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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 -8
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,102 1,126 1,860
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.20% 8.48% 5.72%
As % of the General category 11.01% 11.80% 9.20%
Number of salaries quoted 455 448 1,092
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £32,050
25th Percentile £29,400 £44,956 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +3.41% -18.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,925 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +7.84% -21.54%

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 10,005 9,545 20,207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.31% 71.88% 62.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,644 6,488 15,204
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,250 £31,630
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +12.38% -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 19 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 53 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.18%) CMS
3 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.27%) Confluence
5 3 (0.27%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.091%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.091%) Drupal
7 1 (0.091%) IIS
7 1 (0.091%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.36%) Acrobat
3 23 (2.09%) Adobe XD
3 23 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.18%) Maya
4 2 (0.18%) MotionBuilder
5 1 (0.091%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.091%) InDesign
5 1 (0.091%) SmartSuite
5 1 (0.091%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.82%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.54%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.36%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.27%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.091%) Magento
7 1 (0.091%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.091%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 239 (21.69%) AWS
2 178 (16.15%) Azure
3 162 (14.70%) SaaS
4 138 (12.52%) GCP
5 69 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
7 52 (4.72%) Power Platform
8 32 (2.90%) Figma
9 30 (2.72%) Entra ID
10 26 (2.36%) Serverless
11 25 (2.27%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.18%) Pulumi
13 23 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (1.63%) dbt
15 18 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 16 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (1.36%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.90%) Broadband
2 21 (1.91%) VPN
3 20 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.63%) BGP
5 17 (1.54%) DNS
6 16 (1.45%) 4G
6 16 (1.45%) DHCP
7 14 (1.27%) Firewall
7 14 (1.27%) WAN
8 13 (1.18%) LAN
9 11 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (1.00%) IOS XR
9 11 (1.00%) MPLS
10 10 (0.91%) VLAN
11 9 (0.82%) Network Security
11 9 (0.82%) SMTP
11 9 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.36%) 5G
13 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.90%) Power BI
2 28 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 19 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.72%) RDBMS
5 18 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (1.09%) Metadata
7 11 (1.00%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.91%) Looker
9 8 (0.73%) Redis
10 6 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.45%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.45%) Tableau
12 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.27%) SAS EBI
13 2 (0.18%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 56 (5.08%) TeamCity
2 35 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.09%) GitLab
3 34 (3.09%) SonarQube
4 26 (2.36%) Git
5 23 (2.09%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.09%) Balsamiq
6 19 (1.72%) Jaeger
7 11 (1.00%) Snyk
8 10 (0.91%) JIRA
9 5 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.45%) JMeter
9 5 (0.45%) Locust
10 4 (0.36%) Selenium
11 3 (0.27%) JUnit
11 3 (0.27%) Postman
11 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.091%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.091%) WebDriver
General
1 343 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 321 (29.13%) Finance
3 311 (28.22%) Law
4 212 (19.24%) Public Sector
5 209 (18.97%) Retail
6 194 (17.60%) Banking
7 148 (13.43%) Marketing
8 138 (12.52%) Back Office
9 130 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
10 121 (10.98%) Financial Institution
11 49 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
12 46 (4.17%) Legal
13 39 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
14 38 (3.45%) Games
15 24 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
16 23 (2.09%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.54%) Polish Language
18 16 (1.45%) German Language
19 13 (1.18%) Italian Language
19 13 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 187 (16.97%) Senior
2 119 (10.80%) Architect
3 102 (9.26%) Analyst
4 84 (7.62%) Lead
5 54 (4.90%) Developer
6 51 (4.63%) Software Engineer
7 45 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
8 42 (3.81%) Consultant
9 37 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
10 33 (2.99%) Business Analyst
10 33 (2.99%) Salesforce Architect
11 31 (2.81%) Alliance Manager
12 30 (2.72%) Designer
13 28 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (2.27%) Senior Manager
14 25 (2.27%) Technical Architect
15 22 (2.00%) Senior Architect
16 20 (1.81%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (1.72%) Java Engineer
17 19 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.90%) REST
2 50 (4.54%) Lightning Web Components
2 50 (4.54%) SOAP
2 50 (4.54%) Visualforce
3 29 (2.63%) HTML
4 28 (2.54%) .NET
5 26 (2.36%) CSS
5 26 (2.36%) React
6 21 (1.91%) EDI
7 19 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.72%) Middleware
7 19 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (1.63%) RESTful
9 12 (1.09%) Node.js
9 12 (1.09%) SAML
10 11 (1.00%) Jinja
10 11 (1.00%) NETCONF
10 11 (1.00%) Sass
10 11 (1.00%) YANG
11 10 (0.91%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 145 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 141 (12.79%) Blog
3 130 (11.80%) Onboarding
4 124 (11.25%) Product Ownership
5 50 (4.54%) Management Information System
6 45 (4.08%) Driving Licence
7 39 (3.54%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.99%) Social Media
9 31 (2.81%) Cyberattack
9 31 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (2.63%) Public Cloud
11 22 (2.00%) Podcast
11 22 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.00%) Video Editing
14 10 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.82%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.99%) Linux
2 36 (3.27%) Windows
3 28 (2.54%) Unix
4 17 (1.54%) Android
5 15 (1.36%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.36%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.091%) Debian
9 1 (0.091%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (25.68%) AI
2 282 (25.59%) Agile
3 191 (17.33%) CI/CD
4 186 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 167 (15.15%) Roadmaps
6 161 (14.61%) DevOps
7 155 (14.07%) Community of Practice
8 141 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
9 134 (12.16%) Technology Strategy
10 122 (11.07%) Mentoring
11 120 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
12 111 (10.07%) Customer Service
13 107 (9.71%) Software Engineering
14 106 (9.62%) Scrum
15 98 (8.89%) Business Development
16 91 (8.26%) Test Automation
17 88 (7.99%) Fintech
18 79 (7.17%) Analytics
18 79 (7.17%) Project Management
19 77 (6.99%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 142 (12.89%) Java
2 111 (10.07%) Python
3 82 (7.44%) JavaScript
4 63 (5.72%) SQL
5 50 (4.54%) Apex Code
6 37 (3.36%) Go
7 34 (3.09%) SOQL
7 34 (3.09%) SOSL
8 33 (2.99%) C#
9 20 (1.81%) Bash
9 20 (1.81%) TypeScript
10 11 (1.00%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.54%) Bicep
12 5 (0.45%) C
13 4 (0.36%) C++
13 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.36%) R
14 2 (0.18%) RPG
15 1 (0.091%) PHP
15 1 (0.091%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 315 (28.58%) Degree
2 161 (14.61%) Security Cleared
3 156 (14.16%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (2.54%) CISSP
8 23 (2.09%) DBS Check
9 21 (1.91%) PMP
10 20 (1.81%) CISM
11 18 (1.63%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.36%) OSCP
13 14 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.27%) CREST Certified
14 12 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (1.00%) CISA
16 9 (0.82%) CRISC
17 8 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (0.73%) HNC
17 8 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.90%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (4.08%) NIST
4 35 (3.18%) QA
5 31 (2.81%) GRC
5 31 (2.81%) WCAG
6 29 (2.63%) PCI DSS
7 28 (2.54%) SOC 2
8 23 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (1.54%) GDPR
10 15 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (1.27%) Data Quality
12 11 (1.00%) SLA
13 10 (0.91%) PMO
14 5 (0.45%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.36%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.36%) NCSC
16 3 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (3.99%) Docker
2 19 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.091%) Firmware
5 1 (0.091%) iptables
5 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 131 (11.89%) Terraform
2 102 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 66 (5.99%) Grafana
4 25 (2.27%) Ansible
5 23 (2.09%) Argo
6 20 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.72%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.45%) Autotask
8 5 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
9 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.091%) CASB
12 1 (0.091%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.091%) Nessus
Vendors
1 182 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.53%) Adobe
3 73 (6.62%) Salesforce
4 61 (5.54%) Google
5 35 (3.18%) Apple
6 34 (3.09%) Splunk
7 30 (2.72%) Cisco
8 21 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.63%) SAP
10 16 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
12 12 (1.09%) Instagram
12 12 (1.09%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.00%) Hootsuite
13 11 (1.00%) Tenable
13 11 (1.00%) Wrike
14 10 (0.91%) Databricks
14 10 (0.91%) Meraki
14 10 (0.91%) Oracle
15 9 (0.82%) CyberArk