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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +39
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,123 2,162 5,638
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.87% 7.94% 8.31%
As % of the General category 16.23% 11.52% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 596 473 1,298
10th Percentile £25,375 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,450 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +7.84% -21.54%

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 31,565 18,769 39,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.47% 68.90% 58.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16,240 9,419 26,269
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,938 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,105 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.45% +9.64% -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 29 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 29 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 +7 1,960 £50,000 +8.70% 388
North West +1 1,695 £41,250 -9.34% 302
Midlands +21 1,503 £50,000 - 96
West Midlands +39 1,291 £62,000 +12.73% 31
South East +10 850 £52,500 +5.00% 169
East of England +14 464 £41,739 -24.11% 40
Yorkshire +23 238 £27,625 -35.00% 74
East Midlands -5 224 £35,000 +7.69% 65
South West -17 175 £50,437 +0.87% 62
Scotland -27 87 £51,250 -6.82% 37
Wales +7 79 £55,758 +11.24% 17
North East -21 27 £60,000 -13.52% 13
Northern Ireland -35 15 £40,000 - 21
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 46 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.29%) Confluence
4 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.059%) Apache
5 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.059%) CMS
6 2 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.039%) WordPress
7 1 (0.020%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.020%) IIS
7 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 63 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 27 (0.53%) 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
Business Applications
1 15 (0.29%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.098%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.078%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.039%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.039%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.039%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.33%) Cloud Computing
2 194 (3.79%) Azure
3 120 (2.34%) AWS
4 85 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (1.25%) GCP
6 62 (1.21%) Power Platform
7 37 (0.72%) Entra ID
7 37 (0.72%) SaaS
8 25 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (0.39%) Serverless
10 13 (0.25%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.23%) Asana
11 12 (0.23%) PaaS
12 11 (0.21%) Google Analytics
12 11 (0.21%) Sprout Social
13 10 (0.20%) Figma
13 10 (0.20%) GitHub
13 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.20%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3,655 (71.34%) Internet
2 64 (1.25%) Broadband
3 30 (0.59%) Firewall
4 26 (0.51%) DNS
4 26 (0.51%) VPN
5 23 (0.45%) DHCP
5 23 (0.45%) LAN
6 22 (0.43%) WAN
7 17 (0.33%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.18%) Network Security
8 9 (0.18%) VLAN
9 8 (0.16%) 4G
10 7 (0.14%) MPLS
10 7 (0.14%) Wireless
11 4 (0.078%) BGP
11 4 (0.078%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.078%) PSTN
11 4 (0.078%) SMTP
11 4 (0.078%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (0.96%) Power BI
2 20 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.25%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.23%) Metadata
6 11 (0.21%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.18%) GIS
7 9 (0.18%) MySQL
8 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.12%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.12%) Redis
11 5 (0.098%) Looker
12 4 (0.078%) Big Data
12 4 (0.078%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.059%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.059%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 35 (0.68%) GitLab
3 34 (0.66%) SonarQube
4 30 (0.59%) JIRA
5 19 (0.37%) Git
6 16 (0.31%) Snyk
7 10 (0.20%) Postman
8 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.098%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.098%) Moq
9 5 (0.098%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.078%) Gatling
10 4 (0.078%) JMeter
10 4 (0.078%) JUnit
10 4 (0.078%) Locust
11 3 (0.059%) fastlane
11 3 (0.059%) Mockito
12 2 (0.039%) LabVIEW
12 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4,014 (78.35%) Social Skills
2 3,671 (71.66%) Banking
3 478 (9.33%) Finance
4 149 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (2.89%) Public Sector
6 120 (2.34%) Marketing
7 118 (2.30%) Law
8 111 (2.17%) Retail
9 75 (1.46%) Legal
10 53 (1.03%) Games
11 39 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (0.70%) Local Government
12 36 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 15 (0.29%) Billing
15 15 (0.29%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (0.25%) Automotive
17 13 (0.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2,811 (54.87%) Lecturer
2 222 (4.33%) Senior
3 209 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
4 195 (3.81%) Facilities Engineer
5 163 (3.18%) Analyst
6 115 (2.24%) Architect
7 75 (1.46%) Project Manager
8 60 (1.17%) Business Analyst
8 60 (1.17%) Lead
9 46 (0.90%) IT Engineer
10 44 (0.86%) Project Engineer
11 42 (0.82%) Account Executive
11 42 (0.82%) Senior Analyst
12 41 (0.80%) Senior Manager
13 37 (0.72%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (0.64%) Developer
14 33 (0.64%) Salesforce Architect
15 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
16 30 (0.59%) IT Support
17 27 (0.53%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (0.98%) REST
2 41 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (0.80%) SOAP
2 41 (0.80%) Visualforce
3 26 (0.51%) EDI
4 18 (0.35%) .NET
5 14 (0.27%) Android SDK
6 13 (0.25%) GraphQL
7 12 (0.23%) Node.js
8 9 (0.18%) CSS
8 9 (0.18%) HTML
9 8 (0.16%) RESTful
9 8 (0.16%) Web Services
9 8 (0.16%) XML
10 7 (0.14%) Middleware
10 7 (0.14%) React
10 7 (0.14%) SAML
10 7 (0.14%) Spring
11 6 (0.12%) Django
11 6 (0.12%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (71.23%) IoT
2 129 (2.52%) Onboarding
3 78 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 73 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 57 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 54 (1.05%) Blog
7 52 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (0.78%) Cyberattack
9 39 (0.76%) Social Media
10 35 (0.68%) Data Centre
11 29 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (0.57%) Mobile App
12 22 (0.43%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
14 16 (0.31%) Security Operations Centre
15 15 (0.29%) CSOC
15 15 (0.29%) Life Science
16 12 (0.23%) Security Posture
17 11 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.21%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 65 (1.27%) Windows
2 35 (0.68%) Linux
3 29 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.33%) Android
4 17 (0.33%) Unix
5 13 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.20%) 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%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,925 (76.62%) AI
2 3,808 (74.33%) Cybersecurity
3 3,683 (71.89%) User Experience
4 3,667 (71.58%) Machine Learning
5 3,652 (71.29%) Web Development
6 325 (6.34%) Mentoring
7 237 (4.63%) Agile
8 209 (4.08%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.85%) Inventory Management
10 196 (3.83%) Preventative Maintenance
11 173 (3.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 135 (2.64%) CI/CD
13 130 (2.54%) Customer Service
13 130 (2.54%) DevOps
14 117 (2.28%) Coaching
15 115 (2.24%) Analytics
16 106 (2.07%) B2B
17 98 (1.91%) Decision-Making
17 98 (1.91%) Roadmaps
18 81 (1.58%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (1.44%) Python
2 73 (1.42%) SQL
3 45 (0.88%) Java
4 41 (0.80%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.66%) SOQL
5 34 (0.66%) SOSL
6 27 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 25 (0.49%) PowerShell
8 15 (0.29%) C#
9 14 (0.27%) Kotlin
10 10 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.12%) Bash
11 6 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.098%) C++
12 5 (0.098%) PHP
12 5 (0.098%) XAML
13 3 (0.059%) VB
14 2 (0.039%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.039%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.039%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,936 (76.83%) Degree
2 3,851 (75.17%) Postgraduate
3 3,656 (71.36%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.33%) PhD
5 197 (3.85%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.81%) NVQ Level 3
7 134 (2.62%) Security Cleared
8 116 (2.26%) SC Cleared
9 43 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 38 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 36 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.45%) HNC
14 19 (0.37%) CISSP
14 19 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (0.37%) HND
14 19 (0.37%) PMP
15 17 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 17 (0.33%) CISM
16 13 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.81%) COSHH
2 53 (1.03%) QA
3 46 (0.90%) NIST
4 40 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 39 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (0.51%) GDPR
8 25 (0.49%) GRC
8 25 (0.49%) SLA
9 17 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (0.27%) WCAG
12 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.098%) COBIT
14 5 (0.098%) NEBOSH
14 5 (0.098%) PMO
15 4 (0.078%) GAAP
15 4 (0.078%) IFRS
16 3 (0.059%) ARP4761
System Software
1 64 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 26 (0.51%) Docker
3 20 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.29%) 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%) Firmware
9 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 39 (0.76%) Terraform
2 31 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (0.39%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.14%) SCCM
6 6 (0.12%) Grafana
7 5 (0.098%) Autotask
8 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.078%) Argo
8 4 (0.078%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.078%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.078%) WSUS
9 3 (0.059%) Ansible
9 3 (0.059%) CASB
9 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.039%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.039%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 288 (5.62%) Microsoft
2 116 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 97 (1.89%) Adobe
4 75 (1.46%) Cisco
5 50 (0.98%) Apple
6 48 (0.94%) Google
7 43 (0.84%) Splunk
8 28 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 27 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
10 24 (0.47%) Palo Alto
11 21 (0.41%) VMware
12 18 (0.35%) Tenable
13 16 (0.31%) SAP
14 14 (0.27%) Databricks
15 13 (0.25%) Instagram
16 11 (0.21%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.21%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.21%) NEC
16 11 (0.21%) Workday
16 11 (0.21%) Wrike