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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,172 1,934 1,884
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.49% 11.69% 5.90%
As % of the General category 9.24% 16.15% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 469 439 1,099
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,750 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,032 £72,061 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,957 £88,333 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year - +5.77% -20.00%

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 12,681 11,973 19,570
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.40% 72.39% 61.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,277 6,714 14,105
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £31,762
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,375 £97,500
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 13 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 43 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.02%) CMS
4 5 (0.43%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.34%) Confluence
5 4 (0.34%) SAS
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.085%) Drupal
7 1 (0.085%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (3.16%) Acrobat
2 31 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.77%) InDesign
5 8 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.43%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (2.05%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.51%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) Academy Housing
6 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.085%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (20.82%) AWS
2 213 (18.17%) Azure
3 182 (15.53%) GCP
4 162 (13.82%) SaaS
5 86 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 65 (5.55%) Amazon EKS
7 55 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (3.75%) dbt
9 42 (3.58%) Serverless
10 36 (3.07%) Power Automate
11 29 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (2.30%) Figma
13 25 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
14 23 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 23 (1.96%) PaaS
15 22 (1.88%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.71%) Google Analytics
16 20 (1.71%) PowerApps
17 18 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.63%) Broadband
2 27 (2.30%) VPN
3 23 (1.96%) Network Security
4 16 (1.37%) Firewall
4 16 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.19%) WAN
6 12 (1.02%) DNS
7 11 (0.94%) DHCP
8 9 (0.77%) SMTP
8 9 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.68%) LAN
10 7 (0.60%) VLAN
11 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.43%) BGP
12 5 (0.43%) Intranet
13 4 (0.34%) 4G
14 3 (0.26%) 5G
14 3 (0.26%) SSL
15 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
15 2 (0.17%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (6.48%) Power BI
2 35 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (2.39%) Tableau
4 22 (1.88%) Metadata
5 21 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 19 (1.62%) BigQuery
7 18 (1.54%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.19%) Semantic Layer
10 12 (1.02%) Looker
11 11 (0.94%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.68%) MySQL
13 8 (0.68%) Redis
14 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.51%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 60 (5.12%) TeamCity
2 51 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.33%) GitLab
4 34 (2.90%) SonarQube
5 30 (2.56%) Git
6 22 (1.88%) Snyk
7 11 (0.94%) JIRA
8 7 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.51%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.43%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.43%) 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%) Postman
11 3 (0.26%) Selenium
11 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.17%) Bower
13 1 (0.085%) Appium
General
1 410 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 333 (28.41%) Finance
3 315 (26.88%) Law
4 202 (17.24%) Banking
5 199 (16.98%) Retail
6 185 (15.78%) Public Sector
7 169 (14.42%) Marketing
8 151 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
9 136 (11.60%) Back Office
10 111 (9.47%) Financial Institution
11 78 (6.66%) Legal
12 59 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.16%) Games
15 32 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.79%) Polish Language
17 20 (1.71%) German Language
18 19 (1.62%) Local Government
19 16 (1.37%) Advertising
20 15 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 259 (22.10%) Senior
2 200 (17.06%) Architect
3 134 (11.43%) Analyst
4 76 (6.48%) Lead
5 66 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
6 65 (5.55%) Software Engineer
7 63 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (4.95%) Developer
9 44 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
10 41 (3.50%) Technical Architect
11 40 (3.41%) Consultant
12 38 (3.24%) Business Analyst
13 35 (2.99%) Security Architect
14 33 (2.82%) Salesforce Architect
15 31 (2.65%) Senior Architect
16 26 (2.22%) Designer
17 25 (2.13%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
19 23 (1.96%) Data Manager
19 23 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (6.74%) REST
2 49 (4.18%) Lightning Web Components
3 46 (3.92%) SOAP
4 44 (3.75%) Visualforce
5 32 (2.73%) HTML
6 31 (2.65%) CSS
7 30 (2.56%) Node.js
7 30 (2.56%) React
8 26 (2.22%) .NET
9 20 (1.71%) RESTful
10 16 (1.37%) EDI
11 14 (1.19%) Middleware
11 14 (1.19%) OpenAPI
12 13 (1.11%) XML
13 12 (1.02%) SAML
14 11 (0.94%) Swagger
15 9 (0.77%) HTML5 Canvas
16 8 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
17 7 (0.60%) Sass
17 7 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 183 (15.61%) Cloud Native
2 141 (12.03%) Product Ownership
3 99 (8.45%) Onboarding
4 54 (4.61%) Driving Licence
5 46 (3.92%) Cyberattack
5 46 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 45 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 43 (3.67%) Blog
7 43 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (3.58%) Social Media
9 28 (2.39%) Podcast
10 27 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (1.96%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.54%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 11 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.94%) Video Editing
15 10 (0.85%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
16 9 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.27%) Windows
2 26 (2.22%) Linux
3 17 (1.45%) Android
3 17 (1.45%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.28%) Unix
5 13 (1.11%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.02%) VMS
7 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (29.44%) Agile
2 274 (23.38%) AI
3 235 (20.05%) CI/CD
4 205 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
5 184 (15.70%) Roadmaps
6 177 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (15.02%) Technology Strategy
8 163 (13.91%) DevOps
9 162 (13.82%) Mentoring
10 159 (13.57%) Community of Practice
11 139 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
12 136 (11.60%) Decision-Making
13 134 (11.43%) Scrum
14 124 (10.58%) Software Engineering
15 116 (9.90%) Test Automation
16 106 (9.04%) Analytics
16 106 (9.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 98 (8.36%) Fintech
18 92 (7.85%) Coaching
18 92 (7.85%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 127 (10.84%) Python
2 125 (10.67%) Java
3 122 (10.41%) SQL
4 68 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 49 (4.18%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.90%) SOQL
6 34 (2.90%) SOSL
7 29 (2.47%) C#
8 28 (2.39%) Go
9 27 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.96%) Bash
11 22 (1.88%) TypeScript
12 21 (1.79%) Bicep
13 12 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.60%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.51%) R
16 5 (0.43%) Rust
17 3 (0.26%) Ada
17 3 (0.26%) Ruby
17 3 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 256 (21.84%) Degree
2 206 (17.58%) Security Cleared
3 201 (17.15%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 34 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.82%) CISSP
8 30 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (2.30%) CISM
10 25 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.45%) HNC
12 16 (1.37%) Azure Certification
13 14 (1.19%) CISA
14 13 (1.11%) CRISC
15 11 (0.94%) HND
15 11 (0.94%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.77%) CREST Certified
16 9 (0.77%) OSCP
17 8 (0.68%) PhD
18 7 (0.60%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (5.55%) Data Quality
2 63 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 57 (4.86%) NIST
4 53 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (4.10%) GRC
6 40 (3.41%) GDPR
7 36 (3.07%) QA
8 28 (2.39%) PCI DSS
9 26 (2.22%) SOC 2
10 25 (2.13%) SLA
11 22 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (1.28%) NCSC
12 15 (1.28%) WCAG
13 14 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 11 (0.94%) COBIT
16 10 (0.85%) PMO
17 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
18 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 3 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (3.41%) Docker
2 31 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.02%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 126 (10.75%) Terraform
2 93 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 69 (5.89%) Grafana
4 12 (1.02%) Ansible
4 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.77%) Autotask
6 8 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.51%) Argo
7 6 (0.51%) Kustomize
7 6 (0.51%) Puppet
8 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.17%) CASB
10 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.085%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.085%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.085%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.085%) WSUS
Vendors
1 191 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.94%) Adobe
3 63 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 43 (3.67%) Google
5 34 (2.90%) Splunk
6 32 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.56%) Cisco
8 26 (2.22%) Apple
9 23 (1.96%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.88%) Tenable
11 18 (1.54%) VMware
12 15 (1.28%) Oracle
12 15 (1.28%) SAP
13 13 (1.11%) Instagram
14 12 (1.02%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.94%) Dell
15 11 (0.94%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.94%) Wrike