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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +42
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 3,896 2,910 5,623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 5.79% 10.28% 7.91%
As % of the General category 12.35% 14.30% 13.95%
Number of salaries quoted 648 458 1,281
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,083
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year - +11.39% -24.17%
75th Percentile £63,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,032 £80,000 £70,400
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 31,535 20,347 40,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.88% 71.85% 56.73%
Number of salaries quoted 17,425 8,884 26,626
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,038 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 May 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 May 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
Midlands +11 1,472 £46,801 -6.40% 98
North of England -4 1,378 £52,445 +11.59% 191
West Midlands +26 1,299 £59,527 +3.58% 50
North West -6 1,152 £47,000 - 104
South East -17 466 £52,500 +16.67% 204
East of England +5 257 £40,000 -27.27% 33
East Midlands -21 185 £36,250 +11.54% 48
Yorkshire +22 182 £52,445 -20.84% 64
South West -33 159 £57,591 +18.14% 97
Scotland -33 84 £50,000 -9.09% 60
Wales -1 76 £53,000 -11.46% 19
North East -15 44 £57,500 -17.13% 25
Northern Ireland -35 16 £40,000 -47.43% 22
Channel Islands - 2 - -
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 44 (1.13%) SharePoint
2 22 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (0.41%) Confluence
4 7 (0.18%) Apache
4 7 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.10%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.10%) CMS
5 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.051%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.051%) Moodle
6 2 (0.051%) Totara
6 2 (0.051%) WordPress
7 1 (0.026%) IIS
7 1 (0.026%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.026%) WildFly
Applications
1 67 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.95%) Acrobat
4 28 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
6 5 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.13%) InDesign
6 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.077%) Trello
8 2 (0.051%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.051%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.051%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.051%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.026%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.026%) InVision
9 1 (0.026%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.026%) Simulink
9 1 (0.026%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (0.62%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.15%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.13%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.10%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.077%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.051%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.026%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.026%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.026%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.026%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.026%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.026%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.026%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.026%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2,321 (59.57%) Cloud Computing
2 219 (5.62%) Azure
3 149 (3.82%) AWS
4 87 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
5 82 (2.10%) GCP
6 73 (1.87%) Power Platform
7 36 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (0.90%) Entra ID
9 29 (0.74%) SaaS
10 26 (0.67%) Serverless
11 25 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (0.36%) Figma
12 14 (0.36%) GitHub
12 14 (0.36%) PaaS
13 13 (0.33%) Asana
14 12 (0.31%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.28%) Sprout Social
16 10 (0.26%) Microsoft Copilot
17 9 (0.23%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2,329 (59.78%) Internet
2 65 (1.67%) Broadband
3 38 (0.98%) Firewall
4 23 (0.59%) LAN
5 22 (0.56%) DNS
5 22 (0.56%) WAN
6 21 (0.54%) DHCP
7 20 (0.51%) VPN
8 18 (0.46%) Network Security
9 15 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.21%) 4G
11 7 (0.18%) MPLS
11 7 (0.18%) VLAN
11 7 (0.18%) Wireless
12 4 (0.10%) BGP
12 4 (0.10%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.10%) PSTN
12 4 (0.10%) SMTP
12 4 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (1.62%) Power BI
2 24 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (0.41%) GIS
3 16 (0.41%) Tableau
4 14 (0.36%) Metadata
5 13 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (0.31%) Data Lake
6 12 (0.31%) MySQL
6 12 (0.31%) SQL Server
7 8 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.21%) BigQuery
7 8 (0.21%) MongoDB
7 8 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.21%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
8 7 (0.18%) Looker
9 6 (0.15%) Redis
10 5 (0.13%) Big Data
11 4 (0.10%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 45 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 39 (1.00%) GitLab
3 34 (0.87%) SonarQube
4 33 (0.85%) JIRA
5 22 (0.56%) Snyk
6 21 (0.54%) Git
7 10 (0.26%) Postman
8 9 (0.23%) fastlane
9 8 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.18%) Moq
11 5 (0.13%) Xcode
11 5 (0.13%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.10%) Android Studio
12 4 (0.10%) Crashlytics
12 4 (0.10%) Gatling
12 4 (0.10%) Gradle
12 4 (0.10%) JMeter
12 4 (0.10%) JUnit
12 4 (0.10%) Locust
13 3 (0.077%) Mockito
General
1 2,743 (70.41%) Social Skills
2 2,334 (59.91%) Banking
3 492 (12.63%) Finance
4 183 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
5 164 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 120 (3.08%) Marketing
7 114 (2.93%) Law
8 99 (2.54%) Retail
9 94 (2.41%) Legal
10 55 (1.41%) Games
11 49 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 42 (1.08%) Local Government
13 31 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 21 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 21 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.39%) Electronics
15 15 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.36%) Billing
16 14 (0.36%) Telecoms
17 13 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,741 (44.69%) Lecturer
2 257 (6.60%) Senior
3 214 (5.49%) Systems Engineer
4 195 (5.01%) Facilities Engineer
5 185 (4.75%) Analyst
6 124 (3.18%) Architect
7 66 (1.69%) Project Manager
8 61 (1.57%) Business Analyst
9 59 (1.51%) Lead
10 55 (1.41%) Senior Analyst
11 51 (1.31%) IT Engineer
12 46 (1.18%) Project Engineer
13 44 (1.13%) Sales Executive
14 43 (1.10%) Account Executive
15 41 (1.05%) Developer
16 37 (0.95%) Solutions Architect
17 33 (0.85%) Salesforce Architect
18 32 (0.82%) Senior Architect
19 31 (0.80%) Alliance Manager
19 31 (0.80%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.23%) REST
2 38 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
2 38 (0.98%) SOAP
2 38 (0.98%) Visualforce
3 20 (0.51%) EDI
4 18 (0.46%) .NET
5 17 (0.44%) Android SDK
6 15 (0.39%) RESTful
7 13 (0.33%) GraphQL
8 11 (0.28%) CSS
8 11 (0.28%) HTML
9 10 (0.26%) XML
10 8 (0.21%) Entity Framework
10 8 (0.21%) Node.js
10 8 (0.21%) Web Services
11 7 (0.18%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.18%) SAML
11 7 (0.18%) Spring
11 7 (0.18%) XSLT
12 6 (0.15%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2,316 (59.45%) IoT
2 119 (3.05%) Onboarding
3 97 (2.49%) Driving Licence
4 96 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 70 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 58 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 47 (1.21%) Cyberattack
8 44 (1.13%) Social Media
9 40 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 35 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 31 (0.80%) Cloud Native
12 23 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
13 18 (0.46%) Public Cloud
14 17 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (0.41%) CSOC
16 15 (0.39%) Life Science
17 12 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.28%) Video Editing
19 9 (0.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 69 (1.77%) Windows
2 36 (0.92%) Linux
3 31 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 22 (0.56%) Android
5 15 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 14 (0.36%) Unix
7 13 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.10%) Debian
10 4 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.10%) VMS
11 2 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,607 (66.91%) AI
2 2,489 (63.89%) Cybersecurity
3 2,362 (60.63%) User Experience
4 2,341 (60.09%) Machine Learning
5 2,320 (59.55%) Web Development
6 340 (8.73%) Mentoring
7 258 (6.62%) Agile
8 214 (5.49%) Problem-Solving
9 201 (5.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 199 (5.11%) Inventory Management
11 196 (5.03%) Preventative Maintenance
12 156 (4.00%) CI/CD
13 152 (3.90%) Decision-Making
14 137 (3.52%) DevOps
15 124 (3.18%) Customer Service
16 118 (3.03%) Roadmaps
17 116 (2.98%) Analytics
18 110 (2.82%) Coaching
19 92 (2.36%) B2B
19 92 (2.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (2.31%) Python
2 87 (2.23%) SQL
3 48 (1.23%) Java
4 38 (0.98%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.87%) SOQL
5 34 (0.87%) SOSL
6 32 (0.82%) PowerShell
7 22 (0.56%) JavaScript
8 19 (0.49%) C#
9 17 (0.44%) Kotlin
10 12 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.28%) Bash
12 7 (0.18%) C++
12 7 (0.18%) XAML
13 6 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.10%) PHP
14 4 (0.10%) Swift
15 3 (0.077%) Bicep
15 3 (0.077%) Ruby
15 3 (0.077%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2,606 (66.89%) Degree
2 2,522 (64.73%) Postgraduate
3 2,323 (59.63%) Master's Degree
4 2,321 (59.57%) PhD
5 195 (5.01%) City & Guilds
5 195 (5.01%) NVQ Level 3
6 142 (3.64%) Security Cleared
7 124 (3.18%) SC Cleared
8 70 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 48 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 35 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 25 (0.64%) HNC
13 24 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
15 20 (0.51%) HND
16 16 (0.41%) CISSP
17 14 (0.36%) CISM
18 13 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
19 12 (0.31%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (5.01%) COSHH
2 58 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.41%) QA
4 51 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 47 (1.21%) GDPR
6 43 (1.10%) NIST
7 40 (1.03%) SLA
8 38 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 37 (0.95%) GRC
10 28 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.46%) WCAG
12 13 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 13 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.13%) COBIT
15 5 (0.13%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.10%) GAAP
16 4 (0.10%) IFRS
16 4 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 66 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.85%) Docker
3 26 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.15%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.15%) vSphere
6 3 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.026%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (1.00%) Terraform
2 33 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (0.59%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.21%) SCCM
6 7 (0.18%) Autotask
7 6 (0.15%) Grafana
8 4 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.10%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.10%) SolarWinds Orion
8 4 (0.10%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.10%) WSUS
9 3 (0.077%) Ansible
9 3 (0.077%) CASB
9 3 (0.077%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.077%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.051%) Argo
10 2 (0.051%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.051%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.051%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 286 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 112 (2.87%) Adobe
3 96 (2.46%) Salesforce
4 64 (1.64%) Cisco
5 63 (1.62%) Apple
6 51 (1.31%) Google
7 40 (1.03%) Splunk
8 37 (0.95%) ServiceNow
9 33 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
10 32 (0.82%) Palo Alto
11 24 (0.62%) Tenable
12 21 (0.54%) VMware
13 16 (0.41%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.36%) Instagram
15 13 (0.33%) SAP
16 12 (0.31%) Databricks
17 11 (0.28%) Hootsuite
17 11 (0.28%) Meraki
17 11 (0.28%) Workday
17 11 (0.28%) Wrike