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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 16 33
Rank change year-on-year -45 +17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,048 2,814 2,854
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.38% 8.18% 5.31%
As % of the General category 5.38% 12.42% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 914 486 574
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,600 £28,825
25th Percentile £35,281 £31,063 £36,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,487 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -9.58% -8.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £65,188
90th Percentile £78,312 £81,745 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.16% -9.54%

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 38,059 22,650 28,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.21% 65.82% 53.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,429 10,975 13,231
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -1.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 28 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 28 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 -51 545 £50,000 +12.36% 572
South East -26 445 £55,000 - 471
Midlands -46 317 £45,000 -5.26% 297
North West -53 317 £42,000 +0.40% 346
South West -16 269 £45,000 +32.35% 337
East of England +6 184 £41,739 -24.46% 200
West Midlands -42 183 £59,250 +7.73% 185
Scotland -22 139 £39,500 +23.44% 357
North East +13 137 £62,500 +154.38% 90
East Midlands -26 133 £40,129 +23.47% 112
Wales +7 104 £53,500 -6.84% 58
Yorkshire +2 91 £37,977 -55.32% 136
Northern Ireland -53 50 £74,742 -3.21% 141
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 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.42%) Confluence
4 19 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.73%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.29%) WordPress
9 5 (0.24%) Moodle
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.098%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.098%) Totara
12 1 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.049%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.049%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 115 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 111 (5.42%) 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
8 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.39%) InDesign
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%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 24 (1.17%) Cloudability
2 22 (1.07%) 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%) Academy Housing
10 2 (0.098%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.098%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 338 (16.50%) Azure
2 258 (12.60%) AWS
3 128 (6.25%) GCP
4 108 (5.27%) Power Platform
5 101 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.08%) Serverless
8 53 (2.59%) GitHub
9 40 (1.95%) Entra ID
10 38 (1.86%) SaaS
11 37 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
13 32 (1.56%) dbt
14 30 (1.46%) PaaS
15 29 (1.42%) IaaS
16 27 (1.32%) Figma
16 27 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
18 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 35 (1.71%) Firewall
2 31 (1.51%) Internet
3 30 (1.46%) Ethernet
4 27 (1.32%) Network Security
5 25 (1.22%) 5G
5 25 (1.22%) Modbus
6 22 (1.07%) Profibus
7 21 (1.03%) DNS
7 21 (1.03%) VPN
8 19 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.68%) LAN
10 13 (0.63%) DHCP
11 12 (0.59%) WAN
12 11 (0.54%) SAN
13 10 (0.49%) VLAN
14 9 (0.44%) HTTP
14 9 (0.44%) SSL
15 8 (0.39%) Wireless
16 4 (0.20%) Broadband
16 4 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (4.00%) Power BI
2 47 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.27%) Tableau
4 22 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.07%) Relational Database
5 21 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 19 (0.93%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (0.88%) GIS
7 18 (0.88%) MySQL
8 17 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.83%) Metadata
9 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 15 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 11 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (0.49%) Looker
13 9 (0.44%) Big Data
13 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 103 (5.03%) Git
2 55 (2.69%) JIRA
3 47 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.46%) GitLab
5 22 (1.07%) Snyk
6 20 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
7 15 (0.73%) Gatling
8 14 (0.68%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.54%) fastlane
9 11 (0.54%) JMeter
10 10 (0.49%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.44%) LoadRunner
12 8 (0.39%) MSI
13 7 (0.34%) Moq
14 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.29%) Xcode
15 5 (0.24%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.24%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.24%) Gradle
15 5 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 854 (41.70%) Social Skills
2 545 (26.61%) Finance
3 306 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (13.67%) Public Sector
5 172 (8.40%) Law
6 167 (8.15%) Marketing
7 146 (7.13%) Aerospace
8 130 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
9 118 (5.76%) Retail
10 105 (5.13%) Legal
11 96 (4.69%) Manufacturing
12 78 (3.81%) Local Government
13 71 (3.47%) Electronics
13 71 (3.47%) Telecoms
14 46 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
15 45 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
16 41 (2.00%) Banking
17 31 (1.51%) Military
18 26 (1.27%) Financial Institution
19 22 (1.07%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 376 (18.36%) Senior
2 216 (10.55%) Lead
3 184 (8.98%) Analyst
4 166 (8.11%) Architect
5 110 (5.37%) Developer
6 100 (4.88%) Sales Executive
7 74 (3.61%) Consultant
8 64 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
9 56 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
10 55 (2.69%) Software Engineer
11 51 (2.49%) Business Analyst
12 49 (2.39%) Project Engineer
13 41 (2.00%) Design Engineer
14 40 (1.95%) Senior Architect
15 39 (1.90%) Electrical Engineer
15 39 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (1.81%) Cloud Architect
17 36 (1.76%) Designer
17 36 (1.76%) Technical Architect
18 34 (1.66%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (4.00%) Terraform
2 56 (2.73%) .NET
3 47 (2.29%) CSS
3 47 (2.29%) HTML
4 45 (2.20%) RESTful
5 36 (1.76%) React
6 35 (1.71%) Node.js
7 34 (1.66%) XML
8 33 (1.61%) EDI
9 27 (1.32%) .NET Core
10 25 (1.22%) REST
11 24 (1.17%) Spring
12 22 (1.07%) .NET Framework
13 21 (1.03%) Spring Boot
14 19 (0.93%) LangChain
15 18 (0.88%) AngularJS
15 18 (0.88%) ASP.NET
15 18 (0.88%) Entity Framework
15 18 (0.88%) Kafka
15 18 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 199 (9.72%) Driving Licence
2 158 (7.71%) Onboarding
3 108 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
4 106 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 90 (4.39%) Cloud Native
6 85 (4.15%) Product Ownership
7 71 (3.47%) Data Centre
8 56 (2.73%) Social Media
9 46 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 44 (2.15%) SCADA
11 36 (1.76%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 26 (1.27%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
15 23 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.07%) FPGA
16 22 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
17 21 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 21 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 119 (5.81%) Windows
2 58 (2.83%) Linux
3 28 (1.37%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 20 (0.98%) VMS
5 17 (0.83%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.63%) Android
7 13 (0.63%) Unix
8 5 (0.24%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Solaris
10 2 (0.098%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.049%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.049%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (24.27%) Agile
2 465 (22.71%) AI
3 420 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
4 369 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 301 (14.70%) Mentoring
6 289 (14.11%) Decision-Making
7 246 (12.01%) CI/CD
8 242 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 228 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
10 222 (10.84%) DevOps
11 175 (8.54%) Customer Service
12 164 (8.01%) Roadmaps
13 158 (7.71%) Analytics
14 149 (7.28%) Validation
15 144 (7.03%) Collaborative Working
16 143 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 140 (6.84%) Coaching
18 136 (6.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 135 (6.59%) Customer Experience
20 133 (6.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 172 (8.40%) Python
2 137 (6.69%) SQL
3 79 (3.86%) C#
4 75 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 66 (3.22%) Java
6 50 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 46 (2.25%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.56%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.46%) Bicep
10 26 (1.27%) Bash
11 22 (1.07%) C++
12 17 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.73%) Go
14 11 (0.54%) Ruby
15 10 (0.49%) ABAP
15 10 (0.49%) Ada
16 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.34%) C
17 7 (0.34%) PHP
17 7 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 470 (22.95%) Degree
2 401 (19.58%) Security Cleared
3 358 (17.48%) SC Cleared
4 167 (8.15%) DBS Check
5 166 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 123 (6.01%) HNC
7 119 (5.81%) DV Cleared
8 55 (2.69%) AWS Certification
9 51 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 51 (2.49%) Master's Degree
10 44 (2.15%) Chartered Engineer
11 31 (1.51%) HND
11 31 (1.51%) PhD
12 29 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 27 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 27 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.83%) ACCA
14 17 (0.83%) CIMA
15 15 (0.73%) CISSP
16 13 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (12.94%) Accessibility
2 102 (4.98%) QA
3 82 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.13%) GDPR
4 64 (3.13%) SLA
5 49 (2.39%) WCAG
6 35 (1.71%) GRC
7 33 (1.61%) NCSC
8 28 (1.37%) NIST
9 24 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.20%) GAAP
15 4 (0.20%) IFRS
15 4 (0.20%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 85 (4.15%) Docker
2 73 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.95%) Firmware
4 26 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.07%) 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
10 2 (0.098%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.27%) Grafana
3 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.68%) Ansible
4 14 (0.68%) SCCM
5 13 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.44%) Kibana
7 4 (0.20%) Argo
7 4 (0.20%) Autotask
7 4 (0.20%) WSUS
8 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.098%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.098%) Puppet
9 2 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.049%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.049%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.049%) Nessus
10 1 (0.049%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.049%) SCOM
10 1 (0.049%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 371 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.25%) SAP
3 70 (3.42%) Google
4 64 (3.13%) Adobe
5 48 (2.34%) Apple
6 47 (2.29%) Workday
7 38 (1.86%) Cisco
8 34 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 32 (1.56%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 28 (1.37%) VMware
12 27 (1.32%) Facebook
13 26 (1.27%) Palo Alto
14 25 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 25 (1.22%) Oracle
15 24 (1.17%) Instagram
16 22 (1.07%) Tenable
17 15 (0.73%) Databricks
17 15 (0.73%) Dell
18 14 (0.68%) OpenAI