Inclusion and Diversity Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 -12
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 3,033 5,596 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.70% 7.50% 4.63%
As % of the General category 11.37% 13.38% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 470 1,288 859
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £44,886 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -24.17% +12.74%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £70,543 £87,816
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +13.27%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,671 41,817 39,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.73% 56.08% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,889 26,883 18,174
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +82 1,348 £47,000 +25.33% 1,087
North West +60 1,246 £47,000 +25.33% 496
South East +3 576 £45,000 +5.88% 1,397
Midlands +16 419 £52,500 +23.53% 948
East of England +48 266 £53,500 +44.25% 675
Scotland -36 228 £55,000 +10.00% 278
East Midlands +27 220 £32,000 -6.65% 366
West Midlands -1 199 £57,500 +21.18% 515
South West -16 171 £52,500 +5.00% 605
Yorkshire +30 81 £85,000 +95.58% 442
Wales +5 25 £59,857 +39.66% 148
North East +27 21 £69,384 +91.16% 154
Northern Ireland +11 15 £76,092 +79.04% 86
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 159 (5.24%) Confluence
2 33 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 18 (0.59%) Skype for Business
6 15 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.36%) WinCC
8 10 (0.33%) Apache
9 6 (0.20%) CMS
10 4 (0.13%) Camunda
10 4 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.066%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.066%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.066%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.066%) IIS
11 2 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.066%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.033%) Moodle
12 1 (0.033%) WebLogic
Applications
1 179 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.36%) EPLAN
6 9 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
7 4 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.13%) Revit
8 3 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.099%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.033%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.033%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.033%) Blender
10 1 (0.033%) CINEMA 4D
10 1 (0.033%) InDesign
10 1 (0.033%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 20 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.066%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.066%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.066%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.066%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.066%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.066%) SAP GTS
5 2 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.033%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.033%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.033%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 644 (21.23%) AWS
2 599 (19.75%) Azure
3 366 (12.07%) GCP
4 100 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 73 (2.41%) Pulumi
6 53 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 43 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (0.79%) SaaS
11 19 (0.63%) Power Automate
12 15 (0.49%) Entra ID
13 14 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.40%) Serverless
16 11 (0.36%) PowerApps
17 10 (0.33%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
18 9 (0.30%) Amazon S3
19 8 (0.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 740 (24.40%) VPN
2 416 (13.72%) DNS
3 260 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
4 85 (2.80%) TCP/IP
5 65 (2.14%) Broadband
6 57 (1.88%) WAN
7 48 (1.58%) LAN
8 39 (1.29%) Wireless
9 35 (1.15%) Firewall
10 32 (1.06%) Internet
11 30 (0.99%) Network Security
12 23 (0.76%) DHCP
13 22 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (0.59%) Skype
14 18 (0.59%) Unified Communications
15 17 (0.56%) Modbus
16 12 (0.40%) Ethernet
16 12 (0.40%) LTE
17 11 (0.36%) Bluetooth
17 11 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (8.97%) SQL Server
2 89 (2.93%) Power BI
3 88 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 80 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 69 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 64 (2.11%) Big Data
7 52 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
8 24 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (0.40%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.33%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.33%) MySQL
12 9 (0.30%) Metadata
12 9 (0.30%) Redis
13 8 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.16%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 308 (10.15%) Cucumber
2 266 (8.77%) JIRA
3 254 (8.37%) GitLab
3 254 (8.37%) Selenium
4 253 (8.34%) Maven
5 251 (8.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 247 (8.14%) SonarQube
7 246 (8.11%) Bitbucket
8 65 (2.14%) Jaeger
9 64 (2.11%) Robot Framework
10 23 (0.76%) JUnit
11 21 (0.69%) Git
12 18 (0.59%) Jenkins
13 8 (0.26%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.16%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.16%) Mockito
14 5 (0.16%) NUnit
14 5 (0.16%) webpack
15 4 (0.13%) Balsamiq
15 4 (0.13%) CppUnit
General
1 998 (32.90%) Finance
2 853 (28.12%) Analytical Skills
3 467 (15.40%) Social Skills
4 401 (13.22%) Law
5 347 (11.44%) Banking
6 296 (9.76%) Manufacturing
7 292 (9.63%) Legal
8 170 (5.61%) Retail
9 119 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 105 (3.46%) Marketing
11 100 (3.30%) Investment Banking
12 90 (2.97%) Corporate Banking
13 89 (2.93%) Telecoms
14 82 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
15 65 (2.14%) Electronics
16 35 (1.15%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
18 31 (1.02%) French Language
19 29 (0.96%) German Language
20 18 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 540 (17.80%) Software Engineer
2 499 (16.45%) Developer
3 470 (15.50%) Senior
4 434 (14.31%) Software Developer
5 300 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 214 (7.06%) Test Engineer
7 200 (6.59%) Lead
8 186 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 149 (4.91%) Electrical Engineer
10 143 (4.71%) Analyst
11 140 (4.62%) Safety Engineer
12 104 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 78 (2.57%) Team Leader
14 71 (2.34%) Test Automation Engineer
15 55 (1.81%) Support Engineer
16 54 (1.78%) Java Engineer
17 52 (1.71%) Java Software Engineer
18 46 (1.52%) Data Scientist
19 44 (1.45%) Digital Analyst
20 43 (1.42%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (10.72%) Elastic Stack
2 306 (10.09%) Spring
3 299 (9.86%) React
4 289 (9.53%) Kafka
5 286 (9.43%) Spring Boot
6 265 (8.74%) CSS
6 265 (8.74%) HTML
7 249 (8.21%) JPA
8 246 (8.11%) Redux
9 223 (7.35%) .NET
9 223 (7.35%) Node.js
10 163 (5.37%) Hibernate
11 120 (3.96%) REST
12 109 (3.59%) RESTful
13 99 (3.26%) Jest
14 92 (3.03%) HTML5
14 92 (3.03%) Sass
15 90 (2.97%) CSS3
16 65 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
17 42 (1.38%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1,147 (37.82%) Cyberattack
2 262 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 252 (8.31%) Enterprise Software
4 235 (7.75%) Linux Command Line
5 188 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
6 103 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 75 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 64 (2.11%) e-Learning
9 44 (1.45%) Driving Licence
9 44 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.19%) Credit Risk
11 35 (1.15%) Cloud Native
12 33 (1.09%) Fixed Income
13 26 (0.86%) SCADA
14 19 (0.63%) Digital Signage
14 19 (0.63%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
14 19 (0.63%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.59%) Data Centre
15 18 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1,064 (35.08%) Linux
2 695 (22.91%) Android
3 451 (14.87%) Windows
4 84 (2.77%) Unix
5 67 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.099%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.099%) Rocky
10 2 (0.066%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.066%) VMS
10 2 (0.066%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.033%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.033%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,211 (39.93%) Agile
2 974 (32.11%) Line Management
3 752 (24.79%) DevOps
4 748 (24.66%) Mathematics
5 682 (22.49%) Mentoring
6 625 (20.61%) Software Engineering
7 583 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
8 472 (15.56%) Microservices
9 443 (14.61%) Design Patterns
10 441 (14.54%) OO
11 435 (14.34%) OOP
12 427 (14.08%) Android Development
13 408 (13.45%) CI/CD
14 405 (13.35%) Containerisation
15 386 (12.73%) Risk Management
16 370 (12.20%) Test Automation
17 363 (11.97%) SDLC
18 341 (11.24%) Task Automation
19 323 (10.65%) Artificial Intelligence
20 317 (10.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (37.09%) Python
2 1,048 (34.55%) Java
3 666 (21.96%) Go
4 659 (21.73%) JavaScript
5 634 (20.90%) C++
6 405 (13.35%) Bash
7 369 (12.17%) PowerShell
8 362 (11.94%) SQL
9 208 (6.86%) Rust
10 111 (3.66%) TypeScript
11 27 (0.89%) C
12 22 (0.73%) C#
13 14 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.36%) PHP
16 7 (0.23%) C-shell
16 7 (0.23%) Korn
16 7 (0.23%) R
17 6 (0.20%) Ada
18 5 (0.16%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 760 (25.06%) Security Cleared
2 700 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 674 (22.22%) Degree
4 246 (8.11%) AWS Certification
5 174 (5.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 172 (5.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 75 (2.47%) HND
8 71 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 64 (2.11%) SC Cleared
10 44 (1.45%) HNC
11 41 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (0.96%) CFA
12 29 (0.96%) Chartered Engineer
13 23 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 23 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
14 17 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.56%) MBA
15 16 (0.53%) CCNA
16 15 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 431 (14.21%) QA
2 249 (8.21%) NCSC
3 108 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 20 (0.66%) NIST
5 19 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (0.53%) Data Quality
6 16 (0.53%) SLA
7 14 (0.46%) GDPR
8 9 (0.30%) GLP
8 9 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.26%) COBIT
9 8 (0.26%) PMO
10 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.23%) GMP
11 6 (0.20%) PMBOK
12 5 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.16%) GRC
12 5 (0.16%) IFRS
13 4 (0.13%) Basel III
13 4 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1,083 (35.71%) Docker
2 288 (9.50%) vSphere
3 277 (9.13%) Hyper-V
4 260 (8.57%) VMware NSX
5 59 (1.95%) Active Directory
6 49 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 19 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.30%) Firmware
9 8 (0.26%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.099%) HDFS
12 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.033%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 803 (26.48%) Ansible
2 439 (14.47%) Kubernetes
3 423 (13.95%) Terraform
4 70 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 67 (2.21%) Argo
6 65 (2.14%) Kustomize
7 26 (0.86%) Puppet
8 16 (0.53%) Grafana
8 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (0.43%) vCenter Server
10 12 (0.40%) vMotion
11 11 (0.36%) Wonderware InTouch
12 8 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
13 6 (0.20%) CASB
13 6 (0.20%) Nagios
13 6 (0.20%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.20%) vRealize
14 5 (0.16%) AirWatch
14 5 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 374 (12.33%) Cisco
2 358 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 282 (9.30%) Splunk
4 272 (8.97%) Juniper
5 260 (8.57%) 3PAR
6 246 (8.11%) Solace
7 120 (3.96%) Google
8 85 (2.80%) Oracle
9 66 (2.18%) IBM
9 66 (2.18%) Red Hat
10 62 (2.04%) VMware
11 44 (1.45%) Alteryx
12 41 (1.35%) EMC
13 36 (1.19%) ServiceNow
14 35 (1.15%) SAP
15 31 (1.02%) Dell
16 29 (0.96%) Bloomberg
17 20 (0.66%) Salesforce
18 19 (0.63%) Palo Alto
19 18 (0.59%) ShoreTel