Inclusion and Diversity Contract Job Trends

Inclusion and Diversity
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 170 163
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +87
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 572 532 728
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.58% 1.49% 1.60%
As % of the General category 2.54% 2.47% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 304 507
10th Percentile £173 £406 £406
25th Percentile £335 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £665 £675
90th Percentile £675 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -23.24% +9.38% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £15.75 - £48.70
25th Percentile £17.16 - £61.75
Median hourly rate £18.73 £21.00 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -66.82% +24.10%
75th Percentile £22.14 - £65.25
90th Percentile £22.50 - £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.73 - £63.29

All General Skills
UK

Inclusion and Diversity falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,488 21,514 27,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.98% 60.24% 59.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,113 12,801 17,952
10th Percentile £275 £291 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 778 1,129
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.51 £18.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -13.28% +26.84%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.13 £28.96
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.79% +31.64%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 December 2025. 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
England +3 518 £475 -20.83% 1,803
London +18 334 £513 -16.33% 408
Work from Home -8 226 £450 -24.69% 1,133
UK excluding London -32 201 £403 -23.24% 1,728
Midlands -45 65 £383 -33.48% 290
North of England -37 41 £325 -27.78% 356
South East -10 37 £401 -27.09% 554
West Midlands -54 37 £405 -29.57% 163
East Midlands +2 28 £180 -74.29% 111
North West -9 24 £425 -5.56% 198
Scotland +9 23 £231 -53.75% 148
South West -13 19 £600 +23.08% 169
Yorkshire -34 16 £200 -68.00% 113
East of England -7 15 £353 -32.86% 170
Wales +1 2 £331 -5.08% 47
Northern Ireland -11 2 £450 -14.29% 23
North East -12 1 £400 -11.11% 45

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.57%) Confluence
4 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.70%) CMS
6 4 (0.70%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.70%) WordPress
7 2 (0.35%) Alfresco
7 2 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.35%) Camunda
7 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.35%) Moodle
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.05%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.70%) Trello
5 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.35%) InVision
6 2 (0.35%) Sketch
7 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.35%) CODA-Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.17%) iTrent
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.17%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 130 (22.73%) Azure
2 67 (11.71%) AWS
3 43 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (6.29%) Power Platform
5 32 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.37%) GCP
7 21 (3.67%) Entra ID
8 20 (3.50%) GitHub
9 18 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (2.62%) SaaS
11 14 (2.45%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.92%) Google Workspace
13 10 (1.75%) dbt
13 10 (1.75%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.57%) Figma
14 9 (1.57%) Serverless
15 8 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.92%) Network Security
2 9 (1.57%) DNS
2 9 (1.57%) Firewall
2 9 (1.57%) VPN
3 8 (1.40%) LAN
3 8 (1.40%) WAN
4 6 (1.05%) DHCP
5 5 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.70%) SAN
6 4 (0.70%) VLAN
7 3 (0.52%) SSL
7 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.35%) AMQP
8 2 (0.35%) DMARC
8 2 (0.35%) Intranet
8 2 (0.35%) MPLS
8 2 (0.35%) NAS
8 2 (0.35%) SMS
8 2 (0.35%) SMTP
8 2 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
1 20 (3.50%) Power BI
2 15 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 11 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.75%) Metadata
6 9 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.22%) Spark SQL
8 6 (1.05%) Tableau
9 5 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.87%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (0.70%) Big Data
10 4 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.52%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.52%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 20 (3.50%) Git
2 17 (2.97%) JIRA
3 9 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.87%) JUnit
5 5 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.70%) Maven
7 3 (0.52%) GitLab
7 3 (0.52%) Mockito
7 3 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.52%) Vite
8 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.35%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.35%) JMeter
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.17%) Appium
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 192 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 143 (25.00%) Finance
3 46 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 45 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.85%) Marketing
6 21 (3.67%) Banking
6 21 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (2.80%) Retail
8 13 (2.27%) Legal
9 12 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (1.92%) Law
10 11 (1.92%) Local Government
11 10 (1.75%) Fire and Rescue
11 10 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.05%) Police
14 5 (0.87%) Front Office
14 5 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.87%) Military
14 5 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (16.08%) Analyst
2 47 (8.22%) Developer
3 45 (7.87%) Architect
4 43 (7.52%) Lead
4 43 (7.52%) Project Manager
5 40 (6.99%) Senior
6 30 (5.24%) Business Analyst
7 28 (4.90%) Support Engineer
8 24 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 21 (3.67%) Consultant
10 18 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (2.80%) IT Engineer
11 16 (2.80%) IT Support
11 16 (2.80%) Service Analyst
11 16 (2.80%) Support Analyst
12 15 (2.62%) IT Analyst
13 14 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (2.27%) Designer
14 13 (2.27%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.85%) React
2 20 (3.50%) .NET
2 20 (3.50%) EDI
3 19 (3.32%) Spring
4 15 (2.62%) Spring Boot
5 13 (2.27%) SOAP
6 11 (1.92%) REST
7 10 (1.75%) HTML
8 9 (1.57%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.57%) CSS
8 9 (1.57%) PySpark
9 8 (1.40%) Kafka
10 7 (1.22%) Middleware
10 7 (1.22%) YAML
11 6 (1.05%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.05%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.05%) RESTful
12 5 (0.87%) Entity Framework
12 5 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.32%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.15%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 11 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.22%) e-Learning
8 7 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.22%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.05%) Learning Management System
10 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.87%) Driving Licence
10 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.87%) Reinsurance
10 5 (0.87%) Replication
11 4 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 51 (8.92%) Windows
2 13 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.92%) Linux
4 7 (1.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Rocky
7 1 (0.17%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (17.13%) Agile
3 72 (12.59%) DevOps
4 69 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (11.89%) CI/CD
6 48 (8.39%) Migration
7 44 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (7.52%) Project Management
9 39 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 38 (6.64%) Analytics
11 36 (6.29%) Decision-Making
12 35 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (5.59%) Mentoring
13 32 (5.59%) Test Automation
14 31 (5.42%) Coaching
15 30 (5.24%) Customer Service
15 30 (5.24%) Data Governance
15 30 (5.24%) Data Modelling
16 27 (4.72%) AI
16 27 (4.72%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (10.66%) SQL
2 60 (10.49%) Python
3 42 (7.34%) Java
4 30 (5.24%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.50%) C#
6 17 (2.97%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.70%) Bash
9 4 (0.70%) Go
10 3 (0.52%) C++
10 3 (0.52%) R
10 3 (0.52%) Rust
11 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.35%) AWK
11 2 (0.35%) Bicep
11 2 (0.35%) Perl
11 2 (0.35%) Scala
11 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (9.44%) Security Cleared
2 46 (8.04%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.64%) Degree
4 13 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.10%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.87%) CISSP
9 4 (0.70%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.70%) PMP
10 3 (0.52%) ACCA
10 3 (0.52%) CIMA
10 3 (0.52%) CIPD
10 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 22 (3.85%) PMO
3 20 (3.50%) QA
4 16 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.80%) GDPR
5 10 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.57%) SLA
7 5 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.87%) WCAG
8 4 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.70%) GRC
8 4 (0.70%) NIST
9 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) GMP
10 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (7.87%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.37%) Docker
3 14 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.35%) Firmware
6 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (6.12%) Terraform
2 27 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.27%) Grafana
5 10 (1.75%) SCCM
6 8 (1.40%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.35%) Ansible
9 2 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Demisto
10 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Nessus
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 103 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.67%) Cisco
2 21 (3.67%) Google
3 20 (3.50%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.32%) Oracle
5 18 (3.15%) VMware
6 17 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.45%) Adobe
7 14 (2.45%) Databricks
8 9 (1.57%) Apple
9 8 (1.40%) SAP
10 7 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.05%) Citrix
12 4 (0.70%) Lotus
12 4 (0.70%) Murex
12 4 (0.70%) Netskope
12 4 (0.70%) UiPath
12 4 (0.70%) Veeam
13 3 (0.52%) Meraki
13 3 (0.52%) Red Hat