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 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,503 1,925 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.03% 11.45% 6.70%
As % of the General category 9.83% 16.22% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 472 408 597
10th Percentile £32,050 £25,600 £38,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -7.06%
75th Percentile £78,224 £70,625 £73,299
90th Percentile £83,625 £84,125 £86,658
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% -7.69%

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 15,286 11,865 13,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.31% 70.59% 62.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,223 6,180 7,651
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 7 October 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 37 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.86%) Confluence
4 10 (0.67%) CMS
5 7 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.47%) WordPress
6 5 (0.33%) Apache
7 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.067%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.067%) nginx
10 1 (0.067%) Umbraco
Applications
1 72 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.13%) Simulink
5 13 (0.86%) Maple
6 10 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.67%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.53%) InDesign
8 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.47%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.40%) Notion
11 4 (0.27%) Mathcad
12 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
12 2 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 19 (1.26%) Cloudability
2 15 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.67%) Primavera
5 9 (0.60%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Midas
8 3 (0.20%) SAP R/3
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.067%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.067%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 270 (17.96%) AWS
2 219 (14.57%) Azure
3 212 (14.11%) GCP
4 172 (11.44%) SaaS
5 96 (6.39%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.79%) Serverless
9 38 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 34 (2.26%) dbt
12 33 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.20%) Figma
13 28 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 28 (1.86%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.73%) PowerApps
15 25 (1.66%) GitHub
15 25 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (1.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.73%) Network Security
2 23 (1.53%) Ethernet
3 22 (1.46%) Firewall
3 22 (1.46%) VPN
4 19 (1.26%) Broadband
5 18 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.80%) Modbus
6 12 (0.80%) Profibus
6 12 (0.80%) VLAN
7 9 (0.60%) 5G
7 9 (0.60%) DNS
7 9 (0.60%) WAN
8 8 (0.53%) DHCP
8 8 (0.53%) Intranet
9 7 (0.47%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.33%) BGP
10 5 (0.33%) MPLS
11 4 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.27%) Internet
11 4 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.72%) Power BI
2 55 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (2.26%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.93%) Metadata
5 28 (1.86%) Tableau
6 24 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.13%) MySQL
9 16 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
12 13 (0.86%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.80%) Big Data
13 12 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.67%) GIS
16 8 (0.53%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 83 (5.52%) TeamCity
2 69 (4.59%) Git
3 29 (1.93%) JIRA
4 28 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (1.06%) Snyk
7 14 (0.93%) JUnit
7 14 (0.93%) LabVIEW
8 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 6 (0.40%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.33%) GitLab
11 4 (0.27%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) CMake
12 3 (0.20%) Selenium
12 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.13%) Bower
13 2 (0.13%) MLflow
General
1 599 (39.85%) Finance
2 572 (38.06%) Social Skills
3 349 (23.22%) Law
4 257 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
5 243 (16.17%) Retail
6 224 (14.90%) Banking
6 224 (14.90%) Public Sector
7 154 (10.25%) Marketing
8 137 (9.12%) Back Office
9 132 (8.78%) Aerospace
10 127 (8.45%) Financial Institution
11 81 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
12 78 (5.19%) Legal
13 69 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (3.59%) Electronics
15 53 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (2.66%) Telecoms
17 33 (2.20%) Local Government
18 30 (2.00%) Military
19 21 (1.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 354 (23.55%) Senior
2 169 (11.24%) Analyst
3 166 (11.04%) Architect
4 148 (9.85%) Lead
5 122 (8.12%) Software Engineer
6 80 (5.32%) Developer
7 68 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
8 54 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (3.13%) Business Analyst
9 47 (3.13%) Consultant
10 41 (2.73%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (2.33%) Senior Architect
13 34 (2.26%) Cloud Architect
13 34 (2.26%) Sales Executive
13 34 (2.26%) Team Leader
14 32 (2.13%) Systems Engineer
15 31 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (2.06%) Lead Software Engineer
15 31 (2.06%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (8.38%) Terraform
2 51 (3.39%) .NET
3 48 (3.19%) React
4 44 (2.93%) CSS
5 43 (2.86%) HTML
6 35 (2.33%) Node.js
7 33 (2.20%) RESTful
8 31 (2.06%) REST
9 27 (1.80%) XML
10 25 (1.66%) OpenAPI
11 24 (1.60%) .NET Core
12 20 (1.33%) Swagger
13 19 (1.26%) ASP.NET
13 19 (1.26%) EDI
14 15 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 15 (1.00%) Entity Framework
15 14 (0.93%) .NET Framework
15 14 (0.93%) Blazor
15 14 (0.93%) Next.js
16 11 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 177 (11.78%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.58%) Product Ownership
3 97 (6.45%) Driving Licence
4 72 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 62 (4.13%) Management Information System
6 61 (4.06%) Data Centre
7 56 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (3.33%) Social Media
9 44 (2.93%) Blog
10 32 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (2.00%) Cyberattack
12 26 (1.73%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.46%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.40%) FPGA
15 19 (1.26%) SCADA
16 18 (1.20%) Credit Risk
17 15 (1.00%) AI Agents
17 15 (1.00%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
18 14 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.26%) Windows
2 27 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.73%) Linux
4 24 (1.60%) Android
5 15 (1.00%) VMS
5 15 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.33%) Unix
7 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (24.55%) AI
2 368 (24.48%) Agile
3 259 (17.23%) Mentoring
4 255 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 247 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 228 (15.17%) Decision-Making
7 209 (13.91%) CI/CD
8 193 (12.84%) Technology Strategy
9 189 (12.57%) Software Engineering
10 176 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 173 (11.51%) Coaching
12 164 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
13 141 (9.38%) Analytics
14 139 (9.25%) Roadmaps
15 134 (8.92%) Test Automation
16 133 (8.85%) Fintech
16 133 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 132 (8.78%) Community of Practice
18 128 (8.52%) DevOps
19 114 (7.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (9.31%) SQL
2 139 (9.25%) Python
3 138 (9.18%) Java
4 73 (4.86%) C#
5 57 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 32 (2.13%) Go
7 31 (2.06%) Bash
8 30 (2.00%) MATLAB
9 29 (1.93%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.00%) Bicep
11 15 (1.00%) C++
12 13 (0.86%) Ada
12 13 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.60%) C
13 9 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.53%) Rust
15 7 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 370 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 339 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 335 (22.29%) Degree
4 123 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 120 (7.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 63 (4.19%) HNC
7 59 (3.93%) DBS Check
8 52 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.06%) CISSP
9 31 (2.06%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.93%) PhD
11 27 (1.80%) CISM
12 25 (1.66%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.46%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.40%) Chartered Engineer
15 19 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.73%) ACCA
17 11 (0.73%) CISA
17 11 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (13.31%) Accessibility
2 82 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.66%) GDPR
4 54 (3.59%) NIST
5 51 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (3.39%) QA
6 38 (2.53%) GRC
7 25 (1.66%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.53%) NCSC
8 23 (1.53%) SLA
9 21 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.06%) SOC 2
11 15 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.93%) WCAG
13 10 (0.67%) COBIT
14 9 (0.60%) PMO
15 8 (0.53%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.33%) EMIR
16 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (2.93%) Docker
2 38 (2.53%) Firmware
3 29 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.80%) vSphere
7 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 87 (5.79%) Grafana
3 13 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.40%) Ansible
6 4 (0.27%) Autotask
6 4 (0.27%) CASB
7 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.067%) Argo
8 1 (0.067%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.067%) SCCM
8 1 (0.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.067%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.067%) WSUS
Vendors
1 232 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.93%) Adobe
3 48 (3.19%) Google
4 36 (2.40%) Salesforce
5 33 (2.20%) Cisco
6 31 (2.06%) SAP
7 29 (1.93%) Apple
8 28 (1.86%) Oracle
8 28 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.60%) VMware
10 21 (1.40%) Workday
11 20 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (1.26%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.06%) Tenable
14 15 (1.00%) Dell
15 13 (0.86%) HP
16 12 (0.80%) ScienceLogic
17 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.73%) Siemens
18 9 (0.60%) Databricks