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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +30
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,131 2,035 5,494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.02% 7.62% 8.14%
As % of the General category 16.36% 11.16% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 610 484 1,292
10th Percentile £20,000 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,982 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,220 £63,559 £60,918
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,303 £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 31,370 18,234 39,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.03% 68.29% 58.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16,059 9,466 26,281
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +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 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 24 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 24 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 1,967 £42,600 -8.39% 381
North West +3 1,694 £39,000 -15.22% 302
Midlands +24 1,505 £50,000 - 98
West Midlands +41 1,292 £60,000 +9.09% 39
South East +12 859 £52,500 +5.92% 188
East of England +10 456 £43,369 -23.75% 53
Yorkshire +35 248 £27,625 -35.00% 64
East Midlands -9 225 £35,000 - 59
South West -15 173 £48,373 -3.25% 69
Scotland -29 89 £51,250 -6.82% 70
Wales +5 77 £55,758 +8.57% 18
North East -20 25 £60,000 -13.52% 15
Northern Ireland -35 15 £40,000 -32.69% 20
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 45 (0.88%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.29%) Confluence
2 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.16%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.058%) Apache
4 3 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.058%) CMS
5 2 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.039%) WordPress
6 1 (0.019%) IIS
6 1 (0.019%) WildFly
Applications
1 63 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 28 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.097%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.058%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.039%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.039%) Trello
8 1 (0.019%) Simulink
8 1 (0.019%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 12 (0.23%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.097%) 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 (0.019%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.019%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.019%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.019%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.019%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.019%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.019%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.019%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.21%) Cloud Computing
2 189 (3.68%) Azure
3 115 (2.24%) AWS
4 85 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (1.21%) Power Platform
6 59 (1.15%) GCP
7 40 (0.78%) SaaS
8 39 (0.76%) Entra ID
9 25 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (0.35%) Serverless
11 13 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.23%) Asana
12 12 (0.23%) PaaS
13 11 (0.21%) Sprout Social
14 10 (0.19%) Figma
14 10 (0.19%) GitHub
14 10 (0.19%) Google Analytics
14 10 (0.19%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (71.25%) Internet
2 64 (1.25%) Broadband
3 29 (0.57%) Firewall
4 26 (0.51%) DNS
5 25 (0.49%) VPN
6 23 (0.45%) DHCP
6 23 (0.45%) LAN
7 20 (0.39%) WAN
8 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.16%) 4G
10 8 (0.16%) Network Security
10 8 (0.16%) VLAN
11 7 (0.14%) MPLS
11 7 (0.14%) Wireless
12 4 (0.078%) BGP
12 4 (0.078%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.078%) PSTN
12 4 (0.078%) SMTP
12 4 (0.078%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (0.95%) 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 10 (0.19%) GIS
7 9 (0.18%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
9 7 (0.14%) MySQL
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 (0.097%) Looker
12 4 (0.078%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.058%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.039%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 34 (0.66%) GitLab
2 34 (0.66%) SonarQube
3 30 (0.58%) JIRA
4 20 (0.39%) Git
5 13 (0.25%) Snyk
6 10 (0.19%) Postman
7 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.097%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.097%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.097%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.078%) Gatling
9 4 (0.078%) JMeter
9 4 (0.078%) JUnit
9 4 (0.078%) Locust
10 3 (0.058%) fastlane
10 3 (0.058%) Mockito
11 2 (0.039%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.039%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4,015 (78.25%) Social Skills
2 3,671 (71.55%) Banking
3 492 (9.59%) Finance
4 149 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 141 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (2.48%) Marketing
7 125 (2.44%) Retail
8 117 (2.28%) Law
9 73 (1.42%) Legal
10 53 (1.03%) Games
11 42 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (0.68%) Local Government
12 35 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (0.33%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.29%) Billing
15 15 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.25%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.25%) Aviation
17 12 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,811 (54.78%) Lecturer
2 211 (4.11%) Senior
3 209 (4.07%) Systems Engineer
4 195 (3.80%) Facilities Engineer
5 156 (3.04%) Analyst
6 110 (2.14%) Architect
7 74 (1.44%) Project Manager
8 61 (1.19%) Lead
9 60 (1.17%) Business Analyst
10 53 (1.03%) Project Engineer
11 45 (0.88%) Account Executive
11 45 (0.88%) IT Engineer
12 40 (0.78%) Senior Manager
13 38 (0.74%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (0.72%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (0.64%) Developer
15 33 (0.64%) Salesforce Architect
16 31 (0.60%) Alliance Manager
17 30 (0.58%) IT Support
18 26 (0.51%) Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (0.99%) REST
2 41 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (0.80%) SOAP
2 41 (0.80%) Visualforce
3 27 (0.53%) EDI
4 15 (0.29%) Node.js
5 14 (0.27%) Android SDK
6 13 (0.25%) .NET
6 13 (0.25%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.18%) CSS
7 9 (0.18%) HTML
7 9 (0.18%) Web Services
8 8 (0.16%) RESTful
9 7 (0.14%) Middleware
9 7 (0.14%) React
9 7 (0.14%) SAML
9 7 (0.14%) Spring
10 6 (0.12%) Django
10 6 (0.12%) Regular Expression
11 5 (0.097%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (71.14%) IoT
2 127 (2.48%) Onboarding
3 78 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 72 (1.40%) Product Ownership
5 65 (1.27%) Blog
6 58 (1.13%) Management Information System
7 52 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
8 38 (0.74%) Cyberattack
8 38 (0.74%) Social Media
9 29 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 29 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (0.57%) Mobile App
10 21 (0.41%) Cloud Native
11 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
12 15 (0.29%) Life Science
12 15 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
13 14 (0.27%) CSOC
14 13 (0.25%) Security Posture
15 12 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.21%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 63 (1.23%) Windows
2 34 (0.66%) 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 (0.097%) Debian
7 5 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.078%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.078%) VMS
9 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.019%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.019%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,925 (76.50%) AI
2 3,803 (74.12%) Cybersecurity
3 3,683 (71.78%) User Experience
4 3,665 (71.43%) Machine Learning
5 3,652 (71.18%) Web Development
6 324 (6.31%) Mentoring
7 238 (4.64%) Agile
8 213 (4.15%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.84%) Inventory Management
10 196 (3.82%) Preventative Maintenance
11 176 (3.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 132 (2.57%) DevOps
13 131 (2.55%) CI/CD
14 128 (2.49%) Customer Service
15 119 (2.32%) Coaching
16 110 (2.14%) Analytics
16 110 (2.14%) B2B
17 97 (1.89%) Decision-Making
18 96 (1.87%) Roadmaps
19 89 (1.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (1.36%) Python
2 65 (1.27%) SQL
3 45 (0.88%) Java
4 41 (0.80%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.66%) SOQL
5 34 (0.66%) SOSL
6 25 (0.49%) JavaScript
6 25 (0.49%) PowerShell
7 14 (0.27%) Kotlin
8 10 (0.19%) TypeScript
9 9 (0.18%) C#
10 6 (0.12%) Bash
10 6 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.097%) PHP
12 3 (0.058%) VB
13 2 (0.039%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.039%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.039%) Go
13 2 (0.039%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.019%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3,949 (76.96%) Degree
2 3,851 (75.05%) Postgraduate
3 3,656 (71.25%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.21%) PhD
5 197 (3.84%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.80%) NVQ Level 3
7 127 (2.48%) Security Cleared
8 110 (2.14%) SC Cleared
9 37 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 36 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (0.45%) HNC
14 22 (0.43%) PMP
15 19 (0.37%) CISSP
15 19 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.37%) HND
16 17 (0.33%) CISM
17 14 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.80%) COSHH
2 53 (1.03%) QA
3 47 (0.92%) NIST
4 39 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 39 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 25 (0.49%) SLA
7 24 (0.47%) GDPR
8 21 (0.41%) GRC
9 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.27%) WCAG
11 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.14%) PMO
13 6 (0.12%) COBIT
13 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.097%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.078%) GAAP
15 4 (0.078%) IFRS
16 3 (0.058%) ARP4761
System Software
1 62 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 25 (0.49%) Docker
3 17 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.12%) vSphere
6 4 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.019%) iptables
Systems Management
1 40 (0.78%) Terraform
2 30 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.12%) Argo
5 6 (0.12%) Grafana
5 6 (0.12%) SCCM
6 5 (0.097%) Autotask
7 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.078%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
7 4 (0.078%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.078%) WSUS
8 3 (0.058%) Ansible
8 3 (0.058%) CASB
8 3 (0.058%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.058%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.039%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.039%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 284 (5.53%) Microsoft
2 116 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 94 (1.83%) Adobe
4 74 (1.44%) Cisco
5 47 (0.92%) Google
6 46 (0.90%) Apple
7 43 (0.84%) Splunk
8 25 (0.49%) ServiceNow
9 24 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
10 21 (0.41%) Palo Alto
11 20 (0.39%) VMware
12 19 (0.37%) NEC
13 18 (0.35%) SAP
14 15 (0.29%) Tenable
15 13 (0.25%) Databricks
16 12 (0.23%) Instagram
17 11 (0.21%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.21%) Pega
17 11 (0.21%) Workday
17 11 (0.21%) Wrike