Inclusion and Diversity Jobs

Inclusion and Diversity
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +16
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 4,328 7,639 5,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.75% 7.65% 5.82%
As % of the General category 11.11% 12.82% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 785 2,342 2,157
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,400 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,300 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +13.84%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £59,191
% change year-on-year +11.11% -23.97% +12.74%

All General Skills
UK

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 38,972 59,575 67,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 69.75% 59.63% 68.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,610 39,717 36,616
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £43,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
England +18 4,000 £55,000 +7.84% 3,827
UK excluding London -1 2,951 £50,000 +11.11% 2,240
Work from Home +28 2,124 £55,000 +4.76% 2,075
North of England +79 1,361 £47,000 +25.33% 515
North West +58 1,255 £47,000 +25.33% 281
London +2 1,110 £62,500 -2.72% 2,080
South East +6 583 £45,000 +5.88% 644
Midlands +11 416 £50,000 +17.65% 352
East of England +47 269 £55,000 +48.29% 149
East Midlands +17 220 £32,500 -5.19% 109
West Midlands -10 196 £56,218 +18.48% 233
Scotland -49 149 £55,000 +10.00% 235
South West -31 145 £51,997 -0.96% 276
Yorkshire +36 87 £47,500 +9.29% 168
Wales +3 29 £59,857 +39.66% 55
North East +22 19 £69,384 +97.72% 71
Northern Ireland +17 16 £76,092 +79.04% 55

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 164 (3.79%) Confluence
2 58 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 51 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (0.90%) CMS
5 34 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 18 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 14 (0.32%) WinCC
9 12 (0.28%) WordPress
10 8 (0.18%) Drupal
11 7 (0.16%) SAS
11 7 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.069%) Apache
13 3 (0.069%) IIS
13 3 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.046%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.046%) IBM Notes
14 2 (0.046%) OpenEdge
15 1 (0.023%) Mendix
Applications
1 391 (9.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 239 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.32%) EPLAN
6 13 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
7 8 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.18%) Trello
8 6 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 5 (0.12%) InDesign
9 5 (0.12%) Stata
10 4 (0.092%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.046%) Acrobat
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe Captivate
11 2 (0.046%) Revit
Business Applications
1 32 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
4 9 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.12%) iTrent
7 4 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.092%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 4 (0.092%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.069%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.046%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.046%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.046%) SAP GTS
10 1 (0.023%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 876 (20.24%) AWS
2 767 (17.72%) Azure
3 421 (9.73%) GCP
4 226 (5.22%) Pulumi
5 166 (3.84%) Power Platform
6 111 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 52 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
9 48 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 42 (0.97%) SaaS
11 38 (0.88%) Entra ID
12 36 (0.83%) PowerApps
13 35 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
14 31 (0.72%) Google Analytics
15 27 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
16 21 (0.49%) Adobe Analytics
17 18 (0.42%) GitHub
18 16 (0.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
19 15 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 767 (17.72%) VPN
2 456 (10.54%) DNS
3 263 (6.08%) Cisco IOS
4 215 (4.97%) Broadband
5 99 (2.29%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.50%) WAN
7 60 (1.39%) Firewall
8 55 (1.27%) LAN
9 46 (1.06%) Wireless
10 43 (0.99%) Network Security
11 38 (0.88%) HTTP
11 38 (0.88%) Internet
12 37 (0.85%) DHCP
13 26 (0.60%) Unified Communications
14 24 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.44%) Skype
15 19 (0.44%) VoIP
16 18 (0.42%) Modbus
17 17 (0.39%) Ethernet
17 17 (0.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 254 (5.87%) NoSQL
3 225 (5.20%) Relational Database
4 215 (4.97%) RDBMS
5 145 (3.35%) Power BI
6 63 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
7 52 (1.20%) Big Data
8 43 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
8 43 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 37 (0.85%) Tableau
10 34 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 33 (0.76%) Metadata
12 21 (0.49%) Redis
13 20 (0.46%) MongoDB
14 18 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.32%) MySQL
16 13 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.30%) Hadoop
17 11 (0.25%) DB2
18 10 (0.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 311 (7.19%) Cucumber
2 278 (6.42%) JIRA
3 267 (6.17%) GitLab
4 255 (5.89%) Selenium
5 251 (5.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 249 (5.75%) Maven
7 248 (5.73%) Bitbucket
7 248 (5.73%) SonarQube
8 215 (4.97%) Jaeger
9 68 (1.57%) Robot Framework
10 49 (1.13%) Git
11 20 (0.46%) JUnit
12 18 (0.42%) Jenkins
13 11 (0.25%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.23%) Mocha
15 9 (0.21%) NUnit
16 7 (0.16%) Balsamiq
16 7 (0.16%) Grunt
16 7 (0.16%) TeamCity
17 6 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 1,402 (32.39%) Finance
2 1,302 (30.08%) Analytical Skills
3 1,117 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 682 (15.76%) Banking
5 427 (9.87%) Law
6 388 (8.96%) Legal
7 379 (8.76%) Financial Institution
8 351 (8.11%) German Language
9 350 (8.09%) French Language
10 314 (7.26%) Manufacturing
11 230 (5.31%) Retail
12 201 (4.64%) Public Sector
13 166 (3.84%) Marketing
14 127 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
15 118 (2.73%) Telecoms
16 92 (2.13%) Investment Banking
17 90 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
18 67 (1.55%) Electronics
19 66 (1.52%) Advertising
20 52 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 656 (15.16%) Senior
2 597 (13.79%) Developer
3 556 (12.85%) Analyst
4 488 (11.28%) Software Engineer
5 450 (10.40%) Software Developer
6 392 (9.06%) Lead
7 347 (8.02%) Credit Analyst
7 347 (8.02%) Research Analyst
8 305 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 236 (5.45%) Team Leader
10 228 (5.27%) Test Engineer
11 210 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
12 161 (3.72%) Electrical Engineer
13 158 (3.65%) Project Manager
14 152 (3.51%) Safety Engineer
15 115 (2.66%) Architect
16 76 (1.76%) Senior Manager
17 73 (1.69%) Test Automation Engineer
18 70 (1.62%) Support Engineer
19 67 (1.55%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (11.07%) Elastic Stack
2 344 (7.95%) React
3 302 (6.98%) .NET
4 298 (6.89%) CSS
5 293 (6.77%) HTML
6 284 (6.56%) Kafka
7 272 (6.28%) Spring
8 257 (5.94%) Spring Boot
9 254 (5.87%) Redux
10 249 (5.75%) Node.js
11 247 (5.71%) JPA
12 215 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
13 163 (3.77%) Hibernate
14 115 (2.66%) RESTful
15 109 (2.52%) REST
16 108 (2.50%) Jest
17 103 (2.38%) Sass
18 98 (2.26%) HTML5
19 90 (2.08%) CSS3
20 71 (1.64%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1,235 (28.54%) Cyberattack
2 352 (8.13%) Credit Risk
3 347 (8.02%) Fixed Income
4 295 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 255 (5.89%) Enterprise Software
6 246 (5.68%) Linux Command Line
7 243 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
8 110 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 102 (2.36%) e-Learning
10 87 (2.01%) Algorithms
11 86 (1.99%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.20%) Driving Licence
13 46 (1.06%) Social Media
14 41 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
15 37 (0.85%) Onboarding
16 35 (0.81%) Virtual Team
17 33 (0.76%) Cloud Native
18 31 (0.72%) Data Structures
19 30 (0.69%) SCADA
20 28 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1,276 (29.48%) Linux
2 731 (16.89%) Android
3 528 (12.20%) Windows
4 240 (5.55%) Unix
5 88 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 28 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.12%) Rocky
11 4 (0.092%) VMS
11 4 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.046%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.023%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,564 (36.14%) Agile
2 1,086 (25.09%) Line Management
3 976 (22.55%) Mentoring
4 968 (22.37%) DevOps
5 801 (18.51%) Mathematics
6 759 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
7 730 (16.87%) Risk Management
8 605 (13.98%) Software Engineering
9 585 (13.52%) Containerisation
10 524 (12.11%) Decision-Making
11 503 (11.62%) Microservices
12 501 (11.58%) Task Automation
13 482 (11.14%) OO
14 481 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
15 480 (11.09%) Design Patterns
16 478 (11.04%) OOP
17 447 (10.33%) Android Development
18 441 (10.19%) Asset Management
19 418 (9.66%) Business Strategy
20 398 (9.20%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,390 (32.12%) Python
2 1,191 (27.52%) Java
3 877 (20.26%) JavaScript
4 840 (19.41%) Go
5 665 (15.37%) C++
6 566 (13.08%) Bash
7 442 (10.21%) SQL
8 390 (9.01%) PowerShell
9 232 (5.36%) Rust
10 135 (3.12%) TypeScript
11 75 (1.73%) C#
12 35 (0.81%) C
13 26 (0.60%) Scala
14 19 (0.44%) R
15 17 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.32%) PHP
16 14 (0.32%) Shell Script
17 11 (0.25%) C-shell
17 11 (0.25%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.21%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1,216 (28.10%) Degree
2 870 (20.10%) Security Cleared
3 743 (17.17%) DV Cleared
4 431 (9.96%) Master's Degree
5 422 (9.75%) AWS Certification
6 347 (8.02%) CFA
7 179 (4.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 178 (4.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 113 (2.61%) SC Cleared
10 84 (1.94%) DBS Check
11 76 (1.76%) HND
12 57 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 50 (1.16%) HNC
14 34 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 32 (0.74%) Chartered Engineer
16 24 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
17 21 (0.49%) PhD
18 19 (0.44%) MBA
19 18 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
20 16 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (11.16%) QA
2 302 (6.98%) NCSC
3 154 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 39 (0.90%) GDPR
5 33 (0.76%) NIST
5 33 (0.76%) SLA
6 29 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 20 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.42%) PMBOK
10 17 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.32%) GRC
12 13 (0.30%) PMO
13 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.25%) GLP
15 8 (0.18%) GMP
16 7 (0.16%) COBIT
17 6 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.14%) IFRS
18 5 (0.12%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1,273 (29.41%) Docker
2 290 (6.70%) vSphere
3 286 (6.61%) Hyper-V
4 262 (6.05%) VMware NSX
5 118 (2.73%) Active Directory
6 62 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 23 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (0.23%) Firmware
10 8 (0.18%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.14%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 6 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.12%) Apache Flume
13 3 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.023%) Forefront TMG
14 1 (0.023%) HDFS
14 1 (0.023%) Varnish
14 1 (0.023%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 971 (22.44%) Ansible
2 601 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 589 (13.61%) Terraform
4 219 (5.06%) Argo
5 218 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 216 (4.99%) Kustomize
7 33 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (0.58%) Puppet
9 17 (0.39%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.32%) Wonderware InTouch
11 12 (0.28%) vMotion
12 11 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
13 9 (0.21%) SCCM
14 8 (0.18%) Grafana
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.14%) Nagios
15 6 (0.14%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.14%) vRealize
16 5 (0.12%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 530 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 398 (9.20%) Cisco
3 350 (8.09%) Bloomberg
4 349 (8.06%) Google
5 273 (6.31%) Juniper
6 272 (6.28%) Splunk
7 262 (6.05%) 3PAR
8 247 (5.71%) Solace
9 101 (2.33%) IBM
10 89 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 84 (1.94%) VMware
12 79 (1.83%) Oracle
13 62 (1.43%) Salesforce
14 52 (1.20%) Alteryx
15 51 (1.18%) Adobe
16 42 (0.97%) SAP
17 41 (0.95%) EMC
18 40 (0.92%) ServiceNow
19 39 (0.90%) Dell
20 38 (0.88%) YouTube