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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 14 30
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 +9
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,462 1,914 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.01% 11.73% 6.75%
As % of the General category 9.84% 16.32% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 492 415 714
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,481 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -9.01% -8.92%
75th Percentile £78,224 £71,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,996 £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 14,856 11,730 14,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.03% 71.91% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,136 6,378 8,467
10th Percentile £32,069 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £39,377 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.13% -6.67%

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 18 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 35 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.89%) 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 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Moodle
9 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 67 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.16%) Simulink
5 11 (0.75%) Maple
6 10 (0.68%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.68%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.55%) InDesign
8 8 (0.55%) 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 (1.64%) Cloudability
2 13 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.75%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.68%) Primavera
5 9 (0.62%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.21%) Misys Midas
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.21%) 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 HR
10 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 262 (17.92%) AWS
2 228 (15.60%) Azure
3 201 (13.75%) GCP
4 157 (10.74%) SaaS
5 94 (6.43%) Power Platform
6 70 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (3.28%) Serverless
8 39 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 37 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
11 36 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.46%) dbt
12 33 (2.26%) Figma
12 33 (2.26%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 26 (1.78%) Entra ID
15 25 (1.71%) GitHub
16 24 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
16 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (1.44%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.87%) Network Security
2 25 (1.71%) Broadband
3 21 (1.44%) Ethernet
4 19 (1.30%) Firewall
5 17 (1.16%) VPN
6 12 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.68%) Modbus
7 10 (0.68%) Profibus
8 9 (0.62%) 5G
8 9 (0.62%) WAN
9 8 (0.55%) DNS
9 8 (0.55%) Intranet
9 8 (0.55%) 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 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.21%) SDH
14 3 (0.21%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.68%) Power BI
2 46 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.98%) Metadata
5 28 (1.92%) Tableau
6 22 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 18 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 17 (1.16%) MySQL
10 16 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.03%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.03%) NoSQL
12 14 (0.96%) Semantic Layer
13 12 (0.82%) Big Data
14 11 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.55%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.55%) GIS
16 8 (0.55%) Looker
17 6 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 70 (4.79%) TeamCity
2 67 (4.58%) Git
3 31 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.92%) JIRA
5 22 (1.50%) Snyk
6 20 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.96%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.75%) GitLab
9 8 (0.55%) Balsamiq
9 8 (0.55%) JUnit
10 6 (0.41%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.21%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.21%) CMake
12 3 (0.21%) Selenium
12 3 (0.21%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.14%) Bower
General
1 561 (38.37%) Finance
2 554 (37.89%) Social Skills
3 332 (22.71%) Law
4 247 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
5 226 (15.46%) Public Sector
6 209 (14.30%) Retail
7 197 (13.47%) Banking
8 157 (10.74%) Marketing
9 123 (8.41%) Aerospace
9 123 (8.41%) Back Office
10 112 (7.66%) Financial Institution
11 78 (5.34%) Legal
12 75 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
13 73 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
14 53 (3.63%) Electronics
15 47 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
16 38 (2.60%) Telecoms
17 31 (2.12%) Local Government
18 30 (2.05%) Military
19 20 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 341 (23.32%) Senior
2 190 (13.00%) Architect
3 171 (11.70%) Analyst
4 136 (9.30%) Lead
5 115 (7.87%) Software Engineer
6 79 (5.40%) Developer
7 78 (5.34%) Senior Analyst
8 65 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (3.49%) Business Analyst
9 51 (3.49%) Consultant
10 40 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
11 38 (2.60%) Security Architect
11 38 (2.60%) Senior Architect
12 34 (2.33%) Senior Manager
13 33 (2.26%) Sales Executive
13 33 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
14 32 (2.19%) Systems Engineer
14 32 (2.19%) Technical Architect
15 30 (2.05%) Designer
15 30 (2.05%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (7.87%) Terraform
2 51 (3.49%) .NET
3 50 (3.42%) React
4 47 (3.21%) CSS
5 46 (3.15%) HTML
6 37 (2.53%) REST
7 36 (2.46%) Node.js
8 25 (1.71%) RESTful
9 24 (1.64%) .NET Core
10 22 (1.50%) EDI
10 22 (1.50%) OpenAPI
10 22 (1.50%) XML
11 19 (1.30%) ASP.NET
12 17 (1.16%) Swagger
13 15 (1.03%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.03%) Entity Framework
13 15 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
14 14 (0.96%) .NET Framework
14 14 (0.96%) Blazor
15 13 (0.89%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 171 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 136 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 89 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 87 (5.95%) Driving Licence
5 67 (4.58%) Data Centre
5 67 (4.58%) Management Information System
6 55 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
7 45 (3.08%) Cyberattack
8 42 (2.87%) Social Media
9 36 (2.46%) Blog
10 24 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.64%) Security Posture
11 21 (1.44%) FPGA
11 21 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.37%) Podcast
13 18 (1.23%) Credit Risk
14 17 (1.16%) SCADA
15 16 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.03%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.08%) Windows
2 24 (1.64%) Linux
3 19 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 18 (1.23%) Android
5 15 (1.03%) VMS
6 11 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.48%) Unix
9 5 (0.34%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (25.58%) Agile
2 371 (25.38%) AI
3 252 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 243 (16.62%) Mentoring
5 241 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (14.64%) Decision-Making
7 212 (14.50%) CI/CD
8 208 (14.23%) Technology Strategy
9 191 (13.06%) Software Engineering
10 171 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
11 165 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 160 (10.94%) Coaching
13 156 (10.67%) Roadmaps
14 147 (10.05%) Community of Practice
15 140 (9.58%) DevOps
16 135 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 130 (8.89%) Test Automation
18 125 (8.55%) Analytics
19 122 (8.34%) Scrum
20 110 (7.52%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 138 (9.44%) SQL
2 131 (8.96%) Python
3 120 (8.21%) Java
4 72 (4.92%) C#
5 59 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 30 (2.05%) MATLAB
7 28 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.78%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.64%) Go
10 22 (1.50%) Bash
11 18 (1.23%) Bicep
12 15 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 15 (1.03%) C++
13 13 (0.89%) Ada
14 12 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.62%) C
16 8 (0.55%) Rust
16 8 (0.55%) SOQL
16 8 (0.55%) SOSL
17 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 356 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 349 (23.87%) Degree
3 334 (22.85%) SC Cleared
4 120 (8.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 116 (7.93%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (3.76%) HNC
8 51 (3.49%) DBS Check
9 33 (2.26%) CISSP
10 31 (2.12%) Master's Degree
11 30 (2.05%) AWS Certification
12 29 (1.98%) CISM
13 27 (1.85%) PhD
14 24 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 21 (1.44%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.44%) 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
1 188 (12.86%) Accessibility
2 74 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 65 (4.45%) NIST
4 47 (3.21%) GDPR
4 47 (3.21%) QA
5 45 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.94%) GRC
7 23 (1.57%) NCSC
7 23 (1.57%) SLA
8 18 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 18 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 15 (1.03%) WCAG
11 14 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.75%) SOC 2
13 10 (0.68%) COBIT
13 10 (0.68%) PMO
14 8 (0.55%) SOC 1
15 5 (0.34%) EMIR
15 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 43 (2.94%) Docker
2 38 (2.60%) Firmware
3 26 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.71%) Active Directory
5 19 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.82%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 101 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 75 (5.13%) Grafana
3 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.34%) Ansible
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.27%) Autotask
5 4 (0.27%) CASB
6 3 (0.21%) 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
1 220 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.31%) Adobe
3 43 (2.94%) Google
4 35 (2.39%) Salesforce
5 34 (2.33%) Apple
6 30 (2.05%) Cisco
7 29 (1.98%) SAP
7 29 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.78%) Palo Alto
9 25 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (1.57%) Oracle
10 23 (1.57%) VMware
11 22 (1.50%) Tenable
12 18 (1.23%) Workday
13 13 (0.89%) Dell
13 13 (0.89%) HP
14 12 (0.82%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.75%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.75%) Siemens
16 10 (0.68%) Splunk