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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 20 33
Rank change year-on-year -38 +13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,230 2,614 2,654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.56% 7.60% 5.29%
As % of the General category 5.79% 11.56% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 912 481 521
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £30,279
25th Percentile £35,688 £29,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £54,835
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -17.94% -0.30%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,241 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £61,709
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.92% -5.06%

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 38,490 22,621 27,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.26% 65.77% 54.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24,086 11,194 12,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,085 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -13.83% -0.99%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% -3.33%

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 15 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 15 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 -46 604 £48,750 +2.63% 70
South East -15 476 £56,000 +1.82% 69
Midlands -30 372 £46,401 -2.31% 29
North West -51 346 £42,000 -8.64% 36
South West -17 270 £40,968 +35.43% 72
East of England +12 209 £37,750 -33.77% 17
West Midlands -30 192 £59,250 +7.73% 20
East Midlands -3 179 £43,353 +33.39% 9
North East +20 146 £66,000 +168.62% 20
Scotland -22 143 £35,000 +16.67% 30
Wales +5 114 £54,000 -1.82% 10
Yorkshire +13 112 £46,053 -45.82% 14
Northern Ireland -47 49 £74,742 -1.69%
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 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.70%) CMS
4 29 (1.30%) Confluence
5 21 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 16 (0.72%) Apache
8 10 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.27%) WordPress
10 5 (0.22%) Moodle
11 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.13%) IIS
12 2 (0.090%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.090%) Totara
13 1 (0.045%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.045%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 120 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 114 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.94%) Maple
5 18 (0.81%) Simulink
6 17 (0.76%) Revit
7 15 (0.67%) AutoCAD
8 14 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
9 12 (0.54%) Notion
10 10 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
10 10 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
10 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
10 10 (0.45%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 8 (0.36%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.36%) InDesign
12 8 (0.36%) MS Visio
13 7 (0.31%) Sketch
14 5 (0.22%) Chatbot
15 4 (0.18%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 26 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.67%) Cloudability
3 15 (0.67%) SAP EHS
3 15 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.49%) Primavera
6 9 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.18%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.18%) SAP WM
8 4 (0.18%) Shopify
9 3 (0.13%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.13%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.13%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.13%) SAP R/3
10 2 (0.090%) Academy Housing
10 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 334 (14.98%) Azure
2 259 (11.61%) AWS
3 123 (5.52%) GCP
4 112 (5.02%) SaaS
5 107 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 100 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (2.69%) GitHub
9 56 (2.51%) Serverless
10 47 (2.11%) Entra ID
11 39 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
12 36 (1.61%) dbt
13 33 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
14 31 (1.39%) PaaS
15 30 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
16 29 (1.30%) Figma
16 29 (1.30%) IaaS
17 28 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (1.03%) Amazon S3
18 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 39 (1.75%) Internet
2 36 (1.61%) Firewall
3 35 (1.57%) Ethernet
4 33 (1.48%) Modbus
5 29 (1.30%) 5G
6 27 (1.21%) Network Security
6 27 (1.21%) Profibus
7 26 (1.17%) VPN
8 23 (1.03%) DNS
8 23 (1.03%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.58%) DHCP
9 13 (0.58%) LAN
10 12 (0.54%) SAN
11 11 (0.49%) SSL
12 10 (0.45%) VLAN
12 10 (0.45%) WAN
13 9 (0.40%) HTTP
14 6 (0.27%) Wireless
15 4 (0.18%) Broadband
15 4 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (3.68%) Power BI
2 45 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.93%) Tableau
4 26 (1.17%) Relational Database
5 24 (1.08%) MongoDB
5 24 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.90%) GIS
6 20 (0.90%) MySQL
7 19 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 17 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (0.76%) Metadata
10 15 (0.67%) Big Data
10 15 (0.67%) DynamoDB
11 13 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.45%) Power Query
13 9 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 109 (4.89%) Git
2 57 (2.56%) JIRA
3 49 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.52%) GitLab
5 20 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
6 14 (0.63%) LabVIEW
7 13 (0.58%) Gatling
8 11 (0.49%) fastlane
8 11 (0.49%) JMeter
8 11 (0.49%) Snyk
9 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.40%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.36%) MSI
12 7 (0.31%) Moq
13 6 (0.27%) Xcode
14 5 (0.22%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.22%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.22%) Gradle
14 5 (0.22%) JUnit
15 4 (0.18%) Claude Code
General
1 950 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 655 (29.37%) Finance
3 334 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
4 307 (13.77%) Public Sector
5 295 (13.23%) Marketing
6 177 (7.94%) Law
7 152 (6.82%) Aerospace
8 144 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
9 140 (6.28%) Retail
10 113 (5.07%) Legal
11 101 (4.53%) Manufacturing
12 83 (3.72%) Local Government
13 79 (3.54%) Telecoms
14 78 (3.50%) Electronics
15 74 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
16 65 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
17 49 (2.20%) Banking
18 29 (1.30%) Military
19 27 (1.21%) Financial Institution
20 26 (1.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 379 (17.00%) Senior
2 238 (10.67%) Lead
3 159 (7.13%) Analyst
4 150 (6.73%) Architect
5 135 (6.05%) Sales Executive
6 120 (5.38%) Developer
7 98 (4.39%) Consultant
8 69 (3.09%) Account Executive
9 59 (2.65%) Project Engineer
10 55 (2.47%) Software Engineer
11 51 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
11 51 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
12 49 (2.20%) Design Engineer
13 48 (2.15%) Electrical Engineer
14 44 (1.97%) Business Analyst
15 37 (1.66%) Designer
15 37 (1.66%) Project Manager
15 37 (1.66%) Sales Account Executive
15 37 (1.66%) Technical Architect
16 36 (1.61%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (3.95%) Terraform
2 68 (3.05%) CSS
3 55 (2.47%) .NET
4 51 (2.29%) HTML
5 47 (2.11%) RESTful
6 44 (1.97%) REST
7 38 (1.70%) XML
8 35 (1.57%) React
9 34 (1.52%) EDI
10 32 (1.43%) Node.js
11 29 (1.30%) Spring
12 27 (1.21%) .NET Core
13 26 (1.17%) Middleware
13 26 (1.17%) Spring Boot
14 24 (1.08%) Kafka
15 22 (0.99%) .NET Framework
16 19 (0.85%) AngularJS
16 19 (0.85%) LangChain
17 18 (0.81%) Entity Framework
17 18 (0.81%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 266 (11.93%) Onboarding
2 228 (10.22%) Driving Licence
3 132 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
4 108 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 98 (4.39%) Cloud Native
6 95 (4.26%) Product Ownership
7 70 (3.14%) Marketing Technology
8 68 (3.05%) Social Media
9 54 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 54 (2.42%) SCADA
10 46 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 31 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
13 28 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
15 25 (1.12%) Security Posture
16 23 (1.03%) FPGA
17 22 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 22 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 127 (5.70%) Windows
2 60 (2.69%) Linux
3 27 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.90%) VMS
6 17 (0.76%) Android
7 15 (0.67%) macOS
8 13 (0.58%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.54%) Unix
10 5 (0.22%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.13%) AIX
11 3 (0.13%) Solaris
12 2 (0.090%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.045%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (25.43%) AI
2 543 (24.35%) Agile
3 462 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
4 426 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 317 (14.22%) Decision-Making
6 312 (13.99%) Mentoring
7 283 (12.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 244 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 236 (10.58%) DevOps
10 208 (9.33%) Analytics
11 206 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
12 200 (8.97%) Roadmaps
13 196 (8.79%) Customer Service
14 192 (8.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 182 (8.16%) Validation
16 172 (7.71%) Coaching
17 170 (7.62%) Collaborative Working
18 160 (7.17%) CRM
19 157 (7.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 137 (6.14%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 183 (8.21%) Python
2 146 (6.55%) SQL
3 92 (4.13%) JavaScript
4 75 (3.36%) C#
5 70 (3.14%) Java
6 49 (2.20%) PowerShell
7 41 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.39%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.35%) Bicep
10 25 (1.12%) Bash
11 23 (1.03%) C++
12 15 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.67%) Go
12 15 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (0.49%) Ruby
14 10 (0.45%) ABAP
14 10 (0.45%) Ada
14 10 (0.45%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.40%) PHP
16 8 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 532 (23.86%) Degree
2 418 (18.74%) Security Cleared
3 366 (16.41%) SC Cleared
4 189 (8.48%) DBS Check
5 166 (7.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 146 (6.55%) HNC
7 122 (5.47%) DV Cleared
8 107 (4.80%) Master's Degree
9 56 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 52 (2.33%) Chartered Engineer
11 49 (2.20%) AWS Certification
12 35 (1.57%) HND
13 34 (1.52%) PhD
14 28 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 18 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.72%) CISSP
18 15 (0.67%) Postgraduate
19 13 (0.58%) ACCA
19 13 (0.58%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (13.09%) Accessibility
2 117 (5.25%) QA
3 98 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 69 (3.09%) GDPR
5 67 (3.00%) SLA
6 53 (2.38%) WCAG
7 37 (1.66%) NCSC
8 29 (1.30%) GRC
8 29 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.94%) NIST
10 20 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.13%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.13%) MIL-STD-1553
16 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 89 (3.99%) Docker
2 75 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.84%) Firmware
4 21 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.54%) vSphere
8 6 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.13%) NFS
10 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.090%) IAG
12 1 (0.045%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.045%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.045%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (3.27%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.30%) Grafana
3 26 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.63%) Ansible
5 14 (0.63%) SCCM
6 9 (0.40%) Kibana
7 4 (0.18%) Argo
7 4 (0.18%) Autotask
8 3 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.13%) WSUS
9 2 (0.090%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.090%) Puppet
10 1 (0.045%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.045%) Nessus
10 1 (0.045%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.045%) QRadar
10 1 (0.045%) SCOM
10 1 (0.045%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 389 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 96 (4.30%) Samsung
3 95 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 94 (4.22%) SAP
4 94 (4.22%) TikTok
5 81 (3.63%) Adobe
6 72 (3.23%) Google
7 47 (2.11%) Workday
8 38 (1.70%) Apple
9 37 (1.66%) Cisco
10 31 (1.39%) Dynatrace
11 29 (1.30%) Facebook
12 26 (1.17%) Instagram
12 26 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.12%) Oracle
14 23 (1.03%) VMware
15 17 (0.76%) Botify
16 15 (0.67%) Databricks
16 15 (0.67%) Dell
16 15 (0.67%) Palo Alto