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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 16 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 +3
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,134 1,934 1,896
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.73% 12.64% 5.50%
As % of the General category 9.88% 16.95% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 414 430 1,120
10th Percentile £32,650 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,065 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -20.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,875 £88,333 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 11,473 11,411 20,862
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 57.97% 74.59% 60.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7,481 6,266 15,260
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,751 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -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 14 June 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 49 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.15%) CMS
4 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.35%) Apache
5 4 (0.35%) Confluence
5 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.26%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) WordPress
8 1 (0.088%) Drupal
8 1 (0.088%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.26%) Acrobat
3 18 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.79%) Adobe XD
6 8 (0.71%) InDesign
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe After Effects
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 7 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 24 (2.12%) Cloudability
2 9 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.53%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.26%) Academy Housing
4 3 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.088%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 250 (22.05%) AWS
2 206 (18.17%) Azure
3 166 (14.64%) GCP
4 152 (13.40%) SaaS
5 87 (7.67%) Power Platform
6 59 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (3.35%) Serverless
9 35 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 30 (2.65%) Figma
11 24 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (2.12%) Entra ID
11 24 (2.12%) Google Analytics
11 24 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
12 23 (2.03%) Pulumi
13 22 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
14 20 (1.76%) dbt
15 19 (1.68%) PowerApps
16 14 (1.23%) PaaS
17 13 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 86 (7.58%) Broadband
2 20 (1.76%) Network Security
2 20 (1.76%) VPN
3 16 (1.41%) Firewall
4 15 (1.32%) BGP
5 14 (1.23%) 4G
5 14 (1.23%) DHCP
5 14 (1.23%) DNS
5 14 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.23%) WAN
6 11 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
6 11 (0.97%) IOS XR
6 11 (0.97%) MPLS
7 9 (0.79%) LAN
7 9 (0.79%) SMTP
7 9 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.62%) VLAN
9 5 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.79%) Power BI
2 33 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.73%) Relational Database
4 26 (2.29%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.29%) Tableau
5 22 (1.94%) Metadata
6 18 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 17 (1.50%) BigQuery
8 15 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.32%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.06%) Looker
9 12 (1.06%) Semantic Layer
10 11 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 9 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.71%) MySQL
13 8 (0.71%) Redis
14 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 53 (4.67%) TeamCity
2 49 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.44%) GitLab
4 34 (3.00%) SonarQube
5 30 (2.65%) Git
6 22 (1.94%) Snyk
7 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
8 11 (0.97%) JIRA
9 9 (0.79%) Axure RP
9 9 (0.79%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.44%) JMeter
10 5 (0.44%) Locust
11 4 (0.35%) JUnit
11 4 (0.35%) Selenium
12 3 (0.26%) Postman
12 3 (0.26%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.088%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.088%) Gemini Tracker
13 1 (0.088%) XCUITest
General
1 363 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 331 (29.19%) Finance
3 301 (26.54%) Law
4 195 (17.20%) Public Sector
5 191 (16.84%) Banking
6 185 (16.31%) Retail
7 161 (14.20%) Marketing
8 158 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
9 127 (11.20%) Back Office
10 106 (9.35%) Financial Institution
11 72 (6.35%) Legal
12 56 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
13 43 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (3.26%) Games
15 31 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.85%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.76%) Polish Language
18 19 (1.68%) German Language
19 18 (1.59%) Local Government
20 15 (1.32%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 235 (20.72%) Senior
2 157 (13.84%) Architect
3 133 (11.73%) Analyst
4 81 (7.14%) Lead
5 59 (5.20%) Senior Analyst
6 58 (5.11%) Software Engineer
7 54 (4.76%) Developer
8 46 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.09%) Business Analyst
9 35 (3.09%) Consultant
10 34 (3.00%) Senior Architect
11 33 (2.91%) Salesforce Architect
12 31 (2.73%) Security Architect
13 29 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
13 29 (2.56%) Designer
14 27 (2.38%) Technical Architect
15 25 (2.20%) Data Manager
16 23 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
17 22 (1.94%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.70%) REST
2 50 (4.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 46 (4.06%) SOAP
4 45 (3.97%) Visualforce
5 33 (2.91%) HTML
6 31 (2.73%) CSS
7 29 (2.56%) React
8 25 (2.20%) .NET
9 24 (2.12%) Node.js
10 20 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (1.59%) EDI
11 18 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (1.32%) RESTful
13 14 (1.23%) Middleware
14 12 (1.06%) SAML
15 11 (0.97%) Jinja
15 11 (0.97%) NETCONF
15 11 (0.97%) OpenAPI
15 11 (0.97%) YANG
16 9 (0.79%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 161 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 132 (11.64%) Product Ownership
3 107 (9.44%) Onboarding
4 51 (4.50%) Social Media
5 50 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 46 (4.06%) Cyberattack
7 45 (3.97%) Data Centre
8 43 (3.79%) Blog
8 43 (3.79%) Driving Licence
9 33 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.76%) Podcast
13 16 (1.41%) Security Posture
14 15 (1.32%) Credit Risk
15 11 (0.97%) Video Editing
16 9 (0.79%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 8 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
17 8 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.62%) Windows
2 38 (3.35%) Linux
3 27 (2.38%) Unix
4 19 (1.68%) Android
5 18 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.35%) VMS
8 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (29.10%) Agile
2 268 (23.63%) AI
3 211 (18.61%) CI/CD
4 190 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 187 (16.49%) Roadmaps
6 170 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
7 161 (14.20%) Technology Strategy
8 159 (14.02%) Community of Practice
8 159 (14.02%) DevOps
9 152 (13.40%) Mentoring
10 124 (10.93%) Scrum
11 123 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
12 119 (10.49%) Decision-Making
13 110 (9.70%) Software Engineering
14 105 (9.26%) Test Automation
15 102 (8.99%) Analytics
16 92 (8.11%) TOGAF
17 91 (8.02%) CRM
17 91 (8.02%) Fintech
18 82 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 142 (12.52%) Python
2 131 (11.55%) Java
3 112 (9.88%) SQL
4 81 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 50 (4.41%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.35%) Go
7 34 (3.00%) SOQL
7 34 (3.00%) SOSL
8 29 (2.56%) C#
9 27 (2.38%) Bash
10 23 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.50%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.06%) Bicep
13 5 (0.44%) R
14 4 (0.35%) C
14 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.26%) Ada
15 3 (0.26%) Ruby
15 3 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 242 (21.34%) Degree
2 168 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 163 (14.37%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 44 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 39 (3.44%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (2.47%) CISSP
9 25 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.94%) CISM
11 14 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.23%) HNC
12 11 (0.97%) CISA
12 11 (0.97%) CREST Certified
12 11 (0.97%) HND
12 11 (0.97%) OSCP
13 10 (0.88%) CRISC
14 7 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.62%) CITP
15 6 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 63 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 52 (4.59%) NIST
4 49 (4.32%) GRC
4 49 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (3.35%) QA
6 37 (3.26%) GDPR
7 26 (2.29%) PCI DSS
8 23 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (2.03%) SOC 2
9 22 (1.94%) SLA
10 17 (1.50%) WCAG
11 14 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.97%) PMO
13 10 (0.88%) NCSC
14 9 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.71%) COBIT
15 8 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.35%) SOC 1
17 3 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 47 (4.14%) Docker
2 22 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.35%) vSphere
6 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 122 (10.76%) Terraform
2 98 (8.64%) Kubernetes
3 62 (5.47%) Grafana
4 24 (2.12%) Ansible
5 19 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.59%) Argo
6 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
7 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.79%) Autotask
9 6 (0.53%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.18%) CASB
13 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.088%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.088%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 195 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.52%) Adobe
3 69 (6.08%) Salesforce
4 57 (5.03%) Google
5 38 (3.35%) Apple
6 37 (3.26%) Cisco
7 34 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.00%) Splunk
8 23 (2.03%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
9 22 (1.94%) Tenable
10 15 (1.32%) SAP
11 14 (1.23%) Oracle
12 11 (0.97%) Dell
12 11 (0.97%) Hootsuite
12 11 (0.97%) Instagram
12 11 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.97%) Wrike
13 10 (0.88%) Databricks
13 10 (0.88%) Meraki