Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends in the North East

Inclusion and Diversity
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 47 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 102 27 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.47% 3.02% 2.99%
As % of the General category 8.23% 5.42% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 90 12 26
10th Percentile £40,750 - £23,515
25th Percentile £51,250 - £35,382
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £24,570 £55,060
Median % change year-on-year +144.20% -55.38% -15.29%
75th Percentile £73,675 £74,258 £62,200
90th Percentile £87,500 - £74,513
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +1.82% -6.30% -16.14%

All General Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,240 498 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 42.23% 55.70% 56.54%
Number of salaries quoted 807 303 602
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,656 £25,750
25th Percentile £38,984 £27,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £40,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.65% -6.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £60,741
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,000 £71,991
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the North East

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the North East over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the North East

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Tyne and Wear -3 93 £57,500 +134.03% 92
Durham -4 9 £74,654 +7.60% 3
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 10 (9.80%) Apache
1 10 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (9.80%) Apache Spark
1 10 (9.80%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.94%) CMS
2 3 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.96%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.96%) InVision
2 2 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.96%) Sketch
2 2 (1.96%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 49 (48.04%) AWS
2 42 (41.18%) Azure
3 15 (14.71%) GCP
4 13 (12.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (12.75%) Amazon S3
5 12 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
6 11 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.78%) Firebase
7 10 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (9.80%) Amazon EMR
8 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.86%) Figma
9 7 (6.86%) Textract
10 6 (5.88%) Google Analytics
11 5 (4.90%) dbt
11 5 (4.90%) GitHub
11 5 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.90%) Google Play
12 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.80%) Amazon Athena
1 10 (9.80%) DynamoDB
2 9 (8.82%) Power BI
3 7 (6.86%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.88%) Looker
5 5 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.92%) Metadata
6 4 (3.92%) MySQL
6 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.92%) Tableau
7 3 (2.94%) Big Data
7 3 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.94%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (13.73%) GitLab
2 11 (10.78%) fastlane
2 11 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.86%) JIRA
4 6 (5.88%) Xcode
5 5 (4.90%) Android Studio
5 5 (4.90%) Crashlytics
5 5 (4.90%) Gradle
6 2 (1.96%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.96%) Balsamiq
6 2 (1.96%) Git
7 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.98%) JMeter
7 1 (0.98%) Locust
General
1 68 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 38 (37.25%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.63%) Legal
4 14 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Finance
5 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Back Office
6 1 (0.98%) Law
6 1 (0.98%) Legal Technology
6 1 (0.98%) Publishing
6 1 (0.98%) Retail
6 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Architect
2 17 (16.67%) Analyst
2 17 (16.67%) Developer
2 17 (16.67%) Senior
3 12 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 11 (10.78%) Technical Architect
5 10 (9.80%) Lead
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Architect
6 9 (8.82%) Technical Analyst
6 9 (8.82%) Technical Business Analyst
7 8 (7.84%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Technical Architect
8 7 (6.86%) Designer
9 6 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) iOS Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Android Developer
10 5 (4.90%) Sales Executive
11 4 (3.92%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.92%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) RESTful
2 7 (6.86%) PySpark
3 6 (5.88%) Core Data
3 6 (5.88%) iOS SDK
3 6 (5.88%) SwiftUI
3 6 (5.88%) UIKit
4 5 (4.90%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (4.90%) Android SDK
4 5 (4.90%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (4.90%) LangChain
4 5 (4.90%) LlamaIndex
4 5 (4.90%) Retrofit
5 4 (3.92%) Node.js
6 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.94%) Express.js
6 3 (2.94%) Jest
6 3 (2.94%) Kafka
6 3 (2.94%) MEAN Stack
6 3 (2.94%) Nunjucks
6 3 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.63%) Product Ownership
2 16 (15.69%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.78%) Mobile App
4 10 (9.80%) Onboarding
5 7 (6.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.94%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.96%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.96%) PropTech
7 2 (1.96%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.90%) Android
3 2 (1.96%) Linux
3 2 (1.96%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.96%) Windows
3 2 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (72.55%) Agile
2 43 (42.16%) CI/CD
2 43 (42.16%) DevOps
3 41 (40.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 30 (29.41%) Mentoring
5 26 (25.49%) Test Automation
6 23 (22.55%) Analytics
6 23 (22.55%) User Experience
7 22 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (19.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (18.63%) Decision-Making
10 19 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (17.65%) Data Engineering
12 17 (16.67%) AI
12 17 (16.67%) Coaching
12 17 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
12 17 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
13 16 (15.69%) Containerisation
13 16 (15.69%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.59%) Python
2 17 (16.67%) SQL
3 11 (10.78%) Java
4 6 (5.88%) Swift
5 5 (4.90%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.94%) Bash
7 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.96%) R
8 2 (1.96%) Scala
9 1 (0.98%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 28 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.84%) Degree
5 7 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.98%) CSPO
7 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (24.51%) Accessibility
2 21 (20.59%) Data Quality
3 18 (17.65%) WCAG
4 9 (8.82%) QA
5 3 (2.94%) NCSC
6 2 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.98%) GDPR
7 1 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (12.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Terraform
2 4 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.96%) SCCM
3 2 (1.96%) WSUS
4 1 (0.98%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (13.73%) Dynatrace
2 13 (12.75%) Google
3 8 (7.84%) Apple
4 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.92%) Oracle
6 3 (2.94%) Confluent
7 2 (1.96%) Adobe
7 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.96%) Spotify
8 1 (0.98%) Red Hat