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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 142 159
Rank change year-on-year -82 +17 +39
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 576 601 657
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.15% 2.03% 1.51%
As % of the General category 2.12% 3.20% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 246 451
10th Percentile £306 £182 £408
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% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 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 - £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £52.50 £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 27,130 18,804 24,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.04% 63.47% 57.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,392 11,853 15,564
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £473 £488
% change year-on-year +5.82% -3.08% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,817 890 2,005
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.93 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.97 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -9.26% +0.93%
75th Percentile £60.46 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.02 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.46 £24.42 £29.50
% change year-on-year +28.83% -17.22% +10.28%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -91 501 £488 -6.70% 1,893
London -65 267 £525 -8.70% 548
UK excluding London -113 242 £450 - 1,838
Work from Home -31 241 £525 -2.33% 1,718
South East -49 67 £425 -16.26% 413
Midlands -62 63 £540 +21.35% 257
North of England -89 57 £425 +6.25% 379
West Midlands -52 51 £540 +21.35% 118
North East - 29 £425 - 67
East of England -32 20 £338 +3.85% 215
Scotland -21 18 £230 -50.27% 195
South West -47 16 £475 -15.59% 177
Yorkshire -85 15 £375 -6.25% 136
North West -54 13 £365 -14.21% 178
East Midlands -34 12 - - 139
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 124

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 20 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.91%) Confluence
3 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.56%) CMS
6 5 (0.87%) WordPress
7 4 (0.69%) Apache
7 4 (0.69%) Kentico
8 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.52%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.35%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) InVision
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.39%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.52%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 152 (26.39%) Azure
2 108 (18.75%) AWS
3 45 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.12%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (6.60%) GCP
7 36 (6.25%) GitHub
8 29 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 18 (3.13%) dbt
11 17 (2.95%) Snowflake
12 15 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (2.60%) Serverless
13 14 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.91%) SaaS
15 10 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.74%) Firebase
15 10 (1.74%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.47%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.60%) Ethernet
3 12 (2.08%) Network Security
4 10 (1.74%) Firewall
5 9 (1.56%) WAN
6 8 (1.39%) DNS
6 8 (1.39%) VLAN
6 8 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.22%) VPN
8 6 (1.04%) DHCP
8 6 (1.04%) HTTP
8 6 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.04%) VSAN
9 4 (0.69%) MPLS
10 3 (0.52%) BGP
10 3 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.52%) LAN
10 3 (0.52%) OSPF
10 3 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.42%) Power BI
2 26 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.26%) Big Data
6 12 (2.08%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.39%) Db2
8 8 (1.39%) Metadata
8 8 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.22%) Tableau
10 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.04%) Looker
11 5 (0.87%) Redis
12 4 (0.69%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.69%) SAP Data Services
12 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (5.73%) JIRA
2 29 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.17%) Git
4 17 (2.95%) GitLab
5 10 (1.74%) fastlane
6 6 (1.04%) JMeter
6 6 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.04%) Vite
7 5 (0.87%) Android Studio
7 5 (0.87%) Crashlytics
7 5 (0.87%) Gatling
7 5 (0.87%) Gradle
7 5 (0.87%) JUnit
7 5 (0.87%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.87%) Selenium
7 5 (0.87%) Xcode
8 4 (0.69%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.69%) Mockito
9 3 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 194 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 160 (27.78%) Finance
3 130 (22.57%) Public Sector
4 80 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.86%) Banking
6 18 (3.13%) Law
7 17 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.43%) Legal
8 14 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.39%) Marketing
12 7 (1.22%) Local Government
12 7 (1.22%) Retail
13 6 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.87%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (13.19%) Analyst
2 68 (11.81%) Developer
3 61 (10.59%) Senior
4 49 (8.51%) Lead
5 41 (7.12%) Architect
6 35 (6.08%) Consultant
7 34 (5.90%) Data Engineer
8 25 (4.34%) Data Analyst
8 25 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (3.65%) Support Engineer
10 19 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 19 (3.30%) IT Support
10 19 (3.30%) Senior Developer
11 16 (2.78%) IT Engineer
11 16 (2.78%) Project Manager
11 16 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.60%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.34%) RESTful
2 20 (3.47%) React
3 19 (3.30%) .NET
4 18 (3.13%) GraphQL
5 13 (2.26%) REST
6 12 (2.08%) Kafka
6 12 (2.08%) Spring
6 12 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.91%) HTML
8 10 (1.74%) CSS
8 10 (1.74%) PySpark
9 8 (1.39%) Django
10 7 (1.22%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.22%) JSON
10 7 (1.22%) Middleware
10 7 (1.22%) Next.js
10 7 (1.22%) Node.js
10 7 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.04%) YAML
12 5 (0.87%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 33 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.60%) Industry 4.0
6 15 (2.60%) Robotics
7 13 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.39%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.04%) EPoS
12 6 (1.04%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.87%) Replication
14 4 (0.69%) NHS
14 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.72%) Windows
2 19 (3.30%) Linux
2 19 (3.30%) Windows 10
3 18 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.91%) Android
4 11 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.56%) Unix
6 6 (1.04%) AIX
7 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.52%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
2 141 (24.48%) Agile
3 118 (20.49%) CI/CD
4 105 (18.23%) DevOps
5 96 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 84 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 83 (14.41%) Analytics
8 74 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 65 (11.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 61 (10.59%) Migration
11 60 (10.42%) AI
12 52 (9.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 52 (9.03%) Test Automation
13 47 (8.16%) Mentoring
14 45 (7.81%) Data Modelling
15 43 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
15 43 (7.47%) Validation
16 39 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (6.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 101 (17.53%) Python
2 85 (14.76%) SQL
3 39 (6.77%) Java
4 30 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.30%) C#
7 18 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 16 (2.78%) Bash
9 11 (1.91%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.91%) R
10 10 (1.74%) Swift
11 7 (1.22%) Scala
12 6 (1.04%) Bicep
12 6 (1.04%) Go
12 6 (1.04%) Ruby
13 5 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.87%) VBA
14 4 (0.69%) Groovy
14 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.16%) Degree
4 19 (3.30%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.91%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.69%) PMP
12 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.35%) ACCA
13 2 (0.35%) CIPD
13 2 (0.35%) CISM
13 2 (0.35%) CRISC
13 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.85%) Accessibility
2 34 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.99%) QA
4 19 (3.30%) WCAG
5 16 (2.78%) GDPR
6 11 (1.91%) SLA
7 10 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.04%) PMO
10 5 (0.87%) COBIT
10 5 (0.87%) GRC
10 5 (0.87%) NCSC
11 4 (0.69%) NIST
12 3 (0.52%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.35%) PSD2
14 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (8.16%) Docker
2 39 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.04%) KVM
5 6 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.04%) vSphere
6 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.35%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (11.81%) Terraform
2 51 (8.85%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.17%) Grafana
4 20 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.30%) Ansible
6 12 (2.08%) SCCM
7 10 (1.74%) Kibana
8 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.04%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (1.04%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.69%) Consul
10 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.52%) Rancher
12 2 (0.35%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.35%) Packer
12 2 (0.35%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.17%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 97 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.51%) Google
3 25 (4.34%) Databricks
4 22 (3.82%) SAP
4 22 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.65%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.60%) Oracle
7 15 (2.60%) Siemens
8 14 (2.43%) VMware
9 12 (2.08%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.22%) IBM
10 7 (1.22%) PagerDuty
11 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.04%) Qualys
12 5 (0.87%) Apple
12 5 (0.87%) Cisco
12 5 (0.87%) Sage
13 3 (0.52%) Dell
13 3 (0.52%) HP