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 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 36 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,942 2,359 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.56% 4.92% 5.97%
As % of the General category 8.80% 8.98% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 491 502 738
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £55,000 £53,809
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% +2.21% +3.48%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,225 £84,056
UK median annual salary £50,915 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.54% -3.85% +8.33%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,059 26,282 19,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 63.18% 54.79% 63.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11,811 11,392 14,277
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,067 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £51,625 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.96% - -

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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
North of England +23 763 £35,610 -39.44% 251
North West +20 688 £35,310 -39.95% 123
South East -28 323 £54,000 -15.95% 588
Midlands +14 290 £47,500 -9.52% 147
Scotland -6 289 £25,835 -53.03% 103
West Midlands +30 199 £53,750 -6.52% 80
South West -2 158 £31,250 -16.67% 158
East Midlands +12 91 £33,250 -16.88% 64
East of England -51 91 £57,000 +26.67% 69
Yorkshire -24 52 £52,958 +8.63% 74
North East -6 23 £25,835 -60.25% 54
Wales -7 18 £52,562 -18.01% 47
Northern Ireland -14 12 £76,024 +27.92% 33
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 -
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 96 (4.94%) Confluence
2 26 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 19 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 15 (0.77%) Apache
5 9 (0.46%) CMS
6 8 (0.41%) Camunda
6 8 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.10%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.051%) Drupal
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.051%) WordPress
Applications
1 70 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.77%) AutoCAD
4 13 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.41%) Revit
6 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.31%) Civil 3D
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.26%) Navisworks
8 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.15%) Simulink
11 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.051%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.051%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.051%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 16 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.051%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.051%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.051%) Primavera
7 1 (0.051%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.051%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 473 (24.36%) AWS
2 432 (22.25%) Azure
3 291 (14.98%) GCP
4 69 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (2.47%) Power Platform
6 25 (1.29%) SaaS
7 20 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 18 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 17 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (0.88%) Serverless
10 15 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.46%) GitHub
13 9 (0.46%) npm
14 7 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.36%) PaaS
14 7 (0.36%) Yarn
15 6 (0.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 276 (14.21%) VPN
2 260 (13.39%) Cisco IOS
3 26 (1.34%) LAN
3 26 (1.34%) WAN
4 23 (1.18%) Firewall
5 22 (1.13%) Internet
6 17 (0.88%) Network Security
7 16 (0.82%) Broadband
8 14 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.57%) DNS
10 9 (0.46%) DHCP
11 6 (0.31%) MPLS
11 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.26%) ADSL
12 5 (0.26%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (0.26%) LoRaWAN
12 5 (0.26%) Modbus
13 4 (0.21%) SAN
14 3 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 42 (2.16%) Power BI
3 29 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 28 (1.44%) Big Data
5 25 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 17 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 15 (0.77%) Tableau
9 12 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.62%) KDB
9 12 (0.62%) Kdb+
9 12 (0.62%) Power Query
10 11 (0.57%) MySQL
10 11 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (0.46%) Apache Hive
12 9 (0.46%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (0.46%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 195 (10.04%) JIRA
2 183 (9.42%) Maven
3 181 (9.32%) GitLab
4 180 (9.27%) SonarQube
5 177 (9.11%) Selenium
6 170 (8.75%) Sonatype Nexus
7 165 (8.50%) Bitbucket
7 165 (8.50%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.27%) Jenkins
9 26 (1.34%) Git
10 20 (1.03%) JUnit
11 14 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.51%) webpack
13 7 (0.36%) Vite
14 6 (0.31%) Gradle
15 4 (0.21%) Locust
15 4 (0.21%) Subversion
15 4 (0.21%) WebDriver
16 3 (0.15%) ERwin
16 3 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 623 (32.08%) Finance
2 421 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 404 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
4 294 (15.14%) Banking
5 292 (15.04%) Law
6 208 (10.71%) Marketing
7 206 (10.61%) Retail
8 143 (7.36%) Public Sector
9 88 (4.53%) Investment Banking
10 69 (3.55%) Corporate Banking
11 64 (3.30%) Legal
11 64 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.52%) Electronics
13 48 (2.47%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (1.03%) Games
19 17 (0.88%) French Language
Job Titles
1 555 (28.58%) Software Engineer
2 340 (17.51%) Senior
3 283 (14.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 189 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 162 (8.34%) Lead
6 113 (5.82%) Java Engineer
7 112 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 81 (4.17%) Analyst
9 63 (3.24%) Microsoft Specialist
10 62 (3.19%) Senior Manager
11 60 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
12 59 (3.04%) Architect
13 55 (2.83%) Project Engineer
14 48 (2.47%) Python Engineer
15 47 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (2.42%) Python Software Engineer
15 47 (2.42%) Support Engineer
16 46 (2.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 45 (2.32%) Sales Manager
18 42 (2.16%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (14.11%) Spring
2 262 (13.49%) Elastic Stack
3 247 (12.72%) React
4 238 (12.26%) Kafka
5 228 (11.74%) Spring Boot
6 195 (10.04%) HTML
7 190 (9.78%) CSS
8 186 (9.58%) Node.js
9 182 (9.37%) .NET
10 174 (8.96%) JPA
11 165 (8.50%) Redux
12 124 (6.39%) REST
13 108 (5.56%) Hibernate
14 96 (4.94%) RESTful
15 76 (3.91%) Jest
16 72 (3.71%) HTML5
17 71 (3.66%) Sass
18 69 (3.55%) CSS3
19 35 (1.80%) AngularJS
20 24 (1.24%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 431 (22.19%) Cyberattack
2 200 (10.30%) Self-Motivation
3 191 (9.84%) Product Ownership
4 177 (9.11%) Enterprise Software
5 170 (8.75%) Linux Command Line
6 89 (4.58%) Algorithms
7 73 (3.76%) Cloud Native
8 60 (3.09%) Onboarding
9 45 (2.32%) Driving Licence
10 41 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
11 37 (1.91%) e-Learning
12 33 (1.70%) Management Information System
13 32 (1.65%) Data Centre
14 30 (1.54%) Public Cloud
15 28 (1.44%) Social Media
16 25 (1.29%) Blog
17 18 (0.93%) Microsoft Licensing
18 15 (0.77%) Reference Data
19 14 (0.72%) FMCG
19 14 (0.72%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 445 (22.91%) Linux
2 306 (15.76%) Windows
3 268 (13.80%) Android
4 12 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.36%) Unix
8 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (35.74%) Agile
2 573 (29.51%) Software Engineering
3 508 (26.16%) DevOps
4 472 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
5 396 (20.39%) AI
6 375 (19.31%) Mentoring
7 363 (18.69%) SDLC
8 362 (18.64%) CI/CD
9 359 (18.49%) Microservices
10 340 (17.51%) Risk Management
11 331 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 308 (15.86%) Machine Learning
13 289 (14.88%) Mathematics
14 286 (14.73%) Line Management
15 285 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 267 (13.75%) Task Automation
17 264 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
17 264 (13.59%) Storage Management
18 263 (13.54%) User Experience
19 223 (11.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 543 (27.96%) Python
2 514 (26.47%) Java
3 394 (20.29%) JavaScript
4 277 (14.26%) SQL
5 275 (14.16%) PowerShell
6 262 (13.49%) Bash
7 178 (9.17%) Go
8 175 (9.01%) C++
9 171 (8.81%) Rust
10 95 (4.89%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.03%) C#
12 17 (0.88%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.77%) SOQL
13 15 (0.77%) SOSL
14 12 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.41%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.26%) C
16 5 (0.26%) PHP
16 5 (0.26%) R
17 4 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 345 (17.77%) Degree
2 225 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 179 (9.22%) AWS Certification
4 176 (9.06%) DV Cleared
5 172 (8.86%) AWS Certified Developer
6 171 (8.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 49 (2.52%) HND
8 41 (2.11%) SC Cleared
9 27 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 19 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (0.88%) HNC
12 15 (0.77%) MCSE
13 12 (0.62%) Chartered Engineer
14 11 (0.57%) Azure Certification
14 11 (0.57%) PMP
15 8 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (0.36%) CCNA
16 7 (0.36%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (10.71%) QA
2 90 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (1.44%) NIST
4 28 (1.44%) SLA
5 17 (0.88%) PMO
6 16 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.82%) GDPR
7 15 (0.77%) NCSC
8 14 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.46%) COBIT
10 5 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.21%) ISO 19650
11 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.10%) GRC
12 2 (0.10%) P3O
12 2 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.051%) IASME
13 1 (0.051%) IFRS
System Software
1 458 (23.58%) Docker
2 264 (13.59%) Hyper-V
3 263 (13.54%) vSphere
4 260 (13.39%) VMware NSX
5 41 (2.11%) Active Directory
6 18 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.26%) HDFS
8 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.051%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.051%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 304 (15.65%) Terraform
2 280 (14.42%) Ansible
3 240 (12.36%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.88%) Grafana
4 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.31%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (0.26%) CASB
8 4 (0.21%) Argo
8 4 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.21%) Netcool
8 4 (0.21%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 4 (0.21%) SCCM
8 4 (0.21%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.15%) Puppet
9 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.10%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.10%) Nagios
10 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.10%) vMotion
Vendors
1 334 (17.20%) Cisco
2 300 (15.45%) Splunk
3 276 (14.21%) Juniper
4 260 (13.39%) 3PAR
5 259 (13.34%) Microsoft
6 165 (8.50%) Solace
7 73 (3.76%) Oracle
8 39 (2.01%) EMC
9 37 (1.91%) IBM
10 35 (1.80%) Red Hat
10 35 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 30 (1.54%) Apple
13 29 (1.49%) Adobe
14 28 (1.44%) NEC
15 26 (1.34%) Google
15 26 (1.34%) ServiceNow
16 23 (1.18%) Databricks
17 20 (1.03%) VMware
18 19 (0.98%) Dell