Inclusion and Diversity Jobs in the South East

Inclusion and Diversity
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in the South 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 60 108
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 -61
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 509 632 363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.02% 3.65% 2.99%
As % of the General category 7.56% 6.68% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 121 170 66
10th Percentile £29,000 £23,000 £35,351
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,761 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £62,971
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -28.54% +39.94%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,063 £87,866
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,046 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.68% -24.22% +16.67%

All General Skills
South 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 common skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,736 9,461 7,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 66.46% 54.62% 61.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 5,862 4,164
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,760 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.28%
75th Percentile £69,840 £62,500 £69,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the South East

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the South East.

Salary trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the South East

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the South East over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the South East

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Thames Valley +13 235 £40,000 -13.59% 128
Buckinghamshire +3 156 £29,000 -51.67% 32
Hampshire +71 108 £57,500 +4.55% 84
Surrey +35 71 £45,000 -41.94% 57
Oxfordshire +48 45 £40,000 -11.11% 34
Berkshire -32 34 £65,000 +23.81% 62
East Sussex +26 32 £57,500 +150.00% 16
Middlesex -11 29 - - 7
Kent -4 28 £39,000 -21.59% 30
West Sussex -16 3 - - 28
Sussex +16 1 - - 26
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.57%) Confluence
3 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.18%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) Apache
Applications
1 21 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.39%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (15.13%) AWS
2 70 (13.75%) Azure
3 27 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (4.91%) Pulumi
5 24 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
7 18 (3.54%) GCP
8 11 (2.16%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.18%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.98%) SaaS
11 4 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.79%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.20%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.20%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.20%) IaaS
13 1 (0.20%) PaaS
13 1 (0.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.86%) TCP/IP
2 37 (7.27%) VPN
3 25 (4.91%) Broadband
4 22 (4.32%) LAN
4 22 (4.32%) WAN
5 19 (3.73%) DNS
5 19 (3.73%) Internet
6 16 (3.14%) DHCP
7 13 (2.55%) Wireless
8 10 (1.96%) Firewall
9 9 (1.77%) Network Security
9 9 (1.77%) SMTP
10 8 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (1.57%) SAN
11 6 (1.18%) NAS
11 6 (1.18%) VSAN
12 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.59%) HTTP
14 1 (0.20%) VLAN
14 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.11%) NoSQL
2 25 (4.91%) RDBMS
2 25 (4.91%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.34%) Power BI
5 10 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.79%) Tableau
8 3 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.39%) MySQL
10 1 (0.20%) Metadata
10 1 (0.20%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 42 (8.25%) Cucumber
2 34 (6.68%) Robot Framework
3 25 (4.91%) Jaeger
4 11 (2.16%) GitLab
5 8 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.57%) JIRA
5 8 (1.57%) Maven
5 8 (1.57%) Selenium
5 8 (1.57%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.59%) JUnit
6 3 (0.59%) Mockito
7 2 (0.39%) Git
General
1 112 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.18%) Manufacturing
3 59 (11.59%) Law
4 53 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (10.22%) Telecoms
6 50 (9.82%) Legal
7 48 (9.43%) Public Sector
8 47 (9.23%) Finance
9 30 (5.89%) Marketing
10 27 (5.30%) Electronics
11 15 (2.95%) Retail
12 11 (2.16%) Banking
12 11 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.96%) Games
14 7 (1.38%) Advertising
14 7 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 80 (15.72%) Senior
2 44 (8.64%) Lead
3 37 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (6.68%) Test Automation Engineer
4 34 (6.68%) Test Engineer
5 33 (6.48%) Team Leader
6 31 (6.09%) Developer
7 30 (5.89%) Support Engineer
8 28 (5.50%) Design Engineer
9 24 (4.72%) Associate Engineer
9 24 (4.72%) Electronics Design Engineer
9 24 (4.72%) Electronics Engineer
9 24 (4.72%) PCB Design Engineer
9 24 (4.72%) PCB Engineer
10 22 (4.32%) Analyst
11 19 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 19 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (3.54%) Head of AI
12 18 (3.54%) Head of Analytics
12 18 (3.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (4.91%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (3.54%) .NET
3 18 (3.54%) Node.js
3 18 (3.54%) Pandas
4 12 (2.36%) React
5 11 (2.16%) Hibernate
5 11 (2.16%) Kafka
5 11 (2.16%) Spring
5 11 (2.16%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.57%) CSS
6 8 (1.57%) HTML
6 8 (1.57%) JPA
6 8 (1.57%) Redux
7 4 (0.79%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.79%) RESTful
7 4 (0.79%) Vue
8 3 (0.59%) OAuth
8 3 (0.59%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.98%) Cyberattack
2 50 (9.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (8.84%) e-Learning
4 34 (6.68%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.95%) Social Media
6 12 (2.36%) Clustering
7 11 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.77%) NHS
10 6 (1.18%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.18%) PKI
11 5 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Licensing
12 4 (0.79%) Robotics
13 3 (0.59%) Life Science
13 3 (0.59%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.49%) Linux
2 75 (14.73%) Windows
3 25 (4.91%) Unix
4 22 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 19 (3.73%) Android
6 3 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (29.47%) Mentoring
2 109 (21.41%) DevOps
3 103 (20.24%) Agile
3 103 (20.24%) Artificial Intelligence
4 96 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
5 95 (18.66%) Coaching
6 91 (17.88%) Containerisation
7 86 (16.90%) Line Management
8 78 (15.32%) Test Automation
9 67 (13.16%) Roadmaps
10 63 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (8.25%) Creative Thinking
12 40 (7.86%) Task Automation
13 39 (7.66%) Decision-Making
13 39 (7.66%) High Availability
14 37 (7.27%) CAD
14 37 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (6.68%) Design for Manufacturing
15 34 (6.68%) System Testing
15 34 (6.68%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (18.66%) Python
2 85 (16.70%) JavaScript
3 62 (12.18%) Bash
4 54 (10.61%) Java
5 53 (10.41%) PowerShell
6 43 (8.45%) Go
7 21 (4.13%) C++
8 18 (3.54%) Rust
9 16 (3.14%) SQL
10 5 (0.98%) C
11 3 (0.59%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.59%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.59%) PHP
11 3 (0.59%) RPG
12 2 (0.39%) Perl
13 1 (0.20%) ABAP
13 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.20%) R
13 1 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 163 (32.02%) Degree
2 71 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 58 (11.39%) DV Cleared
4 28 (5.50%) HND
5 26 (5.11%) SC Cleared
6 25 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.91%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.16%) MBA
8 7 (1.38%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.79%) CISM
10 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 3 (0.59%) ACCA
11 3 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.59%) CIPD
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CRISC
12 2 (0.39%) MCSA
12 2 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (15.72%) QA
2 40 (7.86%) NCSC
3 7 (1.38%) SLA
4 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.59%) GDPR
4 3 (0.59%) NIST
4 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.59%) PMBOK
5 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.20%) COBIT
6 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (14.15%) Docker
2 21 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.34%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.36%) vSphere
6 6 (1.18%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.18%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (1.18%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 68 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 64 (12.57%) Ansible
3 53 (10.41%) Terraform
4 26 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.91%) Argo
5 25 (4.91%) Kustomize
6 12 (2.36%) Puppet
6 12 (2.36%) vCenter Server
6 12 (2.36%) vMotion
7 7 (1.38%) Nagios
8 6 (1.18%) PowerCLI
8 6 (1.18%) vRealize
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.20%) Grafana
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.64%) IBM
3 43 (8.45%) Red Hat
4 35 (6.88%) Google
5 25 (4.91%) EMC
6 23 (4.52%) VMware
7 22 (4.32%) Cisco
8 13 (2.55%) Dell
8 13 (2.55%) HP
9 12 (2.36%) Citrix
9 12 (2.36%) Salesforce
10 11 (2.16%) Unisys
11 10 (1.96%) Oracle
12 9 (1.77%) SAP
12 9 (1.77%) Veeam
13 8 (1.57%) Solace
14 7 (1.38%) Adobe
15 6 (1.18%) Fortinet
15 6 (1.18%) NetApp
15 6 (1.18%) Symantec