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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 4,953 2,282 2,427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 11.80% 6.34% 7.00%
As % of the General category 21.07% 9.95% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 522 456 752
10th Percentile £20,000 £32,375 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,707 £41,250 £37,442
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,965 £53,300 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.02% +1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £69,597
90th Percentile £78,725 £78,699 £80,070
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +4.00%

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 23,509 22,933 20,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 56.02% 63.76% 59.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,126 9,412 14,672
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,156 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £58,158
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.17% -5.89%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +49 1,923 £33,000 -39.45% 142
North West +39 1,702 £35,000 -30.43% 56
Midlands +37 1,456 £47,500 -7.22% 95
West Midlands +56 1,280 £47,500 -9.52% 44
South East +15 885 £54,500 -8.40% 363
East of England +7 422 £45,000 - 96
Yorkshire +33 214 £26,100 -49.07% 55
East Midlands +10 188 £35,000 -15.66% 50
South West -16 154 £28,500 -32.54% 108
Scotland -72 56 £25,835 -53.03% 57
Wales +9 45 £68,958 +31.12% 26
Northern Ireland -20 14 £76,024 +27.92% 8
Channel Islands - 8 - - 1
North East -8 7 £65,000 +9.37% 31
Isle of Man - 2 £32,000 - 1
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 33 (0.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.040%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.020%) Drupal
4 1 (0.020%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.020%) WildFly
4 1 (0.020%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 5 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.061%) Revit
6 3 (0.061%) Simulink
7 2 (0.040%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.020%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.020%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.020%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.020%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.020%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.020%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.040%) Academy Housing
4 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.040%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.040%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.040%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.020%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.020%) Primavera
5 1 (0.020%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 3,651 (73.71%) Cloud Computing
2 107 (2.16%) Azure
3 68 (1.37%) AWS
4 66 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (0.93%) Power Platform
6 35 (0.71%) SaaS
7 28 (0.57%) Entra ID
8 11 (0.22%) OneDrive
9 9 (0.18%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (0.18%) Google Analytics
10 8 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (0.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (0.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (0.14%) GCP
12 6 (0.12%) Figma
12 6 (0.12%) PaaS
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (0.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (0.081%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.081%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3,662 (73.93%) Internet
2 26 (0.52%) Broadband
3 15 (0.30%) VPN
4 14 (0.28%) LAN
5 12 (0.24%) DNS
6 11 (0.22%) Firewall
7 9 (0.18%) DHCP
8 8 (0.16%) MPLS
9 7 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.12%) WAN
11 5 (0.10%) 4G
12 4 (0.081%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.081%) PSTN
12 4 (0.081%) TCP/IP
13 3 (0.061%) BGP
13 3 (0.061%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (0.061%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (0.061%) IOS XR
14 2 (0.040%) Network Security
14 2 (0.040%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (0.73%) Power BI
2 12 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (0.22%) Tableau
4 10 (0.20%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.16%) GIS
5 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.081%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.081%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.061%) Metadata
8 3 (0.061%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.040%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.040%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.040%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.020%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.020%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.020%) MySQL
10 1 (0.020%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (0.40%) JIRA
2 17 (0.34%) Jenkins
3 15 (0.30%) GitLab
3 15 (0.30%) SonarQube
4 14 (0.28%) Git
5 6 (0.12%) Cypress.io
5 6 (0.12%) Selenium
6 5 (0.10%) Axure RP
6 5 (0.10%) Balsamiq
7 4 (0.081%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.061%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.061%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.040%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.040%) Postman
9 2 (0.040%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.040%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.020%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.020%) jMock
10 1 (0.020%) JUnit
General
1 3,982 (80.40%) Social Skills
2 3,656 (73.81%) Banking
3 425 (8.58%) Finance
4 140 (2.83%) Public Sector
4 140 (2.83%) Retail
5 127 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (1.90%) Law
7 86 (1.74%) Marketing
8 55 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (0.91%) Legal
10 31 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 26 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 25 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 21 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 17 (0.34%) French Language
16 16 (0.32%) Automotive
17 15 (0.30%) Games
17 15 (0.30%) Swedish Language
18 12 (0.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2,811 (56.75%) Lecturer
2 199 (4.02%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.94%) Facilities Engineer
4 162 (3.27%) Senior
5 88 (1.78%) Analyst
6 85 (1.72%) Project Engineer
7 84 (1.70%) Senior Manager
8 62 (1.25%) Lead
9 58 (1.17%) Sales Manager
10 56 (1.13%) Project Manager
11 52 (1.05%) Architect
12 51 (1.03%) Microsoft Specialist
13 47 (0.95%) Account Manager
14 45 (0.91%) Sales Account Manager
14 45 (0.91%) Senior Account Manager
14 45 (0.91%) Senior Sales Manager
15 39 (0.79%) Account Executive
16 37 (0.75%) Alliance Manager
17 33 (0.67%) Mechanical Engineer
18 30 (0.61%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (0.55%) EDI
2 25 (0.50%) REST
3 21 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (0.42%) SOAP
3 21 (0.42%) Visualforce
4 15 (0.30%) Node.js
5 12 (0.24%) .NET
6 9 (0.18%) React
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) Web Services
8 7 (0.14%) Middleware
9 6 (0.12%) Django
9 6 (0.12%) Playwright
9 6 (0.12%) Spring
10 4 (0.081%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.081%) RESTful
11 3 (0.061%) Jinja
11 3 (0.061%) NETCONF
11 3 (0.061%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3,652 (73.73%) IoT
2 84 (1.70%) Onboarding
3 79 (1.59%) Blog
4 70 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 38 (0.77%) Management Information System
6 33 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (0.55%) Product Ownership
8 24 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (0.44%) Data Centre
10 19 (0.38%) Public Cloud
11 14 (0.28%) Cloud Native
12 12 (0.24%) FMCG
12 12 (0.24%) Renewable Energy
12 12 (0.24%) Social Media
13 10 (0.20%) SCADA
14 9 (0.18%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.18%) Life Science
14 9 (0.18%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (0.16%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 32 (0.65%) Windows
2 11 (0.22%) Linux
3 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.14%) Android
4 7 (0.14%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.12%) Unix
5 6 (0.12%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.040%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.020%) Debian
7 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,933 (79.41%) AI
2 3,761 (75.93%) Cybersecurity
3 3,673 (74.16%) User Experience
4 3,656 (73.81%) Web Development
5 3,655 (73.79%) Machine Learning
6 283 (5.71%) Mentoring
7 197 (3.98%) Inventory Management
8 195 (3.94%) Preventative Maintenance
9 167 (3.37%) Customer Service
10 160 (3.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 138 (2.79%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (2.73%) Coaching
13 126 (2.54%) Agile
14 115 (2.32%) B2B
15 105 (2.12%) CRM
16 95 (1.92%) Decision-Making
17 76 (1.53%) Analytics
18 75 (1.51%) Project Management
19 69 (1.39%) Time Management
20 64 (1.29%) GTM Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (0.61%) SQL
2 24 (0.48%) Python
3 21 (0.42%) Apex Code
3 21 (0.42%) Java
4 18 (0.36%) JavaScript
5 15 (0.30%) SOQL
5 15 (0.30%) SOSL
6 9 (0.18%) C#
7 7 (0.14%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.061%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.040%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.040%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (0.040%) Bash
9 2 (0.040%) Go
9 2 (0.040%) PHP
10 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.020%) R
10 1 (0.020%) Ruby
10 1 (0.020%) VB
10 1 (0.020%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3,997 (80.70%) Degree
2 3,844 (77.61%) Postgraduate
3 3,650 (73.69%) Master's Degree
4 3,649 (73.67%) PhD
5 203 (4.10%) City & Guilds
6 196 (3.96%) NVQ Level 3
7 49 (0.99%) Security Cleared
8 45 (0.91%) SC Cleared
9 32 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 26 (0.52%) HNC
11 25 (0.50%) PMP
12 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.44%) HND
14 21 (0.42%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.40%) MCSE
16 13 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.24%) CISSP
18 11 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
18 11 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
19 10 (0.20%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.94%) COSHH
2 47 (0.95%) QA
3 30 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (0.44%) NIST
5 21 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (0.36%) SLA
7 15 (0.30%) PMO
8 14 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.28%) GDPR
9 9 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.10%) COBIT
10 5 (0.10%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.10%) NEBOSH
10 5 (0.10%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.10%) WCAG
11 4 (0.081%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.081%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.061%) GRC
12 3 (0.061%) ISO 19650
13 2 (0.040%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.12%) Docker
4 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.040%) vSphere
6 1 (0.020%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 23 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (0.30%) Terraform
3 13 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
5 5 (0.10%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.061%) Ansible
6 3 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.040%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.040%) Nessus
7 2 (0.040%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.040%) SCCM
8 1 (0.020%) CASB
8 1 (0.020%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.020%) Grafana
8 1 (0.020%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 279 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 75 (1.51%) Salesforce
3 69 (1.39%) Cisco
4 46 (0.93%) Apple
5 45 (0.91%) Adobe
6 38 (0.77%) NEC
7 23 (0.46%) Splunk
8 18 (0.36%) Palo Alto
9 16 (0.32%) Google
10 13 (0.26%) Oracle
11 11 (0.22%) SAP
12 9 (0.18%) Databricks
13 8 (0.16%) New Relic
13 8 (0.16%) VMware
14 7 (0.14%) Dell
14 7 (0.14%) Sparx
15 6 (0.12%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.12%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.12%) Planon
15 6 (0.12%) Snow