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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 169 162
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +98
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 579 541 730
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.48% 1.60%
As % of the General category 2.57% 2.47% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 307 502
10th Percentile £165 £409 £413
25th Percentile £333 £488 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £663 £675
90th Percentile £650 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £525 £484
% change year-on-year -21.43% +8.53% -19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £16.84 - £48.70
25th Percentile £17.48 - £61.75
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -66.82% +24.10%
75th Percentile - - £65.25
90th Percentile £22.50 - £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 - £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 22,571 21,864 27,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.52% 59.73% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,144 12,907 18,051
10th Percentile £273 £292 £280
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
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 1,449 820 1,115
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £28.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% -12.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.99 £70.25 £71.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £27.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -18.00% -10.00% +36.36%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +8 522 £475 -20.83% 1,060
London +15 331 £513 -15.64% 447
Work from Home +2 232 £450 -25.00% 601
UK excluding London -27 211 £413 -21.43% 927
Midlands -32 70 £405 -29.57% 116
North of England -38 40 £275 -38.89% 145
West Midlands -58 40 £413 -28.26% 62
South East +3 39 £401 -27.09% 418
East Midlands +9 30 £180 -74.29% 51
Scotland +1 25 £231 -51.32% 94
North West -13 23 £470 +4.47% 90
South West +1 19 £600 +23.08% 77
East of England -10 16 £353 -32.86% 46
Yorkshire -35 16 £200 -63.64% 32
Wales -1 3 £331 -5.08% 26
Northern Ireland -10 2 £450 -14.29% 12
North East -14 1 £400 -11.11% 23

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 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.55%) Confluence
4 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) CMS
6 4 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.69%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.69%) WordPress
7 3 (0.52%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.52%) Moodle
8 2 (0.35%) Apache
8 2 (0.35%) Camunda
8 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.04%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.52%) Trello
7 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.17%) InVision
8 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) CODA-Financials
4 1 (0.17%) iTrent
4 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 129 (22.28%) Azure
2 64 (11.05%) AWS
3 43 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (6.22%) Power Platform
5 33 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (4.32%) Entra ID
7 23 (3.97%) GCP
8 20 (3.45%) GitHub
9 18 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (2.59%) SaaS
11 14 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.90%) Google Workspace
13 10 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.73%) Serverless
14 8 (1.38%) dbt
14 8 (1.38%) Figma
14 8 (1.38%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.07%) Network Security
2 9 (1.55%) DNS
2 9 (1.55%) VPN
3 8 (1.38%) Firewall
3 8 (1.38%) LAN
3 8 (1.38%) WAN
4 6 (1.04%) DHCP
5 4 (0.69%) SAN
5 4 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.52%) DMARC
6 3 (0.52%) SMTP
6 3 (0.52%) SSL
6 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.52%) VLAN
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) Intranet
7 2 (0.35%) MPLS
7 2 (0.35%) NAS
7 2 (0.35%) SMS
7 2 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.80%) Power BI
2 20 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.73%) Metadata
7 10 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.21%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.04%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.04%) Tableau
10 4 (0.69%) Big Data
10 4 (0.69%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.52%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.52%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 20 (3.45%) Git
2 16 (2.76%) JIRA
3 9 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.04%) JUnit
5 5 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.69%) 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%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.35%) ERwin
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%) Toad
9 1 (0.17%) XCUITest
General
1 193 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 149 (25.73%) Finance
3 45 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.63%) Marketing
5 21 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (3.45%) Banking
7 17 (2.94%) Retail
8 14 (2.42%) Legal
9 13 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.07%) Law
11 10 (1.73%) Fire and Rescue
11 10 (1.73%) Local Government
11 10 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.21%) Police
13 5 (0.86%) Military
13 5 (0.86%) Publishing
14 4 (0.69%) Electronics
14 4 (0.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 91 (15.72%) Analyst
2 48 (8.29%) Developer
3 45 (7.77%) Architect
4 44 (7.60%) Lead
5 43 (7.43%) Project Manager
6 41 (7.08%) Senior
7 29 (5.01%) Business Analyst
8 28 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 21 (3.63%) Data Engineer
10 20 (3.45%) Consultant
11 18 (3.11%) IT Engineer
11 18 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (2.94%) IT Support
12 17 (2.94%) Support Analyst
13 15 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (2.59%) IT Analyst
13 15 (2.59%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
14 13 (2.25%) Junior
14 13 (2.25%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.97%) React
2 22 (3.80%) EDI
3 21 (3.63%) .NET
4 19 (3.28%) Spring
5 14 (2.42%) SOAP
5 14 (2.42%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.07%) REST
7 10 (1.73%) CSS
7 10 (1.73%) HTML
8 9 (1.55%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.55%) Kafka
8 9 (1.55%) PySpark
9 7 (1.21%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.21%) Middleware
10 6 (1.04%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.04%) Entity Framework
10 6 (1.04%) YAML
11 5 (0.86%) Dapper ORM
11 5 (0.86%) LINQ
11 5 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.39%) Onboarding
2 20 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.21%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.21%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.21%) Learning Management System
9 7 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.04%) Driving Licence
11 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.86%) Fixed Income
11 5 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.15%) Windows
2 13 (2.25%) Windows Server
3 11 (1.90%) Linux
4 7 (1.21%) 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
1 128 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (16.75%) Agile
3 70 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (11.92%) CI/CD
4 69 (11.92%) DevOps
5 53 (9.15%) Migration
6 45 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.60%) Project Management
8 40 (6.91%) Analytics
8 40 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (6.39%) Decision-Making
10 36 (6.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (5.87%) Test Automation
12 31 (5.35%) Coaching
13 30 (5.18%) Customer Service
13 30 (5.18%) Mentoring
14 29 (5.01%) AI
14 29 (5.01%) Data Governance
14 29 (5.01%) Data Modelling
14 29 (5.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (10.54%) Python
2 60 (10.36%) SQL
3 43 (7.43%) Java
4 31 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 21 (3.63%) C#
6 19 (3.28%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.69%) Bash
8 4 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.69%) Go
9 3 (0.52%) C++
9 3 (0.52%) R
9 3 (0.52%) Rust
9 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.35%) AWK
10 2 (0.35%) C
10 2 (0.35%) Perl
10 2 (0.35%) Scala
10 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 46 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.39%) Degree
4 12 (2.07%) AWS Certification
4 12 (2.07%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.21%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.86%) CISSP
7 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.69%) PMP
9 3 (0.52%) ACCA
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.52%) CIMA
9 3 (0.52%) CIPD
9 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 25 (4.32%) PMO
3 20 (3.45%) QA
4 16 (2.76%) GDPR
5 15 (2.59%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.73%) SLA
7 5 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.86%) WCAG
8 4 (0.69%) NIST
9 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.52%) GRC
9 3 (0.52%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) GMP
10 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) GxP
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 49 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.49%) Docker
3 14 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.52%) Firmware
7 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (6.04%) Terraform
2 27 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.25%) Grafana
5 12 (2.07%) SCCM
6 8 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.69%) 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
1 106 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.63%) Cisco
2 21 (3.63%) Google
3 19 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 18 (3.11%) Oracle
4 18 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 18 (3.11%) VMware
5 14 (2.42%) Adobe
6 11 (1.90%) Databricks
7 10 (1.73%) Apple
8 8 (1.38%) SAP
9 7 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.04%) Citrix
11 5 (0.86%) Veeam
12 4 (0.69%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.69%) Dell
12 4 (0.69%) HP
12 4 (0.69%) Lotus
12 4 (0.69%) Murex
12 4 (0.69%) Splunk