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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -60 +5 +43
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,492 2,863 4,345
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.03% 8.38% 6.84%
As % of the General category 4.59% 12.47% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 762 485 990
10th Percentile £28,350 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,063 £36,250 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -19.75%
75th Percentile £69,875 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £80,000 £73,299
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 32,501 22,953 34,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.29% 67.17% 54.19%
Number of salaries quoted 19,974 11,171 20,678
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,084
% change year-on-year - +1.69% -9.86%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -70 406 £55,000 +17.02% 137
South East -66 265 £55,000 +26.44% 183
Midlands -53 264 £45,000 -10.00% 78
North West -69 229 £43,850 -6.70% 70
South West -31 209 £57,500 +35.29% 70
West Midlands -39 165 £60,000 +9.09% 39
East of England -33 116 £40,000 -29.82% 33
Scotland -26 114 £52,500 +16.67% 50
East Midlands -40 98 £40,000 +23.08% 39
Wales +3 96 £56,417 +2.58% 18
Yorkshire -6 90 £52,445 -30.07% 37
North East 0 87 £57,500 +134.03% 30
Northern Ireland -44 32 £56,901 -25.22% 15
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 38 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (1.88%) Confluence
2 28 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.94%) Apache
4 12 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.54%) CMS
8 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) IIS
9 4 (0.27%) WordPress
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.13%) Totara
11 1 (0.067%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 72 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.81%) Acrobat
4 12 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.54%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.54%) InDesign
6 8 (0.54%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.47%) Simulink
8 6 (0.40%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.40%) Sketch
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.13%) InVision
11 2 (0.13%) Mathcad
11 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
11 2 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.61%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.47%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) SAP EHS
4 4 (0.27%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.20%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.20%) Shopify
6 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.067%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 264 (17.69%) Azure
2 172 (11.53%) AWS
3 110 (7.37%) GCP
4 87 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 81 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (2.88%) Serverless
8 41 (2.75%) GitHub
9 32 (2.14%) dbt
10 29 (1.94%) SaaS
11 27 (1.81%) Entra ID
11 27 (1.81%) PaaS
12 26 (1.74%) Figma
13 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 21 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (1.41%) IaaS
15 20 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
16 17 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
18 13 (0.87%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.35%) Broadband
2 39 (2.61%) Firewall
3 27 (1.81%) VPN
4 21 (1.41%) LAN
5 20 (1.34%) DNS
5 20 (1.34%) Network Security
5 20 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.34%) WAN
6 17 (1.14%) DHCP
6 17 (1.14%) Internet
7 12 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (0.67%) VLAN
9 9 (0.60%) Wireless
10 7 (0.47%) SAN
11 6 (0.40%) SSL
12 3 (0.20%) Intranet
12 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.20%) SMTP
12 3 (0.20%) WLAN
13 2 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (4.89%) Power BI
2 29 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (1.88%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.47%) Tableau
5 18 (1.21%) Metadata
6 16 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.07%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.01%) GIS
7 15 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.01%) MySQL
8 13 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
9 12 (0.80%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.80%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.67%) Looker
12 9 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 9 (0.60%) Redis
13 7 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 61 (4.09%) Jenkins
2 49 (3.28%) Git
3 48 (3.22%) JIRA
4 46 (3.08%) GitLab
5 29 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.47%) Snyk
7 14 (0.94%) fastlane
8 12 (0.80%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.67%) Postman
10 8 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.54%) JMeter
10 8 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (0.54%) Xcode
11 7 (0.47%) Moq
12 6 (0.40%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.40%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.40%) Gatling
12 6 (0.40%) Gradle
12 6 (0.40%) MSI
General
1 562 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 334 (22.39%) Finance
3 211 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 199 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
5 135 (9.05%) Marketing
6 107 (7.17%) Law
7 97 (6.50%) Legal
8 79 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
8 79 (5.29%) Retail
9 59 (3.95%) Local Government
10 50 (3.35%) Aerospace
10 50 (3.35%) Games
11 41 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (2.14%) Electronics
14 30 (2.01%) Banking
15 23 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.01%) Advertising
17 15 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 317 (21.25%) Senior
2 183 (12.27%) Analyst
3 168 (11.26%) Architect
4 110 (7.37%) Lead
5 82 (5.50%) Developer
6 70 (4.69%) Sales Executive
7 61 (4.09%) Senior Analyst
8 55 (3.69%) Business Analyst
9 49 (3.28%) IT Engineer
10 48 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
11 40 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
11 40 (2.68%) Consultant
11 40 (2.68%) Systems Engineer
12 38 (2.55%) Technical Architect
13 37 (2.48%) Senior Architect
14 30 (2.01%) Account Executive
14 30 (2.01%) IT Support
15 29 (1.94%) IT Manager
16 28 (1.88%) Salesforce Architect
16 28 (1.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.55%) REST
2 37 (2.48%) CSS
3 35 (2.35%) .NET
3 35 (2.35%) HTML
3 35 (2.35%) RESTful
4 32 (2.14%) SOAP
5 30 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
5 30 (2.01%) Visualforce
6 24 (1.61%) Node.js
7 22 (1.47%) React
8 19 (1.27%) Android SDK
8 19 (1.27%) EDI
9 18 (1.21%) XML
10 15 (1.01%) .NET Framework
11 14 (0.94%) .NET Core
11 14 (0.94%) GraphQL
12 12 (0.80%) Entity Framework
12 12 (0.80%) Spring
13 11 (0.74%) Playwright
13 11 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 108 (7.24%) Onboarding
2 106 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 103 (6.90%) Driving Licence
4 93 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
5 62 (4.16%) Cloud Native
6 61 (4.09%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.95%) Cyberattack
9 43 (2.88%) Social Media
10 35 (2.35%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.27%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.21%) Credit Risk
13 18 (1.21%) CSOC
13 18 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
14 16 (1.07%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.30%) Windows
2 44 (2.95%) Linux
3 31 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.68%) Android
5 20 (1.34%) Windows 10
6 19 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.01%) Unix
8 14 (0.94%) VMS
9 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Debian
12 2 (0.13%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.067%) AIX
13 1 (0.067%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (25.80%) Agile
2 339 (22.72%) AI
3 266 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
4 226 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 223 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 217 (14.54%) Decision-Making
7 207 (13.87%) DevOps
8 195 (13.07%) Mentoring
9 178 (11.93%) Cybersecurity
10 144 (9.65%) Roadmaps
11 141 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 126 (8.45%) Analytics
13 117 (7.84%) Scrum
14 114 (7.64%) Customer Service
14 114 (7.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 113 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 99 (6.64%) Validation
17 94 (6.30%) Technology Strategy
18 90 (6.03%) Coaching
19 85 (5.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 138 (9.25%) Python
2 123 (8.24%) SQL
3 55 (3.69%) Java
4 46 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 44 (2.95%) JavaScript
6 37 (2.48%) C#
7 30 (2.01%) Apex Code
8 29 (1.94%) SOQL
8 29 (1.94%) SOSL
8 29 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.88%) Bicep
10 25 (1.68%) Bash
11 20 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (1.14%) MATLAB
14 11 (0.74%) C++
14 11 (0.74%) Go
15 9 (0.60%) PHP
16 7 (0.47%) Swift
16 7 (0.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 307 (20.58%) Degree
2 246 (16.49%) Security Cleared
3 226 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.23%) DBS Check
5 65 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.21%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.68%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (1.54%) HNC
12 23 (1.54%) PhD
13 17 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
14 14 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
15 13 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.87%) Postgraduate
16 12 (0.80%) CISSP
17 11 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (7.98%) Accessibility
2 69 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.95%) SLA
4 51 (3.42%) GDPR
5 42 (2.82%) QA
6 41 (2.75%) WCAG
7 36 (2.41%) NIST
8 35 (2.35%) GRC
9 28 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 20 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (1.14%) NCSC
12 14 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.27%) GAAP
15 4 (0.27%) IFRS
16 3 (0.20%) ARP4761
16 3 (0.20%) DO-160
16 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.56%) Docker
3 24 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.94%) vSphere
5 12 (0.80%) Firmware
5 12 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (5.09%) Terraform
2 48 (3.22%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (1.01%) Grafana
5 14 (0.94%) SCCM
6 7 (0.47%) Autotask
7 6 (0.40%) Ansible
7 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.34%) WSUS
9 4 (0.27%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.13%) SolarWinds Orion
12 1 (0.067%) Argo
12 1 (0.067%) CASB
12 1 (0.067%) QRadar
Vendors
1 281 (18.83%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.36%) Adobe
3 75 (5.03%) Google
4 57 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 40 (2.68%) Apple
6 39 (2.61%) Cisco
7 38 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 30 (2.01%) Splunk
8 30 (2.01%) VMware
9 29 (1.94%) Palo Alto
10 26 (1.74%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (1.47%) Tenable
11 22 (1.47%) Workday
12 18 (1.21%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.21%) Instagram
13 17 (1.14%) SAP
14 13 (0.87%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.80%) Oracle
15 12 (0.80%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.74%) Fortinet