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 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -63 +7 +45
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,426 2,910 4,949
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.01% 8.66% 6.74%
As % of the General category 4.48% 12.85% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 745 483 1,233
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.39% -22.06%
75th Percentile £64,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,250 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,997
% change year-on-year - +5.78% -20.00%

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 31,814 22,653 40,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.75% 67.38% 55.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19,536 10,750 25,729
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -70 397 £55,000 +17.02% 100
Midlands -46 278 £45,000 -18.18% 70
South East -71 247 £53,663 +23.36% 168
North West -65 234 £47,000 - 64
South West -34 191 £57,500 +9.52% 48
West Midlands -27 177 £59,527 +3.64% 35
East of England -41 113 £40,000 -29.82% 32
Scotland -32 100 £50,000 - 24
East Midlands -47 100 £35,000 +19.66% 33
Wales +1 91 £54,500 -0.91% 18
Yorkshire -6 86 £52,445 -38.30% 23
North East -4 77 £57,500 +134.03% 13
Northern Ireland -53 19 £40,000 -47.43% 14
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 36 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.82%) Confluence
4 13 (0.91%) Apache
5 11 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Moodle
10 2 (0.14%) Totara
11 1 (0.070%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 67 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.59%) Acrobat
4 13 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.56%) InDesign
6 8 (0.56%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.42%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.42%) Sketch
8 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.21%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.14%) InVision
9 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (1.68%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.42%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.35%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.21%) SAP EHS
5 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.14%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.070%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.070%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.070%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 247 (17.32%) Azure
2 141 (9.89%) AWS
3 95 (6.66%) GCP
4 83 (5.82%) Power Platform
5 80 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (2.73%) Serverless
8 35 (2.45%) GitHub
9 30 (2.10%) Entra ID
10 27 (1.89%) PaaS
11 26 (1.82%) dbt
11 26 (1.82%) SaaS
12 25 (1.75%) Figma
13 23 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (1.40%) IaaS
15 19 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (1.26%) Azure Key Vault
17 14 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
17 14 (0.98%) Power Automate
18 13 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.93%) Broadband
2 41 (2.88%) Firewall
3 29 (2.03%) VPN
4 21 (1.47%) DNS
5 20 (1.40%) Network Security
5 20 (1.40%) WAN
6 19 (1.33%) DHCP
6 19 (1.33%) LAN
6 19 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.26%) Internet
8 11 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.49%) VLAN
9 7 (0.49%) Wireless
10 6 (0.42%) SAN
11 4 (0.28%) SMTP
11 4 (0.28%) SSL
11 4 (0.28%) WLAN
12 3 (0.21%) 4G
12 3 (0.21%) 5G
12 3 (0.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.98%) Power BI
2 25 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.47%) Tableau
4 17 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.12%) GIS
6 15 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.05%) Metadata
7 14 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
7 14 (0.98%) MySQL
8 13 (0.91%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.84%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 10 (0.70%) Looker
11 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.56%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 48 (3.37%) GitLab
3 44 (3.09%) JIRA
4 37 (2.59%) Git
5 34 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.54%) Snyk
7 14 (0.98%) fastlane
8 10 (0.70%) Postman
9 9 (0.63%) LabVIEW
10 8 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.56%) Xcode
11 7 (0.49%) Moq
12 6 (0.42%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.42%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.42%) Gradle
12 6 (0.42%) JMeter
13 5 (0.35%) MSI
13 5 (0.35%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.28%) Gatling
14 4 (0.28%) JUnit
General
1 527 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 281 (19.71%) Finance
3 192 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 173 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (9.12%) Marketing
6 99 (6.94%) Legal
7 96 (6.73%) Law
8 93 (6.52%) Retail
9 77 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (3.86%) Games
10 55 (3.86%) Local Government
11 36 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.61%) Electronics
14 22 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 22 (1.54%) Banking
15 18 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.98%) Aviation
17 13 (0.91%) Advertising
17 13 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 300 (21.04%) Senior
2 181 (12.69%) Analyst
3 157 (11.01%) Architect
4 77 (5.40%) Lead
5 69 (4.84%) Developer
6 68 (4.77%) Sales Executive
7 62 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
8 52 (3.65%) Business Analyst
9 51 (3.58%) IT Engineer
10 48 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
11 37 (2.59%) Cloud Architect
12 36 (2.52%) Senior Architect
12 36 (2.52%) Technical Architect
13 34 (2.38%) Project Manager
14 33 (2.31%) Account Executive
14 33 (2.31%) Salesforce Architect
15 32 (2.24%) IT Support
16 30 (2.10%) IT Manager
16 30 (2.10%) Systems Engineer
17 27 (1.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.93%) REST
2 38 (2.66%) SOAP
3 36 (2.52%) Lightning Web Components
3 36 (2.52%) Visualforce
4 30 (2.10%) RESTful
5 28 (1.96%) CSS
5 28 (1.96%) HTML
6 27 (1.89%) .NET
7 21 (1.47%) EDI
8 19 (1.33%) Android SDK
8 19 (1.33%) Node.js
9 15 (1.05%) XML
10 13 (0.91%) GraphQL
10 13 (0.91%) React
11 12 (0.84%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.63%) .NET Core
12 9 (0.63%) Spring
12 9 (0.63%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.63%) Web Services
13 8 (0.56%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.78%) Product Ownership
2 109 (7.64%) Driving Licence
3 108 (7.57%) Onboarding
4 81 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
5 54 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 52 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 47 (3.30%) Cyberattack
8 45 (3.16%) Social Media
9 42 (2.95%) Data Centre
10 38 (2.66%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.26%) Credit Risk
13 17 (1.19%) CSOC
13 17 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
14 16 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
15 14 (0.98%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.84%) Graphic Design
17 12 (0.84%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 88 (6.17%) Windows
2 42 (2.95%) Linux
3 32 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.68%) Android
5 19 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.12%) VMS
7 14 (0.98%) Unix
7 14 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.28%) Debian
10 4 (0.28%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (23.49%) Agile
2 297 (20.83%) AI
3 242 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
4 214 (15.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 202 (14.17%) CI/CD
6 196 (13.74%) Decision-Making
7 186 (13.04%) DevOps
8 169 (11.85%) Cybersecurity
8 169 (11.85%) Mentoring
9 143 (10.03%) Roadmaps
10 130 (9.12%) Analytics
11 127 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 119 (8.35%) Customer Service
13 108 (7.57%) Scrum
14 102 (7.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 100 (7.01%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 87 (6.10%) Technology Strategy
17 81 (5.68%) Coaching
18 79 (5.54%) CRM
19 78 (5.47%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.27%) Python
2 117 (8.20%) SQL
3 52 (3.65%) Java
4 45 (3.16%) PowerShell
5 36 (2.52%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.38%) SOQL
6 34 (2.38%) SOSL
7 31 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 29 (2.03%) C#
9 27 (1.89%) Bicep
10 23 (1.61%) Bash
11 22 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 20 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 19 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.63%) MATLAB
15 7 (0.49%) C++
15 7 (0.49%) PHP
15 7 (0.49%) Swift
15 7 (0.49%) XAML
16 6 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 295 (20.69%) Degree
2 191 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 173 (12.13%) SC Cleared
4 79 (5.54%) DBS Check
5 33 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 32 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 29 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (1.68%) HNC
10 21 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
13 15 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (0.91%) CISSP
14 13 (0.91%) PhD
14 13 (0.91%) Postgraduate
15 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.77%) SANS
16 10 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (6.10%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.79%) SLA
4 50 (3.51%) GDPR
5 39 (2.73%) NIST
6 38 (2.66%) QA
7 36 (2.52%) GRC
7 36 (2.52%) WCAG
8 34 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (0.91%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.84%) NCSC
13 10 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.28%) COBIT
14 4 (0.28%) GAAP
14 4 (0.28%) IFRS
14 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.21%) ARP4761
System Software
1 70 (4.91%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.93%) Docker
3 26 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.12%) vSphere
6 12 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.070%) Firmware
8 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (4.63%) Terraform
2 38 (2.66%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.63%) Autotask
4 9 (0.63%) Grafana
4 9 (0.63%) SCCM
5 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.35%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.35%) WSUS
6 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.14%) Ansible
8 2 (0.14%) CASB
8 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.070%) Argo
9 1 (0.070%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.070%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 279 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.66%) Adobe
3 68 (4.77%) Google
4 66 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 41 (2.88%) Cisco
6 40 (2.81%) Apple
7 36 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.45%) Splunk
9 31 (2.17%) VMware
10 30 (2.10%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
12 23 (1.61%) Tenable
13 19 (1.33%) Instagram
14 17 (1.19%) SAP
15 14 (0.98%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.84%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.77%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.77%) Pega
17 11 (0.77%) Wrike