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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,514 1,924 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.07% 11.47% 6.72%
As % of the General category 9.89% 16.26% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 488 414 633
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,188 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -7.06%
75th Percentile £78,224 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.16% -9.54%

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 15,309 11,835 14,031
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.38% 70.57% 62.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,277 6,191 7,857
10th Percentile £32,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,934 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

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 September 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 36 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.86%) Confluence
4 11 (0.73%) CMS
5 7 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.46%) WordPress
6 5 (0.33%) Apache
7 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.26%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) Moodle
9 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 71 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.12%) Simulink
5 12 (0.79%) Maple
6 10 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.66%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.53%) InDesign
8 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.46%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.26%) Mathcad
11 3 (0.20%) Notion
12 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
12 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
12 2 (0.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (1.59%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.66%) Primavera
5 9 (0.59%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Midas
8 3 (0.20%) SAP R/3
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
9 2 (0.13%) Elite 3E
10 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.066%) NEC Housing
10 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 277 (18.30%) AWS
2 228 (15.06%) Azure
3 218 (14.40%) GCP
4 169 (11.16%) SaaS
5 96 (6.34%) Power Platform
6 78 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (3.17%) Serverless
8 43 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
11 34 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (2.25%) dbt
12 33 (2.18%) Figma
13 30 (1.98%) Power Automate
14 27 (1.78%) Entra ID
15 26 (1.72%) PowerApps
16 25 (1.65%) GitHub
17 24 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
18 21 (1.39%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.77%) Network Security
2 22 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 20 (1.32%) Firewall
4 19 (1.25%) Broadband
4 19 (1.25%) VPN
5 15 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.73%) Modbus
6 11 (0.73%) Profibus
7 9 (0.59%) 5G
7 9 (0.59%) DNS
7 9 (0.59%) VLAN
7 9 (0.59%) WAN
8 8 (0.53%) DHCP
8 8 (0.53%) Intranet
9 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.33%) MPLS
11 4 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.26%) Internet
12 3 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.20%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.68%) Power BI
2 54 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.92%) Metadata
5 28 (1.85%) Tableau
6 23 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 17 (1.12%) MySQL
9 16 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.92%) MongoDB
11 14 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
12 12 (0.79%) Big Data
13 11 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.66%) GIS
15 8 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.53%) DynamoDB
16 7 (0.46%) Looker
Development Applications
1 80 (5.28%) TeamCity
2 69 (4.56%) Git
3 29 (1.92%) JIRA
4 27 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.45%) Snyk
6 20 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.92%) LabVIEW
8 12 (0.79%) JUnit
9 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
10 6 (0.40%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.33%) GitLab
12 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.20%) Android Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.20%) CMake
13 3 (0.20%) Selenium
13 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.13%) Bower
14 2 (0.13%) MLflow
General
1 593 (39.17%) Finance
2 579 (38.24%) Social Skills
3 360 (23.78%) Law
4 256 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
5 244 (16.12%) Retail
6 228 (15.06%) Public Sector
7 224 (14.80%) Banking
8 155 (10.24%) Marketing
9 133 (8.78%) Back Office
10 128 (8.45%) Aerospace
11 122 (8.06%) Financial Institution
12 80 (5.28%) Legal
13 78 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
14 73 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
16 53 (3.50%) Electronics
17 38 (2.51%) Telecoms
18 32 (2.11%) Local Government
19 30 (1.98%) Military
20 25 (1.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 355 (23.45%) Senior
2 180 (11.89%) Architect
3 177 (11.69%) Analyst
4 147 (9.71%) Lead
5 120 (7.93%) Software Engineer
6 80 (5.28%) Developer
7 77 (5.09%) Senior Analyst
8 60 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
9 49 (3.24%) Business Analyst
10 48 (3.17%) Consultant
11 40 (2.64%) Cloud Architect
12 39 (2.58%) Senior Architect
13 38 (2.51%) Security Architect
13 38 (2.51%) Senior Manager
14 35 (2.31%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (2.25%) Sales Executive
15 34 (2.25%) Team Leader
16 32 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
16 32 (2.11%) Systems Engineer
17 31 (2.05%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (8.32%) Terraform
2 52 (3.43%) .NET
3 50 (3.30%) React
4 45 (2.97%) CSS
5 44 (2.91%) HTML
6 36 (2.38%) Node.js
7 31 (2.05%) REST
8 28 (1.85%) RESTful
9 26 (1.72%) XML
10 24 (1.59%) .NET Core
11 23 (1.52%) OpenAPI
12 21 (1.39%) EDI
13 19 (1.25%) ASP.NET
14 18 (1.19%) Swagger
15 15 (0.99%) AngularJS
15 15 (0.99%) Entity Framework
16 14 (0.92%) .NET Framework
16 14 (0.92%) Blazor
16 14 (0.92%) Next.js
17 11 (0.73%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 179 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.52%) Product Ownership
3 90 (5.94%) Driving Licence
4 77 (5.09%) Onboarding
5 69 (4.56%) Data Centre
6 67 (4.43%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (3.17%) Social Media
9 43 (2.84%) Blog
10 42 (2.77%) Cyberattack
11 30 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.72%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.39%) FPGA
13 21 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.19%) Credit Risk
14 18 (1.19%) SCADA
15 16 (1.06%) Podcast
16 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.10%) Windows
2 26 (1.72%) Apple iOS
2 26 (1.72%) Linux
3 23 (1.52%) Android
4 15 (0.99%) VMS
5 12 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.40%) Unix
8 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (25.23%) AI
2 377 (24.90%) Agile
3 260 (17.17%) Mentoring
4 255 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 248 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
6 224 (14.80%) Decision-Making
7 215 (14.20%) CI/CD
8 210 (13.87%) Technology Strategy
9 192 (12.68%) Software Engineering
10 177 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 175 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
12 171 (11.29%) Coaching
13 148 (9.78%) Roadmaps
14 140 (9.25%) Community of Practice
15 139 (9.18%) Analytics
16 135 (8.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 133 (8.78%) Test Automation
18 131 (8.65%) DevOps
19 130 (8.59%) Fintech
20 114 (7.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (9.25%) Python
2 139 (9.18%) SQL
3 134 (8.85%) Java
4 74 (4.89%) C#
5 58 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 31 (2.05%) Go
7 30 (1.98%) MATLAB
8 29 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.85%) Bash
10 27 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.06%) Bicep
12 15 (0.99%) C++
13 13 (0.86%) Ada
14 12 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.59%) C
16 8 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.53%) Rust
17 7 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 374 (24.70%) Security Cleared
2 347 (22.92%) Degree
2 347 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 120 (7.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 120 (7.93%) DV Cleared
4 57 (3.76%) HNC
5 54 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.57%) DBS Check
6 32 (2.11%) CISSP
7 31 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 28 (1.85%) CISM
9 28 (1.85%) PhD
10 24 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
12 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.73%) ACCA
13 11 (0.73%) CISA
14 10 (0.66%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (12.88%) Accessibility
2 79 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 61 (4.03%) NIST
4 52 (3.43%) GDPR
5 50 (3.30%) QA
6 46 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.77%) GRC
8 23 (1.52%) NCSC
8 23 (1.52%) SLA
9 22 (1.45%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 16 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.92%) WCAG
13 13 (0.86%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.66%) COBIT
14 10 (0.66%) PMO
15 8 (0.53%) SOC 1
16 5 (0.33%) EMIR
16 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (2.91%) Docker
2 38 (2.51%) Firmware
3 28 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.78%) Active Directory
5 20 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.79%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 117 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 84 (5.55%) Grafana
3 10 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.40%) Ansible
4 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.26%) Autotask
5 4 (0.26%) CASB
5 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.20%) Puppet
7 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.066%) Argo
8 1 (0.066%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.066%) SCCM
8 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.066%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 232 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 64 (4.23%) Adobe
3 47 (3.10%) Google
4 34 (2.25%) Apple
4 34 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 32 (2.11%) Cisco
5 32 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 29 (1.92%) SAP
7 26 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
7 26 (1.72%) Oracle
8 25 (1.65%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.52%) VMware
10 22 (1.45%) Tenable
11 19 (1.25%) Workday
12 15 (0.99%) Dell
13 13 (0.86%) HP
14 12 (0.79%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.73%) Siemens
16 9 (0.59%) Databricks