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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +3
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,520 1,907 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.10% 11.54% 6.91%
As % of the General category 9.90% 16.30% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 472 413 573
10th Percentile £31,567 £25,655 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -3.57%
75th Percentile £78,224 £72,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £83,625 £82,500 £87,066
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%

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 15,348 11,699 13,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.58% 70.79% 62.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 6,155 7,508
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.80% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 12 October 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 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.79%) Confluence
4 8 (0.53%) CMS
5 7 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.39%) WordPress
7 5 (0.33%) Apache
7 5 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.26%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.13%) Moodle
11 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 74 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.12%) Simulink
5 14 (0.92%) Maple
6 10 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.66%) Notion
6 10 (0.66%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.53%) InDesign
8 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.46%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.26%) Mathcad
10 4 (0.26%) Revit
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 19 (1.25%) Cloudability
2 16 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.66%) Primavera
5 9 (0.59%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Midas
8 3 (0.20%) SAP R/3
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.066%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 281 (18.49%) AWS
2 220 (14.47%) GCP
3 217 (14.28%) Azure
4 179 (11.78%) SaaS
5 99 (6.51%) Power Platform
6 88 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (2.83%) Serverless
9 40 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
11 33 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (2.17%) dbt
12 32 (2.11%) Figma
13 27 (1.78%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.78%) Power Automate
14 26 (1.71%) GitHub
14 26 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
14 26 (1.71%) PowerApps
15 24 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.25%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.70%) Network Security
2 25 (1.64%) VPN
3 24 (1.58%) Ethernet
4 21 (1.38%) Firewall
4 21 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.18%) Broadband
6 15 (0.99%) VLAN
7 13 (0.86%) Modbus
7 13 (0.86%) Profibus
8 9 (0.59%) 5G
8 9 (0.59%) WAN
9 8 (0.53%) BGP
9 8 (0.53%) Intranet
10 7 (0.46%) DNS
10 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.39%) DHCP
12 5 (0.33%) MPLS
13 4 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.26%) Internet
13 4 (0.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.79%) Power BI
2 61 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (2.24%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.91%) Metadata
5 28 (1.84%) Tableau
6 25 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.12%) MySQL
9 16 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
12 13 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.86%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.79%) Big Data
13 12 (0.79%) GIS
14 10 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.53%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.46%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 91 (5.99%) TeamCity
2 70 (4.61%) Git
3 29 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.91%) JIRA
4 20 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
5 18 (1.18%) JUnit
6 15 (0.99%) Snyk
7 14 (0.92%) LabVIEW
8 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 6 (0.39%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.33%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.33%) GitLab
11 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) CMake
12 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.13%) Bower
13 2 (0.13%) Gradle
13 2 (0.13%) MLflow
14 1 (0.066%) Artifactory
General
1 612 (40.26%) Finance
2 574 (37.76%) Social Skills
3 358 (23.55%) Law
4 264 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
5 255 (16.78%) Retail
6 237 (15.59%) Banking
7 224 (14.74%) Public Sector
8 152 (10.00%) Marketing
9 144 (9.47%) Back Office
10 135 (8.88%) Financial Institution
11 134 (8.82%) Aerospace
12 82 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
13 79 (5.20%) Legal
14 66 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (3.55%) Electronics
16 50 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (2.63%) Telecoms
18 31 (2.04%) Local Government
19 28 (1.84%) Military
20 22 (1.45%) French Language
Job Titles
1 364 (23.95%) Senior
2 168 (11.05%) Analyst
3 162 (10.66%) Architect
4 152 (10.00%) Lead
5 131 (8.62%) Software Engineer
6 86 (5.66%) Developer
7 64 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
8 52 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (3.03%) Senior Manager
10 45 (2.96%) Consultant
11 44 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
12 42 (2.76%) Business Analyst
13 36 (2.37%) Senior Architect
14 34 (2.24%) Delivery Manager
14 34 (2.24%) Sales Executive
14 34 (2.24%) Team Leader
15 33 (2.17%) Cloud Architect
16 31 (2.04%) Lead Software Engineer
17 30 (1.97%) Systems Engineer
18 29 (1.91%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (8.82%) Terraform
2 52 (3.42%) .NET
3 48 (3.16%) React
4 45 (2.96%) CSS
5 44 (2.89%) HTML
6 38 (2.50%) RESTful
7 33 (2.17%) Node.js
8 32 (2.11%) REST
9 31 (2.04%) XML
10 27 (1.78%) OpenAPI
11 24 (1.58%) .NET Core
12 22 (1.45%) Swagger
13 19 (1.25%) ASP.NET
13 19 (1.25%) EDI
14 15 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 15 (0.99%) Entity Framework
14 15 (0.99%) Next.js
15 14 (0.92%) .NET Framework
15 14 (0.92%) Blazor
15 14 (0.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 183 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 103 (6.78%) Driving Licence
4 70 (4.61%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 58 (3.82%) Data Centre
7 55 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (3.29%) Blog
8 50 (3.29%) Social Media
9 37 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 25 (1.64%) Cyberattack
12 24 (1.58%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.45%) FPGA
14 20 (1.32%) SCADA
15 18 (1.18%) Credit Risk
16 16 (1.05%) Algorithms
17 15 (0.99%) AI Agents
17 15 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
18 14 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.22%) Windows
2 32 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 27 (1.78%) Android
4 26 (1.71%) Linux
5 15 (0.99%) VMS
5 15 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.86%) macOS
7 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.26%) Unix
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (24.28%) AI
2 368 (24.21%) Agile
3 268 (17.63%) Mentoring
4 267 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 254 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
6 231 (15.20%) Decision-Making
7 217 (14.28%) CI/CD
8 201 (13.22%) Software Engineering
9 184 (12.11%) Technology Strategy
10 178 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 177 (11.64%) Coaching
12 163 (10.72%) Cybersecurity
13 148 (9.74%) Fintech
14 145 (9.54%) Analytics
15 137 (9.01%) Test Automation
16 136 (8.95%) Roadmaps
17 134 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 130 (8.55%) DevOps
19 126 (8.29%) Community of Practice
20 120 (7.89%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 152 (10.00%) Java
2 140 (9.21%) Python
3 138 (9.08%) SQL
4 73 (4.80%) C#
5 60 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 35 (2.30%) Bash
7 34 (2.24%) Go
8 30 (1.97%) MATLAB
9 29 (1.91%) TypeScript
10 24 (1.58%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.05%) C++
12 15 (0.99%) Bicep
13 14 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.86%) Ada
15 12 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 10 (0.66%) C
18 9 (0.59%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.53%) Rust
20 7 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 365 (24.01%) Security Cleared
2 334 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 324 (21.32%) Degree
4 124 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 120 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 68 (4.47%) HNC
7 57 (3.75%) DBS Check
8 50 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 30 (1.97%) PhD
11 29 (1.91%) CISSP
12 25 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.58%) CISM
14 22 (1.45%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.38%) Chartered Engineer
16 19 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
18 11 (0.72%) ACCA
19 10 (0.66%) CIMA
19 10 (0.66%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (13.88%) Accessibility
2 86 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 54 (3.55%) GDPR
5 52 (3.42%) QA
6 49 (3.22%) NIST
7 39 (2.57%) GRC
8 27 (1.78%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.51%) NCSC
10 22 (1.45%) SLA
11 21 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 19 (1.25%) SOC 2
13 16 (1.05%) WCAG
14 15 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 14 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.59%) COBIT
16 9 (0.59%) PMO
17 7 (0.46%) SOC 1
18 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 4 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (2.89%) Docker
2 39 (2.57%) Firmware
3 28 (1.84%) Active Directory
4 22 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.79%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 129 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 96 (6.32%) Grafana
3 16 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.33%) Ansible
7 4 (0.26%) Autotask
7 4 (0.26%) CASB
8 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.066%) Argo
10 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.066%) SCCM
10 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.066%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 237 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.88%) Adobe
3 52 (3.42%) Google
4 40 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 33 (2.17%) Cisco
6 31 (2.04%) SAP
7 30 (1.97%) Apple
8 29 (1.91%) Oracle
9 28 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.58%) VMware
11 21 (1.38%) Workday
12 20 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.99%) Dell
14 15 (0.99%) Tenable
15 12 (0.79%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.72%) HP
16 11 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.72%) Siemens
17 9 (0.59%) Databricks