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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -10
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,084 1,034 1,799
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.20% 7.89% 5.67%
As % of the General category 10.97% 11.01% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 446 462 1,077
10th Percentile £20,000 £34,300 £31,920
25th Percentile £28,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% +4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £74,066 £72,281 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,340 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,150
% change year-on-year - +7.53% -21.31%

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 9,879 9,391 19,501
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.54% 71.67% 61.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,570 6,454 15,132
10th Percentile £30,475 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £41,992
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £56,376
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +7.31% -9.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -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 13 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 52 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.20%) CMS
3 12 (1.11%) 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%) WordPress
7 1 (0.092%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.092%) Drupal
7 1 (0.092%) IIS
7 1 (0.092%) WildFly
Applications
1 53 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.41%) Acrobat
3 24 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (2.12%) Adobe XD
5 21 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.18%) Maya
6 2 (0.18%) MotionBuilder
7 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.092%) InDesign
7 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.092%) SmartSuite
7 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.83%) Cloudability
3 6 (0.55%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.37%) Academy Housing
4 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.092%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.092%) Magento
7 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 235 (21.68%) AWS
2 178 (16.42%) Azure
3 157 (14.48%) SaaS
4 133 (12.27%) GCP
5 67 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
6 62 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
7 55 (5.07%) Power Platform
8 32 (2.95%) Figma
9 30 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 27 (2.49%) Serverless
11 24 (2.21%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.21%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.21%) Pulumi
12 22 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (1.66%) dbt
14 18 (1.66%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 76 (7.01%) Broadband
2 20 (1.85%) VPN
3 19 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.66%) BGP
5 17 (1.57%) DNS
6 16 (1.48%) 4G
6 16 (1.48%) DHCP
7 13 (1.20%) Firewall
7 13 (1.20%) LAN
7 13 (1.20%) WAN
8 11 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.01%) IOS XR
8 11 (1.01%) MPLS
9 9 (0.83%) SMTP
9 9 (0.83%) VLAN
9 9 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.74%) Network Security
11 4 (0.37%) 5G
12 3 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.06%) Power BI
2 29 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (2.21%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 19 (1.75%) RDBMS
6 13 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.01%) Metadata
9 10 (0.92%) Looker
10 8 (0.74%) Redis
11 7 (0.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.46%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.46%) Tableau
13 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.28%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 54 (4.98%) TeamCity
2 35 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.14%) GitLab
3 34 (3.14%) SonarQube
4 27 (2.49%) Git
5 23 (2.12%) Axure RP
5 23 (2.12%) Balsamiq
6 19 (1.75%) Jaeger
7 11 (1.01%) Snyk
8 10 (0.92%) JIRA
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) JMeter
9 5 (0.46%) Locust
9 5 (0.46%) Selenium
10 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.28%) JUnit
10 3 (0.28%) Postman
10 3 (0.28%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 341 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 320 (29.52%) Finance
3 304 (28.04%) Law
4 208 (19.19%) Public Sector
5 206 (19.00%) Retail
6 191 (17.62%) Banking
7 145 (13.38%) Marketing
8 136 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
9 135 (12.45%) Back Office
10 118 (10.89%) Financial Institution
11 46 (4.24%) Legal
11 46 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
12 39 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (3.51%) Games
14 26 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.57%) Polish Language
17 14 (1.29%) German Language
18 13 (1.20%) Italian Language
19 12 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 177 (16.33%) Senior
2 114 (10.52%) Architect
3 102 (9.41%) Analyst
4 86 (7.93%) Lead
5 59 (5.44%) Developer
6 49 (4.52%) Software Engineer
7 44 (4.06%) Consultant
8 42 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
10 33 (3.04%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 31 (2.86%) Alliance Manager
13 30 (2.77%) Designer
14 28 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (2.31%) Technical Architect
16 24 (2.21%) Senior Manager
17 22 (2.03%) Senior Architect
18 20 (1.85%) Senior Developer
19 19 (1.75%) Cloud Engineer
20 18 (1.66%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (7.01%) REST
2 50 (4.61%) Lightning Web Components
2 50 (4.61%) SOAP
2 50 (4.61%) Visualforce
3 30 (2.77%) .NET
3 30 (2.77%) HTML
4 27 (2.49%) CSS
5 26 (2.40%) React
6 23 (2.12%) EDI
7 19 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.75%) Middleware
7 19 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (1.57%) RESTful
9 12 (1.11%) SAML
10 11 (1.01%) HTML5 Canvas
10 11 (1.01%) Jinja
10 11 (1.01%) NETCONF
10 11 (1.01%) Node.js
10 11 (1.01%) Sass
10 11 (1.01%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 143 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 141 (13.01%) Blog
3 128 (11.81%) Onboarding
4 121 (11.16%) Product Ownership
5 48 (4.43%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.51%) Data Centre
6 38 (3.51%) Driving Licence
7 31 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (2.77%) Social Media
9 28 (2.58%) Cyberattack
9 28 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.03%) Podcast
10 22 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.01%) Video Editing
13 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.06%) Linux
2 36 (3.32%) Windows
3 28 (2.58%) Unix
4 17 (1.57%) Android
5 15 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.092%) Debian
9 1 (0.092%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (26.57%) AI
2 279 (25.74%) Agile
3 190 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 186 (17.16%) CI/CD
5 163 (15.04%) Roadmaps
6 159 (14.67%) DevOps
7 152 (14.02%) Community of Practice
8 144 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
9 131 (12.08%) Technology Strategy
10 121 (11.16%) Mentoring
11 120 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
12 111 (10.24%) Customer Service
13 105 (9.69%) Software Engineering
14 103 (9.50%) Scrum
15 96 (8.86%) Business Development
16 90 (8.30%) Test Automation
17 86 (7.93%) Fintech
18 80 (7.38%) Project Management
19 78 (7.20%) Analytics
20 73 (6.73%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 142 (13.10%) Java
2 110 (10.15%) Python
3 85 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 63 (5.81%) SQL
5 50 (4.61%) Apex Code
6 37 (3.41%) C#
6 37 (3.41%) Go
7 34 (3.14%) SOQL
7 34 (3.14%) SOSL
8 20 (1.85%) Bash
9 19 (1.75%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.55%) Bicep
12 5 (0.46%) C
13 4 (0.37%) C++
13 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.37%) R
14 2 (0.18%) RPG
15 1 (0.092%) ABAP
15 1 (0.092%) PHP
Qualifications
1 304 (28.04%) Degree
2 158 (14.58%) Security Cleared
3 153 (14.11%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 41 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (2.49%) CISSP
8 25 (2.31%) DBS Check
9 22 (2.03%) PMP
10 19 (1.75%) CISM
11 18 (1.66%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.38%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.38%) OSCP
13 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 11 (1.01%) CISA
16 9 (0.83%) CRISC
16 9 (0.83%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.65%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.27%) Accessibility
2 53 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (3.97%) NIST
4 37 (3.41%) QA
5 32 (2.95%) GRC
6 31 (2.86%) WCAG
7 30 (2.77%) PCI DSS
8 29 (2.68%) SOC 2
9 24 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.94%) GDPR
11 16 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.01%) Data Quality
12 11 (1.01%) PMO
12 11 (1.01%) SLA
13 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.37%) NCSC
15 3 (0.28%) EMIR
15 3 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (3.97%) Docker
2 19 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.092%) iptables
5 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 128 (11.81%) Terraform
2 100 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 64 (5.90%) Grafana
4 24 (2.21%) Ansible
5 23 (2.12%) Argo
6 20 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.75%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.46%) Autotask
8 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.37%) Puppet
9 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.092%) CASB
12 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.092%) Nessus
Vendors
1 185 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.69%) Adobe
3 74 (6.83%) Salesforce
4 60 (5.54%) Google
5 35 (3.23%) Apple
6 34 (3.14%) Splunk
7 29 (2.68%) Cisco
8 21 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 19 (1.75%) SAP
10 16 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.20%) Oracle
12 12 (1.11%) Instagram
12 12 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 11 (1.01%) Hootsuite
13 11 (1.01%) Tenable
13 11 (1.01%) Wrike
14 10 (0.92%) Databricks
15 9 (0.83%) CyberArk
15 9 (0.83%) Meraki