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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 14 32
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 +6
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,472 1,915 1,496
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.01% 11.86% 6.57%
As % of the General category 9.84% 16.50% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 492 412 676
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,600 £37,020
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,159 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -8.59% -9.27%
75th Percentile £78,224 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year - -6.30% -9.69%

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 14,960 11,606 14,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.10% 71.90% 62.57%
Number of salaries quoted 9,160 6,271 8,239
10th Percentile £32,260 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,354 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% -5.83%

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 22 September 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 (2.45%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.88%) Confluence
4 11 (0.75%) CMS
5 7 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.48%) WordPress
6 5 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Moodle
9 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 68 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.15%) Simulink
5 12 (0.82%) Maple
6 10 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.54%) InDesign
8 8 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.48%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
11 4 (0.27%) Mathcad
12 2 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
13 1 (0.068%) Autodesk Inventor
13 1 (0.068%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 24 (1.63%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.75%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.68%) Primavera
5 9 (0.61%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Midas
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.20%) SAP R/3
9 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.14%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.068%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.068%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 267 (18.14%) AWS
2 229 (15.56%) Azure
3 205 (13.93%) GCP
4 160 (10.87%) SaaS
5 94 (6.39%) Power Platform
6 72 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (3.26%) Serverless
8 41 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (2.51%) Azure Key Vault
9 37 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 35 (2.38%) dbt
11 33 (2.24%) Figma
12 31 (2.11%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.83%) PowerApps
14 25 (1.70%) Entra ID
14 25 (1.70%) GitHub
15 24 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 21 (1.43%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.92%) Network Security
2 25 (1.70%) Broadband
3 22 (1.49%) Ethernet
4 19 (1.29%) Firewall
5 17 (1.15%) VPN
6 12 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.75%) Modbus
7 11 (0.75%) Profibus
8 9 (0.61%) 5G
8 9 (0.61%) WAN
9 8 (0.54%) DNS
9 8 (0.54%) Intranet
9 8 (0.54%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.48%) DHCP
11 6 (0.41%) VLAN
12 5 (0.34%) MPLS
13 4 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
14 3 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.20%) SDH
14 3 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.64%) Power BI
2 47 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.97%) Metadata
5 28 (1.90%) Tableau
6 22 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.29%) BigQuery
8 18 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.15%) MySQL
10 16 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.02%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.02%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
13 12 (0.82%) Big Data
14 11 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.54%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.54%) GIS
17 7 (0.48%) Looker
18 6 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 72 (4.89%) TeamCity
2 68 (4.62%) Git
3 31 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.97%) JIRA
5 22 (1.49%) Snyk
6 20 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.95%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.75%) GitLab
9 10 (0.68%) JUnit
10 8 (0.54%) Balsamiq
11 6 (0.41%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.20%) Android Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.20%) CMake
13 3 (0.20%) Selenium
13 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.14%) Bower
General
1 564 (38.32%) Finance
1 564 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 333 (22.62%) Law
3 246 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 231 (15.69%) Public Sector
5 212 (14.40%) Retail
6 200 (13.59%) Banking
7 159 (10.80%) Marketing
8 124 (8.42%) Aerospace
8 124 (8.42%) Back Office
9 115 (7.81%) Financial Institution
10 78 (5.30%) Legal
11 74 (5.03%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (3.60%) Electronics
14 48 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (2.58%) Telecoms
16 31 (2.11%) Local Government
17 30 (2.04%) Military
18 21 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 345 (23.44%) Senior
2 188 (12.77%) Architect
3 172 (11.68%) Analyst
4 138 (9.38%) Lead
5 115 (7.81%) Software Engineer
6 79 (5.37%) Developer
6 79 (5.37%) Senior Analyst
7 63 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
8 51 (3.46%) Business Analyst
9 49 (3.33%) Consultant
10 40 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
11 38 (2.58%) Security Architect
11 38 (2.58%) Senior Architect
12 35 (2.38%) Sales Executive
13 34 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 32 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
14 32 (2.17%) Technical Architect
15 31 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (2.11%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (7.95%) Terraform
2 51 (3.46%) .NET
3 50 (3.40%) React
4 46 (3.13%) CSS
5 45 (3.06%) HTML
6 36 (2.45%) Node.js
6 36 (2.45%) REST
7 25 (1.70%) RESTful
8 24 (1.63%) .NET Core
8 24 (1.63%) XML
9 22 (1.49%) OpenAPI
10 21 (1.43%) EDI
11 19 (1.29%) ASP.NET
12 17 (1.15%) Swagger
13 15 (1.02%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.02%) Entity Framework
13 15 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
14 14 (0.95%) .NET Framework
14 14 (0.95%) Blazor
14 14 (0.95%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 135 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 89 (6.05%) Driving Licence
4 84 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 67 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 66 (4.48%) Data Centre
7 56 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.92%) Cyberattack
8 43 (2.92%) Social Media
9 35 (2.38%) Blog
10 25 (1.70%) Security Posture
11 23 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.43%) FPGA
12 21 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.22%) Credit Risk
13 18 (1.22%) Podcast
13 18 (1.22%) SCADA
14 16 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.02%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (3.13%) Windows
2 26 (1.77%) Linux
3 23 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 21 (1.43%) Android
5 15 (1.02%) VMS
6 11 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.48%) Unix
9 5 (0.34%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (25.41%) Agile
2 373 (25.34%) AI
3 253 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 249 (16.92%) Mentoring
5 241 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
6 215 (14.61%) Decision-Making
7 213 (14.47%) CI/CD
8 211 (14.33%) Technology Strategy
9 188 (12.77%) Software Engineering
10 173 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
11 170 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 162 (11.01%) Coaching
13 152 (10.33%) Roadmaps
14 148 (10.05%) Community of Practice
15 139 (9.44%) DevOps
16 135 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 130 (8.83%) Test Automation
18 129 (8.76%) Analytics
19 121 (8.22%) Scrum
20 114 (7.74%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 137 (9.31%) SQL
2 134 (9.10%) Python
3 123 (8.36%) Java
4 72 (4.89%) C#
5 58 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 30 (2.04%) MATLAB
7 29 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.77%) Go
8 26 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 23 (1.56%) Bash
10 17 (1.15%) Bicep
11 15 (1.02%) Apex Code
11 15 (1.02%) C++
12 13 (0.88%) Ada
13 12 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.61%) C
15 8 (0.54%) Rust
15 8 (0.54%) SOQL
15 8 (0.54%) SOSL
16 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 360 (24.46%) Security Cleared
2 347 (23.57%) Degree
3 336 (22.83%) SC Cleared
4 120 (8.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 117 (7.95%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.87%) HNC
7 56 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 52 (3.53%) DBS Check
9 33 (2.24%) CISSP
10 31 (2.11%) Master's Degree
11 30 (2.04%) AWS Certification
12 29 (1.97%) CISM
13 27 (1.83%) PhD
14 24 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 21 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.43%) Chartered Engineer
16 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
17 11 (0.75%) CISA
18 10 (0.68%) ACCA
18 10 (0.68%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (12.84%) Accessibility
2 74 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 63 (4.28%) NIST
4 49 (3.33%) QA
5 47 (3.19%) GDPR
6 45 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.85%) GRC
8 23 (1.56%) NCSC
8 23 (1.56%) SLA
9 18 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 18 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 16 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (1.02%) WCAG
12 14 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.75%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.68%) COBIT
15 9 (0.61%) PMO
16 8 (0.54%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.34%) EMIR
17 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (2.99%) Docker
2 38 (2.58%) Firmware
3 26 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.70%) Active Directory
5 19 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.82%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 106 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 77 (5.23%) Grafana
3 6 (0.41%) Ansible
3 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.27%) Autotask
5 4 (0.27%) CASB
6 3 (0.20%) Puppet
7 2 (0.14%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.068%) Argo
8 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.068%) SCCM
8 1 (0.068%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.068%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.068%) WSUS
Vendors
1 224 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.35%) Adobe
3 44 (2.99%) Google
4 37 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 34 (2.31%) Apple
6 32 (2.17%) Cisco
7 28 (1.90%) SAP
7 28 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
8 26 (1.77%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.56%) Oracle
9 23 (1.56%) VMware
10 22 (1.49%) Tenable
11 17 (1.15%) Workday
12 15 (1.02%) Dell
13 13 (0.88%) HP
14 12 (0.82%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.75%) Siemens
15 11 (0.75%) Splunk