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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 14 30
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,344 1,898 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.80% 11.47% 6.72%
As % of the General category 9.64% 16.07% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 490 415 845
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,600 £35,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,733 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,200 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.46% -5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,224 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,957 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%

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 13,945 11,811 15,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.22% 71.37% 61.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,777 6,569 9,830
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £43,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,800 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,441 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% -1.02% -8.33%

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 25 August 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 29 (2.16%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.82%) Confluence
4 10 (0.74%) CMS
5 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.37%) Apache
7 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.30%) WordPress
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.22%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.074%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.26%) Simulink
4 13 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
6 8 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (0.60%) InDesign
6 8 (0.60%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.30%) Maple
7 4 (0.30%) Mathcad
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.15%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
10 1 (0.074%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 24 (1.79%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.82%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.74%) Primavera
4 7 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.37%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.30%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.22%) Misys Midas
8 2 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.15%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.15%) Shopify
9 1 (0.074%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 244 (18.15%) AWS
2 225 (16.74%) Azure
3 181 (13.47%) GCP
4 150 (11.16%) SaaS
5 87 (6.47%) Power Platform
6 52 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (3.50%) Serverless
8 40 (2.98%) dbt
9 35 (2.60%) Figma
10 34 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
10 34 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (2.46%) Power Automate
12 32 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
14 25 (1.86%) GitHub
15 24 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
15 24 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
16 22 (1.64%) Google Analytics
17 20 (1.49%) Entra ID
17 20 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.98%) Network Security
2 32 (2.38%) Broadband
3 19 (1.41%) Firewall
4 17 (1.26%) VPN
5 15 (1.12%) Ethernet
6 11 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.67%) Intranet
8 8 (0.60%) DNS
8 8 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.60%) WAN
9 7 (0.52%) DHCP
10 6 (0.45%) VLAN
11 5 (0.37%) MPLS
12 4 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.30%) Modbus
12 4 (0.30%) Profibus
13 3 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.22%) SDH
13 3 (0.22%) Unified Communications
14 2 (0.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.65%) Power BI
2 38 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (2.68%) SQL Server
4 27 (2.01%) Metadata
4 27 (2.01%) Tableau
5 22 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 19 (1.41%) BigQuery
7 18 (1.34%) MySQL
8 16 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
11 12 (0.89%) Big Data
12 11 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.74%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.67%) DynamoDB
14 9 (0.67%) Looker
15 6 (0.45%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 62 (4.61%) Git
2 50 (3.72%) TeamCity
3 38 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.93%) JIRA
5 22 (1.64%) Snyk
6 20 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (1.41%) GitLab
8 14 (1.04%) LabVIEW
8 14 (1.04%) SonarQube
9 10 (0.74%) Balsamiq
10 8 (0.60%) Axure RP
11 6 (0.45%) JUnit
12 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.37%) JMeter
12 5 (0.37%) Locust
13 4 (0.30%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.22%) CMake
14 3 (0.22%) Selenium
14 3 (0.22%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 511 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 489 (36.38%) Finance
3 305 (22.69%) Law
4 227 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
5 220 (16.37%) Public Sector
6 172 (12.80%) Retail
7 165 (12.28%) Banking
8 162 (12.05%) Marketing
9 115 (8.56%) Aerospace
10 112 (8.33%) Back Office
11 96 (7.14%) Financial Institution
12 73 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
13 71 (5.28%) Legal
14 67 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (3.50%) Electronics
15 47 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (2.23%) Military
17 28 (2.08%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.93%) Local Government
19 23 (1.71%) German Language
Job Titles
1 320 (23.81%) Senior
2 197 (14.66%) Architect
3 164 (12.20%) Analyst
4 126 (9.38%) Lead
5 98 (7.29%) Software Engineer
6 84 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
7 69 (5.13%) Developer
8 65 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
9 56 (4.17%) Consultant
10 55 (4.09%) Business Analyst
11 42 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
12 37 (2.75%) Security Architect
12 37 (2.75%) Technical Architect
13 33 (2.46%) Senior Architect
13 33 (2.46%) Senior Business Analyst
14 32 (2.38%) Designer
14 32 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
15 30 (2.23%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (2.16%) Principal Engineer
17 28 (2.08%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (7.59%) Terraform
2 53 (3.94%) React
3 50 (3.72%) .NET
3 50 (3.72%) CSS
4 48 (3.57%) HTML
5 46 (3.42%) REST
6 37 (2.75%) Node.js
7 24 (1.79%) .NET Core
7 24 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
8 20 (1.49%) RESTful
9 19 (1.41%) ASP.NET
9 19 (1.41%) SOAP
10 18 (1.34%) OpenAPI
10 18 (1.34%) XML
11 17 (1.26%) EDI
11 17 (1.26%) Visualforce
12 15 (1.12%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.12%) Entity Framework
13 14 (1.04%) .NET Framework
13 14 (1.04%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 169 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 137 (10.19%) Product Ownership
3 81 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 67 (4.99%) Driving Licence
5 62 (4.61%) Data Centre
6 58 (4.32%) Management Information System
7 54 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (3.42%) Cyberattack
9 39 (2.90%) Social Media
10 27 (2.01%) Blog
10 27 (2.01%) Podcast
11 23 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.56%) FPGA
13 20 (1.49%) Public Cloud
13 20 (1.49%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.34%) Credit Risk
15 16 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 16 (1.19%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 43 (3.20%) Windows
2 22 (1.64%) Linux
3 15 (1.12%) Android
3 15 (1.12%) VMS
4 14 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.60%) Unix
7 5 (0.37%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (29.39%) Agile
2 351 (26.12%) AI
3 228 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 220 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
5 214 (15.92%) Mentoring
6 213 (15.85%) CI/CD
7 210 (15.63%) Technology Strategy
8 196 (14.58%) Decision-Making
9 179 (13.32%) Software Engineering
10 175 (13.02%) Roadmaps
11 171 (12.72%) Cybersecurity
12 162 (12.05%) Community of Practice
13 147 (10.94%) DevOps
14 141 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 139 (10.34%) Scrum
16 138 (10.27%) Coaching
17 132 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 117 (8.71%) Test Automation
19 111 (8.26%) Analytics
20 102 (7.59%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 131 (9.75%) Python
2 129 (9.60%) SQL
3 99 (7.37%) Java
4 65 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 63 (4.69%) C#
6 30 (2.23%) MATLAB
7 29 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.01%) PowerShell
9 24 (1.79%) Apex Code
10 21 (1.56%) Bicep
11 20 (1.49%) Go
12 17 (1.26%) Bash
13 16 (1.19%) SOQL
13 16 (1.19%) SOSL
14 15 (1.12%) C++
15 13 (0.97%) Ada
16 12 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.67%) C
18 8 (0.60%) Rust
19 6 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 352 (26.19%) Degree
2 336 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 318 (23.66%) SC Cleared
4 119 (8.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 112 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 62 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.68%) DBS Check
7 36 (2.68%) HNC
8 32 (2.38%) CISSP
9 30 (2.23%) Master's Degree
10 29 (2.16%) AWS Certification
11 28 (2.08%) CISM
12 26 (1.93%) PhD
13 24 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 20 (1.49%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.49%) Chartered Engineer
14 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.74%) CISA
15 10 (0.74%) CRISC
15 10 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (13.76%) Accessibility
2 69 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 66 (4.91%) NIST
4 47 (3.50%) GRC
4 47 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (3.20%) GDPR
6 42 (3.13%) QA
7 22 (1.64%) SLA
8 21 (1.56%) NCSC
8 21 (1.56%) WCAG
9 20 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 17 (1.26%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.82%) PMO
14 10 (0.74%) COBIT
14 10 (0.74%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.52%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 45 (3.35%) Docker
2 38 (2.83%) Firmware
3 25 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.89%) vSphere
7 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 59 (4.39%) Grafana
3 7 (0.52%) Ansible
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.37%) Puppet
5 4 (0.30%) Autotask
5 4 (0.30%) CASB
5 4 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.074%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.074%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.074%) SCCM
8 1 (0.074%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.074%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.074%) WSUS
Vendors
1 194 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.32%) Adobe
3 43 (3.20%) Google
3 43 (3.20%) Salesforce
4 34 (2.53%) Apple
5 28 (2.08%) Cisco
5 28 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 26 (1.93%) Palo Alto
7 25 (1.86%) SAP
8 23 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (1.64%) Tenable
10 21 (1.56%) VMware
11 18 (1.34%) Oracle
12 16 (1.19%) Splunk
13 15 (1.12%) Workday
14 12 (0.89%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.82%) Dell
15 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.82%) Siemens
16 10 (0.74%) IBM