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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,058 1,700 5,115
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.81% 6.57% 8.05%
As % of the General category 17.52% 9.69% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 584 468 1,233
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -21.16%
75th Percentile £63,220 £65,927 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,075 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -19.23%

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 28,864 17,548 37,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 50.27% 67.80% 58.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15,183 9,165 25,608
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,929 £26,043
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +61 1,950 £37,500 -21.05% 143
North West +50 1,683 £35,000 -25.53% 65
Midlands +34 1,481 £52,500 - 78
West Midlands +45 1,287 £62,000 +12.73% 46
South East +11 864 £52,500 +16.67% 265
East of England +5 440 £42,839 -22.11% 48
Yorkshire +38 245 £26,525 -39.37% 58
East Midlands -1 206 £37,500 -10.71% 32
South West -41 162 £40,000 -20.00% 70
Scotland -31 93 £52,500 -4.55% 46
Wales +2 63 £57,515 +11.99% 19
North East -17 22 £60,000 -13.43% 21
Northern Ireland -44 14 £40,000 -42.29% 8
Channel Islands - 8 - -
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 40 (0.79%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.30%) Confluence
3 13 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.059%) Apache
5 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.040%) CMS
6 2 (0.040%) WordPress
7 1 (0.020%) Drupal
7 1 (0.020%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.020%) IIS
7 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 60 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 32 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.099%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.040%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) Simulink
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.099%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.079%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (72.24%) Cloud Computing
2 157 (3.10%) Azure
3 101 (2.00%) AWS
4 69 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 44 (0.87%) GCP
7 36 (0.71%) Entra ID
7 36 (0.71%) SaaS
8 17 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (0.26%) OneDrive
10 12 (0.24%) Asana
10 12 (0.24%) PaaS
11 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
12 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (0.18%) GitHub
14 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (0.16%) dbt
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (72.28%) Internet
2 71 (1.40%) Broadband
3 25 (0.49%) Firewall
3 25 (0.49%) VPN
4 24 (0.47%) LAN
5 23 (0.45%) DNS
6 21 (0.42%) DHCP
7 17 (0.34%) WAN
7 17 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.16%) 4G
9 8 (0.16%) VLAN
10 7 (0.14%) MPLS
10 7 (0.14%) Network Security
11 4 (0.079%) 5G
11 4 (0.079%) BGP
11 4 (0.079%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.079%) PSTN
11 4 (0.079%) SMTP
11 4 (0.079%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (0.85%) Power BI
2 16 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (0.24%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.22%) GIS
6 10 (0.20%) Metadata
6 10 (0.20%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.099%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.099%) Redis
10 5 (0.099%) Tableau
11 4 (0.079%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.079%) Looker
11 4 (0.079%) MySQL
12 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.040%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 41 (0.81%) GitLab
2 41 (0.81%) SonarQube
3 29 (0.57%) JIRA
4 17 (0.34%) Git
5 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
6 7 (0.14%) Postman
7 5 (0.099%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.099%) Balsamiq
7 5 (0.099%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.079%) Gatling
8 4 (0.079%) JMeter
8 4 (0.079%) JUnit
8 4 (0.079%) Locust
9 3 (0.059%) fastlane
9 3 (0.059%) Mockito
10 2 (0.040%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.040%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.040%) Xcode
General
1 4,002 (79.12%) Social Skills
2 3,668 (72.52%) Banking
3 490 (9.69%) Finance
4 147 (2.91%) Public Sector
5 139 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 130 (2.57%) Marketing
7 129 (2.55%) Retail
8 110 (2.17%) Law
9 65 (1.29%) Legal
10 59 (1.17%) Games
11 41 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 23 (0.45%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.40%) Local Government
16 17 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.26%) Aviation
17 13 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (0.24%) Aerospace
19 11 (0.22%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.58%) Lecturer
2 204 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.86%) Facilities Engineer
4 169 (3.34%) Senior
5 123 (2.43%) Analyst
6 94 (1.86%) Architect
7 75 (1.48%) Project Manager
8 65 (1.29%) Lead
9 55 (1.09%) Project Engineer
10 51 (1.01%) Business Analyst
11 47 (0.93%) Senior Manager
12 42 (0.83%) Account Executive
13 39 (0.77%) Salesforce Architect
14 36 (0.71%) Developer
15 32 (0.63%) Consultant
15 32 (0.63%) IT Engineer
16 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
16 31 (0.61%) Sales Manager
16 31 (0.61%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (0.57%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (1.17%) REST
2 49 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
2 49 (0.97%) SOAP
2 49 (0.97%) Visualforce
3 26 (0.51%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) .NET
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
4 15 (0.30%) Web Services
5 14 (0.28%) Android SDK
6 13 (0.26%) GraphQL
7 11 (0.22%) Django
8 8 (0.16%) CSS
8 8 (0.16%) HTML
8 8 (0.16%) Middleware
8 8 (0.16%) React
8 8 (0.16%) RESTful
9 7 (0.14%) SAML
9 7 (0.14%) Spring
10 6 (0.12%) Playwright
11 4 (0.079%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (72.16%) IoT
2 128 (2.53%) Onboarding
3 78 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 76 (1.50%) Blog
5 69 (1.36%) Driving Licence
6 50 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 45 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (0.65%) Social Media
9 30 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (0.57%) Mobile App
11 23 (0.45%) Cyberattack
12 20 (0.40%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.26%) Life Science
15 12 (0.24%) Security Operations Centre
15 12 (0.24%) Security Posture
16 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
17 9 (0.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 8 (0.16%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (0.99%) Windows
2 31 (0.61%) Linux
3 20 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.34%) Android
4 17 (0.34%) Unix
5 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.099%) Debian
7 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.079%) VMS
9 3 (0.059%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,903 (77.16%) AI
2 3,766 (74.46%) Cybersecurity
3 3,678 (72.72%) User Experience
4 3,664 (72.44%) Machine Learning
5 3,656 (72.28%) Web Development
6 300 (5.93%) Mentoring
7 242 (4.78%) Agile
8 197 (3.89%) Inventory Management
9 196 (3.88%) Problem-Solving
10 195 (3.86%) Preventative Maintenance
11 192 (3.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 139 (2.75%) Customer Service
13 127 (2.51%) DevOps
14 115 (2.27%) CI/CD
14 115 (2.27%) Coaching
15 109 (2.16%) Analytics
16 108 (2.14%) B2B
17 97 (1.92%) Decision-Making
18 96 (1.90%) Roadmaps
19 94 (1.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (1.25%) Python
2 55 (1.09%) SQL
3 49 (0.97%) Apex Code
4 47 (0.93%) Java
5 41 (0.81%) SOQL
5 41 (0.81%) SOSL
6 25 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.32%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.28%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.18%) C#
10 5 (0.099%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.079%) PHP
12 3 (0.059%) Bash
12 3 (0.059%) VB
13 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.040%) Go
13 2 (0.040%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.040%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,934 (77.78%) Degree
2 3,847 (76.06%) Postgraduate
3 3,655 (72.26%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (72.24%) PhD
5 200 (3.95%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.86%) NVQ Level 3
7 114 (2.25%) Security Cleared
8 97 (1.92%) SC Cleared
9 30 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 26 (0.51%) PMP
12 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.43%) AWS Certification
14 21 (0.42%) HNC
15 17 (0.34%) HND
16 16 (0.32%) CISSP
17 14 (0.28%) CISM
17 14 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
18 12 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
19 9 (0.18%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.86%) COSHH
2 55 (1.09%) QA
3 43 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (0.85%) NIST
4 35 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 31 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 23 (0.45%) GDPR
7 21 (0.42%) SLA
8 16 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (0.28%) WCAG
10 12 (0.24%) PMO
11 10 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.18%) COBIT
12 9 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.16%) GRC
14 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.099%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.079%) IFRS
16 4 (0.079%) NCSC
17 3 (0.059%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 51 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 16 (0.32%) Docker
3 12 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.12%) vSphere
5 4 (0.079%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 36 (0.71%) Terraform
2 29 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
4 6 (0.12%) Grafana
5 5 (0.099%) Autotask
5 5 (0.099%) SCCM
6 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.079%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.059%) Ansible
7 3 (0.059%) CASB
7 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.059%) WSUS
8 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.040%) Nessus
8 2 (0.040%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 259 (5.12%) Microsoft
2 118 (2.33%) Salesforce
3 79 (1.56%) Adobe
4 72 (1.42%) Cisco
5 49 (0.97%) Splunk
6 42 (0.83%) Google
7 33 (0.65%) Apple
8 23 (0.45%) NEC
9 17 (0.34%) SAP
10 16 (0.32%) VMware
11 12 (0.24%) Oracle
12 11 (0.22%) Databricks
12 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
12 11 (0.22%) Instagram
12 11 (0.22%) Pega
12 11 (0.22%) ServiceNow
12 11 (0.22%) Workday
12 11 (0.22%) Wrike
13 10 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (0.20%) Fortinet