Inclusion and Diversity Jobs in the North West

Inclusion and Diversity
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 65 70
Rank change year-on-year +54 +5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,076 324 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.44% 3.29% 4.67%
As % of the General category 19.17% 6.14% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 47 155 41
10th Percentile £34,448 £24,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,020 £25,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £37,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% -37.00% +10.03%
75th Percentile £51,875 £54,334 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,677 £65,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% -27.14% +20.56%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 5,613 5,279 5,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.09% 53.54% 67.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,585 3,908 2,444
10th Percentile £26,444 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the North West

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the North West.

Salary trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the North West

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the North West

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Lancashire +62 551 - - 136
Manchester +37 308 £47,000 +27.89% 189
Cheshire +43 172 £35,000 -30.00% 41
Merseyside +53 42 - - 28
Cumbria -76 6 £38,000 -15.56% 4
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 39 (3.62%) Confluence
2 9 (0.84%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.093%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.093%) Blender
5 1 (0.093%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.093%) InDesign
5 1 (0.093%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 291 (27.04%) Azure
2 287 (26.67%) AWS
3 214 (19.89%) GCP
4 58 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 6 (0.56%) Pulumi
6 4 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (0.37%) Figma
6 4 (0.37%) Google Workspace
6 4 (0.37%) Miro
6 4 (0.37%) Slack
7 3 (0.28%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (0.28%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (0.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (0.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.28%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (0.28%) dbt
8 1 (0.093%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.093%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 453 (42.10%) VPN
2 379 (35.22%) DNS
3 70 (6.51%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (0.84%) Skype
4 9 (0.84%) Unified Communications
4 9 (0.84%) Wireless
5 7 (0.65%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.28%) Broadband
7 2 (0.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.19%) MPLS
7 2 (0.19%) VoIP
8 1 (0.093%) Modbus
8 1 (0.093%) Network Security
8 1 (0.093%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 57 (5.30%) Power BI
3 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.28%) Redis
3 3 (0.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.093%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.093%) GIS
Development Applications
1 113 (10.50%) Cucumber
1 113 (10.50%) JIRA
2 109 (10.13%) Bitbucket
2 109 (10.13%) GitLab
2 109 (10.13%) Maven
2 109 (10.13%) Selenium
2 109 (10.13%) SonarQube
2 109 (10.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.37%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.37%) Robot Framework
4 3 (0.28%) Jaeger
General
1 501 (46.56%) Finance
2 472 (43.87%) Analytical Skills
3 178 (16.54%) Legal
4 174 (16.17%) Law
5 109 (10.13%) Banking
6 101 (9.39%) Social Skills
7 91 (8.46%) Retail
8 70 (6.51%) Corporate Banking
8 70 (6.51%) Investment Banking
9 55 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.02%) Public Sector
12 6 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.37%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.28%) Electronics
15 2 (0.19%) Dutch Language
15 2 (0.19%) Games
15 2 (0.19%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 379 (35.22%) Developer
1 379 (35.22%) Software Developer
2 282 (26.21%) Software Engineer
3 190 (17.66%) Senior
4 172 (15.99%) Senior Software Engineer
5 70 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 66 (6.13%) Analyst
7 54 (5.02%) Digital Analyst
8 26 (2.42%) Graduate
8 26 (2.42%) Graduate Analyst
9 12 (1.12%) Cisco Specialist
10 9 (0.84%) Applications Support
10 9 (0.84%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (0.84%) Collaboration Specialist
10 9 (0.84%) Support Analyst
11 7 (0.65%) Architect
11 7 (0.65%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (0.65%) Test Engineer
12 5 (0.46%) Lead
12 5 (0.46%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (15.99%) .NET
1 172 (15.99%) Node.js
2 109 (10.13%) CSS
2 109 (10.13%) HTML
2 109 (10.13%) JPA
2 109 (10.13%) Kafka
2 109 (10.13%) React
2 109 (10.13%) Redux
2 109 (10.13%) Spring
2 109 (10.13%) Spring Boot
3 73 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
4 71 (6.60%) REST
5 70 (6.51%) CSS3
5 70 (6.51%) HTML5
5 70 (6.51%) Jest
5 70 (6.51%) RESTful
5 70 (6.51%) Sass
6 39 (3.62%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.28%) Django
7 3 (0.28%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 793 (73.70%) Cyberattack
2 176 (16.36%) Linux Command Line
3 175 (16.26%) Self-Motivation
4 114 (10.59%) Product Ownership
5 110 (10.22%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (0.93%) Driving Licence
6 10 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (0.84%) Digital Signage
7 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 5 (0.46%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.28%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.19%) CCTV
11 1 (0.093%) Animation
11 1 (0.093%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.093%) FMCG
11 1 (0.093%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.093%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.093%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.093%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.093%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 638 (59.29%) Linux
2 449 (41.73%) Android
3 75 (6.97%) Windows
4 6 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (68.68%) Agile
2 627 (58.27%) Line Management
3 454 (42.19%) Mathematics
4 379 (35.22%) Android Development
4 379 (35.22%) Design Patterns
4 379 (35.22%) OO
4 379 (35.22%) OOP
5 283 (26.30%) Software Engineering
6 281 (26.12%) Microservices
7 260 (24.16%) Mentoring
8 257 (23.88%) User Experience
9 193 (17.94%) DevOps
10 179 (16.64%) Scrum
11 177 (16.45%) Cybersecurity
12 173 (16.08%) Data Engineering
12 173 (16.08%) Machine Learning
12 173 (16.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 172 (15.99%) Cloud Security
13 172 (15.99%) Creative Thinking
14 114 (10.59%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 663 (61.62%) Java
2 631 (58.64%) Python
3 554 (51.49%) Go
4 551 (51.21%) C++
5 288 (26.77%) JavaScript
6 172 (15.99%) Rust
7 118 (10.97%) SQL
8 77 (7.16%) Bash
9 74 (6.88%) PowerShell
10 70 (6.51%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.84%) C-shell
11 9 (0.84%) Korn
11 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 563 (52.32%) Security Cleared
2 551 (51.21%) DV Cleared
3 175 (16.26%) AWS Certification
4 172 (15.99%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (15.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 96 (8.92%) Degree
6 14 (1.30%) Chartered Engineer
7 9 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (0.84%) PhD
7 9 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 8 (0.74%) HNC
9 7 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.46%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.28%) HND
12 1 (0.093%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (16.08%) NCSC
2 116 (10.78%) QA
3 72 (6.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.28%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.28%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.19%) SLA
6 1 (0.093%) IFRS
6 1 (0.093%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.093%) NIST
System Software
1 564 (52.42%) Docker
2 71 (6.60%) vSphere
3 70 (6.51%) Hyper-V
3 70 (6.51%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.093%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.093%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 452 (42.01%) Ansible
2 112 (10.41%) Kubernetes
3 76 (7.06%) Terraform
4 3 (0.28%) Argo
4 3 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (0.28%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.28%) Kustomize
4 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 109 (10.13%) Solace
2 94 (8.74%) Cisco
3 70 (6.51%) 3PAR
3 70 (6.51%) Juniper
3 70 (6.51%) Splunk
4 54 (5.02%) Alteryx
5 24 (2.23%) Microsoft
6 10 (0.93%) Google
7 9 (0.84%) Mitel
7 9 (0.84%) Oracle
7 9 (0.84%) Polycom
7 9 (0.84%) ShoreTel
8 8 (0.74%) SAP
9 4 (0.37%) Adobe
10 3 (0.28%) Apple
11 2 (0.19%) EMC
11 2 (0.19%) Proofpoint
11 2 (0.19%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.093%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.093%) Meraki