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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 13 24
Rank change year-on-year -63 +11 +47
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,336 3,127 5,621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.01% 10.60% 7.25%
As % of the General category 4.52% 14.83% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 651 469 1,303
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +11.39% -24.70%
75th Percentile £63,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
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 29,578 21,085 42,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.46% 71.48% 54.98%
Number of salaries quoted 18,001 9,442 27,485
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 £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 12 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 12 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 -73 381 £55,000 +17.02% 148
Midlands -40 281 £45,000 -14.29% 94
North West -54 234 £47,000 - 81
South East -75 233 £46,500 +16.25% 204
West Midlands -27 180 £60,000 +4.41% 58
South West -46 160 £57,591 +27.98% 94
East of England -47 113 £40,000 -25.23% 61
East Midlands -51 101 £35,000 +7.69% 36
Yorkshire -30 89 £52,445 -38.30% 51
Scotland -42 86 £47,500 -13.64% 47
Wales +1 75 £54,500 -8.95% 24
North East -10 58 £57,500 +134.03% 18
Northern Ireland -29 17 £40,000 -47.43% 19
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 39 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.50%) Confluence
4 9 (0.67%) Apache
5 8 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) IIS
10 1 (0.075%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 60 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.77%) Acrobat
4 22 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
6 7 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.52%) InDesign
6 7 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.075%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.80%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.45%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.075%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.075%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 228 (17.07%) Azure
2 144 (10.78%) AWS
3 87 (6.51%) GCP
4 86 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (5.54%) Power Platform
6 52 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (2.62%) Entra ID
8 31 (2.32%) Serverless
9 28 (2.10%) SaaS
10 26 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (1.72%) GitHub
12 20 (1.50%) Figma
13 19 (1.42%) PaaS
14 14 (1.05%) Asana
14 14 (1.05%) IaaS
15 13 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (0.90%) Firebase
16 12 (0.90%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.82%) Google Analytics
17 11 (0.82%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.87%) Broadband
2 41 (3.07%) Firewall
3 23 (1.72%) VPN
4 21 (1.57%) DNS
4 21 (1.57%) LAN
4 21 (1.57%) WAN
5 20 (1.50%) DHCP
6 19 (1.42%) Network Security
7 17 (1.27%) Internet
8 16 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.52%) 4G
10 7 (0.52%) VLAN
10 7 (0.52%) Wireless
11 6 (0.45%) MPLS
12 4 (0.30%) BGP
12 4 (0.30%) SMTP
12 4 (0.30%) SSL
12 4 (0.30%) WLAN
13 3 (0.22%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.94%) Power BI
2 25 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.50%) Tableau
4 16 (1.20%) GIS
5 15 (1.12%) Metadata
6 14 (1.05%) MySQL
6 14 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 12 (0.90%) MongoDB
8 12 (0.90%) SQL Server
9 10 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (0.67%) Looker
11 8 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.45%) Redis
13 5 (0.37%) Big Data
13 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (3.89%) Jenkins
2 42 (3.14%) GitLab
3 38 (2.84%) JIRA
4 34 (2.54%) SonarQube
5 25 (1.87%) Git
6 22 (1.65%) Snyk
7 13 (0.97%) fastlane
8 10 (0.75%) Postman
9 8 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.52%) Moq
10 7 (0.52%) Xcode
11 6 (0.45%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.45%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.45%) Gradle
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.30%) Gatling
13 4 (0.30%) Locust
14 3 (0.22%) JUnit
14 3 (0.22%) Mockito
General
1 441 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 279 (20.88%) Finance
3 176 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (13.10%) Public Sector
5 124 (9.28%) Marketing
6 99 (7.41%) Law
7 93 (6.96%) Legal
8 92 (6.89%) Retail
9 61 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (4.12%) Games
11 45 (3.37%) Local Government
12 30 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.57%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.57%) Banking
13 21 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.12%) Electronics
14 15 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 13 (0.97%) Automotive
16 13 (0.97%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 261 (19.54%) Senior
2 188 (14.07%) Analyst
3 125 (9.36%) Architect
4 65 (4.87%) Lead
5 61 (4.57%) Business Analyst
6 59 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
7 52 (3.89%) IT Engineer
8 48 (3.59%) Developer
8 48 (3.59%) Sales Executive
9 41 (3.07%) Project Manager
10 38 (2.84%) Account Executive
11 37 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (2.47%) Salesforce Architect
12 33 (2.47%) Senior Architect
13 30 (2.25%) IT Manager
13 30 (2.25%) IT Support
14 27 (2.02%) Cloud Architect
15 25 (1.87%) Technical Architect
16 24 (1.80%) Security Architect
17 23 (1.72%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.67%) REST
2 38 (2.84%) SOAP
3 37 (2.77%) Lightning Web Components
3 37 (2.77%) Visualforce
4 20 (1.50%) RESTful
5 19 (1.42%) Android SDK
5 19 (1.42%) EDI
6 17 (1.27%) CSS
6 17 (1.27%) HTML
7 16 (1.20%) .NET
8 13 (0.97%) GraphQL
9 12 (0.90%) Node.js
10 11 (0.82%) XML
11 8 (0.60%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.60%) React
11 8 (0.60%) Web Services
12 7 (0.52%) Entity Framework
12 7 (0.52%) Playwright
12 7 (0.52%) SAML
12 7 (0.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.53%) Onboarding
2 105 (7.86%) Product Ownership
3 87 (6.51%) Driving Licence
4 72 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.52%) Cyberattack
6 47 (3.52%) Social Media
7 40 (2.99%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.92%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
11 16 (1.20%) CSOC
12 15 (1.12%) Credit Risk
12 15 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.05%) Security Posture
14 13 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.82%) Graphic Design
16 11 (0.82%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.69%) Windows
2 40 (2.99%) Linux
3 33 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.72%) Android
5 18 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.05%) Unix
7 13 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.60%) VMS
9 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.30%) Debian
10 4 (0.30%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (21.56%) Agile
2 283 (21.18%) AI
3 219 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 195 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 171 (12.80%) CI/CD
6 163 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
7 159 (11.90%) Mentoring
8 154 (11.53%) Decision-Making
9 153 (11.45%) DevOps
10 129 (9.66%) Analytics
11 125 (9.36%) Roadmaps
12 121 (9.06%) Customer Service
13 104 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
14 100 (7.49%) Coaching
15 97 (7.26%) Scrum
16 88 (6.59%) B2B
17 80 (5.99%) CRM
17 80 (5.99%) Technology Strategy
18 78 (5.84%) TOGAF
19 76 (5.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.56%) SQL
2 100 (7.49%) Python
3 49 (3.67%) Java
4 37 (2.77%) Apex Code
4 37 (2.77%) PowerShell
5 34 (2.54%) SOQL
5 34 (2.54%) SOSL
6 25 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.42%) C#
7 19 (1.42%) Kotlin
8 16 (1.20%) Bash
8 16 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.90%) Bicep
10 10 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.52%) C++
11 7 (0.52%) XAML
12 6 (0.45%) Swift
13 5 (0.37%) PHP
14 3 (0.22%) Ruby
14 3 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 261 (19.54%) Degree
2 144 (10.78%) Security Cleared
3 126 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 70 (5.24%) DBS Check
5 41 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 21 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.50%) HNC
11 18 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (1.05%) CISSP
14 12 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
14 12 (0.90%) Postgraduate
15 11 (0.82%) CISM
15 11 (0.82%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.75%) CITP
16 10 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.24%) Accessibility
2 59 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.82%) GDPR
4 47 (3.52%) SLA
5 40 (2.99%) NIST
6 37 (2.77%) GRC
6 37 (2.77%) QA
7 36 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (1.95%) WCAG
9 15 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 12 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.52%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.30%) COBIT
14 4 (0.30%) GAAP
14 4 (0.30%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.84%) Docker
3 26 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.75%) vSphere
6 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.075%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (3.67%) Terraform
2 30 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.67%) Autotask
6 8 (0.60%) Grafana
6 8 (0.60%) SCCM
7 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.30%) Ansible
7 4 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.30%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.30%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.30%) WSUS
8 3 (0.22%) Argo
8 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.15%) CASB
9 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 276 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.78%) Adobe
3 88 (6.59%) Salesforce
4 62 (4.64%) Cisco
5 58 (4.34%) Google
6 54 (4.04%) Apple
7 38 (2.84%) Splunk
8 37 (2.77%) ServiceNow
9 32 (2.40%) Palo Alto
10 31 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
11 24 (1.80%) VMware
12 23 (1.72%) Tenable
13 15 (1.12%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.05%) Instagram
15 13 (0.97%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.97%) SAP
16 12 (0.90%) Databricks
17 11 (0.82%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.82%) Workday
17 11 (0.82%) Wrike