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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 16 31
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 +18
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,037 2,794 3,198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.39% 8.14% 5.79%
As % of the General category 5.40% 12.35% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 919 482 612
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,600 £28,775
25th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,101 £47,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -5.58% -8.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,312 £82,141 £78,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year - -6.30% -9.69%

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 37,699 22,622 29,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.25% 65.93% 53.41%
Number of salaries quoted 23,111 11,053 13,970
10th Percentile £28,618 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £79,225
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%

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 20 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 20 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 -54 535 £50,000 +15.83% 617
South East -31 440 £55,000 - 484
North West -50 310 £42,000 +7.02% 392
Midlands -49 309 £46,000 -3.16% 382
South West -12 276 £50,000 +47.06% 355
East of England +5 184 £41,739 -26.77% 203
West Midlands -44 182 £59,250 +7.73% 267
Scotland -17 145 £39,500 -1.25% 446
North East +13 132 £60,000 +144.20% 95
East Midlands -30 126 £40,000 +23.08% 115
Wales -1 102 £53,000 -7.71% 53
Yorkshire -3 93 £37,977 -55.32% 131
Northern Ireland -52 51 £74,742 -3.21% 166
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 46 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.67%) Confluence
4 18 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (0.69%) CMS
6 13 (0.64%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.29%) WordPress
9 5 (0.25%) Moodle
10 3 (0.15%) IIS
11 2 (0.098%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.098%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.098%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.098%) Totara
12 1 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.049%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.049%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 113 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
2 105 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.88%) Simulink
5 17 (0.83%) Maple
6 15 (0.74%) Revit
7 10 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
7 10 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe XD
9 8 (0.39%) InDesign
9 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
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%) InVision
Business Applications
1 24 (1.18%) Cloudability
2 21 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.54%) Primavera
5 11 (0.54%) SAP EHS
5 11 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
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 (16.59%) Azure
2 250 (12.27%) AWS
3 126 (6.19%) GCP
4 106 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 102 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
6 90 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
7 60 (2.95%) Serverless
8 50 (2.45%) GitHub
9 39 (1.91%) Entra ID
9 39 (1.91%) SaaS
10 36 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
11 33 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
12 31 (1.52%) dbt
13 29 (1.42%) PaaS
14 28 (1.37%) IaaS
15 27 (1.33%) Figma
16 26 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
17 25 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (1.03%) Power Automate
18 21 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (1.77%) Firewall
2 30 (1.47%) Ethernet
3 29 (1.42%) Internet
4 28 (1.37%) Network Security
5 25 (1.23%) 5G
6 24 (1.18%) Modbus
7 22 (1.08%) Profibus
7 22 (1.08%) VPN
8 20 (0.98%) DNS
9 19 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.74%) LAN
11 13 (0.64%) WAN
12 12 (0.59%) DHCP
13 10 (0.49%) Broadband
13 10 (0.49%) SAN
14 9 (0.44%) SSL
14 9 (0.44%) VLAN
15 8 (0.39%) HTTP
15 8 (0.39%) Wireless
16 5 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (3.93%) Power BI
2 47 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 27 (1.33%) Tableau
4 21 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.93%) Metadata
6 19 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 18 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (0.83%) MySQL
9 15 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 15 (0.74%) GIS
9 15 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.44%) Big Data
12 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (0.44%) Looker
Development Applications
1 99 (4.86%) Git
2 59 (2.90%) JIRA
3 51 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.62%) GitLab
5 22 (1.08%) Snyk
6 21 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.69%) LabVIEW
8 13 (0.64%) Gatling
9 11 (0.54%) fastlane
9 11 (0.54%) JMeter
10 9 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.39%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.39%) MSI
12 7 (0.34%) Moq
12 7 (0.34%) Postman
13 6 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.29%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.29%) Xcode
14 5 (0.25%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.25%) Gradle
General
1 844 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 545 (26.76%) Finance
3 300 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (13.40%) Public Sector
5 170 (8.35%) Marketing
6 168 (8.25%) Law
7 146 (7.17%) Aerospace
8 126 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
9 114 (5.60%) Retail
10 110 (5.40%) Legal
11 95 (4.66%) Manufacturing
12 77 (3.78%) Local Government
13 71 (3.49%) Telecoms
14 70 (3.44%) Electronics
15 45 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
16 44 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (1.91%) Banking
18 31 (1.52%) Military
19 24 (1.18%) Financial Institution
20 21 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 382 (18.75%) Senior
2 212 (10.41%) Lead
3 184 (9.03%) Analyst
4 177 (8.69%) Architect
5 106 (5.20%) Developer
6 99 (4.86%) Sales Executive
7 75 (3.68%) Consultant
8 65 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
9 57 (2.80%) Systems Engineer
10 56 (2.75%) Business Analyst
11 55 (2.70%) Software Engineer
12 49 (2.41%) Project Engineer
13 45 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.06%) Senior Architect
15 41 (2.01%) Design Engineer
16 38 (1.87%) Electrical Engineer
16 38 (1.87%) IT Engineer
16 38 (1.87%) Technical Architect
17 37 (1.82%) Cloud Architect
18 36 (1.77%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (3.88%) Terraform
2 56 (2.75%) .NET
3 47 (2.31%) CSS
3 47 (2.31%) HTML
4 42 (2.06%) RESTful
5 35 (1.72%) React
6 34 (1.67%) Node.js
7 33 (1.62%) EDI
7 33 (1.62%) XML
8 30 (1.47%) REST
9 27 (1.33%) .NET Core
10 22 (1.08%) .NET Framework
11 21 (1.03%) Spring
12 18 (0.88%) ASP.NET
12 18 (0.88%) Entity Framework
12 18 (0.88%) Spring Boot
12 18 (0.88%) XSLT
13 17 (0.83%) AngularJS
13 17 (0.83%) JSON
13 17 (0.83%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 199 (9.77%) Driving Licence
2 159 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 108 (5.30%) Self-Motivation
4 104 (5.11%) Management Information System
5 89 (4.37%) Product Ownership
6 85 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 73 (3.58%) Data Centre
8 54 (2.65%) Social Media
9 46 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 44 (2.16%) SCADA
11 37 (1.82%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.57%) Algorithms
13 25 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 24 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.08%) FPGA
16 21 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 21 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
16 21 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (0.98%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.14%) Windows
2 58 (2.85%) Linux
3 31 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 21 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.93%) VMS
6 14 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 14 (0.69%) Unix
7 12 (0.59%) Android
8 5 (0.25%) VxWorks
9 3 (0.15%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.15%) Solaris
10 2 (0.098%) AIX
10 2 (0.098%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.049%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (24.55%) Agile
2 457 (22.43%) AI
3 425 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
4 363 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 294 (14.43%) Mentoring
6 287 (14.09%) Decision-Making
7 245 (12.03%) CI/CD
8 236 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 225 (11.05%) DevOps
10 223 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
11 175 (8.59%) Customer Service
12 171 (8.39%) Roadmaps
13 149 (7.31%) Analytics
14 146 (7.17%) Validation
15 144 (7.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 142 (6.97%) Collaborative Working
17 134 (6.58%) Coaching
18 132 (6.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 131 (6.43%) Software Engineering
20 130 (6.38%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 169 (8.30%) Python
2 131 (6.43%) SQL
3 79 (3.88%) C#
4 73 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 63 (3.09%) Java
6 50 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.57%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.47%) Bicep
10 26 (1.28%) Bash
11 22 (1.08%) C++
12 17 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.74%) Go
14 10 (0.49%) ABAP
14 10 (0.49%) Ada
14 10 (0.49%) Ruby
15 8 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.34%) C
16 7 (0.34%) PHP
16 7 (0.34%) XAML
Qualifications
1 468 (22.97%) Degree
2 390 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 351 (17.23%) SC Cleared
4 163 (8.00%) DBS Check
5 162 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 122 (5.99%) HNC
7 118 (5.79%) DV Cleared
8 52 (2.55%) AWS Certification
9 50 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 49 (2.41%) Master's Degree
11 44 (2.16%) Chartered Engineer
12 31 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.47%) HND
13 30 (1.47%) PhD
14 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 27 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 17 (0.83%) ACCA
16 17 (0.83%) CIMA
17 15 (0.74%) CISSP
18 12 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (12.96%) Accessibility
2 97 (4.76%) QA
3 79 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.19%) SLA
5 63 (3.09%) GDPR
6 49 (2.41%) WCAG
7 35 (1.72%) GRC
8 32 (1.57%) NCSC
9 30 (1.47%) NIST
10 24 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 19 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.25%) GAAP
15 5 (0.25%) IFRS
15 5 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.20%) DO-160
16 4 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 82 (4.03%) Docker
2 76 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.96%) Firmware
4 25 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.59%) vSphere
7 7 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.25%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) IAG
10 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.23%) Grafana
3 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.79%) SCCM
5 13 (0.64%) Ansible
6 12 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.39%) Kibana
8 6 (0.29%) WSUS
9 4 (0.20%) Argo
9 4 (0.20%) Autotask
10 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.098%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.098%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.098%) Puppet
11 2 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.049%) Nessus
12 1 (0.049%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.049%) QRadar
12 1 (0.049%) SCOM
12 1 (0.049%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 361 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.17%) SAP
3 71 (3.49%) Google
4 64 (3.14%) Adobe
5 50 (2.45%) Apple
6 48 (2.36%) Workday
7 38 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.77%) Cisco
9 34 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 31 (1.52%) VMware
11 29 (1.42%) Dynatrace
12 26 (1.28%) Facebook
12 26 (1.28%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
14 23 (1.13%) Instagram
15 22 (1.08%) Oracle
15 22 (1.08%) Tenable
16 14 (0.69%) Databricks
16 14 (0.69%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.64%) Dell