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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,506 1,926 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.06% 11.46% 6.76%
As % of the General category 9.89% 16.21% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 472 410 605
10th Percentile £32,050 £25,600 £37,784
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £78,224 £71,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £83,875 £86,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,850
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.77% -7.92%

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 15,222 11,882 13,949
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.28% 70.69% 62.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,179 6,201 7,773
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £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 £79,625 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,200
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 5 October 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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.86%) Confluence
4 10 (0.66%) CMS
5 7 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.46%) WordPress
6 5 (0.33%) Apache
7 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.066%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.066%) nginx
10 1 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 73 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.13%) Simulink
5 13 (0.86%) Maple
6 10 (0.66%) Adobe After Effects
6 10 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (0.66%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.53%) InDesign
8 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.46%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.40%) Notion
11 4 (0.27%) Mathcad
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 21 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 15 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.66%) Primavera
5 9 (0.60%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Midas
8 3 (0.20%) SAP R/3
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
10 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
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
10 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 269 (17.86%) AWS
2 221 (14.67%) Azure
3 211 (14.01%) GCP
4 168 (11.16%) SaaS
5 96 (6.37%) Power Platform
6 77 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (2.99%) Serverless
9 38 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (2.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 34 (2.26%) dbt
12 33 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.19%) Figma
13 29 (1.93%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.86%) Entra ID
15 26 (1.73%) PowerApps
16 25 (1.66%) GitHub
16 25 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
17 24 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (1.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.72%) Network Security
2 23 (1.53%) Ethernet
3 22 (1.46%) Firewall
4 20 (1.33%) VPN
5 19 (1.26%) Broadband
6 16 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.80%) Modbus
7 12 (0.80%) Profibus
8 10 (0.66%) VLAN
9 9 (0.60%) 5G
9 9 (0.60%) DNS
9 9 (0.60%) WAN
10 8 (0.53%) DHCP
10 8 (0.53%) Intranet
11 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.33%) MPLS
13 4 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.27%) Internet
13 4 (0.27%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.71%) Power BI
2 53 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (2.26%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.93%) Metadata
5 28 (1.86%) Tableau
6 24 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.33%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.13%) MySQL
9 16 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
12 13 (0.86%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.80%) Big Data
13 12 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.66%) GIS
15 9 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.53%) DynamoDB
17 6 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 80 (5.31%) TeamCity
2 69 (4.58%) Git
3 29 (1.93%) JIRA
4 28 (1.86%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (1.26%) Snyk
7 14 (0.93%) JUnit
7 14 (0.93%) LabVIEW
8 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 6 (0.40%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.33%) GitLab
11 4 (0.27%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) CMake
12 3 (0.20%) Selenium
12 3 (0.20%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.13%) Bower
13 2 (0.13%) MLflow
General
1 597 (39.64%) Finance
2 572 (37.98%) Social Skills
3 345 (22.91%) Law
4 256 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
5 238 (15.80%) Retail
6 224 (14.87%) Public Sector
7 221 (14.67%) Banking
8 154 (10.23%) Marketing
9 133 (8.83%) Back Office
10 131 (8.70%) Aerospace
11 123 (8.17%) Financial Institution
12 81 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
13 78 (5.18%) Legal
14 69 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (3.59%) Electronics
16 53 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (2.66%) Telecoms
18 33 (2.19%) Local Government
19 30 (1.99%) Military
20 21 (1.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 357 (23.71%) Senior
2 172 (11.42%) Analyst
3 168 (11.16%) Architect
4 147 (9.76%) Lead
5 121 (8.03%) Software Engineer
6 79 (5.25%) Developer
7 71 (4.71%) Senior Analyst
8 53 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (3.12%) Business Analyst
9 47 (3.12%) Consultant
10 41 (2.72%) Senior Manager
11 37 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
11 37 (2.46%) Senior Architect
11 37 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (2.26%) Sales Executive
12 34 (2.26%) Security Architect
12 34 (2.26%) Team Leader
13 32 (2.12%) Systems Engineer
14 31 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
14 31 (2.06%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (8.17%) Terraform
2 51 (3.39%) .NET
3 48 (3.19%) React
4 44 (2.92%) CSS
5 43 (2.86%) HTML
6 35 (2.32%) Node.js
7 31 (2.06%) REST
8 30 (1.99%) RESTful
9 27 (1.79%) XML
10 24 (1.59%) .NET Core
10 24 (1.59%) OpenAPI
11 20 (1.33%) EDI
12 19 (1.26%) ASP.NET
12 19 (1.26%) Swagger
13 15 (1.00%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.00%) Entity Framework
14 14 (0.93%) .NET Framework
14 14 (0.93%) Blazor
14 14 (0.93%) Next.js
15 11 (0.73%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 174 (11.55%) Cloud Native
2 127 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 97 (6.44%) Driving Licence
4 73 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 66 (4.38%) Data Centre
6 62 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (3.25%) Social Media
9 42 (2.79%) Blog
10 30 (1.99%) Cyberattack
10 30 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.73%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.46%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.39%) FPGA
14 19 (1.26%) SCADA
15 18 (1.20%) Credit Risk
16 15 (1.00%) AI Agents
16 15 (1.00%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.19%) Windows
2 27 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.73%) Linux
4 24 (1.59%) Android
5 15 (1.00%) VMS
6 14 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.73%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.33%) Unix
8 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (25.03%) AI
2 368 (24.44%) Agile
3 260 (17.26%) Mentoring
4 256 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 246 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 229 (15.21%) Decision-Making
7 208 (13.81%) CI/CD
8 198 (13.15%) Technology Strategy
9 187 (12.42%) Software Engineering
10 176 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 172 (11.42%) Coaching
12 169 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
13 141 (9.36%) Analytics
14 140 (9.30%) Roadmaps
15 133 (8.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 133 (8.83%) Test Automation
16 132 (8.76%) Community of Practice
17 130 (8.63%) Fintech
18 126 (8.37%) DevOps
19 113 (7.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 138 (9.16%) SQL
2 137 (9.10%) Python
3 135 (8.96%) Java
4 73 (4.85%) C#
5 57 (3.78%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.99%) Go
6 30 (1.99%) MATLAB
7 29 (1.93%) Bash
7 29 (1.93%) TypeScript
8 25 (1.66%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.00%) Bicep
9 15 (1.00%) C++
10 13 (0.86%) Ada
10 13 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.60%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.60%) C
11 9 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.53%) Rust
13 7 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 368 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 338 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 335 (22.24%) Degree
4 122 (8.10%) DV Cleared
5 120 (7.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 63 (4.18%) HNC
7 58 (3.85%) DBS Check
8 52 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.06%) CISSP
9 31 (2.06%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.93%) PhD
11 27 (1.79%) AWS Certification
11 27 (1.79%) CISM
12 22 (1.46%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 21 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
14 15 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.73%) ACCA
15 11 (0.73%) CISA
15 11 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (13.28%) Accessibility
2 82 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.65%) GDPR
4 54 (3.59%) NIST
5 51 (3.39%) QA
6 49 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (2.72%) GRC
8 23 (1.53%) NCSC
8 23 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.53%) SLA
9 21 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (1.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 14 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.93%) SOC 2
11 14 (0.93%) WCAG
12 10 (0.66%) COBIT
13 9 (0.60%) PMO
14 8 (0.53%) SOC 1
15 5 (0.33%) EMIR
15 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 44 (2.92%) Docker
2 38 (2.52%) Firmware
3 28 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 25 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.80%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 116 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 84 (5.58%) Grafana
3 11 (0.73%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.40%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.27%) Autotask
7 4 (0.27%) CASB
8 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.066%) Argo
9 1 (0.066%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.066%) SCCM
9 1 (0.066%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.066%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.066%) WSUS
Vendors
1 233 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.05%) Adobe
3 46 (3.05%) Google
4 36 (2.39%) Salesforce
5 33 (2.19%) Cisco
6 31 (2.06%) Apple
6 31 (2.06%) SAP
7 30 (1.99%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.79%) Oracle
9 23 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (1.53%) VMware
10 22 (1.46%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.39%) Workday
12 19 (1.26%) Tenable
13 15 (1.00%) Dell
14 13 (0.86%) HP
15 12 (0.80%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.73%) Siemens
17 9 (0.60%) Databricks