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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 151 156
Rank change year-on-year -64 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 668 625 638
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.26% 1.90% 1.58%
As % of the General category 2.29% 3.01% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 238 435
10th Percentile £306 £181 £421
25th Percentile £375 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -21.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £688
90th Percentile £675 £661 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £501
% change year-on-year - -10.22% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 11
10th Percentile £18.40 £17.48 £6.57
25th Percentile £19.00 - £14.48
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -0.90% -58.73%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £37.50 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.75 £22.14 £11.73
% change year-on-year +327.96% +88.83% -83.46%

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 29,185 20,730 23,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.99% 62.96% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,402 12,974 14,631
10th Percentile £313 £280 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.67% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,089 1,553
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.33 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.15 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +31.21% -30.23% +18.03%
75th Percentile £61.18 £51.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.14 £36.11
% change year-on-year +49.05% -38.68% +38.87%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -73 581 £475 -5.00% 1,117
London -63 301 £525 -4.55% 616
UK excluding London -77 300 £450 - 685
Work from Home -33 256 £525 +1.20% 493
Midlands -25 94 £525 +20.00% 74
South East -60 74 £450 -11.33% 216
West Midlands -22 73 £525 +26.51% 40
North of England -87 64 £425 +7.59% 149
North East - 34 £425 - 36
East Midlands -16 21 £165 -63.33% 34
Scotland -25 21 £250 -45.95% 65
South West -40 21 £475 -15.56% 85
East of England -23 20 £473 +45.38% 47
North West -51 17 £518 +29.38% 75
Yorkshire -85 13 £304 +51.88% 38
Wales -14 5 £425 -1.30% 18
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 40

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 28 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.10%) Confluence
3 12 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.65%) CMS
4 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.20%) WordPress
6 6 (0.90%) Apache
7 4 (0.60%) Kentico
8 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.45%) Trello
6 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) InVision
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (2.25%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.75%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 185 (27.69%) Azure
2 111 (16.62%) AWS
3 65 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (7.93%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 43 (6.44%) GCP
7 32 (4.79%) GitHub
8 27 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (3.74%) Entra ID
11 23 (3.44%) Serverless
12 21 (3.14%) Power Automate
12 21 (3.14%) Snowflake
13 19 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (2.54%) dbt
15 14 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (1.95%) SaaS
17 12 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.84%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.25%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.80%) Network Security
4 11 (1.65%) DNS
4 11 (1.65%) Firewall
4 11 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.35%) VPN
6 8 (1.20%) DHCP
6 8 (1.20%) VLAN
7 7 (1.05%) WAN
8 6 (0.90%) HTTP
8 6 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.60%) BGP
10 4 (0.60%) OSPF
10 4 (0.60%) Wireless
11 3 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.45%) LAN
11 3 (0.45%) MPLS
11 3 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.14%) Power BI
2 29 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.95%) Big Data
6 11 (1.65%) Metadata
7 9 (1.35%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.20%) Db2
8 8 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.05%) Looker
9 7 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.05%) Power Query
9 7 (1.05%) Redis
9 7 (1.05%) Tableau
10 6 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (5.39%) JIRA
2 28 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 24 (3.59%) Git
4 22 (3.29%) GitLab
5 10 (1.50%) fastlane
5 10 (1.50%) Selenium
6 9 (1.35%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.35%) Postman
7 8 (1.20%) WebDriver
8 7 (1.05%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.90%) JMeter
9 6 (0.90%) Vite
10 5 (0.75%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.75%) Gatling
10 5 (0.75%) Gradle
10 5 (0.75%) JUnit
10 5 (0.75%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.75%) Mockito
10 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 242 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 172 (25.75%) Finance
3 164 (24.55%) Public Sector
4 87 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.44%) Banking
7 20 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.54%) Law
9 16 (2.40%) Legal
9 16 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.95%) Marketing
12 10 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.50%) Retail
13 8 (1.20%) Local Government
13 8 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.75%) Billing
14 5 (0.75%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (13.17%) Analyst
2 86 (12.87%) Developer
3 75 (11.23%) Lead
4 68 (10.18%) Senior
5 46 (6.89%) Architect
6 42 (6.29%) Consultant
7 33 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 25 (3.74%) Business Analyst
8 25 (3.74%) Data Analyst
8 25 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 22 (3.29%) Senior Developer
10 20 (2.99%) IT Engineer
10 20 (2.99%) Support Engineer
11 19 (2.84%) IT Support
12 18 (2.69%) Coordinator
13 16 (2.40%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.25%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (2.25%) Technical Engineer
15 14 (2.10%) Administrator
15 14 (2.10%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.64%) RESTful
2 25 (3.74%) React
3 24 (3.59%) .NET
4 23 (3.44%) GraphQL
5 18 (2.69%) HTML
6 17 (2.54%) CSS
6 17 (2.54%) PySpark
7 16 (2.40%) Kafka
7 16 (2.40%) Node.js
7 16 (2.40%) REST
8 14 (2.10%) JSON
9 12 (1.80%) Spring
9 12 (1.80%) Spring Boot
10 10 (1.50%) Django
10 10 (1.50%) Gherkin
11 7 (1.05%) ARM Templates
11 7 (1.05%) HTML5
11 7 (1.05%) Middleware
11 7 (1.05%) Next.js
11 7 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.53%) Onboarding
2 38 (5.69%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.25%) Industry 4.0
7 15 (2.25%) Robotics
8 10 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.50%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.20%) EPoS
11 7 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.90%) Replication
12 6 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.58%) Windows
2 19 (2.84%) Linux
3 18 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.80%) Android
5 12 (1.80%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.35%) Unix
7 6 (0.90%) AIX
8 5 (0.75%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.30%) VMS
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (29.49%) Agile
2 169 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (20.06%) DevOps
4 129 (19.31%) CI/CD
5 118 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 113 (16.92%) Decision-Making
7 99 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (14.22%) Analytics
9 94 (14.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 83 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 81 (12.13%) Migration
12 79 (11.83%) AI
13 69 (10.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 62 (9.28%) Test Automation
15 60 (8.98%) Mentoring
16 58 (8.68%) Validation
17 52 (7.78%) Roadmaps
18 51 (7.63%) Data Modelling
19 50 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
20 49 (7.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.32%) Python
2 90 (13.47%) SQL
3 48 (7.19%) JavaScript
4 41 (6.14%) Java
5 32 (4.79%) C#
6 25 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.69%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.25%) Bash
9 13 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.50%) Swift
11 9 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.35%) Go
12 8 (1.20%) Bicep
12 8 (1.20%) R
13 7 (1.05%) Ruby
14 5 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.75%) VBA
15 4 (0.60%) Groovy
15 4 (0.60%) Scala
15 4 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 113 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 105 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.83%) Degree
4 27 (4.04%) DBS Check
5 21 (3.14%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.20%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.75%) PMP
12 3 (0.45%) ACCA
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.45%) CIMA
12 3 (0.45%) CIPD
12 3 (0.45%) CISM
12 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.68%) Accessibility
2 36 (5.39%) Data Quality
3 32 (4.79%) QA
3 32 (4.79%) WCAG
4 27 (4.04%) GDPR
5 16 (2.40%) SLA
6 13 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.50%) PMO
8 9 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (1.35%) NCSC
9 6 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.75%) COBIT
10 5 (0.75%) GRC
11 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.45%) NIST
12 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (7.63%) Docker
2 44 (6.59%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.10%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.90%) KVM
5 6 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.30%) Firmware
7 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.30%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 75 (11.23%) Terraform
2 54 (8.08%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.44%) Grafana
4 21 (3.14%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.25%) Ansible
6 14 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.50%) SCCM
8 7 (1.05%) Kibana
9 6 (0.90%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (0.90%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.60%) Consul
10 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.45%) Rancher
12 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.30%) Packer
12 2 (0.30%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 138 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.64%) Google
3 28 (4.19%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.59%) Databricks
5 23 (3.44%) SAP
5 23 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.29%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.25%) Siemens
8 12 (1.80%) Sage
9 11 (1.65%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.65%) Oracle
10 9 (1.35%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.20%) VMware
12 7 (1.05%) Apple
12 7 (1.05%) Aspera
12 7 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (1.05%) IBM
12 7 (1.05%) Qualys
12 7 (1.05%) Signiant
13 6 (0.90%) Cisco