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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 28 30
Rank change year-on-year +19 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,059 2,271 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 10.41% 7.09% 6.77%
As % of the General category 19.50% 10.83% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 554 453 1,074
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,707 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £53,300 £46,367
Median % change year-on-year -24.95% +14.95% -15.70%
75th Percentile £61,041 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,965 £78,418 £75,415
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -15.38%

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 25,946 20,972 29,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.37% 65.46% 59.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13,536 8,728 21,661
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -10.10%

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 February 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 February 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 +60 1,955 £35,000 -36.36% 126
North West +47 1,722 £35,000 -36.36% 68
Midlands +24 1,483 £47,500 -9.52% 86
West Midlands +45 1,294 £53,750 +2.38% 49
South East +11 904 £53,663 +7.33% 280
East of England +1 426 £40,000 -11.11% 52
Yorkshire +29 223 £26,450 -44.32% 34
East Midlands +2 201 £35,000 -6.67% 36
South West -36 157 £28,500 -44.12% 70
Scotland -61 70 £25,600 -53.45% 59
Wales +17 51 £68,958 +40.43% 23
Northern Ireland -25 18 £56,901 -17.90% 6
North East -13 10 £65,000 -6.22% 24
Channel Islands - 8 - - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 - 4
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 44 (0.87%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.079%) Confluence
5 1 (0.020%) CMS
5 1 (0.020%) Drupal
5 1 (0.020%) WildFly
5 1 (0.020%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (0.69%) Acrobat
4 31 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.099%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.040%) Revit
8 2 (0.040%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.079%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.059%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.020%) Primavera
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.020%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.020%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (72.23%) Cloud Computing
2 135 (2.67%) Azure
3 87 (1.72%) AWS
4 75 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 38 (0.75%) Entra ID
7 33 (0.65%) SaaS
8 17 (0.34%) GCP
9 14 (0.28%) PaaS
10 11 (0.22%) OneDrive
11 10 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.16%) Asana
12 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (0.16%) Figma
12 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.14%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 3,660 (72.35%) Internet
2 46 (0.91%) Broadband
3 22 (0.43%) VPN
4 21 (0.42%) LAN
5 20 (0.40%) DNS
6 19 (0.38%) Firewall
7 18 (0.36%) DHCP
8 14 (0.28%) WAN
9 13 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.22%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.16%) 4G
12 7 (0.14%) MPLS
13 6 (0.12%) VLAN
14 4 (0.079%) 5G
14 4 (0.079%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.079%) PSTN
14 4 (0.079%) WLAN
15 3 (0.059%) Ethernet VPN
15 3 (0.059%) SMTP
15 3 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (0.83%) Power BI
2 13 (0.26%) GIS
3 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 11 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
5 10 (0.20%) Tableau
6 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.099%) Metadata
8 5 (0.099%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.079%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.079%) MySQL
9 4 (0.079%) Redis
10 3 (0.059%) Looker
10 3 (0.059%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.040%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.040%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.040%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (0.55%) GitLab
1 28 (0.55%) Jenkins
1 28 (0.55%) SonarQube
2 27 (0.53%) JIRA
3 17 (0.34%) Git
4 5 (0.099%) Axure RP
4 5 (0.099%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.059%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.059%) Selenium
5 3 (0.059%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.040%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.040%) Postman
6 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.020%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.020%) jMock
7 1 (0.020%) JUnit
General
1 3,998 (79.03%) Social Skills
2 3,663 (72.41%) Banking
3 452 (8.93%) Finance
4 163 (3.22%) Retail
5 138 (2.73%) Public Sector
6 133 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 106 (2.10%) Law
8 104 (2.06%) Marketing
9 52 (1.03%) Legal
9 52 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (0.61%) Games
11 28 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 22 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
13 19 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.34%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.30%) French Language
16 13 (0.26%) Local Government
16 13 (0.26%) Swedish Language
17 11 (0.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.56%) Lecturer
2 196 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.85%) Facilities Engineer
4 176 (3.48%) Senior
5 99 (1.96%) Analyst
6 80 (1.58%) Project Engineer
7 77 (1.52%) Senior Manager
8 73 (1.44%) Project Manager
9 65 (1.28%) Lead
10 59 (1.17%) Sales Manager
11 54 (1.07%) Architect
12 51 (1.01%) Account Manager
13 45 (0.89%) Sales Account Manager
13 45 (0.89%) Senior Account Manager
13 45 (0.89%) Senior Sales Manager
14 44 (0.87%) Account Executive
15 40 (0.79%) Microsoft Specialist
16 35 (0.69%) Alliance Manager
17 32 (0.63%) Mechanical Engineer
18 31 (0.61%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (0.87%) REST
2 36 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
2 36 (0.71%) SOAP
2 36 (0.71%) Visualforce
3 25 (0.49%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) .NET
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 12 (0.24%) Web Services
6 9 (0.18%) Django
6 9 (0.18%) React
7 8 (0.16%) Middleware
8 6 (0.12%) CSS
8 6 (0.12%) HTML
8 6 (0.12%) SAML
9 5 (0.099%) Spring
10 4 (0.079%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.059%) JDBC
11 3 (0.059%) LDAP
11 3 (0.059%) Playwright
11 3 (0.059%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3,652 (72.19%) IoT
2 123 (2.43%) Onboarding
3 81 (1.60%) Driving Licence
4 79 (1.56%) Blog
5 55 (1.09%) Product Ownership
6 48 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 33 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
8 19 (0.38%) Social Media
9 18 (0.36%) Cloud Native
10 16 (0.32%) Mobile App
11 11 (0.22%) Life Science
12 9 (0.18%) Security Posture
12 9 (0.18%) Video Editing
13 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.16%) SCADA
14 7 (0.14%) e-Learning
14 7 (0.14%) FMCG
14 7 (0.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (0.81%) Windows
2 26 (0.51%) Linux
3 16 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.24%) Unix
5 7 (0.14%) Android
5 7 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.099%) Debian
6 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.079%) VMS
7 4 (0.079%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,918 (77.45%) AI
2 3,764 (74.40%) Cybersecurity
3 3,673 (72.60%) User Experience
4 3,660 (72.35%) Machine Learning
5 3,657 (72.29%) Web Development
6 284 (5.61%) Mentoring
7 195 (3.85%) Inventory Management
7 195 (3.85%) Preventative Maintenance
8 193 (3.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 166 (3.28%) Customer Service
10 162 (3.20%) Agile
10 162 (3.20%) Problem-Solving
11 141 (2.79%) Coaching
12 132 (2.61%) B2B
13 98 (1.94%) Analytics
13 98 (1.94%) Project Management
14 96 (1.90%) Decision-Making
15 94 (1.86%) CRM
16 84 (1.66%) DevOps
17 66 (1.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (0.77%) SQL
2 38 (0.75%) Python
3 36 (0.71%) Apex Code
4 28 (0.55%) SOQL
4 28 (0.55%) SOSL
5 25 (0.49%) Java
6 17 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 7 (0.14%) C#
9 3 (0.059%) Bash
9 3 (0.059%) VB
10 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.040%) Go
11 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.020%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.020%) PHP
11 1 (0.020%) R
11 1 (0.020%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,986 (78.79%) Degree
2 3,847 (76.04%) Postgraduate
3 3,653 (72.21%) Master's Degree
4 3,651 (72.17%) PhD
5 201 (3.97%) City & Guilds
6 196 (3.87%) NVQ Level 3
7 84 (1.66%) Security Cleared
8 72 (1.42%) SC Cleared
9 35 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 35 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (0.61%) HNC
11 27 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (0.53%) PMP
12 24 (0.47%) HND
13 22 (0.43%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.40%) MCSE
15 13 (0.26%) CISSP
16 12 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
16 12 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
17 10 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.85%) COSHH
2 56 (1.11%) QA
3 38 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 26 (0.51%) NIST
6 19 (0.38%) GDPR
7 16 (0.32%) SLA
8 15 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 14 (0.28%) PMO
10 12 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.16%) COBIT
11 8 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.14%) GRC
13 6 (0.12%) WCAG
14 5 (0.099%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.099%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.079%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.040%) HIPAA
16 2 (0.040%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 57 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.16%) Docker
4 6 (0.12%) vSphere
5 4 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.040%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (0.38%) Terraform
3 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
5 5 (0.099%) Autotask
6 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.079%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.079%) Kubernetes
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%) Grafana
7 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.040%) Nessus
8 2 (0.040%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.020%) SCCM
Vendors
1 296 (5.85%) Microsoft
2 98 (1.94%) Salesforce
3 74 (1.46%) Cisco
4 73 (1.44%) Adobe
5 36 (0.71%) Splunk
6 35 (0.69%) NEC
7 30 (0.59%) Apple
8 20 (0.40%) Google
9 13 (0.26%) Oracle
9 13 (0.26%) SAP
10 11 (0.22%) Databricks
11 10 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.20%) VMware
12 9 (0.18%) Fortinet
12 9 (0.18%) Hootsuite
12 9 (0.18%) Instagram
12 9 (0.18%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.16%) Meraki
13 8 (0.16%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.16%) New Relic