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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 25 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +16
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 4,545 7,640 5,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.20% 7.40% 5.74%
As % of the General category 11.69% 12.62% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 740 2,368 2,063
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,470 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,288 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +13.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,124 £44,886 £59,191
% change year-on-year +11.67% -24.17% +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 38,878 60,543 66,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.17% 58.62% 67.97%
Number of salaries quoted 18,041 40,070 35,832
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £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 30 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 30 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 +19 4,124 £55,000 +7.32% 5,087
UK excluding London +3 3,033 £50,124 +11.67% 5,102
Work from Home +25 2,111 £55,000 +3.04% 3,059
North of England +82 1,348 £47,000 +25.33% 1,099
North West +60 1,246 £47,000 +25.33% 498
London +4 1,228 £62,500 -3.85% 716
South East +3 576 £45,000 +5.88% 1,413
Midlands +16 419 £52,500 +23.53% 964
East of England +48 266 £53,500 +44.25% 691
Scotland -36 228 £55,000 +10.00% 279
East Midlands +27 220 £32,000 -6.65% 372
West Midlands -1 199 £57,500 +21.18% 524
South West -16 171 £52,500 +5.00% 617
Yorkshire +30 81 £85,000 +95.58% 452
Wales +5 25 £59,857 +39.66% 146
North East +27 21 £69,384 +91.16% 154
Northern Ireland +11 15 £76,092 +79.04% 85

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
1 165 (3.63%) Confluence
2 62 (1.36%) SharePoint
3 53 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 50 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 40 (0.88%) CMS
6 25 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 18 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 13 (0.29%) WordPress
9 12 (0.26%) Apache
10 11 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 11 (0.24%) WinCC
11 8 (0.18%) Drupal
11 8 (0.18%) SAS
12 4 (0.088%) Camunda
12 4 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.066%) IIS
13 3 (0.066%) nginx
13 3 (0.066%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.044%) IBM Notes
14 2 (0.044%) Tomcat
Applications
1 328 (7.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 242 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.24%) EPLAN
6 11 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.15%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.11%) Stata
10 5 (0.11%) Trello
11 4 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.088%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.088%) InDesign
11 4 (0.088%) Revit
11 4 (0.088%) Sketch
12 3 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.066%) Maya
Business Applications
1 29 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 20 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
4 13 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
6 5 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.088%) iTrent
8 3 (0.066%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.044%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.044%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.044%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.044%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 2 (0.044%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.044%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.044%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 999 (21.98%) AWS
2 802 (17.65%) Azure
3 458 (10.08%) GCP
4 226 (4.97%) Pulumi
5 162 (3.56%) Power Platform
6 113 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
7 68 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (1.06%) SaaS
9 45 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 41 (0.90%) Entra ID
12 33 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (0.68%) GitHub
13 31 (0.68%) Google Analytics
13 31 (0.68%) PowerApps
14 27 (0.59%) Serverless
15 26 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (0.55%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 769 (16.92%) VPN
2 464 (10.21%) DNS
3 264 (5.81%) Cisco IOS
4 217 (4.77%) Broadband
5 107 (2.35%) TCP/IP
6 71 (1.56%) WAN
7 60 (1.32%) Firewall
8 57 (1.25%) LAN
9 44 (0.97%) Wireless
10 41 (0.90%) HTTP
10 41 (0.90%) Network Security
11 40 (0.88%) DHCP
12 38 (0.84%) Internet
13 26 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 25 (0.55%) Unified Communications
15 18 (0.40%) Skype
15 18 (0.40%) VLAN
15 18 (0.40%) VoIP
16 17 (0.37%) Modbus
16 17 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 285 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 257 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 221 (4.86%) RDBMS
5 142 (3.12%) Power BI
6 76 (1.67%) Big Data
7 69 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 55 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
9 50 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (0.88%) Tableau
11 36 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 35 (0.77%) Metadata
13 29 (0.64%) MongoDB
14 28 (0.62%) MySQL
15 24 (0.53%) Redis
16 23 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
17 21 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
19 16 (0.35%) Hadoop
20 15 (0.33%) KDB
Development Applications
1 312 (6.86%) Cucumber
2 282 (6.20%) JIRA
3 268 (5.90%) GitLab
4 259 (5.70%) Selenium
5 257 (5.65%) Maven
6 252 (5.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 248 (5.46%) Bitbucket
7 248 (5.46%) SonarQube
8 215 (4.73%) Jaeger
9 75 (1.65%) Git
10 66 (1.45%) Robot Framework
11 38 (0.84%) Jenkins
12 29 (0.64%) JUnit
13 14 (0.31%) webpack
14 13 (0.29%) Vite
15 10 (0.22%) Mocha
15 10 (0.22%) Visual Studio
16 9 (0.20%) NUnit
16 9 (0.20%) TeamCity
17 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,657 (36.46%) Finance
2 1,285 (28.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1,105 (24.31%) Social Skills
4 794 (17.47%) Banking
5 723 (15.91%) Law
6 415 (9.13%) Legal
7 330 (7.26%) Financial Institution
8 311 (6.84%) Manufacturing
9 293 (6.45%) German Language
10 292 (6.42%) French Language
11 277 (6.09%) Marketing
12 231 (5.08%) Retail
13 196 (4.31%) Public Sector
14 122 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
15 119 (2.62%) Investment Banking
16 118 (2.60%) Telecoms
17 90 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
18 67 (1.47%) Electronics
19 66 (1.45%) Advertising
20 50 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 725 (15.95%) Software Engineer
2 714 (15.71%) Senior
3 604 (13.29%) Developer
4 534 (11.75%) Lead
5 491 (10.80%) Analyst
6 467 (10.28%) Software Developer
7 314 (6.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 289 (6.36%) Credit Analyst
8 289 (6.36%) Research Analyst
9 254 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 234 (5.15%) Team Leader
11 228 (5.02%) Test Engineer
12 161 (3.54%) Electrical Engineer
13 152 (3.34%) Safety Engineer
14 145 (3.19%) Project Manager
15 116 (2.55%) Lead Software Engineer
16 104 (2.29%) Architect
17 101 (2.22%) Java Engineer
18 95 (2.09%) Java Software Engineer
19 77 (1.69%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (10.54%) Elastic Stack
2 402 (8.84%) React
3 352 (7.74%) Kafka
4 345 (7.59%) Spring
5 311 (6.84%) CSS
6 304 (6.69%) HTML
7 303 (6.67%) Spring Boot
8 297 (6.53%) .NET
9 254 (5.59%) Node.js
9 254 (5.59%) Redux
10 250 (5.50%) JPA
11 219 (4.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 168 (3.70%) Hibernate
13 149 (3.28%) RESTful
14 143 (3.15%) REST
15 121 (2.66%) Jest
16 103 (2.27%) Sass
17 99 (2.18%) HTML5
18 92 (2.02%) CSS3
19 77 (1.69%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1,235 (27.17%) Cyberattack
2 308 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 296 (6.51%) Credit Risk
4 294 (6.47%) Fixed Income
5 260 (5.72%) Enterprise Software
6 244 (5.37%) Linux Command Line
7 243 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
8 147 (3.23%) Algorithms
9 130 (2.86%) Cloud Native
10 116 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 109 (2.40%) e-Learning
12 90 (1.98%) Management Information System
13 65 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
14 53 (1.17%) Driving Licence
14 53 (1.17%) Social Media
15 45 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 45 (0.99%) Public Cloud
16 40 (0.88%) Data Structures
17 36 (0.79%) Onboarding
17 36 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,278 (28.12%) Linux
2 733 (16.13%) Android
3 526 (11.57%) Windows
4 253 (5.57%) Unix
5 87 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 38 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 30 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.088%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.066%) Rocky
11 3 (0.066%) VMS
12 2 (0.044%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.022%) CentOS
13 1 (0.022%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.022%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,783 (39.23%) Agile
2 1,079 (23.74%) Line Management
3 1,007 (22.16%) Mentoring
4 995 (21.89%) DevOps
5 866 (19.05%) Software Engineering
6 854 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
7 827 (18.20%) Mathematics
8 718 (15.80%) Risk Management
9 606 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 573 (12.61%) CI/CD
11 548 (12.06%) Microservices
12 528 (11.62%) Decision-Making
13 515 (11.33%) SDLC
14 502 (11.05%) Task Automation
15 500 (11.00%) OO
16 486 (10.69%) Performance Optimisation
17 482 (10.61%) Design Patterns
18 479 (10.54%) OOP
19 448 (9.86%) Artificial Intelligence
20 447 (9.83%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 1,517 (33.38%) Python
2 1,355 (29.81%) Java
3 900 (19.80%) JavaScript
4 873 (19.21%) Go
5 676 (14.87%) C++
6 565 (12.43%) Bash
7 501 (11.02%) SQL
8 389 (8.56%) PowerShell
9 234 (5.15%) Rust
10 163 (3.59%) TypeScript
11 74 (1.63%) C#
12 38 (0.84%) C
13 32 (0.70%) Scala
14 23 (0.51%) Kotlin
15 21 (0.46%) T-SQL
16 20 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 19 (0.42%) R
18 15 (0.33%) PHP
19 14 (0.31%) PL/SQL
20 8 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,164 (25.61%) Degree
2 847 (18.64%) Security Cleared
3 738 (16.24%) DV Cleared
4 441 (9.70%) AWS Certification
5 365 (8.03%) Master's Degree
6 289 (6.36%) CFA
7 184 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 182 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
9 92 (2.02%) SC Cleared
10 80 (1.76%) DBS Check
11 75 (1.65%) HND
12 66 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
13 46 (1.01%) HNC
14 42 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 33 (0.73%) Chartered Engineer
16 24 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
17 21 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
17 21 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
18 17 (0.37%) MBA
18 17 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 487 (10.72%) QA
2 302 (6.64%) NCSC
3 171 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 42 (0.92%) GDPR
5 31 (0.68%) NIST
6 30 (0.66%) Data Quality
7 29 (0.64%) SLA
8 28 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 18 (0.40%) PMBOK
11 14 (0.31%) GRC
12 12 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.26%) PMO
13 11 (0.24%) GLP
14 9 (0.20%) COBIT
15 7 (0.15%) GMP
15 7 (0.15%) WCAG
16 6 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.11%) IFRS
System Software
1 1,317 (28.98%) Docker
2 290 (6.38%) vSphere
3 283 (6.23%) Hyper-V
4 262 (5.76%) VMware NSX
5 122 (2.68%) Active Directory
6 59 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 21 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.20%) Firmware
8 9 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.18%) Terminal Services
10 6 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.11%) Apache Flume
12 4 (0.088%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.066%) HDFS
14 2 (0.044%) ProxySG
14 2 (0.044%) Virtual Desktop
15 1 (0.022%) Forefront TMG
15 1 (0.022%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 990 (21.78%) Ansible
2 698 (15.36%) Kubernetes
3 644 (14.17%) Terraform
4 228 (5.02%) Prometheus
5 225 (4.95%) Argo
6 216 (4.75%) Kustomize
7 38 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (0.62%) Puppet
9 24 (0.53%) Grafana
10 15 (0.33%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.26%) vMotion
12 11 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
12 11 (0.24%) Wonderware InTouch
13 9 (0.20%) SCCM
14 7 (0.15%) AirWatch
15 6 (0.13%) CASB
15 6 (0.13%) Mesos
15 6 (0.13%) PowerCLI
15 6 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 543 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 405 (8.91%) Cisco
3 359 (7.90%) Google
4 292 (6.42%) Bloomberg
5 290 (6.38%) Splunk
6 275 (6.05%) Juniper
7 262 (5.76%) 3PAR
8 247 (5.43%) Solace
9 110 (2.42%) Oracle
10 101 (2.22%) IBM
11 93 (2.05%) Red Hat
12 80 (1.76%) VMware
13 71 (1.56%) Salesforce
14 56 (1.23%) Adobe
15 47 (1.03%) ServiceNow
16 44 (0.97%) Alteryx
17 41 (0.90%) EMC
18 39 (0.86%) YouTube
19 37 (0.81%) SAP
20 35 (0.77%) Databricks