacturing
13 47 (2.87%) Games
14 39 (2.39%) Electronics
15 37 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (2.02%) Banking
17 26 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.35%) Telecoms
19 19 (1.16%) Military
20 17 (1.04%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 334 (20.43%) Senior
2 187 (11.44%) Analyst
3 181 (11.07%) Architect
4 144 (8.81%) Lead
5 88 (5.38%) Developer
6 76 (4.65%) Sales Executive
7 62 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
8 56 (3.43%) Business Analyst
9 50 (3.06%) Consultant
9 50 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.87%) IT Engineer
11 46 (2.81%) Systems Engineer
12 41 (2.51%) Software Engineer
13 40 (2.45%) Technical Architect
14 38 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
14 38 (2.32%) Senior Architect
15 32 (1.96%) Account Executive
16 31 (1.90%) IT Support
17 29 (1.77%) IT Manager
18 28 (1.71%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.18%) REST
2 47 (2.87%) .NET
3 41 (2.51%) CSS
4 39 (2.39%) HTML
4 39 (2.39%) RESTful
5 30 (1.83%) Node.js
6 29 (1.77%) SOAP
7 28 (1.71%) React
8 27 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
8 27 (1.65%) Visualforce
9 20 (1.22%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.22%) EDI
10 19 (1.16%) .NET Framework
10 19 (1.16%) Android SDK
10 19 (1.16%) Spring
10 19 (1.16%) XML
11 17 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 15 (0.92%) Entity Framework
13 14 (0.86%) GraphQL
14 13 (0.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.52%) Onboarding
2 120 (7.34%) Driving Licence
3 108 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 102 (6.24%) Self-Motivation
5 76 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 67 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.67%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.87%) Social Media
9 44 (2.69%) Cyberattack
10 34 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 28 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 28 (1.71%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.35%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.16%) Credit Risk
15 18 (1.10%) CSOC
15 18 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
16 16 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
17 15 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.24%) Windows
2 54 (3.30%) Linux
3 30 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.53%) Android
5 21 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.22%) Apple iOS
7 19 (1.16%) Unix
8 12 (0.73%) VMS
9 10 (0.61%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.24%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.061%) AIX
13 1 (0.061%) Debian
13 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (26.91%) Agile
2 382 (23.36%) AI
3 317 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 251 (15.35%) CI/CD
6 235 (14.37%) Decision-Making
7 227 (13.88%) Mentoring
8 223 (13.64%) DevOps
9 192 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
10 154 (9.42%) Roadmaps
10 154 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 136 (8.32%) Analytics
12 123 (7.52%) Validation
13 122 (7.46%) Scrum
14 121 (7.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 121 (7.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 116 (7.09%) Customer Service
16 101 (6.18%) Coaching
17 98 (5.99%) Test Automation
18 97 (5.93%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 164 (10.03%) Python
2 131 (8.01%) SQL
3 67 (4.10%) Java
4 54 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.00%) C#
6 48 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 29 (1.77%) Bicep
9 27 (1.65%) Apex Code
10 26 (1.59%) Bash
10 26 (1.59%) SOQL
10 26 (1.59%) SOSL
11 25 (1.53%) MATLAB
12 20 (1.22%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.98%) C++
15 15 (0.92%) Go
16 10 (0.61%) PHP
17 7 (0.43%) Ruby
17 7 (0.43%) XAML
Qualifications
1 350 (21.41%) Degree
2 298 (18.23%) Security Cleared
3 278 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 103 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 84 (5.14%) DBS Check
6 76 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.20%) Azure Certification
9 33 (2.02%) HNC
10 31 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 29 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.71%) PhD
13 27 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 26 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
15 25 (1.53%) Chartered Engineer
16 14 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.80%) CISSP
17 13 (0.80%) Postgraduate
18 12 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
18 12 (0.73%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 71 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.79%) SLA
4 56 (3.43%) QA
5 50 (3.06%) GDPR
6 44 (2.69%) WCAG
7 38 (2.32%) GRC
8 37 (2.26%) NIST
9 28 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 23 (1.41%) NCSC
11 22 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.24%) GAAP
16 4 (0.24%) IFRS
17 3 (0.18%) ARP4761
17 3 (0.18%) DO-160
17 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 84 (5.14%) Docker
2 73 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.47%) Firmware
4 23 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.73%) vSphere
6 8 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.061%) IAG
9 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (5.38%) Terraform
2 63 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.16%) Grafana
5 16 (0.98%) SCCM
6 12 (0.73%) Ansible
7 10 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.37%) Autotask
8 6 (0.37%) WSUS
9 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.24%) Argo
10 4 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (0.18%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.12%) Kibana
12 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.12%) Puppet
13 1 (0.061%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.061%) Functional Safety
13 1 (0.061%) SCOM
Vendors
1 296 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.02%) Google
3 76 (4.65%) Adobe
4 50 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.69%) Apple
6 38 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.20%) Cisco
8 32 (1.96%) SAP
9 31 (1.90%) Workday
10 30 (1.83%) Splunk
11 29 (1.77%) VMware
12 27 (1.65%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
14 22 (1.35%) Dynatrace
14 22 (1.35%) Tenable
15 19 (1.16%) Instagram
16 14 (0.86%) Oracle
17 13 (0.80%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.73%) Facebook
18 12 (0.73%) ScienceLogic