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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 +27
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,120 2,074 5,466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.05% 7.80% 8.15%
As % of the General category 16.34% 11.38% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 608 483 1,291
10th Percentile £20,000 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,227 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,418 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +8.91% -22.31%

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 31,335 18,217 38,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.24% 68.47% 58.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,020 9,397 26,181
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +11.43% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +10 1,966 £42,500 -9.57% 396
North West +3 1,696 £38,462 -16.39% 313
Midlands +24 1,509 £50,000 - 126
West Midlands +43 1,296 £62,000 +12.73% 54
South East +12 852 £52,500 +8.66% 314
East of England +6 455 £45,000 -18.18% 132
Yorkshire +29 245 £27,625 -35.00% 67
East Midlands -8 225 £35,000 -4.11% 72
South West -15 169 £48,373 -3.25% 99
Scotland -25 89 £51,250 -6.82% 45
Wales +4 74 £57,515 +11.99% 20
North East -25 25 £60,000 -13.52% 16
Northern Ireland -41 15 £40,000 -32.69% 29
Channel Islands - 8 - -
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 45 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.29%) Confluence
2 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.16%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.059%) Apache
4 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.059%) CMS
5 2 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.039%) WordPress
6 1 (0.020%) IIS
6 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 62 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 28 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.098%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.059%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.039%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.039%) Trello
8 1 (0.020%) Simulink
8 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 12 (0.23%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.098%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.078%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.039%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.039%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.039%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.37%) Cloud Computing
2 186 (3.63%) Azure
3 115 (2.25%) AWS
4 85 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (1.21%) Power Platform
6 59 (1.15%) GCP
7 40 (0.78%) SaaS
8 39 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 22 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (0.35%) Serverless
11 13 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.23%) Asana
12 12 (0.23%) PaaS
13 11 (0.21%) Sprout Social
14 10 (0.20%) Google Analytics
14 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.18%) Figma
15 9 (0.18%) GitHub
15 9 (0.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (71.41%) Internet
2 64 (1.25%) Broadband
3 28 (0.55%) Firewall
4 26 (0.51%) DNS
5 25 (0.49%) VPN
6 23 (0.45%) DHCP
7 22 (0.43%) LAN
8 20 (0.39%) WAN
9 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.31%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.16%) 4G
11 8 (0.16%) VLAN
12 7 (0.14%) MPLS
12 7 (0.14%) Network Security
12 7 (0.14%) Wireless
13 4 (0.078%) BGP
13 4 (0.078%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.078%) PSTN
13 4 (0.078%) SMTP
13 4 (0.078%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (0.96%) Power BI
2 20 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.25%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.21%) GIS
5 11 (0.21%) Metadata
6 10 (0.20%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (0.14%) MySQL
9 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.12%) Redis
10 5 (0.098%) Looker
10 5 (0.098%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.078%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.039%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.039%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 34 (0.66%) GitLab
2 34 (0.66%) SonarQube
3 30 (0.59%) JIRA
4 19 (0.37%) Git
5 13 (0.25%) Snyk
6 10 (0.20%) Postman
7 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.098%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.098%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.078%) Gatling
9 4 (0.078%) JMeter
9 4 (0.078%) JUnit
9 4 (0.078%) Locust
10 3 (0.059%) fastlane
10 3 (0.059%) Mockito
11 2 (0.039%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.039%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4,014 (78.40%) Social Skills
2 3,671 (71.70%) Banking
3 495 (9.67%) Finance
4 145 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 141 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (2.44%) Marketing
7 120 (2.34%) Retail
8 115 (2.25%) Law
9 71 (1.39%) Legal
10 53 (1.04%) Games
11 42 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (0.68%) Local Government
13 34 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 22 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.33%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.27%) Aviation
17 14 (0.27%) Billing
18 13 (0.25%) Aerospace
19 12 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,811 (54.90%) Lecturer
2 210 (4.10%) Senior
2 210 (4.10%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.81%) Facilities Engineer
4 157 (3.07%) Analyst
5 107 (2.09%) Architect
6 74 (1.45%) Project Manager
7 61 (1.19%) Business Analyst
8 60 (1.17%) Lead
9 53 (1.04%) Project Engineer
10 44 (0.86%) IT Engineer
11 41 (0.80%) Account Executive
12 40 (0.78%) Senior Manager
13 39 (0.76%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (0.72%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (0.64%) Developer
15 33 (0.64%) Salesforce Architect
16 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
17 29 (0.57%) IT Support
18 26 (0.51%) Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (1.00%) REST
2 41 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (0.80%) SOAP
2 41 (0.80%) Visualforce
3 27 (0.53%) EDI
4 14 (0.27%) Android SDK
4 14 (0.27%) Node.js
5 13 (0.25%) .NET
5 13 (0.25%) GraphQL
6 10 (0.20%) Web Services
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) RESTful
8 7 (0.14%) Middleware
8 7 (0.14%) React
8 7 (0.14%) SAML
8 7 (0.14%) Spring
9 6 (0.12%) Django
9 6 (0.12%) Regular Expression
10 5 (0.098%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (71.29%) IoT
2 128 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 78 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 71 (1.39%) Product Ownership
5 65 (1.27%) Blog
6 56 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 50 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
8 38 (0.74%) Social Media
9 36 (0.70%) Cyberattack
10 29 (0.57%) Data Centre
10 29 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (0.55%) Mobile App
12 20 (0.39%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
15 14 (0.27%) CSOC
15 14 (0.27%) Life Science
15 14 (0.27%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.21%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 63 (1.23%) Windows
2 35 (0.68%) Linux
3 28 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.33%) Android
4 17 (0.33%) Unix
5 13 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.098%) Debian
7 5 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.078%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.078%) VMS
9 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,922 (76.60%) AI
2 3,802 (74.26%) Cybersecurity
3 3,683 (71.93%) User Experience
4 3,665 (71.58%) Machine Learning
5 3,651 (71.31%) Web Development
6 321 (6.27%) Mentoring
7 235 (4.59%) Agile
8 211 (4.12%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.85%) Inventory Management
10 196 (3.83%) Preventative Maintenance
11 173 (3.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (2.52%) CI/CD
12 129 (2.52%) Customer Service
12 129 (2.52%) DevOps
13 117 (2.29%) Coaching
14 112 (2.19%) Analytics
15 107 (2.09%) B2B
16 99 (1.93%) Decision-Making
17 97 (1.89%) Roadmaps
18 89 (1.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (1.33%) Python
2 64 (1.25%) SQL
3 45 (0.88%) Java
4 41 (0.80%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.66%) SOQL
5 34 (0.66%) SOSL
6 24 (0.47%) JavaScript
6 24 (0.47%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.27%) Kotlin
8 9 (0.18%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.16%) C#
10 6 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.098%) Bash
12 4 (0.078%) PHP
13 3 (0.059%) VB
14 2 (0.039%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.039%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.039%) Go
14 2 (0.039%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.020%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3,947 (77.09%) Degree
2 3,850 (75.20%) Postgraduate
3 3,656 (71.41%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.37%) PhD
5 200 (3.91%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.81%) NVQ Level 3
7 126 (2.46%) Security Cleared
8 109 (2.13%) SC Cleared
9 37 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 36 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.45%) HNC
14 22 (0.43%) PMP
15 19 (0.37%) CISSP
15 19 (0.37%) HND
16 17 (0.33%) CISM
16 17 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.81%) COSHH
2 53 (1.04%) QA
3 47 (0.92%) NIST
4 39 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (0.49%) SLA
8 23 (0.45%) GDPR
9 20 (0.39%) GRC
10 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.27%) Data Quality
11 14 (0.27%) WCAG
12 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.14%) COBIT
13 7 (0.14%) PMO
14 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.098%) NEBOSH
16 3 (0.059%) ARP4761
16 3 (0.059%) DO-160
16 3 (0.059%) GAAP
System Software
1 63 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 23 (0.45%) Docker
3 17 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.12%) vSphere
6 4 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 38 (0.74%) Terraform
2 30 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
4 6 (0.12%) Grafana
4 6 (0.12%) SCCM
5 5 (0.098%) Autotask
6 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.078%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.078%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.078%) WSUS
7 3 (0.059%) Ansible
7 3 (0.059%) CASB
7 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.039%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.039%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 285 (5.57%) Microsoft
2 116 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 91 (1.78%) Adobe
4 74 (1.45%) Cisco
5 46 (0.90%) Apple
5 46 (0.90%) Google
6 43 (0.84%) Splunk
7 25 (0.49%) ServiceNow
8 24 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
9 21 (0.41%) Palo Alto
9 21 (0.41%) VMware
10 19 (0.37%) NEC
11 18 (0.35%) SAP
12 15 (0.29%) Tenable
13 13 (0.25%) Databricks
14 12 (0.23%) Instagram
15 11 (0.21%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.21%) Pega
15 11 (0.21%) Workday
15 11 (0.21%) Wrike