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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 19 26
Rank change year-on-year -63 +7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,423 2,862 4,619
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.96% 8.43% 6.84%
As % of the General category 4.42% 12.55% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 745 480 1,123
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -19.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £80,125 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -19.23%

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 32,161 22,812 36,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.35% 67.22% 54.62%
Number of salaries quoted 19,764 10,941 22,701
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,272 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% -4.69% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,000
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 21 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 21 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 -71 393 £55,000 +17.02% 119
Midlands -50 266 £44,543 -10.91% 72
South East -74 250 £53,750 +23.56% 176
North West -65 226 £47,000 - 70
South West -36 191 £57,500 +28.95% 56
West Midlands -34 168 £59,764 +8.66% 39
East of England -33 113 £40,000 -29.82% 31
Scotland -30 107 £51,250 +5.67% 38
East Midlands -35 97 £35,000 +12.00% 33
Wales -3 92 £57,515 +4.57% 18
Yorkshire -10 89 £52,445 -38.30% 28
North East -3 78 £57,500 +134.03% 21
Northern Ireland -55 21 £56,901 -25.22% 8
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 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.69%) Confluence
4 13 (0.91%) Apache
5 11 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.56%) CMS
6 8 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.28%) IIS
9 3 (0.21%) WordPress
10 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.14%) Moodle
10 2 (0.14%) Totara
11 1 (0.070%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 66 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (2.11%) Acrobat
4 12 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.56%) InDesign
6 8 (0.56%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.42%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.42%) Sketch
8 3 (0.21%) Simulink
8 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.21%) Trello
9 2 (0.14%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.14%) InVision
9 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.070%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 24 (1.69%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.28%) SAP EHS
3 4 (0.28%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 3 (0.21%) Shopify
5 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.070%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.070%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.070%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.070%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 252 (17.71%) Azure
2 148 (10.40%) AWS
3 101 (7.10%) GCP
4 83 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 80 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (2.74%) Serverless
8 37 (2.60%) GitHub
9 31 (2.18%) dbt
10 28 (1.97%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.83%) PaaS
11 26 (1.83%) SaaS
12 25 (1.76%) Figma
13 23 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.41%) IaaS
15 19 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
18 13 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.94%) Broadband
2 40 (2.81%) Firewall
3 27 (1.90%) VPN
4 20 (1.41%) DNS
4 20 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.26%) DHCP
5 18 (1.26%) Internet
5 18 (1.26%) LAN
5 18 (1.26%) Network Security
5 18 (1.26%) WAN
6 10 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.56%) Wireless
8 7 (0.49%) VLAN
9 6 (0.42%) SAN
10 5 (0.35%) SSL
11 4 (0.28%) SMTP
12 3 (0.21%) 4G
12 3 (0.21%) 5G
12 3 (0.21%) Intranet
12 3 (0.21%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (4.99%) Power BI
2 25 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.48%) Tableau
5 16 (1.12%) Metadata
6 15 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (1.05%) GIS
7 13 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
7 13 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 13 (0.91%) MySQL
7 13 (0.91%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (0.70%) Looker
10 9 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.63%) Redis
11 8 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 60 (4.22%) Jenkins
2 49 (3.44%) GitLab
3 42 (2.95%) JIRA
4 40 (2.81%) Git
5 34 (2.39%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.55%) Snyk
7 14 (0.98%) fastlane
8 11 (0.77%) LabVIEW
9 10 (0.70%) Postman
10 8 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.56%) Xcode
11 7 (0.49%) JMeter
11 7 (0.49%) Moq
12 6 (0.42%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.42%) Crashlytics
12 6 (0.42%) Gradle
13 5 (0.35%) Gatling
13 5 (0.35%) MSI
13 5 (0.35%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.28%) JUnit
General
1 536 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 284 (19.96%) Finance
3 192 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 182 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (9.21%) Marketing
6 96 (6.75%) Legal
7 92 (6.47%) Law
8 89 (6.25%) Retail
9 78 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (3.87%) Games
10 55 (3.87%) Local Government
11 38 (2.67%) Manufacturing
12 32 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.04%) Aerospace
14 27 (1.90%) Electronics
15 22 (1.55%) Banking
16 20 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.98%) Advertising
17 14 (0.98%) Automotive
18 13 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 303 (21.29%) Senior
2 178 (12.51%) Analyst
3 164 (11.52%) Architect
4 81 (5.69%) Lead
5 73 (5.13%) Developer
6 68 (4.78%) Sales Executive
7 60 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
8 50 (3.51%) Business Analyst
8 50 (3.51%) IT Engineer
9 48 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (2.81%) Technical Architect
11 39 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
12 37 (2.60%) Senior Architect
13 34 (2.39%) Consultant
14 33 (2.32%) Account Executive
14 33 (2.32%) Salesforce Architect
14 33 (2.32%) Systems Engineer
15 31 (2.18%) IT Support
16 28 (1.97%) IT Manager
17 27 (1.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.94%) REST
2 37 (2.60%) SOAP
3 35 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
3 35 (2.46%) Visualforce
4 32 (2.25%) CSS
5 31 (2.18%) RESTful
6 30 (2.11%) HTML
7 29 (2.04%) .NET
8 22 (1.55%) Node.js
9 20 (1.41%) EDI
10 19 (1.34%) Android SDK
11 17 (1.19%) React
12 16 (1.12%) XML
13 14 (0.98%) GraphQL
14 12 (0.84%) .NET Framework
15 10 (0.70%) .NET Core
15 10 (0.70%) Entity Framework
16 9 (0.63%) Playwright
16 9 (0.63%) Spring
16 9 (0.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 103 (7.24%) Driving Licence
3 100 (7.03%) Onboarding
4 85 (5.97%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 55 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 46 (3.23%) Cyberattack
8 45 (3.16%) Social Media
9 42 (2.95%) Data Centre
10 37 (2.60%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.26%) Credit Risk
12 18 (1.26%) CSOC
12 18 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
13 17 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.84%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.84%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.11%) Windows
2 43 (3.02%) Linux
3 30 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.76%) Android
5 19 (1.34%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.05%) VMS
6 15 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.98%) Unix
8 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.28%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (24.46%) Agile
2 310 (21.78%) AI
3 239 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
4 210 (14.76%) CI/CD
5 208 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 201 (14.13%) Decision-Making
7 195 (13.70%) DevOps
8 174 (12.23%) Mentoring
9 173 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
10 142 (9.98%) Roadmaps
11 126 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 125 (8.78%) Analytics
13 116 (8.15%) Customer Service
14 113 (7.94%) Scrum
15 108 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 102 (7.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 87 (6.11%) Technology Strategy
18 81 (5.69%) Coaching
19 78 (5.48%) B2B
19 78 (5.48%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 121 (8.50%) Python
2 116 (8.15%) SQL
3 50 (3.51%) Java
4 45 (3.16%) PowerShell
5 35 (2.46%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.39%) JavaScript
6 34 (2.39%) SOQL
6 34 (2.39%) SOSL
7 31 (2.18%) C#
8 27 (1.90%) Bicep
9 25 (1.76%) Bash
10 24 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.84%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.63%) Go
15 8 (0.56%) C++
15 8 (0.56%) PHP
16 7 (0.49%) Swift
16 7 (0.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 290 (20.38%) Degree
2 202 (14.20%) Security Cleared
3 185 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 74 (5.20%) DBS Check
5 36 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (1.55%) HNC
9 22 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.26%) PhD
12 16 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
12 16 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (0.91%) Postgraduate
15 12 (0.84%) CISSP
16 11 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.75%) Accessibility
2 65 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.72%) SLA
4 50 (3.51%) GDPR
5 38 (2.67%) WCAG
6 36 (2.53%) NIST
7 35 (2.46%) GRC
7 35 (2.46%) QA
8 29 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 14 (0.98%) NCSC
11 11 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) GAAP
13 4 (0.28%) IFRS
13 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.21%) ARP4761
14 3 (0.21%) DO-160
System Software
1 69 (4.85%) Active Directory
2 60 (4.22%) Docker
3 25 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.05%) vSphere
6 12 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.42%) Firmware
9 1 (0.070%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (4.78%) Terraform
2 41 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (0.84%) Grafana
5 9 (0.63%) SCCM
6 8 (0.56%) Autotask
7 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.35%) WSUS
8 4 (0.28%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.28%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.21%) Ansible
9 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.14%) CASB
10 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.070%) Argo
11 1 (0.070%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.070%) QRadar
Vendors
1 273 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.11%) Adobe
3 71 (4.99%) Google
4 62 (4.36%) Salesforce
5 40 (2.81%) Apple
6 38 (2.67%) Cisco
7 36 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.46%) Splunk
9 30 (2.11%) VMware
10 29 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 26 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
12 23 (1.62%) Tenable
13 20 (1.41%) Instagram
14 17 (1.19%) SAP
15 15 (1.05%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.84%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.77%) Fortinet
17 11 (0.77%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.77%) Wrike