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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -67 +10 +45
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,409 3,019 5,070
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.00% 9.18% 6.82%
As % of the General category 4.46% 13.50% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 730 485 1,280
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,453
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +11.11% -24.17%
75th Percentile £63,220 £62,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £78,224 £82,000 £71,298
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +7.84% -21.54%

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 31,589 22,370 41,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.83% 68.06% 55.24%
Number of salaries quoted 19,406 10,538 26,303
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 8 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 8 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 -71 389 £53,750 +14.36% 143
Midlands -50 276 £44,543 -17.13% 84
South East -74 244 £53,081 +22.03% 172
North West -65 234 £47,000 - 84
South West -35 191 £57,500 +9.52% 59
West Midlands -25 173 £58,375 +2.47% 40
East of England -50 115 £40,000 -29.82% 39
East Midlands -52 102 £35,000 +19.66% 41
Scotland -38 98 £50,000 - 40
Wales -3 89 £54,500 -0.91% 20
Yorkshire -12 87 £52,445 -38.30% 34
North East -6 68 £57,500 +134.03% 25
Northern Ireland -53 17 £40,000 -47.43% 25
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 36 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.77%) Confluence
4 12 (0.85%) Apache
5 10 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Moodle
8 2 (0.14%) Totara
8 2 (0.14%) WordPress
9 1 (0.071%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 67 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.63%) Acrobat
4 13 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.57%) InDesign
6 8 (0.57%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.35%) Adobe XD
8 5 (0.35%) Sketch
9 4 (0.28%) Trello
10 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.14%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.14%) InVision
11 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.071%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.071%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (1.70%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.43%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.35%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.21%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.14%) SAP EHS
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.071%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.071%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 241 (17.10%) Azure
2 132 (9.37%) AWS
3 93 (6.60%) GCP
4 80 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 77 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (2.77%) Serverless
7 35 (2.48%) GitHub
8 30 (2.13%) Entra ID
9 27 (1.92%) PaaS
10 26 (1.85%) SaaS
11 24 (1.70%) Figma
12 23 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (1.42%) IaaS
14 19 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (1.35%) dbt
15 18 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (0.99%) Asana
16 14 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
16 14 (0.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.19%) Broadband
2 41 (2.91%) Firewall
3 29 (2.06%) VPN
4 21 (1.49%) DNS
5 20 (1.42%) Network Security
5 20 (1.42%) WAN
6 19 (1.35%) DHCP
6 19 (1.35%) LAN
7 18 (1.28%) Internet
7 18 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.50%) VLAN
9 7 (0.50%) Wireless
10 6 (0.43%) 4G
11 5 (0.35%) SAN
12 4 (0.28%) BGP
12 4 (0.28%) SMTP
12 4 (0.28%) SSL
12 4 (0.28%) WLAN
13 3 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (4.90%) Power BI
2 25 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.49%) Tableau
4 17 (1.21%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.14%) GIS
6 15 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.06%) Metadata
7 14 (0.99%) MySQL
8 13 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
8 13 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.85%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.64%) Looker
12 8 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.57%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.50%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.50%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 47 (3.34%) GitLab
3 43 (3.05%) JIRA
4 41 (2.91%) Git
5 34 (2.41%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.56%) Snyk
7 14 (0.99%) fastlane
8 10 (0.71%) Postman
9 8 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.57%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.57%) Xcode
10 7 (0.50%) Moq
11 6 (0.43%) Android Studio
11 6 (0.43%) Crashlytics
11 6 (0.43%) Gradle
11 6 (0.43%) JMeter
12 5 (0.35%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.28%) Gatling
13 4 (0.28%) Locust
13 4 (0.28%) MSI
General
1 513 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 284 (20.16%) Finance
3 185 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 169 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (9.23%) Marketing
6 100 (7.10%) Law
6 100 (7.10%) Legal
7 94 (6.67%) Retail
8 74 (5.25%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (3.90%) Games
10 53 (3.76%) Local Government
11 34 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 26 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.49%) Banking
13 21 (1.49%) Electronics
14 19 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.99%) Aviation
16 13 (0.92%) Automotive
17 12 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 287 (20.37%) Senior
2 181 (12.85%) Analyst
3 145 (10.29%) Architect
4 75 (5.32%) Lead
5 68 (4.83%) Sales Executive
6 66 (4.68%) Developer
7 62 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
8 53 (3.76%) Business Analyst
9 51 (3.62%) IT Engineer
10 43 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (2.48%) Senior Architect
12 34 (2.41%) Project Manager
13 33 (2.34%) Account Executive
13 33 (2.34%) Cloud Architect
13 33 (2.34%) Salesforce Architect
13 33 (2.34%) Technical Architect
14 31 (2.20%) IT Support
15 30 (2.13%) IT Manager
16 28 (1.99%) Business Manager
16 28 (1.99%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.90%) REST
2 38 (2.70%) SOAP
3 36 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
3 36 (2.56%) Visualforce
4 29 (2.06%) RESTful
5 26 (1.85%) .NET
6 25 (1.77%) CSS
6 25 (1.77%) HTML
7 21 (1.49%) EDI
8 19 (1.35%) Android SDK
9 17 (1.21%) Node.js
10 13 (0.92%) GraphQL
10 13 (0.92%) React
10 13 (0.92%) XML
11 11 (0.78%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.64%) Spring
12 9 (0.64%) Spring Boot
12 9 (0.64%) Web Services
13 8 (0.57%) .NET Core
13 8 (0.57%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.81%) Onboarding
1 110 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 103 (7.31%) Driving Licence
3 79 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (3.69%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 48 (3.41%) Social Media
7 47 (3.34%) Cyberattack
8 42 (2.98%) Data Centre
9 38 (2.70%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.28%) Credit Risk
12 17 (1.21%) CSOC
12 17 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.92%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.85%) Graphic Design
15 12 (0.85%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.17%) Windows
2 40 (2.84%) Linux
3 33 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.63%) Android
5 18 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.14%) VMS
7 14 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.92%) Unix
9 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.28%) Debian
11 4 (0.28%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (22.78%) Agile
2 294 (20.87%) AI
3 239 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
4 212 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 197 (13.98%) CI/CD
6 195 (13.84%) Decision-Making
7 183 (12.99%) DevOps
8 168 (11.92%) Mentoring
9 161 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
10 140 (9.94%) Roadmaps
11 131 (9.30%) Analytics
12 121 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 120 (8.52%) Customer Service
14 109 (7.74%) Scrum
15 94 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 89 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 88 (6.25%) Coaching
18 85 (6.03%) Technology Strategy
19 81 (5.75%) CRM
20 80 (5.68%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 117 (8.30%) Python
2 116 (8.23%) SQL
3 49 (3.48%) Java
4 46 (3.26%) PowerShell
5 36 (2.56%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.41%) SOQL
6 34 (2.41%) SOSL
7 28 (1.99%) JavaScript
8 27 (1.92%) C#
9 25 (1.77%) Bicep
10 23 (1.63%) Bash
11 20 (1.42%) TypeScript
12 19 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.57%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.50%) C++
14 7 (0.50%) Swift
14 7 (0.50%) XAML
15 6 (0.43%) PHP
16 4 (0.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 296 (21.01%) Degree
2 174 (12.35%) Security Cleared
3 156 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 81 (5.75%) DBS Check
5 33 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 25 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (1.42%) HNC
10 18 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
13 13 (0.92%) CISSP
13 13 (0.92%) Postgraduate
14 12 (0.85%) PhD
15 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
15 11 (0.78%) SANS
16 10 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.82%) Accessibility
2 62 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.83%) SLA
4 51 (3.62%) GDPR
5 39 (2.77%) NIST
5 39 (2.77%) QA
6 36 (2.56%) GRC
7 35 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 34 (2.41%) WCAG
9 24 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.85%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.78%) NCSC
13 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.28%) COBIT
15 4 (0.28%) GAAP
15 4 (0.28%) IFRS
16 3 (0.21%) ARP4761
System Software
1 71 (5.04%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.76%) Docker
3 26 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.14%) vSphere
6 12 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.071%) Firmware
8 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (4.47%) Terraform
2 36 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.64%) Autotask
4 9 (0.64%) Grafana
4 9 (0.64%) SCCM
5 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.35%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.35%) WSUS
6 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.28%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
8 2 (0.14%) Ansible
8 2 (0.14%) CASB
8 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.071%) Argo
9 1 (0.071%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.071%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 280 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.74%) Adobe
3 71 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 64 (4.54%) Google
5 48 (3.41%) Cisco
6 40 (2.84%) Apple
7 36 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.48%) Splunk
9 31 (2.20%) VMware
10 30 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 27 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
12 23 (1.63%) Tenable
13 18 (1.28%) Instagram
13 18 (1.28%) SAP
14 14 (0.99%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.85%) Fortinet
15 12 (0.85%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.78%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.78%) Workday
16 11 (0.78%) Wrike