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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 +13
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,160 1,928 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.43% 11.68% 5.94%
As % of the General category 9.14% 16.15% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 462 434 1,100
10th Percentile £34,325 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,032 £72,281 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,283 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,058
% change year-on-year - +5.65% -19.91%

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 12,690 11,941 19,517
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.42% 72.34% 61.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,226 6,694 14,054
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £76,188
90th Percentile £98,750 £107,500 £97,500
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 16 July 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 41 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.03%) CMS
4 5 (0.43%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.34%) Confluence
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.26%) SAS
6 3 (0.26%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.26%) WordPress
7 1 (0.086%) Drupal
7 1 (0.086%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (3.19%) Acrobat
2 33 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.78%) InDesign
5 8 (0.69%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.43%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.086%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (2.07%) Cloudability
2 10 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.43%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.086%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 238 (20.52%) AWS
2 210 (18.10%) Azure
3 178 (15.34%) GCP
4 163 (14.05%) SaaS
5 83 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 63 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
7 54 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (3.71%) dbt
9 42 (3.62%) Serverless
10 35 (3.02%) Power Automate
11 30 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (2.41%) Figma
13 26 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
14 25 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
15 23 (1.98%) PaaS
16 22 (1.90%) Entra ID
17 21 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (1.64%) Google Analytics
18 19 (1.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.69%) Broadband
2 27 (2.33%) VPN
3 22 (1.90%) Network Security
4 16 (1.38%) Firewall
4 16 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.12%) WAN
6 12 (1.03%) DNS
7 11 (0.95%) DHCP
8 9 (0.78%) SMTP
8 9 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.69%) LAN
10 7 (0.60%) VLAN
11 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.43%) BGP
12 5 (0.43%) Intranet
13 4 (0.34%) 4G
14 3 (0.26%) 5G
14 3 (0.26%) SSL
15 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
15 2 (0.17%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.38%) Power BI
2 34 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.33%) Tableau
4 22 (1.90%) Metadata
5 20 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.55%) BigQuery
6 18 (1.55%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
9 11 (0.95%) Looker
9 11 (0.95%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.69%) MySQL
12 8 (0.69%) Redis
13 7 (0.60%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.52%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 58 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 52 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.36%) GitLab
4 34 (2.93%) SonarQube
5 33 (2.84%) Git
6 22 (1.90%) Snyk
7 11 (0.95%) JIRA
8 8 (0.69%) LabVIEW
9 6 (0.52%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.43%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.43%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.43%) JMeter
10 5 (0.43%) JUnit
10 5 (0.43%) Locust
11 3 (0.26%) Postman
11 3 (0.26%) Selenium
11 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.17%) Bower
12 2 (0.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 406 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 327 (28.19%) Finance
3 305 (26.29%) Law
4 195 (16.81%) Banking
5 192 (16.55%) Retail
6 181 (15.60%) Public Sector
7 169 (14.57%) Marketing
8 151 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
9 134 (11.55%) Back Office
10 109 (9.40%) Financial Institution
11 74 (6.38%) Legal
12 59 (5.09%) Presentation Skills
13 51 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.19%) Games
15 32 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.72%) German Language
16 20 (1.72%) Polish Language
17 19 (1.64%) Local Government
18 16 (1.38%) Advertising
18 16 (1.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 258 (22.24%) Senior
2 200 (17.24%) Architect
3 132 (11.38%) Analyst
4 77 (6.64%) Lead
5 65 (5.60%) Software Engineer
6 64 (5.52%) Senior Analyst
7 63 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (5.00%) Developer
9 44 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
10 41 (3.53%) Consultant
10 41 (3.53%) Technical Architect
11 36 (3.10%) Business Analyst
12 35 (3.02%) Security Architect
13 33 (2.84%) Salesforce Architect
14 31 (2.67%) Senior Architect
15 26 (2.24%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (2.16%) Designer
17 24 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
18 23 (1.98%) Agile Delivery Manager
18 23 (1.98%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.98%) REST
2 48 (4.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 45 (3.88%) SOAP
4 43 (3.71%) Visualforce
5 33 (2.84%) React
6 32 (2.76%) CSS
6 32 (2.76%) HTML
7 31 (2.67%) Node.js
8 27 (2.33%) .NET
9 21 (1.81%) RESTful
10 15 (1.29%) EDI
10 15 (1.29%) OpenAPI
11 13 (1.12%) Middleware
11 13 (1.12%) XML
12 12 (1.03%) SAML
12 12 (1.03%) Swagger
13 8 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
14 7 (0.60%) Django
14 7 (0.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 177 (15.26%) Cloud Native
2 141 (12.16%) Product Ownership
3 97 (8.36%) Onboarding
4 53 (4.57%) Driving Licence
5 46 (3.97%) Cyberattack
5 46 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 44 (3.79%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
7 42 (3.62%) Social Media
8 39 (3.36%) Blog
9 27 (2.33%) Podcast
10 26 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.90%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.55%) Credit Risk
13 14 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 11 (0.95%) Video Editing
15 10 (0.86%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.78%) Culture of Ownership
16 9 (0.78%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.31%) Windows
2 25 (2.16%) Linux
3 16 (1.38%) Android
3 16 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.29%) Unix
5 13 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.03%) VMS
7 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (29.57%) Agile
2 274 (23.62%) AI
3 234 (20.17%) CI/CD
4 199 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 186 (16.03%) Roadmaps
6 176 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (14.91%) Technology Strategy
8 165 (14.22%) Mentoring
9 163 (14.05%) DevOps
10 155 (13.36%) Community of Practice
11 137 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
12 135 (11.64%) Scrum
13 134 (11.55%) Decision-Making
14 123 (10.60%) Software Engineering
15 114 (9.83%) Test Automation
16 106 (9.14%) Analytics
17 105 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 93 (8.02%) Fintech
19 90 (7.76%) Coaching
19 90 (7.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 128 (11.03%) Python
2 120 (10.34%) SQL
3 119 (10.26%) Java
4 66 (5.69%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.14%) Apex Code
6 34 (2.93%) SOQL
6 34 (2.93%) SOSL
7 28 (2.41%) C#
8 27 (2.33%) Go
8 27 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 25 (2.16%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.98%) Bash
11 21 (1.81%) Bicep
12 12 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.78%) MATLAB
14 5 (0.43%) R
14 5 (0.43%) Rust
15 4 (0.34%) PHP
16 3 (0.26%) C
16 3 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 251 (21.64%) Degree
2 203 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 197 (16.98%) SC Cleared
4 46 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.02%) DBS Check
6 33 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.84%) CISSP
7 29 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (2.33%) CISM
9 24 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.38%) HNC
11 15 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.21%) CISA
13 13 (1.12%) CRISC
14 12 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.86%) HND
15 10 (0.86%) PhD
16 8 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.69%) CREST Certified
16 8 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (5.78%) Accessibility
2 64 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.91%) NIST
4 52 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (4.14%) GRC
6 39 (3.36%) GDPR
7 35 (3.02%) QA
8 26 (2.24%) PCI DSS
9 25 (2.16%) SOC 2
10 24 (2.07%) SLA
11 22 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (1.38%) NCSC
12 16 (1.38%) WCAG
13 14 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.86%) COBIT
15 10 (0.86%) PMO
16 7 (0.60%) SOC 1
17 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (3.62%) Docker
2 31 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.03%) vSphere
7 4 (0.34%) Firmware
8 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 123 (10.60%) Terraform
2 89 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 67 (5.78%) Grafana
4 12 (1.03%) Ansible
5 11 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.78%) Autotask
7 8 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.52%) Argo
8 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
8 6 (0.52%) Puppet
9 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.17%) CASB
11 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.086%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.086%) SCCM
12 1 (0.086%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.086%) WSUS
Vendors
1 190 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.02%) Adobe
3 62 (5.34%) Salesforce
4 42 (3.62%) Google
5 34 (2.93%) Splunk
6 32 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.59%) Cisco
8 26 (2.24%) Apple
9 23 (1.98%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.90%) Tenable
11 18 (1.55%) VMware
12 14 (1.21%) Oracle
12 14 (1.21%) SAP
13 13 (1.12%) Instagram
14 12 (1.03%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.95%) Dell
15 11 (0.95%) Hootsuite
15 11 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.95%) Wrike