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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -44 +17 +10
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,112 2,811 2,710
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.44% 8.13% 5.14%
As % of the General category 5.53% 12.34% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 905 485 563
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,600 £29,200
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.55% -8.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £67,075
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 38,220 22,779 28,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.15% 65.84% 54.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,609 10,995 12,898
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -0.99%
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 3 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 3 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 -53 560 £50,000 +8.76% 774
South East -29 449 £56,000 +1.82% 611
Midlands -37 349 £45,000 -5.26% 421
North West -52 324 £42,000 -2.70% 473
South West -22 266 £42,276 +24.34% 479
East of England -1 193 £38,000 -31.22% 283
West Midlands -40 188 £56,250 +2.27% 290
East Midlands -18 160 £40,258 +23.87% 131
Scotland -23 141 £37,250 +24.17% 580
North East +15 137 £65,500 +166.59% 104
Wales 0 110 £54,000 -5.97% 81
Yorkshire -2 99 £40,000 -52.94% 198
Northern Ireland -51 49 £74,742 -3.21% 145
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 46 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.28%) CMS
3 27 (1.28%) Confluence
4 20 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.71%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.28%) WordPress
9 5 (0.24%) Moodle
10 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.14%) IIS
11 2 (0.095%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.095%) Totara
12 1 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.047%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.047%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.047%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 118 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
2 117 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (0.80%) Maple
4 17 (0.80%) Simulink
5 15 (0.71%) Revit
6 12 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.38%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.38%) InDesign
10 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.33%) Sketch
11 6 (0.28%) Notion
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.19%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 24 (1.14%) Cloudability
2 23 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.62%) SAP EHS
4 13 (0.62%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.52%) Primavera
7 9 (0.43%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.19%) SAP WM
9 4 (0.19%) 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 (0.095%) Academy Housing
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.095%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 340 (16.10%) Azure
2 262 (12.41%) AWS
3 129 (6.11%) GCP
4 111 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 100 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (3.60%) SaaS
8 64 (3.03%) Serverless
9 55 (2.60%) GitHub
10 43 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 38 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 33 (1.56%) dbt
13 30 (1.42%) PaaS
14 29 (1.37%) IaaS
15 28 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (1.28%) Figma
17 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.70%) Firewall
2 32 (1.52%) Internet
3 30 (1.42%) Ethernet
4 27 (1.28%) Network Security
5 26 (1.23%) Modbus
6 25 (1.18%) 5G
7 22 (1.04%) DNS
7 22 (1.04%) Profibus
7 22 (1.04%) VPN
8 20 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.66%) LAN
10 13 (0.62%) DHCP
11 12 (0.57%) WAN
12 11 (0.52%) SAN
13 10 (0.47%) SSL
13 10 (0.47%) VLAN
14 9 (0.43%) HTTP
15 8 (0.38%) Wireless
16 4 (0.19%) Broadband
16 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (4.02%) Power BI
2 46 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.75%) Tableau
4 24 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.04%) MongoDB
6 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 19 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (0.90%) MySQL
8 18 (0.85%) GIS
9 17 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.80%) Metadata
9 17 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 16 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (0.71%) Big Data
11 15 (0.71%) DynamoDB
12 12 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.47%) Looker
14 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 106 (5.02%) Git
2 54 (2.56%) JIRA
3 48 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.52%) GitLab
5 22 (1.04%) Snyk
6 20 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.66%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.57%) Gatling
9 11 (0.52%) fastlane
9 11 (0.52%) JMeter
10 10 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.43%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.38%) MSI
13 7 (0.33%) Moq
14 6 (0.28%) Xcode
15 5 (0.24%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.24%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.24%) Gradle
16 4 (0.19%) Claude Code
16 4 (0.19%) JUnit
General
1 892 (42.23%) Social Skills
2 588 (27.84%) Finance
3 324 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (13.40%) Public Sector
5 224 (10.61%) Marketing
6 172 (8.14%) Law
7 148 (7.01%) Aerospace
8 133 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
9 128 (6.06%) Retail
10 112 (5.30%) Legal
11 96 (4.55%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.69%) Local Government
13 73 (3.46%) Electronics
14 71 (3.36%) Telecoms
15 57 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
16 56 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
17 47 (2.23%) Banking
18 31 (1.47%) Military
19 26 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 23 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 372 (17.61%) Senior
2 222 (10.51%) Lead
3 184 (8.71%) Analyst
4 161 (7.62%) Architect
5 114 (5.40%) Sales Executive
6 112 (5.30%) Developer
7 80 (3.79%) Consultant
8 63 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
9 55 (2.60%) Software Engineer
10 54 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
11 49 (2.32%) Business Analyst
11 49 (2.32%) Project Engineer
12 43 (2.04%) Account Executive
13 41 (1.94%) Design Engineer
14 39 (1.85%) Electrical Engineer
14 39 (1.85%) Senior Architect
15 37 (1.75%) Cloud Architect
16 36 (1.70%) Designer
16 36 (1.70%) Technical Architect
17 34 (1.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (3.98%) Terraform
2 56 (2.65%) .NET
3 53 (2.51%) CSS
4 47 (2.23%) HTML
5 46 (2.18%) RESTful
6 36 (1.70%) React
7 35 (1.66%) Node.js
8 34 (1.61%) XML
9 33 (1.56%) EDI
10 31 (1.47%) REST
11 27 (1.28%) .NET Core
12 26 (1.23%) Spring
13 23 (1.09%) Spring Boot
14 22 (1.04%) .NET Framework
15 21 (0.99%) Kafka
16 19 (0.90%) LangChain
17 18 (0.85%) AngularJS
17 18 (0.85%) ASP.NET
17 18 (0.85%) Entity Framework
17 18 (0.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 207 (9.80%) Onboarding
2 202 (9.56%) Driving Licence
3 120 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 104 (4.92%) Management Information System
5 93 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 84 (3.98%) Product Ownership
7 70 (3.31%) Data Centre
8 62 (2.94%) Social Media
9 46 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.13%) SCADA
11 35 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
12 33 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 27 (1.28%) Cyberattack
15 25 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
15 25 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 25 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
16 24 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.04%) FPGA
18 21 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 126 (5.97%) Windows
2 59 (2.79%) Linux
3 30 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 21 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.95%) VMS
6 17 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.71%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.62%) Android
9 12 (0.57%) Unix
10 5 (0.24%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Solaris
12 2 (0.095%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (24.72%) AI
2 498 (23.58%) Agile
3 434 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
4 393 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 309 (14.63%) Mentoring
6 293 (13.87%) Decision-Making
7 249 (11.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 246 (11.65%) CI/CD
9 231 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
10 223 (10.56%) DevOps
11 185 (8.76%) Customer Service
12 176 (8.33%) Roadmaps
13 173 (8.19%) Analytics
14 167 (7.91%) Validation
15 158 (7.48%) Coaching
16 150 (7.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 145 (6.87%) Collaborative Working
18 142 (6.72%) CRM
19 141 (6.68%) Customer Experience
20 139 (6.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 172 (8.14%) Python
2 140 (6.63%) SQL
3 77 (3.65%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.55%) C#
5 65 (3.08%) Java
6 49 (2.32%) PowerShell
7 42 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 30 (1.42%) Bicep
8 30 (1.42%) MATLAB
9 26 (1.23%) Bash
10 22 (1.04%) C++
11 18 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (0.71%) Go
13 11 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.52%) Ruby
14 10 (0.47%) ABAP
14 10 (0.47%) Ada
15 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.33%) PHP
16 7 (0.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 490 (23.20%) Degree
2 405 (19.18%) Security Cleared
3 359 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 171 (8.10%) DBS Check
5 166 (7.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 124 (5.87%) HNC
7 121 (5.73%) DV Cleared
8 73 (3.46%) Master's Degree
9 56 (2.65%) AWS Certification
10 54 (2.56%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.08%) Chartered Engineer
12 32 (1.52%) HND
13 31 (1.47%) PhD
14 29 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.71%) CISSP
17 14 (0.66%) ACCA
17 14 (0.66%) CIMA
18 13 (0.62%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (12.64%) Accessibility
2 106 (5.02%) QA
3 88 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 69 (3.27%) SLA
5 66 (3.13%) GDPR
6 49 (2.32%) WCAG
7 38 (1.80%) GRC
8 34 (1.61%) NCSC
9 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 23 (1.09%) NIST
11 20 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.19%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
18 2 (0.095%) GxP
System Software
1 89 (4.21%) Docker
2 77 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.89%) Firmware
4 26 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.57%) vSphere
8 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.24%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.095%) IAG
11 2 (0.095%) NFS
12 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.28%) Grafana
3 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.66%) Ansible
4 14 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 14 (0.66%) SCCM
5 9 (0.43%) Kibana
6 4 (0.19%) Argo
6 4 (0.19%) Autotask
6 4 (0.19%) WSUS
7 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.095%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.095%) Puppet
8 2 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.047%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.047%) Nessus
9 1 (0.047%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.047%) QRadar
9 1 (0.047%) SCOM
9 1 (0.047%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 387 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.17%) SAP
3 76 (3.60%) Adobe
4 68 (3.22%) Google
5 58 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 56 (2.65%) Samsung
7 54 (2.56%) TikTok
8 48 (2.27%) Apple
9 47 (2.23%) Workday
10 38 (1.80%) Cisco
11 34 (1.61%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.47%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.28%) Facebook
13 27 (1.28%) VMware
14 26 (1.23%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.18%) Oracle
16 24 (1.14%) Instagram
17 22 (1.04%) Tenable
18 15 (0.71%) Databricks