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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 +14
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,188 1,928 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.46% 11.72% 6.24%
As % of the General category 9.16% 16.19% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 478 426 994
10th Percentile £35,175 £29,000 £33,765
25th Percentile £51,000 £40,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,224 £70,938 £68,275
90th Percentile £81,970 £85,888 £82,500
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 12,968 11,905 16,966
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.64% 72.38% 61.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,343 6,658 11,845
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,821 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,818
% change year-on-year - +2.20% -10.30%

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 25 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 36 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.09%) CMS
4 5 (0.42%) Apache
4 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.42%) Confluence
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.34%) WordPress
6 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.25%) SAS
6 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.084%) Drupal
7 1 (0.084%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.27%) Acrobat
3 18 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (0.76%) InDesign
5 8 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.51%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.51%) Simulink
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Mathcad
8 2 (0.17%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (2.02%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.34%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.084%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 223 (18.77%) AWS
2 213 (17.93%) Azure
3 170 (14.31%) GCP
4 148 (12.46%) SaaS
5 84 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 51 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (3.70%) dbt
9 42 (3.54%) Serverless
10 34 (2.86%) Power Automate
11 30 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (2.53%) Figma
12 27 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
14 23 (1.94%) PaaS
15 21 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.77%) Google Analytics
16 20 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.68%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.80%) Broadband
2 25 (2.10%) Network Security
3 24 (2.02%) VPN
4 18 (1.52%) Firewall
5 15 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.93%) DNS
6 11 (0.93%) WAN
7 10 (0.84%) DHCP
8 7 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.59%) SMTP
9 6 (0.51%) Intranet
9 6 (0.51%) LAN
9 6 (0.51%) VLAN
9 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.25%) SSL
11 2 (0.17%) 4G
11 2 (0.17%) BGP
11 2 (0.17%) Extranet
11 2 (0.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.23%) Power BI
2 31 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.27%) Tableau
4 25 (2.10%) Metadata
5 24 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.52%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
10 13 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.93%) Looker
11 11 (0.93%) MySQL
12 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.67%) Redis
14 7 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.59%) Big Data
14 7 (0.59%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 48 (4.04%) TeamCity
3 40 (3.37%) Git
4 39 (3.28%) GitLab
5 34 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.85%) Snyk
7 14 (1.18%) JIRA
8 10 (0.84%) LabVIEW
9 7 (0.59%) Balsamiq
10 6 (0.51%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.42%) Locust
12 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.25%) Postman
12 3 (0.25%) Selenium
12 3 (0.25%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 425 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 349 (29.38%) Finance
3 287 (24.16%) Law
4 200 (16.84%) Public Sector
5 172 (14.48%) Marketing
6 168 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
7 166 (13.97%) Banking
8 165 (13.89%) Retail
9 114 (9.60%) Back Office
10 90 (7.58%) Financial Institution
11 71 (5.98%) Legal
12 65 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
15 37 (3.11%) Games
16 29 (2.44%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.68%) German Language
17 20 (1.68%) Local Government
18 19 (1.60%) Electronics
18 19 (1.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 277 (23.32%) Senior
2 203 (17.09%) Architect
3 139 (11.70%) Analyst
4 84 (7.07%) Lead
5 68 (5.72%) Senior Analyst
6 66 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 62 (5.22%) Developer
7 62 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
8 49 (4.12%) Consultant
9 44 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
10 43 (3.62%) Technical Architect
11 42 (3.54%) Business Analyst
12 35 (2.95%) Security Architect
13 33 (2.78%) Salesforce Architect
14 32 (2.69%) Senior Architect
15 26 (2.19%) Delivery Manager
15 26 (2.19%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (2.10%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 25 (2.10%) Designer
17 24 (2.02%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (6.65%) REST
2 47 (3.96%) Lightning Web Components
3 44 (3.70%) SOAP
4 42 (3.54%) Visualforce
5 39 (3.28%) React
6 38 (3.20%) CSS
6 38 (3.20%) HTML
7 34 (2.86%) .NET
8 33 (2.78%) Node.js
9 18 (1.52%) RESTful
10 15 (1.26%) EDI
10 15 (1.26%) XML
11 14 (1.18%) OpenAPI
12 13 (1.09%) Middleware
13 11 (0.93%) .NET Core
13 11 (0.93%) Swagger
14 10 (0.84%) ASP.NET
14 10 (0.84%) SAML
15 9 (0.76%) Django
15 9 (0.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 166 (13.97%) Cloud Native
2 141 (11.87%) Product Ownership
3 87 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.38%) Management Information System
5 51 (4.29%) Driving Licence
6 46 (3.87%) Cyberattack
7 45 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
8 44 (3.70%) Data Centre
9 38 (3.20%) Social Media
10 28 (2.36%) Podcast
11 26 (2.19%) Blog
12 23 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.77%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.52%) Credit Risk
15 15 (1.26%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.93%) AI Agents
16 11 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.84%) Low-Code
18 9 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
18 9 (0.76%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.87%) Windows
2 17 (1.43%) Linux
3 15 (1.26%) Android
3 15 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.01%) VMS
4 12 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.76%) Unix
6 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.17%) VxWorks
7 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (30.56%) Agile
2 299 (25.17%) AI
3 231 (19.44%) CI/CD
4 209 (17.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 192 (16.16%) Technology Strategy
6 187 (15.74%) Roadmaps
7 186 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (14.31%) Mentoring
9 168 (14.14%) Community of Practice
10 160 (13.47%) DevOps
11 152 (12.79%) Decision-Making
12 145 (12.21%) Scrum
13 144 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
14 132 (11.11%) Software Engineering
15 114 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 113 (9.51%) Analytics
17 108 (9.09%) Test Automation
18 103 (8.67%) Coaching
19 100 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
20 90 (7.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 125 (10.52%) Python
2 123 (10.35%) SQL
3 94 (7.91%) Java
4 64 (5.39%) JavaScript
5 47 (3.96%) Apex Code
6 35 (2.95%) C#
7 34 (2.86%) SOQL
7 34 (2.86%) SOSL
8 28 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 27 (2.27%) TypeScript
10 21 (1.77%) Bicep
11 20 (1.68%) Go
12 17 (1.43%) Bash
13 14 (1.18%) MATLAB
14 12 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.51%) R
16 5 (0.42%) Ada
16 5 (0.42%) PHP
16 5 (0.42%) Rust
17 4 (0.34%) C++
Qualifications
1 280 (23.57%) Degree
2 240 (20.20%) Security Cleared
3 231 (19.44%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 32 (2.69%) CISSP
8 29 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 27 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 27 (2.27%) CISM
10 26 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (1.52%) HNC
13 17 (1.43%) Master's Degree
14 15 (1.26%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.26%) PhD
15 12 (1.01%) CISA
16 11 (0.93%) CRISC
17 8 (0.67%) HND
18 7 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.25%) Accessibility
2 67 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 61 (5.13%) NIST
4 49 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (3.96%) GRC
6 41 (3.45%) GDPR
7 36 (3.03%) QA
8 24 (2.02%) SLA
9 22 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.77%) PCI DSS
11 18 (1.52%) WCAG
12 17 (1.43%) NCSC
12 17 (1.43%) SOC 2
13 14 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.84%) COBIT
15 10 (0.84%) PMO
16 7 (0.59%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 41 (3.45%) Docker
2 30 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.01%) Firmware
6 12 (1.01%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (8.67%) Terraform
2 72 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 57 (4.80%) Grafana
4 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.59%) Ansible
5 7 (0.59%) Autotask
6 6 (0.51%) Puppet
7 5 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.25%) CASB
8 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.084%) SCCM
10 1 (0.084%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.084%) WSUS
Vendors
1 183 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.99%) Adobe
3 66 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 40 (3.37%) Google
5 34 (2.86%) Splunk
6 31 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.44%) Cisco
8 26 (2.19%) Apple
9 24 (2.02%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.85%) Tenable
11 19 (1.60%) VMware
12 15 (1.26%) Oracle
13 13 (1.09%) Instagram
13 13 (1.09%) SAP
14 12 (1.01%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.84%) Dell
17 9 (0.76%) ION Trading
17 9 (0.76%) Wrike