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 9 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,015 2,316 3,217
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 10.79% 6.95% 6.48%
As % of the General category 20.06% 10.69% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 544 446 1,080
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,707 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,796 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +13.29% -15.27%
75th Percentile £61,041 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £78,074 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.11% -14.62%

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 24,997 21,660 29,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.80% 65.04% 59.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,874 8,797 21,574
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £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 £68,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 1,942 £35,000 -36.36% 127
North West +52 1,716 £35,000 -38.27% 70
Midlands +28 1,464 £47,500 -9.52% 72
West Midlands +49 1,280 £52,500 - 46
South East +12 905 £54,500 +9.00% 285
East of England +2 428 £40,678 -9.61% 39
Yorkshire +25 219 £26,100 -45.05% 35
East Midlands +1 196 £35,000 -6.67% 26
South West -23 153 £28,500 -45.19% 63
Scotland -67 66 £25,600 -53.45% 77
Wales +16 47 £68,958 +40.43% 16
Northern Ireland -24 14 £76,024 +9.69% 8
Channel Islands - 8 - - 1
North East -11 7 £65,000 -6.22% 22
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 43 (0.86%) SharePoint
2 11 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.040%) Confluence
5 1 (0.020%) CMS
5 1 (0.020%) Drupal
5 1 (0.020%) WildFly
5 1 (0.020%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.40%) Acrobat
5 15 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.100%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.040%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.040%) Revit
8 2 (0.040%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.020%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.020%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.020%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.100%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.080%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.060%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.020%) Primavera
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.020%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.020%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 3,651 (72.80%) Cloud Computing
2 131 (2.61%) Azure
3 75 (1.50%) AWS
4 71 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (1.06%) Power Platform
6 37 (0.74%) Entra ID
7 32 (0.64%) SaaS
8 12 (0.24%) OneDrive
9 11 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (0.20%) PaaS
11 9 (0.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.14%) GCP
13 7 (0.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (0.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (0.12%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.12%) Figma
14 6 (0.12%) IaaS
15 5 (0.100%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 3,661 (73.00%) Internet
2 40 (0.80%) Broadband
3 21 (0.42%) DNS
4 18 (0.36%) DHCP
4 18 (0.36%) Firewall
4 18 (0.36%) LAN
4 18 (0.36%) VPN
5 11 (0.22%) WAN
5 11 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.16%) 4G
6 8 (0.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.14%) MPLS
8 6 (0.12%) VLAN
9 4 (0.080%) 5G
9 4 (0.080%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.080%) Network Security
9 4 (0.080%) PSTN
10 3 (0.060%) BGP
10 3 (0.060%) IOS XR
10 3 (0.060%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (0.82%) Power BI
2 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (0.24%) GIS
3 11 (0.22%) Data Lake
4 10 (0.20%) Tableau
5 9 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
6 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.080%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.080%) MySQL
8 4 (0.080%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.060%) Metadata
10 2 (0.040%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.040%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.040%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.040%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.020%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.020%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.020%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 26 (0.52%) Jenkins
1 26 (0.52%) JIRA
2 24 (0.48%) GitLab
2 24 (0.48%) SonarQube
3 18 (0.36%) Git
4 5 (0.100%) Axure RP
4 5 (0.100%) Balsamiq
4 5 (0.100%) Cypress.io
4 5 (0.100%) Selenium
5 3 (0.060%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.040%) Postman
6 2 (0.040%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.020%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.020%) jMock
7 1 (0.020%) JUnit
7 1 (0.020%) LabVIEW
General
1 3,991 (79.58%) Social Skills
2 3,655 (72.88%) Banking
3 440 (8.77%) Finance
4 156 (3.11%) Retail
5 138 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 131 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 101 (2.01%) Law
8 89 (1.77%) Marketing
9 52 (1.04%) Legal
10 48 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (0.56%) Telecoms
12 27 (0.54%) Games
13 24 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (0.34%) French Language
16 17 (0.34%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.30%) Swedish Language
18 13 (0.26%) Automotive
19 12 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,811 (56.05%) Lecturer
2 196 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.89%) Facilities Engineer
4 176 (3.51%) Senior
5 93 (1.85%) Analyst
6 88 (1.75%) Senior Manager
7 86 (1.71%) Project Engineer
8 75 (1.50%) Project Manager
9 65 (1.30%) Lead
10 59 (1.18%) Sales Manager
11 51 (1.02%) Account Manager
12 47 (0.94%) Architect
13 45 (0.90%) Microsoft Specialist
13 45 (0.90%) Sales Account Manager
13 45 (0.90%) Senior Account Manager
13 45 (0.90%) Senior Sales Manager
14 42 (0.84%) Account Executive
15 37 (0.74%) Alliance Manager
16 32 (0.64%) Mechanical Engineer
17 31 (0.62%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (0.74%) REST
2 31 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
2 31 (0.62%) SOAP
2 31 (0.62%) Visualforce
3 25 (0.50%) EDI
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 14 (0.28%) .NET
6 9 (0.18%) React
6 9 (0.18%) Web Services
7 7 (0.14%) CSS
7 7 (0.14%) HTML
7 7 (0.14%) Middleware
8 6 (0.12%) Django
8 6 (0.12%) Spring
9 5 (0.100%) Playwright
10 4 (0.080%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.080%) RESTful
11 3 (0.060%) Jinja
11 3 (0.060%) NETCONF
11 3 (0.060%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3,652 (72.82%) IoT
2 104 (2.07%) Onboarding
3 80 (1.60%) Driving Licence
4 79 (1.58%) Blog
5 47 (0.94%) Product Ownership
6 46 (0.92%) Management Information System
7 32 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
10 16 (0.32%) Social Media
11 14 (0.28%) Cloud Native
11 14 (0.28%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.22%) Life Science
13 10 (0.20%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.20%) SCADA
14 9 (0.18%) FMCG
14 9 (0.18%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (0.18%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.16%) e-Learning
15 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 40 (0.80%) Windows
2 19 (0.38%) Linux
3 14 (0.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.16%) Android
4 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.12%) Unix
6 5 (0.100%) Debian
6 5 (0.100%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.080%) VMS
8 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,918 (78.13%) AI
2 3,758 (74.94%) Cybersecurity
3 3,673 (73.24%) User Experience
4 3,658 (72.94%) Machine Learning
5 3,656 (72.90%) Web Development
6 282 (5.62%) Mentoring
7 195 (3.89%) Inventory Management
7 195 (3.89%) Preventative Maintenance
8 187 (3.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 168 (3.35%) Customer Service
10 157 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
11 146 (2.91%) Agile
12 145 (2.89%) Coaching
13 123 (2.45%) B2B
14 94 (1.87%) CRM
15 92 (1.83%) Project Management
16 91 (1.81%) Analytics
16 91 (1.81%) Decision-Making
17 75 (1.50%) DevOps
18 62 (1.24%) GTM Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (0.68%) SQL
2 31 (0.62%) Apex Code
3 29 (0.58%) Python
4 24 (0.48%) SOQL
4 24 (0.48%) SOSL
5 23 (0.46%) Java
6 19 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 11 (0.22%) PowerShell
8 9 (0.18%) C#
9 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (0.040%) Bash
9 2 (0.040%) Go
9 2 (0.040%) VB
10 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.020%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.020%) R
10 1 (0.020%) Ruby
10 1 (0.020%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,991 (79.58%) Degree
2 3,845 (76.67%) Postgraduate
3 3,652 (72.82%) Master's Degree
4 3,649 (72.76%) PhD
5 201 (4.01%) City & Guilds
6 196 (3.91%) NVQ Level 3
7 67 (1.34%) Security Cleared
8 60 (1.20%) SC Cleared
9 36 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 34 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (0.64%) HNC
12 27 (0.54%) PMP
13 25 (0.50%) HND
14 22 (0.44%) AWS Certification
15 21 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (0.42%) MCSE
16 12 (0.24%) CISSP
17 11 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
18 10 (0.20%) CISM
18 10 (0.20%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.89%) COSHH
2 56 (1.12%) QA
3 36 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 26 (0.52%) NIST
5 18 (0.36%) GDPR
6 16 (0.32%) SLA
7 14 (0.28%) PMO
8 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 12 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.16%) COBIT
12 6 (0.12%) WCAG
13 5 (0.100%) GRC
13 5 (0.100%) NEBOSH
13 5 (0.100%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.080%) Data Quality
14 4 (0.080%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.040%) ISO 19650
15 2 (0.040%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.12%) Docker
3 6 (0.12%) vSphere
4 4 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.020%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (0.28%) Terraform
3 6 (0.12%) Argo
3 6 (0.12%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.080%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (0.080%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (0.080%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.060%) Ansible
5 3 (0.060%) Autotask
5 3 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.040%) CASB
6 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.040%) Nessus
6 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.020%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.020%) Grafana
7 1 (0.020%) SCCM
Vendors
1 293 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 93 (1.85%) Salesforce
3 68 (1.36%) Cisco
4 55 (1.10%) Adobe
5 39 (0.78%) NEC
6 32 (0.64%) Splunk
7 30 (0.60%) Apple
8 13 (0.26%) Google
8 13 (0.26%) Oracle
9 12 (0.24%) SAP
10 11 (0.22%) Databricks
11 9 (0.18%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.18%) VMware
12 8 (0.16%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.16%) New Relic
12 8 (0.16%) Planon
13 7 (0.14%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.14%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.14%) Sparx
14 6 (0.12%) Instagram