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 9 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 38 41
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,268 2,306 1,879
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.41% 4.86% 6.08%
As % of the General category 10.44% 8.83% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 499 501 749
10th Percentile £24,450 £31,250 £32,435
25th Percentile £27,707 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,312 £79,225 £84,011
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 21,716 26,127 19,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 61.40% 55.02% 63.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,120 11,201 14,184
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,309 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +0.34% -4.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,050 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £51,058 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.90% - -

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +31 884 £35,000 -40.48% 271
North West +21 778 £35,000 -40.48% 130
South East +1 449 £50,000 -23.08% 884
Midlands +25 274 £47,500 -9.52% 191
Scotland -7 262 £25,835 -53.03% 129
West Midlands +27 187 £55,000 -3.93% 107
South West +3 182 £28,500 -24.00% 149
East of England -5 179 £57,000 +26.67% 72
East Midlands +13 87 £34,500 -13.75% 66
Yorkshire +6 86 £33,250 -31.79% 88
Wales -4 26 £52,562 -18.01% 29
North East -9 20 £26,668 -58.97% 53
Northern Ireland -18 11 £74,830 +25.91% 27
Channel Islands - 3 - - 1
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 -
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 26 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 17 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.62%) Apache
4 9 (0.40%) CMS
5 8 (0.35%) Camunda
5 8 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
6 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.088%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.044%) Drupal
8 1 (0.044%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.044%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.044%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.044%) WordPress
Applications
1 71 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.71%) AutoCAD
4 14 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.35%) Revit
6 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.26%) Civil 3D
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 5 (0.22%) Navisworks
8 5 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.13%) Simulink
11 2 (0.088%) MS Visio
12 1 (0.044%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.044%) ProjectWise
12 1 (0.044%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 15 (0.66%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.088%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.044%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.044%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.044%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.044%) Primavera
6 1 (0.044%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.044%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 667 (29.41%) Cloud Computing
2 175 (7.72%) AWS
3 124 (5.47%) Azure
4 68 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (2.12%) Power Platform
6 27 (1.19%) SaaS
7 25 (1.10%) GCP
8 22 (0.97%) Entra ID
9 19 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (0.84%) Serverless
10 18 (0.79%) Amazon S3
11 15 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (0.40%) GitHub
13 9 (0.40%) npm
14 7 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (0.31%) Google Analytics
14 7 (0.31%) PaaS
14 7 (0.31%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 684 (30.16%) Internet
2 276 (12.17%) VPN
3 260 (11.46%) Cisco IOS
4 25 (1.10%) LAN
5 22 (0.97%) WAN
6 21 (0.93%) Firewall
7 17 (0.75%) Broadband
8 11 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.44%) Network Security
10 9 (0.40%) DNS
11 7 (0.31%) DHCP
12 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
13 4 (0.18%) Modbus
13 4 (0.18%) MPLS
14 3 (0.13%) ADSL
14 3 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
14 3 (0.13%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (0.13%) HTTP
14 3 (0.13%) LoRaWAN
14 3 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.12%) SQL Server
2 43 (1.90%) Power BI
3 29 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 28 (1.23%) Big Data
5 25 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 17 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
8 15 (0.66%) Tableau
9 12 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (0.53%) KDB
9 12 (0.53%) Kdb+
9 12 (0.53%) Power Query
10 11 (0.49%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (0.44%) MySQL
12 9 (0.40%) Apache Hive
12 9 (0.40%) Apache Iceberg
12 9 (0.40%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 65 (2.87%) JIRA
2 54 (2.38%) Maven
3 52 (2.29%) GitLab
4 51 (2.25%) SonarQube
5 48 (2.12%) Selenium
6 44 (1.94%) Jenkins
7 39 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
8 36 (1.59%) Bitbucket
8 36 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 26 (1.15%) Git
10 20 (0.88%) JUnit
11 14 (0.62%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.44%) webpack
13 7 (0.31%) Vite
14 6 (0.26%) Gradle
15 4 (0.18%) Locust
15 4 (0.18%) Subversion
15 4 (0.18%) WebDriver
16 3 (0.13%) Mockito
16 3 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,083 (47.75%) Social Skills
2 829 (36.55%) Banking
3 498 (21.96%) Finance
4 406 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
5 297 (13.10%) Law
6 212 (9.35%) Marketing
7 178 (7.85%) Retail
8 138 (6.08%) Public Sector
9 67 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (2.56%) Legal
11 56 (2.47%) Investment Banking
12 36 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
12 36 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 22 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (0.88%) Games
16 19 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.75%) French Language
18 16 (0.71%) Automotive
19 15 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 536 (23.63%) Lecturer
2 280 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 256 (11.29%) Software Engineer
4 180 (7.94%) Senior
5 164 (7.23%) Lead
6 115 (5.07%) Java Engineer
7 112 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 80 (3.53%) Analyst
9 71 (3.13%) Senior Manager
10 63 (2.78%) Microsoft Specialist
11 60 (2.65%) Lead Software Engineer
12 56 (2.47%) Architect
12 56 (2.47%) Project Engineer
13 51 (2.25%) Sales Manager
14 48 (2.12%) Python Engineer
15 47 (2.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 47 (2.07%) Python Software Engineer
16 46 (2.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
17 44 (1.94%) Support Engineer
18 39 (1.72%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (11.55%) Elastic Stack
2 147 (6.48%) Spring
3 119 (5.25%) React
4 109 (4.81%) Kafka
5 99 (4.37%) Spring Boot
6 91 (4.01%) REST
7 67 (2.95%) HTML
8 63 (2.78%) RESTful
9 62 (2.73%) CSS
10 45 (1.98%) JPA
11 43 (1.90%) Jest
12 39 (1.72%) HTML5
13 38 (1.68%) Sass
14 36 (1.59%) CSS3
14 36 (1.59%) Redux
15 35 (1.54%) AngularJS
16 25 (1.10%) EDI
17 21 (0.93%) Node.js
17 21 (0.93%) SOAP
18 20 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 667 (29.41%) IoT
2 261 (11.51%) Cyberattack
3 90 (3.97%) Algorithms
4 72 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 68 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 62 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 49 (2.16%) Driving Licence
8 48 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (1.94%) Blog
10 36 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 32 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 32 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 27 (1.19%) Social Media
14 23 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
15 21 (0.93%) e-Learning
16 18 (0.79%) Microsoft Licensing
17 15 (0.66%) Podcast
17 15 (0.66%) Reference Data
18 14 (0.62%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 305 (13.45%) Windows
2 274 (12.08%) Linux
3 268 (11.82%) Android
4 12 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.35%) Unix
7 6 (0.26%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.044%) Debian
10 1 (0.044%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (46.56%) AI
2 799 (35.23%) Machine Learning
3 757 (33.38%) Cybersecurity
4 723 (31.88%) User Experience
5 674 (29.72%) Web Development
6 479 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
7 389 (17.15%) Agile
8 373 (16.45%) DevOps
9 334 (14.73%) Risk Management
10 289 (12.74%) Mathematics
11 285 (12.57%) Line Management
12 282 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 279 (12.30%) Software Engineering
14 265 (11.68%) Task Automation
15 264 (11.64%) Storage Management
16 263 (11.60%) Platform Engineering
17 236 (10.41%) CI/CD
18 234 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 234 (10.32%) SDLC
19 180 (7.94%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 370 (16.31%) Python
2 272 (11.99%) PowerShell
3 262 (11.55%) Bash
4 217 (9.57%) Java
5 147 (6.48%) SQL
6 94 (4.14%) JavaScript
7 62 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.88%) C#
9 17 (0.75%) Apex Code
10 15 (0.66%) SOQL
10 15 (0.66%) SOSL
11 12 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.35%) Go
12 8 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.22%) C++
13 5 (0.22%) R
14 4 (0.18%) C
14 4 (0.18%) PHP
14 4 (0.18%) Scala
14 4 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 988 (43.56%) Degree
2 666 (29.37%) Master's Degree
3 662 (29.19%) Postgraduate
4 661 (29.14%) PhD
5 47 (2.07%) Security Cleared
6 35 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 27 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 20 (0.88%) PMP
9 19 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (0.75%) HNC
11 15 (0.66%) MCSE
12 12 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
12 12 (0.53%) HND
13 10 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.44%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.35%) City & Guilds
15 6 (0.26%) CIPD
15 6 (0.26%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (3.26%) QA
2 56 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.28%) SLA
4 23 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (0.97%) NIST
6 18 (0.79%) PMO
7 16 (0.71%) GDPR
8 15 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 14 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.40%) COBIT
10 9 (0.40%) NCSC
11 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.18%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.18%) ISO 19650
12 4 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.088%) GRC
13 2 (0.088%) P3O
13 2 (0.088%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.044%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.044%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 325 (14.33%) Docker
2 262 (11.55%) Hyper-V
3 260 (11.46%) VMware NSX
3 260 (11.46%) vSphere
4 38 (1.68%) Active Directory
5 15 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.22%) HDFS
7 3 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.044%) iptables
9 1 (0.044%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 305 (13.45%) Terraform
2 275 (12.13%) Ansible
3 107 (4.72%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.75%) Grafana
5 16 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.26%) Argo
8 4 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.18%) Netcool
8 4 (0.18%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 4 (0.18%) SCCM
8 4 (0.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.18%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.13%) CASB
10 2 (0.088%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.088%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.044%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.044%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.044%) Puppet
Vendors
1 330 (14.55%) Cisco
2 300 (13.23%) Splunk
3 274 (12.08%) Juniper
4 260 (11.46%) 3PAR
5 259 (11.42%) Microsoft
6 67 (2.95%) Oracle
7 37 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.59%) Solace
9 30 (1.32%) Apple
10 29 (1.28%) Adobe
11 28 (1.23%) NEC
11 28 (1.23%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.15%) Google
13 25 (1.10%) ServiceNow
14 24 (1.06%) Databricks
15 21 (0.93%) IBM
16 19 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 18 (0.79%) Autodesk
17 18 (0.79%) Dell
18 17 (0.75%) VMware