Inclusive Design Job Trends

Inclusive Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Inclusive Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 651 862
Rank change year-on-year +4 +211 -18
Permanent jobs citing Inclusive Design 101 30 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.061% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.068% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 43 20 5
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £28,450
25th Percentile £37,555 £47,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,197 £50,000 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.61% +44.93% -32.68%
75th Percentile £57,994 £56,875 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,197 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Inclusive Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Inclusive Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Inclusive Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Inclusive Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Inclusive Design
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusive Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusive Design

Inclusive Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Inclusive Design over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Inclusive Design in the UK

Inclusive Design
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Inclusive Design within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 -19 79 £42,500 -15.00% 41
Work from Home +41 70 £39,197 -21.61% 23
UK excluding London +7 65 £39,197 - 25
London -22 27 £52,500 +5.00% 24
South East -17 15 £63,750 - 4
Wales - 12 £39,197 - 4
East of England - 12 - - 2
South West - 10 £26,500 - 3
North of England -27 8 £39,197 - 10
North West - 5 £51,098 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £39,197 - 1
Midlands - 4 £39,197 - 2
Scotland - 4 £38,473 -
Yorkshire -25 3 £39,197 - 4

Inclusive Design
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 3 (2.97%) CMS
2 2 (1.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) Moodle
3 1 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Adobe XD
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.95%) Sketch
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.99%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.99%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.99%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.99%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.69%) Adobe Analytics
2 28 (27.72%) Figma
3 7 (6.93%) AWS
3 7 (6.93%) Google Analytics
3 7 (6.93%) Serverless
4 6 (5.94%) Miro
5 5 (4.95%) Amazon EventBridge
5 5 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.98%) Canva
8 1 (0.99%) Asana
8 1 (0.99%) Azure
8 1 (0.99%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.99%) SaaS
8 1 (0.99%) Siteimprove
8 1 (0.99%) Vyond
Communications & Networking
1 45 (44.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.98%) Data Hub
1 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.98%) MySQL
1 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Axure RP
2 5 (4.95%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.98%) Git
3 2 (1.98%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) JIRA
3 2 (1.98%) Mocha
3 2 (1.98%) Selenium
General
1 37 (36.63%) Public Sector
2 31 (30.69%) Games
3 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
4 20 (19.80%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (15.84%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (12.87%) Multimedia
7 12 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (4.95%) Law
10 4 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.96%) Retail
11 3 (2.97%) Finance
12 2 (1.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Designer
2 22 (21.78%) Lead
3 14 (13.86%) Systems Manager
4 10 (9.90%) UX Designer
5 8 (7.92%) Product Designer
5 8 (7.92%) Senior
6 7 (6.93%) Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Lead Designer
7 5 (4.95%) Lead Product Designer
8 4 (3.96%) Content Designer
8 4 (3.96%) Product Lead
8 4 (3.96%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.96%) Senior Designer
8 4 (3.96%) User Researcher
9 3 (2.97%) Digital Developer
9 3 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (2.97%) Senior Product Designer
9 3 (2.97%) User Experience Manager
10 2 (1.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 2 (1.98%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) CSS
1 15 (14.85%) HTML
2 7 (6.93%) Node.js
3 5 (4.95%) AWS CDK
3 5 (4.95%) AWS SAM
3 5 (4.95%) Kafka
3 5 (4.95%) React
3 5 (4.95%) Ruby on Rails
3 5 (4.95%) Serverless Framework
3 5 (4.95%) Spring
3 5 (4.95%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.98%) Express.js
4 2 (1.98%) HTML5
4 2 (1.98%) Jest
5 1 (0.99%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 32 (31.68%) Social Media
2 14 (13.86%) Mobile App
3 13 (12.87%) e-Learning
4 11 (10.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.95%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.97%) Blog
7 3 (2.97%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.98%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.98%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.98%) VLE
9 1 (0.99%) Animation
9 1 (0.99%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) Android
1 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (69.31%) Agile
2 67 (66.34%) User Research
3 53 (52.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 49 (48.51%) Analytics
5 45 (44.55%) Customer Experience
6 43 (42.57%) Prototyping
7 42 (41.58%) AI
8 39 (38.61%) Roadmaps
9 36 (35.64%) User Experience
10 32 (31.68%) Storytelling
11 31 (30.69%) DesignOps
11 31 (30.69%) Digital Customer Experience
11 31 (30.69%) Mentoring
11 31 (30.69%) Product Roadmap
11 31 (30.69%) Product Strategy
12 29 (28.71%) UX Design
13 24 (23.76%) Wireframes
14 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (20.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (18.81%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.89%) JavaScript
2 7 (6.93%) Java
3 5 (4.95%) Ruby
4 2 (1.98%) Python
4 2 (1.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (11.88%) Degree
2 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.99%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (85.15%) Accessibility
2 54 (53.47%) WCAG
3 3 (2.97%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) Terraform
2 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (58.42%) Adobe
2 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.94%) Google
4 1 (0.99%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.99%) Synthesia