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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,651 2,332 1,835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.30% 4.92% 6.01%
As % of the General category 12.13% 8.89% 9.46%
Number of salaries quoted 509 507 757
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £32,474
25th Percentile £27,707 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,312 £79,600 £84,022
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -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 21,861 26,227 19,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 60.23% 55.30% 63.51%
Number of salaries quoted 12,322 11,184 14,022
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,518
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,875 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,225 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £51,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.17% - -

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 17 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 17 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 +30 899 £33,355 -43.27% 167
North West +20 766 £35,000 -40.48% 100
South East +19 661 £52,500 -19.23% 376
East of England +9 299 £57,000 +26.67% 51
Midlands +32 288 £47,500 -9.52% 118
Scotland -5 260 £25,835 -53.03% 87
South West -1 198 £28,500 -28.30% 109
West Midlands +28 184 £53,750 +0.84% 70
Yorkshire +16 115 £33,000 -35.61% 53
East Midlands +19 104 £35,000 -12.50% 47
Wales +6 36 £52,562 -11.56% 20
North East -10 18 £25,835 -60.25% 14
Northern Ireland -13 10 £76,024 +27.92% 17
Channel Islands - 6 - - 1
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 26 (0.98%) Apache Spark
2 17 (0.64%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.53%) Apache
4 8 (0.30%) Camunda
4 8 (0.30%) CMS
4 8 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.075%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.038%) Drupal
7 1 (0.038%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.038%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.038%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.038%) WordPress
Applications
1 68 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.60%) AutoCAD
4 14 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.30%) Revit
6 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.23%) Civil 3D
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.19%) Navisworks
8 5 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.075%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.075%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.038%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.038%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.038%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.075%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.075%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.075%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.038%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.038%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.038%) Primavera
6 1 (0.038%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 1,339 (50.51%) Cloud Computing
2 137 (5.17%) AWS
3 91 (3.43%) Azure
4 70 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (1.77%) Power Platform
6 28 (1.06%) SaaS
7 25 (0.94%) GCP
8 24 (0.91%) Entra ID
9 19 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (0.72%) Serverless
10 18 (0.68%) Amazon S3
11 15 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (0.45%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.34%) GitHub
13 9 (0.34%) npm
14 8 (0.30%) Google Analytics
15 7 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (0.26%) PaaS
15 7 (0.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1,355 (51.11%) Internet
2 24 (0.91%) LAN
3 21 (0.79%) Firewall
4 20 (0.75%) WAN
5 17 (0.64%) VPN
6 16 (0.60%) Broadband
7 11 (0.41%) DNS
8 10 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.30%) DHCP
10 7 (0.26%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.15%) HTTP
11 4 (0.15%) Network Security
12 3 (0.11%) Modbus
12 3 (0.11%) MPLS
12 3 (0.11%) VLAN
12 3 (0.11%) Wireless
13 2 (0.075%) ADSL
13 2 (0.075%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (0.075%) SAN
13 2 (0.075%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (1.55%) Power BI
2 28 (1.06%) Big Data
2 28 (1.06%) NoSQL
3 24 (0.91%) Relational Database
4 17 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 15 (0.57%) Tableau
7 13 (0.49%) SQL Server
8 12 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (0.45%) KDB
8 12 (0.45%) Kdb+
9 11 (0.41%) Oracle Database
9 11 (0.41%) Power Query
10 10 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (0.38%) MySQL
11 9 (0.34%) Apache Hive
11 9 (0.34%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (0.30%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (1.66%) Jenkins
2 29 (1.09%) JIRA
3 26 (0.98%) Git
4 20 (0.75%) JUnit
5 18 (0.68%) Maven
6 16 (0.60%) GitLab
7 15 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 14 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.45%) Selenium
10 10 (0.38%) webpack
11 7 (0.26%) Vite
12 6 (0.23%) Gradle
13 4 (0.15%) Locust
13 4 (0.15%) Subversion
13 4 (0.15%) WebDriver
14 3 (0.11%) Mockito
14 3 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (0.11%) Rational Rhapsody
15 2 (0.075%) Axure RP
15 2 (0.075%) Balsamiq
General
1 1,753 (66.13%) Social Skills
2 1,465 (55.26%) Banking
3 464 (17.50%) Finance
4 300 (11.32%) Law
5 216 (8.15%) Marketing
6 148 (5.58%) Retail
7 146 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 142 (5.36%) Public Sector
9 66 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 61 (2.30%) Legal
11 36 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 26 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 25 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 20 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 19 (0.72%) Games
16 17 (0.64%) French Language
16 17 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (0.60%) Automotive
18 15 (0.57%) Manufacturing
18 15 (0.57%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 1,072 (40.44%) Lecturer
2 220 (8.30%) Software Engineer
3 187 (7.05%) Senior
4 155 (5.85%) Lead
5 115 (4.34%) Java Engineer
6 112 (4.22%) Java Software Engineer
7 81 (3.06%) Analyst
8 78 (2.94%) Senior Manager
9 63 (2.38%) Microsoft Specialist
10 60 (2.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 56 (2.11%) Project Engineer
11 56 (2.11%) Sales Manager
12 50 (1.89%) Architect
13 48 (1.81%) Python Engineer
14 47 (1.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 47 (1.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 46 (1.74%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 45 (1.70%) Account Manager
17 44 (1.66%) Senior Account Manager
17 44 (1.66%) Senior Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (4.19%) Spring
2 83 (3.13%) React
3 73 (2.75%) Kafka
4 63 (2.38%) Spring Boot
5 56 (2.11%) REST
6 35 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 32 (1.21%) HTML
8 27 (1.02%) CSS
8 27 (1.02%) RESTful
9 25 (0.94%) EDI
10 22 (0.83%) SOAP
11 21 (0.79%) Node.js
12 20 (0.75%) Web Services
13 18 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (0.68%) Visualforce
14 14 (0.53%) PySpark
15 13 (0.49%) .NET
16 12 (0.45%) Hibernate
17 11 (0.41%) Django
17 11 (0.41%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1,339 (50.51%) IoT
2 89 (3.36%) Algorithms
3 73 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 70 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 55 (2.07%) Blog
6 51 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 37 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 33 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.09%) Public Cloud
11 28 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 25 (0.94%) Social Media
13 23 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
14 21 (0.79%) e-Learning
15 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Licensing
16 15 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.57%) Podcast
16 15 (0.57%) Reference Data
17 14 (0.53%) FMCG
18 13 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 46 (1.74%) Windows
2 14 (0.53%) Linux
3 12 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 10 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.30%) Android
5 8 (0.30%) Unix
6 7 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.038%) Debian
9 1 (0.038%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,732 (65.33%) AI
2 1,470 (55.45%) Machine Learning
3 1,428 (53.87%) Cybersecurity
4 1,360 (51.30%) User Experience
5 1,346 (50.77%) Web Development
6 359 (13.54%) Agile
7 247 (9.32%) Software Engineering
8 239 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 225 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
10 201 (7.58%) CI/CD
11 197 (7.43%) SDLC
12 180 (6.79%) Operational Stability
13 173 (6.53%) Decision-Making
14 168 (6.34%) Customer Service
15 148 (5.58%) Community of Practice
16 121 (4.56%) Mentoring
17 120 (4.53%) Visualisation
18 111 (4.19%) CRM
19 109 (4.11%) B2B
20 104 (3.92%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 181 (6.83%) Java
2 112 (4.22%) SQL
3 110 (4.15%) Python
4 59 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 26 (0.98%) TypeScript
6 20 (0.75%) C#
7 18 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 15 (0.57%) SOQL
8 15 (0.57%) SOSL
9 13 (0.49%) PowerShell
10 11 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.26%) Go
13 5 (0.19%) C++
13 5 (0.19%) R
14 4 (0.15%) C
14 4 (0.15%) PHP
14 4 (0.15%) Scala
14 4 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,674 (63.15%) Degree
2 1,337 (50.43%) Master's Degree
3 1,334 (50.32%) Postgraduate
4 1,333 (50.28%) PhD
5 45 (1.70%) Security Cleared
6 33 (1.24%) SC Cleared
7 26 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 23 (0.87%) PMP
9 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.64%) HNC
11 16 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (0.57%) MCSE
13 12 (0.45%) Chartered Engineer
14 10 (0.38%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.38%) HND
15 9 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.30%) CISSP
16 8 (0.30%) City & Guilds
17 6 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (1.47%) QA
2 29 (1.09%) SLA
3 22 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 19 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (0.68%) NIST
5 18 (0.68%) PMO
6 16 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (0.60%) GDPR
7 15 (0.57%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.23%) COBIT
8 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.15%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.15%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.15%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.075%) GRC
11 2 (0.075%) P3O
11 2 (0.075%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.075%) WCAG
12 1 (0.038%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 28 (1.06%) Docker
3 15 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.19%) HDFS
5 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.038%) iptables
7 1 (0.038%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (2.64%) Kubernetes
2 45 (1.70%) Terraform
3 17 (0.64%) Grafana
3 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.49%) Ansible
5 6 (0.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.19%) Argo
7 4 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.15%) Netcool
7 4 (0.15%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 4 (0.15%) SCCM
7 4 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.15%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.075%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.075%) CASB
9 2 (0.075%) Nessus
10 1 (0.038%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.038%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.038%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 264 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 68 (2.57%) Oracle
3 67 (2.53%) Cisco
4 42 (1.58%) Salesforce
5 41 (1.55%) Splunk
6 32 (1.21%) NEC
7 31 (1.17%) Adobe
8 30 (1.13%) Apple
9 27 (1.02%) Palo Alto
10 26 (0.98%) Databricks
10 26 (0.98%) Google
11 25 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 21 (0.79%) IBM
13 19 (0.72%) Red Hat
14 18 (0.68%) Autodesk
14 18 (0.68%) Dell
15 17 (0.64%) Dynatrace
15 17 (0.64%) VMware
16 15 (0.57%) SAP
17 13 (0.49%) Juniper