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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 +22 0
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,083 1,226 1,833
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.98% 9.11% 5.64%
As % of the General category 10.74% 12.63% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 439 443 1,089
10th Percentile £20,000 £30,635 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,195 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £89,700 £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 10,081 9,708 20,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 55.66% 72.11% 61.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,719 6,476 15,129
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 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 55 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.20%) CMS
3 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.37%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.28%) Confluence
5 3 (0.28%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) Apache
6 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.092%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.092%) Drupal
7 1 (0.092%) IIS
7 1 (0.092%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.42%) Acrobat
3 24 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.94%) Adobe XD
4 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.18%) Maya
5 2 (0.18%) MotionBuilder
6 1 (0.092%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.092%) InDesign
6 1 (0.092%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.48%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.55%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.37%) Academy Housing
4 3 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.092%) Magento
6 1 (0.092%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 228 (21.05%) AWS
2 187 (17.27%) Azure
3 146 (13.48%) SaaS
4 132 (12.19%) GCP
5 60 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (4.80%) Power Platform
8 31 (2.86%) Figma
9 29 (2.68%) Entra ID
10 28 (2.59%) Serverless
11 25 (2.31%) Google Analytics
12 24 (2.22%) Power Automate
12 24 (2.22%) Pulumi
13 20 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (1.57%) dbt
14 17 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.39%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (7.11%) Broadband
2 20 (1.85%) VPN
3 18 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.57%) DNS
5 16 (1.48%) 4G
5 16 (1.48%) BGP
5 16 (1.48%) DHCP
5 16 (1.48%) Firewall
6 15 (1.39%) WAN
7 13 (1.20%) LAN
8 11 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.02%) IOS XR
8 11 (1.02%) MPLS
8 11 (1.02%) Network Security
9 9 (0.83%) SMTP
9 9 (0.83%) VLAN
9 9 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.37%) 5G
10 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.06%) 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 12 (1.11%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.02%) Looker
8 11 (1.02%) Metadata
9 10 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.74%) Redis
11 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.55%) Tableau
12 5 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.28%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.28%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 47 (4.34%) TeamCity
2 37 (3.42%) GitLab
3 36 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 34 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 24 (2.22%) Git
6 21 (1.94%) Axure RP
6 21 (1.94%) Balsamiq
7 19 (1.75%) Jaeger
8 16 (1.48%) Snyk
9 10 (0.92%) JIRA
10 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.46%) JMeter
10 5 (0.46%) Locust
11 4 (0.37%) Selenium
12 3 (0.28%) JUnit
12 3 (0.28%) Postman
12 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 1 (0.092%) git-flow
14 1 (0.092%) jMock
General
1 341 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 298 (27.52%) Finance
3 291 (26.87%) Law
4 206 (19.02%) Public Sector
5 187 (17.27%) Retail
6 177 (16.34%) Banking
7 146 (13.48%) Marketing
8 131 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
9 120 (11.08%) Back Office
10 100 (9.23%) Financial Institution
11 52 (4.80%) Legal
12 51 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (3.51%) Games
14 35 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
15 25 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.94%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.66%) German Language
18 16 (1.48%) Polish Language
19 14 (1.29%) Italian Language
20 13 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 198 (18.28%) Senior
2 126 (11.63%) Architect
3 112 (10.34%) Analyst
4 80 (7.39%) Lead
5 52 (4.80%) Developer
6 46 (4.25%) Software Engineer
7 45 (4.16%) Senior Analyst
8 42 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (3.51%) Consultant
10 33 (3.05%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (2.95%) Business Analyst
12 31 (2.86%) Alliance Manager
13 30 (2.77%) Designer
14 27 (2.49%) Senior Architect
15 26 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 25 (2.31%) Senior Manager
17 23 (2.12%) Technical Architect
18 20 (1.85%) Cloud Architect
18 20 (1.85%) Delivery Manager
18 20 (1.85%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.65%) 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 (1.02%) Jinja
12 11 (1.02%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.02%) YANG
13 10 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
13 10 (0.92%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 135 (12.47%) Cloud Native
2 129 (11.91%) Onboarding
3 119 (10.99%) Product Ownership
4 112 (10.34%) Blog
5 50 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 45 (4.16%) Driving Licence
7 44 (4.06%) Data Centre
8 36 (3.32%) Cyberattack
8 36 (3.32%) Social Media
9 29 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (2.03%) Podcast
13 12 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 11 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.02%) 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 33 (3.05%) Windows
3 28 (2.59%) Unix
4 17 (1.57%) Android
5 15 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.092%) Debian
8 1 (0.092%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (26.04%) Agile
2 267 (24.65%) AI
3 182 (16.81%) CI/CD
4 176 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 165 (15.24%) Roadmaps
6 156 (14.40%) Community of Practice
7 154 (14.22%) DevOps
8 143 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (13.20%) Technology Strategy
9 131 (12.10%) Cybersecurity
10 125 (11.54%) Mentoring
11 104 (9.60%) Scrum
12 96 (8.86%) Customer Service
13 94 (8.68%) Software Engineering
14 88 (8.13%) Business Development
15 86 (7.94%) Test Automation
16 83 (7.66%) TOGAF
17 81 (7.48%) Fintech
18 77 (7.11%) Analytics
19 74 (6.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 128 (11.82%) Java
2 116 (10.71%) Python
3 85 (7.85%) JavaScript
4 70 (6.46%) SQL
5 49 (4.52%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.51%) Go
7 34 (3.14%) SOQL
7 34 (3.14%) SOSL
8 31 (2.86%) C#
9 22 (2.03%) Bash
10 19 (1.75%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.11%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.65%) Bicep
13 4 (0.37%) C
13 4 (0.37%) R
14 3 (0.28%) C++
14 3 (0.28%) Rust
15 2 (0.18%) RPG
15 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.092%) Scala
Qualifications
1 288 (26.59%) Degree
2 167 (15.42%) Security Cleared
3 162 (14.96%) SC Cleared
4 55 (5.08%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.77%) CISSP
8 26 (2.40%) DBS Check
9 22 (2.03%) CISM
10 18 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.39%) PMP
12 14 (1.29%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (1.02%) CISA
13 11 (1.02%) 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 (4.16%) NIST
4 38 (3.51%) GRC
5 36 (3.32%) QA
6 29 (2.68%) WCAG
7 25 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 25 (2.31%) PCI DSS
8 24 (2.22%) SOC 2
9 21 (1.94%) Data Quality
10 17 (1.57%) GDPR
11 15 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.83%) PMO
13 8 (0.74%) SLA
14 5 (0.46%) NCSC
14 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.37%) COBIT
15 4 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.28%) EMIR
16 3 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (4.06%) Docker
2 20 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.092%) iptables
6 1 (0.092%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 114 (10.53%) Terraform
2 90 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 57 (5.26%) Grafana
4 26 (2.40%) Ansible
5 21 (1.94%) Argo
6 20 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.75%) Kustomize
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
1 188 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 113 (10.43%) Adobe
3 72 (6.65%) Salesforce
4 60 (5.54%) Google
5 42 (3.88%) Apple
6 34 (3.14%) Splunk
7 32 (2.95%) Cisco
8 28 (2.59%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.66%) CrowdStrike
10 17 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.48%) Tenable
12 15 (1.39%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.20%) SAP
14 12 (1.11%) Instagram
15 11 (1.02%) Databricks
15 11 (1.02%) Hootsuite
15 11 (1.02%) Meraki
15 11 (1.02%) Wrike
16 10 (0.92%) Oracle
17 9 (0.83%) CyberArk