Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -42 +5 +28
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 2,573 4,393 6,947
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.61% 8.92% 6.87%
As % of the General category 5.52% 12.80% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,181 776 2,269
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% -20.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,842 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £46,293
% change year-on-year +5.00% +8.01% -21.79%

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 general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 46,638 34,324 58,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 47.24% 69.71% 57.90%
Number of salaries quoted 28,629 17,567 38,264
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,336 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,361
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,437 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.67% -2.24% -9.52%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 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
England -46 2,135 £56,000 +1.82% 1,587
UK excluding London -62 1,429 £52,500 +5.00% 1,151
Work from Home -21 1,172 £60,000 +9.09% 566
London -21 907 £60,000 -4.00% 898
North of England -69 400 £55,000 +17.02% 139
Midlands -47 278 £45,000 -16.28% 91
South East -66 244 £53,663 +23.36% 190
North West -64 237 £47,250 +0.53% 92
South West -36 190 £57,500 +9.52% 507
West Midlands -30 177 £59,527 +4.49% 53
East of England -37 113 £40,000 -29.82% 60
Scotland -32 101 £51,250 +2.50% 82
East Midlands -43 100 £35,000 +19.66% 37
Wales -1 93 £56,258 +2.29% 16
Yorkshire -14 86 £52,445 -38.30% 25
North East -8 77 £57,500 +134.03% 22
Northern Ireland -48 20 £56,901 -25.22% 76

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 70 (2.72%) SharePoint
2 58 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.09%) Confluence
5 21 (0.82%) CMS
6 14 (0.54%) Apache
7 12 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.31%) SAS
10 6 (0.23%) WordPress
11 5 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (0.078%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.078%) IIS
13 2 (0.078%) Moodle
13 2 (0.078%) Totara
14 1 (0.039%) Drupal
14 1 (0.039%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.039%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 96 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.44%) Acrobat
4 20 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.43%) Adobe XD
6 10 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (0.35%) InDesign
8 8 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
8 8 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.31%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.23%) Sketch
10 4 (0.16%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
11 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.12%) SPSS
11 3 (0.12%) Trello
12 2 (0.078%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.078%) InVision
12 2 (0.078%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 25 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (0.93%) Cloudability
3 17 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
4 13 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.23%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.16%) SAP EHS
7 4 (0.16%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 4 (0.16%) Shopify
8 3 (0.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 3 (0.12%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.078%) Academy Housing
9 2 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
9 2 (0.078%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.078%) Raiser’s Edge
9 2 (0.078%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.078%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 438 (17.02%) Azure
2 384 (14.92%) AWS
3 305 (11.85%) GCP
4 185 (7.19%) SaaS
5 181 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
6 156 (6.06%) Power Platform
7 91 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (2.57%) Entra ID
10 50 (1.94%) dbt
11 49 (1.90%) GitHub
12 48 (1.87%) Serverless
13 42 (1.63%) Figma
13 42 (1.63%) Power Automate
14 37 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
15 36 (1.40%) PaaS
16 34 (1.32%) Google Analytics
17 32 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
17 32 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 31 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.11%) Broadband
2 59 (2.29%) Firewall
3 55 (2.14%) Internet
4 49 (1.90%) Network Security
5 43 (1.67%) VPN
6 31 (1.20%) WAN
7 26 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 24 (0.93%) LAN
9 23 (0.89%) DNS
10 21 (0.82%) DHCP
11 20 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.47%) VLAN
13 11 (0.43%) Wireless
14 9 (0.35%) SMTP
15 8 (0.31%) HTTP
15 8 (0.31%) SD-WAN
16 7 (0.27%) BGP
17 6 (0.23%) Intranet
17 6 (0.23%) SAN
17 6 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (5.01%) Power BI
2 49 (1.90%) BigQuery
2 49 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (1.87%) Tableau
4 31 (1.20%) Metadata
4 31 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 27 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 26 (1.01%) GIS
6 26 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
7 23 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 23 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 22 (0.86%) Looker
9 18 (0.70%) MySQL
10 16 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
10 16 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 75 (2.91%) Jenkins
2 67 (2.60%) Git
3 60 (2.33%) TeamCity
4 56 (2.18%) JIRA
5 55 (2.14%) GitLab
6 34 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 22 (0.86%) Snyk
8 15 (0.58%) JMeter
9 14 (0.54%) fastlane
10 13 (0.51%) Postman
11 12 (0.47%) Gatling
12 9 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.35%) LabVIEW
12 9 (0.35%) Selenium
13 8 (0.31%) JUnit
13 8 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.31%) Xcode
14 7 (0.27%) Axure RP
14 7 (0.27%) Moq
15 6 (0.23%) Android Studio
General
1 907 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 678 (26.35%) Finance
3 418 (16.25%) Law
4 362 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
5 336 (13.06%) Public Sector
6 335 (13.02%) Retail
7 254 (9.87%) Banking
8 253 (9.83%) Marketing
9 165 (6.41%) Legal
10 137 (5.32%) Back Office
11 128 (4.97%) Financial Institution
12 123 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
13 91 (3.54%) Local Government
14 78 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
15 60 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (2.25%) Games
17 44 (1.71%) Manufacturing
18 33 (1.28%) Advertising
19 26 (1.01%) Electronics
20 24 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 512 (19.90%) Senior
2 297 (11.54%) Analyst
3 263 (10.22%) Architect
4 163 (6.34%) Lead
5 119 (4.62%) Developer
6 89 (3.46%) Business Analyst
7 88 (3.42%) Software Engineer
8 87 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
9 84 (3.26%) Consultant
10 80 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
11 79 (3.07%) Sales Executive
12 73 (2.84%) IT Engineer
13 53 (2.06%) Senior Manager
14 51 (1.98%) Salesforce Architect
15 49 (1.90%) IT Manager
15 49 (1.90%) IT Support
15 49 (1.90%) Principal Engineer
16 46 (1.79%) Business Manager
16 46 (1.79%) Data Analyst
16 46 (1.79%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (3.38%) REST
2 62 (2.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 59 (2.29%) HTML
4 58 (2.25%) CSS
5 49 (1.90%) .NET
6 46 (1.79%) RESTful
6 46 (1.79%) SOAP
7 44 (1.71%) Visualforce
8 43 (1.67%) EDI
8 43 (1.67%) React
9 42 (1.63%) Node.js
10 24 (0.93%) XML
11 19 (0.74%) Android SDK
12 16 (0.62%) Middleware
13 15 (0.58%) Spring
14 14 (0.54%) GraphQL
14 14 (0.54%) OpenAPI
15 12 (0.47%) .NET Framework
15 12 (0.47%) SAML
15 12 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 237 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 201 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 168 (6.53%) Onboarding
4 138 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 135 (5.25%) Driving Licence
6 106 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 78 (3.03%) Social Media
8 75 (2.91%) Security Posture
9 57 (2.22%) Cyberattack
10 56 (2.18%) Blog
11 55 (2.14%) Data Centre
12 53 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
13 43 (1.67%) Mobile App
14 34 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.13%) Podcast
16 28 (1.09%) Algorithms
17 23 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
17 23 (0.89%) Credit Risk
17 23 (0.89%) CSOC
17 23 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 142 (5.52%) Windows
2 93 (3.61%) Linux
3 48 (1.87%) Apple iOS
4 45 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.71%) Android
6 36 (1.40%) Windows 10
7 28 (1.09%) Unix
8 20 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.66%) VMS
10 11 (0.43%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) Debian
13 2 (0.078%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (25.65%) Agile
2 490 (19.04%) AI
3 450 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
4 420 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 383 (14.89%) Mentoring
6 379 (14.73%) CI/CD
7 348 (13.53%) Decision-Making
8 325 (12.63%) Roadmaps
9 324 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
10 300 (11.66%) DevOps
11 247 (9.60%) Analytics
12 214 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 211 (8.20%) Technology Strategy
14 204 (7.93%) Coaching
15 199 (7.73%) Test Automation
16 196 (7.62%) Customer Service
16 196 (7.62%) Scrum
17 195 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 193 (7.50%) Software Engineering
19 178 (6.92%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 303 (11.78%) Python
2 252 (9.79%) SQL
3 174 (6.76%) Java
4 104 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 62 (2.41%) Apex Code
6 61 (2.37%) C#
7 57 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 36 (1.40%) Bash
9 36 (1.40%) C++
10 34 (1.32%) Bicep
10 34 (1.32%) SOQL
10 34 (1.32%) SOSL
11 33 (1.28%) Go
12 24 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
13 20 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.58%) R
15 10 (0.39%) Rust
16 9 (0.35%) C
16 9 (0.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 599 (23.28%) Degree
2 388 (15.08%) Security Cleared
3 346 (13.45%) SC Cleared
4 203 (7.89%) DBS Check
5 82 (3.19%) CISSP
6 66 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 59 (2.29%) CISM
8 57 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 51 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 40 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 35 (1.36%) Azure Certification
13 31 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (1.20%) DV Cleared
14 28 (1.09%) HNC
15 26 (1.01%) CRISC
16 25 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 23 (0.89%) PhD
17 23 (0.89%) SANS
18 22 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (5.52%) Accessibility
2 111 (4.31%) NIST
3 110 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 106 (4.12%) Data Quality
5 97 (3.77%) GDPR
5 97 (3.77%) QA
6 64 (2.49%) SLA
7 61 (2.37%) GRC
8 50 (1.94%) PCI DSS
9 49 (1.90%) WCAG
10 33 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 28 (1.09%) SOC 2
12 26 (1.01%) NCSC
13 16 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 16 (0.62%) COBIT
14 15 (0.58%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 11 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.43%) PMO
17 9 (0.35%) IFRS
System Software
1 117 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 91 (3.54%) Docker
3 27 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.66%) IAG
5 17 (0.66%) vSphere
6 13 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.078%) Firmware
9 1 (0.039%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.039%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.039%) Xen
Systems Management
1 177 (6.88%) Terraform
2 139 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 77 (2.99%) Grafana
4 39 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (0.70%) SCCM
6 15 (0.58%) Ansible
7 12 (0.47%) WSUS
8 11 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.35%) Autotask
9 9 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.31%) Argo
10 8 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.23%) Puppet
12 5 (0.19%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.16%) Kibana
13 4 (0.16%) SolarWinds Orion
14 3 (0.12%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 462 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 154 (5.99%) Salesforce
3 133 (5.17%) Google
4 110 (4.28%) Adobe
5 60 (2.33%) Cisco
6 55 (2.14%) Apple
7 42 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 39 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 35 (1.36%) CrowdStrike
9 35 (1.36%) Splunk
9 35 (1.36%) VMware
10 30 (1.17%) SAP
11 25 (0.97%) NEC
12 24 (0.93%) Instagram
13 23 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 23 (0.89%) Tenable
14 21 (0.82%) Facebook
15 20 (0.78%) Meraki
15 20 (0.78%) Oracle
16 18 (0.70%) Dynatrace