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 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +32
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,127 2,160 5,601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.91% 8.01% 8.26%
As % of the General category 16.25% 11.69% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 606 472 1,297
10th Percentile £20,000 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,531 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,749 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,475 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +7.84% -21.54%

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 31,558 18,474 39,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.66% 68.54% 58.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,195 9,439 26,318
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +7 1,964 £42,500 -7.61% 330
North West +1 1,699 £38,750 -14.84% 237
Midlands +22 1,504 £50,000 - 100
West Midlands +44 1,292 £61,000 +10.91% 36
South East +9 854 £52,500 +5.92% 170
East of England +8 459 £41,739 -24.11% 38
Yorkshire +22 240 £27,625 -35.00% 75
East Midlands -7 224 £35,000 +7.69% 64
South West -19 174 £48,373 -3.25% 68
Scotland -27 88 £51,250 -6.82% 50
Wales +9 79 £57,515 +14.75% 18
North East -27 25 £60,000 -13.52% 19
Northern Ireland -38 15 £40,000 - 17
Channel Islands - 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 46 (0.90%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (0.29%) Confluence
4 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.059%) Apache
5 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.059%) CMS
6 2 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.039%) WordPress
7 1 (0.020%) IIS
7 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 63 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.72%) Acrobat
4 27 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.098%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.059%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.039%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.039%) Trello
8 1 (0.020%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 14 (0.27%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.098%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.078%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.039%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.039%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.039%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.27%) Cloud Computing
2 192 (3.74%) Azure
3 117 (2.28%) AWS
4 85 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (1.25%) Power Platform
6 62 (1.21%) GCP
7 39 (0.76%) Entra ID
8 38 (0.74%) SaaS
9 25 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (0.39%) Serverless
11 13 (0.25%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.23%) Asana
12 12 (0.23%) PaaS
13 11 (0.21%) Google Analytics
13 11 (0.21%) Sprout Social
14 10 (0.20%) Figma
14 10 (0.20%) GitHub
14 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (0.20%) Power Automate
15 9 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3,655 (71.29%) Internet
2 64 (1.25%) Broadband
3 29 (0.57%) Firewall
4 26 (0.51%) DNS
5 25 (0.49%) VPN
6 23 (0.45%) DHCP
6 23 (0.45%) LAN
7 21 (0.41%) WAN
8 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.16%) 4G
10 8 (0.16%) Network Security
10 8 (0.16%) VLAN
11 7 (0.14%) MPLS
11 7 (0.14%) Wireless
12 4 (0.078%) BGP
12 4 (0.078%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.078%) PSTN
12 4 (0.078%) SMTP
12 4 (0.078%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (0.99%) Power BI
2 20 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.25%) Data Lake
5 12 (0.23%) Metadata
6 11 (0.21%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.18%) GIS
7 9 (0.18%) MySQL
8 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.12%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.12%) Redis
11 5 (0.098%) Looker
12 4 (0.078%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.059%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.059%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.039%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (0.70%) Jenkins
2 34 (0.66%) GitLab
2 34 (0.66%) SonarQube
3 30 (0.59%) JIRA
4 19 (0.37%) Git
5 15 (0.29%) Snyk
6 10 (0.20%) Postman
7 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.098%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.098%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.098%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.078%) Gatling
9 4 (0.078%) JMeter
9 4 (0.078%) JUnit
9 4 (0.078%) Locust
10 3 (0.059%) fastlane
10 3 (0.059%) Mockito
11 2 (0.039%) LabVIEW
11 2 (0.039%) Moq
11 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4,017 (78.35%) Social Skills
2 3,671 (71.60%) Banking
3 482 (9.40%) Finance
4 148 (2.89%) Public Sector
5 147 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (2.46%) Marketing
7 116 (2.26%) Law
8 113 (2.20%) Retail
9 74 (1.44%) Legal
10 53 (1.03%) Games
11 40 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (0.70%) Local Government
12 36 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 21 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.29%) Aerospace
14 15 (0.29%) Billing
14 15 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.29%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.25%) Aviation
16 11 (0.21%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,811 (54.83%) Lecturer
2 218 (4.25%) Senior
3 209 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
4 195 (3.80%) Facilities Engineer
5 162 (3.16%) Analyst
6 112 (2.18%) Architect
7 75 (1.46%) Project Manager
8 61 (1.19%) Lead
9 60 (1.17%) Business Analyst
10 46 (0.90%) IT Engineer
11 45 (0.88%) Project Engineer
12 43 (0.84%) Account Executive
13 41 (0.80%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (0.80%) Senior Manager
14 37 (0.72%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (0.64%) Salesforce Architect
16 32 (0.62%) Developer
17 31 (0.60%) Alliance Manager
18 30 (0.59%) IT Support
19 26 (0.51%) Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (0.98%) REST
2 41 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (0.80%) SOAP
2 41 (0.80%) Visualforce
3 26 (0.51%) EDI
4 15 (0.29%) .NET
5 14 (0.27%) Android SDK
5 14 (0.27%) Node.js
6 13 (0.25%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.18%) CSS
7 9 (0.18%) HTML
8 8 (0.16%) RESTful
8 8 (0.16%) Web Services
9 7 (0.14%) Middleware
9 7 (0.14%) React
9 7 (0.14%) SAML
10 6 (0.12%) Django
10 6 (0.12%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.12%) Spring
11 5 (0.098%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (71.19%) IoT
2 127 (2.48%) Onboarding
3 78 (1.52%) Driving Licence
4 72 (1.40%) Product Ownership
5 65 (1.27%) Blog
6 58 (1.13%) Management Information System
7 52 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (0.76%) Social Media
9 38 (0.74%) Cyberattack
10 33 (0.64%) Data Centre
11 29 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (0.57%) Mobile App
12 21 (0.41%) Cloud Native
13 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.29%) Life Science
14 15 (0.29%) Security Operations Centre
15 14 (0.27%) CSOC
16 13 (0.25%) Security Posture
17 11 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.21%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 65 (1.27%) Windows
2 35 (0.68%) Linux
3 29 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.33%) Android
4 17 (0.33%) Unix
5 13 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.098%) Debian
7 5 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.078%) Mac OS X
8 4 (0.078%) VMS
9 2 (0.039%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.039%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,932 (76.69%) AI
2 3,807 (74.25%) Cybersecurity
3 3,683 (71.84%) User Experience
4 3,665 (71.48%) Machine Learning
5 3,652 (71.23%) Web Development
6 324 (6.32%) Mentoring
7 238 (4.64%) Agile
8 205 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.84%) Inventory Management
10 196 (3.82%) Preventative Maintenance
11 174 (3.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 133 (2.59%) CI/CD
13 131 (2.56%) DevOps
14 129 (2.52%) Customer Service
15 117 (2.28%) Coaching
16 115 (2.24%) Analytics
17 107 (2.09%) B2B
18 100 (1.95%) Decision-Making
19 98 (1.91%) Roadmaps
20 85 (1.66%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (1.40%) Python
2 71 (1.38%) SQL
3 44 (0.86%) Java
4 41 (0.80%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.66%) SOQL
5 34 (0.66%) SOSL
6 26 (0.51%) JavaScript
7 25 (0.49%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.27%) Kotlin
9 11 (0.21%) C#
10 10 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.12%) Bash
11 6 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.098%) PHP
13 3 (0.059%) VB
14 2 (0.039%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.039%) C++
14 2 (0.039%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.039%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.039%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3,946 (76.97%) Degree
2 3,851 (75.11%) Postgraduate
3 3,656 (71.31%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.27%) PhD
5 197 (3.84%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.80%) NVQ Level 3
7 130 (2.54%) Security Cleared
8 112 (2.18%) SC Cleared
9 42 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 36 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 36 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (0.45%) HNC
13 22 (0.43%) PMP
14 20 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.37%) CISSP
15 19 (0.37%) HND
16 17 (0.33%) CISM
17 16 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 13 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.80%) COSHH
2 53 (1.03%) QA
3 47 (0.92%) NIST
4 40 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 29 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 26 (0.51%) GDPR
8 25 (0.49%) SLA
9 23 (0.45%) GRC
10 16 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 16 (0.31%) Data Quality
11 14 (0.27%) WCAG
12 9 (0.18%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.12%) COBIT
13 6 (0.12%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.098%) NEBOSH
14 5 (0.098%) PMO
15 4 (0.078%) GAAP
15 4 (0.078%) IFRS
16 3 (0.059%) ARP4761
System Software
1 64 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 25 (0.49%) Docker
3 19 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.12%) vSphere
6 4 (0.078%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.039%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.020%) iptables
Systems Management
1 40 (0.78%) Terraform
2 31 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.14%) SCCM
6 6 (0.12%) Argo
6 6 (0.12%) Grafana
7 5 (0.098%) Autotask
8 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.078%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.078%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.078%) WSUS
9 3 (0.059%) Ansible
9 3 (0.059%) CASB
9 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.039%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.039%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 286 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 116 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 96 (1.87%) Adobe
4 74 (1.44%) Cisco
5 49 (0.96%) Apple
6 48 (0.94%) Google
7 43 (0.84%) Splunk
8 27 (0.53%) ServiceNow
9 26 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (0.45%) Palo Alto
11 21 (0.41%) VMware
12 18 (0.35%) SAP
13 17 (0.33%) Tenable
14 14 (0.27%) Databricks
15 13 (0.25%) Instagram
16 11 (0.21%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.21%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.21%) NEC
16 11 (0.21%) Workday
16 11 (0.21%) Wrike