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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -13
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,054 1,159 1,677
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.25% 8.59% 5.58%
As % of the General category 10.94% 11.99% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 433 450 1,008
10th Percentile £20,000 £37,402 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £46,309 £42,782
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,715 £56,254
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +6.15% -13.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,821 £90,475 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -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 9,632 9,664 18,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.12% 71.63% 61.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,189 6,267 14,717
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,780
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 18 March 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 58 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.14%) CMS
4 4 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.19%) Confluence
6 2 (0.19%) WordPress
7 1 (0.095%) Apache
7 1 (0.095%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.095%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.095%) Drupal
7 1 (0.095%) IIS
7 1 (0.095%) WildFly
Applications
1 57 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.51%) Acrobat
3 32 (3.04%) Adobe XD
4 27 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.28%) Maya
6 3 (0.28%) MotionBuilder
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.095%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.095%) InDesign
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.095%) SmartSuite
7 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.47%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.38%) Academy Housing
4 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.095%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.095%) Magento
7 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.095%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.095%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 217 (20.59%) AWS
2 155 (14.71%) Azure
3 142 (13.47%) SaaS
4 108 (10.25%) GCP
5 72 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (5.60%) Power Platform
8 43 (4.08%) Figma
9 26 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 24 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.28%) Pulumi
11 23 (2.18%) Google Analytics
12 20 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.90%) Miro
12 20 (1.90%) Power Automate
12 20 (1.90%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.71%) Serverless
14 17 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 17 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (1.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.87%) Broadband
2 21 (1.99%) VPN
3 20 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.71%) BGP
5 16 (1.52%) 4G
5 16 (1.52%) DNS
6 15 (1.42%) DHCP
7 13 (1.23%) LAN
7 13 (1.23%) WAN
8 11 (1.04%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.04%) Firewall
8 11 (1.04%) IOS XR
8 11 (1.04%) MPLS
9 10 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.85%) SMTP
10 9 (0.85%) VLAN
11 5 (0.47%) Network Security
12 4 (0.38%) 5G
13 3 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.46%) Power BI
2 30 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.75%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.80%) RDBMS
4 19 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (0.85%) Metadata
9 7 (0.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.66%) Looker
9 7 (0.66%) Redis
10 6 (0.57%) Tableau
11 5 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.47%) MySQL
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.28%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 50 (4.74%) TeamCity
2 43 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.98%) GitLab
4 41 (3.89%) SonarQube
5 32 (3.04%) Git
6 25 (2.37%) Axure RP
6 25 (2.37%) Balsamiq
7 19 (1.80%) Jaeger
8 9 (0.85%) JIRA
9 6 (0.57%) JMeter
10 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.38%) Locust
10 4 (0.38%) Selenium
10 4 (0.38%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.28%) JUnit
11 3 (0.28%) Storybook
12 2 (0.19%) Postman
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.095%) Deequ
General
1 318 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 284 (26.94%) Finance
3 263 (24.95%) Law
4 192 (18.22%) Retail
5 191 (18.12%) Public Sector
6 161 (15.28%) Banking
7 141 (13.38%) Marketing
8 138 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
9 120 (11.39%) Back Office
10 108 (10.25%) Financial Institution
11 47 (4.46%) Games
12 44 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (3.51%) Legal
13 37 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 24 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (1.52%) Polish Language
17 10 (0.95%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.85%) German Language
18 9 (0.85%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 174 (16.51%) Senior
2 93 (8.82%) Architect
3 91 (8.63%) Lead
4 83 (7.87%) Analyst
5 67 (6.36%) Developer
6 45 (4.27%) Software Engineer
7 43 (4.08%) Consultant
8 39 (3.70%) Salesforce Architect
9 38 (3.61%) Senior Manager
10 33 (3.13%) Technical Architect
11 31 (2.94%) Account Manager
11 31 (2.94%) Alliance Manager
12 30 (2.85%) Designer
13 28 (2.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (2.47%) Senior Developer
16 24 (2.28%) Sales Account Manager
16 24 (2.28%) Sales Manager
16 24 (2.28%) Senior Account Manager
16 24 (2.28%) Senior Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.97%) REST
2 58 (5.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 58 (5.50%) SOAP
2 58 (5.50%) Visualforce
3 36 (3.42%) .NET
4 33 (3.13%) HTML
4 33 (3.13%) React
5 30 (2.85%) CSS
6 20 (1.90%) EDI
7 19 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.80%) Middleware
7 19 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (1.61%) Node.js
8 17 (1.61%) RESTful
9 14 (1.33%) HTML5 Canvas
10 13 (1.23%) Web Services
11 12 (1.14%) Django
11 12 (1.14%) SAML
11 12 (1.14%) Sass
12 11 (1.04%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 136 (12.90%) Blog
2 126 (11.95%) Cloud Native
3 122 (11.57%) Onboarding
4 119 (11.29%) Product Ownership
5 42 (3.98%) Driving Licence
6 37 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.23%) Social Media
8 29 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.66%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.71%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.52%) Podcast
13 15 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.14%) Video Editing
16 11 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
17 8 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
17 8 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 7 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
18 7 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.89%) Linux
2 33 (3.13%) Windows
3 25 (2.37%) Unix
4 15 (1.42%) Android
5 13 (1.23%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) Debian
9 1 (0.095%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (26.28%) Agile
2 267 (25.33%) AI
3 206 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 170 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 152 (14.42%) DevOps
6 144 (13.66%) Community of Practice
6 144 (13.66%) Roadmaps
7 132 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (11.86%) Customer Service
9 113 (10.72%) Mentoring
10 98 (9.30%) Technology Strategy
11 97 (9.20%) Scrum
12 94 (8.92%) Business Development
12 94 (8.92%) Cybersecurity
13 93 (8.82%) Software Engineering
14 88 (8.35%) Project Management
15 83 (7.87%) Analytics
16 80 (7.59%) Test Automation
17 79 (7.50%) B2B
18 77 (7.31%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 136 (12.90%) Java
2 107 (10.15%) Python
3 93 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 58 (5.50%) Apex Code
5 48 (4.55%) SQL
6 41 (3.89%) SOQL
6 41 (3.89%) SOSL
7 40 (3.80%) C#
8 33 (3.13%) Go
9 23 (2.18%) TypeScript
10 20 (1.90%) Bash
11 5 (0.47%) C
12 4 (0.38%) C++
12 4 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.38%) R
13 3 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.28%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.28%) RPG
14 1 (0.095%) ABAP
14 1 (0.095%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 296 (28.08%) Degree
2 144 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 141 (13.38%) SC Cleared
4 41 (3.89%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.18%) DBS Check
7 23 (2.18%) PMP
8 21 (1.99%) CISSP
9 16 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.23%) CISM
10 13 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.14%) CREST Certified
11 12 (1.14%) OSCP
12 9 (0.85%) CISA
13 8 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (0.76%) CRISC
14 6 (0.57%) HNC
15 5 (0.47%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.02%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (3.42%) QA
4 33 (3.13%) WCAG
5 29 (2.75%) PCI DSS
6 28 (2.66%) SOC 2
7 25 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (2.18%) GDPR
9 22 (2.09%) NIST
10 19 (1.80%) GRC
11 17 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (1.04%) SLA
13 10 (0.95%) PMO
14 9 (0.85%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.47%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
17 3 (0.28%) NCSC
17 3 (0.28%) PERC
17 3 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (3.61%) Docker
2 18 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.095%) iptables
4 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 116 (11.01%) Terraform
2 93 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 59 (5.60%) Grafana
4 23 (2.18%) Ansible
4 23 (2.18%) Argo
5 21 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.80%) Kustomize
8 5 (0.47%) Autotask
8 5 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.28%) Puppet
11 2 (0.19%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.095%) CASB
12 1 (0.095%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.095%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.095%) Nessus
Vendors
1 185 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 108 (10.25%) Adobe
3 84 (7.97%) Salesforce
4 59 (5.60%) Google
5 41 (3.89%) Splunk
6 28 (2.66%) Cisco
7 26 (2.47%) Apple
8 18 (1.71%) SAP
9 17 (1.61%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.52%) Oracle
11 14 (1.33%) Instagram
12 12 (1.14%) Hootsuite
12 12 (1.14%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.04%) Wrike
14 9 (0.85%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.85%) Databricks
15 8 (0.76%) Dell
15 8 (0.76%) Meraki
16 6 (0.57%) PagerDuty
17 5 (0.47%) IBM