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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 31 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +24
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 5,098 1,689 5,348
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.24% 6.49% 8.08%
As % of the General category 16.66% 9.54% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 608 462 1,284
10th Percentile £20,000 £30,050 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,531 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,373 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £63,220 £63,246 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,250 £71,725
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,108
% change year-on-year - +7.62% -21.37%

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 30,609 17,696 38,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.50% 68.04% 58.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15,761 9,271 26,166
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 15 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 15 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 +33 1,965 £38,462 -17.29% 130
North West +20 1,691 £35,009 -23.89% 75
Midlands +27 1,501 £50,000 - 82
West Midlands +44 1,289 £62,000 +16.32% 43
South East +10 862 £52,500 +16.67% 265
East of England +5 448 £45,000 -18.18% 42
Yorkshire +34 248 £27,563 -35.15% 36
East Midlands -4 224 £35,000 -16.17% 39
South West -21 163 £47,937 -4.13% 74
Scotland -28 87 £52,500 -4.55% 64
Wales +2 67 £63,236 +26.16% 22
North East -16 26 £60,000 -13.52% 19
Northern Ireland -40 14 £40,000 -32.69% 5
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 42 (0.82%) SharePoint
2 15 (0.29%) Confluence
2 15 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.16%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.059%) Apache
4 3 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.059%) CMS
4 3 (0.059%) WordPress
5 2 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.020%) Drupal
6 1 (0.020%) IIS
6 1 (0.020%) WildFly
Applications
1 62 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (0.73%) Acrobat
4 30 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.098%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.059%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.039%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.039%) Trello
9 1 (0.020%) Simulink
9 1 (0.020%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 12 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Cloudability
3 6 (0.12%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.098%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.078%) Academy Housing
6 3 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.039%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.039%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.039%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.020%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.020%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.020%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.020%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.020%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.020%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3,654 (71.68%) Cloud Computing
2 177 (3.47%) Azure
3 109 (2.14%) AWS
4 83 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (1.18%) Power Platform
6 54 (1.06%) GCP
7 39 (0.77%) Entra ID
7 39 (0.77%) SaaS
8 20 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (0.31%) Serverless
10 13 (0.26%) OneDrive
11 12 (0.24%) Asana
11 12 (0.24%) PaaS
12 11 (0.22%) Sprout Social
13 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (0.18%) GitHub
14 9 (0.18%) Google Analytics
15 8 (0.16%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 8 (0.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3,656 (71.71%) Internet
2 64 (1.26%) Broadband
3 27 (0.53%) Firewall
4 25 (0.49%) DNS
4 25 (0.49%) VPN
5 23 (0.45%) DHCP
5 23 (0.45%) LAN
6 19 (0.37%) WAN
7 17 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.16%) 4G
9 8 (0.16%) VLAN
10 7 (0.14%) MPLS
10 7 (0.14%) Network Security
10 7 (0.14%) Wireless
11 4 (0.078%) BGP
11 4 (0.078%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.078%) PSTN
11 4 (0.078%) SMTP
11 4 (0.078%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (0.94%) Power BI
2 19 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 11 (0.22%) GIS
6 10 (0.20%) Metadata
7 8 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (0.16%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.12%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.12%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.12%) Redis
9 5 (0.098%) Looker
9 5 (0.098%) MySQL
9 5 (0.098%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.078%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.059%) Tableau
12 2 (0.039%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.039%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 36 (0.71%) Jenkins
2 34 (0.67%) GitLab
2 34 (0.67%) SonarQube
3 29 (0.57%) JIRA
4 18 (0.35%) Git
5 11 (0.22%) Snyk
6 9 (0.18%) 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%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.039%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.039%) WebDriver
General
1 4,009 (78.64%) Social Skills
2 3,670 (71.99%) Banking
3 500 (9.81%) Finance
4 144 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 127 (2.49%) Marketing
6 125 (2.45%) Retail
7 114 (2.24%) Law
8 69 (1.35%) Legal
9 53 (1.04%) Games
10 42 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 24 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (0.47%) Local Government
13 21 (0.41%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.27%) Aviation
15 14 (0.27%) Billing
16 13 (0.26%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2,811 (55.14%) Lecturer
2 210 (4.12%) Systems Engineer
3 195 (3.83%) Facilities Engineer
4 186 (3.65%) Senior
5 149 (2.92%) Analyst
6 100 (1.96%) Architect
7 74 (1.45%) Project Manager
8 62 (1.22%) Lead
9 58 (1.14%) Business Analyst
10 52 (1.02%) Project Engineer
11 43 (0.84%) IT Engineer
12 42 (0.82%) Account Executive
13 39 (0.77%) Senior Manager
14 35 (0.69%) Solutions Architect
15 34 (0.67%) Developer
16 33 (0.65%) Salesforce Architect
16 33 (0.65%) Senior Analyst
17 31 (0.61%) Alliance Manager
18 29 (0.57%) IT Support
19 26 (0.51%) Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (1.02%) REST
2 42 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
2 42 (0.82%) SOAP
2 42 (0.82%) Visualforce
3 27 (0.53%) EDI
4 14 (0.27%) Android SDK
5 13 (0.26%) .NET
5 13 (0.26%) GraphQL
5 13 (0.26%) Node.js
6 10 (0.20%) Web Services
7 8 (0.16%) CSS
7 8 (0.16%) HTML
7 8 (0.16%) Middleware
7 8 (0.16%) RESTful
8 7 (0.14%) SAML
8 7 (0.14%) Spring
9 6 (0.12%) Django
9 6 (0.12%) Playwright
9 6 (0.12%) React
10 5 (0.098%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3,650 (71.60%) IoT
2 125 (2.45%) Onboarding
3 76 (1.49%) Blog
4 70 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 67 (1.31%) Driving Licence
6 54 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 49 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (0.71%) Social Media
9 31 (0.61%) Cyberattack
10 29 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
11 28 (0.55%) Mobile App
12 25 (0.49%) Data Centre
13 20 (0.39%) Cloud Native
14 19 (0.37%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.27%) CSOC
15 14 (0.27%) Life Science
15 14 (0.27%) Security Operations Centre
15 14 (0.27%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.26%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 59 (1.16%) Windows
2 32 (0.63%) Linux
3 26 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 17 (0.33%) Android
4 17 (0.33%) Unix
5 12 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.18%) 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%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.020%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.020%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,928 (77.05%) AI
2 3,798 (74.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3,681 (72.20%) User Experience
4 3,664 (71.87%) Machine Learning
5 3,651 (71.62%) Web Development
6 315 (6.18%) Mentoring
7 232 (4.55%) Agile
8 213 (4.18%) Problem-Solving
9 197 (3.86%) Inventory Management
10 195 (3.83%) Preventative Maintenance
11 179 (3.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 134 (2.63%) Customer Service
13 126 (2.47%) DevOps
14 125 (2.45%) CI/CD
15 114 (2.24%) Coaching
16 110 (2.16%) Analytics
17 106 (2.08%) B2B
18 97 (1.90%) Decision-Making
19 95 (1.86%) Roadmaps
20 94 (1.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (1.28%) Python
2 61 (1.20%) SQL
3 47 (0.92%) Java
4 42 (0.82%) Apex Code
5 34 (0.67%) SOQL
5 34 (0.67%) SOSL
6 25 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 21 (0.41%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.27%) Kotlin
9 9 (0.18%) C#
10 8 (0.16%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.078%) Bash
12 4 (0.078%) PHP
13 3 (0.059%) VB
14 2 (0.039%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.039%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.039%) Go
14 2 (0.039%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.020%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3,941 (77.30%) Degree
2 3,848 (75.48%) Postgraduate
3 3,655 (71.69%) Master's Degree
4 3,654 (71.68%) PhD
5 200 (3.92%) City & Guilds
6 195 (3.83%) NVQ Level 3
7 121 (2.37%) Security Cleared
8 104 (2.04%) SC Cleared
9 34 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 31 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 31 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (0.49%) PMP
12 19 (0.37%) HNC
13 18 (0.35%) CISSP
14 16 (0.31%) CISM
14 16 (0.31%) HND
15 15 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (3.83%) COSHH
2 54 (1.06%) QA
3 47 (0.92%) NIST
4 41 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 30 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (0.49%) GDPR
7 25 (0.49%) SLA
8 19 (0.37%) GRC
9 17 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (0.27%) WCAG
11 12 (0.24%) Data Quality
12 10 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.20%) PMO
13 7 (0.14%) COBIT
13 7 (0.14%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.098%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.078%) IFRS
15 4 (0.078%) NCSC
16 3 (0.059%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 61 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 21 (0.41%) Docker
3 15 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.26%) 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 37 (0.73%) Terraform
2 30 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (0.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.12%) Argo
4 6 (0.12%) Grafana
4 6 (0.12%) SCCM
5 5 (0.098%) Autotask
6 4 (0.078%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.078%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (0.078%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.078%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.078%) WSUS
7 3 (0.059%) Ansible
7 3 (0.059%) CASB
7 3 (0.059%) Check_MK
7 3 (0.059%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.039%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.039%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.039%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 279 (5.47%) Microsoft
2 115 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 88 (1.73%) Adobe
4 74 (1.45%) Cisco
5 44 (0.86%) Google
6 43 (0.84%) Apple
7 42 (0.82%) Splunk
8 23 (0.45%) NEC
9 21 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
10 20 (0.39%) ServiceNow
10 20 (0.39%) VMware
11 19 (0.37%) Palo Alto
12 18 (0.35%) SAP
13 13 (0.26%) Databricks
13 13 (0.26%) Tenable
14 11 (0.22%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.22%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.22%) Instagram
14 11 (0.22%) Workday
14 11 (0.22%) Wrike