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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 143 160
Rank change year-on-year -85 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 551 590 660
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.11% 2.01% 1.51%
As % of the General category 2.06% 3.17% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 245 459
10th Percentile £311 £183 £407
25th Percentile £384 £381 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £685 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 21
10th Percentile £18.40 - £11.36
25th Percentile £19.00 - £12.27
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +2.31% -44.51%
75th Percentile £44.50 £24.73 £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £55.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.75 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +327.96% +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 26,686 18,634 24,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.93% 63.44% 57.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,124 11,755 15,662
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 862 2,008
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.25 £27.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £67.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £24.34 £28.42
% change year-on-year +25.64% -14.36% +3.35%

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 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 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 16 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 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 -94 477 £505 -3.81% 688
London -71 255 £540 -6.09% 262
Work from Home -35 233 £525 -4.55% 367
UK excluding London -116 231 £450 - 602
South East -55 67 £425 -16.26% 201
Midlands -75 56 £540 +20.67% 84
North of England -97 55 £425 +6.25% 122
West Midlands -55 44 £540 +20.67% 43
North East +3 27 £425 -22.73% 15
East of England -26 20 £338 +3.85% 46
Scotland -24 18 £230 -50.27% 41
Yorkshire -87 15 £375 -6.25% 42
South West -44 14 £475 -15.59% 74
North West -53 13 £365 -14.21% 67
East Midlands -38 12 - - 41
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 21

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 18 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.18%) Confluence
4 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.63%) CMS
7 5 (0.91%) WordPress
8 4 (0.73%) Apache
8 4 (0.73%) Kentico
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.18%) Appian
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) InVision
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.27%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.36%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.18%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (25.23%) Azure
2 102 (18.51%) AWS
3 39 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 38 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 33 (5.99%) GCP
6 31 (5.63%) GitHub
7 24 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (3.99%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.09%) dbt
10 15 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.72%) Snowflake
11 14 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (2.54%) Serverless
12 10 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (1.63%) SaaS
14 8 (1.45%) Firebase
15 7 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.63%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.72%) Ethernet
3 11 (2.00%) Network Security
4 8 (1.45%) DNS
4 8 (1.45%) Firewall
4 8 (1.45%) VLAN
4 8 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.27%) VPN
5 7 (1.27%) WAN
6 6 (1.09%) DHCP
6 6 (1.09%) HTTP
6 6 (1.09%) VSAN
7 4 (0.73%) MPLS
7 4 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.54%) BGP
8 3 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.54%) OSPF
8 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.54%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.36%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.35%) Power BI
2 24 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.36%) Big Data
6 12 (2.18%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.45%) Db2
7 8 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.27%) Metadata
8 7 (1.27%) Tableau
9 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.09%) Looker
10 5 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.73%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 32 (5.81%) JIRA
2 24 (4.36%) Git
2 24 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.54%) GitLab
4 8 (1.45%) fastlane
5 6 (1.09%) JMeter
5 6 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.09%) Vite
6 5 (0.91%) Gatling
6 5 (0.91%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.73%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.73%) Crashlytics
7 4 (0.73%) Gradle
7 4 (0.73%) JUnit
7 4 (0.73%) Xcode
8 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.54%) Mockito
8 3 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 183 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 150 (27.22%) Finance
3 122 (22.14%) Public Sector
4 74 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.90%) Banking
6 17 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (2.72%) Law
8 12 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.18%) Legal
8 12 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.45%) Marketing
13 6 (1.09%) Local Government
13 6 (1.09%) Retail
14 5 (0.91%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 71 (12.89%) Analyst
2 62 (11.25%) Developer
3 58 (10.53%) Senior
4 47 (8.53%) Lead
5 39 (7.08%) Architect
6 34 (6.17%) Data Engineer
7 32 (5.81%) Consultant
8 25 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (4.36%) Data Analyst
10 21 (3.81%) Support Engineer
11 19 (3.45%) Business Analyst
12 18 (3.27%) Senior Developer
13 17 (3.09%) IT Support
14 16 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.72%) IT Engineer
15 15 (2.72%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.72%) Technical Engineer
16 13 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (2.18%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.81%) React
2 19 (3.45%) .NET
2 19 (3.45%) RESTful
3 16 (2.90%) GraphQL
4 14 (2.54%) REST
5 11 (2.00%) HTML
5 11 (2.00%) Spring
5 11 (2.00%) Spring Boot
6 10 (1.81%) CSS
7 9 (1.63%) Kafka
7 9 (1.63%) PySpark
8 8 (1.45%) Django
9 7 (1.27%) Middleware
9 7 (1.27%) Next.js
9 7 (1.27%) YAML
10 6 (1.09%) AngularJS
10 6 (1.09%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.09%) Node.js
11 5 (0.91%) FastAPI
11 5 (0.91%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.72%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.72%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (2.72%) Robotics
5 14 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.09%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.91%) EPoS
10 5 (0.91%) Replication
11 4 (0.73%) NHS
11 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.62%) Windows
2 18 (3.27%) Linux
2 18 (3.27%) Windows 10
2 18 (3.27%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.81%) Android
3 10 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.63%) Unix
5 6 (1.09%) AIX
6 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.54%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.36%) VMS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (24.68%) Agile
2 135 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (19.78%) CI/CD
4 97 (17.60%) DevOps
5 93 (16.88%) Decision-Making
6 78 (14.16%) Analytics
7 76 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (11.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 60 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 57 (10.34%) Migration
12 52 (9.44%) AI
13 50 (9.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 47 (8.53%) Test Automation
15 45 (8.17%) Mentoring
16 42 (7.62%) Data Modelling
17 41 (7.44%) Validation
18 40 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
19 38 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
20 37 (6.72%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 97 (17.60%) Python
2 84 (15.25%) SQL
3 34 (6.17%) Java
4 28 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.90%) Bash
7 16 (2.90%) C#
8 11 (2.00%) R
9 9 (1.63%) Kotlin
9 9 (1.63%) Swift
10 7 (1.27%) Scala
11 5 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.91%) Ruby
11 5 (0.91%) VBA
12 4 (0.73%) Bicep
12 4 (0.73%) Go
12 4 (0.73%) Groovy
12 4 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 87 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.53%) Degree
4 19 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.00%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.91%) PMP
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.54%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.36%) ACCA
12 2 (0.36%) CIMA
12 2 (0.36%) CIPD
12 2 (0.36%) CISM
12 2 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.35%) Accessibility
2 33 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.99%) QA
4 15 (2.72%) WCAG
5 14 (2.54%) GDPR
6 10 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.63%) SLA
8 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.09%) PMO
10 5 (0.91%) GRC
10 5 (0.91%) NCSC
11 4 (0.73%) COBIT
11 4 (0.73%) NIST
12 3 (0.54%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.36%) PSD2
14 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (7.80%) Docker
2 37 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.09%) KVM
5 6 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.09%) vSphere
6 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (11.43%) Terraform
2 47 (8.53%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.36%) Grafana
4 20 (3.63%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.45%) Ansible
6 11 (2.00%) SCCM
7 10 (1.81%) Kibana
8 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.09%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (1.09%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.73%) Consul
10 4 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.54%) Rancher
12 2 (0.36%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.36%) Packer
12 2 (0.36%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.18%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 87 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.54%) Databricks
3 24 (4.36%) Google
4 23 (4.17%) SAP
5 19 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 19 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.72%) Oracle
7 15 (2.72%) Siemens
8 14 (2.54%) VMware
9 10 (1.81%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.27%) IBM
11 6 (1.09%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.91%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.91%) Qualys
13 4 (0.73%) Apple
13 4 (0.73%) Cisco
13 4 (0.73%) Sage
14 3 (0.54%) Dell
14 3 (0.54%) HP