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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 38 41
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,840 2,313 1,810
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.80% 4.87% 5.95%
As % of the General category 12.63% 8.86% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 508 503 745
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £32,435
25th Percentile £27,707 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,312 £79,225 £84,034
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +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 22,492 26,117 19,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.79% 54.99% 63.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12,314 11,194 13,997
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,067 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

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 12 November 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 12 November 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 +32 1,074 £35,000 -40.48% 153
North West +23 942 £35,000 -40.79% 81
South East +17 663 £52,500 -19.23% 371
East of England +8 300 £57,000 +26.67% 45
Midlands +30 297 £47,500 -9.52% 132
Scotland -8 262 £25,835 -53.03% 85
South West +5 196 £28,500 -24.00% 111
West Midlands +25 185 £55,000 -3.51% 80
Yorkshire +12 113 £33,250 -31.79% 54
East Midlands +28 112 £35,000 -12.50% 52
Wales +6 37 £55,000 -10.96% 19
North East -10 19 £26,668 -58.97% 18
Northern Ireland -13 11 £74,830 +25.91% 16
Channel Islands - 6 - -
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 26 (0.92%) Apache Spark
2 17 (0.60%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.49%) Apache
4 9 (0.32%) CMS
5 8 (0.28%) Camunda
5 8 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.070%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.035%) Drupal
8 1 (0.035%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.035%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.035%) WordPress
Applications
1 71 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 14 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.28%) Revit
6 7 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.21%) Civil 3D
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.18%) Navisworks
8 5 (0.18%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.070%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.035%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.035%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.035%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 15 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.070%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.035%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.035%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.035%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.035%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.035%) Primavera
6 1 (0.035%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (47.15%) Cloud Computing
2 138 (4.86%) AWS
3 90 (3.17%) Azure
4 69 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (1.73%) Power Platform
6 27 (0.95%) SaaS
7 25 (0.88%) GCP
8 23 (0.81%) Entra ID
9 19 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (0.67%) Serverless
10 18 (0.63%) Amazon S3
11 15 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.32%) GitHub
13 9 (0.32%) npm
14 7 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.25%) Google Analytics
14 7 (0.25%) PaaS
14 7 (0.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1,356 (47.75%) Internet
2 207 (7.29%) VPN
3 190 (6.69%) Cisco IOS
4 25 (0.88%) LAN
5 22 (0.77%) Firewall
5 22 (0.77%) WAN
6 16 (0.56%) Broadband
7 11 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.35%) DNS
8 10 (0.35%) Network Security
9 7 (0.25%) DHCP
9 7 (0.25%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.14%) HTTP
10 4 (0.14%) Modbus
10 4 (0.14%) MPLS
11 3 (0.11%) ADSL
11 3 (0.11%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.11%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.11%) LoRaWAN
11 3 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (1.55%) Power BI
2 28 (0.99%) Big Data
2 28 (0.99%) NoSQL
3 24 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 17 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 15 (0.53%) Tableau
7 13 (0.46%) SQL Server
8 12 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (0.42%) KDB
8 12 (0.42%) Kdb+
8 12 (0.42%) Power Query
9 11 (0.39%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.35%) MySQL
11 9 (0.32%) Apache Hive
11 9 (0.32%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (0.28%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.02%) JIRA
3 26 (0.92%) Git
4 20 (0.70%) JUnit
5 18 (0.63%) Maven
6 16 (0.56%) GitLab
7 15 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 14 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.42%) Selenium
10 10 (0.35%) webpack
11 7 (0.25%) Vite
12 6 (0.21%) Gradle
13 4 (0.14%) Locust
13 4 (0.14%) Subversion
13 4 (0.14%) WebDriver
14 3 (0.11%) Mockito
14 3 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
14 3 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
15 2 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,760 (61.97%) Social Skills
2 1,465 (51.58%) Banking
3 466 (16.41%) Finance
4 335 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 297 (10.46%) Law
6 212 (7.46%) Marketing
7 144 (5.07%) Retail
8 139 (4.89%) Public Sector
9 67 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (2.18%) Legal
11 36 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 26 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 20 (0.70%) Investment Banking
15 19 (0.67%) Games
16 17 (0.60%) French Language
16 17 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (0.56%) Automotive
18 15 (0.53%) Swedish Language
19 14 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1,072 (37.75%) Lecturer
2 220 (7.75%) Software Engineer
3 210 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 184 (6.48%) Senior
5 163 (5.74%) Lead
6 115 (4.05%) Java Engineer
7 112 (3.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 81 (2.85%) Analyst
9 75 (2.64%) Senior Manager
10 63 (2.22%) Microsoft Specialist
11 60 (2.11%) Lead Software Engineer
12 56 (1.97%) Architect
12 56 (1.97%) Project Engineer
13 54 (1.90%) Sales Manager
14 48 (1.69%) Python Engineer
15 47 (1.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (1.65%) Python Software Engineer
16 46 (1.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 44 (1.55%) Support Engineer
18 42 (1.48%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
2 111 (3.91%) Spring
3 83 (2.92%) React
4 73 (2.57%) Kafka
5 63 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 56 (1.97%) REST
7 35 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 31 (1.09%) HTML
9 27 (0.95%) RESTful
10 26 (0.92%) CSS
11 25 (0.88%) EDI
12 22 (0.77%) SOAP
13 21 (0.74%) Node.js
14 20 (0.70%) Web Services
15 18 (0.63%) Lightning Web Components
15 18 (0.63%) Visualforce
16 14 (0.49%) PySpark
17 13 (0.46%) .NET
18 12 (0.42%) Hibernate
19 11 (0.39%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1,339 (47.15%) IoT
2 191 (6.73%) Cyberattack
3 90 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 73 (2.57%) Cloud Native
5 70 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 49 (1.73%) Driving Licence
7 44 (1.55%) Blog
8 37 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 33 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 29 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 26 (0.92%) Product Ownership
12 26 (0.92%) Social Media
13 23 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 21 (0.74%) e-Learning
15 18 (0.63%) Microsoft Licensing
16 15 (0.53%) Podcast
16 15 (0.53%) Reference Data
17 14 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.49%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 236 (8.31%) Windows
2 203 (7.15%) Linux
3 198 (6.97%) Android
4 12 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.25%) Unix
6 7 (0.25%) Windows Server
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 (0.035%) Debian
9 1 (0.035%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,726 (60.77%) AI
2 1,471 (51.80%) Machine Learning
3 1,430 (50.35%) Cybersecurity
4 1,359 (47.85%) User Experience
5 1,346 (47.39%) Web Development
6 415 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
7 354 (12.46%) Agile
8 267 (9.40%) DevOps
9 264 (9.30%) Risk Management
10 243 (8.56%) Software Engineering
11 240 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 219 (7.71%) Mathematics
13 216 (7.61%) Line Management
14 212 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 201 (7.08%) CI/CD
16 199 (7.01%) SDLC
17 194 (6.83%) Storage Management
17 194 (6.83%) Task Automation
18 193 (6.80%) Platform Engineering
19 180 (6.34%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 300 (10.56%) Python
2 203 (7.15%) PowerShell
3 191 (6.73%) Bash
4 181 (6.37%) Java
5 113 (3.98%) SQL
6 58 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 26 (0.92%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.70%) C#
9 18 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 15 (0.53%) SOQL
10 15 (0.53%) SOSL
11 12 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.25%) Go
14 5 (0.18%) C++
14 5 (0.18%) R
15 4 (0.14%) C
15 4 (0.14%) PHP
15 4 (0.14%) Scala
15 4 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,663 (58.56%) Degree
2 1,337 (47.08%) Master's Degree
3 1,334 (46.97%) Postgraduate
4 1,333 (46.94%) PhD
5 48 (1.69%) Security Cleared
6 36 (1.27%) SC Cleared
7 27 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 20 (0.70%) PMP
9 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (0.60%) HNC
11 15 (0.53%) MCSE
12 12 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
13 10 (0.35%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.35%) HND
14 9 (0.32%) AWS Certification
15 8 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.28%) City & Guilds
16 7 (0.25%) CISSP
17 6 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (1.34%) QA
2 29 (1.02%) SLA
3 24 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (0.81%) NIST
5 20 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 18 (0.63%) PMO
7 16 (0.56%) GDPR
8 15 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 15 (0.53%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.32%) COBIT
9 9 (0.32%) NCSC
10 5 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.14%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.14%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.070%) GRC
12 2 (0.070%) P3O
12 2 (0.070%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.035%) IASME
13 1 (0.035%) IFRS
System Software
1 218 (7.68%) Docker
2 192 (6.76%) Hyper-V
3 190 (6.69%) VMware NSX
3 190 (6.69%) vSphere
4 39 (1.37%) Active Directory
5 15 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.18%) HDFS
7 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.035%) iptables
9 1 (0.035%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 234 (8.24%) Terraform
2 204 (7.18%) Ansible
3 70 (2.46%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.60%) Grafana
5 16 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.18%) Argo
8 4 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.14%) Netcool
8 4 (0.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 4 (0.14%) SCCM
8 4 (0.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.14%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.11%) CASB
9 3 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.070%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.070%) Nessus
11 1 (0.035%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.035%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.035%) Puppet
Vendors
1 260 (9.15%) Cisco
1 260 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 230 (8.10%) Splunk
3 204 (7.18%) Juniper
4 190 (6.69%) 3PAR
5 68 (2.39%) Oracle
6 38 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 32 (1.13%) NEC
8 30 (1.06%) Apple
9 29 (1.02%) Adobe
10 28 (0.99%) Palo Alto
11 25 (0.88%) Databricks
11 25 (0.88%) Google
11 25 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 21 (0.74%) IBM
13 19 (0.67%) Red Hat
14 18 (0.63%) Autodesk
14 18 (0.63%) Dell
15 17 (0.60%) Dynatrace
15 17 (0.60%) VMware