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 6 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 17 43
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 -1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,134 1,906 1,859
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.86% 12.80% 5.51%
As % of the General category 10.18% 17.08% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 414 423 1,096
10th Percentile £32,650 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -20.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,918 £89,667 £88,125
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 11,144 11,160 20,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.60% 74.97% 60.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,252 6,155 15,132
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,927 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -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 6 June 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 (4.67%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.15%) CMS
4 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.35%) Confluence
5 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.26%) Apache
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.26%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.088%) Drupal
8 1 (0.088%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.26%) Acrobat
3 20 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.88%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.71%) InDesign
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (2.12%) Cloudability
2 8 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.53%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.35%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 262 (23.10%) AWS
2 211 (18.61%) Azure
3 167 (14.73%) GCP
4 152 (13.40%) SaaS
5 85 (7.50%) Power Platform
6 60 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (3.35%) Serverless
8 35 (3.09%) Power Automate
9 28 (2.47%) Figma
10 26 (2.29%) Entra ID
11 24 (2.12%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
12 23 (2.03%) Pulumi
13 21 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.76%) dbt
15 19 (1.68%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.06%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 85 (7.50%) Broadband
2 19 (1.68%) Network Security
3 18 (1.59%) VPN
4 16 (1.41%) 4G
4 16 (1.41%) Firewall
5 15 (1.32%) BGP
5 15 (1.32%) DHCP
5 15 (1.32%) DNS
5 15 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.32%) WAN
6 12 (1.06%) LAN
7 11 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.97%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.97%) MPLS
8 10 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.79%) SMTP
10 7 (0.62%) VLAN
11 5 (0.44%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.70%) Power BI
2 33 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (2.65%) Relational Database
4 26 (2.29%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.29%) Tableau
5 21 (1.85%) Metadata
6 18 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 16 (1.41%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.06%) Looker
10 11 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
10 11 (0.97%) SQL Server
11 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.71%) MySQL
13 8 (0.71%) Redis
14 6 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (4.76%) TeamCity
2 47 (4.14%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.44%) GitLab
4 34 (3.00%) SonarQube
5 27 (2.38%) Git
6 22 (1.94%) Snyk
7 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
8 10 (0.88%) Axure RP
8 10 (0.88%) Balsamiq
8 10 (0.88%) JIRA
9 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.44%) JMeter
9 5 (0.44%) Locust
10 4 (0.35%) JUnit
10 4 (0.35%) Selenium
11 3 (0.26%) Postman
11 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.088%) Gemini Tracker
12 1 (0.088%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.088%) XCUITest
General
1 363 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 332 (29.28%) Finance
3 307 (27.07%) Law
4 201 (17.72%) Public Sector
5 193 (17.02%) Banking
6 188 (16.58%) Retail
7 165 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
8 160 (14.11%) Marketing
9 128 (11.29%) Back Office
10 107 (9.44%) Financial Institution
11 72 (6.35%) Legal
12 55 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
13 42 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.26%) Games
15 29 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.85%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.68%) German Language
17 19 (1.68%) Polish Language
18 15 (1.32%) Local Government
19 14 (1.23%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 225 (19.84%) Senior
2 159 (14.02%) Architect
3 138 (12.17%) Analyst
4 81 (7.14%) Lead
5 58 (5.11%) Software Engineer
6 57 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
7 54 (4.76%) Developer
8 46 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.17%) Senior Architect
10 35 (3.09%) Consultant
11 34 (3.00%) Business Analyst
12 33 (2.91%) Salesforce Architect
13 31 (2.73%) Security Architect
14 30 (2.65%) Designer
15 29 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
16 28 (2.47%) Technical Architect
17 25 (2.20%) Data Manager
18 24 (2.12%) Delivery Manager
19 23 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 23 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.53%) REST
2 50 (4.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 46 (4.06%) SOAP
3 46 (4.06%) Visualforce
4 30 (2.65%) HTML
5 28 (2.47%) CSS
6 27 (2.38%) .NET
7 25 (2.20%) React
8 22 (1.94%) Node.js
9 20 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (1.68%) EDI
11 18 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (1.32%) Middleware
13 14 (1.23%) RESTful
14 12 (1.06%) SAML
15 11 (0.97%) Jinja
15 11 (0.97%) NETCONF
15 11 (0.97%) YANG
16 10 (0.88%) OpenAPI
17 9 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 159 (14.02%) Cloud Native
2 131 (11.55%) Product Ownership
3 112 (9.88%) Onboarding
4 50 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 49 (4.32%) Social Media
6 48 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 46 (4.06%) Blog
7 46 (4.06%) Cyberattack
8 38 (3.35%) Driving Licence
9 30 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (2.38%) Public Cloud
11 25 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.59%) Podcast
13 14 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 12 (1.06%) Credit Risk
15 11 (0.97%) Video Editing
16 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
17 9 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 8 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.53%) Windows
2 38 (3.35%) Linux
3 27 (2.38%) Unix
4 21 (1.85%) Android
5 19 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.18%) VMS
9 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (29.01%) Agile
2 270 (23.81%) AI
3 210 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 188 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 188 (16.58%) Roadmaps
5 168 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (14.20%) Community of Practice
6 161 (14.20%) Technology Strategy
7 157 (13.84%) DevOps
8 151 (13.32%) Mentoring
9 128 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
10 118 (10.41%) Scrum
11 114 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 109 (9.61%) Software Engineering
13 106 (9.35%) Test Automation
14 98 (8.64%) Analytics
15 93 (8.20%) Fintech
15 93 (8.20%) TOGAF
16 86 (7.58%) CRM
17 81 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (12.35%) Python
2 135 (11.90%) Java
3 106 (9.35%) SQL
4 79 (6.97%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.41%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.35%) Go
7 34 (3.00%) SOQL
7 34 (3.00%) SOSL
8 31 (2.73%) C#
9 24 (2.12%) Bash
10 21 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.79%) Bicep
13 5 (0.44%) C
14 4 (0.35%) R
14 4 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.26%) Ada
15 3 (0.26%) Ruby
15 3 (0.26%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 246 (21.69%) Degree
2 174 (15.34%) Security Cleared
3 169 (14.90%) SC Cleared
4 61 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 44 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.44%) DBS Check
7 32 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.65%) CISSP
9 26 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (2.12%) CISM
11 15 (1.32%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.97%) CISA
12 11 (0.97%) CREST Certified
12 11 (0.97%) OSCP
13 10 (0.88%) CRISC
13 10 (0.88%) HNC
13 10 (0.88%) HND
14 8 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.62%) CITP
16 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.82%) Accessibility
2 62 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (4.59%) NIST
4 48 (4.23%) GRC
5 40 (3.53%) QA
6 35 (3.09%) GDPR
7 26 (2.29%) PCI DSS
8 25 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (2.03%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.68%) SLA
11 18 (1.59%) WCAG
12 14 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.97%) PMO
14 10 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.79%) NCSC
16 7 (0.62%) COBIT
17 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (4.06%) Docker
2 22 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
5 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (10.67%) Terraform
2 100 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 63 (5.56%) Grafana
4 24 (2.12%) Ansible
5 19 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.59%) Argo
6 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
7 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.79%) Autotask
9 6 (0.53%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.18%) CASB
13 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.088%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.088%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 197 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 115 (10.14%) Adobe
3 67 (5.91%) Salesforce
4 57 (5.03%) Google
5 46 (4.06%) Apple
6 35 (3.09%) Cisco
7 34 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.00%) Splunk
8 24 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.94%) Tenable
11 15 (1.32%) Oracle
11 15 (1.32%) SAP
12 12 (1.06%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.97%) Databricks
13 11 (0.97%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.97%) Instagram
13 11 (0.97%) Meraki
13 11 (0.97%) Wrike
14 10 (0.88%) Dell