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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +25
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,101 1,996 5,404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.22% 7.59% 8.10%
As % of the General category 16.61% 11.09% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 611 469 1,296
10th Percentile £20,000 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,625 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,220 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,730 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,108
% change year-on-year - +7.62% -21.37%

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 30,706 18,001 38,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.46% 68.41% 58.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 9,283 26,330
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £35,432 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,684 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.85% +13.68% -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 16 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 16 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 +11 1,964 £38,500 -17.20% 344
North West +4 1,691 £35,009 -23.89% 249
Midlands +25 1,505 £50,000 - 116
West Midlands +42 1,291 £62,000 +14.50% 48
South East +12 861 £52,500 +16.67% 347
East of England +6 448 £45,000 -18.18% 144
Yorkshire +40 247 £27,625 -33.03% 74
East Midlands -4 226 £35,000 -14.11% 68
South West -25 163 £48,373 -3.25% 101
Scotland -30 87 £52,500 -4.55% 60
Wales -1 68 £68,958 +37.57% 22
North East -19 26 £60,000 -13.52% 21
Northern Ireland -40 14 £40,000 -32.69% 10
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 42 (0.82%) 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 61 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 30 (0.59%) 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 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.098%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.078%) Academy Housing
6 3 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.039%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.039%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.039%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.63%) Cloud Computing
2 178 (3.49%) Azure
3 109 (2.14%) AWS
4 83 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (1.16%) Power Platform
6 54 (1.06%) GCP
7 40 (0.78%) SaaS
8 39 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 20 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (0.31%) Serverless
11 13 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.24%) Asana
12 12 (0.24%) PaaS
13 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
14 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.18%) GitHub
15 9 (0.18%) Google Analytics
16 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (71.67%) Internet
2 64 (1.25%) Broadband
3 28 (0.55%) Firewall
4 26 (0.51%) DNS
5 25 (0.49%) VPN
6 24 (0.47%) LAN
7 23 (0.45%) DHCP
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 47 (0.92%) Power BI
2 19 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.25%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.22%) GIS
5 11 (0.22%) Metadata
6 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.12%) Redis
8 5 (0.098%) Looker
8 5 (0.098%) MySQL
8 5 (0.098%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.078%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.059%) Tableau
11 2 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.039%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (0.71%) Jenkins
2 34 (0.67%) GitLab
2 34 (0.67%) SonarQube
3 29 (0.57%) JIRA
4 18 (0.35%) Git
5 11 (0.22%) 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%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.039%) WebDriver
General
1 4,013 (78.67%) Social Skills
2 3,670 (71.95%) Banking
3 498 (9.76%) Finance
4 145 (2.84%) Public Sector
5 142 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 128 (2.51%) Marketing
7 125 (2.45%) Retail
8 116 (2.27%) Law
9 70 (1.37%) Legal
10 53 (1.04%) Games
11 41 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 24 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (0.47%) Local Government
14 20 (0.39%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.31%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.27%) Aviation
16 14 (0.27%) Billing
17 13 (0.25%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.11%) Lecturer
2 210 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.82%) Facilities Engineer
4 188 (3.69%) Senior
5 149 (2.92%) Analyst
6 103 (2.02%) Architect
7 74 (1.45%) Project Manager
8 62 (1.22%) Lead
9 59 (1.16%) Business Analyst
10 52 (1.02%) Project Engineer
11 44 (0.86%) IT Engineer
12 42 (0.82%) Account Executive
13 40 (0.78%) Senior Manager
14 37 (0.73%) Solutions Architect
15 34 (0.67%) Developer
15 34 (0.67%) Senior Analyst
16 33 (0.65%) Salesforce Architect
17 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
18 29 (0.57%) IT Support
19 26 (0.51%) Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (1.02%) REST
2 42 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
2 42 (0.82%) SOAP
2 42 (0.82%) Visualforce
3 27 (0.53%) EDI
4 14 (0.27%) Android SDK
5 13 (0.25%) .NET
5 13 (0.25%) GraphQL
5 13 (0.25%) Node.js
6 10 (0.20%) Web Services
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) Middleware
7 8 (0.16%) RESTful
8 7 (0.14%) SAML
8 7 (0.14%) Spring
9 6 (0.12%) Django
9 6 (0.12%) Playwright
9 6 (0.12%) React
9 6 (0.12%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (71.55%) IoT
2 125 (2.45%) Onboarding
3 76 (1.49%) Blog
4 70 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 68 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 56 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 49 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (0.71%) Social Media
9 34 (0.67%) Cyberattack
10 29 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (0.55%) Mobile App
12 26 (0.51%) Data Centre
13 20 (0.39%) Cloud Native
14 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
15 15 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
16 14 (0.27%) CSOC
16 14 (0.27%) Life Science
16 14 (0.27%) Security Posture
17 13 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 62 (1.22%) Windows
2 33 (0.65%) 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 3,927 (76.98%) AI
2 3,799 (74.48%) Cybersecurity
3 3,681 (72.16%) User Experience
4 3,664 (71.83%) Machine Learning
5 3,651 (71.57%) Web Development
6 316 (6.19%) Mentoring
7 232 (4.55%) Agile
8 216 (4.23%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.86%) Inventory Management
10 195 (3.82%) Preventative Maintenance
11 180 (3.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 136 (2.67%) Customer Service
13 127 (2.49%) DevOps
14 126 (2.47%) CI/CD
15 114 (2.23%) Coaching
16 110 (2.16%) Analytics
17 106 (2.08%) B2B
18 96 (1.88%) Decision-Making
18 96 (1.88%) Roadmaps
19 93 (1.82%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (1.31%) Python
2 60 (1.18%) SQL
3 47 (0.92%) Java
4 42 (0.82%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.67%) SOQL
5 34 (0.67%) SOSL
6 25 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 23 (0.45%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.27%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.18%) C#
10 8 (0.16%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.078%) 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%) R
Qualifications
1 3,945 (77.34%) Degree
2 3,848 (75.44%) Postgraduate
3 3,656 (71.67%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.63%) PhD
5 200 (3.92%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.82%) NVQ Level 3
7 122 (2.39%) Security Cleared
8 105 (2.06%) SC Cleared
9 32 (0.63%) DBS Check
10 31 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 31 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (0.49%) PMP
12 19 (0.37%) HNC
13 18 (0.35%) CISSP
14 17 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 16 (0.31%) CISM
15 16 (0.31%) HND
16 13 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.82%) COSHH
2 54 (1.06%) QA
3 47 (0.92%) NIST
4 39 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (0.49%) SLA
8 24 (0.47%) GDPR
9 18 (0.35%) GRC
10 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.27%) WCAG
12 11 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.18%) PMO
14 7 (0.14%) COBIT
15 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.098%) NEBOSH
17 3 (0.059%) ARP4761
17 3 (0.059%) DO-160
17 3 (0.059%) IFRS
System Software
1 63 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.41%) Docker
3 15 (0.29%) 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 37 (0.73%) 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
1 281 (5.51%) Microsoft
2 116 (2.27%) Salesforce
3 88 (1.73%) Adobe
4 74 (1.45%) Cisco
5 45 (0.88%) Google
6 43 (0.84%) Apple
6 43 (0.84%) Splunk
7 23 (0.45%) NEC
8 22 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
9 21 (0.41%) VMware
10 20 (0.39%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.37%) Palo Alto
12 18 (0.35%) SAP
13 13 (0.25%) Databricks
13 13 (0.25%) Tenable
14 11 (0.22%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.22%) Instagram
14 11 (0.22%) Workday
14 11 (0.22%) Wrike