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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 145 166
Rank change year-on-year -67 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 745 630 564
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.91% 1.47%
As % of the General category 2.46% 3.00% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 246 357
10th Percentile £311 £173 £422
25th Percentile £365 £351 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -23.13% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 5
10th Percentile £14.54 £17.48 £29.60
25th Percentile £14.85 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -50.80% -29.13%
75th Percentile £37.39 £22.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £51.24 £72.50 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.90 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year +44.06% - -

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,281 20,994 22,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.57% 63.64% 57.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,811 12,998 13,405
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,187 1,144
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.66
25th Percentile £16.46 £16.17 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.40 £38.12
% change year-on-year +40.19% -43.86% +46.76%

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 2026. 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 -64 636 £463 -2.63% 2,048
UK excluding London -39 335 £425 +3.03% 1,344
London -73 331 £518 -3.27% 1,190
Work from Home -32 278 £490 +1.03% 1,078
Midlands -27 105 £425 -0.58% 175
South East -26 79 £450 -11.33% 322
North of England -51 79 £425 +14.09% 232
West Midlands -13 76 £431 +3.92% 97
North East +2 51 £425 +6.25% 37
East Midlands -10 29 £164 -63.61% 78
Scotland -43 28 £288 -36.99% 179
South West -38 25 £475 -20.83% 277
North West -58 14 £518 +29.38% 145
Yorkshire -71 14 £400 +100.00% 51
East of England -37 9 £425 +174.19% 110
Wales -8 7 £394 +18.90% 21
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 61

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 34 (4.56%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.28%) Confluence
3 12 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.48%) CMS
5 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.21%) WordPress
7 7 (0.94%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.81%) Apache
9 4 (0.54%) Kentico
10 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.13%) Drupal
12 1 (0.13%) JBoss
12 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (2.28%) NetSuite
2 15 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.67%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 219 (29.40%) Azure
2 124 (16.64%) AWS
3 83 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
4 78 (10.47%) Power Platform
5 66 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (6.71%) GCP
7 48 (6.44%) GitHub
8 39 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (4.83%) Serverless
10 31 (4.16%) Power Automate
11 27 (3.62%) Entra ID
12 26 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (3.49%) Snowflake
13 22 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (2.28%) dbt
16 16 (2.15%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.88%) DNS
1 14 (1.88%) Firewall
1 14 (1.88%) VPN
2 13 (1.74%) Network Security
3 12 (1.61%) VLAN
4 11 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.34%) DHCP
5 10 (1.34%) Wireless
6 6 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.81%) WAN
7 5 (0.67%) BGP
7 5 (0.67%) OSPF
7 5 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.54%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.54%) 5G
8 4 (0.54%) NGN
8 4 (0.54%) SSL
8 4 (0.54%) tcpdump
8 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.11%) Power BI
2 36 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.68%) Metadata
6 19 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.74%) Power Query
8 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.21%) Looker
9 9 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.07%) Big Data
10 8 (1.07%) Tableau
11 7 (0.94%) Redis
11 7 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 45 (6.04%) JIRA
2 42 (5.64%) Git
3 30 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 28 (3.76%) GitLab
5 11 (1.48%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.48%) Selenium
6 10 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.34%) fastlane
6 10 (1.34%) Postman
7 9 (1.21%) WebDriver
8 7 (0.94%) Gradle
8 7 (0.94%) JUnit
8 7 (0.94%) Mockito
9 6 (0.81%) Vite
10 5 (0.67%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.67%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.67%) Xcode
11 4 (0.54%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 292 (39.19%) Social Skills
2 217 (29.13%) Public Sector
3 195 (26.17%) Finance
4 115 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (3.49%) Banking
7 25 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 23 (3.09%) Local Government
9 20 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.28%) Law
11 16 (2.15%) Retail
12 14 (1.88%) Legal
12 14 (1.88%) Marketing
13 13 (1.74%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.94%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.94%) Military
15 7 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (15.97%) Developer
2 111 (14.90%) Analyst
3 91 (12.21%) Senior
4 71 (9.53%) Lead
5 58 (7.79%) Architect
6 47 (6.31%) Consultant
7 30 (4.03%) Data Engineer
7 30 (4.03%) Senior Developer
8 29 (3.89%) Data Analyst
9 28 (3.76%) Business Analyst
10 27 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (3.09%) IT Engineer
11 23 (3.09%) Support Engineer
12 20 (2.68%) Software Developer
13 19 (2.55%) IT Support
13 19 (2.55%) Project Manager
14 18 (2.42%) Coordinator
14 18 (2.42%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 16 (2.15%) Administrator
15 16 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.14%) Terraform
2 46 (6.17%) RESTful
3 31 (4.16%) React
4 30 (4.03%) .NET
5 25 (3.36%) GraphQL
5 25 (3.36%) HTML
5 25 (3.36%) Node.js
6 24 (3.22%) CSS
7 22 (2.95%) JSON
7 22 (2.95%) Kafka
8 21 (2.82%) REST
9 17 (2.28%) Django
9 17 (2.28%) Spring
9 17 (2.28%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.01%) PySpark
11 13 (1.74%) OAuth
12 12 (1.61%) OpenID
13 11 (1.48%) Gherkin
13 11 (1.48%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.40%) Onboarding
2 46 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 22 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.28%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.94%) Blog
11 7 (0.94%) Replication
11 7 (0.94%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.94%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.81%) Driving Licence
12 6 (0.81%) EPoS
13 5 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 76 (10.20%) Windows
2 21 (2.82%) Linux
3 19 (2.55%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.74%) Android
7 5 (0.67%) Unix
8 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.54%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (33.96%) Agile
2 177 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
3 164 (22.01%) DevOps
4 154 (20.67%) CI/CD
5 150 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 129 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 123 (16.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 116 (15.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 112 (15.03%) AI
10 107 (14.36%) Decision-Making
11 102 (13.69%) Analytics
12 84 (11.28%) Migration
13 76 (10.20%) Test Automation
14 75 (10.07%) Mentoring
15 70 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 68 (9.13%) Validation
17 67 (8.99%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 65 (8.72%) Data Modelling
19 64 (8.59%) Technical Leadership
20 63 (8.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 111 (14.90%) Python
2 107 (14.36%) SQL
3 69 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.44%) C#
5 43 (5.77%) Java
6 31 (4.16%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.01%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.74%) Scala
9 12 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (1.34%) Bash
10 10 (1.34%) Go
10 10 (1.34%) Swift
11 8 (1.07%) Bicep
11 8 (1.07%) Ruby
12 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.67%) Groovy
13 5 (0.67%) PHP
14 4 (0.54%) C++
14 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 157 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 146 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.05%) Degree
4 31 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (3.76%) DBS Check
6 27 (3.62%) Azure Certification
7 26 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.88%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.21%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.94%) CISSP
12 6 (0.81%) ACCA
12 6 (0.81%) CIMA
12 6 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.67%) CISM
13 5 (0.67%) PMP
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (14.23%) Accessibility
2 49 (6.58%) QA
3 47 (6.31%) WCAG
4 43 (5.77%) Data Quality
5 42 (5.64%) GDPR
6 22 (2.95%) SLA
7 17 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.88%) NCSC
9 10 (1.34%) PMO
10 8 (1.07%) NIST
11 6 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.81%) GRC
12 5 (0.67%) COBIT
13 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.27%) DICOM
14 2 (0.27%) GxP
14 2 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 61 (8.19%) Docker
2 46 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.16%) Grafana
3 25 (3.36%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.15%) Ansible
6 14 (1.88%) SCCM
7 7 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.67%) Consul
9 4 (0.54%) Kibana
10 3 (0.40%) Packer
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 174 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.70%) Google
3 26 (3.49%) Databricks
4 24 (3.22%) Dynatrace
4 24 (3.22%) ServiceNow
5 22 (2.95%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.95%) SAP
6 18 (2.42%) Oracle
7 13 (1.74%) Splunk
8 12 (1.61%) CyberArk
8 12 (1.61%) Sage
9 11 (1.48%) Cisco
10 10 (1.34%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.34%) VMware
11 9 (1.21%) Apple
11 9 (1.21%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.07%) Qualys
12 8 (1.07%) UiPath
13 7 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
13 7 (0.94%) Workday