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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -44 +17 +10
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,115 2,809 2,730
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.45% 8.12% 5.15%
As % of the General category 5.54% 12.34% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 911 485 564
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,600 £28,821
25th Percentile £35,250 £30,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.55% -8.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £66,863
90th Percentile £78,312 £81,844 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.16% -9.54%

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 38,204 22,761 28,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.18% 65.77% 53.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23,628 10,971 13,013
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 October 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 2 October 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 -52 559 £50,000 +10.53% 790
South East -33 448 £56,000 +1.82% 614
Midlands -38 348 £45,000 -5.26% 435
North West -52 324 £42,000 +0.40% 472
South West -17 272 £42,500 +25.00% 484
East of England 0 192 £38,000 -31.22% 286
West Midlands -37 191 £59,250 +7.73% 296
East Midlands -15 156 £40,258 +23.87% 139
Scotland -21 142 £39,500 +31.67% 561
North East +14 136 £65,500 +166.59% 107
Wales +1 109 £54,000 -5.97% 81
Yorkshire +6 99 £40,000 -52.94% 212
Northern Ireland -51 50 £74,742 -3.21% 149
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 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.32%) Confluence
4 27 (1.28%) CMS
5 19 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 15 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.28%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Moodle
11 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) IIS
12 2 (0.095%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.095%) Totara
13 1 (0.047%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.047%) Exchange Server 2013
13 1 (0.047%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.047%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 118 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 116 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.85%) Simulink
5 17 (0.80%) Maple
6 15 (0.71%) Revit
7 12 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 10 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
10 8 (0.38%) Adobe XD
10 8 (0.38%) InDesign
11 7 (0.33%) MS Visio
11 7 (0.33%) Sketch
12 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.19%) Mathcad
12 4 (0.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 24 (1.13%) Cloudability
2 23 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.61%) SAP EHS
4 13 (0.61%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 12 (0.57%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.52%) Primavera
7 9 (0.43%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.19%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.14%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.14%) Misys Midas
10 3 (0.14%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.14%) SAP MM
10 3 (0.14%) SAP R/3
10 3 (0.14%) Shopify
11 2 (0.095%) Academy Housing
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe Campaign
11 2 (0.095%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 340 (16.08%) Azure
2 260 (12.29%) AWS
3 129 (6.10%) GCP
4 109 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (3.59%) SaaS
8 63 (2.98%) Serverless
9 53 (2.51%) GitHub
10 42 (1.99%) Entra ID
11 38 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
13 32 (1.51%) dbt
14 30 (1.42%) PaaS
15 29 (1.37%) IaaS
16 27 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (1.28%) Figma
16 27 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.65%) Firewall
2 32 (1.51%) Internet
3 30 (1.42%) Ethernet
4 27 (1.28%) Network Security
5 26 (1.23%) Modbus
6 25 (1.18%) 5G
7 22 (1.04%) DNS
7 22 (1.04%) Profibus
7 22 (1.04%) VPN
8 20 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.66%) LAN
10 13 (0.61%) DHCP
11 12 (0.57%) WAN
12 11 (0.52%) SAN
13 10 (0.47%) SSL
13 10 (0.47%) VLAN
14 9 (0.43%) HTTP
15 8 (0.38%) Wireless
16 4 (0.19%) Broadband
16 4 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (3.92%) Power BI
2 46 (2.17%) SQL Server
3 37 (1.75%) Tableau
4 24 (1.13%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 20 (0.95%) MongoDB
7 19 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
8 18 (0.85%) GIS
8 18 (0.85%) MySQL
9 17 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.80%) Metadata
10 16 (0.76%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.71%) Big Data
11 15 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (0.71%) DynamoDB
12 11 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (0.47%) Looker
14 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 104 (4.92%) Git
2 55 (2.60%) JIRA
3 47 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.42%) GitLab
5 22 (1.04%) Snyk
6 20 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.66%) Gatling
7 14 (0.66%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.52%) fastlane
8 11 (0.52%) JMeter
9 10 (0.47%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.43%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.38%) MSI
12 7 (0.33%) Moq
13 6 (0.28%) Xcode
14 5 (0.24%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.24%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.24%) Gradle
15 4 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 896 (42.36%) Social Skills
2 591 (27.94%) Finance
3 320 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (13.24%) Public Sector
5 223 (10.54%) Marketing
6 174 (8.23%) Law
7 148 (7.00%) Aerospace
8 132 (6.24%) Organisational Skills
9 130 (6.15%) Retail
10 113 (5.34%) Legal
11 97 (4.59%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.69%) Local Government
13 73 (3.45%) Electronics
14 72 (3.40%) Telecoms
15 57 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
16 56 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
17 46 (2.17%) Banking
18 31 (1.47%) Military
19 26 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 23 (1.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 372 (17.59%) Senior
2 224 (10.59%) Lead
3 182 (8.61%) Analyst
4 164 (7.75%) Architect
5 114 (5.39%) Sales Executive
6 110 (5.20%) Developer
7 80 (3.78%) Consultant
8 63 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
9 55 (2.60%) Software Engineer
10 54 (2.55%) Systems Engineer
11 50 (2.36%) Business Analyst
12 49 (2.32%) Project Engineer
13 44 (2.08%) Account Executive
14 41 (1.94%) Design Engineer
15 39 (1.84%) Electrical Engineer
15 39 (1.84%) Senior Architect
16 38 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
17 37 (1.75%) Cloud Architect
18 36 (1.70%) Designer
18 36 (1.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (3.88%) Terraform
2 56 (2.65%) .NET
3 53 (2.51%) CSS
4 47 (2.22%) HTML
5 45 (2.13%) RESTful
6 36 (1.70%) React
7 35 (1.65%) Node.js
8 34 (1.61%) XML
9 33 (1.56%) EDI
10 31 (1.47%) REST
11 27 (1.28%) .NET Core
12 24 (1.13%) Spring
13 22 (1.04%) .NET Framework
14 21 (0.99%) Spring Boot
15 19 (0.90%) LangChain
16 18 (0.85%) AngularJS
16 18 (0.85%) ASP.NET
16 18 (0.85%) Entity Framework
16 18 (0.85%) Kafka
16 18 (0.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 210 (9.93%) Onboarding
2 202 (9.55%) Driving Licence
3 119 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (5.01%) Management Information System
5 92 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 84 (3.97%) Product Ownership
7 71 (3.36%) Data Centre
8 61 (2.88%) Social Media
9 46 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.13%) SCADA
11 35 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
12 33 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.56%) Cyberattack
13 28 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 25 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 25 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
15 24 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.04%) FPGA
17 21 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 124 (5.86%) Windows
2 59 (2.79%) Linux
3 29 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 20 (0.95%) VMS
5 17 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.61%) Android
8 12 (0.57%) Unix
9 5 (0.24%) VxWorks
10 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Solaris
11 2 (0.095%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.047%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (24.63%) AI
2 499 (23.59%) Agile
3 429 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
4 390 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 306 (14.47%) Mentoring
6 292 (13.81%) Decision-Making
7 253 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 246 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 233 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
10 222 (10.50%) DevOps
11 184 (8.70%) Customer Service
12 178 (8.42%) Roadmaps
13 170 (8.04%) Analytics
14 164 (7.75%) Validation
15 158 (7.47%) Coaching
16 150 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 145 (6.86%) Collaborative Working
18 142 (6.71%) CRM
19 141 (6.67%) Customer Experience
20 137 (6.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 177 (8.37%) Python
2 138 (6.52%) SQL
3 80 (3.78%) JavaScript
4 78 (3.69%) C#
5 66 (3.12%) Java
6 49 (2.32%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.47%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.42%) Bicep
10 26 (1.23%) Bash
11 22 (1.04%) C++
12 17 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.71%) Go
14 11 (0.52%) Ruby
15 10 (0.47%) ABAP
15 10 (0.47%) Ada
16 9 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.33%) PHP
17 7 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 492 (23.26%) Degree
2 405 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 359 (16.97%) SC Cleared
4 169 (7.99%) DBS Check
5 166 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 124 (5.86%) HNC
7 121 (5.72%) DV Cleared
8 73 (3.45%) Master's Degree
9 55 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 53 (2.51%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.08%) Chartered Engineer
12 32 (1.51%) HND
13 31 (1.47%) PhD
14 29 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.71%) ACCA
16 15 (0.71%) CIMA
16 15 (0.71%) CISSP
17 13 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (12.58%) Accessibility
2 105 (4.96%) QA
3 85 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 69 (3.26%) SLA
5 65 (3.07%) GDPR
6 49 (2.32%) WCAG
7 37 (1.75%) GRC
8 34 (1.61%) NCSC
9 27 (1.28%) NIST
10 25 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 20 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.19%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.14%) MIL-STD-1553
18 2 (0.095%) GxP
System Software
1 86 (4.07%) Docker
2 74 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.89%) Firmware
4 26 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.57%) vSphere
7 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.095%) IAG
10 2 (0.095%) NFS
11 1 (0.047%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (3.12%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.23%) Grafana
3 23 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.66%) Ansible
4 14 (0.66%) SCCM
5 13 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.43%) Kibana
7 4 (0.19%) Argo
7 4 (0.19%) Autotask
7 4 (0.19%) WSUS
8 3 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.095%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.095%) Puppet
9 2 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.047%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.047%) Nessus
10 1 (0.047%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.047%) QRadar
10 1 (0.047%) SCOM
10 1 (0.047%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 386 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 89 (4.21%) SAP
3 76 (3.59%) Adobe
4 68 (3.22%) Google
5 57 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 56 (2.65%) Samsung
7 54 (2.55%) TikTok
8 48 (2.27%) Apple
9 47 (2.22%) Workday
10 38 (1.80%) Cisco
11 34 (1.61%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.47%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.28%) Facebook
13 27 (1.28%) VMware
14 26 (1.23%) Palo Alto
15 25 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
15 25 (1.18%) Oracle
16 24 (1.13%) Instagram
17 22 (1.04%) Tenable
18 15 (0.71%) Dell