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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -47 +17 +11
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,056 2,807 2,749
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.38% 8.16% 5.20%
As % of the General category 5.37% 12.41% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 914 485 562
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,600 £28,770
25th Percentile £35,375 £31,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,974 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -8.62% -8.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £66,459
90th Percentile £78,312 £81,844 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.16% -9.54%

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 38,270 22,623 28,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.29% 65.73% 53.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,533 10,895 12,907
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.83%
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 30 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 30 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 -55 540 £50,000 +12.36% 685
South East -32 447 £55,000 - 531
Midlands -47 320 £45,000 -5.26% 383
North West -52 313 £42,000 +7.02% 418
South West -21 271 £45,000 +32.35% 439
East of England +2 185 £41,739 -24.46% 246
West Midlands -35 183 £59,250 +7.73% 258
Scotland -19 139 £39,500 +23.44% 447
North East +14 137 £62,500 +154.38% 94
East Midlands -31 136 £40,129 +23.47% 125
Wales 0 109 £54,000 -5.97% 77
Yorkshire -10 90 £38,989 -54.13% 174
Northern Ireland -54 50 £74,742 -3.21% 150
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 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.41%) Confluence
4 19 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.73%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.29%) WordPress
9 5 (0.24%) Moodle
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.097%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.097%) Totara
12 1 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.049%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.049%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 116 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
2 111 (5.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.88%) Simulink
5 17 (0.83%) Maple
6 15 (0.73%) Revit
7 10 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.39%) InDesign
10 7 (0.34%) Sketch
11 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.19%) Mathcad
13 3 (0.15%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.17%) Cloudability
2 22 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.63%) SAP EHS
3 13 (0.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.54%) Primavera
6 9 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.19%) 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 (0.097%) Academy Housing
10 2 (0.097%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.097%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 341 (16.59%) Azure
2 261 (12.69%) AWS
3 130 (6.32%) GCP
4 109 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.06%) Serverless
8 53 (2.58%) GitHub
9 41 (1.99%) Entra ID
10 38 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.85%) SaaS
11 33 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
12 32 (1.56%) dbt
13 30 (1.46%) PaaS
14 29 (1.41%) IaaS
15 27 (1.31%) Figma
15 27 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.70%) Firewall
2 31 (1.51%) Internet
3 30 (1.46%) Ethernet
4 27 (1.31%) Network Security
5 25 (1.22%) 5G
5 25 (1.22%) Modbus
6 22 (1.07%) Profibus
7 21 (1.02%) DNS
7 21 (1.02%) VPN
8 19 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.68%) LAN
10 13 (0.63%) DHCP
11 12 (0.58%) WAN
12 11 (0.54%) SAN
13 10 (0.49%) VLAN
14 9 (0.44%) HTTP
14 9 (0.44%) SSL
15 8 (0.39%) Wireless
16 4 (0.19%) Broadband
16 4 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.04%) Power BI
2 47 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.26%) Tableau
4 22 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.07%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 19 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (0.88%) GIS
7 18 (0.88%) MySQL
8 17 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.83%) Metadata
9 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 11 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.49%) Looker
13 9 (0.44%) Big Data
13 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 103 (5.01%) Git
2 55 (2.68%) JIRA
3 47 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.46%) GitLab
5 22 (1.07%) Snyk
6 20 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
7 15 (0.73%) Gatling
8 14 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.54%) fastlane
9 11 (0.54%) JMeter
10 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.39%) MSI
13 7 (0.34%) Moq
14 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.29%) Xcode
15 5 (0.24%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.24%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.24%) Gradle
15 5 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 859 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 549 (26.70%) Finance
3 307 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (13.67%) Public Sector
5 178 (8.66%) Law
6 166 (8.07%) Marketing
7 147 (7.15%) Aerospace
8 131 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (5.93%) Retail
10 105 (5.11%) Legal
11 96 (4.67%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.79%) Local Government
13 71 (3.45%) Electronics
13 71 (3.45%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.29%) Banking
15 46 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
15 46 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.51%) Military
17 26 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 22 (1.07%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 377 (18.34%) Senior
2 223 (10.85%) Lead
3 185 (9.00%) Analyst
4 166 (8.07%) Architect
5 110 (5.35%) Developer
6 100 (4.86%) Sales Executive
7 74 (3.60%) Consultant
8 65 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
9 56 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
10 55 (2.68%) Software Engineer
11 52 (2.53%) Business Analyst
12 49 (2.38%) Project Engineer
13 41 (1.99%) Design Engineer
14 40 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
15 39 (1.90%) Electrical Engineer
15 39 (1.90%) Senior Architect
16 37 (1.80%) Cloud Architect
17 36 (1.75%) Designer
17 36 (1.75%) Technical Architect
18 34 (1.65%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (3.99%) Terraform
2 56 (2.72%) .NET
3 47 (2.29%) CSS
3 47 (2.29%) HTML
4 45 (2.19%) RESTful
5 36 (1.75%) React
6 35 (1.70%) Node.js
7 34 (1.65%) XML
8 33 (1.61%) EDI
9 27 (1.31%) .NET Core
10 25 (1.22%) REST
11 24 (1.17%) Spring
12 22 (1.07%) .NET Framework
13 21 (1.02%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.92%) LangChain
15 18 (0.88%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.88%) ASP.NET
15 18 (0.88%) Entity Framework
15 18 (0.88%) Kafka
15 18 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 199 (9.68%) Driving Licence
2 156 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 107 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (5.16%) Management Information System
5 92 (4.47%) Cloud Native
6 85 (4.13%) Product Ownership
7 71 (3.45%) Data Centre
8 61 (2.97%) Social Media
9 46 (2.24%) Public Cloud
10 44 (2.14%) SCADA
11 36 (1.75%) Cyberattack
12 33 (1.61%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.26%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
15 23 (1.12%) Data Structures
16 22 (1.07%) FPGA
17 21 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 21 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 119 (5.79%) Windows
2 58 (2.82%) Linux
3 28 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 20 (0.97%) VMS
5 17 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.63%) Android
7 13 (0.63%) Unix
8 5 (0.24%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Solaris
10 2 (0.097%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.049%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.049%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (24.42%) Agile
2 467 (22.71%) AI
3 421 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
4 376 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 303 (14.74%) Mentoring
6 290 (14.11%) Decision-Making
7 248 (12.06%) CI/CD
8 243 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 228 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
10 222 (10.80%) DevOps
11 180 (8.75%) Customer Service
12 162 (7.88%) Roadmaps
13 159 (7.73%) Analytics
14 150 (7.30%) Validation
15 146 (7.10%) Coaching
16 144 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 143 (6.96%) Collaborative Working
18 139 (6.76%) Customer Experience
19 137 (6.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 133 (6.47%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 173 (8.41%) Python
2 138 (6.71%) SQL
3 79 (3.84%) C#
4 75 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 66 (3.21%) Java
6 50 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 46 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.56%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.46%) Bicep
10 26 (1.26%) Bash
11 22 (1.07%) C++
12 17 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.73%) Go
14 11 (0.54%) Ruby
15 10 (0.49%) ABAP
15 10 (0.49%) Ada
16 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.34%) Scala
18 7 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 472 (22.96%) Degree
2 406 (19.75%) Security Cleared
3 362 (17.61%) SC Cleared
4 167 (8.12%) DBS Check
5 166 (8.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (5.98%) HNC
7 120 (5.84%) DV Cleared
8 55 (2.68%) AWS Certification
9 52 (2.53%) Azure Certification
10 51 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 44 (2.14%) Chartered Engineer
12 31 (1.51%) HND
12 31 (1.51%) PhD
13 29 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
14 27 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 27 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.78%) ACCA
15 16 (0.78%) CIMA
16 15 (0.73%) CISSP
17 13 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (12.94%) Accessibility
2 102 (4.96%) QA
3 83 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.16%) GDPR
5 64 (3.11%) SLA
6 49 (2.38%) WCAG
7 35 (1.70%) GRC
8 33 (1.61%) NCSC
9 28 (1.36%) NIST
10 24 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 18 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.19%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.15%) GAAP
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
17 3 (0.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 86 (4.18%) Docker
2 74 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.95%) Firmware
4 26 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.58%) vSphere
7 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.097%) IAG
10 2 (0.097%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.26%) Grafana
3 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.68%) Ansible
4 14 (0.68%) SCCM
5 13 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.44%) Kibana
7 4 (0.19%) Argo
7 4 (0.19%) Autotask
7 4 (0.19%) WSUS
8 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.097%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.097%) Puppet
9 2 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.049%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.049%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.049%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.049%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.049%) SCOM
10 1 (0.049%) VxRail
Vendors
1 374 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.28%) SAP
3 70 (3.40%) Google
4 64 (3.11%) Adobe
5 48 (2.33%) Apple
6 47 (2.29%) Workday
7 38 (1.85%) Cisco
8 34 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 28 (1.36%) VMware
12 27 (1.31%) Facebook
13 26 (1.26%) Palo Alto
14 25 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (1.22%) Oracle
15 24 (1.17%) Instagram
16 22 (1.07%) Tenable
17 15 (0.73%) Databricks
17 15 (0.73%) Dell
18 14 (0.68%) OpenAI