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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +2
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,510 1,931 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.07% 11.46% 6.77%
As % of the General category 9.90% 16.21% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 476 413 616
10th Percentile £32,250 £25,600 £37,500
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% -7.15%
75th Percentile £78,224 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £83,500 £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 15,247 11,914 14,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 61.30% 70.70% 62.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,206 6,237 7,809
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 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
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 4 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 (2.38%) 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 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.26%) 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 72 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (2.25%) 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 (0.26%) 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 22 (1.46%) Cloudability
2 15 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.66%) Primavera
5 9 (0.60%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.20%) Misys Midas
9 3 (0.20%) SAP R/3
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
11 1 (0.066%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.066%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.066%) NEC Housing
11 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
11 1 (0.066%) SAP S/4HANA
11 1 (0.066%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 270 (17.88%) AWS
2 224 (14.83%) Azure
3 212 (14.04%) GCP
4 169 (11.19%) SaaS
5 97 (6.42%) Power Platform
6 77 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (3.05%) Serverless
9 38 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
10 35 (2.32%) Azure Key Vault
11 34 (2.25%) dbt
12 33 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.19%) Figma
13 30 (1.99%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.85%) Entra ID
15 26 (1.72%) PowerApps
16 25 (1.66%) GitHub
16 25 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
17 24 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (1.32%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.72%) Network Security
2 23 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 22 (1.46%) Firewall
4 20 (1.32%) VPN
5 19 (1.26%) Broadband
6 16 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.79%) Modbus
7 12 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.26%) Internet
13 4 (0.26%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.76%) Power BI
2 54 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 29 (1.92%) Metadata
5 28 (1.85%) Tableau
6 24 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.13%) Data Lake
8 17 (1.13%) MySQL
9 16 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
12 13 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.86%) MongoDB
13 12 (0.79%) Big Data
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%) Looker
Development Applications
1 80 (5.30%) TeamCity
2 69 (4.57%) Git
3 29 (1.92%) JIRA
4 27 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 20 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
5 20 (1.32%) Snyk
6 14 (0.93%) LabVIEW
7 13 (0.86%) JUnit
8 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
9 6 (0.40%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.33%) GitLab
11 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.20%) Android Studio
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
1 596 (39.47%) Finance
2 575 (38.08%) Social Skills
3 345 (22.85%) Law
4 257 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
5 239 (15.83%) Retail
6 224 (14.83%) Public Sector
7 219 (14.50%) Banking
8 155 (10.26%) Marketing
9 133 (8.81%) Back Office
10 131 (8.68%) Aerospace
11 123 (8.15%) Financial Institution
12 80 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
13 78 (5.17%) Legal
14 69 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (3.58%) Electronics
16 53 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
17 40 (2.65%) Telecoms
18 33 (2.19%) Local Government
19 30 (1.99%) Military
20 22 (1.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 358 (23.71%) Senior
2 174 (11.52%) Analyst
3 171 (11.32%) Architect
4 147 (9.74%) Lead
5 120 (7.95%) Software Engineer
6 79 (5.23%) Developer
7 73 (4.83%) Senior Analyst
8 55 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (3.11%) Business Analyst
9 47 (3.11%) Consultant
10 40 (2.65%) Senior Manager
11 38 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
11 38 (2.52%) Senior Architect
12 36 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 35 (2.32%) Security Architect
14 34 (2.25%) Sales Executive
14 34 (2.25%) Team Leader
15 32 (2.12%) Systems Engineer
16 31 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
16 31 (2.05%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (8.15%) Terraform
2 51 (3.38%) .NET
3 49 (3.25%) React
4 44 (2.91%) CSS
5 43 (2.85%) HTML
6 36 (2.38%) Node.js
7 31 (2.05%) REST
8 30 (1.99%) RESTful
9 27 (1.79%) XML
10 24 (1.59%) .NET Core
10 24 (1.59%) OpenAPI
11 21 (1.39%) EDI
12 19 (1.26%) ASP.NET
12 19 (1.26%) Swagger
13 15 (0.99%) AngularJS
13 15 (0.99%) 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 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 127 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 97 (6.42%) Driving Licence
4 74 (4.90%) Onboarding
5 67 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 63 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 56 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (3.25%) Social Media
9 42 (2.78%) Blog
10 33 (2.19%) Cyberattack
11 30 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.72%) Security Posture
13 21 (1.39%) FPGA
13 21 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.26%) SCADA
15 18 (1.19%) Credit Risk
16 15 (0.99%) AI Agents
16 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
17 14 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.18%) Windows
2 27 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 26 (1.72%) Linux
4 23 (1.52%) Android
5 15 (0.99%) 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
1 379 (25.10%) AI
2 368 (24.37%) Agile
3 260 (17.22%) Mentoring
4 255 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 246 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
6 228 (15.10%) Decision-Making
7 210 (13.91%) CI/CD
8 198 (13.11%) Technology Strategy
9 187 (12.38%) Software Engineering
10 175 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 172 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
12 171 (11.32%) Coaching
13 141 (9.34%) Analytics
13 141 (9.34%) Roadmaps
14 135 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 131 (8.68%) Community of Practice
15 131 (8.68%) Test Automation
16 130 (8.61%) Fintech
17 127 (8.41%) DevOps
18 113 (7.48%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 139 (9.21%) SQL
2 137 (9.07%) Python
3 133 (8.81%) Java
4 73 (4.83%) C#
5 57 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 30 (1.99%) Go
6 30 (1.99%) MATLAB
7 29 (1.92%) Bash
7 29 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 15 (0.99%) Bicep
9 15 (0.99%) 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
12 8 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.53%) Rust
13 7 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 368 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 338 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 335 (22.19%) Degree
4 122 (8.08%) DV Cleared
5 120 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 63 (4.17%) HNC
7 57 (3.77%) DBS Check
8 52 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.05%) CISSP
9 31 (2.05%) Master's Degree
10 29 (1.92%) PhD
11 28 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 27 (1.79%) CISM
13 22 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 22 (1.46%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
15 15 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.73%) ACCA
16 11 (0.73%) CISA
16 11 (0.73%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (13.25%) Accessibility
2 82 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.71%) NIST
4 55 (3.64%) GDPR
5 50 (3.31%) QA
6 49 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.78%) GRC
8 23 (1.52%) NCSC
8 23 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.52%) SLA
9 21 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.99%) 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 (2.91%) Docker
2 38 (2.52%) Firmware
3 28 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 26 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 14 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.79%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 116 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 84 (5.56%) 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 (0.26%) Autotask
7 4 (0.26%) 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
1 234 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.11%) Adobe
3 46 (3.05%) Google
4 38 (2.52%) Salesforce
5 33 (2.19%) Cisco
6 32 (2.12%) Apple
7 31 (2.05%) SAP
7 31 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.85%) Oracle
9 24 (1.59%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 23 (1.52%) VMware
11 21 (1.39%) Workday
12 20 (1.32%) Tenable
13 15 (0.99%) Dell
14 13 (0.86%) HP
15 12 (0.79%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.73%) Siemens
17 9 (0.60%) Databricks