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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 16 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 +1
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,125 1,930 1,898
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.62% 12.52% 5.48%
As % of the General category 9.65% 16.81% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 413 426 1,126
10th Percentile £32,600 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,065 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -20.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,333 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 11,662 11,478 20,909
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.27% 74.48% 60.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,598 6,320 15,312
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,500 £31,638
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
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 18 June 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 48 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.16%) CMS
4 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.36%) Apache
5 4 (0.36%) Confluence
5 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.27%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.089%) Drupal
8 1 (0.089%) IIS
Applications
1 39 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.29%) Acrobat
3 16 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.80%) InDesign
6 8 (0.71%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.71%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.71%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.71%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (2.13%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.53%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.27%) Academy Housing
4 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 1 (0.089%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.089%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 238 (21.16%) AWS
2 201 (17.87%) Azure
3 166 (14.76%) GCP
4 149 (13.24%) SaaS
5 85 (7.56%) Power Platform
6 58 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
6 58 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (3.38%) Serverless
8 36 (3.20%) Power Automate
9 30 (2.67%) Figma
10 25 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 25 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.04%) Google Analytics
11 23 (2.04%) Pulumi
12 20 (1.78%) dbt
13 19 (1.69%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.51%) PaaS
15 16 (1.42%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 89 (7.91%) Broadband
2 22 (1.96%) VPN
3 21 (1.87%) Network Security
4 17 (1.51%) Firewall
5 15 (1.33%) BGP
5 15 (1.33%) WAN
6 14 (1.24%) 4G
6 14 (1.24%) DHCP
6 14 (1.24%) DNS
6 14 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (0.98%) IOS XR
7 11 (0.98%) MPLS
8 10 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.80%) LAN
9 9 (0.80%) SMTP
10 7 (0.62%) VLAN
11 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (6.67%) Power BI
2 33 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.76%) Relational Database
4 26 (2.31%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.31%) Tableau
5 22 (1.96%) Metadata
6 19 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 18 (1.60%) RDBMS
8 15 (1.33%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
10 12 (1.07%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.07%) Looker
11 10 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (0.89%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.71%) MySQL
13 8 (0.71%) Redis
14 6 (0.53%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 52 (4.62%) TeamCity
2 50 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.47%) GitLab
4 34 (3.02%) SonarQube
5 32 (2.84%) Git
6 22 (1.96%) Snyk
7 18 (1.60%) Jaeger
8 11 (0.98%) JIRA
9 8 (0.71%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.71%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.44%) JMeter
10 5 (0.44%) Locust
11 4 (0.36%) JUnit
12 3 (0.27%) Postman
12 3 (0.27%) Selenium
12 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.089%) Appium
13 1 (0.089%) Gemini Tracker
13 1 (0.089%) XCUITest
General
1 361 (32.09%) Social Skills
2 329 (29.24%) Finance
3 294 (26.13%) Law
4 190 (16.89%) Public Sector
5 185 (16.44%) Banking
6 179 (15.91%) Retail
7 164 (14.58%) Marketing
8 150 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
9 124 (11.02%) Back Office
10 102 (9.07%) Financial Institution
11 73 (6.49%) Legal
12 56 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.29%) Games
15 33 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.96%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.78%) Polish Language
18 19 (1.69%) German Language
19 18 (1.60%) Local Government
20 15 (1.33%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 233 (20.71%) Senior
2 158 (14.04%) Architect
3 129 (11.47%) Analyst
4 76 (6.76%) Lead
5 59 (5.24%) Senior Analyst
6 57 (5.07%) Software Engineer
7 54 (4.80%) Developer
8 48 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
9 39 (3.47%) Consultant
10 34 (3.02%) Business Analyst
11 33 (2.93%) Salesforce Architect
12 32 (2.84%) Security Architect
12 32 (2.84%) Senior Architect
13 30 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
14 29 (2.58%) Designer
15 27 (2.40%) Technical Architect
16 25 (2.22%) Data Manager
17 23 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
17 23 (2.04%) Senior Software Engineer
18 22 (1.96%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.76%) REST
2 50 (4.44%) Lightning Web Components
3 46 (4.09%) SOAP
4 45 (4.00%) Visualforce
5 33 (2.93%) HTML
6 31 (2.76%) CSS
7 27 (2.40%) React
8 26 (2.31%) Node.js
9 24 (2.13%) .NET
10 20 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 16 (1.42%) EDI
12 16 (1.42%) RESTful
13 14 (1.24%) Middleware
14 12 (1.07%) OpenAPI
14 12 (1.07%) SAML
15 11 (0.98%) Jinja
15 11 (0.98%) NETCONF
15 11 (0.98%) YANG
16 9 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 164 (14.58%) Cloud Native
2 132 (11.73%) Product Ownership
3 104 (9.24%) Onboarding
4 53 (4.71%) Social Media
5 48 (4.27%) Management Information System
6 46 (4.09%) Cyberattack
7 45 (4.00%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.82%) Driving Licence
9 40 (3.56%) Blog
10 36 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.96%) Podcast
13 18 (1.60%) Credit Risk
13 18 (1.60%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.42%) Security Posture
15 11 (0.98%) Video Editing
16 9 (0.80%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.80%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 8 (0.71%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 44 (3.91%) Windows
2 38 (3.38%) Linux
3 27 (2.40%) Unix
4 16 (1.42%) Android
5 15 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.16%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.53%) VMS
8 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (29.42%) Agile
2 268 (23.82%) AI
3 215 (19.11%) CI/CD
4 188 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 188 (16.71%) Roadmaps
5 171 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
6 163 (14.49%) Technology Strategy
7 161 (14.31%) DevOps
8 157 (13.96%) Community of Practice
9 151 (13.42%) Mentoring
10 126 (11.20%) Scrum
11 124 (11.02%) Decision-Making
12 117 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
13 109 (9.69%) Software Engineering
14 103 (9.16%) Test Automation
15 102 (9.07%) Analytics
16 93 (8.27%) CRM
17 92 (8.18%) TOGAF
18 88 (7.82%) Fintech
19 84 (7.47%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 143 (12.71%) Python
2 126 (11.20%) Java
3 115 (10.22%) SQL
4 79 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.44%) Apex Code
6 36 (3.20%) Go
7 34 (3.02%) SOQL
7 34 (3.02%) SOSL
8 29 (2.58%) Bash
9 27 (2.40%) C#
10 22 (1.96%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.78%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.33%) Bicep
13 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.44%) R
15 4 (0.36%) C
15 4 (0.36%) Rust
16 3 (0.27%) Ada
16 3 (0.27%) Ruby
16 3 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 240 (21.33%) Degree
2 167 (14.84%) Security Cleared
3 162 (14.40%) SC Cleared
4 52 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 43 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.47%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (2.49%) CISSP
9 25 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (2.04%) CISM
11 14 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.24%) HNC
12 11 (0.98%) CISA
12 11 (0.98%) HND
13 10 (0.89%) CRISC
14 9 (0.80%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.80%) OSCP
15 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
16 6 (0.53%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (5.87%) Accessibility
2 65 (5.78%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.71%) NIST
4 49 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (4.27%) GRC
6 38 (3.38%) GDPR
7 36 (3.20%) QA
8 25 (2.22%) PCI DSS
8 25 (2.22%) SLA
9 23 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.96%) SOC 2
11 16 (1.42%) WCAG
12 14 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (1.07%) NCSC
14 11 (0.98%) PMO
15 10 (0.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.80%) COBIT
17 7 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.44%) SOC 1
19 3 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 47 (4.18%) Docker
2 25 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.53%) vSphere
7 2 (0.18%) Firmware
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 123 (10.93%) Terraform
2 95 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 61 (5.42%) Grafana
4 24 (2.13%) Ansible
5 19 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.60%) Argo
6 18 (1.60%) Kustomize
7 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.80%) Autotask
9 6 (0.53%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.18%) CASB
13 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.089%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.089%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.089%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 189 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.07%) Adobe
3 69 (6.13%) Salesforce
4 56 (4.98%) Google
5 41 (3.64%) Cisco
6 34 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.02%) Splunk
7 32 (2.84%) Apple
8 23 (2.04%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (1.96%) Tenable
10 15 (1.33%) SAP
11 14 (1.24%) Oracle
12 12 (1.07%) Dell
13 11 (0.98%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.98%) Instagram
13 11 (0.98%) Meraki
13 11 (0.98%) MuleSoft
13 11 (0.98%) VMware
13 11 (0.98%) Wrike