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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 +14
Permanent jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 1,197 1,924 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.47% 11.69% 6.37%
As % of the General category 9.18% 16.10% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 476 421 963
10th Percentile £35,125 £29,000 £34,600
25th Percentile £50,903 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,259 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.38% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,224 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,957 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -19.23%

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 13,033 11,954 16,318
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.54% 72.62% 61.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,390 6,690 11,272
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,679 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,751
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 29 July 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 37 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.09%) CMS
4 7 (0.58%) Confluence
5 5 (0.42%) Apache
5 5 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.33%) WordPress
7 3 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.25%) SAS
7 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.084%) Drupal
8 1 (0.084%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.01%) Acrobat
3 18 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 9 (0.75%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.75%) InDesign
5 8 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
5 8 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
5 8 (0.67%) Photoshop
6 6 (0.50%) Simulink
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) Mathcad
8 2 (0.17%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (2.01%) Cloudability
2 11 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.33%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.17%) Shopify
5 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.084%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 228 (19.05%) AWS
2 216 (18.05%) Azure
3 177 (14.79%) GCP
4 149 (12.45%) SaaS
5 84 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 51 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (3.76%) dbt
9 43 (3.59%) Serverless
10 34 (2.84%) Figma
10 34 (2.84%) Power Automate
11 29 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
14 23 (1.92%) Google Analytics
14 23 (1.92%) PaaS
15 21 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.75%) Entra ID
16 20 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.09%) Broadband
2 26 (2.17%) Network Security
3 23 (1.92%) VPN
4 19 (1.59%) Firewall
5 14 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.00%) WAN
7 11 (0.92%) DNS
8 10 (0.84%) DHCP
9 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.58%) Intranet
11 6 (0.50%) LAN
11 6 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.42%) SMTP
12 5 (0.42%) VLAN
13 3 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (0.25%) Ethernet
13 3 (0.25%) SSL
14 2 (0.17%) 4G
14 2 (0.17%) 5G
14 2 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.18%) Power BI
2 33 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.26%) Tableau
4 25 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 24 (2.01%) Metadata
6 19 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
10 11 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (0.92%) Looker
10 11 (0.92%) MySQL
11 10 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.67%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.67%) Redis
13 7 (0.58%) Big Data
13 7 (0.58%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 50 (4.18%) TeamCity
2 48 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.43%) Git
4 31 (2.59%) GitLab
5 26 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 22 (1.84%) Snyk
7 16 (1.34%) JIRA
8 10 (0.84%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.75%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (0.67%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.42%) JUnit
11 5 (0.42%) Locust
12 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.25%) Postman
12 3 (0.25%) Selenium
12 3 (0.25%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 432 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 364 (30.41%) Finance
3 291 (24.31%) Law
4 198 (16.54%) Public Sector
5 175 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
6 168 (14.04%) Banking
6 168 (14.04%) Retail
7 164 (13.70%) Marketing
8 114 (9.52%) Back Office
9 90 (7.52%) Financial Institution
10 72 (6.02%) Legal
11 66 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
14 38 (3.17%) Aerospace
15 29 (2.42%) Games
16 21 (1.75%) Electronics
16 21 (1.75%) German Language
16 21 (1.75%) Local Government
17 20 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 280 (23.39%) Senior
2 194 (16.21%) Architect
3 143 (11.95%) Analyst
4 87 (7.27%) Lead
5 71 (5.93%) Software Engineer
6 70 (5.85%) Senior Analyst
7 61 (5.10%) Developer
8 60 (5.01%) Solutions Architect
9 48 (4.01%) Consultant
10 43 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 42 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
12 39 (3.26%) Technical Architect
13 35 (2.92%) Security Architect
14 32 (2.67%) Senior Architect
15 28 (2.34%) Designer
16 27 (2.26%) Senior Software Engineer
17 26 (2.17%) Salesforce Architect
18 25 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
18 25 (2.09%) Senior Business Analyst
19 24 (2.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.60%) REST
2 42 (3.51%) React
3 40 (3.34%) CSS
3 40 (3.34%) HTML
4 38 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
5 35 (2.92%) SOAP
6 34 (2.84%) .NET
6 34 (2.84%) Node.js
7 33 (2.76%) Visualforce
8 17 (1.42%) RESTful
9 15 (1.25%) EDI
9 15 (1.25%) OpenAPI
9 15 (1.25%) XML
10 12 (1.00%) Middleware
11 11 (0.92%) .NET Core
11 11 (0.92%) ASP.NET
11 11 (0.92%) Swagger
12 10 (0.84%) Next.js
13 9 (0.75%) Django
13 9 (0.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 169 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 136 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 86 (7.18%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.34%) Driving Licence
4 52 (4.34%) Management Information System
5 47 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 46 (3.84%) Cyberattack
6 46 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 36 (3.01%) Social Media
8 28 (2.34%) Podcast
9 26 (2.17%) Blog
10 21 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (1.75%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.50%) Credit Risk
12 16 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.09%) Data Structures
14 11 (0.92%) AI Agents
15 10 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 10 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 9 (0.75%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 45 (3.76%) Windows
2 18 (1.50%) Linux
3 15 (1.25%) Android
3 15 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.00%) VMS
4 12 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.84%) Unix
6 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.17%) VxWorks
7 2 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (30.16%) Agile
2 302 (25.23%) AI
3 225 (18.80%) CI/CD
4 207 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 192 (16.04%) Technology Strategy
6 187 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
7 182 (15.20%) Roadmaps
8 179 (14.95%) Mentoring
9 160 (13.37%) Community of Practice
10 157 (13.12%) Decision-Making
11 151 (12.61%) DevOps
12 146 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
13 137 (11.45%) Software Engineering
14 135 (11.28%) Scrum
15 118 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 113 (9.44%) Analytics
17 110 (9.19%) Test Automation
18 106 (8.86%) Coaching
19 104 (8.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 87 (7.27%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 128 (10.69%) Python
2 124 (10.36%) SQL
3 97 (8.10%) Java
4 65 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 38 (3.17%) Apex Code
5 38 (3.17%) C#
6 29 (2.42%) TypeScript
7 28 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 26 (2.17%) SOQL
8 26 (2.17%) SOSL
9 21 (1.75%) Bicep
10 20 (1.67%) Go
11 18 (1.50%) Bash
12 16 (1.34%) MATLAB
13 12 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.58%) Ada
15 6 (0.50%) R
15 6 (0.50%) Rust
16 5 (0.42%) C++
16 5 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 284 (23.73%) Degree
2 250 (20.89%) Security Cleared
3 240 (20.05%) SC Cleared
4 55 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 33 (2.76%) DBS Check
8 32 (2.67%) CISSP
9 27 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 27 (2.26%) CISM
10 26 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (1.50%) HNC
13 17 (1.42%) Master's Degree
14 15 (1.25%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.25%) PhD
15 12 (1.00%) CISA
16 11 (0.92%) CRISC
17 8 (0.67%) HND
18 7 (0.58%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.27%) Accessibility
2 67 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 64 (5.35%) NIST
4 51 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (4.01%) GRC
6 42 (3.51%) GDPR
7 35 (2.92%) QA
8 24 (2.01%) SLA
9 22 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.84%) PCI DSS
10 20 (1.67%) WCAG
11 17 (1.42%) NCSC
12 16 (1.34%) SOC 2
13 14 (1.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 10 (0.84%) COBIT
15 10 (0.84%) PMO
16 7 (0.58%) SOC 1
17 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 42 (3.51%) Docker
2 28 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.09%) Firmware
5 13 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.00%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (8.69%) Terraform
2 74 (6.18%) Kubernetes
3 58 (4.85%) Grafana
4 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.58%) Ansible
5 7 (0.58%) Autotask
6 6 (0.50%) Puppet
7 5 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.33%) CASB
9 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.17%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.084%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.084%) SCCM
11 1 (0.084%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.084%) WSUS
Vendors
1 185 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 80 (6.68%) Adobe
3 57 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 44 (3.68%) Google
5 31 (2.59%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.51%) Cisco
7 26 (2.17%) Apple
7 26 (2.17%) Splunk
8 25 (2.09%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.84%) Tenable
11 19 (1.59%) VMware
12 15 (1.25%) Oracle
13 13 (1.09%) SAP
14 12 (1.00%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.92%) Instagram
15 11 (0.92%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.84%) Dell
17 9 (0.75%) FIS
17 9 (0.75%) ION Trading