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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +42
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 3,871 2,966 5,596
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.74% 10.27% 7.74%
As % of the General category 12.23% 14.30% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 649 470 1,288
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,124 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% +11.67% -24.17%
75th Percentile £63,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,606 £80,125 £70,543
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 31,664 20,747 40,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.98% 71.81% 56.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,582 9,137 26,817
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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
Midlands +12 1,465 £46,500 -11.43% 96
North of England -5 1,377 £52,473 +11.64% 166
West Midlands +26 1,295 £59,764 +3.94% 43
North West -5 1,149 £46,000 -2.13% 98
South East -20 451 £45,000 - 191
East of England +7 255 £40,000 -25.23% 31
East Midlands -18 182 £35,000 +9.38% 53
Yorkshire +20 179 £52,445 -38.30% 43
South West -38 155 £57,591 +9.70% 85
Scotland -39 85 £48,750 -11.36% 50
Wales +5 78 £53,500 -10.62% 21
North East -15 49 £57,500 -17.13% 27
Northern Ireland -37 17 £40,000 -47.43% 22
Channel Islands - 2 - -
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 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 23 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (0.41%) Confluence
4 8 (0.21%) Apache
4 8 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.13%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.10%) CMS
8 2 (0.052%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.052%) Moodle
8 2 (0.052%) Totara
8 2 (0.052%) WordPress
9 1 (0.026%) IIS
9 1 (0.026%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.026%) WildFly
Applications
1 66 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.96%) Acrobat
4 27 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.13%) InDesign
6 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.077%) Trello
8 2 (0.052%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.052%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.026%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.026%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.026%) InVision
9 1 (0.026%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.026%) Simulink
9 1 (0.026%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.15%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.10%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.077%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.052%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.052%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.026%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.026%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.026%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,321 (59.96%) Cloud Computing
2 225 (5.81%) Azure
3 150 (3.87%) AWS
4 90 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
5 84 (2.17%) GCP
6 74 (1.91%) Power Platform
7 38 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (0.93%) Entra ID
9 29 (0.75%) SaaS
10 26 (0.67%) Serverless
11 25 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (0.39%) GitHub
13 14 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
13 14 (0.36%) PaaS
14 13 (0.34%) Asana
14 13 (0.34%) Figma
15 12 (0.31%) Power Automate
16 11 (0.28%) Sprout Social
17 10 (0.26%) Firebase
17 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2,330 (60.19%) Internet
2 65 (1.68%) Broadband
3 39 (1.01%) Firewall
4 23 (0.59%) DNS
4 23 (0.59%) LAN
5 22 (0.57%) DHCP
5 22 (0.57%) WAN
6 20 (0.52%) VPN
7 18 (0.46%) Network Security
8 15 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.21%) 4G
10 7 (0.18%) MPLS
10 7 (0.18%) VLAN
10 7 (0.18%) Wireless
11 4 (0.10%) BGP
11 4 (0.10%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.10%) SMTP
11 4 (0.10%) SSL
11 4 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (1.65%) Power BI
2 25 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (0.44%) Tableau
4 16 (0.41%) GIS
5 15 (0.39%) Metadata
6 13 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.34%) MySQL
7 12 (0.31%) Data Lake
7 12 (0.31%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.23%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.23%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.21%) Looker
10 8 (0.21%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (0.15%) Redis
13 5 (0.13%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.13%) Big Data
13 5 (0.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 40 (1.03%) GitLab
3 34 (0.88%) SonarQube
4 33 (0.85%) JIRA
5 22 (0.57%) Snyk
6 21 (0.54%) Git
7 11 (0.28%) fastlane
8 10 (0.26%) Postman
9 8 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.18%) Moq
11 6 (0.15%) Xcode
12 5 (0.13%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.13%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.13%) Gradle
12 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.10%) Gatling
13 4 (0.10%) JMeter
13 4 (0.10%) JUnit
13 4 (0.10%) Locust
14 3 (0.077%) Mockito
General
1 2,749 (71.02%) Social Skills
2 2,336 (60.35%) Banking
3 484 (12.50%) Finance
4 176 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 167 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 121 (3.13%) Marketing
7 109 (2.82%) Law
8 101 (2.61%) Retail
9 92 (2.38%) Legal
10 55 (1.42%) Games
11 50 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
12 42 (1.08%) Local Government
13 30 (0.77%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 21 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.39%) Electronics
15 15 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.36%) Billing
16 14 (0.36%) Telecoms
17 13 (0.34%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,741 (44.98%) Lecturer
2 251 (6.48%) Senior
3 214 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
4 195 (5.04%) Facilities Engineer
5 187 (4.83%) Analyst
6 126 (3.25%) Architect
7 62 (1.60%) Lead
8 60 (1.55%) Business Analyst
9 57 (1.47%) Senior Analyst
10 51 (1.32%) IT Engineer
11 46 (1.19%) Project Manager
12 45 (1.16%) Sales Executive
13 44 (1.14%) Developer
14 43 (1.11%) Account Executive
15 37 (0.96%) Project Engineer
15 37 (0.96%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (0.85%) Salesforce Architect
17 32 (0.83%) Senior Architect
18 31 (0.80%) IT Manager
19 30 (0.77%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.24%) REST
2 38 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
2 38 (0.98%) SOAP
2 38 (0.98%) Visualforce
3 20 (0.52%) EDI
4 18 (0.46%) .NET
4 18 (0.46%) Android SDK
5 17 (0.44%) RESTful
6 13 (0.34%) GraphQL
7 11 (0.28%) CSS
7 11 (0.28%) HTML
8 10 (0.26%) XML
9 8 (0.21%) Entity Framework
9 8 (0.21%) Node.js
9 8 (0.21%) Web Services
10 7 (0.18%) .NET Framework
10 7 (0.18%) SAML
10 7 (0.18%) Spring
10 7 (0.18%) XSLT
11 6 (0.15%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2,316 (59.83%) IoT
2 120 (3.10%) Onboarding
3 97 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 87 (2.25%) Driving Licence
5 70 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 59 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 47 (1.21%) Cyberattack
8 44 (1.14%) Social Media
9 40 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 37 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 31 (0.80%) Cloud Native
12 23 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (0.46%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (0.41%) CSOC
16 14 (0.36%) Life Science
17 12 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.28%) Video Editing
19 10 (0.26%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 71 (1.83%) Windows
2 35 (0.90%) Linux
3 33 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 23 (0.59%) Android
5 17 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.34%) Unix
6 13 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.10%) Debian
9 4 (0.10%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.10%) VMS
10 2 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,601 (67.19%) AI
2 2,490 (64.32%) Cybersecurity
3 2,363 (61.04%) User Experience
4 2,342 (60.50%) Machine Learning
5 2,320 (59.93%) Web Development
6 341 (8.81%) Mentoring
7 264 (6.82%) Agile
8 211 (5.45%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (5.14%) Inventory Management
10 196 (5.06%) Preventative Maintenance
11 195 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 159 (4.11%) CI/CD
13 147 (3.80%) Decision-Making
14 140 (3.62%) DevOps
15 126 (3.25%) Customer Service
16 123 (3.18%) Roadmaps
17 115 (2.97%) Analytics
18 106 (2.74%) Coaching
19 93 (2.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 92 (2.38%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 92 (2.38%) Python
2 88 (2.27%) SQL
3 50 (1.29%) Java
4 38 (0.98%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.88%) SOQL
5 34 (0.88%) SOSL
6 33 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 22 (0.57%) JavaScript
8 19 (0.49%) C#
9 18 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.28%) Bash
12 7 (0.18%) C++
12 7 (0.18%) XAML
13 6 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.13%) Swift
15 4 (0.10%) PHP
16 3 (0.077%) Bicep
16 3 (0.077%) Ruby
16 3 (0.077%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,591 (66.93%) Degree
2 2,522 (65.15%) Postgraduate
3 2,323 (60.01%) Master's Degree
4 2,321 (59.96%) PhD
5 195 (5.04%) City & Guilds
5 195 (5.04%) NVQ Level 3
6 143 (3.69%) Security Cleared
7 125 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 72 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 48 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 32 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.46%) HNC
15 17 (0.44%) CISSP
16 14 (0.36%) CISM
16 14 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (0.34%) Azure Certification
18 11 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (5.04%) COSHH
2 59 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 48 (1.24%) GDPR
4 48 (1.24%) QA
5 43 (1.11%) NIST
6 41 (1.06%) SLA
7 38 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 37 (0.96%) GRC
9 29 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (0.49%) WCAG
11 13 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.13%) COBIT
15 4 (0.10%) GAAP
15 4 (0.10%) IFRS
15 4 (0.10%) NCSC
15 4 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.88%) Docker
3 26 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.15%) vSphere
6 3 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.026%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (1.03%) Terraform
2 34 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (0.59%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.23%) Autotask
6 8 (0.21%) SCCM
7 7 (0.18%) Grafana
8 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.10%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.10%) WSUS
9 3 (0.077%) Ansible
9 3 (0.077%) CASB
9 3 (0.077%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.052%) Argo
10 2 (0.052%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.052%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.052%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 287 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 111 (2.87%) Adobe
3 92 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 65 (1.68%) Apple
5 61 (1.58%) Cisco
6 53 (1.37%) Google
7 40 (1.03%) Splunk
8 37 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 33 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
10 32 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 24 (0.62%) Tenable
12 21 (0.54%) VMware
13 16 (0.41%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.36%) Instagram
14 14 (0.36%) SAP
15 12 (0.31%) Databricks
16 11 (0.28%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.28%) Meraki
16 11 (0.28%) Pega
16 11 (0.28%) Workday