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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 28 40
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -8
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,000 1,339 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.22% 8.51% 5.81%
As % of the General category 10.58% 12.24% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 448 437 981
10th Percentile £20,000 £37,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,707 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £57,501
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +8.69% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,144 £79,600
90th Percentile £80,308 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -15.38%

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 9,450 10,937 17,182
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 69.53% 62.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5,953 6,194 13,663
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,719 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.47% +9.09% -10.57%

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 10 February 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 56 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.70%) CMS
4 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.20%) SAS
6 2 (0.20%) WordPress
7 1 (0.10%) Apache
7 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 59 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (3.10%) Adobe XD
3 25 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (2.40%) Acrobat
5 23 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.40%) Maya
6 4 (0.40%) MotionBuilder
7 3 (0.30%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.10%) InDesign
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.10%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.10%) SmartSuite
8 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.40%) Academy Housing
3 4 (0.40%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.40%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.10%) Magento
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.10%) Primavera
6 1 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.10%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 170 (17.00%) AWS
2 141 (14.10%) Azure
3 98 (9.80%) SaaS
4 76 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (6.70%) GCP
6 57 (5.70%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
8 37 (3.70%) Figma
9 24 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (2.10%) Google Analytics
11 20 (2.00%) Entra ID
12 19 (1.90%) Miro
12 19 (1.90%) Pulumi
13 18 (1.80%) Power Automate
13 18 (1.80%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.80%) Serverless
14 14 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.30%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (1.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.20%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.90%) Broadband
2 19 (1.90%) VPN
3 17 (1.70%) BGP
4 16 (1.60%) 4G
5 15 (1.50%) DNS
6 14 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.30%) DHCP
8 11 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
8 11 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
8 11 (1.10%) IOS XR
8 11 (1.10%) LAN
8 11 (1.10%) MPLS
8 11 (1.10%) WAN
9 9 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (0.70%) Firewall
10 7 (0.70%) VLAN
11 5 (0.50%) Network Security
11 5 (0.50%) SMTP
12 4 (0.40%) 5G
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.70%) Power BI
2 30 (3.00%) Relational Database
3 22 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.90%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.90%) RDBMS
5 18 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.70%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.90%) Metadata
8 7 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.60%) Tableau
10 5 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.40%) Looker
11 4 (0.40%) MySQL
12 3 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.30%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.30%) SAP BW
13 2 (0.20%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (3.50%) TeamCity
2 30 (3.00%) Git
2 30 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.90%) GitLab
4 28 (2.80%) SonarQube
5 24 (2.40%) Axure RP
5 24 (2.40%) Balsamiq
6 19 (1.90%) Jaeger
7 7 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.70%) Selenium
7 7 (0.70%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.40%) JIRA
9 3 (0.30%) Storybook
10 2 (0.20%) JMeter
10 2 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.10%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.10%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.10%) jMock
11 1 (0.10%) JUnit
11 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 317 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 226 (22.60%) Finance
3 204 (20.40%) Law
4 182 (18.20%) Public Sector
5 151 (15.10%) Retail
6 137 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
7 105 (10.50%) Banking
8 95 (9.50%) Marketing
9 84 (8.40%) Financial Institution
10 79 (7.90%) Back Office
11 52 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (3.30%) Games
13 28 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 23 (2.30%) Legal
14 23 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.10%) Polish Language
17 7 (0.70%) Digital Health
17 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.60%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 164 (16.40%) Senior
2 88 (8.80%) Lead
3 77 (7.70%) Analyst
4 69 (6.90%) Architect
5 56 (5.60%) Developer
6 54 (5.40%) Senior Manager
7 45 (4.50%) Account Manager
7 45 (4.50%) Microsoft Specialist
8 39 (3.90%) Sales Account Manager
8 39 (3.90%) Sales Manager
8 39 (3.90%) Senior Account Manager
8 39 (3.90%) Senior Sales Manager
9 37 (3.70%) Alliance Manager
10 33 (3.30%) Software Engineer
11 26 (2.60%) Consultant
11 26 (2.60%) Designer
11 26 (2.60%) Salesforce Architect
12 25 (2.50%) Technical Architect
13 24 (2.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 20 (2.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.60%) REST
2 41 (4.10%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (4.10%) SOAP
2 41 (4.10%) Visualforce
3 31 (3.10%) .NET
4 25 (2.50%) HTML
4 25 (2.50%) React
5 23 (2.30%) CSS
6 19 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (1.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (1.80%) EDI
8 16 (1.60%) Node.js
9 15 (1.50%) RESTful
10 14 (1.40%) Middleware
11 13 (1.30%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (1.10%) Jinja
12 11 (1.10%) NETCONF
12 11 (1.10%) Playwright
12 11 (1.10%) YANG
13 10 (1.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 129 (12.90%) Blog
2 116 (11.60%) Onboarding
3 92 (9.20%) Product Ownership
4 85 (8.50%) Cloud Native
5 47 (4.70%) Driving Licence
6 33 (3.30%) Management Information System
7 29 (2.90%) Social Media
8 28 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 27 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 7 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.40%) Linux
2 31 (3.10%) Windows
3 19 (1.90%) Unix
4 13 (1.30%) Android
5 11 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 10 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
9 1 (0.10%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (30.90%) AI
2 222 (22.20%) Agile
3 184 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 158 (15.80%) Customer Service
5 117 (11.70%) CI/CD
5 117 (11.70%) DevOps
6 116 (11.60%) Community of Practice
7 107 (10.70%) Roadmaps
8 105 (10.50%) Mentoring
8 105 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (10.00%) CRM
10 92 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
11 83 (8.30%) Technology Strategy
12 80 (8.00%) Analytics
13 78 (7.80%) Business Development
14 76 (7.60%) Project Management
15 75 (7.50%) B2B
16 69 (6.90%) Software Engineering
17 64 (6.40%) Scrum
18 62 (6.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (10.60%) Java
2 90 (9.00%) Python
3 78 (7.80%) JavaScript
4 47 (4.70%) SQL
5 41 (4.10%) Apex Code
6 40 (4.00%) C#
7 30 (3.00%) Go
8 28 (2.80%) SOQL
8 28 (2.80%) SOSL
9 19 (1.90%) Bash
10 18 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.50%) C
12 4 (0.40%) C++
12 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.40%) RPG
13 3 (0.30%) R
14 2 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 309 (30.90%) Degree
2 118 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 115 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 35 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 23 (2.30%) PMP
8 18 (1.80%) CISSP
9 17 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.20%) CISM
11 12 (1.20%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.90%) CREST Certified
12 9 (0.90%) OSCP
13 7 (0.70%) CISA
13 7 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (0.60%) ACCA
14 6 (0.60%) CIMA
14 6 (0.60%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.10%) Accessibility
2 43 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (3.20%) QA
4 26 (2.60%) WCAG
5 24 (2.40%) GDPR
6 22 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 22 (2.20%) SOC 2
7 21 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (1.90%) NIST
9 15 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (1.30%) Data Quality
11 11 (1.10%) SLA
12 10 (1.00%) GRC
13 9 (0.90%) PMO
14 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.50%) NCSC
14 5 (0.50%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
16 3 (0.30%) PERC
16 3 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 28 (2.80%) Docker
2 19 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.10%) iptables
3 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (8.20%) Terraform
2 71 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.60%) Grafana
4 23 (2.30%) Argo
5 21 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (2.00%) Ansible
7 19 (1.90%) Kustomize
7 19 (1.90%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.40%) Autotask
9 1 (0.10%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.10%) Nessus
9 1 (0.10%) Nmap
9 1 (0.10%) SCCM
9 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 235 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.60%) Adobe
3 67 (6.70%) Salesforce
4 48 (4.80%) Google
5 28 (2.80%) Splunk
6 26 (2.60%) Apple
7 25 (2.50%) Cisco
8 15 (1.50%) Oracle
9 13 (1.30%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.30%) SAP
10 10 (1.00%) Databricks
11 9 (0.90%) Instagram
12 7 (0.70%) Hootsuite
12 7 (0.70%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.60%) Meraki
13 6 (0.60%) Planon
14 5 (0.50%) CyberArk
15 4 (0.40%) PagerDuty
15 4 (0.40%) Snow
15 4 (0.40%) YouTube