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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 28 28
Rank change year-on-year +19 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,054 2,172 3,904
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 9.86% 7.35% 7.27%
As % of the General category 18.88% 10.91% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 553 464 1,136
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,707 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £45,543
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +15.28% -17.19%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,229 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £59,430 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.87% +13.20% -19.23%

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 26,770 19,902 31,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 52.21% 67.39% 59.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13,945 8,733 22,777
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -8.71%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +58 1,953 £35,000 -30.00% 144
North West +41 1,708 £35,000 -25.53% 61
Midlands +25 1,486 £47,500 -9.52% 99
West Midlands +41 1,288 £52,500 -3.05% 54
South East +6 881 £45,000 -5.26% 295
East of England 0 432 £40,000 -23.74% 45
Yorkshire +31 235 £26,450 -42.81% 54
East Midlands +2 210 £35,000 -10.26% 44
South West -38 160 £28,500 -44.12% 76
Scotland -55 69 £25,600 -53.45% 73
Wales +15 60 £68,958 +40.43% 25
Northern Ireland -28 19 £40,000 -42.29% 6
North East -19 10 £65,000 -6.22% 30
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 - 4
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 43 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.079%) Confluence
5 2 (0.040%) WordPress
6 1 (0.020%) CMS
6 1 (0.020%) Drupal
6 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 61 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 33 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.24%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.099%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.040%) Revit
8 2 (0.040%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.079%) Academy Housing
5 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.020%) Primavera
6 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.020%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (72.30%) Cloud Computing
2 135 (2.67%) Azure
3 90 (1.78%) AWS
4 71 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (1.13%) Power Platform
6 38 (0.75%) SaaS
7 36 (0.71%) Entra ID
8 19 (0.38%) GCP
9 16 (0.32%) PaaS
10 12 (0.24%) Asana
11 11 (0.22%) OneDrive
11 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
12 10 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (0.16%) Figma
13 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (72.34%) Internet
2 57 (1.13%) Broadband
3 23 (0.46%) VPN
4 22 (0.44%) LAN
5 21 (0.42%) DNS
6 20 (0.40%) Firewall
7 19 (0.38%) DHCP
8 15 (0.30%) WAN
9 13 (0.26%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.16%) 4G
11 7 (0.14%) MPLS
11 7 (0.14%) VLAN
12 4 (0.079%) 5G
12 4 (0.079%) BGP
12 4 (0.079%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.079%) PSTN
12 4 (0.079%) SMTP
12 4 (0.079%) WLAN
13 3 (0.059%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (0.89%) Power BI
2 13 (0.26%) GIS
3 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 11 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
5 10 (0.20%) Tableau
6 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.099%) Metadata
8 5 (0.099%) Redis
9 4 (0.079%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.079%) MySQL
10 3 (0.059%) Looker
10 3 (0.059%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.059%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.040%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.040%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.040%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 33 (0.65%) GitLab
1 33 (0.65%) Jenkins
1 33 (0.65%) SonarQube
2 27 (0.53%) JIRA
3 17 (0.34%) Git
4 5 (0.099%) Axure RP
4 5 (0.099%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.059%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.059%) Selenium
5 3 (0.059%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.040%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.040%) JMeter
6 2 (0.040%) JUnit
6 2 (0.040%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.040%) Locust
6 2 (0.040%) Postman
6 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.020%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.020%) Mockito
General
1 3,999 (79.13%) Social Skills
2 3,663 (72.48%) Banking
3 453 (8.96%) Finance
4 162 (3.21%) Retail
5 137 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 116 (2.30%) Marketing
8 105 (2.08%) Law
9 55 (1.09%) Legal
10 52 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (0.87%) Games
12 27 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 25 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 20 (0.40%) Local Government
15 20 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (0.38%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.26%) French Language
18 12 (0.24%) Swedish Language
19 11 (0.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.62%) Lecturer
2 196 (3.88%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.86%) Facilities Engineer
4 166 (3.28%) Senior
5 107 (2.12%) Analyst
6 72 (1.42%) Project Manager
7 67 (1.33%) Lead
8 64 (1.27%) Project Engineer
9 61 (1.21%) Architect
9 61 (1.21%) Senior Manager
10 57 (1.13%) Sales Manager
11 49 (0.97%) Account Manager
12 44 (0.87%) Account Executive
13 43 (0.85%) Sales Account Manager
13 43 (0.85%) Senior Account Manager
13 43 (0.85%) Senior Sales Manager
14 32 (0.63%) Alliance Manager
15 31 (0.61%) Business Analyst
15 31 (0.61%) Consultant
15 31 (0.61%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (0.99%) REST
2 41 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (0.81%) SOAP
2 41 (0.81%) Visualforce
3 26 (0.51%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) .NET
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 13 (0.26%) Web Services
6 9 (0.18%) Django
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) Middleware
7 8 (0.16%) React
8 7 (0.14%) Android SDK
8 7 (0.14%) GraphQL
8 7 (0.14%) SAML
9 5 (0.099%) Spring
10 4 (0.079%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.079%) RESTful
11 3 (0.059%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3,651 (72.24%) IoT
2 129 (2.55%) Onboarding
3 80 (1.58%) Driving Licence
4 79 (1.56%) Blog
5 60 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 49 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 39 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (0.53%) Social Media
10 21 (0.42%) Mobile App
11 19 (0.38%) Cloud Native
11 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
12 12 (0.24%) Video Editing
13 11 (0.22%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.22%) Life Science
13 11 (0.22%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.18%) Security Operations Centre
15 8 (0.16%) CSOC
15 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.16%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (0.85%) Windows
2 27 (0.53%) Linux
3 16 (0.32%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.26%) Unix
5 12 (0.24%) Android
6 6 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.099%) Debian
7 5 (0.099%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.079%) VMS
9 3 (0.059%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,915 (77.46%) AI
2 3,770 (74.59%) Cybersecurity
3 3,675 (72.71%) User Experience
4 3,663 (72.48%) Machine Learning
5 3,657 (72.36%) Web Development
6 288 (5.70%) Mentoring
7 200 (3.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 196 (3.88%) Inventory Management
9 195 (3.86%) Preventative Maintenance
10 178 (3.52%) Agile
11 165 (3.26%) Problem-Solving
12 161 (3.19%) Customer Service
13 142 (2.81%) Coaching
14 137 (2.71%) B2B
15 105 (2.08%) Analytics
16 101 (2.00%) Project Management
17 99 (1.96%) Decision-Making
18 93 (1.84%) DevOps
19 90 (1.78%) CRM
20 76 (1.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (0.87%) Python
1 44 (0.87%) SQL
2 41 (0.81%) Apex Code
3 33 (0.65%) Java
3 33 (0.65%) SOQL
3 33 (0.65%) SOSL
4 19 (0.38%) JavaScript
5 12 (0.24%) PowerShell
6 7 (0.14%) C#
6 7 (0.14%) Kotlin
7 3 (0.059%) Bash
7 3 (0.059%) PHP
7 3 (0.059%) VB
8 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.040%) Go
8 2 (0.040%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.020%) R
9 1 (0.020%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3,966 (78.47%) Degree
2 3,847 (76.12%) Postgraduate
3 3,653 (72.28%) Master's Degree
3 3,653 (72.28%) PhD
4 200 (3.96%) City & Guilds
5 196 (3.88%) NVQ Level 3
6 102 (2.02%) Security Cleared
7 89 (1.76%) SC Cleared
8 35 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 31 (0.61%) HNC
10 26 (0.51%) PMP
11 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
11 22 (0.44%) HND
12 19 (0.38%) MCSE
13 14 (0.28%) CISSP
14 13 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (0.22%) CISM
15 11 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.86%) COSHH
2 55 (1.09%) QA
3 40 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 28 (0.55%) NIST
5 21 (0.42%) SLA
6 20 (0.40%) GDPR
7 18 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 15 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 14 (0.28%) PMO
10 12 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.18%) COBIT
12 8 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.16%) WCAG
13 7 (0.14%) GRC
14 6 (0.12%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.099%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.079%) EU AI Act
17 2 (0.040%) ISO 19650
17 2 (0.040%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.24%) Docker
3 9 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.12%) vSphere
5 4 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.040%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (0.42%) Terraform
3 17 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.14%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.12%) Argo
6 5 (0.099%) Autotask
6 5 (0.099%) Grafana
7 4 (0.079%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.079%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.079%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.079%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.059%) Ansible
8 3 (0.059%) CASB
8 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.040%) Nessus
9 2 (0.040%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.020%) SCCM
Vendors
1 285 (5.64%) Microsoft
2 105 (2.08%) Salesforce
3 79 (1.56%) Adobe
4 74 (1.46%) Cisco
5 41 (0.81%) Splunk
6 30 (0.59%) Apple
7 23 (0.46%) NEC
8 20 (0.40%) Google
9 13 (0.26%) Oracle
10 12 (0.24%) Hootsuite
10 12 (0.24%) Instagram
10 12 (0.24%) SAP
11 11 (0.22%) Databricks
11 11 (0.22%) Wrike
12 10 (0.20%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.20%) Fortinet
12 10 (0.20%) VMware
13 9 (0.18%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.16%) Meraki
14 8 (0.16%) New Relic