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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 17 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 +1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,125 1,909 1,812
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.07% 13.05% 5.59%
As % of the General category 10.89% 17.41% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 416 446 1,068
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £31,940
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,573
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.66% -22.16%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,622 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £54,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.45% +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 10,327 10,965 20,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.72% 74.94% 62.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,870 6,354 15,064
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,703 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 15 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 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.07%) CMS
3 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.36%) Confluence
5 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.27%) Apache
6 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.089%) Drupal
8 1 (0.089%) IIS
8 1 (0.089%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.29%) Acrobat
3 25 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (1.33%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.089%) InDesign
6 1 (0.089%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.13%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.53%) SAP HR
3 5 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.36%) Academy Housing
4 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.27%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.089%) Magento
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.089%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 252 (22.40%) AWS
2 198 (17.60%) Azure
3 155 (13.78%) GCP
4 153 (13.60%) SaaS
5 69 (6.13%) Power Platform
6 59 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (2.93%) Serverless
8 29 (2.58%) Power Automate
9 26 (2.31%) Entra ID
9 26 (2.31%) Figma
10 23 (2.04%) Pulumi
11 22 (1.96%) Google Analytics
12 20 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.78%) dbt
12 20 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.60%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.84%) Broadband
2 16 (1.42%) 4G
2 16 (1.42%) DHCP
2 16 (1.42%) DNS
2 16 (1.42%) VPN
3 15 (1.33%) BGP
3 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.33%) WAN
4 14 (1.24%) Firewall
4 14 (1.24%) Network Security
5 12 (1.07%) LAN
6 11 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.98%) IOS XR
6 11 (0.98%) MPLS
7 10 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.80%) SMTP
9 7 (0.62%) VLAN
10 5 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.42%) Power BI
2 29 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.69%) NoSQL
5 18 (1.60%) RDBMS
6 16 (1.42%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.33%) Tableau
8 14 (1.24%) Metadata
9 13 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.16%) Looker
10 11 (0.98%) SQL Server
11 10 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.71%) Redis
14 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.36%) Big Data
15 4 (0.36%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.36%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
16 3 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 53 (4.71%) TeamCity
2 40 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.47%) GitLab
4 34 (3.02%) SonarQube
5 24 (2.13%) Git
6 22 (1.96%) Snyk
7 18 (1.60%) Jaeger
8 15 (1.33%) Axure RP
8 15 (1.33%) Balsamiq
9 11 (0.98%) JIRA
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.44%) JMeter
10 5 (0.44%) JUnit
10 5 (0.44%) Locust
11 4 (0.36%) Selenium
12 3 (0.27%) Postman
12 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 1 (0.089%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.089%) WebDriver
General
1 352 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 331 (29.42%) Finance
3 303 (26.93%) Law
4 203 (18.04%) Public Sector
5 196 (17.42%) Banking
6 193 (17.16%) Retail
7 158 (14.04%) Marketing
8 147 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
9 130 (11.56%) Back Office
10 109 (9.69%) Financial Institution
11 64 (5.69%) Legal
12 59 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (3.20%) Games
14 33 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.87%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.69%) German Language
17 19 (1.69%) Polish Language
18 16 (1.42%) Local Government
19 14 (1.24%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 217 (19.29%) Senior
2 143 (12.71%) Architect
3 123 (10.93%) Analyst
4 79 (7.02%) Lead
5 55 (4.89%) Senior Analyst
6 54 (4.80%) Software Engineer
7 53 (4.71%) Developer
8 44 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.11%) Consultant
10 34 (3.02%) Senior Architect
11 33 (2.93%) Salesforce Architect
12 31 (2.76%) Alliance Manager
13 28 (2.49%) Business Analyst
13 28 (2.49%) Designer
13 28 (2.49%) Security Architect
14 27 (2.40%) Cloud Architect
15 25 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (2.13%) Technical Architect
17 22 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
17 22 (1.96%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.40%) REST
2 49 (4.36%) Lightning Web Components
3 47 (4.18%) SOAP
3 47 (4.18%) Visualforce
4 27 (2.40%) .NET
5 24 (2.13%) HTML
6 23 (2.04%) React
7 22 (1.96%) EDI
8 21 (1.87%) CSS
9 19 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
11 16 (1.42%) Middleware
12 14 (1.24%) Node.js
13 13 (1.16%) RESTful
14 12 (1.07%) SAML
15 11 (0.98%) Jinja
15 11 (0.98%) NETCONF
15 11 (0.98%) YANG
16 9 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
16 9 (0.80%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 147 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 124 (11.02%) Product Ownership
3 121 (10.76%) Onboarding
4 90 (8.00%) Blog
5 51 (4.53%) Management Information System
6 49 (4.36%) Driving Licence
7 48 (4.27%) Data Centre
8 45 (4.00%) Cyberattack
9 39 (3.47%) Social Media
10 28 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 28 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.96%) Podcast
13 11 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.98%) Video Editing
14 10 (0.89%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 8 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.38%) Linux
2 33 (2.93%) Windows
3 27 (2.40%) Unix
4 21 (1.87%) Android
5 19 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.089%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (26.04%) Agile
2 282 (25.07%) AI
3 196 (17.42%) CI/CD
4 180 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 177 (15.73%) Roadmaps
6 155 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (13.69%) Community of Practice
8 152 (13.51%) DevOps
9 148 (13.16%) Technology Strategy
10 141 (12.53%) Mentoring
11 138 (12.27%) Cybersecurity
12 105 (9.33%) Scrum
13 103 (9.16%) Software Engineering
14 98 (8.71%) Test Automation
15 95 (8.44%) Fintech
16 89 (7.91%) Decision-Making
16 89 (7.91%) TOGAF
17 85 (7.56%) Customer Service
18 83 (7.38%) Analytics
18 83 (7.38%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 134 (11.91%) Java
2 123 (10.93%) Python
3 84 (7.47%) SQL
4 79 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.36%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.38%) Go
7 34 (3.02%) SOQL
7 34 (3.02%) SOSL
8 30 (2.67%) C#
9 22 (1.96%) Bash
10 19 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.16%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.62%) Bicep
13 4 (0.36%) C
13 4 (0.36%) R
13 4 (0.36%) Rust
14 3 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.18%) Ada
15 2 (0.18%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 274 (24.36%) Degree
2 166 (14.76%) Security Cleared
3 161 (14.31%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.60%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.29%) DBS Check
7 33 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.67%) CISSP
9 26 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.04%) CISM
11 14 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.07%) CISA
14 11 (0.98%) CREST Certified
14 11 (0.98%) CRISC
14 11 (0.98%) OSCP
15 10 (0.89%) HNC
15 10 (0.89%) HND
16 7 (0.62%) CITP
16 7 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.13%) Accessibility
2 49 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (4.36%) NIST
3 45 (4.00%) GRC
4 42 (3.73%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.56%) QA
6 28 (2.49%) GDPR
7 27 (2.40%) PCI DSS
8 25 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (2.13%) SOC 2
10 23 (2.04%) WCAG
11 13 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (1.07%) SLA
13 11 (0.98%) PMO
14 8 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.62%) COBIT
16 6 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.53%) NCSC
17 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
18 3 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (3.91%) Docker
2 22 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.089%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 119 (10.58%) Terraform
2 96 (8.53%) Kubernetes
3 62 (5.51%) Grafana
4 24 (2.13%) Ansible
5 20 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.60%) Argo
7 18 (1.60%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.53%) Autotask
8 6 (0.53%) Puppet
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.089%) CASB
13 1 (0.089%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.089%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 191 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 118 (10.49%) Adobe
3 72 (6.40%) Salesforce
4 56 (4.98%) Google
5 51 (4.53%) Apple
6 35 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.02%) Splunk
8 31 (2.76%) Cisco
9 24 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (2.04%) Palo Alto
11 22 (1.96%) Tenable
12 13 (1.16%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.16%) SAP
13 12 (1.07%) Instagram
14 11 (0.98%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.98%) Meraki
14 11 (0.98%) Oracle
14 11 (0.98%) Wrike
15 10 (0.89%) Databricks
16 9 (0.80%) FIS