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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 16 31
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 +16
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,044 2,817 3,066
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.38% 8.22% 5.65%
As % of the General category 5.38% 12.49% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 917 489 594
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,600 £28,746
25th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £36,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.58% -8.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £81,448 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year - -6.30% -9.69%

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 37,992 22,558 29,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.32% 65.79% 53.76%
Number of salaries quoted 23,265 11,025 13,465
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.06%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,700 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.42% -5.79% -5.00%

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 September 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 September 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 -56 539 £48,750 +12.94% 636
South East -34 442 £55,000 - 521
Midlands -47 315 £45,000 -5.26% 373
North West -52 312 £42,000 +7.02% 386
South West -20 274 £45,000 +32.35% 387
East of England +4 187 £41,739 -26.77% 208
West Midlands -45 183 £59,250 +7.73% 235
Scotland -22 138 £39,500 +9.72% 441
North East +9 134 £60,000 +144.20% 94
East Midlands -29 131 £40,000 +23.08% 138
Wales -8 103 £53,000 -11.46% 67
Yorkshire -5 93 £37,977 -55.32% 157
Northern Ireland -53 51 £74,742 -3.21% 155
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 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.47%) Confluence
4 18 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.73%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.64%) Apache
8 10 (0.49%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.29%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Moodle
11 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.15%) IIS
12 2 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.098%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.098%) Totara
13 1 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.049%) OpenEdge
13 1 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 112 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 109 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.88%) Simulink
5 17 (0.83%) Maple
6 15 (0.73%) Revit
7 10 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.49%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.39%) InDesign
9 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
10 7 (0.34%) Sketch
11 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
12 4 (0.20%) Mathcad
13 2 (0.098%) InVision
Business Applications
1 24 (1.17%) Cloudability
2 22 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 21 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.59%) SAP EHS
4 12 (0.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.54%) Primavera
6 9 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.20%) SAP SD
8 4 (0.20%) SAP WM
9 3 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 3 (0.15%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.15%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.15%) SAP MM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP R/3
9 3 (0.15%) Shopify
10 2 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.098%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.098%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 335 (16.39%) Azure
2 251 (12.28%) AWS
3 124 (6.07%) GCP
4 106 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (2.94%) Serverless
8 50 (2.45%) GitHub
9 39 (1.91%) Entra ID
10 38 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.86%) SaaS
11 33 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
12 31 (1.52%) dbt
13 30 (1.47%) PaaS
14 29 (1.42%) IaaS
15 27 (1.32%) Figma
16 26 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
18 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.71%) Firewall
2 30 (1.47%) Ethernet
2 30 (1.47%) Internet
3 27 (1.32%) Network Security
4 25 (1.22%) 5G
4 25 (1.22%) Modbus
5 22 (1.08%) Profibus
6 21 (1.03%) VPN
7 20 (0.98%) DNS
8 19 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.68%) LAN
10 12 (0.59%) DHCP
10 12 (0.59%) WAN
11 10 (0.49%) SAN
12 9 (0.44%) HTTP
12 9 (0.44%) SSL
12 9 (0.44%) VLAN
13 8 (0.39%) Wireless
14 4 (0.20%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (3.91%) Power BI
2 47 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.32%) Tableau
4 21 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (0.93%) Metadata
7 18 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 17 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.83%) GIS
8 17 (0.83%) MySQL
9 15 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 15 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.44%) Big Data
12 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (0.44%) Looker
Development Applications
1 100 (4.89%) Git
2 56 (2.74%) JIRA
3 45 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.32%) GitLab
5 22 (1.08%) Snyk
6 21 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.68%) Gatling
7 14 (0.68%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.59%) JMeter
9 11 (0.54%) fastlane
10 9 (0.44%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.44%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.39%) MSI
12 7 (0.34%) Moq
13 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.29%) Xcode
14 5 (0.24%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.24%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.24%) Gradle
14 5 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 854 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 543 (26.57%) Finance
3 304 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (13.41%) Public Sector
5 174 (8.51%) Law
6 166 (8.12%) Marketing
7 149 (7.29%) Aerospace
8 129 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
9 118 (5.77%) Retail
10 109 (5.33%) Legal
11 97 (4.75%) Manufacturing
12 77 (3.77%) Local Government
13 71 (3.47%) Electronics
13 71 (3.47%) Telecoms
14 45 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
15 44 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
16 41 (2.01%) Banking
17 31 (1.52%) Military
18 27 (1.32%) Financial Institution
19 25 (1.22%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 382 (18.69%) Senior
2 215 (10.52%) Lead
3 184 (9.00%) Analyst
4 167 (8.17%) Architect
5 106 (5.19%) Developer
6 101 (4.94%) Sales Executive
7 75 (3.67%) Consultant
8 65 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
9 58 (2.84%) Systems Engineer
10 55 (2.69%) Software Engineer
11 53 (2.59%) Business Analyst
12 49 (2.40%) Project Engineer
13 41 (2.01%) Design Engineer
13 41 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (1.96%) Senior Architect
15 39 (1.91%) Electrical Engineer
16 37 (1.81%) Cloud Architect
17 36 (1.76%) Designer
17 36 (1.76%) IT Engineer
18 35 (1.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (3.91%) Terraform
2 56 (2.74%) .NET
3 47 (2.30%) CSS
3 47 (2.30%) HTML
4 42 (2.05%) RESTful
5 35 (1.71%) React
6 34 (1.66%) Node.js
6 34 (1.66%) XML
7 32 (1.57%) EDI
8 27 (1.32%) .NET Core
9 24 (1.17%) REST
10 22 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 21 (1.03%) Spring
12 18 (0.88%) ASP.NET
12 18 (0.88%) Entity Framework
12 18 (0.88%) Spring Boot
12 18 (0.88%) XSLT
13 17 (0.83%) AngularJS
13 17 (0.83%) JSON
13 17 (0.83%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.78%) Driving Licence
2 159 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 107 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 105 (5.14%) Management Information System
5 85 (4.16%) Cloud Native
6 82 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 72 (3.52%) Data Centre
8 56 (2.74%) Social Media
9 46 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 45 (2.20%) SCADA
11 36 (1.76%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.57%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.17%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
15 22 (1.08%) FPGA
15 22 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
16 21 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 123 (6.02%) Windows
2 58 (2.84%) Linux
3 30 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.08%) Apple iOS
5 20 (0.98%) VMS
5 20 (0.98%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.64%) Android
7 13 (0.64%) Unix
8 5 (0.24%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.15%) Solaris
10 2 (0.098%) AIX
10 2 (0.098%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.049%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (24.12%) Agile
2 463 (22.65%) AI
3 426 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
4 366 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 296 (14.48%) Mentoring
6 286 (13.99%) Decision-Making
7 239 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 238 (11.64%) CI/CD
9 227 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 218 (10.67%) DevOps
11 177 (8.66%) Customer Service
12 162 (7.93%) Roadmaps
13 152 (7.44%) Analytics
14 148 (7.24%) Validation
15 145 (7.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 140 (6.85%) Collaborative Working
17 138 (6.75%) Coaching
18 136 (6.65%) Customer Experience
19 131 (6.41%) Software Engineering
19 131 (6.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 169 (8.27%) Python
2 133 (6.51%) SQL
3 79 (3.86%) C#
4 73 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 64 (3.13%) Java
6 50 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.15%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.57%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.47%) Bicep
10 26 (1.27%) Bash
11 22 (1.08%) C++
12 17 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.73%) Go
14 10 (0.49%) ABAP
14 10 (0.49%) Ada
14 10 (0.49%) Ruby
15 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.34%) PHP
16 7 (0.34%) Scala
16 7 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 470 (22.99%) Degree
2 396 (19.37%) Security Cleared
3 354 (17.32%) SC Cleared
4 164 (8.02%) DBS Check
5 163 (7.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (6.02%) HNC
7 119 (5.82%) DV Cleared
8 52 (2.54%) AWS Certification
9 50 (2.45%) Master's Degree
10 49 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.15%) Chartered Engineer
12 31 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (1.52%) HND
13 30 (1.47%) PhD
14 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.83%) ACCA
16 17 (0.83%) CIMA
17 16 (0.78%) CISSP
18 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (12.92%) Accessibility
2 100 (4.89%) QA
3 80 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.18%) SLA
5 63 (3.08%) GDPR
6 49 (2.40%) WCAG
7 35 (1.71%) GRC
8 32 (1.57%) NCSC
9 30 (1.47%) NIST
10 25 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 18 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.24%) GAAP
15 5 (0.24%) IFRS
15 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 4 (0.20%) DO-160
16 4 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 82 (4.01%) Docker
2 76 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.96%) Firmware
4 25 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.59%) vSphere
7 6 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.098%) IAG
11 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.049%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.27%) Grafana
3 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.78%) SCCM
5 14 (0.68%) Ansible
6 12 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.44%) Kibana
8 6 (0.29%) WSUS
9 4 (0.20%) Argo
9 4 (0.20%) Autotask
10 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.098%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.098%) Puppet
11 2 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.049%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.049%) Nessus
12 1 (0.049%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.049%) QRadar
12 1 (0.049%) SCOM
12 1 (0.049%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 367 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.26%) SAP
3 69 (3.38%) Google
4 64 (3.13%) Adobe
5 50 (2.45%) Apple
6 47 (2.30%) Workday
7 38 (1.86%) Cisco
8 34 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 30 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.42%) VMware
11 27 (1.32%) Facebook
12 26 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 24 (1.17%) Instagram
14 24 (1.17%) Oracle
15 22 (1.08%) Tenable
16 15 (0.73%) Dell
17 14 (0.68%) Databricks
17 14 (0.68%) OpenAI