Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 372 452
Rank change year-on-year +181 +80 -60
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 210 84 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the General category 1.88% 0.63% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 50 34
10th Percentile £259 £310 £289
25th Percentile £403 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £521 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +9.68% +0.53%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £596
90th Percentile £805 £740 £711
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 1
10th Percentile £8.00 - -
25th Percentile £11.45 £13.31 £47.50
Median hourly rate £19.62 £13.88 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.41% -72.25% +144.89%
75th Percentile £34.21 £44.22 £52.50
90th Percentile £58.70 £62.09 -
UK median hourly rate £21.99 £39.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.62% -22.00% +144.89%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,166 13,277 17,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.40% 56.49% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,357 9,083 11,757
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 766 1,031
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +81 59 £600 +4.35% 154
West Midlands +73 56 £600 +4.35% 114
South East +27 55 £433 -33.46% 193
Scotland +47 34 £388 -14.84% 110
North of England +49 29 £480 -0.72% 212
South West +29 15 £650 -11.92% 107
North West +34 14 £538 +7.50% 114
Yorkshire +33 8 £475 -21.94% 57
East of England +11 8 £675 +33.66% 94
Wales - 8 £503 - 22
North East +20 7 - - 45
Northern Ireland +7 3 - - 20
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 40
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.86%) SAS
3 2 (0.95%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.95%) Exstream
3 1 (0.48%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.00%) AWS
2 20 (9.52%) Azure
3 13 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.38%) GitHub
5 5 (2.38%) Serverless
6 4 (1.90%) BrowserStack
6 4 (1.90%) GCP
7 3 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.95%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.48%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.38%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (1.43%) 2G
3 3 (1.43%) 3G
3 3 (1.43%) 4G
3 3 (1.43%) ATM
3 3 (1.43%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.43%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.43%) SDH
4 2 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.95%) LAN
4 2 (0.95%) VPN
4 2 (0.95%) WAN
5 1 (0.48%) Network Security
5 1 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.19%) Power BI
2 6 (2.86%) Crystal Reports
2 6 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.90%) GIS
4 4 (1.90%) MySQL
5 3 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.43%) CockroachDB
5 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.95%) DB2
6 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.95%) Tableau
7 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.48%) Ingres
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.48%) QGIS
7 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (2.38%) GCC
1 5 (2.38%) GitLab
1 5 (2.38%) JIRA
2 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.43%) JMeter
4 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.48%) Selenium
5 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 69 (32.86%) Finance
2 40 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 28 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 22 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.81%) Legal
7 6 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.86%) Law
8 5 (2.38%) Aviation
8 5 (2.38%) Banking
8 5 (2.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.43%) Police
11 2 (0.95%) Advertising
11 2 (0.95%) Billing
11 2 (0.95%) Digital Economy
11 2 (0.95%) Games
11 2 (0.95%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (13.81%) Analyst
2 19 (9.05%) Developer
3 18 (8.57%) Project Manager
4 17 (8.10%) Full Stack Engineer
5 16 (7.62%) Software Engineer
6 15 (7.14%) Architect
7 14 (6.67%) Senior
8 13 (6.19%) Lead
9 12 (5.71%) Consultant
10 10 (4.76%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Change Manager
12 8 (3.81%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) SAP Consultant
12 8 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.33%) IT Manager
14 6 (2.86%) Business Analyst
14 6 (2.86%) IFS Developer
14 6 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
15 5 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.14%) Spring
2 14 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 13 (6.19%) REST
3 13 (6.19%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.71%) JPA
5 10 (4.76%) React
6 9 (4.29%) CSS
6 9 (4.29%) HTML
7 5 (2.38%) LLVM
8 4 (1.90%) Next.js
8 4 (1.90%) RESTful
9 3 (1.43%) .NET
9 3 (1.43%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.43%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.43%) Vue
10 2 (0.95%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.95%) PostGIS
10 2 (0.95%) PySpark
11 1 (0.48%) NumPy
11 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.71%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.33%) NHS
4 6 (2.86%) CSOC
4 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.38%) Smartphone
5 5 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) DTCC
6 4 (1.90%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.43%) LIMS
8 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.95%) iPad
8 2 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.24%) Windows
2 8 (3.81%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) Linux
4 3 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (22.86%) Agile
2 29 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (13.81%) Software Engineering
3 27 (12.86%) CI/CD
4 26 (12.38%) Project Management
5 25 (11.90%) Analytics
6 24 (11.43%) SDLC
7 21 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
8 18 (8.57%) Microservices
8 18 (8.57%) Roadmaps
8 18 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (8.10%) Operational Stability
10 16 (7.62%) Change Management
11 15 (7.14%) Project Delivery
12 13 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (6.19%) Decision-Making
12 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure Management
12 13 (6.19%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.33%) SQL
2 24 (11.43%) Java
3 19 (9.05%) TypeScript
4 8 (3.81%) C#
5 5 (2.38%) C
5 5 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.90%) C++
7 3 (1.43%) Python
8 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.48%) PHP
9 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (13.33%) Degree
2 19 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.86%) PhD
6 3 (1.43%) APMP
6 3 (1.43%) HNC
6 3 (1.43%) NVQ Level 4
7 2 (0.95%) APMG
7 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.95%) CISSP
7 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.95%) SANS
8 1 (0.48%) CISA
8 1 (0.48%) CISM
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) GDPR
2 9 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.81%) QA
4 4 (1.90%) NCSC
4 4 (1.90%) PMO
5 3 (1.43%) SLA
6 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.29%) Grafana
2 4 (1.90%) SCCM
3 3 (1.43%) Ansible
3 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.43%) Terraform
4 1 (0.48%) Argo
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.24%) BT
3 9 (4.29%) SAP
4 7 (3.33%) IFS
5 6 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.38%) F5
7 3 (1.43%) CA
7 3 (1.43%) Google
7 3 (1.43%) InterSystems
7 3 (1.43%) PagerDuty
8 2 (0.95%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.95%) Cisco
8 2 (0.95%) Greenplum
8 2 (0.95%) Juniper
8 2 (0.95%) Lotus
8 2 (0.95%) OpenText
8 2 (0.95%) Oracle
8 2 (0.95%) Progress
8 2 (0.95%) VMware
9 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow