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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 42 110
Rank change year-on-year +7 +68 -59
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 587 870 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.11% 4.66% 2.97%
As % of the General category 8.91% 8.48% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 117 185 72
10th Percentile £29,000 £23,000 £34,070
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £67,925
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -37.43% +35.85%
75th Percentile £58,750 £53,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £64,918 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +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 6,589 10,262 8,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.56% 54.91% 62.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,837 6,289 4,234
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.51%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +7 304 £40,000 -11.82% 306
Buckinghamshire -4 216 £29,000 -51.67% 36
Hampshire +85 109 £57,500 +4.55% 99
Surrey +42 72 £45,000 +40.80% 54
Oxfordshire +34 45 £40,000 -11.11% 39
Berkshire -5 43 £65,000 +23.81% 234
Middlesex -7 36 - - 1
East Sussex +23 33 £57,500 +150.00% 19
Kent +4 25 £38,250 -11.59% 37
West Sussex -18 5 - - 18
Sussex +19 1 - - 21
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 18 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.36%) Confluence
3 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
Applications
1 83 (14.14%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.34%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.34%) SAP GTS
2 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (13.46%) AWS
2 69 (11.75%) Azure
3 25 (4.26%) Pulumi
4 21 (3.58%) Power Platform
5 20 (3.41%) GCP
6 19 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (1.87%) Power Automate
9 7 (1.19%) SaaS
10 6 (1.02%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.17%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.17%) IaaS
12 1 (0.17%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.17%) PaaS
12 1 (0.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.81%) TCP/IP
2 37 (6.30%) VPN
3 26 (4.43%) LAN
3 26 (4.43%) WAN
4 25 (4.26%) Broadband
5 21 (3.58%) Internet
6 17 (2.90%) Wireless
7 16 (2.73%) DNS
8 14 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (2.21%) DHCP
10 11 (1.87%) Network Security
11 9 (1.53%) 5G
11 9 (1.53%) Bluetooth
11 9 (1.53%) Firewall
11 9 (1.53%) LTE
11 9 (1.53%) SMTP
12 8 (1.36%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (1.02%) NAS
13 6 (1.02%) SAN
13 6 (1.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.43%) NoSQL
2 25 (4.26%) RDBMS
2 25 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (2.73%) Power BI
5 10 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.51%) Tableau
9 2 (0.34%) MySQL
10 1 (0.17%) Metadata
10 1 (0.17%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 42 (7.16%) Cucumber
2 34 (5.79%) Robot Framework
3 25 (4.26%) Jaeger
4 11 (1.87%) GitLab
5 8 (1.36%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.36%) JIRA
5 8 (1.36%) Maven
5 8 (1.36%) Selenium
5 8 (1.36%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.51%) JUnit
6 3 (0.51%) Mockito
7 2 (0.34%) Git
General
1 126 (21.47%) Manufacturing
2 116 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.90%) Law
4 60 (10.22%) Legal
5 56 (9.54%) Telecoms
6 51 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (8.52%) Finance
8 47 (8.01%) Public Sector
9 36 (6.13%) Electronics
10 29 (4.94%) Marketing
11 20 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (2.21%) Retail
13 10 (1.70%) Banking
13 10 (1.70%) Games
14 7 (1.19%) Advertising
15 6 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.34%) Aerospace
18 2 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 98 (16.70%) Test Engineer
2 95 (16.18%) Senior
3 64 (10.90%) Electrical Engineer
3 64 (10.90%) Safety Engineer
4 56 (9.54%) Lead
5 37 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (5.79%) Test Automation Engineer
7 33 (5.62%) Team Leader
8 31 (5.28%) Developer
9 29 (4.94%) Support Engineer
10 28 (4.77%) Design Engineer
11 27 (4.60%) Project Manager
12 24 (4.09%) Associate Engineer
12 24 (4.09%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 24 (4.09%) Electronics Engineer
12 24 (4.09%) PCB Design Engineer
12 24 (4.09%) PCB Engineer
13 21 (3.58%) Infrastructure Support
14 19 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 18 (3.07%) .NET
3 18 (3.07%) Node.js
3 18 (3.07%) Pandas
4 12 (2.04%) React
5 11 (1.87%) Hibernate
5 11 (1.87%) Kafka
5 11 (1.87%) Spring
5 11 (1.87%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.36%) CSS
6 8 (1.36%) HTML
6 8 (1.36%) JPA
6 8 (1.36%) Redux
7 4 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.68%) RESTful
7 4 (0.68%) Vue
8 3 (0.51%) OAuth
8 3 (0.51%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.39%) Cyberattack
2 50 (8.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (7.67%) e-Learning
4 34 (5.79%) Linux Command Line
5 17 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.39%) Social Media
8 12 (2.04%) Clustering
9 10 (1.70%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.53%) IoT
10 9 (1.53%) NB-IoT
11 8 (1.36%) NHS
12 7 (1.19%) Life Science
12 7 (1.19%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.02%) PKI
14 4 (0.68%) Driving Licence
14 4 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 97 (16.52%) Linux
2 86 (14.65%) Windows
3 27 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.26%) Unix
5 19 (3.24%) Android
6 3 (0.51%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (28.28%) Mentoring
2 110 (18.74%) Coaching
3 109 (18.57%) DevOps
4 102 (17.38%) Agile
5 101 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (16.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 91 (15.50%) Containerisation
8 85 (14.48%) Line Management
9 78 (13.29%) Test Automation
10 64 (10.90%) Safety Engineering
11 63 (10.73%) Roadmaps
12 62 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 45 (7.67%) Creative Thinking
15 40 (6.81%) Task Automation
16 39 (6.64%) High Availability
16 39 (6.64%) Project Management
17 37 (6.30%) CAD
18 35 (5.96%) Decision-Making
19 34 (5.79%) Design for Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 103 (17.55%) Python
2 85 (14.48%) JavaScript
3 71 (12.10%) Bash
4 59 (10.05%) PowerShell
5 54 (9.20%) Java
6 43 (7.33%) Go
7 21 (3.58%) C++
8 18 (3.07%) Rust
9 16 (2.73%) SQL
10 5 (0.85%) C
11 3 (0.51%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.51%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.51%) PHP
11 3 (0.51%) RPG
12 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.34%) Perl
12 2 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.17%) ABAP
13 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 243 (41.40%) Degree
2 71 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.88%) DV Cleared
4 31 (5.28%) HND
5 29 (4.94%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.43%) SC Cleared
7 25 (4.26%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.56%) MBA
9 9 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (1.19%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.02%) CISSP
11 6 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.68%) CISM
13 3 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (0.51%) CIPD
13 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.34%) CRISC
14 2 (0.34%) EnCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (14.31%) QA
2 40 (6.81%) NCSC
3 6 (1.02%) SLA
4 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.51%) GDPR
4 3 (0.51%) NIST
4 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.51%) PMBOK
5 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.34%) PMO
6 1 (0.17%) COBIT
6 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 72 (12.27%) Docker
2 26 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.58%) vSphere
4 18 (3.07%) Active Directory
5 15 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.21%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.02%) BitLocker
7 6 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.02%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 73 (12.44%) Ansible
2 68 (11.58%) Kubernetes
3 62 (10.56%) Terraform
4 26 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.26%) Argo
5 25 (4.26%) Kustomize
6 21 (3.58%) Puppet
7 12 (2.04%) vCenter Server
7 12 (2.04%) vMotion
8 7 (1.19%) Nagios
9 6 (1.02%) PowerCLI
9 6 (1.02%) vRealize
10 2 (0.34%) EnCase
10 2 (0.34%) FTK
10 2 (0.34%) RSA Security Analytics
11 1 (0.17%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.17%) Grafana
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 136 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 44 (7.50%) IBM
3 43 (7.33%) Red Hat
4 36 (6.13%) Google
5 28 (4.77%) VMware
6 25 (4.26%) EMC
7 22 (3.75%) Cisco
8 15 (2.56%) Unisys
9 13 (2.21%) Dell
9 13 (2.21%) HP
10 12 (2.04%) Citrix
11 11 (1.87%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.70%) SAP
13 9 (1.53%) Oracle
13 9 (1.53%) Veeam
14 8 (1.36%) Solace
15 7 (1.19%) Splunk
16 6 (1.02%) Adobe
16 6 (1.02%) Aruba
16 6 (1.02%) Palo Alto