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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 17 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +3
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,082 1,726 1,830
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.86% 11.87% 5.62%
As % of the General category 10.54% 15.98% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 412 452 1,078
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £32,350
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,738
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.29% -23.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,622 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 10,264 10,803 20,165
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.60% 74.27% 61.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,811 6,473 15,093
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,996 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 12 May 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 54 (4.99%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.20%) CMS
3 11 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.28%) Confluence
5 3 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.092%) Drupal
7 1 (0.092%) IIS
7 1 (0.092%) WildFly
Applications
1 48 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.42%) Acrobat
3 24 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.66%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.092%) InDesign
6 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.22%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.55%) SAP HR
3 5 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.46%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.37%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.092%) Magento
7 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 234 (21.63%) AWS
2 197 (18.21%) Azure
3 140 (12.94%) GCP
4 135 (12.48%) SaaS
5 70 (6.47%) Power Platform
6 60 (5.55%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
8 33 (3.05%) Serverless
9 30 (2.77%) Power Automate
10 28 (2.59%) Figma
11 25 (2.31%) Entra ID
12 24 (2.22%) Google Analytics
13 23 (2.13%) Pulumi
14 21 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (1.76%) PowerApps
17 17 (1.57%) dbt
18 15 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
19 13 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 13 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (7.12%) Broadband
2 16 (1.48%) 4G
2 16 (1.48%) VPN
3 15 (1.39%) BGP
3 15 (1.39%) DHCP
3 15 (1.39%) DNS
3 15 (1.39%) WAN
4 14 (1.29%) Firewall
4 14 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.20%) Network Security
6 12 (1.11%) LAN
7 11 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (1.02%) IOS XR
7 11 (1.02%) MPLS
8 10 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.83%) SMTP
10 7 (0.65%) VLAN
11 5 (0.46%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.28%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.73%) Power BI
2 27 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.76%) NoSQL
5 18 (1.66%) RDBMS
6 17 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.29%) Metadata
7 14 (1.29%) Tableau
8 11 (1.02%) SQL Server
9 10 (0.92%) Looker
10 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.74%) Redis
12 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.37%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
14 3 (0.28%) Big Data
14 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 43 (3.97%) TeamCity
2 40 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.42%) GitLab
4 34 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 24 (2.22%) Git
6 22 (2.03%) Snyk
7 18 (1.66%) Axure RP
7 18 (1.66%) Balsamiq
7 18 (1.66%) Jaeger
8 10 (0.92%) JIRA
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) JMeter
9 5 (0.46%) Locust
10 4 (0.37%) Selenium
11 3 (0.28%) JUnit
11 3 (0.28%) Postman
11 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.092%) git-flow
13 1 (0.092%) jMock
General
1 342 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 299 (27.63%) Finance
3 281 (25.97%) Law
4 200 (18.48%) Public Sector
5 168 (15.53%) Banking
6 165 (15.25%) Retail
7 153 (14.14%) Marketing
8 145 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
9 115 (10.63%) Back Office
10 92 (8.50%) Financial Institution
11 59 (5.45%) Legal
12 56 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (3.33%) Games
14 32 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.85%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.76%) German Language
18 15 (1.39%) Polish Language
19 14 (1.29%) Italian Language
20 13 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 202 (18.67%) Senior
2 139 (12.85%) Architect
3 122 (11.28%) Analyst
4 73 (6.75%) Lead
5 54 (4.99%) Developer
5 54 (4.99%) Senior Analyst
6 44 (4.07%) Software Engineer
7 43 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (3.42%) Consultant
9 34 (3.14%) Senior Architect
10 33 (3.05%) Salesforce Architect
11 31 (2.87%) Alliance Manager
12 29 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 27 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
13 27 (2.50%) Designer
13 27 (2.50%) Security Architect
14 25 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (2.13%) Technical Architect
16 22 (2.03%) Senior Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.03%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.38%) REST
2 49 (4.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 47 (4.34%) SOAP
3 47 (4.34%) Visualforce
4 27 (2.50%) .NET
5 25 (2.31%) HTML
6 23 (2.13%) React
7 22 (2.03%) CSS
7 22 (2.03%) EDI
8 19 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (1.39%) Middleware
11 14 (1.29%) Node.js
12 12 (1.11%) RESTful
12 12 (1.11%) SAML
13 11 (1.02%) Jinja
13 11 (1.02%) NETCONF
13 11 (1.02%) YANG
14 10 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
15 9 (0.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 134 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 122 (11.28%) Product Ownership
3 119 (11.00%) Onboarding
4 84 (7.76%) Blog
5 51 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 48 (4.44%) Data Centre
7 46 (4.25%) Driving Licence
8 45 (4.16%) Cyberattack
9 38 (3.51%) Social Media
10 28 (2.59%) Public Cloud
11 27 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (2.03%) Podcast
13 20 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.02%) Video Editing
16 10 (0.92%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
18 8 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
18 8 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
18 8 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.42%) Linux
2 32 (2.96%) Windows
3 27 (2.50%) Unix
4 17 (1.57%) Android
5 15 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (26.52%) Agile
2 278 (25.69%) AI
3 183 (16.91%) CI/CD
4 172 (15.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 172 (15.90%) Roadmaps
5 155 (14.33%) Community of Practice
6 149 (13.77%) Technology Strategy
7 148 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (13.40%) DevOps
9 137 (12.66%) Cybersecurity
10 133 (12.29%) Mentoring
11 104 (9.61%) Scrum
12 91 (8.41%) Software Engineering
13 87 (8.04%) TOGAF
14 85 (7.86%) Test Automation
15 84 (7.76%) Analytics
15 84 (7.76%) Decision-Making
16 82 (7.58%) Customer Service
17 80 (7.39%) Business Development
18 77 (7.12%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 121 (11.18%) Java
2 118 (10.91%) Python
3 81 (7.49%) JavaScript
4 80 (7.39%) SQL
5 49 (4.53%) Apex Code
6 36 (3.33%) Go
7 34 (3.14%) SOQL
7 34 (3.14%) SOSL
8 31 (2.87%) C#
9 21 (1.94%) Bash
10 19 (1.76%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.65%) Bicep
13 4 (0.37%) R
13 4 (0.37%) Rust
14 3 (0.28%) C
14 3 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.18%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
15 2 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 270 (24.95%) Degree
2 167 (15.43%) Security Cleared
3 162 (14.97%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.82%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.05%) DBS Check
8 30 (2.77%) CISSP
9 26 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.13%) CISM
11 14 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (1.02%) CISA
13 10 (0.92%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.92%) CRISC
13 10 (0.92%) OSCP
14 8 (0.74%) HNC
14 8 (0.74%) HND
15 7 (0.65%) CITP
15 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.47%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (4.25%) NIST
4 45 (4.16%) GRC
5 39 (3.60%) Data Quality
6 37 (3.42%) QA
7 26 (2.40%) GDPR
7 26 (2.40%) WCAG
8 25 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (2.22%) PCI DSS
10 23 (2.13%) SOC 2
11 14 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.02%) SLA
13 10 (0.92%) PMO
14 8 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.46%) NCSC
15 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.37%) COBIT
17 3 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (3.97%) Docker
2 22 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (9.70%) Terraform
2 83 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 52 (4.81%) Grafana
4 24 (2.22%) Ansible
5 19 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.66%) Argo
6 18 (1.66%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.55%) Autotask
7 6 (0.55%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.092%) CASB
11 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 195 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 121 (11.18%) Adobe
3 72 (6.65%) Salesforce
4 57 (5.27%) Google
5 50 (4.62%) Apple
6 36 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.14%) Splunk
8 31 (2.87%) Cisco
9 24 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (2.13%) Palo Alto
11 22 (2.03%) Tenable
12 13 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.20%) SAP
13 12 (1.11%) Instagram
14 11 (1.02%) Databricks
14 11 (1.02%) Hootsuite
14 11 (1.02%) Meraki
14 11 (1.02%) Oracle
14 11 (1.02%) Wrike
15 9 (0.83%) CyberArk