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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -57 +5 +41
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,531 2,854 4,290
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.06% 8.35% 6.86%
As % of the General category 4.66% 12.44% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 771 481 977
10th Percentile £28,350 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,200 £36,250 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% -17.22%
75th Percentile £69,126 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £78,312 £80,000 £75,000
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 32,885 22,935 33,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.31% 67.14% 54.10%
Number of salaries quoted 20,220 11,144 20,122
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £65,625 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 30 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 30 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 -69 408 £55,000 +17.02% 175
South East -61 276 £55,000 +26.44% 230
Midlands -55 264 £45,000 -10.00% 103
North West -64 231 £42,700 -9.15% 94
South West -25 219 £57,500 +35.29% 125
West Midlands -33 165 £60,000 +9.09% 64
Scotland -20 123 £52,500 +16.67% 86
East of England -32 119 £40,000 -29.82% 60
Wales -5 98 £55,159 +0.29% 18
East Midlands -38 98 £37,500 +15.38% 39
Yorkshire +1 90 £52,445 -30.07% 45
North East -1 87 £57,500 +134.03% 36
Northern Ireland -43 33 £56,901 -25.22% 53
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 41 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (1.89%) Confluence
2 29 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.91%) Apache
4 13 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.59%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.52%) CMS
8 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.13%) Totara
11 1 (0.065%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.065%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 73 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.57%) Acrobat
4 12 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.59%) Simulink
6 8 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.52%) InDesign
6 8 (0.52%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.39%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.39%) Sketch
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.20%) Mathcad
9 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.13%) InVision
10 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (1.57%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.46%) Workday HCM
3 6 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.26%) SAP EHS
4 4 (0.26%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.20%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 3 (0.20%) Shopify
6 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.065%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.065%) Primavera
7 1 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.065%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.065%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.065%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 273 (17.83%) Azure
2 181 (11.82%) AWS
3 116 (7.58%) GCP
4 89 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 82 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
7 44 (2.87%) Serverless
8 43 (2.81%) GitHub
9 34 (2.22%) dbt
10 32 (2.09%) SaaS
11 28 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 28 (1.83%) PaaS
12 26 (1.70%) Figma
13 23 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
14 22 (1.44%) IaaS
15 21 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
16 18 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
18 13 (0.85%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.07%) Broadband
2 39 (2.55%) Firewall
3 26 (1.70%) VPN
4 20 (1.31%) DNS
4 20 (1.31%) LAN
4 20 (1.31%) Network Security
5 19 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.24%) WAN
6 17 (1.11%) DHCP
6 17 (1.11%) Internet
7 12 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.59%) VLAN
8 9 (0.59%) Wireless
9 8 (0.52%) SAN
10 7 (0.46%) SSL
11 3 (0.20%) Intranet
11 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.13%) 5G
12 2 (0.13%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (4.83%) Power BI
2 31 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.50%) Tableau
5 19 (1.24%) Metadata
6 16 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 15 (0.98%) GIS
7 15 (0.98%) MySQL
8 14 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 13 (0.85%) BigQuery
9 13 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
10 12 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.65%) Looker
12 9 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.59%) Redis
13 7 (0.46%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 62 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 55 (3.59%) Git
3 49 (3.20%) JIRA
4 44 (2.87%) GitLab
5 26 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.44%) Snyk
7 14 (0.91%) fastlane
8 13 (0.85%) LabVIEW
9 11 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
10 10 (0.65%) Postman
11 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.52%) JMeter
11 8 (0.52%) Xcode
12 7 (0.46%) Moq
13 6 (0.39%) Android Studio
13 6 (0.39%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.39%) Gatling
13 6 (0.39%) Gradle
13 6 (0.39%) MSI
General
1 582 (38.01%) Social Skills
2 356 (23.25%) Finance
3 209 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 206 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 138 (9.01%) Marketing
6 117 (7.64%) Law
7 97 (6.34%) Legal
8 80 (5.23%) Retail
9 78 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
10 61 (3.98%) Aerospace
10 61 (3.98%) Local Government
11 47 (3.07%) Games
11 47 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 35 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (2.22%) Electronics
14 33 (2.16%) Banking
15 24 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (1.05%) Automotive
16 16 (1.05%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 320 (20.90%) Senior
2 184 (12.02%) Analyst
3 173 (11.30%) Architect
4 122 (7.97%) Lead
5 83 (5.42%) Developer
6 70 (4.57%) Sales Executive
7 62 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
8 55 (3.59%) Business Analyst
9 50 (3.27%) IT Engineer
10 48 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (2.87%) Consultant
12 42 (2.74%) Systems Engineer
13 38 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
13 38 (2.48%) Technical Architect
14 37 (2.42%) Senior Architect
15 32 (2.09%) Software Engineer
16 31 (2.02%) Account Executive
16 31 (2.02%) IT Support
17 29 (1.89%) IT Manager
18 28 (1.83%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.27%) REST
2 40 (2.61%) .NET
3 37 (2.42%) CSS
4 36 (2.35%) RESTful
5 35 (2.29%) HTML
6 29 (1.89%) SOAP
7 27 (1.76%) Lightning Web Components
7 27 (1.76%) Visualforce
8 25 (1.63%) Node.js
9 24 (1.57%) React
10 20 (1.31%) EDI
11 19 (1.24%) Android SDK
12 18 (1.18%) XML
13 17 (1.11%) .NET Core
14 16 (1.05%) .NET Framework
15 15 (0.98%) Spring
16 14 (0.91%) GraphQL
17 13 (0.85%) ASP.NET
17 13 (0.85%) Entity Framework
17 13 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.18%) Onboarding
2 109 (7.12%) Driving Licence
3 104 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 95 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
5 65 (4.25%) Cloud Native
6 63 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 50 (3.27%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.87%) Cyberattack
9 43 (2.81%) Social Media
10 35 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.50%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.37%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.18%) Credit Risk
15 18 (1.18%) CSOC
15 18 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.91%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.21%) Windows
2 48 (3.14%) Linux
3 30 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.63%) Android
5 21 (1.37%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.11%) Unix
8 13 (0.85%) VMS
9 9 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.13%) Debian
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 2 (0.13%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.065%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (25.80%) Agile
2 353 (23.06%) AI
3 281 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
4 231 (15.09%) CI/CD
5 228 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 222 (14.50%) Decision-Making
7 206 (13.46%) DevOps
8 202 (13.19%) Mentoring
9 179 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
10 147 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 144 (9.41%) Roadmaps
12 127 (8.30%) Analytics
13 114 (7.45%) Customer Service
13 114 (7.45%) Scrum
13 114 (7.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 111 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 106 (6.92%) Validation
16 94 (6.14%) Coaching
16 94 (6.14%) Technology Strategy
17 90 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 145 (9.47%) Python
2 126 (8.23%) SQL
3 59 (3.85%) Java
4 47 (3.07%) PowerShell
5 46 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 44 (2.87%) C#
7 31 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.83%) Bicep
9 27 (1.76%) Apex Code
10 26 (1.70%) Bash
10 26 (1.70%) SOQL
10 26 (1.70%) SOSL
11 20 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 20 (1.31%) MATLAB
12 19 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.85%) C++
13 13 (0.85%) Go
14 9 (0.59%) PHP
15 7 (0.46%) Swift
15 7 (0.46%) XAML
Qualifications
1 321 (20.97%) Degree
2 260 (16.98%) Security Cleared
3 240 (15.68%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.09%) DBS Check
5 74 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 50 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 34 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 27 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.63%) PhD
12 24 (1.57%) HNC
13 20 (1.31%) Chartered Engineer
14 14 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
15 13 (0.85%) CISSP
15 13 (0.85%) Postgraduate
16 12 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (8.75%) Accessibility
2 69 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.92%) SLA
4 51 (3.33%) GDPR
5 46 (3.00%) QA
6 41 (2.68%) WCAG
7 36 (2.35%) GRC
7 36 (2.35%) NIST
8 28 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (1.24%) NCSC
11 14 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.26%) GAAP
14 4 (0.26%) IFRS
15 3 (0.20%) ARP4761
15 3 (0.20%) DO-160
15 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (4.90%) Docker
2 73 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.05%) Firmware
5 13 (0.85%) vSphere
6 12 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.065%) IAG
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 80 (5.23%) Terraform
2 55 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.11%) Grafana
5 16 (1.05%) SCCM
6 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.46%) Ansible
7 7 (0.46%) Autotask
8 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.39%) WSUS
9 4 (0.26%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.065%) CASB
12 1 (0.065%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.065%) QRadar
Vendors
1 284 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.09%) Google
3 76 (4.96%) Adobe
4 51 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 41 (2.68%) Apple
6 38 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.42%) Cisco
8 30 (1.96%) VMware
9 28 (1.83%) Palo Alto
9 28 (1.83%) Splunk
10 26 (1.70%) CrowdStrike
11 24 (1.57%) SAP
11 24 (1.57%) Workday
12 22 (1.44%) Tenable
13 19 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 17 (1.11%) Instagram
15 13 (0.85%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.85%) Oracle
16 12 (0.78%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.72%) Pega