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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 43
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,092 1,219 1,835
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.02% 9.05% 5.64%
As % of the General category 10.81% 12.54% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 442 444 1,092
10th Percentile £20,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,195 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £90,175 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year - +8.91% -22.31%

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 10,101 9,722 20,128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.68% 72.19% 61.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 6,497 15,129
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 2 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 55 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.19%) CMS
3 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.27%) Confluence
5 3 (0.27%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.092%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.092%) Drupal
7 1 (0.092%) IIS
7 1 (0.092%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.39%) Acrobat
3 24 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.83%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.18%) Maya
6 2 (0.18%) MotionBuilder
7 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.092%) InDesign
7 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.47%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.55%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.37%) Academy Housing
4 3 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.092%) Magento
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 228 (20.88%) AWS
2 187 (17.12%) Azure
3 144 (13.19%) SaaS
4 135 (12.36%) GCP
5 60 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (5.22%) Power Platform
7 56 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
8 30 (2.75%) Figma
9 29 (2.66%) Entra ID
10 28 (2.56%) Serverless
11 24 (2.20%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.20%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.20%) Pulumi
12 20 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (1.56%) dbt
13 17 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.37%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 14 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (7.33%) Broadband
2 20 (1.83%) VPN
3 18 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.56%) DNS
4 17 (1.56%) Firewall
5 16 (1.47%) 4G
5 16 (1.47%) BGP
5 16 (1.47%) DHCP
6 15 (1.37%) WAN
7 13 (1.19%) LAN
8 12 (1.10%) Network Security
9 11 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
9 11 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (1.01%) IOS XR
9 11 (1.01%) MPLS
10 9 (0.82%) SMTP
10 9 (0.82%) VLAN
10 9 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.37%) 5G
11 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (4.49%) Power BI
2 26 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (2.20%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.74%) RDBMS
5 17 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 16 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.10%) Metadata
7 12 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.92%) Looker
9 9 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 8 (0.73%) Redis
11 7 (0.64%) Tableau
12 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (0.27%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.27%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 47 (4.30%) TeamCity
2 39 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.39%) GitLab
4 34 (3.11%) SonarQube
5 24 (2.20%) Git
6 20 (1.83%) Axure RP
6 20 (1.83%) Balsamiq
7 19 (1.74%) Jaeger
8 16 (1.47%) Snyk
9 10 (0.92%) JIRA
10 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.46%) JMeter
10 5 (0.46%) Locust
11 4 (0.37%) Selenium
12 3 (0.27%) JUnit
12 3 (0.27%) Postman
12 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 1 (0.092%) git-flow
14 1 (0.092%) jMock
General
1 349 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 297 (27.20%) Finance
3 291 (26.65%) Law
4 206 (18.86%) Public Sector
5 187 (17.12%) Retail
6 177 (16.21%) Banking
7 148 (13.55%) Marketing
8 134 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
9 120 (10.99%) Back Office
10 100 (9.16%) Financial Institution
11 53 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (4.76%) Legal
13 38 (3.48%) Games
14 36 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
15 26 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.65%) German Language
18 16 (1.47%) Polish Language
19 14 (1.28%) Italian Language
20 13 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 201 (18.41%) Senior
2 129 (11.81%) Architect
3 112 (10.26%) Analyst
4 79 (7.23%) Lead
5 52 (4.76%) Developer
6 46 (4.21%) Software Engineer
7 45 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
8 43 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (3.48%) Consultant
10 33 (3.02%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (2.93%) Business Analyst
12 31 (2.84%) Alliance Manager
13 29 (2.66%) Designer
14 27 (2.47%) Senior Architect
15 26 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (2.29%) Senior Manager
17 23 (2.11%) Technical Architect
18 21 (1.92%) Cloud Architect
19 20 (1.83%) Cloud Engineer
19 20 (1.83%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.50%) REST
2 48 (4.40%) Lightning Web Components
2 48 (4.40%) SOAP
2 48 (4.40%) Visualforce
3 27 (2.47%) HTML
4 26 (2.38%) .NET
5 24 (2.20%) CSS
5 24 (2.20%) React
6 21 (1.92%) EDI
7 19 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 16 (1.47%) Middleware
9 15 (1.37%) Node.js
10 13 (1.19%) RESTful
11 12 (1.10%) SAML
12 11 (1.01%) Jinja
12 11 (1.01%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.01%) YANG
13 10 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (0.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 138 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 129 (11.81%) Onboarding
3 119 (10.90%) Product Ownership
4 111 (10.16%) Blog
5 52 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 46 (4.21%) Driving Licence
7 44 (4.03%) Data Centre
8 39 (3.57%) Cyberattack
9 36 (3.30%) Social Media
10 29 (2.66%) Public Cloud
11 25 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (2.01%) Podcast
14 12 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 11 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.01%) Video Editing
16 9 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
17 8 (0.73%) Low-Code
18 7 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.57%) Linux
2 33 (3.02%) Windows
3 28 (2.56%) Unix
4 17 (1.56%) Android
5 15 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.092%) Debian
8 1 (0.092%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (26.19%) Agile
2 275 (25.18%) AI
3 182 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 176 (16.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 172 (15.75%) Roadmaps
6 157 (14.38%) Community of Practice
7 151 (13.83%) DevOps
8 145 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (13.28%) Technology Strategy
9 132 (12.09%) Cybersecurity
10 127 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 103 (9.43%) Scrum
12 95 (8.70%) Customer Service
12 95 (8.70%) Software Engineering
13 89 (8.15%) Test Automation
14 88 (8.06%) Business Development
15 84 (7.69%) TOGAF
16 81 (7.42%) Fintech
17 79 (7.23%) Analytics
18 75 (6.87%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (11.63%) Java
2 118 (10.81%) Python
3 81 (7.42%) JavaScript
4 75 (6.87%) SQL
5 48 (4.40%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.48%) Go
7 34 (3.11%) SOQL
7 34 (3.11%) SOSL
8 31 (2.84%) C#
9 22 (2.01%) Bash
10 19 (1.74%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.64%) Bicep
13 4 (0.37%) C
13 4 (0.37%) R
14 3 (0.27%) C++
14 3 (0.27%) Rust
15 2 (0.18%) RPG
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.092%) PHP
Qualifications
1 293 (26.83%) Degree
2 167 (15.29%) Security Cleared
3 162 (14.84%) SC Cleared
4 55 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.75%) CISSP
8 26 (2.38%) DBS Check
9 22 (2.01%) CISM
10 18 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.37%) PMP
12 14 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.01%) CISA
13 11 (1.01%) OSCP
14 10 (0.92%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.92%) CRISC
15 8 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.73%) HNC
15 8 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.14%) Accessibility
2 48 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (4.21%) NIST
4 39 (3.57%) GRC
5 36 (3.30%) QA
6 28 (2.56%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.56%) WCAG
7 26 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (2.29%) PCI DSS
9 24 (2.20%) SOC 2
10 18 (1.65%) GDPR
11 15 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.82%) PMO
13 8 (0.73%) SLA
14 5 (0.46%) NCSC
14 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.37%) COBIT
15 4 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.27%) EMIR
16 3 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (4.03%) Docker
2 20 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.092%) iptables
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 114 (10.44%) Terraform
2 90 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 57 (5.22%) Grafana
4 26 (2.38%) Ansible
5 21 (1.92%) Argo
6 20 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.74%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.55%) Puppet
9 5 (0.46%) Autotask
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.092%) CASB
13 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.092%) Nessus
Vendors
1 188 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 112 (10.26%) Adobe
3 71 (6.50%) Salesforce
4 59 (5.40%) Google
5 42 (3.85%) Apple
6 34 (3.11%) Splunk
7 32 (2.93%) Cisco
8 28 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
10 17 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.47%) Tenable
12 14 (1.28%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.19%) SAP
14 12 (1.10%) Instagram
15 11 (1.01%) Databricks
15 11 (1.01%) Hootsuite
15 11 (1.01%) Meraki
15 11 (1.01%) Wrike
16 10 (0.92%) Oracle
17 9 (0.82%) CyberArk