Inclusion and Diversity Jobs 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 28 74
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 -22
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,932 4,862 2,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.79% 6.47% 4.27%
As % of the General category 10.43% 11.82% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 480 1,223 835
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £41,873
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,350 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% -21.69% +16.06%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £71,725 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,058 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.65% -19.91% +10.17%

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 28,123 41,128 33,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 65.11% 54.76% 65.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,341 25,517 17,887
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% -12.50% -

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

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 16 July 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 16 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
North of England +39 1,308 £47,000 +17.50% 458
North West +32 1,217 £47,000 +17.50% 256
South East +13 500 £43,500 -3.33% 398
Midlands +22 393 £53,750 +24.34% 285
Scotland -20 311 £50,000 - 184
West Midlands +22 215 £57,435 +9.40% 189
East of England +35 207 £57,000 +53.69% 135
South West -10 188 £45,000 -10.00% 203
East Midlands +8 178 £31,250 -10.29% 96
Yorkshire -4 63 £85,000 +78.95% 158
North East +15 28 £24,570 -51.16% 48
Wales -13 27 £57,429 +27.94% 64
Northern Ireland +8 10 £76,092 +45.33% 68
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 159 (5.42%) Confluence
2 31 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 29 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 23 (0.78%) Jupyter
5 21 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 17 (0.58%) Apache
8 9 (0.31%) CMS
9 8 (0.27%) Camunda
9 8 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.14%) SAS
10 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.068%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.068%) IIS
11 2 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.068%) WinCC
12 1 (0.034%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.034%) Moodle
Applications
1 59 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
5 7 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
6 6 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.20%) Revit
7 2 (0.068%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.068%) EPLAN
7 2 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.034%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.034%) Blender
8 1 (0.034%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.034%) InDesign
8 1 (0.034%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 14 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.068%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.068%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.034%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.034%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.034%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.034%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.034%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 697 (23.77%) AWS
2 618 (21.08%) Azure
3 374 (12.76%) GCP
4 85 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (2.49%) Pulumi
6 65 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 47 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (0.75%) Entra ID
10 21 (0.72%) SaaS
11 20 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (0.61%) Amazon S3
12 18 (0.61%) Power Automate
13 17 (0.58%) Serverless
14 16 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.34%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 737 (25.14%) VPN
2 419 (14.29%) DNS
3 260 (8.87%) Cisco IOS
4 81 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 65 (2.22%) Broadband
6 56 (1.91%) WAN
7 47 (1.60%) LAN
8 44 (1.50%) Firewall
9 33 (1.13%) Wireless
10 30 (1.02%) Internet
11 27 (0.92%) Network Security
12 26 (0.89%) DHCP
13 18 (0.61%) Skype
13 18 (0.61%) Unified Communications
14 15 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (0.44%) SAN
16 11 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
16 11 (0.38%) SMTP
17 10 (0.34%) HTTP
17 10 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 274 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 104 (3.55%) NoSQL
3 89 (3.04%) Relational Database
4 75 (2.56%) Big Data
5 73 (2.49%) RDBMS
6 56 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
7 51 (1.74%) Power BI
8 27 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 19 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (0.48%) MongoDB
13 13 (0.44%) Oracle Database
14 12 (0.41%) KDB
14 12 (0.41%) Kdb+
14 12 (0.41%) Power Query
15 11 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (0.38%) MySQL
16 10 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 308 (10.50%) Cucumber
2 273 (9.31%) JIRA
3 264 (9.00%) Maven
4 254 (8.66%) Selenium
5 251 (8.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 250 (8.53%) GitLab
7 246 (8.39%) Bitbucket
7 246 (8.39%) SonarQube
8 65 (2.22%) Jaeger
9 62 (2.11%) Robot Framework
10 32 (1.09%) Git
11 31 (1.06%) JUnit
12 30 (1.02%) Jenkins
13 10 (0.34%) webpack
14 9 (0.31%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.24%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.24%) Vite
16 6 (0.20%) Gradle
16 6 (0.20%) Mockito
17 5 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 1,094 (37.31%) Finance
2 866 (29.54%) Analytical Skills
3 526 (17.94%) Law
4 497 (16.95%) Social Skills
5 399 (13.61%) Banking
6 293 (9.99%) Legal
7 184 (6.28%) Marketing
8 182 (6.21%) Retail
9 148 (5.05%) Manufacturing
10 132 (4.50%) Public Sector
11 109 (3.72%) Investment Banking
12 91 (3.10%) Telecoms
13 90 (3.07%) Corporate Banking
14 50 (1.71%) Electronics
15 37 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 21 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
18 20 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.58%) French Language
19 17 (0.58%) German Language
Job Titles
1 644 (21.96%) Software Engineer
2 504 (17.19%) Developer
3 441 (15.04%) Software Developer
4 409 (13.95%) Senior
5 299 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 240 (8.19%) Lead
7 192 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
8 113 (3.85%) Java Engineer
9 112 (3.82%) Java Software Engineer
10 111 (3.79%) Analyst
11 78 (2.66%) Team Leader
12 74 (2.52%) Test Engineer
13 71 (2.42%) Test Automation Engineer
14 67 (2.29%) Support Engineer
15 60 (2.05%) Lead Software Engineer
16 48 (1.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 48 (1.64%) Python Engineer
17 47 (1.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 47 (1.60%) Python Software Engineer
18 46 (1.57%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (12.28%) Spring
2 336 (11.46%) React
3 326 (11.12%) Elastic Stack
4 323 (11.02%) Kafka
5 312 (10.64%) Spring Boot
6 276 (9.41%) HTML
7 275 (9.38%) CSS
8 255 (8.70%) JPA
9 246 (8.39%) Redux
10 223 (7.61%) Node.js
11 221 (7.54%) .NET
12 171 (5.83%) Hibernate
13 136 (4.64%) REST
14 121 (4.13%) RESTful
15 103 (3.51%) Jest
16 93 (3.17%) HTML5
17 92 (3.14%) Sass
18 90 (3.07%) CSS3
19 65 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
20 47 (1.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1,148 (39.15%) Cyberattack
2 266 (9.07%) Product Ownership
3 253 (8.63%) Enterprise Software
4 234 (7.98%) Linux Command Line
5 193 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
6 145 (4.95%) Algorithms
7 78 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 66 (2.25%) Cloud Native
9 65 (2.22%) e-Learning
10 35 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 35 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 29 (0.99%) Onboarding
13 26 (0.89%) Credit Risk
13 26 (0.89%) Social Media
14 25 (0.85%) Fixed Income
15 19 (0.65%) Digital Signage
15 19 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
16 18 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 1,046 (35.68%) Linux
2 695 (23.70%) Android
3 438 (14.94%) Windows
4 85 (2.90%) Unix
5 53 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.34%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.034%) Rocky
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.034%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,297 (44.24%) Agile
2 980 (33.42%) Line Management
3 759 (25.89%) Mathematics
4 755 (25.75%) DevOps
5 732 (24.97%) Software Engineering
6 670 (22.85%) Mentoring
7 636 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
8 491 (16.75%) CI/CD
9 480 (16.37%) Microservices
10 457 (15.59%) SDLC
11 450 (15.35%) Design Patterns
12 446 (15.21%) OO
13 437 (14.90%) OOP
14 427 (14.56%) Android Development
15 411 (14.02%) Containerisation
16 394 (13.44%) Artificial Intelligence
17 388 (13.23%) Risk Management
18 379 (12.93%) Test Automation
19 378 (12.89%) Machine Learning
20 375 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,155 (39.39%) Python
2 1,130 (38.54%) Java
3 678 (23.12%) JavaScript
4 671 (22.89%) Go
5 631 (21.52%) C++
6 395 (13.47%) Bash
7 394 (13.44%) SQL
8 363 (12.38%) PowerShell
9 209 (7.13%) Rust
10 123 (4.20%) TypeScript
11 27 (0.92%) C
12 23 (0.78%) C#
13 17 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 10 (0.34%) PHP
15 10 (0.34%) R
15 10 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.24%) C-shell
16 7 (0.24%) Korn
17 6 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 757 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 699 (23.84%) DV Cleared
3 475 (16.20%) Degree
4 249 (8.49%) AWS Certification
5 174 (5.93%) AWS Certified Developer
6 173 (5.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 61 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 54 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 48 (1.64%) HND
10 45 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
12 21 (0.72%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.58%) CFA
13 17 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.55%) CCNA
14 16 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.48%) HNC
16 13 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
17 10 (0.34%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (14.39%) QA
2 249 (8.49%) NCSC
3 109 (3.72%) Accessibility
4 25 (0.85%) SLA
5 22 (0.75%) NIST
6 18 (0.61%) Data Quality
6 18 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.55%) GDPR
8 11 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.27%) COBIT
9 8 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.27%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.20%) GRC
10 6 (0.20%) PMBOK
11 5 (0.17%) IFRS
11 5 (0.17%) PMO
12 4 (0.14%) Basel II
12 4 (0.14%) Basel III
12 4 (0.14%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1,091 (37.21%) Docker
2 277 (9.45%) Hyper-V
2 277 (9.45%) vSphere
3 260 (8.87%) VMware NSX
4 58 (1.98%) Active Directory
5 48 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.27%) Terminal Services
8 7 (0.24%) Firmware
8 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.20%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.20%) HDFS
9 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.034%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 795 (27.11%) Ansible
2 465 (15.86%) Kubernetes
3 424 (14.46%) Terraform
4 71 (2.42%) Prometheus
5 66 (2.25%) Argo
6 65 (2.22%) Kustomize
7 23 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (0.75%) Grafana
9 13 (0.44%) Puppet
9 13 (0.44%) vCenter Server
10 12 (0.41%) vMotion
11 8 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
12 7 (0.24%) Nagios
13 6 (0.20%) CASB
13 6 (0.20%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.20%) vRealize
14 5 (0.17%) AirWatch
14 5 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 4 (0.14%) Netcool
15 4 (0.14%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 395 (13.47%) Cisco
2 291 (9.92%) Splunk
3 282 (9.62%) Juniper
4 260 (8.87%) 3PAR
5 246 (8.39%) Solace
6 244 (8.32%) Microsoft
7 112 (3.82%) Google
8 106 (3.62%) Oracle
9 70 (2.39%) IBM
10 67 (2.29%) Red Hat
11 56 (1.91%) VMware
12 42 (1.43%) Dell
12 42 (1.43%) ServiceNow
13 41 (1.40%) EMC
14 31 (1.06%) Palo Alto
15 28 (0.95%) SAP
16 26 (0.89%) Salesforce
17 23 (0.78%) Databricks
18 22 (0.75%) Fortinet
19 21 (0.72%) Apple