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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -51 0 +44
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,623 2,770 4,199
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.16% 8.05% 6.99%
As % of the General category 4.87% 12.03% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 809 477 893
10th Percentile £28,350 £25,990 £28,745
25th Percentile £35,375 £34,448 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £79,400 £73,299
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year - +0.75% -16.02%

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 33,317 23,023 32,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.34% 66.90% 53.87%
Number of salaries quoted 20,496 11,292 18,578
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.67% -6.14%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,082
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -69 431 £55,000 +17.02% 246
South East -52 301 £55,000 +26.44% 324
Midlands -52 265 £45,000 -10.00% 147
North West -64 240 £42,000 -6.67% 144
South West -21 231 £57,500 +37.72% 167
West Midlands -39 163 £60,000 +9.09% 83
Scotland -16 138 £52,500 +23.53% 107
East of England -22 129 £40,000 -29.82% 69
East Midlands -31 101 £40,000 +23.08% 63
Wales +4 99 £55,000 - 17
North East +5 96 £60,000 +144.20% 36
Yorkshire -1 95 £51,723 -31.04% 66
Northern Ireland -48 38 £56,901 -25.22% 65
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 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (1.97%) Confluence
3 28 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 16 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.92%) Apache
5 15 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.55%) CMS
8 5 (0.31%) WordPress
9 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.12%) Moodle
10 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.12%) Totara
11 1 (0.062%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.062%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 78 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.29%) Acrobat
4 15 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.74%) Simulink
6 9 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.49%) InDesign
7 8 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.37%) Sketch
10 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.18%) Mathcad
10 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.12%) Maple
11 2 (0.12%) Revit
11 2 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.48%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.68%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.25%) SAP EHS
5 4 (0.25%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.18%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.062%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.062%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.062%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.062%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.062%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 287 (17.68%) Azure
2 202 (12.45%) AWS
3 125 (7.70%) GCP
4 88 (5.42%) Power Platform
5 83 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (2.90%) GitHub
8 45 (2.77%) Serverless
9 35 (2.16%) dbt
10 32 (1.97%) SaaS
11 28 (1.73%) PaaS
12 27 (1.66%) Figma
13 26 (1.60%) Entra ID
14 23 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (1.36%) IaaS
15 22 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
16 21 (1.29%) Azure Key Vault
17 20 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
19 15 (0.92%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.77%) Broadband
2 38 (2.34%) Firewall
3 26 (1.60%) Network Security
4 24 (1.48%) VPN
5 19 (1.17%) LAN
6 18 (1.11%) DNS
6 18 (1.11%) Internet
6 18 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 17 (1.05%) WAN
8 15 (0.92%) DHCP
9 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.62%) Wireless
11 9 (0.55%) SAN
12 8 (0.49%) VLAN
13 7 (0.43%) SSL
14 5 (0.31%) Ethernet
15 3 (0.18%) Intranet
15 3 (0.18%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.18%) Unified Communications
16 2 (0.12%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.56%) Power BI
2 33 (2.03%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.54%) Tableau
5 21 (1.29%) Metadata
6 18 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 16 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (0.99%) MySQL
9 15 (0.92%) GIS
9 15 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
11 11 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.62%) Looker
13 9 (0.55%) Big Data
13 9 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 62 (3.82%) Git
3 55 (3.39%) JIRA
4 48 (2.96%) GitLab
5 26 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.36%) Snyk
7 14 (0.86%) fastlane
7 14 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
8 12 (0.74%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.62%) Postman
10 8 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.49%) JMeter
10 8 (0.49%) Xcode
11 7 (0.43%) Moq
11 7 (0.43%) MSI
12 6 (0.37%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.37%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.37%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.37%) Gatling
12 6 (0.37%) Gradle
General
1 625 (38.51%) Social Skills
2 398 (24.52%) Finance
3 227 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 146 (9.00%) Marketing
6 126 (7.76%) Law
7 101 (6.22%) Legal
8 86 (5.30%) Aerospace
9 84 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
10 79 (4.87%) Retail
11 62 (3.82%) Local Government
12 54 (3.33%) Manufacturing
13 47 (2.90%) Games
14 39 (2.40%) Electronics
15 37 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (2.03%) Banking
17 26 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (1.36%) Telecoms
19 18 (1.11%) Military
20 17 (1.05%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 334 (20.58%) Senior
2 186 (11.46%) Analyst
3 181 (11.15%) Architect
4 143 (8.81%) Lead
5 88 (5.42%) Developer
6 76 (4.68%) Sales Executive
7 62 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
8 55 (3.39%) Business Analyst
9 50 (3.08%) Consultant
9 50 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.90%) IT Engineer
11 45 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
12 40 (2.46%) Software Engineer
12 40 (2.46%) Technical Architect
13 38 (2.34%) Cloud Architect
13 38 (2.34%) Senior Architect
14 32 (1.97%) Account Executive
15 31 (1.91%) IT Support
16 29 (1.79%) IT Manager
17 28 (1.73%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.20%) REST
2 45 (2.77%) .NET
3 41 (2.53%) CSS
4 39 (2.40%) HTML
4 39 (2.40%) RESTful
5 29 (1.79%) Node.js
5 29 (1.79%) SOAP
6 27 (1.66%) Lightning Web Components
6 27 (1.66%) React
6 27 (1.66%) Visualforce
7 20 (1.23%) .NET Core
7 20 (1.23%) EDI
8 19 (1.17%) .NET Framework
8 19 (1.17%) Android SDK
8 19 (1.17%) XML
9 17 (1.05%) Spring
10 15 (0.92%) Entity Framework
10 15 (0.92%) Spring Boot
11 14 (0.86%) GraphQL
12 13 (0.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.52%) Onboarding
2 119 (7.33%) Driving Licence
3 107 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 99 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
5 74 (4.56%) Cloud Native
6 67 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.70%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.90%) Social Media
9 44 (2.71%) Cyberattack
10 34 (2.09%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.66%) Algorithms
11 27 (1.66%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.29%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.17%) Credit Risk
16 18 (1.11%) CSOC
16 18 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
17 16 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
18 15 (0.92%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.22%) Windows
2 53 (3.27%) Linux
3 29 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.54%) Android
5 21 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 19 (1.17%) Unix
8 12 (0.74%) VMS
9 10 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.18%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.12%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.062%) AIX
13 1 (0.062%) Debian
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (26.86%) Agile
2 378 (23.29%) AI
3 311 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
4 252 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 248 (15.28%) CI/CD
6 235 (14.48%) Decision-Making
7 224 (13.80%) Mentoring
8 222 (13.68%) DevOps
9 192 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
10 154 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 152 (9.37%) Roadmaps
12 135 (8.32%) Analytics
13 121 (7.46%) Scrum
13 121 (7.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 121 (7.46%) Validation
14 120 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 116 (7.15%) Customer Service
16 100 (6.16%) Coaching
17 98 (6.04%) Test Automation
18 97 (5.98%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 159 (9.80%) Python
2 130 (8.01%) SQL
3 65 (4.00%) Java
4 53 (3.27%) JavaScript
5 47 (2.90%) C#
6 46 (2.83%) PowerShell
7 32 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 29 (1.79%) Bicep
9 27 (1.66%) Apex Code
10 26 (1.60%) Bash
10 26 (1.60%) SOQL
10 26 (1.60%) SOSL
11 24 (1.48%) MATLAB
12 20 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.99%) C++
15 15 (0.92%) Go
16 10 (0.62%) PHP
17 7 (0.43%) Swift
17 7 (0.43%) XAML
Qualifications
1 347 (21.38%) Degree
2 292 (17.99%) Security Cleared
3 272 (16.76%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 84 (5.18%) DBS Check
6 73 (4.50%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 34 (2.09%) Azure Certification
9 33 (2.03%) HNC
10 31 (1.91%) Master's Degree
11 29 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (1.73%) PhD
13 26 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 25 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
16 14 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.80%) CISSP
17 13 (0.80%) Postgraduate
18 12 (0.74%) CIMA
18 12 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (10.23%) Accessibility
2 71 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.76%) SLA
4 55 (3.39%) QA
5 50 (3.08%) GDPR
6 44 (2.71%) WCAG
7 38 (2.34%) GRC
8 37 (2.28%) NIST
9 28 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (1.36%) NCSC
11 21 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.49%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.25%) GAAP
16 4 (0.25%) IFRS
17 3 (0.18%) ARP4761
17 3 (0.18%) DO-160
17 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 82 (5.05%) Docker
2 72 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.42%) Firmware
3 23 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.74%) vSphere
5 8 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.31%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.062%) IAG
8 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 86 (5.30%) Terraform
2 61 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.11%) Grafana
5 16 (0.99%) SCCM
6 10 (0.62%) Ansible
7 9 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.37%) Autotask
8 6 (0.37%) WSUS
9 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (0.18%) Argo
11 3 (0.18%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.12%) Kibana
12 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.062%) CASB
13 1 (0.062%) Functional Safety
13 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.062%) QRadar
13 1 (0.062%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 292 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.93%) Google
3 76 (4.68%) Adobe
4 50 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.71%) Apple
6 37 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.22%) Cisco
8 32 (1.97%) SAP
9 31 (1.91%) Workday
10 29 (1.79%) Splunk
10 29 (1.79%) VMware
11 27 (1.66%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
13 22 (1.36%) Tenable
14 21 (1.29%) Dynatrace
15 19 (1.17%) Instagram
16 14 (0.86%) Oracle
17 13 (0.80%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.74%) Facebook
18 12 (0.74%) ScienceLogic