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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 45
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 0
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,131 1,904 1,808
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.02% 12.70% 5.56%
As % of the General category 10.75% 17.02% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 413 447 1,066
10th Percentile £28,600 £29,750 £31,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -23.72%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £88,333 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -23.08%

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 10,518 11,190 20,226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.03% 74.66% 62.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,982 6,325 15,089
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,713 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £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 21 May 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 (4.86%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.06%) CMS
2 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.35%) Confluence
4 4 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.27%) Apache
5 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.27%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.088%) Drupal
7 1 (0.088%) IIS
7 1 (0.088%) WildFly
Applications
1 49 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (3.27%) Acrobat
3 25 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.24%) Adobe XD
6 4 (0.35%) InDesign
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.088%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (2.12%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.53%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.35%) Academy Housing
3 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.088%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.088%) Magento
6 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 254 (22.46%) AWS
2 199 (17.60%) Azure
3 160 (14.15%) GCP
4 155 (13.70%) SaaS
5 72 (6.37%) Power Platform
6 60 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (3.01%) Serverless
9 31 (2.74%) Power Automate
10 28 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 28 (2.48%) Figma
11 24 (2.12%) Google Analytics
12 23 (2.03%) Pulumi
13 20 (1.77%) dbt
13 20 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (1.59%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (1.06%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 82 (7.25%) Broadband
2 16 (1.41%) 4G
2 16 (1.41%) DHCP
2 16 (1.41%) DNS
2 16 (1.41%) VPN
3 15 (1.33%) BGP
3 15 (1.33%) Firewall
3 15 (1.33%) Network Security
3 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 15 (1.33%) WAN
4 12 (1.06%) LAN
5 11 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (0.97%) IOS XR
5 11 (0.97%) MPLS
6 10 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (0.80%) SMTP
8 7 (0.62%) VLAN
9 5 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.75%) Power BI
2 30 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (2.03%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 19 (1.68%) Tableau
6 18 (1.59%) RDBMS
7 16 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.41%) Metadata
8 15 (1.33%) BigQuery
9 13 (1.15%) Looker
10 12 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (0.97%) SQL Server
12 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (0.71%) Redis
13 8 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.44%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.35%) Big Data
15 4 (0.35%) DynamoDB
15 4 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (4.77%) TeamCity
2 44 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.45%) GitLab
4 34 (3.01%) SonarQube
5 24 (2.12%) Git
6 22 (1.95%) Snyk
7 18 (1.59%) Jaeger
8 14 (1.24%) Axure RP
8 14 (1.24%) Balsamiq
9 10 (0.88%) JIRA
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.44%) JMeter
10 5 (0.44%) JUnit
10 5 (0.44%) Locust
11 4 (0.35%) Selenium
12 3 (0.27%) Postman
12 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 1 (0.088%) Cypress.io
14 1 (0.088%) WebDriver
General
1 355 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 331 (29.27%) Finance
3 305 (26.97%) Law
4 201 (17.77%) Public Sector
5 197 (17.42%) Banking
6 194 (17.15%) Retail
7 157 (13.88%) Marketing
8 152 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
9 131 (11.58%) Back Office
10 110 (9.73%) Financial Institution
11 66 (5.84%) Legal
12 57 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (3.18%) Games
14 35 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.68%) German Language
17 19 (1.68%) Polish Language
18 17 (1.50%) Local Government
19 14 (1.24%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 221 (19.54%) Senior
2 146 (12.91%) Architect
3 128 (11.32%) Analyst
4 79 (6.98%) Lead
5 56 (4.95%) Software Engineer
6 55 (4.86%) Senior Analyst
7 52 (4.60%) Developer
8 45 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.09%) Consultant
10 34 (3.01%) Senior Architect
11 33 (2.92%) Salesforce Architect
12 31 (2.74%) Alliance Manager
13 30 (2.65%) Designer
14 29 (2.56%) Business Analyst
15 28 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
15 28 (2.48%) Security Architect
16 25 (2.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.12%) Technical Architect
18 22 (1.95%) Data Manager
18 22 (1.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.28%) REST
2 48 (4.24%) Lightning Web Components
3 46 (4.07%) SOAP
3 46 (4.07%) Visualforce
4 27 (2.39%) HTML
5 26 (2.30%) .NET
6 24 (2.12%) CSS
7 23 (2.03%) React
8 22 (1.95%) EDI
9 19 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
10 18 (1.59%) Node.js
10 18 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
11 15 (1.33%) Middleware
12 13 (1.15%) RESTful
13 12 (1.06%) SAML
14 11 (0.97%) Jinja
14 11 (0.97%) NETCONF
14 11 (0.97%) YANG
15 10 (0.88%) OpenAPI
16 9 (0.80%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 153 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 128 (11.32%) Product Ownership
3 120 (10.61%) Onboarding
4 73 (6.45%) Blog
5 50 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 49 (4.33%) Driving Licence
7 48 (4.24%) Data Centre
8 46 (4.07%) Cyberattack
9 43 (3.80%) Social Media
10 28 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 28 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (1.77%) Podcast
13 11 (0.97%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.97%) Video Editing
14 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 8 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.36%) Linux
2 36 (3.18%) Windows
3 27 (2.39%) Unix
4 21 (1.86%) Android
5 19 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.06%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (26.79%) Agile
2 278 (24.58%) AI
3 202 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 185 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 182 (16.09%) Roadmaps
6 156 (13.79%) Community of Practice
6 156 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
7 151 (13.35%) DevOps
8 150 (13.26%) Technology Strategy
9 144 (12.73%) Mentoring
10 136 (12.02%) Cybersecurity
11 107 (9.46%) Scrum
12 105 (9.28%) Software Engineering
13 103 (9.11%) Test Automation
14 96 (8.49%) Fintech
15 94 (8.31%) Decision-Making
16 90 (7.96%) TOGAF
17 88 (7.78%) Analytics
18 80 (7.07%) Customer Service
19 77 (6.81%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 135 (11.94%) Java
2 129 (11.41%) Python
3 90 (7.96%) SQL
4 79 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.24%) Apex Code
6 38 (3.36%) Go
7 34 (3.01%) SOQL
7 34 (3.01%) SOSL
8 31 (2.74%) C#
9 22 (1.95%) Bash
10 19 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.62%) Bicep
13 5 (0.44%) C
14 4 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.27%) R
15 3 (0.27%) Ruby
15 3 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.18%) Ada
16 2 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 260 (22.99%) Degree
2 168 (14.85%) Security Cleared
3 163 (14.41%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.66%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.27%) DBS Check
7 32 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 29 (2.56%) CISSP
9 26 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.95%) CISM
11 14 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.06%) CISA
14 11 (0.97%) CREST Certified
14 11 (0.97%) CRISC
14 11 (0.97%) OSCP
15 10 (0.88%) HNC
15 10 (0.88%) HND
16 7 (0.62%) CITP
16 7 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.19%) Accessibility
2 50 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (4.33%) NIST
4 47 (4.16%) GRC
5 40 (3.54%) QA
6 30 (2.65%) GDPR
7 27 (2.39%) PCI DSS
8 25 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (2.12%) SOC 2
10 22 (1.95%) WCAG
11 13 (1.15%) SLA
12 12 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.97%) PMO
14 10 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.62%) COBIT
16 6 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.53%) NCSC
17 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
18 3 (0.27%) EMIR
System Software
1 45 (3.98%) Docker
2 22 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.18%) Firmware
6 1 (0.088%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (10.61%) Terraform
2 98 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 63 (5.57%) Grafana
4 24 (2.12%) Ansible
5 20 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.59%) Argo
7 18 (1.59%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.62%) Autotask
9 6 (0.53%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
11 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.18%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.088%) CASB
14 1 (0.088%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 196 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 121 (10.70%) Adobe
3 68 (6.01%) Salesforce
4 58 (5.13%) Google
5 51 (4.51%) Apple
6 34 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 34 (3.01%) Splunk
7 31 (2.74%) Cisco
8 24 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
9 23 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 22 (1.95%) Tenable
11 13 (1.15%) SAP
12 12 (1.06%) Instagram
12 12 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.06%) Oracle
13 11 (0.97%) Hootsuite
13 11 (0.97%) Meraki
13 11 (0.97%) Wrike
14 10 (0.88%) Databricks
15 9 (0.80%) FIS