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 6 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 30 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,062 1,187 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.34% 8.17% 5.67%
As % of the General category 10.87% 11.50% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 454 445 958
10th Percentile £20,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,707 £47,000 £43,020
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,144 £79,600
90th Percentile £82,241 £95,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £59,430 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.87% +13.20% -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 9,770 10,321 17,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.32% 71.07% 61.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,205 6,193 14,116
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -8.84%

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 6 March 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 64 (6.03%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.04%) CMS
4 4 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.19%) Confluence
6 2 (0.19%) WordPress
7 1 (0.094%) Apache
7 1 (0.094%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.094%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.094%) Drupal
7 1 (0.094%) WildFly
Applications
1 62 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.48%) Acrobat
3 31 (2.92%) Adobe XD
4 27 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.38%) Maya
6 4 (0.38%) MotionBuilder
7 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.19%) InDesign
9 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.094%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.094%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.094%) SmartSuite
9 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.22%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.38%) Academy Housing
3 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.38%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.38%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.094%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.094%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.094%) Primavera
6 1 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.094%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.094%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.094%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 204 (19.21%) AWS
2 148 (13.94%) Azure
3 132 (12.43%) SaaS
4 98 (9.23%) GCP
5 80 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (5.93%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (3.95%) Figma
9 26 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.26%) Pulumi
11 22 (2.07%) Entra ID
11 22 (2.07%) Google Analytics
11 22 (2.07%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.98%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.88%) Miro
14 18 (1.69%) PaaS
15 17 (1.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 17 (1.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 17 (1.60%) Serverless
16 16 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 76 (7.16%) Broadband
2 22 (2.07%) VPN
3 20 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.69%) BGP
5 16 (1.51%) 4G
6 15 (1.41%) DNS
7 14 (1.32%) DHCP
7 14 (1.32%) LAN
7 14 (1.32%) WAN
8 11 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.04%) IOS XR
8 11 (1.04%) MPLS
8 11 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.85%) Firewall
9 9 (0.85%) SMTP
10 8 (0.75%) VLAN
11 4 (0.38%) 5G
11 4 (0.38%) Network Security
12 3 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.71%) Power BI
2 29 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.73%) Relational Database
3 19 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 19 (1.79%) RDBMS
4 18 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 18 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.94%) Metadata
7 7 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 7 (0.66%) Looker
7 7 (0.66%) Tableau
8 6 (0.56%) Redis
9 5 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.38%) MySQL
11 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.28%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 48 (4.52%) TeamCity
2 35 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.20%) GitLab
4 33 (3.11%) SonarQube
5 29 (2.73%) Git
6 24 (2.26%) Axure RP
6 24 (2.26%) Balsamiq
7 19 (1.79%) Jaeger
8 8 (0.75%) JIRA
9 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.47%) JMeter
9 5 (0.47%) Selenium
9 5 (0.47%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.28%) Locust
10 3 (0.28%) Storybook
11 2 (0.19%) JUnit
11 2 (0.19%) Postman
11 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.094%) Deequ
General
1 316 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 267 (25.14%) Finance
3 244 (22.98%) Law
4 191 (17.98%) Public Sector
5 190 (17.89%) Retail
6 146 (13.75%) Banking
7 135 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
8 121 (11.39%) Marketing
9 106 (9.98%) Back Office
10 101 (9.51%) Financial Institution
11 52 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
12 38 (3.58%) Games
13 30 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (2.73%) Telecoms
15 28 (2.64%) Legal
16 19 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.41%) Polish Language
18 8 (0.75%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.66%) Digital Health
20 6 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (17.14%) Senior
2 96 (9.04%) Lead
3 79 (7.44%) Architect
4 77 (7.25%) Analyst
5 66 (6.21%) Developer
6 51 (4.80%) Senior Manager
7 44 (4.14%) Account Manager
8 43 (4.05%) Software Engineer
9 37 (3.48%) Consultant
9 37 (3.48%) Sales Account Manager
9 37 (3.48%) Sales Manager
9 37 (3.48%) Senior Account Manager
9 37 (3.48%) Senior Sales Manager
10 32 (3.01%) Alliance Manager
11 31 (2.92%) Salesforce Architect
12 29 (2.73%) Designer
13 28 (2.64%) Technical Architect
14 27 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (2.45%) Microsoft Specialist
16 25 (2.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (6.97%) REST
2 50 (4.71%) Lightning Web Components
2 50 (4.71%) SOAP
2 50 (4.71%) Visualforce
3 36 (3.39%) .NET
4 28 (2.64%) React
5 27 (2.54%) HTML
6 24 (2.26%) CSS
7 20 (1.88%) EDI
8 19 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
9 18 (1.69%) Middleware
10 16 (1.51%) Node.js
10 16 (1.51%) RESTful
11 15 (1.41%) HTML5 Canvas
12 13 (1.22%) Web Services
13 12 (1.13%) Django
13 12 (1.13%) SAML
13 12 (1.13%) Sass
14 11 (1.04%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 136 (12.81%) Blog
2 130 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 115 (10.83%) Cloud Native
4 103 (9.70%) Product Ownership
5 45 (4.24%) Driving Licence
6 36 (3.39%) Social Media
7 35 (3.30%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.64%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 12 (1.13%) Video Editing
14 11 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (0.85%) Podcast
15 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 7 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.77%) Linux
2 34 (3.20%) Windows
3 24 (2.26%) Unix
4 15 (1.41%) Android
5 13 (1.22%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.094%) Debian
8 1 (0.094%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (26.46%) AI
2 256 (24.11%) Agile
3 196 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 150 (14.12%) CI/CD
5 146 (13.75%) Customer Service
6 140 (13.18%) DevOps
7 131 (12.34%) Community of Practice
8 126 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (11.68%) Roadmaps
10 111 (10.45%) Mentoring
11 97 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
12 92 (8.66%) CRM
12 92 (8.66%) Technology Strategy
13 89 (8.38%) B2B
14 87 (8.19%) Business Development
14 87 (8.19%) Project Management
15 86 (8.10%) Analytics
16 83 (7.82%) Software Engineering
17 80 (7.53%) Test Automation
18 79 (7.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 133 (12.52%) Java
2 106 (9.98%) Python
3 88 (8.29%) JavaScript
4 50 (4.71%) Apex Code
5 48 (4.52%) SQL
6 42 (3.95%) C#
7 33 (3.11%) Go
7 33 (3.11%) SOQL
7 33 (3.11%) SOSL
8 22 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.88%) Bash
10 5 (0.47%) C
11 4 (0.38%) C++
11 4 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.38%) R
11 4 (0.38%) RPG
12 2 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.19%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.094%) ABAP
13 1 (0.094%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 298 (28.06%) Degree
2 140 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 137 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.17%) PMP
8 21 (1.98%) DBS Check
9 20 (1.88%) CISSP
10 17 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.13%) CISM
13 12 (1.13%) CREST Certified
13 12 (1.13%) OSCP
14 9 (0.85%) CISA
15 8 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.75%) CRISC
16 6 (0.56%) HNC
17 5 (0.47%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.40%) Accessibility
2 46 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (3.39%) QA
4 31 (2.92%) WCAG
5 28 (2.64%) PCI DSS
5 28 (2.64%) SOC 2
6 25 (2.35%) GDPR
7 23 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (1.69%) NIST
9 17 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 14 (1.32%) GRC
11 11 (1.04%) Data Quality
11 11 (1.04%) SLA
12 9 (0.85%) PMO
13 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.47%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
15 3 (0.28%) NCSC
15 3 (0.28%) PERC
15 3 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 37 (3.48%) Docker
2 20 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.094%) iptables
4 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (10.08%) Terraform
2 89 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 55 (5.18%) Grafana
4 23 (2.17%) Argo
5 21 (1.98%) Ansible
6 20 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (1.79%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.79%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.47%) Autotask
8 5 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.094%) CASB
11 1 (0.094%) Nessus
11 1 (0.094%) Puppet
Vendors
1 207 (19.49%) Microsoft
2 108 (10.17%) Adobe
3 78 (7.34%) Salesforce
4 58 (5.46%) Google
5 33 (3.11%) Splunk
6 30 (2.82%) Cisco
7 26 (2.45%) Apple
8 17 (1.60%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.51%) Oracle
10 14 (1.32%) Instagram
11 13 (1.22%) SAP
12 12 (1.13%) Hootsuite
13 11 (1.04%) Wrike
14 10 (0.94%) Databricks
14 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.85%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.75%) Meraki
17 6 (0.56%) Dell
17 6 (0.56%) PagerDuty
17 6 (0.56%) Planon