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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 15 33
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,168 1,934 1,838
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.43% 11.70% 6.11%
As % of the General category 9.13% 16.17% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 460 434 1,067
10th Percentile £34,925 £29,000 £32,510
25th Percentile £50,677 £40,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,224 £71,622 £68,138
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 12,786 11,959 18,435
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.40% 72.36% 61.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,295 6,701 13,129
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,207 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 20 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 38 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.03%) CMS
4 5 (0.43%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
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 36 (3.08%) Acrobat
2 33 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.54%) 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
8 2 (0.17%) Simulink
9 1 (0.086%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 24 (2.05%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.34%) SAP HR
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
1 237 (20.29%) AWS
2 208 (17.81%) Azure
3 180 (15.41%) GCP
4 165 (14.13%) SaaS
5 82 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 63 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
7 50 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (3.77%) dbt
9 42 (3.60%) Serverless
10 34 (2.91%) Power Automate
11 30 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (2.48%) Figma
13 26 (2.23%) Azure Key Vault
14 25 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
15 23 (1.97%) PaaS
16 21 (1.80%) Entra ID
17 20 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (1.63%) GitHub
18 19 (1.63%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.39%) Broadband
2 26 (2.23%) VPN
3 22 (1.88%) Network Security
4 16 (1.37%) Firewall
4 16 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 11 (0.94%) DNS
5 11 (0.94%) WAN
6 10 (0.86%) DHCP
7 9 (0.77%) SMTP
8 7 (0.60%) LAN
8 7 (0.60%) VLAN
8 7 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.43%) Intranet
11 4 (0.34%) BGP
12 3 (0.26%) 4G
12 3 (0.26%) 5G
12 3 (0.26%) SSL
13 2 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.25%) Power BI
2 34 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.31%) Tableau
4 22 (1.88%) Metadata
5 19 (1.63%) BigQuery
5 19 (1.63%) Relational Database
5 19 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.94%) Looker
10 10 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.68%) MySQL
12 8 (0.68%) Redis
13 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 58 (4.97%) TeamCity
2 53 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.34%) GitLab
4 34 (2.91%) SonarQube
5 33 (2.83%) Git
6 22 (1.88%) Snyk
7 11 (0.94%) JIRA
8 9 (0.77%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.43%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.43%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.43%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.43%) JMeter
9 5 (0.43%) JUnit
9 5 (0.43%) Locust
10 3 (0.26%) Postman
10 3 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.26%) Selenium
10 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 410 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 336 (28.77%) Finance
3 304 (26.03%) Law
4 195 (16.70%) Banking
5 192 (16.44%) Retail
6 181 (15.50%) Public Sector
7 170 (14.55%) Marketing
8 155 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
9 134 (11.47%) Back Office
10 109 (9.33%) Financial Institution
11 73 (6.25%) Legal
12 60 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.17%) Games
15 36 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.71%) German Language
16 20 (1.71%) Polish Language
17 19 (1.63%) Local Government
18 17 (1.46%) Advertising
19 16 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 262 (22.43%) Senior
2 200 (17.12%) Architect
3 133 (11.39%) Analyst
4 77 (6.59%) Lead
5 66 (5.65%) Software Engineer
6 65 (5.57%) Senior Analyst
7 63 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (4.97%) Developer
9 45 (3.85%) Consultant
10 44 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
11 41 (3.51%) Technical Architect
12 36 (3.08%) Business Analyst
13 35 (3.00%) Security Architect
14 33 (2.83%) Salesforce Architect
15 31 (2.65%) Senior Architect
16 26 (2.23%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (2.14%) Designer
18 24 (2.05%) Data Manager
18 24 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
19 23 (1.97%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.93%) REST
2 48 (4.11%) Lightning Web Components
3 45 (3.85%) SOAP
4 43 (3.68%) Visualforce
5 34 (2.91%) React
6 32 (2.74%) CSS
6 32 (2.74%) HTML
7 31 (2.65%) Node.js
8 27 (2.31%) .NET
9 21 (1.80%) RESTful
10 15 (1.28%) EDI
10 15 (1.28%) OpenAPI
11 13 (1.11%) Middleware
11 13 (1.11%) XML
12 12 (1.03%) SAML
12 12 (1.03%) Swagger
13 8 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.68%) Next.js
14 7 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (0.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 178 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 140 (11.99%) Product Ownership
3 95 (8.13%) Onboarding
4 51 (4.37%) Driving Licence
5 49 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 46 (3.94%) Cyberattack
7 44 (3.77%) Data Centre
7 44 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (3.42%) Social Media
9 39 (3.34%) Blog
10 27 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (2.31%) Podcast
11 22 (1.88%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.54%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 11 (0.94%) Video Editing
15 10 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.77%) Culture of Ownership
16 9 (0.77%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.11%) Windows
2 24 (2.05%) Linux
3 16 (1.37%) Android
3 16 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.20%) Unix
5 12 (1.03%) VMS
5 12 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (29.20%) Agile
2 284 (24.32%) AI
3 236 (20.21%) CI/CD
4 197 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 185 (15.84%) Roadmaps
6 176 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
7 174 (14.90%) Technology Strategy
8 164 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 162 (13.87%) DevOps
10 156 (13.36%) Community of Practice
11 139 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
12 137 (11.73%) Decision-Making
13 134 (11.47%) Scrum
14 126 (10.79%) Software Engineering
15 114 (9.76%) Test Automation
16 110 (9.42%) Analytics
17 105 (8.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 94 (8.05%) Coaching
19 93 (7.96%) Fintech
20 90 (7.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (10.96%) Python
2 120 (10.27%) SQL
3 118 (10.10%) Java
4 65 (5.57%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.11%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.91%) SOQL
6 34 (2.91%) SOSL
7 28 (2.40%) C#
8 27 (2.31%) Go
8 27 (2.31%) PowerShell
9 26 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.88%) Bash
11 21 (1.80%) Bicep
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
1 255 (21.83%) Degree
2 207 (17.72%) Security Cleared
3 200 (17.12%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.83%) CISSP
5 33 (2.83%) DBS Check
6 32 (2.74%) AWS Certification
7 28 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (2.31%) CISM
9 24 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.37%) HNC
11 15 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.20%) CISA
13 13 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.11%) CRISC
13 13 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.03%) PhD
15 10 (0.86%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.86%) HND
16 8 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 64 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.88%) NIST
4 51 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (4.11%) GRC
6 39 (3.34%) GDPR
7 34 (2.91%) QA
8 26 (2.23%) PCI DSS
9 25 (2.14%) SOC 2
10 24 (2.05%) SLA
11 21 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (1.37%) NCSC
12 16 (1.37%) WCAG
13 14 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.86%) COBIT
15 10 (0.86%) PMO
16 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (3.60%) 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 (1.03%) vSphere
7 7 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (10.45%) Terraform
2 88 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 67 (5.74%) Grafana
4 11 (0.94%) Ansible
5 10 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.68%) Autotask
7 7 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.51%) Puppet
9 5 (0.43%) Argo
9 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.17%) CASB
11 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.086%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.086%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.086%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 187 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.88%) Adobe
3 64 (5.48%) Salesforce
4 42 (3.60%) Google
5 34 (2.91%) Splunk
6 31 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.40%) Cisco
8 26 (2.23%) Apple
9 23 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.88%) Tenable
11 18 (1.54%) VMware
12 15 (1.28%) Oracle
13 14 (1.20%) Instagram
14 13 (1.11%) SAP
15 12 (1.03%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.94%) Hootsuite
16 11 (0.94%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.94%) Wrike
17 10 (0.86%) Dell