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 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 138 159
Rank change year-on-year -100 +21 +41
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 524 580 656
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 2.02% 1.52%
As % of the General category 1.99% 3.18% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 243 464
10th Percentile £307 £185 £400
25th Percentile £382 £396 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -15.42% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £685 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 21
10th Percentile £18.58 - £11.36
25th Percentile £19.44 - £12.27
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +2.31% -44.51%
75th Percentile £85.94 £27.32 £47.50
90th Percentile £122.88 £57.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £145.00 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +554.92% +25.80% +26.85%

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 26,318 18,214 24,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.88% 63.31% 57.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,901 11,531 15,551
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 821 1,985
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.50 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.71 £16.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -6.67% -7.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £24.34 £28.42
% change year-on-year +23.25% -14.36% +1.25%

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 3 June 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 3 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 15 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 3 June 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 -102 454 £495 -7.48% 1,169
London -69 245 £550 -8.33% 579
Work from Home -44 219 £535 -2.73% 599
UK excluding London -132 215 £425 -5.56% 785
South East -54 65 £419 -17.49% 210
Midlands -67 52 £540 +23.43% 112
North of England -100 52 £425 +6.25% 193
West Midlands -60 41 £540 +23.43% 59
North East -7 24 £425 -22.73% 31
East of England -32 20 £338 +3.85% 42
Scotland -11 17 £210 -54.59% 62
Yorkshire -89 15 £375 -6.25% 63
North West -52 13 £365 -14.21% 101
East Midlands -36 11 - - 53
South West -55 9 £350 -41.72% 96

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 17 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.91%) Confluence
3 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.72%) CMS
5 5 (0.95%) WordPress
6 4 (0.76%) Apache
6 4 (0.76%) Kentico
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.57%) Trello
4 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.38%) InVision
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) Sketch
4 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.38%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.19%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (24.43%) Azure
2 95 (18.13%) AWS
3 36 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (6.68%) Power Platform
5 27 (5.15%) GitHub
6 25 (4.77%) GCP
7 21 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.82%) Entra ID
9 18 (3.44%) dbt
10 16 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (2.67%) Snowflake
12 12 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (2.29%) Serverless
13 9 (1.72%) SaaS
14 8 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.34%) Figma
15 7 (1.34%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.63%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.86%) Ethernet
3 11 (2.10%) Network Security
4 9 (1.72%) Firewall
5 7 (1.34%) DNS
5 7 (1.34%) VLAN
5 7 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.15%) HTTP
6 6 (1.15%) VSAN
6 6 (1.15%) WAN
7 5 (0.95%) DHCP
7 5 (0.95%) VPN
8 3 (0.57%) MPLS
8 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.38%) BGP
9 2 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.38%) OSPF
9 2 (0.38%) Skype
9 2 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.92%) Power BI
2 25 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.20%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.48%) Big Data
6 12 (2.29%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.53%) DB2
9 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.34%) Tableau
10 6 (1.15%) Metadata
10 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.95%) Looker
12 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.76%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 29 (5.53%) JIRA
2 22 (4.20%) Git
2 22 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.48%) GitLab
4 7 (1.34%) fastlane
5 6 (1.15%) JMeter
5 6 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.15%) Vite
6 5 (0.95%) Gatling
6 5 (0.95%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.76%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.76%) Crashlytics
7 4 (0.76%) Gradle
7 4 (0.76%) JUnit
8 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.57%) Mockito
8 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) Snyk
8 3 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 169 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 146 (27.86%) Finance
3 113 (21.56%) Public Sector
4 66 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.73%) Banking
6 17 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.67%) Law
8 11 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.10%) Legal
8 11 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.34%) Marketing
11 6 (1.15%) Retail
12 5 (0.95%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.95%) Local Government
13 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.76%) Front Office
14 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (12.79%) Analyst
2 56 (10.69%) Developer
3 55 (10.50%) Senior
4 44 (8.40%) Lead
5 39 (7.44%) Architect
6 33 (6.30%) Data Engineer
7 30 (5.73%) Consultant
8 24 (4.58%) Data Analyst
8 24 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (4.01%) Support Engineer
10 18 (3.44%) Business Analyst
11 16 (3.05%) IT Support
11 16 (3.05%) Senior Developer
11 16 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.86%) IT Engineer
12 15 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 15 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (2.29%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.82%) React
2 16 (3.05%) GraphQL
3 15 (2.86%) RESTful
4 13 (2.48%) .NET
5 10 (1.91%) REST
5 10 (1.91%) Spring
5 10 (1.91%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.72%) HTML
7 8 (1.53%) CSS
7 8 (1.53%) Kafka
7 8 (1.53%) PySpark
7 8 (1.53%) YAML
8 7 (1.34%) Django
8 7 (1.34%) Middleware
8 7 (1.34%) Next.js
9 6 (1.15%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.95%) JSON
11 4 (0.76%) OAuth
11 4 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.92%) Onboarding
2 27 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.86%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (2.86%) Robotics
5 13 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.53%) Replication
10 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.95%) EPoS
12 5 (0.95%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.16%) Windows
2 18 (3.44%) Linux
2 18 (3.44%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.24%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.72%) Android
4 9 (1.72%) Unix
5 8 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.15%) AIX
7 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (24.24%) Agile
2 126 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (19.47%) CI/CD
4 91 (17.37%) DevOps
5 88 (16.79%) Decision-Making
6 76 (14.50%) Analytics
7 64 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 61 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (10.31%) Migration
9 54 (10.31%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 51 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 45 (8.59%) AI
12 45 (8.59%) Test Automation
13 43 (8.21%) Mentoring
14 42 (8.02%) Data Modelling
15 39 (7.44%) Validation
16 37 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (7.06%) User Experience
17 36 (6.87%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.22%) Python
2 80 (15.27%) SQL
3 28 (5.34%) Java
4 23 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 22 (4.20%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.86%) Bash
7 13 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.10%) C#
8 11 (2.10%) R
9 9 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.53%) Swift
11 7 (1.34%) Scala
12 5 (0.95%) VBA
13 4 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.76%) Groovy
13 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.76%) Ruby
14 3 (0.57%) Go
14 3 (0.57%) VB
15 2 (0.38%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 85 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.97%) Degree
4 22 (4.20%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.91%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.95%) PMP
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.57%) CISM
12 3 (0.57%) CISSP
12 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.38%) ACCA
13 2 (0.38%) CIMA
13 2 (0.38%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.82%) Accessibility
2 31 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.82%) QA
4 13 (2.48%) GDPR
4 13 (2.48%) WCAG
5 10 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.53%) SLA
7 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.95%) GRC
8 5 (0.95%) PMO
9 4 (0.76%) NIST
10 3 (0.57%) COBIT
10 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.38%) NCSC
11 2 (0.38%) PSD2
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (7.25%) Docker
2 35 (6.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.48%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.15%) KVM
5 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.15%) vSphere
6 4 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (9.92%) Terraform
2 42 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.58%) Grafana
4 18 (3.44%) Ansible
4 18 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.72%) Kibana
5 9 (1.72%) SCCM
6 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.15%) IBM BigFix
7 6 (1.15%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.76%) Consul
8 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.57%) Rancher
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.38%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 79 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.34%) Databricks
3 21 (4.01%) Google
4 20 (3.82%) SAP
5 19 (3.63%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.44%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.86%) Oracle
7 15 (2.86%) Siemens
8 14 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.67%) VMware
9 8 (1.53%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.34%) IBM
11 6 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.76%) Cisco
13 3 (0.57%) Acronis
13 3 (0.57%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.57%) Apple
13 3 (0.57%) Dell
13 3 (0.57%) HP
13 3 (0.57%) Qualys