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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -47 +11 +21
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,955 2,798 3,333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.34% 8.15% 6.03%
As % of the General category 5.33% 12.34% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 893 482 624
10th Percentile £28,350 £25,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,375 £31,250 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £47,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.58% -8.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £81,250 £78,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,310
% change year-on-year - -5.68% -10.29%

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 36,684 22,672 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.86% 66.00% 53.30%
Number of salaries quoted 22,615 11,042 14,010
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,398
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.93%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,655
% change year-on-year +1.85% -2.97% -7.24%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -64 495 £50,000 +12.36% 920
South East -29 426 £55,000 - 618
Midlands -46 298 £46,000 -3.16% 539
North West -55 284 £42,000 +0.40% 574
South West -12 268 £55,000 +61.76% 463
West Midlands -39 179 £59,250 +7.73% 396
East of England +7 174 £41,739 -26.77% 256
Scotland -15 148 £45,000 +12.50% 645
North East +9 122 £60,000 +144.20% 123
East Midlands -29 118 £40,000 +23.08% 143
Wales -6 101 £53,000 -7.71% 79
Yorkshire +1 89 £40,000 -52.94% 225
Northern Ireland -43 51 £74,742 -3.21% 227
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 45 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.74%) Confluence
4 18 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.72%) Apache
7 12 (0.61%) CMS
8 10 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.31%) WordPress
10 5 (0.26%) Moodle
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.10%) Totara
13 1 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.051%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.051%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.051%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 109 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 98 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.92%) Simulink
5 13 (0.66%) Revit
6 12 (0.61%) Maple
7 10 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.51%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.46%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.41%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.41%) InDesign
9 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 7 (0.36%) Sketch
11 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.20%) Mathcad
13 2 (0.10%) InVision
Business Applications
1 24 (1.23%) Cloudability
2 21 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 17 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.56%) Primavera
5 11 (0.56%) SAP EHS
5 11 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 9 (0.46%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.36%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.20%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.20%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.15%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP R/3
9 3 (0.15%) Shopify
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.10%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 330 (16.88%) Azure
2 243 (12.43%) AWS
3 129 (6.60%) GCP
4 103 (5.27%) Power Platform
5 99 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 83 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
7 57 (2.92%) Serverless
8 52 (2.66%) GitHub
9 39 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 39 (1.99%) SaaS
10 32 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 31 (1.59%) dbt
11 31 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (1.48%) PaaS
13 28 (1.43%) IaaS
14 27 (1.38%) Figma
15 26 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 37 (1.89%) Firewall
2 30 (1.53%) Internet
3 29 (1.48%) Network Security
4 25 (1.28%) 5G
5 23 (1.18%) Ethernet
6 22 (1.13%) VPN
7 19 (0.97%) DNS
7 19 (0.97%) Modbus
7 19 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.77%) Profibus
9 14 (0.72%) LAN
10 12 (0.61%) WAN
11 11 (0.56%) Broadband
11 11 (0.56%) DHCP
12 9 (0.46%) SAN
12 9 (0.46%) SSL
12 9 (0.46%) Wireless
13 8 (0.41%) HTTP
13 8 (0.41%) VLAN
14 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.04%) Power BI
2 45 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.38%) Tableau
4 24 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 20 (1.02%) Metadata
7 18 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 18 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.87%) MySQL
9 15 (0.77%) DynamoDB
9 15 (0.77%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (0.61%) GIS
12 11 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.51%) Big Data
14 9 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
14 9 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 94 (4.81%) Git
2 60 (3.07%) JIRA
3 51 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.59%) GitLab
5 22 (1.13%) Snyk
6 21 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.61%) Gatling
9 11 (0.56%) fastlane
9 11 (0.56%) JMeter
10 9 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.36%) Moq
12 7 (0.36%) MSI
12 7 (0.36%) Postman
12 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.31%) Xcode
14 5 (0.26%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.26%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.26%) Gradle
General
1 809 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 525 (26.85%) Finance
3 294 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
4 267 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 166 (8.49%) Marketing
6 163 (8.34%) Law
7 140 (7.16%) Aerospace
8 119 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
9 110 (5.63%) Retail
10 105 (5.37%) Legal
11 84 (4.30%) Manufacturing
12 75 (3.84%) Local Government
13 69 (3.53%) Electronics
14 61 (3.12%) Telecoms
15 45 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
16 44 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
17 38 (1.94%) Banking
18 30 (1.53%) Military
19 20 (1.02%) Financial Institution
20 19 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 369 (18.87%) Senior
2 208 (10.64%) Lead
3 181 (9.26%) Architect
4 178 (9.10%) Analyst
5 99 (5.06%) Developer
6 98 (5.01%) Sales Executive
7 75 (3.84%) Consultant
8 64 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
9 58 (2.97%) Systems Engineer
10 56 (2.86%) Software Engineer
11 54 (2.76%) Business Analyst
12 48 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
13 41 (2.10%) Senior Architect
14 39 (1.99%) IT Engineer
15 38 (1.94%) Cloud Architect
15 38 (1.94%) Project Engineer
15 38 (1.94%) Technical Architect
16 36 (1.84%) Designer
17 32 (1.64%) Design Engineer
18 31 (1.59%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (4.14%) Terraform
2 56 (2.86%) .NET
3 46 (2.35%) CSS
3 46 (2.35%) HTML
4 41 (2.10%) RESTful
5 35 (1.79%) React
6 33 (1.69%) Node.js
7 31 (1.59%) XML
8 30 (1.53%) EDI
8 30 (1.53%) REST
9 27 (1.38%) .NET Core
10 22 (1.13%) .NET Framework
11 20 (1.02%) Spring
12 18 (0.92%) ASP.NET
12 18 (0.92%) Entity Framework
13 17 (0.87%) Spring Boot
14 16 (0.82%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.82%) XSLT
15 15 (0.77%) JSON
15 15 (0.77%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 183 (9.36%) Driving Licence
2 154 (7.88%) Onboarding
3 108 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 98 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 88 (4.50%) Product Ownership
6 86 (4.40%) Cloud Native
7 72 (3.68%) Data Centre
8 54 (2.76%) Social Media
9 46 (2.35%) Public Cloud
10 39 (1.99%) Cyberattack
11 35 (1.79%) SCADA
12 31 (1.59%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.13%) FPGA
16 21 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 20 (1.02%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 119 (6.09%) Windows
2 58 (2.97%) Linux
3 31 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 18 (0.92%) VMS
7 14 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.72%) Unix
8 12 (0.61%) Android
9 5 (0.26%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.20%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.15%) Solaris
12 2 (0.10%) AIX
12 2 (0.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (24.96%) Agile
2 450 (23.02%) AI
3 413 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
4 330 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 285 (14.58%) Mentoring
6 284 (14.53%) Decision-Making
7 243 (12.43%) CI/CD
8 226 (11.56%) DevOps
9 224 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 221 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
11 168 (8.59%) Customer Service
12 166 (8.49%) Roadmaps
13 149 (7.62%) Validation
14 144 (7.37%) Analytics
15 138 (7.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 135 (6.91%) Collaborative Working
17 134 (6.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 130 (6.65%) Coaching
19 128 (6.55%) Software Engineering
20 127 (6.50%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 168 (8.59%) Python
2 127 (6.50%) SQL
3 76 (3.89%) C#
4 68 (3.48%) JavaScript
5 60 (3.07%) Java
6 49 (2.51%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.10%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.64%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.53%) Bicep
10 26 (1.33%) Bash
11 22 (1.13%) C++
12 17 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.77%) Go
14 10 (0.51%) ABAP
14 10 (0.51%) Ada
14 10 (0.51%) Ruby
15 8 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.36%) C
16 7 (0.36%) PHP
16 7 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 443 (22.66%) Degree
2 375 (19.18%) Security Cleared
3 346 (17.70%) SC Cleared
4 159 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 148 (7.57%) DBS Check
6 115 (5.88%) DV Cleared
7 93 (4.76%) HNC
8 50 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 48 (2.46%) Master's Degree
10 47 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.25%) Chartered Engineer
12 31 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.53%) PhD
14 27 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 27 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (1.13%) HND
16 17 (0.87%) ACCA
16 17 (0.87%) CIMA
16 17 (0.87%) CISSP
17 13 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (13.40%) Accessibility
2 93 (4.76%) QA
3 79 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.27%) SLA
5 61 (3.12%) GDPR
6 47 (2.40%) WCAG
7 35 (1.79%) GRC
8 33 (1.69%) NIST
9 32 (1.64%) NCSC
10 25 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 19 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.26%) GAAP
15 5 (0.26%) IFRS
15 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.20%) DO-160
16 4 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (4.09%) Docker
2 76 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.05%) Firmware
4 24 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.61%) vSphere
7 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.26%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.051%) IAG
10 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.28%) Grafana
3 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.82%) SCCM
5 12 (0.61%) Ansible
5 12 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.41%) Kibana
7 7 (0.36%) WSUS
8 4 (0.20%) Argo
8 4 (0.20%) Autotask
9 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.10%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.10%) Puppet
10 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.051%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.051%) QRadar
11 1 (0.051%) SCOM
11 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.051%) VxRail
Vendors
1 346 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.14%) SAP
3 76 (3.89%) Google
4 64 (3.27%) Adobe
5 51 (2.61%) Apple
6 48 (2.46%) Workday
7 38 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.84%) Cisco
9 34 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.53%) VMware
11 28 (1.43%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.33%) Facebook
12 26 (1.33%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
14 23 (1.18%) Instagram
15 22 (1.13%) Tenable
16 21 (1.07%) Oracle
17 14 (0.72%) OpenAI
17 14 (0.72%) Splunk
18 13 (0.66%) Databricks