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

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 24 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +22
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 3,736 7,677 6,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.92% 7.77% 6.07%
As % of the General category 10.05% 12.99% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 772 2,350 2,267
10th Percentile £30,625 £27,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,673 £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 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £59,191
% change year-on-year +11.11% -23.97% +11.62%

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 37,181 59,113 70,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 68.85% 59.80% 68.30%
Number of salaries quoted 18,455 39,631 37,788
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £43,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -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 8 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 8 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 +12 3,412 £55,000 +7.57% 3,497
UK excluding London -8 2,483 £50,000 +11.11% 1,945
Work from Home +24 1,537 £55,000 - 1,950
London +3 1,081 £62,500 -3.85% 1,999
North of England +65 1,007 £47,000 +25.33% 471
North West +54 913 £46,000 +22.67% 267
South East +4 520 £50,000 +20.02% 581
Midlands +1 390 £50,000 +17.65% 272
East of England +40 246 £53,000 +42.90% 164
West Midlands -13 196 £55,000 +15.91% 182
East Midlands +22 194 £32,500 -5.19% 80
Scotland -46 153 £55,000 +10.00% 190
South West -32 138 £52,249 -2.42% 214
Yorkshire +29 81 £47,500 +9.29% 145
Wales +6 29 £51,358 +19.83% 45
Northern Ireland +8 14 - - 47
North East +24 13 £69,384 +97.72% 63

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 (4.39%) Confluence
2 57 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.07%) CMS
5 34 (0.91%) Apache Spark
6 23 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 18 (0.48%) Skype for Business
8 14 (0.37%) WinCC
9 12 (0.32%) WordPress
10 9 (0.24%) SAS
11 8 (0.21%) Drupal
12 7 (0.19%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
14 3 (0.080%) OpenEdge
14 3 (0.080%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.054%) Apache
15 2 (0.054%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.054%) IIS
16 1 (0.027%) Exchange Server 2010
16 1 (0.027%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 464 (12.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 230 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.37%) EPLAN
6 12 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
8 9 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
9 8 (0.21%) InDesign
9 8 (0.21%) Trello
10 7 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.13%) Stata
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.080%) Revit
14 2 (0.054%) Acrobat
14 2 (0.054%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.054%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 32 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
4 9 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.13%) iTrent
7 4 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
7 4 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.11%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 4 (0.11%) SAP GTS
7 4 (0.11%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.080%) Fidessa
8 3 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.054%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.054%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.054%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 668 (17.88%) Azure
2 563 (15.07%) AWS
3 359 (9.61%) GCP
4 166 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 107 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (1.23%) SaaS
9 45 (1.20%) Power Automate
10 36 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (0.96%) PowerApps
11 35 (0.94%) Entra ID
12 31 (0.83%) Google Analytics
13 27 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
14 21 (0.56%) Adobe Analytics
15 19 (0.51%) GitHub
16 17 (0.46%) Serverless
17 16 (0.43%) Amazon ElastiCache
18 14 (0.37%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 503 (13.46%) VPN
2 454 (12.15%) DNS
3 99 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 61 (1.63%) WAN
5 58 (1.55%) Firewall
6 53 (1.42%) LAN
7 45 (1.20%) Wireless
8 39 (1.04%) HTTP
8 39 (1.04%) Internet
9 36 (0.96%) DHCP
10 33 (0.88%) Network Security
11 26 (0.70%) Unified Communications
12 25 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 19 (0.51%) Skype
13 19 (0.51%) VoIP
14 18 (0.48%) VLAN
15 17 (0.46%) Ethernet
15 17 (0.46%) Modbus
16 16 (0.43%) SAN
16 16 (0.43%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 146 (3.91%) Power BI
3 63 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
4 51 (1.37%) Big Data
5 42 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (0.96%) Tableau
8 35 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 34 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 33 (0.88%) Metadata
11 20 (0.54%) Redis
12 18 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.43%) MySQL
14 14 (0.37%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.32%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.29%) Relational Database
17 10 (0.27%) Apache Hive
18 9 (0.24%) GIS
19 8 (0.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 275 (7.36%) Cucumber
2 241 (6.45%) JIRA
3 232 (6.21%) GitLab
4 219 (5.86%) Selenium
5 215 (5.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 214 (5.73%) Maven
7 213 (5.70%) Bitbucket
8 212 (5.67%) SonarQube
9 70 (1.87%) Robot Framework
10 54 (1.45%) Git
11 23 (0.62%) Jenkins
12 21 (0.56%) JUnit
13 11 (0.29%) Visual Studio
14 10 (0.27%) Mocha
15 9 (0.24%) NUnit
16 7 (0.19%) Grunt
17 6 (0.16%) Balsamiq
17 6 (0.16%) Eclipse
17 6 (0.16%) Jasmine
17 6 (0.16%) TeamCity
General
1 1,419 (37.98%) Finance
2 1,145 (30.65%) Social Skills
3 1,103 (29.52%) Analytical Skills
4 719 (19.25%) Banking
5 448 (11.99%) Financial Institution
6 420 (11.24%) Law
7 418 (11.19%) German Language
8 417 (11.16%) French Language
9 383 (10.25%) Legal
10 277 (7.41%) Manufacturing
11 192 (5.14%) Retail
12 166 (4.44%) Public Sector
13 159 (4.26%) Marketing
14 129 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
15 120 (3.21%) Telecoms
16 62 (1.66%) Advertising
17 56 (1.50%) Investment Banking
18 54 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
19 53 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
20 46 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 623 (16.68%) Analyst
2 607 (16.25%) Senior
3 597 (15.98%) Developer
4 449 (12.02%) Software Developer
5 414 (11.08%) Credit Analyst
5 414 (11.08%) Research Analyst
6 398 (10.65%) Software Engineer
7 228 (6.10%) Test Engineer
8 169 (4.52%) Lead
9 166 (4.44%) Project Manager
10 161 (4.31%) Electrical Engineer
11 152 (4.07%) Safety Engineer
12 149 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
13 115 (3.08%) Architect
14 81 (2.17%) Senior Manager
15 73 (1.95%) Test Automation Engineer
16 67 (1.79%) Data Scientist
16 67 (1.79%) Support Engineer
17 65 (1.74%) Digital Analyst
18 55 (1.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (8.24%) React
2 264 (7.07%) CSS
3 260 (6.96%) HTML
4 248 (6.64%) Kafka
5 241 (6.45%) .NET
6 236 (6.32%) Spring
7 221 (5.92%) Spring Boot
8 218 (5.84%) Redux
9 211 (5.65%) JPA
10 189 (5.06%) Node.js
11 163 (4.36%) Hibernate
12 80 (2.14%) RESTful
13 75 (2.01%) EDI
14 73 (1.95%) REST
15 72 (1.93%) Jest
16 68 (1.82%) Sass
17 64 (1.71%) HTML5
18 55 (1.47%) Pandas
19 54 (1.45%) CSS3
20 49 (1.31%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 910 (24.36%) Cyberattack
2 422 (11.30%) Credit Risk
3 414 (11.08%) Fixed Income
4 257 (6.88%) Product Ownership
5 219 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
6 183 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
7 182 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
8 91 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 78 (2.09%) Algorithms
10 73 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 63 (1.69%) e-Learning
12 52 (1.39%) Driving Licence
13 45 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 42 (1.12%) Social Media
15 37 (0.99%) Onboarding
16 33 (0.88%) Virtual Team
17 30 (0.80%) SCADA
18 27 (0.72%) NHS
19 26 (0.70%) Mobile App
19 26 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 734 (19.65%) Linux
2 463 (12.39%) Android
3 251 (6.72%) Windows
4 87 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 27 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 26 (0.70%) Unix
6 26 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.19%) Rocky
10 5 (0.13%) VMS
11 4 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.054%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,237 (33.11%) Agile
2 824 (22.06%) Line Management
3 616 (16.49%) Mentoring
4 575 (15.39%) Decision-Making
5 537 (14.37%) Mathematics
6 526 (14.08%) Risk Management
7 517 (13.84%) Software Engineering
8 508 (13.60%) Asset Management
9 487 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 483 (12.93%) Business Strategy
10 483 (12.93%) OO
11 479 (12.82%) OOP
12 477 (12.77%) Design Patterns
13 447 (11.96%) Android Development
14 437 (11.70%) DevOps
15 434 (11.62%) Risk Assessment
16 423 (11.32%) Portfolio Management
17 416 (11.13%) Financial Modelling
18 414 (11.08%) Credit Risk Analysis
19 404 (10.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 876 (23.45%) Java
2 852 (22.81%) Python
3 608 (16.27%) C++
4 568 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 562 (15.04%) Go
6 397 (10.63%) SQL
7 169 (4.52%) Rust
8 130 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 103 (2.76%) TypeScript
10 92 (2.46%) Bash
11 77 (2.06%) C#
12 39 (1.04%) C
13 26 (0.70%) Scala
14 19 (0.51%) R
15 16 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.37%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.32%) C-shell
17 12 (0.32%) PHP
18 11 (0.29%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 1,250 (33.46%) Degree
2 797 (21.33%) Security Cleared
3 684 (18.31%) DV Cleared
4 499 (13.36%) Master's Degree
5 414 (11.08%) CFA
6 147 (3.93%) AWS Certification
7 117 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 115 (3.08%) AWS Certified Developer
9 102 (2.73%) SC Cleared
10 81 (2.17%) DBS Check
11 58 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 51 (1.37%) HNC
13 38 (1.02%) HND
14 34 (0.91%) Azure Certification
15 32 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
16 24 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
17 20 (0.54%) PhD
18 19 (0.51%) MBA
19 18 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
20 17 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (11.56%) QA
2 288 (7.71%) NCSC
3 117 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.15%) GDPR
5 35 (0.94%) SLA
6 25 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 22 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 21 (0.56%) NIST
9 18 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.48%) PMBOK
10 17 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.37%) GRC
12 13 (0.35%) PMO
13 12 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.29%) GLP
15 9 (0.24%) IFRS
16 8 (0.21%) Basel III
16 8 (0.21%) GMP
16 8 (0.21%) IFRS 9
17 7 (0.19%) Basel II
System Software
1 761 (20.37%) Docker
2 112 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.75%) vSphere
5 25 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 24 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.32%) Firmware
9 11 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.21%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
11 6 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.16%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.13%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.027%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.027%) HDFS
13 1 (0.027%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 493 (13.20%) Ansible
2 349 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 115 (3.08%) Terraform
4 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (0.67%) Puppet
6 18 (0.48%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.37%) Wonderware InTouch
8 12 (0.32%) vMotion
9 11 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
10 9 (0.24%) SCCM
11 8 (0.21%) Grafana
12 6 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.16%) Nagios
12 6 (0.16%) PowerCLI
12 6 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.16%) vRealize
13 5 (0.13%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.13%) Oozie
14 4 (0.11%) Argo
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 539 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 418 (11.19%) Bloomberg
3 211 (5.65%) Solace
4 134 (3.59%) Google
5 118 (3.16%) Cisco
6 83 (2.22%) VMware
7 79 (2.11%) Oracle
8 68 (1.82%) IBM
9 65 (1.74%) Adobe
10 62 (1.66%) Salesforce
11 60 (1.61%) Alteryx
11 60 (1.61%) Red Hat
12 44 (1.18%) SAP
13 43 (1.15%) Apple
14 42 (1.12%) ServiceNow
15 38 (1.02%) Dell
16 37 (0.99%) YouTube
17 29 (0.78%) Facebook
18 27 (0.72%) Citrix
19 23 (0.62%) NEC