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 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 30 29
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 4,965 2,332 2,605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 11.51% 6.55% 6.93%
As % of the General category 20.83% 10.22% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 532 462 789
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,275 £25,124
25th Percentile £27,707 £40,000 £32,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £53,650 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +7.30% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,515 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £62,989
% change year-on-year -16.67% -4.74% -0.81%

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 23,837 22,807 22,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 55.27% 64.06% 59.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,270 9,328 16,019
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,031 £40,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +49 1,930 £35,000 -36.36% 131
North West +37 1,709 £35,000 -33.53% 65
Midlands +36 1,453 £47,500 -7.22% 94
West Midlands +53 1,274 £51,250 -2.38% 54
South East +16 892 £54,250 -1.36% 303
East of England +5 423 £45,000 - 66
Yorkshire +32 214 £25,750 -49.76% 40
East Midlands +7 191 £35,000 -11.39% 40
South West -24 153 £28,500 -43.00% 85
Scotland -74 55 £25,835 -53.03% 65
Wales +16 47 £68,958 +34.03% 19
Northern Ireland -18 14 £76,024 +27.92% 5
Channel Islands - 8 - - 1
North East -5 7 £65,000 +0.98% 26
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 37 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.060%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.020%) Drupal
4 1 (0.020%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.020%) WildFly
4 1 (0.020%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.060%) Revit
6 3 (0.060%) Simulink
7 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.020%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.020%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.020%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.020%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.020%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.081%) Academy Housing
4 3 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.040%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.020%) Primavera
6 1 (0.020%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.020%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 3,651 (73.53%) Cloud Computing
2 113 (2.28%) Azure
3 71 (1.43%) AWS
4 63 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 35 (0.70%) SaaS
7 29 (0.58%) Entra ID
8 11 (0.22%) OneDrive
9 9 (0.18%) Google Analytics
10 8 (0.16%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (0.16%) GCP
10 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.14%) PaaS
12 6 (0.12%) Figma
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 5 (0.10%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.081%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3,661 (73.74%) Internet
2 26 (0.52%) Broadband
3 15 (0.30%) VPN
4 14 (0.28%) DNS
5 13 (0.26%) LAN
6 12 (0.24%) Firewall
7 11 (0.22%) DHCP
8 8 (0.16%) MPLS
9 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.12%) WAN
11 5 (0.10%) 4G
11 5 (0.10%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.081%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.081%) Network Security
12 4 (0.081%) PSTN
13 3 (0.060%) BGP
13 3 (0.060%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (0.060%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (0.060%) IOS XR
13 3 (0.060%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (0.79%) Power BI
2 13 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 10 (0.20%) Tableau
5 9 (0.18%) GIS
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.10%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (0.081%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.060%) Metadata
10 3 (0.060%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.040%) MySQL
11 2 (0.040%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.040%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.040%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.020%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.020%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.020%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.020%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (0.40%) JIRA
2 17 (0.34%) Jenkins
3 16 (0.32%) Git
4 15 (0.30%) GitLab
4 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
5 6 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 6 (0.12%) Selenium
6 5 (0.10%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.10%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.081%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.060%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.060%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.040%) Postman
9 2 (0.040%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.020%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.020%) jMock
10 1 (0.020%) JUnit
General
1 3,978 (80.12%) Social Skills
2 3,655 (73.62%) Banking
3 434 (8.74%) Finance
4 145 (2.92%) Retail
5 140 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 130 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
7 99 (1.99%) Law
8 80 (1.61%) Marketing
9 55 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 48 (0.97%) Legal
11 28 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 25 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 20 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (0.36%) Manufacturing
16 17 (0.34%) French Language
17 15 (0.30%) Automotive
17 15 (0.30%) Games
17 15 (0.30%) Swedish Language
18 11 (0.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2,811 (56.62%) Lecturer
2 199 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.93%) Facilities Engineer
4 167 (3.36%) Senior
5 92 (1.85%) Analyst
6 86 (1.73%) Project Engineer
7 84 (1.69%) Senior Manager
8 64 (1.29%) Lead
9 63 (1.27%) Project Manager
10 58 (1.17%) Sales Manager
11 49 (0.99%) Architect
12 47 (0.95%) Account Manager
13 45 (0.91%) Microsoft Specialist
13 45 (0.91%) Sales Account Manager
13 45 (0.91%) Senior Account Manager
13 45 (0.91%) Senior Sales Manager
14 39 (0.79%) Account Executive
15 37 (0.75%) Alliance Manager
16 33 (0.66%) Mechanical Engineer
17 29 (0.58%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (0.58%) EDI
2 25 (0.50%) REST
3 21 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (0.42%) SOAP
3 21 (0.42%) Visualforce
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 13 (0.26%) .NET
6 9 (0.18%) React
6 9 (0.18%) Web Services
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
8 7 (0.14%) Middleware
9 6 (0.12%) Django
9 6 (0.12%) Playwright
9 6 (0.12%) Spring
10 5 (0.10%) RESTful
11 4 (0.081%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.060%) Jinja
12 3 (0.060%) NETCONF
12 3 (0.060%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3,652 (73.55%) IoT
2 86 (1.73%) Onboarding
3 79 (1.59%) Blog
4 73 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 40 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 31 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (0.60%) Product Ownership
8 26 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
10 17 (0.34%) Data Centre
11 15 (0.30%) Cloud Native
12 11 (0.22%) FMCG
12 11 (0.22%) Renewable Energy
12 11 (0.22%) Social Media
13 10 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.20%) Life Science
13 10 (0.20%) SCADA
14 9 (0.18%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.16%) e-Learning
15 8 (0.16%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 32 (0.64%) Windows
2 12 (0.24%) Linux
3 9 (0.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.14%) Android
6 6 (0.12%) Unix
7 5 (0.10%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.040%) Debian
8 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.020%) VMS
9 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,925 (79.05%) AI
2 3,763 (75.79%) Cybersecurity
3 3,674 (74.00%) User Experience
4 3,656 (73.64%) Machine Learning
4 3,656 (73.64%) Web Development
5 285 (5.74%) Mentoring
6 197 (3.97%) Inventory Management
7 195 (3.93%) Preventative Maintenance
8 172 (3.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 161 (3.24%) Customer Service
10 143 (2.88%) Problem-Solving
11 136 (2.74%) Coaching
12 128 (2.58%) Agile
13 114 (2.30%) B2B
14 105 (2.11%) CRM
15 93 (1.87%) Decision-Making
16 81 (1.63%) Analytics
16 81 (1.63%) Project Management
17 63 (1.27%) GTM Strategy
18 60 (1.21%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (0.62%) SQL
2 25 (0.50%) Python
3 22 (0.44%) Java
4 21 (0.42%) Apex Code
5 18 (0.36%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.30%) SOQL
6 15 (0.30%) SOSL
7 10 (0.20%) C#
8 7 (0.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.060%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.040%) Bash
10 2 (0.040%) Go
10 2 (0.040%) PHP
11 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.020%) R
11 1 (0.020%) Ruby
11 1 (0.020%) VB
11 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,994 (80.44%) Degree
2 3,844 (77.42%) Postgraduate
3 3,650 (73.51%) Master's Degree
4 3,649 (73.49%) PhD
5 201 (4.05%) City & Guilds
6 196 (3.95%) NVQ Level 3
7 51 (1.03%) Security Cleared
8 48 (0.97%) SC Cleared
9 38 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 28 (0.56%) HNC
11 25 (0.50%) PMP
12 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.46%) HND
14 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.40%) MCSE
16 13 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.26%) CISSP
17 11 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
17 11 (0.22%) CISM
17 11 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.93%) COSHH
2 53 (1.07%) QA
3 34 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (0.52%) NIST
5 22 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (0.30%) SLA
7 14 (0.28%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.28%) GDPR
7 14 (0.28%) PMO
8 9 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.14%) COBIT
10 6 (0.12%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.10%) NEBOSH
11 5 (0.10%) WCAG
12 4 (0.081%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.081%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.081%) GRC
12 4 (0.081%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.060%) ISO 19650
14 2 (0.040%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (1.07%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.12%) Docker
4 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.060%) vSphere
5 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.020%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.020%) iptables
6 1 (0.020%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.28%) Terraform
3 13 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
5 5 (0.10%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.060%) Ansible
6 3 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.040%) Nessus
7 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.020%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.020%) Autotask
8 1 (0.020%) CASB
8 1 (0.020%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.020%) Grafana
8 1 (0.020%) SCCM
8 1 (0.020%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.020%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.020%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 277 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 78 (1.57%) Salesforce
3 70 (1.41%) Cisco
4 42 (0.85%) Adobe
4 42 (0.85%) Apple
5 38 (0.77%) NEC
6 23 (0.46%) Splunk
7 16 (0.32%) Google
8 14 (0.28%) Palo Alto
9 12 (0.24%) Oracle
9 12 (0.24%) SAP
10 11 (0.22%) Databricks
11 8 (0.16%) New Relic
11 8 (0.16%) VMware
12 7 (0.14%) Planon
12 7 (0.14%) Sparx
13 6 (0.12%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.12%) Dell
13 6 (0.12%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.12%) Snow