Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends in Merseyside

Inclusion and Diversity
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 39 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 +22
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 43 23 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.36% 2.87% 0.97%
As % of the General category 11.20% 5.74% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,750 - £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £36,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.75%
75th Percentile £81,250 - £37,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £36,659 £54,600 £51,380
% change year-on-year -32.86% +6.27% -3.06%

All General Skills
Merseyside

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 common skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 384 401 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 65.75% 50.06% 60.85%
Number of salaries quoted 150 226 204
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,099
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,360 £41,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.39% -17.17% +3.13%
75th Percentile £61,875 £64,688 £57,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,250 £68,205
North West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +1.94%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in Merseyside

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
Liverpool -7 6 £62,500 - 19
Southport - 4 - -
St Helens - 3 - -
Prescot - 3 - -
Bootle - 2 - -
Wirral - 1 - -
Inclusion and Diversity
North West

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.65%) AutoCAD
2 2 (4.65%) Revit
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
1 9 (20.93%) Azure
2 3 (6.98%) GCP
2 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (60.47%) VPN
2 20 (46.51%) DNS
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.33%) DMZ
4 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Cucumber
2 9 (20.93%) Bitbucket
2 9 (20.93%) GitLab
2 9 (20.93%) JIRA
2 9 (20.93%) Maven
2 9 (20.93%) Selenium
2 9 (20.93%) SonarQube
2 9 (20.93%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 30 (69.77%) Finance
2 26 (60.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
4 8 (18.60%) Retail
5 6 (13.95%) Corporate Banking
5 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) Developer
1 20 (46.51%) Software Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Account Executive
4 2 (4.65%) Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Service Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (4.65%) Service Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Administrator
5 1 (2.33%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (2.33%) Network Technician
5 1 (2.33%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) CSS
1 9 (20.93%) HTML
1 9 (20.93%) JPA
1 9 (20.93%) Kafka
1 9 (20.93%) React
1 9 (20.93%) Redux
1 9 (20.93%) Spring
1 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
2 6 (13.95%) CSS3
2 6 (13.95%) HTML5
2 6 (13.95%) Jest
2 6 (13.95%) REST
2 6 (13.95%) RESTful
2 6 (13.95%) Sass
3 5 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (58.14%) Cyberattack
2 9 (20.93%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (20.93%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 25 (58.14%) Android
3 6 (13.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) Agile
2 25 (58.14%) Line Management
2 25 (58.14%) Mathematics
3 20 (46.51%) Android Development
3 20 (46.51%) Design Patterns
3 20 (46.51%) OO
3 20 (46.51%) OOP
4 15 (34.88%) DevOps
5 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
6 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.93%) Front End Development
6 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (20.93%) Mentoring
6 9 (20.93%) Microservices
6 9 (20.93%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (20.93%) SDLC
6 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (13.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) Java
2 26 (60.47%) Python
3 20 (46.51%) C++
3 20 (46.51%) Go
4 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.93%) SQL
6 6 (13.95%) Bash
6 6 (13.95%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) Security Cleared
2 20 (46.51%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) QA
2 6 (13.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) SLA
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS
System Software
1 34 (79.07%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) Hyper-V
2 5 (11.63%) VMware NSX
2 5 (11.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Ansible
2 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Solace
2 5 (11.63%) 3PAR
2 5 (11.63%) Cisco
2 5 (11.63%) Juniper
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) SAP