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 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -36 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,208 2,701 2,677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.55% 7.82% 5.25%
As % of the General category 5.75% 11.88% 9.64%
Number of salaries quoted 905 488 510
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £28,974
25th Percentile £35,150 £29,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,249
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.87% -5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,875
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,241 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%

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 38,430 22,737 27,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.36% 65.82% 54.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23,679 11,186 12,267
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% -0.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -48 594 £47,073 -0.90% 705
South East -16 466 £56,000 +1.82% 487
Midlands -27 377 £46,000 -3.16% 352
North West -48 339 £42,000 -10.14% 400
South West -22 264 £40,000 +32.23% 258
East of England +14 208 £37,750 -31.67% 233
West Midlands -33 196 £59,250 +7.73% 234
East Midlands -1 180 £43,353 +38.73% 118
North East +15 145 £65,500 +166.59% 118
Scotland -17 144 £35,000 +16.67% 425
Wales +4 114 £54,000 -1.82% 77
Yorkshire +5 110 £38,989 -54.13% 187
Northern Ireland -42 48 £74,742 -1.69% 133
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 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.72%) CMS
4 28 (1.27%) Confluence
5 21 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.72%) Apache
8 10 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.23%) Moodle
9 5 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.091%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.091%) Totara
12 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.045%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.045%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 116 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
2 115 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.95%) Maple
5 18 (0.82%) Simulink
6 17 (0.77%) Revit
7 15 (0.68%) AutoCAD
8 13 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
9 10 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
9 10 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
9 10 (0.45%) Photoshop
10 9 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 9 (0.41%) Notion
11 8 (0.36%) Adobe XD
11 8 (0.36%) InDesign
11 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
12 7 (0.32%) Sketch
13 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
14 4 (0.18%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 25 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (0.86%) Cloudability
4 15 (0.68%) SAP EHS
4 15 (0.68%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 12 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.50%) Primavera
7 9 (0.41%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
9 4 (0.18%) Shopify
10 3 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.14%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP R/3
11 2 (0.091%) Academy Housing
11 2 (0.091%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.091%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 331 (14.99%) Azure
2 261 (11.82%) AWS
3 126 (5.71%) GCP
4 111 (5.03%) SaaS
5 107 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 98 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (2.67%) GitHub
8 59 (2.67%) Serverless
9 44 (1.99%) Entra ID
10 38 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
11 35 (1.59%) dbt
12 33 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
13 31 (1.40%) PaaS
14 30 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.31%) IaaS
16 28 (1.27%) Figma
17 27 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.77%) Internet
2 36 (1.63%) Firewall
3 35 (1.59%) Ethernet
4 33 (1.49%) Modbus
5 27 (1.22%) Network Security
5 27 (1.22%) Profibus
6 26 (1.18%) 5G
6 26 (1.18%) VPN
7 23 (1.04%) DNS
8 22 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.59%) DHCP
9 13 (0.59%) LAN
10 12 (0.54%) SAN
11 11 (0.50%) SSL
12 10 (0.45%) VLAN
12 10 (0.45%) WAN
13 9 (0.41%) HTTP
14 6 (0.27%) Wireless
15 4 (0.18%) NAS
15 4 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.71%) Power BI
2 44 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 42 (1.90%) Tableau
4 25 (1.13%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 23 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (0.95%) GIS
8 19 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 19 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (0.86%) MySQL
9 18 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 17 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (0.77%) Metadata
11 16 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (0.68%) Big Data
12 15 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 13 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.45%) Power Query
15 9 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 107 (4.85%) Git
2 56 (2.54%) JIRA
3 49 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.54%) GitLab
5 19 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.68%) Snyk
7 14 (0.63%) LabVIEW
8 13 (0.59%) Gatling
9 11 (0.50%) fastlane
9 11 (0.50%) JMeter
10 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.36%) MSI
13 7 (0.32%) Moq
14 6 (0.27%) Xcode
15 5 (0.23%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.23%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.23%) Gradle
15 5 (0.23%) JUnit
16 4 (0.18%) Claude Code
General
1 944 (42.75%) Social Skills
2 645 (29.21%) Finance
3 329 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 290 (13.13%) Marketing
6 177 (8.02%) Law
7 150 (6.79%) Aerospace
8 140 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
8 140 (6.34%) Retail
9 114 (5.16%) Legal
10 98 (4.44%) Manufacturing
11 83 (3.76%) Local Government
12 77 (3.49%) Electronics
12 77 (3.49%) Telecoms
13 73 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
15 49 (2.22%) Banking
16 29 (1.31%) Military
17 27 (1.22%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 378 (17.12%) Senior
2 232 (10.51%) Lead
3 170 (7.70%) Analyst
4 152 (6.88%) Architect
5 137 (6.20%) Sales Executive
6 116 (5.25%) Developer
7 98 (4.44%) Consultant
8 70 (3.17%) Account Executive
9 59 (2.67%) Project Engineer
10 56 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
11 55 (2.49%) Software Engineer
12 50 (2.26%) Systems Engineer
13 49 (2.22%) Design Engineer
14 48 (2.17%) Electrical Engineer
15 47 (2.13%) Business Analyst
16 37 (1.68%) Designer
16 37 (1.68%) Sales Account Executive
16 37 (1.68%) Technical Architect
17 36 (1.63%) Project Manager
18 35 (1.59%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (3.94%) Terraform
2 66 (2.99%) CSS
3 55 (2.49%) .NET
4 48 (2.17%) HTML
5 47 (2.13%) RESTful
6 43 (1.95%) REST
7 37 (1.68%) XML
8 33 (1.49%) EDI
8 33 (1.49%) React
9 32 (1.45%) Node.js
10 29 (1.31%) Spring
11 27 (1.22%) .NET Core
12 26 (1.18%) Middleware
12 26 (1.18%) Spring Boot
13 24 (1.09%) Kafka
14 22 (1.00%) .NET Framework
15 19 (0.86%) LangChain
16 18 (0.82%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.82%) JWT
16 18 (0.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 267 (12.09%) Onboarding
2 226 (10.24%) Driving Licence
3 135 (6.11%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 97 (4.39%) Cloud Native
6 90 (4.08%) Product Ownership
7 69 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
8 68 (3.08%) Social Media
9 58 (2.63%) Data Centre
10 53 (2.40%) SCADA
11 46 (2.08%) Public Cloud
12 34 (1.54%) Algorithms
13 29 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
14 27 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 27 (1.22%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (1.04%) FPGA
17 22 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
18 21 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 125 (5.66%) Windows
2 60 (2.72%) Linux
3 26 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.91%) VMS
6 16 (0.72%) Android
7 15 (0.68%) macOS
8 13 (0.59%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.54%) Unix
10 5 (0.23%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Solaris
12 2 (0.091%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.045%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (25.95%) AI
2 526 (23.82%) Agile
3 446 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
4 410 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 312 (14.13%) Mentoring
6 306 (13.86%) Decision-Making
7 274 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 242 (10.96%) CI/CD
9 228 (10.33%) DevOps
10 217 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
11 197 (8.92%) Analytics
12 194 (8.79%) Roadmaps
13 191 (8.65%) Customer Service
14 182 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 179 (8.11%) Validation
16 168 (7.61%) Coaching
17 166 (7.52%) Collaborative Working
18 159 (7.20%) CRM
19 153 (6.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 138 (6.25%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 182 (8.24%) Python
2 139 (6.30%) SQL
3 90 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.40%) C#
5 69 (3.13%) Java
6 49 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 39 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.40%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.36%) Bicep
10 25 (1.13%) Bash
11 23 (1.04%) C++
12 17 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.68%) Go
14 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.50%) Ruby
16 10 (0.45%) ABAP
16 10 (0.45%) Ada
16 10 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.36%) C
18 7 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 525 (23.78%) Degree
2 416 (18.84%) Security Cleared
3 365 (16.53%) SC Cleared
4 186 (8.42%) DBS Check
5 165 (7.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 145 (6.57%) HNC
7 122 (5.53%) DV Cleared
8 106 (4.80%) Master's Degree
9 55 (2.49%) Azure Certification
10 53 (2.40%) AWS Certification
11 52 (2.36%) Chartered Engineer
12 35 (1.59%) HND
13 33 (1.49%) PhD
14 28 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
16 22 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (0.77%) CISSP
18 15 (0.68%) Postgraduate
19 13 (0.59%) ACCA
19 13 (0.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (12.77%) Accessibility
2 112 (5.07%) QA
3 93 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 68 (3.08%) GDPR
5 65 (2.94%) SLA
6 52 (2.36%) WCAG
7 36 (1.63%) NCSC
8 32 (1.45%) GRC
9 29 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 20 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (0.91%) NIST
11 14 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 8 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
16 3 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 87 (3.94%) Docker
2 72 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.86%) Firmware
4 21 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.54%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.14%) NFS
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.091%) IAG
12 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.31%) Grafana
3 25 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.63%) Ansible
5 14 (0.63%) SCCM
6 9 (0.41%) Kibana
7 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 4 (0.18%) Autotask
8 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.14%) WSUS
9 2 (0.091%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.091%) Puppet
9 2 (0.091%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.045%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.045%) QRadar
10 1 (0.045%) SCOM
10 1 (0.045%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.045%) VxRail
Vendors
1 387 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.35%) Samsung
3 94 (4.26%) TikTok
4 93 (4.21%) SAP
5 92 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 83 (3.76%) Adobe
7 72 (3.26%) Google
8 47 (2.13%) Workday
9 42 (1.90%) Apple
10 36 (1.63%) Cisco
11 31 (1.40%) Dynatrace
12 30 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 29 (1.31%) Facebook
14 26 (1.18%) Instagram
15 25 (1.13%) Oracle
16 23 (1.04%) VMware
17 19 (0.86%) Palo Alto
18 18 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
19 17 (0.77%) Botify
20 15 (0.68%) Tenable