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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,505 2,375 1,739
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.64% 5.26% 5.96%
As % of the General category 11.59% 9.07% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 505 521 743
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,707 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £53,300 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -3.09% +1.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,575 £79,600 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 21,619 26,182 18,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.32% 57.96% 63.31%
Number of salaries quoted 12,245 11,350 13,533
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +2.97% -3.81%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,548 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +27 904 £33,000 -40.00% 134
North West +19 775 £35,000 -38.27% 84
South East +16 667 £52,500 -12.86% 359
East of England +4 287 £59,500 +32.22% 58
Midlands +25 279 £47,500 -5.58% 151
West Midlands +21 177 £47,500 -9.52% 92
South West -12 167 £28,500 -32.54% 79
Scotland -19 160 £25,718 -53.24% 65
Yorkshire +8 115 £26,450 -48.39% 35
East Midlands +19 102 £35,000 -12.50% 55
Wales -2 32 £59,541 +13.21% 27
North East -8 14 £27,500 -57.69% 15
Northern Ireland -18 9 £76,024 +22.19% 1
Channel Islands - 6 - - 5
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 - 1
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 16 (0.64%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.28%) Apache
4 4 (0.16%) Camunda
4 4 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.12%) CMS
6 2 (0.080%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.080%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.080%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.040%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.040%) Drupal
7 1 (0.040%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.040%) WordPress
Applications
1 64 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.68%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.24%) Revit
6 5 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.16%) Civil 3D
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.12%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.12%) Simulink
9 2 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.040%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.040%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.040%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.040%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 13 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.080%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.080%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.040%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.040%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.040%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.040%) Primavera
5 1 (0.040%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,337 (53.37%) Cloud Computing
2 82 (3.27%) AWS
3 77 (3.07%) Azure
4 72 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (1.88%) Power Platform
6 28 (1.12%) SaaS
7 25 (1.00%) Entra ID
8 14 (0.56%) GCP
9 11 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (0.44%) Serverless
10 9 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (0.36%) Amazon S3
10 9 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.36%) Google Analytics
11 7 (0.28%) PaaS
12 6 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.24%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (0.24%) Figma
12 6 (0.24%) OneDrive
13 5 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1,350 (53.89%) Internet
2 16 (0.64%) Broadband
2 16 (0.64%) LAN
3 15 (0.60%) Firewall
4 12 (0.48%) VPN
5 11 (0.44%) DNS
6 10 (0.40%) WAN
7 8 (0.32%) DHCP
8 7 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.16%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.080%) HTTP
10 2 (0.080%) Network Security
10 2 (0.080%) SAN
10 2 (0.080%) SSH
10 2 (0.080%) VLAN
10 2 (0.080%) Wireless
11 1 (0.040%) DMZ
11 1 (0.040%) Intranet
11 1 (0.040%) MPLS
11 1 (0.040%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (1.56%) Power BI
2 15 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 15 (0.60%) Tableau
3 12 (0.48%) Big Data
4 11 (0.44%) Relational Database
4 11 (0.44%) SQL Server
5 8 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (0.32%) GIS
5 8 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.32%) Power Query
6 7 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.24%) KDB
7 6 (0.24%) Kdb+
8 5 (0.20%) Apache Hive
8 5 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.16%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 24 (0.96%) JIRA
3 15 (0.60%) GitLab
3 15 (0.60%) SonarQube
4 14 (0.56%) Git
5 9 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 9 (0.36%) JUnit
5 9 (0.36%) Maven
6 8 (0.32%) Selenium
7 5 (0.20%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.20%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.20%) webpack
8 4 (0.16%) Vite
8 4 (0.16%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.12%) Gradle
9 3 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.080%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.080%) Subversion
10 2 (0.080%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1,699 (67.82%) Social Skills
2 1,398 (55.81%) Banking
3 337 (13.45%) Finance
4 188 (7.50%) Law
5 157 (6.27%) Marketing
6 141 (5.63%) Retail
7 135 (5.39%) Public Sector
8 129 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
9 58 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
10 54 (2.16%) Legal
11 34 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 24 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.68%) French Language
15 17 (0.68%) Manufacturing
16 16 (0.64%) Automotive
16 16 (0.64%) Games
17 15 (0.60%) Swedish Language
18 12 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,072 (42.79%) Lecturer
2 176 (7.03%) Senior
3 108 (4.31%) Software Engineer
4 100 (3.99%) Lead
5 85 (3.39%) Senior Manager
6 77 (3.07%) Analyst
7 71 (2.83%) Project Engineer
8 63 (2.51%) Microsoft Specialist
9 59 (2.36%) Java Engineer
10 56 (2.24%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (2.24%) Sales Manager
11 52 (2.08%) Architect
12 46 (1.84%) Account Manager
13 45 (1.80%) Sales Account Manager
13 45 (1.80%) Senior Account Manager
13 45 (1.80%) Senior Sales Manager
14 43 (1.72%) Project Manager
15 36 (1.44%) Support Engineer
16 35 (1.40%) IT Support
17 29 (1.16%) Account Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.24%) Spring
2 45 (1.80%) React
3 40 (1.60%) REST
4 34 (1.36%) Kafka
5 28 (1.12%) Spring Boot
6 24 (0.96%) EDI
7 21 (0.84%) SOAP
8 19 (0.76%) HTML
8 19 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
8 19 (0.76%) Visualforce
9 18 (0.72%) CSS
9 18 (0.72%) Node.js
10 17 (0.68%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.56%) RESTful
11 14 (0.56%) Web Services
12 10 (0.40%) .NET
13 9 (0.36%) Django
14 8 (0.32%) PySpark
15 7 (0.28%) Playwright
16 6 (0.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1,337 (53.37%) IoT
2 71 (2.83%) Blog
3 66 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 61 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 44 (1.76%) Algorithms
6 38 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 36 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 31 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.20%) Data Centre
10 28 (1.12%) Product Ownership
11 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Licensing
12 17 (0.68%) Social Media
13 15 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.56%) FMCG
15 13 (0.52%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
17 11 (0.44%) Podcast
18 9 (0.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 9 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
18 9 (0.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.64%) Windows
2 11 (0.44%) Linux
3 9 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 8 (0.32%) Unix
5 7 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.20%) Android
8 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.080%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.080%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.040%) Debian
10 1 (0.040%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.040%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.040%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,657 (66.15%) AI
2 1,427 (56.97%) Cybersecurity
3 1,402 (55.97%) Machine Learning
4 1,355 (54.09%) User Experience
5 1,343 (53.61%) Web Development
6 227 (9.06%) Agile
7 198 (7.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 189 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
9 175 (6.99%) Customer Service
10 139 (5.55%) Software Engineering
11 136 (5.43%) Decision-Making
12 115 (4.59%) CI/CD
13 111 (4.43%) B2B
14 104 (4.15%) CRM
15 103 (4.11%) Coaching
16 100 (3.99%) SDLC
17 89 (3.55%) Community of Practice
17 89 (3.55%) Mentoring
18 87 (3.47%) Operational Stability
19 86 (3.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (3.75%) Java
2 68 (2.71%) SQL
3 59 (2.36%) Python
4 35 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 19 (0.76%) Apex Code
6 15 (0.60%) SOQL
6 15 (0.60%) SOSL
7 13 (0.52%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.44%) C#
9 10 (0.40%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.16%) Go
12 4 (0.16%) R
13 3 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.080%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.080%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.080%) C++
14 2 (0.080%) PHP
14 2 (0.080%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,694 (67.62%) Degree
2 1,336 (53.33%) Master's Degree
3 1,334 (53.25%) Postgraduate
4 1,333 (53.21%) PhD
5 44 (1.76%) Security Cleared
6 38 (1.52%) SC Cleared
7 26 (1.04%) PMP
8 25 (1.00%) HNC
9 24 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 20 (0.80%) HND
11 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.64%) MCSE
13 14 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
15 10 (0.40%) CISSP
16 8 (0.32%) CISM
16 8 (0.32%) City & Guilds
17 6 (0.24%) Azure Certification
17 6 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (1.48%) QA
2 28 (1.12%) SLA
3 21 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (0.80%) NIST
5 19 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 17 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 15 (0.60%) PMO
8 14 (0.56%) GDPR
9 10 (0.40%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.20%) WCAG
12 4 (0.16%) COBIT
12 4 (0.16%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.16%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.16%) NEBOSH
12 4 (0.16%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.080%) GRC
13 2 (0.080%) NCSC
13 2 (0.080%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.040%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 41 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 14 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (0.44%) Docker
4 3 (0.12%) HDFS
4 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.080%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.040%) iptables
6 1 (0.040%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (1.28%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.92%) Terraform
3 16 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.36%) Grafana
5 6 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.16%) Argo
7 3 (0.12%) Ansible
7 3 (0.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.12%) SCCM
8 2 (0.080%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.080%) Nessus
8 2 (0.080%) Netcool
8 2 (0.080%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 2 (0.080%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.040%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.040%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.040%) Nagios
9 1 (0.040%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 253 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 57 (2.28%) Cisco
3 49 (1.96%) Salesforce
4 37 (1.48%) NEC
5 36 (1.44%) Oracle
6 30 (1.20%) Adobe
6 30 (1.20%) Splunk
7 25 (1.00%) Apple
8 21 (0.84%) Google
9 20 (0.80%) Palo Alto
10 16 (0.64%) Databricks
10 16 (0.64%) VMware
11 15 (0.60%) Dell
12 13 (0.52%) SAP
12 13 (0.52%) ServiceNow
13 10 (0.40%) Juniper
14 9 (0.36%) Dynatrace
15 8 (0.32%) Autodesk
15 8 (0.32%) McAfee
16 6 (0.24%) Guidewire