Hybrid/Remote Inclusion and Diversity Job Trends

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 31 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -11
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,072 1,029 1,786
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.34% 8.00% 5.68%
As % of the General category 11.10% 11.14% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 454 456 1,065
10th Percentile £20,000 £36,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +8.05% -18.52%
75th Percentile £74,050 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,521 £87,348 £91,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -19.23%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 9,658 9,233 19,398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.11% 71.74% 61.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,435 6,389 15,058
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £61,500 £57,370
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.20% -8.21%
75th Percentile £78,957 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,273 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Inclusion and Diversity salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 52 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.12%) CMS
2 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.28%) SAS
4 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.19%) Confluence
5 2 (0.19%) WordPress
6 1 (0.093%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.093%) Drupal
6 1 (0.093%) IIS
6 1 (0.093%) WildFly
Applications
1 55 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.45%) Acrobat
3 29 (2.71%) Adobe XD
4 25 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.19%) Maya
6 2 (0.19%) MotionBuilder
7 1 (0.093%) InDesign
7 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.093%) SmartSuite
7 1 (0.093%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (0.56%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.37%) Academy Housing
4 4 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.28%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.093%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.093%) Magento
7 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.093%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 230 (21.46%) AWS
2 168 (15.67%) Azure
3 151 (14.09%) SaaS
4 121 (11.29%) GCP
5 67 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (5.13%) Power Platform
8 38 (3.54%) Figma
9 28 (2.61%) Entra ID
10 24 (2.24%) Pulumi
11 23 (2.15%) Google Analytics
12 22 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.05%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.87%) Serverless
15 18 (1.68%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.59%) dbt
16 17 (1.59%) Miro
17 16 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 16 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (7.56%) Broadband
2 20 (1.87%) VPN
3 19 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.68%) BGP
5 16 (1.49%) 4G
6 15 (1.40%) DNS
7 14 (1.31%) DHCP
8 13 (1.21%) LAN
8 13 (1.21%) WAN
9 11 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (1.03%) Firewall
9 11 (1.03%) IOS XR
9 11 (1.03%) MPLS
10 9 (0.84%) SMTP
10 9 (0.84%) VLAN
10 9 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.65%) Network Security
12 4 (0.37%) 5G
13 3 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.10%) Power BI
2 30 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (2.43%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 19 (1.77%) RDBMS
6 17 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.03%) Metadata
9 8 (0.75%) Looker
10 7 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.65%) Redis
11 5 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.47%) Tableau
12 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.28%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 53 (4.94%) TeamCity
2 41 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 40 (3.73%) GitLab
3 40 (3.73%) SonarQube
4 29 (2.71%) Git
5 23 (2.15%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.15%) Balsamiq
6 19 (1.77%) Jaeger
7 9 (0.84%) JIRA
8 6 (0.56%) JMeter
9 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.47%) Locust
10 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.28%) JUnit
10 3 (0.28%) Selenium
10 3 (0.28%) Snyk
10 3 (0.28%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.19%) Postman
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.093%) Storybook
General
1 332 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 307 (28.64%) Finance
3 293 (27.33%) Law
4 206 (19.22%) Public Sector
4 206 (19.22%) Retail
5 179 (16.70%) Banking
6 147 (13.71%) Marketing
7 140 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
8 131 (12.22%) Back Office
9 115 (10.73%) Financial Institution
10 46 (4.29%) Legal
11 44 (4.10%) Games
12 42 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
13 39 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.59%) Polish Language
17 12 (1.12%) German Language
17 12 (1.12%) Italian Language
17 12 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 168 (15.67%) Senior
2 112 (10.45%) Architect
3 96 (8.96%) Lead
4 92 (8.58%) Analyst
5 63 (5.88%) Developer
6 48 (4.48%) Software Engineer
7 43 (4.01%) Consultant
8 40 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (3.54%) Salesforce Architect
10 33 (3.08%) Technical Architect
11 31 (2.89%) Alliance Manager
11 31 (2.89%) Senior Manager
12 29 (2.71%) Designer
13 28 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (2.43%) Business Analyst
15 25 (2.33%) Account Manager
16 24 (2.24%) Senior Developer
17 23 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (1.87%) Salesforce Technical Architect
19 18 (1.68%) Sales Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.65%) REST
2 56 (5.22%) Lightning Web Components
2 56 (5.22%) SOAP
2 56 (5.22%) Visualforce
3 34 (3.17%) .NET
4 32 (2.99%) HTML
4 32 (2.99%) React
5 29 (2.71%) CSS
6 24 (2.24%) EDI
7 19 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.77%) Middleware
7 19 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (1.59%) RESTful
9 16 (1.49%) Node.js
10 13 (1.21%) Web Services
11 12 (1.12%) Django
11 12 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
11 12 (1.12%) SAML
11 12 (1.12%) Sass
12 11 (1.03%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.97%) Blog
1 139 (12.97%) Cloud Native
2 133 (12.41%) Onboarding
3 124 (11.57%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.01%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.73%) Driving Licence
6 31 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (2.71%) Social Media
8 28 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.24%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.15%) Cyberattack
11 22 (2.05%) Podcast
12 20 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.03%) Video Editing
15 10 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.01%) Linux
2 33 (3.08%) Windows
3 27 (2.52%) Unix
4 15 (1.40%) Android
5 13 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.093%) Debian
9 1 (0.093%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (26.77%) Agile
2 273 (25.47%) AI
3 211 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 179 (16.70%) CI/CD
5 161 (15.02%) DevOps
6 160 (14.93%) Roadmaps
7 151 (14.09%) Community of Practice
8 138 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (11.01%) Customer Service
10 115 (10.73%) Mentoring
11 110 (10.26%) Technology Strategy
12 104 (9.70%) Scrum
12 104 (9.70%) Software Engineering
13 102 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
14 95 (8.86%) Business Development
15 86 (8.02%) Project Management
15 86 (8.02%) Test Automation
16 84 (7.84%) Fintech
17 76 (7.09%) Analytics
18 74 (6.90%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 139 (12.97%) Java
2 110 (10.26%) Python
3 89 (8.30%) JavaScript
4 56 (5.22%) Apex Code
5 53 (4.94%) SQL
6 40 (3.73%) SOQL
6 40 (3.73%) SOSL
7 36 (3.36%) C#
8 35 (3.26%) Go
9 20 (1.87%) Bash
9 20 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.56%) Bicep
12 5 (0.47%) C
13 4 (0.37%) C++
13 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.37%) R
14 2 (0.19%) RPG
15 1 (0.093%) ABAP
15 1 (0.093%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 300 (27.99%) Degree
2 157 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 153 (14.27%) SC Cleared
4 44 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (2.15%) CISSP
8 22 (2.05%) DBS Check
8 22 (2.05%) PMP
9 16 (1.49%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.40%) CISM
11 13 (1.21%) CREST Certified
11 13 (1.21%) OSCP
12 10 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.84%) CISA
14 8 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (0.75%) CRISC
15 7 (0.65%) CITP
16 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.72%) Accessibility
2 51 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (3.45%) NIST
4 36 (3.36%) QA
5 31 (2.89%) WCAG
6 29 (2.71%) PCI DSS
7 28 (2.61%) SOC 2
8 24 (2.24%) GRC
9 23 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (1.77%) GDPR
11 16 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.03%) PMO
13 10 (0.93%) Data Quality
14 9 (0.84%) SLA
15 5 (0.47%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
17 3 (0.28%) NCSC
17 3 (0.28%) PERC
17 3 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (3.73%) Docker
2 17 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.093%) iptables
4 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 125 (11.66%) Terraform
2 98 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 63 (5.88%) Grafana
4 23 (2.15%) Ansible
4 23 (2.15%) Argo
5 20 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.77%) Kustomize
6 19 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.47%) Autotask
7 5 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.28%) Puppet
10 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.093%) CASB
11 1 (0.093%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.093%) Nessus
Vendors
1 178 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 106 (9.89%) Adobe
3 82 (7.65%) Salesforce
4 59 (5.50%) Google
5 40 (3.73%) Splunk
6 29 (2.71%) Apple
6 29 (2.71%) Cisco
7 18 (1.68%) SAP
8 16 (1.49%) MuleSoft
8 16 (1.49%) Oracle
9 15 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.12%) Instagram
11 11 (1.03%) Hootsuite
11 11 (1.03%) Wrike
12 9 (0.84%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.84%) Databricks
12 9 (0.84%) Meraki
13 8 (0.75%) Dell
14 7 (0.65%) Planon
15 6 (0.56%) PagerDuty