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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 15 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +13
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,162 1,926 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.36% 11.68% 6.22%
As % of the General category 9.01% 16.15% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 467 428 1,046
10th Percentile £35,150 £29,000 £33,625
25th Percentile £50,951 £40,688 £42,287
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,224 £71,622 £68,631
90th Percentile £81,957 £86,776 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -19.23%

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 12,894 11,926 17,804
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.50% 72.35% 61.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8,337 6,669 12,568
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,959 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 22 July 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 37 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.03%) CMS
4 5 (0.43%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.26%) SAS
6 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.086%) Drupal
7 1 (0.086%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.32%) Acrobat
3 18 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.77%) InDesign
5 8 (0.69%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.52%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.17%) Simulink
9 1 (0.086%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 24 (2.07%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.34%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
5 1 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 238 (20.48%) AWS
2 211 (18.16%) Azure
3 183 (15.75%) GCP
4 165 (14.20%) SaaS
5 82 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 64 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (3.79%) dbt
9 42 (3.61%) Serverless
10 34 (2.93%) Power Automate
11 31 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (2.58%) Figma
13 27 (2.32%) Azure Key Vault
14 25 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
15 23 (1.98%) PaaS
16 21 (1.81%) Entra ID
17 20 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (1.72%) Google Analytics
18 19 (1.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.99%) Broadband
2 26 (2.24%) VPN
3 23 (1.98%) Network Security
4 17 (1.46%) Firewall
5 16 (1.38%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.03%) WAN
7 11 (0.95%) DNS
8 10 (0.86%) DHCP
9 8 (0.69%) SMTP
10 7 (0.60%) LAN
10 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.60%) VLAN
10 7 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.43%) Intranet
12 4 (0.34%) BGP
13 3 (0.26%) 4G
13 3 (0.26%) 5G
13 3 (0.26%) SSL
14 2 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
14 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.28%) Power BI
2 34 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.32%) Tableau
4 24 (2.07%) Metadata
5 19 (1.64%) BigQuery
5 19 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.95%) Looker
9 11 (0.95%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.69%) MySQL
11 8 (0.69%) Redis
12 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.52%) Big Data
14 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 59 (5.08%) TeamCity
2 53 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.36%) GitLab
4 36 (3.10%) Git
5 34 (2.93%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.89%) Snyk
7 11 (0.95%) JIRA
8 9 (0.77%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.52%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.52%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.43%) JMeter
10 5 (0.43%) JUnit
10 5 (0.43%) Locust
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) Postman
11 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.26%) Selenium
11 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.17%) Bower
General
1 414 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 339 (29.17%) Finance
3 307 (26.42%) Law
4 194 (16.70%) Banking
5 191 (16.44%) Retail
6 187 (16.09%) Public Sector
7 170 (14.63%) Marketing
8 155 (13.34%) Analytical Skills
9 133 (11.45%) Back Office
10 109 (9.38%) Financial Institution
11 73 (6.28%) Legal
12 62 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.18%) Games
14 37 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.72%) German Language
16 19 (1.64%) Local Government
16 19 (1.64%) Polish Language
17 17 (1.46%) Advertising
18 16 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 264 (22.72%) Senior
2 204 (17.56%) Architect
3 134 (11.53%) Analyst
4 73 (6.28%) Lead
5 67 (5.77%) Software Engineer
6 66 (5.68%) Senior Analyst
7 63 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (4.99%) Developer
9 44 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
10 43 (3.70%) Consultant
10 43 (3.70%) Technical Architect
11 37 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 35 (3.01%) Security Architect
13 33 (2.84%) Salesforce Architect
14 32 (2.75%) Senior Architect
15 26 (2.24%) Designer
15 26 (2.24%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
17 24 (2.07%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 24 (2.07%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (6.88%) REST
2 47 (4.04%) Lightning Web Components
3 44 (3.79%) SOAP
4 42 (3.61%) Visualforce
5 35 (3.01%) React
6 33 (2.84%) CSS
6 33 (2.84%) HTML
7 31 (2.67%) Node.js
8 28 (2.41%) .NET
9 21 (1.81%) RESTful
10 15 (1.29%) EDI
10 15 (1.29%) OpenAPI
11 13 (1.12%) XML
12 12 (1.03%) Middleware
12 12 (1.03%) Swagger
13 11 (0.95%) SAML
14 8 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.69%) ASP.NET
14 8 (0.69%) Django
14 8 (0.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 181 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 143 (12.31%) Product Ownership
3 86 (7.40%) Onboarding
4 50 (4.30%) Driving Licence
5 49 (4.22%) Management Information System
6 46 (3.96%) Cyberattack
7 45 (3.87%) Data Centre
8 44 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (3.44%) Social Media
10 39 (3.36%) Blog
11 27 (2.32%) Podcast
12 26 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.89%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.55%) Credit Risk
15 15 (1.29%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.95%) Video Editing
17 10 (0.86%) Data Structures
18 9 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
18 9 (0.77%) Low-Code
18 9 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (4.04%) Windows
2 18 (1.55%) Linux
3 16 (1.38%) Android
3 16 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.03%) VMS
4 12 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.77%) Unix
6 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (29.52%) Agile
2 287 (24.70%) AI
3 239 (20.57%) CI/CD
4 202 (17.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 181 (15.58%) Roadmaps
5 181 (15.58%) Technology Strategy
6 174 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
7 164 (14.11%) Mentoring
8 161 (13.86%) Community of Practice
9 160 (13.77%) DevOps
10 140 (12.05%) Cybersecurity
10 140 (12.05%) Decision-Making
11 138 (11.88%) Scrum
12 127 (10.93%) Software Engineering
13 116 (9.98%) Test Automation
14 110 (9.47%) Analytics
15 108 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 96 (8.26%) Coaching
17 93 (8.00%) Fintech
18 91 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (10.67%) Python
2 120 (10.33%) SQL
3 113 (9.72%) Java
4 60 (5.16%) JavaScript
5 47 (4.04%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.93%) SOQL
6 34 (2.93%) SOSL
7 30 (2.58%) C#
8 27 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.32%) TypeScript
9 22 (1.89%) Go
10 21 (1.81%) Bicep
11 17 (1.46%) Bash
12 12 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (0.86%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.43%) R
14 5 (0.43%) Rust
15 4 (0.34%) C
15 4 (0.34%) PHP
16 3 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 261 (22.46%) Degree
2 209 (17.99%) Security Cleared
3 202 (17.38%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.84%) CISSP
5 33 (2.84%) DBS Check
6 27 (2.32%) AWS Certification
6 27 (2.32%) CISM
6 27 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.29%) HNC
10 14 (1.20%) CISA
11 13 (1.12%) CRISC
11 13 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.03%) PhD
13 11 (0.95%) DV Cleared
14 9 (0.77%) HND
15 8 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.54%) Accessibility
2 64 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 59 (5.08%) NIST
4 52 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (4.22%) GRC
6 40 (3.44%) GDPR
7 35 (3.01%) QA
8 27 (2.32%) PCI DSS
9 25 (2.15%) SOC 2
10 23 (1.98%) SLA
11 22 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (1.46%) WCAG
13 16 (1.38%) NCSC
14 14 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 13 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 10 (0.86%) COBIT
16 10 (0.86%) PMO
17 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (3.44%) Docker
2 30 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.03%) vSphere
7 7 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (10.15%) Terraform
2 85 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.85%) Grafana
4 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.69%) Autotask
6 6 (0.52%) Ansible
6 6 (0.52%) Puppet
7 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.26%) CASB
8 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.086%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.086%) SCCM
10 1 (0.086%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.086%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 186 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.23%) Adobe
3 63 (5.42%) Salesforce
4 38 (3.27%) Google
5 34 (2.93%) Splunk
6 31 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.50%) Cisco
8 26 (2.24%) Apple
9 24 (2.07%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.89%) Tenable
11 18 (1.55%) VMware
12 14 (1.20%) Instagram
12 14 (1.20%) Oracle
13 13 (1.12%) SAP
14 12 (1.03%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.95%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.95%) Wrike
16 10 (0.86%) Dell