Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 21 26
Rank change year-on-year -46 +5 +35
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,820 2,750 3,846
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.29% 7.90% 6.41%
As % of the General category 5.22% 11.97% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 867 471 784
10th Percentile £28,350 £25,552 £28,825
25th Percentile £36,000 £32,000 £36,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -12.73%
75th Percentile £69,750 £60,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £80,000 £74,743
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 34,835 22,970 32,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.77% 65.97% 53.46%
Number of salaries quoted 21,533 11,381 17,460
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 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
North of England -68 458 £52,445 +17.85% 480
South East -36 378 £56,000 +3.70% 284
Midlands -49 273 £45,000 -5.26% 294
North West -62 259 £42,000 -5.62% 273
South West -14 247 £57,500 +51.32% 431
West Midlands -44 164 £59,250 +7.73% 223
Scotland -12 159 £52,500 +31.25% 378
East of England +5 157 £42,119 -26.11% 149
North East +5 112 £60,000 +144.20% 78
East Midlands -32 108 £40,000 +23.08% 71
Wales +2 102 £53,000 -3.64% 41
Yorkshire -5 87 £50,000 -37.50% 129
Northern Ireland -44 52 £74,654 -1.89% 184
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 41 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (2.03%) Confluence
3 31 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 18 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 16 (0.88%) Apache
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 10 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.22%) IIS
9 4 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.11%) Moodle
10 2 (0.11%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.11%) Totara
11 1 (0.055%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 88 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.99%) Simulink
5 12 (0.66%) Revit
6 9 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 8 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 8 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 8 (0.44%) Adobe XD
7 8 (0.44%) InDesign
7 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.38%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.38%) Maple
8 7 (0.38%) Sketch
9 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
11 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.32%) Cloudability
2 21 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.66%) Workday HCM
4 11 (0.60%) Primavera
5 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.38%) SAP EHS
6 7 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.22%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.22%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.16%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.16%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.16%) SAP R/3
9 3 (0.16%) Shopify
10 2 (0.11%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.11%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 319 (17.53%) Azure
2 236 (12.97%) AWS
3 137 (7.53%) GCP
4 94 (5.16%) Power Platform
5 90 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (3.19%) GitHub
8 50 (2.75%) Serverless
9 40 (2.20%) SaaS
10 34 (1.87%) dbt
11 32 (1.76%) PaaS
12 31 (1.70%) Entra ID
13 28 (1.54%) Figma
13 28 (1.54%) IaaS
14 27 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
15 26 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
15 26 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
18 18 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.03%) Firewall
2 31 (1.70%) Network Security
3 23 (1.26%) Broadband
4 21 (1.15%) Internet
5 19 (1.04%) DNS
5 19 (1.04%) VPN
6 17 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.88%) Ethernet
8 15 (0.82%) LAN
9 14 (0.77%) DHCP
10 13 (0.71%) WAN
11 10 (0.55%) Modbus
11 10 (0.55%) SAN
11 10 (0.55%) Wireless
12 9 (0.49%) VLAN
13 8 (0.44%) Profibus
13 8 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.33%) SSL
15 4 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (4.23%) Power BI
2 40 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.43%) Tableau
5 22 (1.21%) Metadata
6 21 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.93%) MySQL
8 17 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 14 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 13 (0.71%) BigQuery
10 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.60%) Big Data
11 11 (0.60%) GIS
12 10 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (0.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (4.34%) Git
2 66 (3.63%) JIRA
3 60 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.03%) GitLab
5 22 (1.21%) Snyk
6 21 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.77%) fastlane
7 14 (0.77%) LabVIEW
7 14 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.49%) JMeter
9 8 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.44%) Postman
9 8 (0.44%) Xcode
10 7 (0.38%) Gatling
10 7 (0.38%) Moq
10 7 (0.38%) MSI
11 6 (0.33%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.33%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.33%) Gradle
General
1 746 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 501 (27.53%) Finance
3 276 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 157 (8.63%) Marketing
6 145 (7.97%) Law
7 134 (7.36%) Aerospace
8 100 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
9 95 (5.22%) Legal
10 80 (4.40%) Retail
11 76 (4.18%) Manufacturing
12 63 (3.46%) Local Government
13 61 (3.35%) Electronics
14 48 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (2.47%) Telecoms
16 39 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
17 35 (1.92%) Banking
18 30 (1.65%) Military
19 29 (1.59%) Games
20 18 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 368 (20.22%) Senior
2 194 (10.66%) Lead
3 191 (10.49%) Architect
4 187 (10.27%) Analyst
5 91 (5.00%) Sales Executive
6 89 (4.89%) Developer
7 78 (4.29%) Consultant
8 68 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
9 63 (3.46%) Business Analyst
10 58 (3.19%) Software Engineer
11 56 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
12 53 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
13 41 (2.25%) IT Engineer
14 40 (2.20%) Senior Architect
14 40 (2.20%) Technical Architect
15 39 (2.14%) Cloud Architect
16 38 (2.09%) Designer
17 30 (1.65%) IT Support
17 30 (1.65%) Principal Engineer
18 29 (1.59%) Account Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (4.89%) Terraform
2 56 (3.08%) .NET
3 46 (2.53%) CSS
4 44 (2.42%) HTML
4 44 (2.42%) RESTful
5 37 (2.03%) REST
6 35 (1.92%) React
7 31 (1.70%) Node.js
8 27 (1.48%) .NET Core
8 27 (1.48%) EDI
9 24 (1.32%) XML
10 22 (1.21%) .NET Framework
10 22 (1.21%) Spring
11 19 (1.04%) Spring Boot
12 18 (0.99%) ASP.NET
12 18 (0.99%) Entity Framework
13 16 (0.88%) SOAP
14 15 (0.82%) AngularJS
15 14 (0.77%) Playwright
15 14 (0.77%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 149 (8.19%) Driving Licence
2 148 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 109 (5.99%) Self-Motivation
4 99 (5.44%) Product Ownership
5 85 (4.67%) Cloud Native
6 70 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 70 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.64%) Social Media
8 46 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 41 (2.25%) Cyberattack
10 29 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 25 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.15%) FPGA
15 20 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
15 20 (1.10%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.10%) SCADA
16 19 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.10%) Windows
2 57 (3.13%) Linux
3 31 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 22 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.04%) Android
6 17 (0.93%) Unix
7 16 (0.88%) VMS
8 13 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.27%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.22%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.16%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (27.42%) Agile
2 433 (23.79%) AI
3 375 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
4 295 (16.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 277 (15.22%) Mentoring
6 273 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 254 (13.96%) CI/CD
8 232 (12.75%) DevOps
9 205 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
10 202 (11.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 157 (8.63%) Roadmaps
12 148 (8.13%) Validation
13 144 (7.91%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 138 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 137 (7.53%) Analytics
16 135 (7.42%) Customer Service
17 124 (6.81%) Coaching
17 124 (6.81%) Software Engineering
18 120 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
19 119 (6.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 169 (9.29%) Python
2 131 (7.20%) SQL
3 69 (3.79%) Java
4 65 (3.57%) C#
5 62 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 48 (2.64%) PowerShell
7 37 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.76%) MATLAB
9 29 (1.59%) Bicep
10 26 (1.43%) Bash
11 22 (1.21%) C++
12 18 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.82%) Go
14 14 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.77%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.77%) SOQL
14 14 (0.77%) SOSL
15 10 (0.55%) ABAP
15 10 (0.55%) Ada
15 10 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 410 (22.53%) Degree
2 351 (19.29%) Security Cleared
3 331 (18.19%) SC Cleared
4 150 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 112 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 106 (5.82%) DBS Check
7 63 (3.46%) HNC
8 47 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 41 (2.25%) Azure Certification
10 39 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 36 (1.98%) Chartered Engineer
12 32 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
13 29 (1.59%) PhD
14 27 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (0.71%) ACCA
16 13 (0.71%) CIMA
16 13 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 13 (0.71%) CISSP
17 12 (0.66%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (12.91%) Accessibility
2 82 (4.51%) QA
3 75 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.52%) SLA
5 55 (3.02%) GDPR
6 48 (2.64%) WCAG
7 36 (1.98%) GRC
8 34 (1.87%) NIST
9 27 (1.48%) NCSC
10 22 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 21 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.22%) DO-160
16 4 (0.22%) GAAP
16 4 (0.22%) IFRS
16 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 85 (4.67%) Docker
2 73 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.09%) Firmware
4 25 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.66%) vSphere
7 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.27%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) IAG
10 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 22 (1.21%) Grafana
4 18 (0.99%) SCCM
5 12 (0.66%) Ansible
6 11 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.38%) WSUS
8 4 (0.22%) Argo
8 4 (0.22%) Autotask
9 3 (0.16%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.16%) Kibana
10 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.11%) Puppet
10 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.055%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.055%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.055%) QRadar
11 1 (0.055%) SCOM
11 1 (0.055%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.055%) VxRail
Vendors
1 310 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.78%) Google
3 72 (3.96%) SAP
4 57 (3.13%) Adobe
5 50 (2.75%) Apple
5 50 (2.75%) Workday
6 37 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 35 (1.92%) Cisco
7 35 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.81%) VMware
9 26 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 25 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
11 24 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 22 (1.21%) Tenable
13 21 (1.15%) Splunk
14 20 (1.10%) Oracle
15 15 (0.82%) Facebook
15 15 (0.82%) Instagram
16 14 (0.77%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.71%) Databricks