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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 920 1,460 1,573
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.06% 7.50% 7.52%
As % of the General category 9.53% 11.59% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 450 556 959
10th Percentile £20,000 £40,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £27,197 £46,713 £45,341
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £64,622
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.28% +7.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £78,875 £87,348 £101,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.85% +4.69%

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 common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,649 12,602 13,625
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 63.58% 64.73% 65.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,164 7,330 10,748
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,746 £36,206
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 30 November 2025.

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 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.98%) CMS
3 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.43%) WordPress
6 3 (0.33%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.22%) Apache
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.11%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.11%) nginx
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 49 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.37%) Adobe XD
4 13 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.87%) Maya
6 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.65%) Adobe Premiere
7 6 (0.65%) MotionBuilder
7 6 (0.65%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.54%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.22%) 3ds Max
11 2 (0.22%) Blender
11 2 (0.22%) ZBrush
12 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.11%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 12 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.43%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.43%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.33%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.11%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.11%) Primavera
6 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 115 (12.50%) Azure
2 89 (9.67%) AWS
3 88 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (8.26%) Power Platform
5 62 (6.74%) SaaS
6 44 (4.78%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (3.70%) Figma
7 34 (3.70%) Power Automate
8 29 (3.15%) GCP
9 27 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (2.28%) Google Analytics
11 20 (2.17%) Miro
11 20 (2.17%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.63%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.30%) Serverless
14 11 (1.20%) Amazon S3
14 11 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.39%) Broadband
2 10 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.09%) VPN
3 7 (0.76%) DNS
3 7 (0.76%) LAN
3 7 (0.76%) WAN
4 6 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.54%) DHCP
5 5 (0.54%) Firewall
5 5 (0.54%) Internet
6 4 (0.43%) VLAN
7 3 (0.33%) BGP
7 3 (0.33%) FTP
7 3 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.22%) Intranet
8 2 (0.22%) Network Security
8 2 (0.22%) VoIP
8 2 (0.22%) WebEx
8 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.33%) Power BI
2 18 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.98%) Power Query
7 7 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.65%) Metadata
8 6 (0.65%) Tableau
9 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.54%) MySQL
10 4 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.43%) Looker
10 4 (0.43%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.43%) Tick Data
11 3 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.22%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 24 (2.61%) Axure RP
1 24 (2.61%) Balsamiq
2 18 (1.96%) Git
3 16 (1.74%) GitLab
3 16 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.63%) SonarQube
5 14 (1.52%) TeamCity
6 13 (1.41%) JIRA
7 7 (0.76%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.76%) Selenium
7 7 (0.76%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.33%) Storybook
10 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.22%) JMeter
11 1 (0.11%) Deequ
11 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 327 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 200 (21.74%) Finance
3 161 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 134 (14.57%) Law
5 117 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (12.28%) Retail
7 110 (11.96%) Marketing
8 60 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (4.89%) Back Office
10 44 (4.78%) Banking
10 44 (4.78%) Financial Institution
11 37 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (2.83%) Games
13 21 (2.28%) Legal
14 20 (2.17%) Telecoms
15 18 (1.96%) Local Government
16 11 (1.20%) Advertising
16 11 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.09%) Police
18 8 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 151 (16.41%) Senior
2 77 (8.37%) Analyst
3 73 (7.93%) Lead
4 69 (7.50%) Developer
5 63 (6.85%) Microsoft Specialist
6 61 (6.63%) Architect
7 54 (5.87%) Senior Manager
8 44 (4.78%) Account Manager
9 39 (4.24%) Sales Account Manager
9 39 (4.24%) Sales Manager
9 39 (4.24%) Senior Account Manager
9 39 (4.24%) Senior Sales Manager
10 38 (4.13%) Consultant
11 26 (2.83%) Business Analyst
12 24 (2.61%) Senior Developer
13 23 (2.50%) Designer
14 21 (2.28%) IT Support
14 21 (2.28%) Product Manager
15 20 (2.17%) Technical Architect
16 19 (2.07%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.80%) REST
2 30 (3.26%) HTML
3 29 (3.15%) CSS
4 27 (2.93%) React
5 22 (2.39%) Lightning Web Components
5 22 (2.39%) SOAP
5 22 (2.39%) Visualforce
6 18 (1.96%) .NET
7 16 (1.74%) Node.js
8 14 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
9 11 (1.20%) Django
9 11 (1.20%) EDI
9 11 (1.20%) XML
10 10 (1.09%) Playwright
10 10 (1.09%) Web Services
11 8 (0.87%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.87%) Middleware
12 7 (0.76%) RESTful
13 6 (0.65%) Entity Framework
13 6 (0.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 98 (10.65%) Blog
2 81 (8.80%) Onboarding
3 74 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 56 (6.09%) Cloud Native
5 40 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 28 (3.04%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.39%) Social Media
10 18 (1.96%) Microsoft Licensing
11 14 (1.52%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.30%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.09%) Xbox
14 9 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.87%) Animation
15 8 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.28%) Windows
2 11 (1.20%) Linux
3 9 (0.98%) Windows 10
4 6 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.54%) Android
5 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.22%) Unix
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (34.46%) AI
2 199 (21.63%) Agile
3 169 (18.37%) Customer Service
4 147 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 119 (12.93%) CRM
6 116 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (10.65%) DevOps
8 92 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 90 (9.78%) Mentoring
10 89 (9.67%) Analytics
11 86 (9.35%) Community of Practice
12 84 (9.13%) Project Management
13 83 (9.02%) Customer Experience
14 79 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
15 78 (8.48%) Decision-Making
16 77 (8.37%) Time Management
17 73 (7.93%) B2B
17 73 (7.93%) Technology Strategy
18 71 (7.72%) CI/CD
19 66 (7.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (7.83%) Python
2 61 (6.63%) SQL
3 56 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 40 (4.35%) Java
5 38 (4.13%) C#
6 22 (2.39%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.63%) SOQL
7 15 (1.63%) SOSL
8 11 (1.20%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.87%) RPG
11 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.54%) Go
13 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.33%) C
14 3 (0.33%) Scala
15 2 (0.22%) C++
15 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.22%) R
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 337 (36.63%) Degree
2 92 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 86 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.83%) PMP
6 20 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (1.96%) DBS Check
8 12 (1.30%) CISSP
9 10 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.09%) CISM
9 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (0.87%) ACCA
11 8 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.87%) CIMA
12 5 (0.54%) CIPD
12 5 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.54%) HNC
12 5 (0.54%) OSCP
12 5 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.20%) Accessibility
2 34 (3.70%) QA
3 28 (3.04%) GDPR
4 26 (2.83%) WCAG
5 24 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.96%) Data Quality
7 17 (1.85%) NIST
8 11 (1.20%) PMO
9 10 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (1.09%) PCI DSS
9 10 (1.09%) SLA
10 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.87%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.65%) EU AI Act
12 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.54%) GRC
12 5 (0.54%) NCSC
13 4 (0.43%) NEBOSH
14 3 (0.33%) PERC
15 2 (0.22%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 18 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Firmware
3 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 33 (3.59%) Terraform
2 24 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 16 (1.74%) Grafana
4 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.54%) Argo
6 4 (0.43%) Ansible
7 3 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.11%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.11%) Nessus
8 1 (0.11%) Nmap
8 1 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 259 (28.15%) Microsoft
2 62 (6.74%) Adobe
3 47 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 35 (3.80%) Google
5 31 (3.37%) Cisco
6 30 (3.26%) Apple
7 22 (2.39%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.63%) SAP
8 15 (1.63%) Splunk
9 11 (1.20%) Oracle
10 8 (0.87%) Databricks
10 8 (0.87%) Guidewire
11 7 (0.76%) Dell
11 7 (0.76%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.65%) Instagram
13 5 (0.54%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.54%) Openreach
13 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.54%) YouTube
14 4 (0.43%) Autodesk