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

6 months to
1 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 1,130 1,920 1,855
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.89% 12.82% 5.56%
As % of the General category 10.26% 17.10% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 410 433 1,098
10th Percentile £34,125 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,608 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,625 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% - -20.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,108 £90,000 £87,875
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 11,009 11,227 20,429
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.34% 74.97% 61.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7,253 6,192 15,113
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,250 £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 £81,063 £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 1 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 56 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.06%) CMS
4 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.35%) Confluence
4 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.27%) Apache
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.27%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.088%) Drupal
7 1 (0.088%) IIS
Applications
1 48 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.27%) Acrobat
3 22 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.06%) 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
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 260 (23.01%) AWS
2 206 (18.23%) Azure
3 166 (14.69%) GCP
4 154 (13.63%) SaaS
5 82 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 61 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (3.19%) Serverless
9 35 (3.10%) Power Automate
10 30 (2.65%) Figma
11 27 (2.39%) Entra ID
12 25 (2.21%) Google Analytics
13 24 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 23 (2.04%) Pulumi
15 21 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (1.77%) dbt
17 19 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (1.68%) PowerApps
18 12 (1.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 12 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 85 (7.52%) Broadband
2 18 (1.59%) Network Security
3 16 (1.42%) 4G
3 16 (1.42%) Firewall
3 16 (1.42%) VPN
4 15 (1.33%) BGP
4 15 (1.33%) DHCP
4 15 (1.33%) DNS
4 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.33%) WAN
5 12 (1.06%) LAN
6 11 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.97%) IOS XR
6 11 (0.97%) MPLS
7 10 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.80%) SMTP
9 7 (0.62%) VLAN
10 5 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.64%) Power BI
2 31 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (2.21%) Relational Database
4 24 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 24 (2.12%) Tableau
5 19 (1.68%) Metadata
6 18 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 16 (1.42%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.06%) Looker
9 11 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
10 10 (0.88%) SQL Server
11 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.71%) Redis
13 6 (0.53%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.53%) MySQL
14 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (4.87%) TeamCity
2 47 (4.16%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.45%) GitLab
4 34 (3.01%) SonarQube
5 25 (2.21%) Git
6 22 (1.95%) Snyk
7 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
8 12 (1.06%) Axure RP
8 12 (1.06%) Balsamiq
9 10 (0.88%) JIRA
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.44%) JMeter
10 5 (0.44%) Locust
11 4 (0.35%) JUnit
11 4 (0.35%) Selenium
12 3 (0.27%) Postman
12 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.088%) Ant
13 1 (0.088%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.088%) WebDriver
General
1 365 (32.30%) Social Skills
2 333 (29.47%) Finance
3 306 (27.08%) Law
4 197 (17.43%) Public Sector
5 194 (17.17%) Banking
6 190 (16.81%) Retail
7 158 (13.98%) Marketing
8 157 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
9 130 (11.50%) Back Office
10 108 (9.56%) Financial Institution
11 71 (6.28%) Legal
12 54 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
13 41 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (3.19%) Games
15 30 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.68%) German Language
17 19 (1.68%) Polish Language
18 15 (1.33%) Local Government
19 14 (1.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 225 (19.91%) Senior
2 155 (13.72%) Architect
3 134 (11.86%) Analyst
4 82 (7.26%) Lead
5 59 (5.22%) Software Engineer
6 56 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
7 54 (4.78%) Developer
8 46 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.10%) Consultant
9 35 (3.10%) Senior Architect
10 33 (2.92%) Business Analyst
10 33 (2.92%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (2.83%) Designer
12 30 (2.65%) Security Architect
13 29 (2.57%) Cloud Architect
14 27 (2.39%) Technical Architect
15 25 (2.21%) Data Manager
15 25 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (2.04%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (6.46%) REST
2 50 (4.42%) Lightning Web Components
3 46 (4.07%) SOAP
3 46 (4.07%) Visualforce
4 31 (2.74%) HTML
5 29 (2.57%) CSS
6 27 (2.39%) .NET
7 25 (2.21%) React
8 23 (2.04%) EDI
9 22 (1.95%) Node.js
10 20 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (1.33%) Middleware
13 14 (1.24%) 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 (0.80%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 158 (13.98%) Cloud Native
2 132 (11.68%) Product Ownership
3 117 (10.35%) Onboarding
4 50 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 48 (4.25%) Data Centre
6 47 (4.16%) Blog
6 47 (4.16%) Social Media
7 46 (4.07%) Cyberattack
8 41 (3.63%) Driving Licence
9 28 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 27 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.42%) Podcast
13 13 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.97%) Credit Risk
14 11 (0.97%) Video Editing
15 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 8 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.54%) Windows
2 38 (3.36%) Linux
3 27 (2.39%) Unix
4 21 (1.86%) Android
5 19 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (28.50%) Agile
2 269 (23.81%) AI
3 208 (18.41%) CI/CD
4 190 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 190 (16.81%) Roadmaps
5 161 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (14.07%) Community of Practice
7 156 (13.81%) Technology Strategy
8 155 (13.72%) DevOps
9 146 (12.92%) Mentoring
10 134 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
11 113 (10.00%) Scrum
12 109 (9.65%) Software Engineering
13 107 (9.47%) Decision-Making
13 107 (9.47%) Test Automation
14 94 (8.32%) Fintech
15 92 (8.14%) TOGAF
16 90 (7.96%) Analytics
17 84 (7.43%) CRM
18 82 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (12.04%) Java
2 133 (11.77%) Python
3 99 (8.76%) SQL
4 79 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.42%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.36%) Go
7 34 (3.01%) SOQL
7 34 (3.01%) SOSL
8 31 (2.74%) C#
9 22 (1.95%) Bash
10 21 (1.86%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.62%) Bicep
13 5 (0.44%) C
14 4 (0.35%) R
14 4 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.27%) Ada
15 3 (0.27%) Ruby
15 3 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 246 (21.77%) Degree
2 172 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 167 (14.78%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 42 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.36%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (2.57%) CISSP
9 26 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.04%) CISM
11 13 (1.15%) 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 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.62%) CITP
16 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.11%) Accessibility
2 60 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (4.51%) NIST
5 48 (4.25%) GRC
6 40 (3.54%) QA
7 36 (3.19%) GDPR
8 26 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (2.30%) PCI DSS
9 23 (2.04%) SOC 2
10 20 (1.77%) WCAG
11 18 (1.59%) SLA
12 14 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.97%) PMO
14 8 (0.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.71%) NCSC
15 7 (0.62%) COBIT
16 3 (0.27%) EMIR
16 3 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (3.98%) Docker
2 22 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (10.62%) Terraform
2 100 (8.85%) Kubernetes
3 64 (5.66%) Grafana
4 24 (2.12%) Ansible
5 19 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.59%) Argo
6 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
6 18 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.80%) Autotask
8 6 (0.53%) Puppet
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.18%) CASB
12 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.088%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.088%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 201 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 122 (10.80%) Adobe
3 67 (5.93%) Salesforce
4 58 (5.13%) Google
5 51 (4.51%) Apple
6 34 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.01%) Splunk
7 32 (2.83%) Cisco
8 24 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (2.04%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.95%) Tenable
11 15 (1.33%) SAP
12 14 (1.24%) Oracle
13 12 (1.06%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.97%) Hootsuite
14 11 (0.97%) Instagram
14 11 (0.97%) Meraki
14 11 (0.97%) Wrike
15 10 (0.88%) Databricks
16 9 (0.80%) FIS