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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 14 25
Rank change year-on-year -60 +11 +42
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,358 3,091 5,527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.00% 10.28% 6.95%
As % of the General category 4.50% 14.47% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 680 473 1,307
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,650 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -24.40%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,375 £82,250 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 30,185 21,366 43,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.55% 71.04% 54.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18,467 9,690 27,769
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,958 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -73 383 £52,500 +11.70% 110
Midlands -46 277 £44,543 -15.16% 68
North West -57 235 £47,000 - 64
South East -76 230 £47,000 +17.50% 162
South West -42 180 £57,591 +27.98% 55
West Midlands -27 175 £58,375 +1.58% 35
East of England -43 114 £40,000 -25.23% 43
East Midlands -50 102 £35,000 +9.38% 33
Scotland -43 90 £47,500 -5.00% 29
Yorkshire -25 88 £52,445 -38.30% 35
Wales +1 79 £54,000 -9.78% 26
North East -18 60 £57,500 +134.03% 11
Northern Ireland -29 15 £40,000 -47.43% 34
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 34 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.62%) Confluence
4 11 (0.81%) Apache
5 9 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.29%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.15%) Moodle
9 2 (0.15%) Totara
9 2 (0.15%) WordPress
10 1 (0.074%) IIS
10 1 (0.074%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 59 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.72%) Acrobat
4 18 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.59%) InDesign
6 8 (0.59%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) Trello
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.22%) Sketch
8 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.15%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.15%) InVision
9 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.15%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.77%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.074%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.074%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 234 (17.23%) Azure
2 138 (10.16%) AWS
3 89 (6.55%) GCP
4 83 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
5 76 (5.60%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (2.58%) Serverless
8 34 (2.50%) Entra ID
9 29 (2.14%) GitHub
10 26 (1.91%) SaaS
11 24 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
12 23 (1.69%) PaaS
13 22 (1.62%) Figma
14 18 (1.33%) IaaS
15 14 (1.03%) Asana
15 14 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (0.96%) Firebase
17 12 (0.88%) Azure Key Vault
17 12 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.64%) Broadband
2 43 (3.17%) Firewall
3 27 (1.99%) VPN
4 21 (1.55%) DNS
5 20 (1.47%) DHCP
5 20 (1.47%) Network Security
5 20 (1.47%) WAN
6 19 (1.40%) LAN
7 18 (1.33%) Internet
8 17 (1.25%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.52%) VLAN
10 7 (0.52%) Wireless
11 6 (0.44%) 4G
12 5 (0.37%) MPLS
12 5 (0.37%) SAN
13 4 (0.29%) BGP
13 4 (0.29%) SMTP
13 4 (0.29%) SSL
13 4 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.01%) Power BI
2 25 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.47%) Tableau
4 16 (1.18%) GIS
5 15 (1.10%) Metadata
5 15 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.03%) MySQL
6 14 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
7 12 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 11 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.66%) Looker
11 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 44 (3.24%) GitLab
3 40 (2.95%) JIRA
4 34 (2.50%) Git
4 34 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 22 (1.62%) Snyk
6 14 (1.03%) fastlane
7 10 (0.74%) Postman
8 8 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.59%) Xcode
9 7 (0.52%) Moq
10 6 (0.44%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.44%) Crashlytics
10 6 (0.44%) Gradle
10 6 (0.44%) JMeter
11 5 (0.37%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.29%) Gatling
12 4 (0.29%) Locust
13 3 (0.22%) Mockito
13 3 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 462 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 285 (20.99%) Finance
3 174 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 168 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (9.35%) Marketing
6 100 (7.36%) Law
7 97 (7.14%) Legal
8 94 (6.92%) Retail
9 66 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (4.05%) Games
11 49 (3.61%) Local Government
12 30 (2.21%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.55%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.55%) Banking
15 16 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (1.10%) Electronics
17 13 (0.96%) Automotive
17 13 (0.96%) Aviation
17 13 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 272 (20.03%) Senior
2 186 (13.70%) Analyst
3 125 (9.20%) Architect
4 67 (4.93%) Lead
5 60 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
6 57 (4.20%) Business Analyst
6 57 (4.20%) Sales Executive
7 56 (4.12%) Developer
8 52 (3.83%) IT Engineer
9 38 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (2.72%) Account Executive
10 37 (2.72%) Project Manager
11 33 (2.43%) Salesforce Architect
11 33 (2.43%) Senior Architect
12 31 (2.28%) IT Manager
12 31 (2.28%) IT Support
13 27 (1.99%) Cloud Architect
14 26 (1.91%) Business Manager
14 26 (1.91%) Consultant
15 25 (1.84%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.90%) REST
2 39 (2.87%) SOAP
3 37 (2.72%) Lightning Web Components
3 37 (2.72%) Visualforce
4 26 (1.91%) RESTful
5 21 (1.55%) .NET
5 21 (1.55%) CSS
5 21 (1.55%) HTML
6 19 (1.40%) Android SDK
7 18 (1.33%) EDI
8 14 (1.03%) Node.js
9 13 (0.96%) GraphQL
10 12 (0.88%) XML
11 10 (0.74%) .NET Framework
11 10 (0.74%) React
12 9 (0.66%) Web Services
13 7 (0.52%) SAML
13 7 (0.52%) Spring
13 7 (0.52%) Spring Boot
13 7 (0.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 108 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 92 (6.77%) Driving Licence
4 78 (5.74%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.46%) Cyberattack
6 47 (3.46%) Social Media
7 44 (3.24%) Cloud Native
8 42 (3.09%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.95%) Mobile App
10 20 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.33%) Credit Risk
12 17 (1.25%) CSOC
12 17 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 14 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (0.88%) Graphic Design
17 11 (0.81%) Data Structures
17 11 (0.81%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.11%) Windows
2 43 (3.17%) Linux
3 35 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.69%) Android
5 19 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.10%) Unix
7 13 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 12 (0.88%) VMS
9 8 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) Debian
11 4 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (21.65%) Agile
2 288 (21.21%) AI
3 224 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 184 (13.55%) CI/CD
6 173 (12.74%) Decision-Making
7 167 (12.30%) DevOps
8 164 (12.08%) Mentoring
9 157 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
10 131 (9.65%) Roadmaps
11 130 (9.57%) Analytics
12 122 (8.98%) Customer Service
13 113 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
14 102 (7.51%) Scrum
15 98 (7.22%) Coaching
16 88 (6.48%) B2B
17 83 (6.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 82 (6.04%) CRM
19 80 (5.89%) Technology Strategy
20 77 (5.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 110 (8.10%) SQL
2 108 (7.95%) Python
3 50 (3.68%) Java
4 41 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 37 (2.72%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.50%) SOQL
6 34 (2.50%) SOSL
7 29 (2.14%) JavaScript
8 23 (1.69%) C#
9 20 (1.47%) Bash
9 20 (1.47%) Bicep
10 19 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 19 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.52%) C++
12 7 (0.52%) Swift
12 7 (0.52%) XAML
13 6 (0.44%) PHP
14 4 (0.29%) Go
15 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 269 (19.81%) Degree
2 147 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 129 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 76 (5.60%) DBS Check
5 37 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 20 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.47%) HNC
11 15 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
13 13 (0.96%) CISSP
14 12 (0.88%) Postgraduate
15 11 (0.81%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.81%) SANS
16 10 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.74%) CISM
16 10 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.60%) Accessibility
2 61 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.83%) SLA
4 51 (3.76%) GDPR
5 39 (2.87%) NIST
5 39 (2.87%) QA
6 36 (2.65%) GRC
7 35 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 31 (2.28%) WCAG
9 24 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.88%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.74%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) COBIT
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 4 (0.29%) IFRS
15 3 (0.22%) ARP4761
System Software
1 69 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.46%) Docker
3 26 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.03%) vSphere
6 10 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.59%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.074%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (4.20%) Terraform
2 32 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.66%) Autotask
5 8 (0.59%) Grafana
5 8 (0.59%) SCCM
5 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.29%) Ansible
6 4 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.29%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.29%) WSUS
7 3 (0.22%) Argo
7 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.15%) CASB
8 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 274 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.29%) Adobe
3 81 (5.96%) Salesforce
4 59 (4.34%) Google
5 56 (4.12%) Cisco
6 47 (3.46%) Apple
7 36 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.65%) Splunk
8 32 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 29 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
10 28 (2.06%) VMware
11 23 (1.69%) Tenable
12 14 (1.03%) Dynatrace
12 14 (1.03%) Fortinet
12 14 (1.03%) Instagram
13 13 (0.96%) SAP
14 11 (0.81%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.81%) Pega
14 11 (0.81%) Workday
14 11 (0.81%) Wrike