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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 993 1,352 1,571
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.28% 8.34% 5.97%
As % of the General category 10.59% 12.08% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 447 448 952
10th Percentile £20,000 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,707 £49,784 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -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 9,376 11,196 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.30% 69.08% 62.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,326 12,973
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +7.46% -4.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £108,750 £96,539
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.31%

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 31 January 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 54 (5.44%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.70%) CMS
4 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.10%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.10%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.10%) SAS
6 1 (0.10%) WildFly
6 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.12%) Adobe XD
3 25 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.71%) Acrobat
6 5 (0.50%) Maya
6 5 (0.50%) MotionBuilder
7 4 (0.40%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.10%) InDesign
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.10%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.10%) Revit
8 1 (0.10%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.31%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.40%) Academy Housing
3 4 (0.40%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.40%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) Primavera
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 168 (16.92%) AWS
2 138 (13.90%) Azure
3 98 (9.87%) SaaS
4 73 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (6.55%) GCP
6 57 (5.74%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (3.73%) Figma
9 25 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (2.01%) Miro
10 20 (2.01%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.91%) Google Analytics
11 19 (1.91%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.91%) Pulumi
12 18 (1.81%) Entra ID
12 18 (1.81%) Serverless
13 16 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 12 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.24%) Broadband
2 17 (1.71%) BGP
2 17 (1.71%) VPN
3 14 (1.41%) 4G
3 14 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.31%) DNS
5 11 (1.11%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (1.11%) DHCP
5 11 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (1.11%) IOS XR
5 11 (1.11%) MPLS
6 9 (0.91%) LAN
6 9 (0.91%) WAN
7 7 (0.70%) Firewall
7 7 (0.70%) VLAN
7 7 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.50%) Network Security
9 4 (0.40%) Internet
9 4 (0.40%) SMTP
10 2 (0.20%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.53%) Power BI
2 31 (3.12%) Relational Database
3 23 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (1.91%) NoSQL
5 19 (1.91%) RDBMS
6 18 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.61%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.81%) Metadata
9 7 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.50%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.50%) Tableau
11 4 (0.40%) Looker
11 4 (0.40%) MySQL
12 3 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.30%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.20%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (3.52%) TeamCity
2 29 (2.92%) Git
3 25 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.42%) Axure RP
4 24 (2.42%) Balsamiq
4 24 (2.42%) GitLab
5 23 (2.32%) SonarQube
6 19 (1.91%) Jaeger
7 8 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.81%) Selenium
7 8 (0.81%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.50%) JIRA
9 3 (0.30%) Storybook
10 2 (0.20%) JMeter
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.10%) jMock
11 1 (0.10%) JUnit
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 317 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 224 (22.56%) Finance
3 201 (20.24%) Law
4 181 (18.23%) Public Sector
5 151 (15.21%) Retail
6 136 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
7 105 (10.57%) Banking
8 89 (8.96%) Marketing
9 84 (8.46%) Financial Institution
10 79 (7.96%) Back Office
11 60 (6.04%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (3.02%) Games
13 25 (2.52%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (2.22%) Legal
16 14 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (1.11%) Polish Language
18 7 (0.70%) Digital Health
18 7 (0.70%) Local Government
18 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (16.41%) Senior
2 88 (8.86%) Lead
3 79 (7.96%) Analyst
4 64 (6.45%) Architect
5 57 (5.74%) Developer
6 52 (5.24%) Senior Manager
7 45 (4.53%) Microsoft Specialist
8 43 (4.33%) Account Manager
9 39 (3.93%) Sales Account Manager
9 39 (3.93%) Sales Manager
9 39 (3.93%) Senior Account Manager
9 39 (3.93%) Senior Sales Manager
10 37 (3.73%) Alliance Manager
11 33 (3.32%) Software Engineer
12 26 (2.62%) Consultant
12 26 (2.62%) Designer
13 22 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 22 (2.22%) Technical Architect
14 21 (2.11%) Salesforce Architect
15 20 (2.01%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (4.93%) REST
2 35 (3.52%) Lightning Web Components
2 35 (3.52%) SOAP
2 35 (3.52%) Visualforce
3 29 (2.92%) .NET
4 25 (2.52%) React
5 23 (2.32%) HTML
6 22 (2.22%) CSS
7 19 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (1.81%) EDI
9 16 (1.61%) Node.js
10 15 (1.51%) RESTful
11 13 (1.31%) HTML5 Canvas
11 13 (1.31%) Middleware
12 11 (1.11%) Jinja
12 11 (1.11%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.11%) Playwright
12 11 (1.11%) YANG
13 10 (1.01%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 129 (12.99%) Blog
2 108 (10.88%) Onboarding
3 88 (8.86%) Product Ownership
4 84 (8.46%) Cloud Native
5 45 (4.53%) Driving Licence
6 35 (3.52%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.82%) Social Media
8 27 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.91%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.01%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 9 (0.91%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 7 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.42%) Linux
2 28 (2.82%) Windows
3 19 (1.91%) Unix
4 13 (1.31%) Android
5 11 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.81%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
9 1 (0.10%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (32.12%) AI
2 219 (22.05%) Agile
3 175 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 155 (15.61%) Customer Service
5 113 (11.38%) DevOps
6 111 (11.18%) CI/CD
7 108 (10.88%) Community of Practice
7 108 (10.88%) CRM
8 105 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
9 103 (10.37%) Mentoring
10 101 (10.17%) Roadmaps
11 93 (9.37%) Cybersecurity
12 83 (8.36%) Technology Strategy
13 77 (7.75%) Business Development
14 76 (7.65%) Analytics
15 75 (7.55%) B2B
15 75 (7.55%) Project Management
16 69 (6.95%) Software Engineering
17 63 (6.34%) Test Automation
17 63 (6.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 106 (10.67%) Java
2 89 (8.96%) Python
3 75 (7.55%) JavaScript
4 49 (4.93%) SQL
5 40 (4.03%) C#
6 35 (3.52%) Apex Code
7 30 (3.02%) Go
8 23 (2.32%) SOQL
8 23 (2.32%) SOSL
9 19 (1.91%) Bash
10 17 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.60%) RPG
12 5 (0.50%) C
13 4 (0.40%) C++
13 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.20%) PHP
14 2 (0.20%) R
14 2 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 307 (30.92%) Degree
2 113 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 110 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.13%) AWS Certification
5 35 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (2.42%) DBS Check
7 24 (2.42%) PMP
8 18 (1.81%) CISSP
9 17 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.21%) CISM
11 12 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.91%) CREST Certified
12 9 (0.91%) OSCP
13 7 (0.70%) CISA
13 7 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.70%) HNC
14 6 (0.60%) HND
14 6 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.14%) Accessibility
2 41 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (3.22%) QA
4 25 (2.52%) WCAG
5 24 (2.42%) GDPR
6 22 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 22 (2.22%) SOC 2
7 19 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 19 (1.91%) NIST
8 14 (1.41%) Data Quality
9 13 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (1.01%) GRC
10 10 (1.01%) SLA
11 9 (0.91%) PMO
12 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.50%) NCSC
12 5 (0.50%) NEBOSH
13 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
14 3 (0.30%) PERC
14 3 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 27 (2.72%) Docker
2 18 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.10%) iptables
3 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (8.26%) Terraform
2 70 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.63%) Grafana
4 23 (2.32%) Argo
5 20 (2.01%) Ansible
6 19 (1.91%) Kustomize
6 19 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.91%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Autotask
8 1 (0.10%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.10%) Nessus
8 1 (0.10%) Nmap
8 1 (0.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 235 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.26%) Adobe
3 60 (6.04%) Salesforce
4 44 (4.43%) Google
5 29 (2.92%) Apple
5 29 (2.92%) Cisco
6 23 (2.32%) Splunk
7 14 (1.41%) Oracle
8 13 (1.31%) SAP
9 12 (1.21%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.01%) Databricks
11 9 (0.91%) Instagram
12 8 (0.81%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.70%) Hootsuite
14 6 (0.60%) Planon
14 6 (0.60%) Snow
15 5 (0.50%) Dell
16 4 (0.40%) Meraki
16 4 (0.40%) Wrike
16 4 (0.40%) YouTube