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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 21 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -5
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,084 1,261 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.00% 9.35% 5.63%
As % of the General category 10.72% 12.95% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 449 440 1,091
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,243 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,768
90th Percentile £78,758 £87,363 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - +7.84% -21.54%

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 10,114 9,736 20,162
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.00% 72.16% 61.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,729 6,496 15,161
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,385
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 26 April 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 54 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.20%) CMS
3 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.28%) Confluence
5 3 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.092%) Drupal
7 1 (0.092%) IIS
7 1 (0.092%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.41%) Acrobat
3 24 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.03%) Adobe XD
5 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.18%) Maya
6 2 (0.18%) MotionBuilder
7 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.092%) InDesign
7 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.11%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.55%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.37%) Academy Housing
5 3 (0.28%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.092%) Magento
7 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 220 (20.30%) AWS
2 180 (16.61%) Azure
3 150 (13.84%) SaaS
4 126 (11.62%) GCP
5 61 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (4.70%) Power Platform
8 32 (2.95%) Figma
9 30 (2.77%) Entra ID
10 26 (2.40%) Serverless
11 25 (2.31%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.21%) Power Automate
12 24 (2.21%) Pulumi
13 20 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.57%) dbt
14 17 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.38%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (1.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.11%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 76 (7.01%) Broadband
2 19 (1.75%) VPN
3 17 (1.57%) DNS
3 17 (1.57%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.48%) 4G
4 16 (1.48%) BGP
4 16 (1.48%) DHCP
5 15 (1.38%) Firewall
6 14 (1.29%) WAN
7 13 (1.20%) LAN
8 11 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.01%) IOS XR
8 11 (1.01%) MPLS
9 10 (0.92%) Network Security
10 9 (0.83%) SMTP
10 9 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.74%) VLAN
12 4 (0.37%) 5G
13 3 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.97%) Power BI
2 26 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.75%) RDBMS
5 17 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 16 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.01%) Looker
7 11 (1.01%) Metadata
7 11 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (0.74%) Redis
10 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.46%) Tableau
12 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
13 2 (0.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (4.34%) TeamCity
2 35 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.14%) GitLab
3 34 (3.14%) SonarQube
4 25 (2.31%) Git
5 22 (2.03%) Axure RP
5 22 (2.03%) Balsamiq
6 19 (1.75%) Jaeger
7 13 (1.20%) Snyk
8 10 (0.92%) JIRA
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) JMeter
9 5 (0.46%) Locust
10 4 (0.37%) Selenium
11 3 (0.28%) JUnit
11 3 (0.28%) Postman
11 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.092%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.092%) WebDriver
General
1 344 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 302 (27.86%) Finance
3 293 (27.03%) Law
4 206 (19.00%) Public Sector
5 193 (17.80%) Retail
6 178 (16.42%) Banking
7 151 (13.93%) Marketing
8 127 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
9 122 (11.25%) Back Office
10 101 (9.32%) Financial Institution
11 52 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (4.34%) Legal
13 38 (3.51%) Games
13 38 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.94%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.66%) German Language
17 16 (1.48%) Polish Language
18 14 (1.29%) Italian Language
19 13 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 187 (17.25%) Senior
2 122 (11.25%) Architect
3 106 (9.78%) Analyst
4 82 (7.56%) Lead
5 50 (4.61%) Developer
6 44 (4.06%) Software Engineer
7 42 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (3.78%) Consultant
9 40 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
10 33 (3.04%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 31 (2.86%) Alliance Manager
12 31 (2.86%) Designer
13 26 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 25 (2.31%) Technical Architect
15 24 (2.21%) Senior Architect
16 21 (1.94%) Cloud Engineer
17 20 (1.85%) Delivery Manager
18 18 (1.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.64%) REST
2 49 (4.52%) Lightning Web Components
2 49 (4.52%) SOAP
2 49 (4.52%) Visualforce
3 29 (2.68%) HTML
4 27 (2.49%) .NET
5 26 (2.40%) CSS
5 26 (2.40%) React
6 21 (1.94%) EDI
7 19 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (1.75%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (1.57%) Middleware
9 14 (1.29%) Node.js
10 13 (1.20%) RESTful
11 12 (1.11%) SAML
12 11 (1.01%) Jinja
12 11 (1.01%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.01%) YANG
13 10 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (0.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 132 (12.18%) Onboarding
2 131 (12.08%) Cloud Native
3 125 (11.53%) Blog
4 119 (10.98%) Product Ownership
5 52 (4.80%) Management Information System
6 45 (4.15%) Driving Licence
7 38 (3.51%) Data Centre
8 35 (3.23%) Social Media
9 33 (3.04%) Cyberattack
10 29 (2.68%) Public Cloud
11 26 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (2.03%) Podcast
12 22 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.01%) Video Editing
15 9 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
16 8 (0.74%) Low-Code
17 7 (0.65%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.60%) Linux
2 32 (2.95%) Windows
3 28 (2.58%) Unix
4 17 (1.57%) Android
5 15 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.092%) Debian
8 1 (0.092%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (25.83%) Agile
2 266 (24.54%) AI
3 179 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 175 (16.14%) CI/CD
5 165 (15.22%) Roadmaps
6 157 (14.48%) Community of Practice
7 155 (14.30%) DevOps
8 141 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
9 140 (12.92%) Technology Strategy
10 125 (11.53%) Cybersecurity
11 119 (10.98%) Mentoring
12 105 (9.69%) Scrum
13 102 (9.41%) Customer Service
14 92 (8.49%) Business Development
15 91 (8.39%) Software Engineering
16 82 (7.56%) Fintech
16 82 (7.56%) Test Automation
17 80 (7.38%) TOGAF
18 77 (7.10%) Analytics
19 76 (7.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (11.53%) Java
2 108 (9.96%) Python
3 83 (7.66%) JavaScript
4 66 (6.09%) SQL
5 49 (4.52%) Apex Code
6 37 (3.41%) Go
7 34 (3.14%) SOQL
7 34 (3.14%) SOSL
8 31 (2.86%) C#
9 20 (1.85%) Bash
10 19 (1.75%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.55%) Bicep
13 4 (0.37%) C
13 4 (0.37%) R
14 3 (0.28%) C++
15 2 (0.18%) RPG
15 2 (0.18%) Rust
16 1 (0.092%) Swift
16 1 (0.092%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 302 (27.86%) Degree
2 162 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 157 (14.48%) SC Cleared
4 50 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.77%) CISSP
8 24 (2.21%) DBS Check
9 22 (2.03%) CISM
10 18 (1.66%) PMP
11 14 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.11%) CISA
13 11 (1.01%) OSCP
14 10 (0.92%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.92%) CRISC
15 8 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (0.74%) HNC
15 8 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 47 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (4.15%) NIST
4 34 (3.14%) GRC
4 34 (3.14%) QA
5 30 (2.77%) WCAG
6 26 (2.40%) PCI DSS
7 25 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (2.21%) SOC 2
9 16 (1.48%) Data Quality
10 15 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 14 (1.29%) GDPR
12 9 (0.83%) PMO
13 8 (0.74%) SLA
14 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.37%) COBIT
15 4 (0.37%) NCSC
16 3 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.28%) MiFID
16 3 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (4.06%) Docker
2 19 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.092%) Firmware
5 1 (0.092%) iptables
5 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (10.61%) Terraform
2 90 (8.30%) Kubernetes
3 57 (5.26%) Grafana
4 26 (2.40%) Ansible
5 23 (2.12%) Argo
6 20 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.75%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.55%) Puppet
9 5 (0.46%) Autotask
9 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.28%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.092%) CASB
13 1 (0.092%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.092%) Nessus
Vendors
1 182 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 110 (10.15%) Adobe
3 72 (6.64%) Salesforce
4 61 (5.63%) Google
5 38 (3.51%) Apple
6 34 (3.14%) Splunk
7 30 (2.77%) Cisco
8 24 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.48%) SAP
10 15 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
10 15 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.20%) Tenable
13 12 (1.11%) Instagram
14 11 (1.01%) Databricks
14 11 (1.01%) Hootsuite
14 11 (1.01%) Wrike
15 10 (0.92%) Meraki
15 10 (0.92%) Oracle
16 9 (0.83%) CyberArk