Inclusion and Diversity Contracts

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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 166 273
Rank change year-on-year -7 +107 +369
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 522 733 871
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 1.55% 1.07%
As % of the General category 2.43% 2.62% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 493 624
10th Percentile £413 £411 £425
25th Percentile £505 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +22.11%
75th Percentile £669 £681 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £480 £600
% change year-on-year +7.81% -20.00% +26.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £21.00 £63.29 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.82% +17.20% +128.47%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.40 £54.00
% change year-on-year - +17.40% +157.14%

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 21,517 28,022 48,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.82% 59.41% 59.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,683 18,792 32,990
10th Percentile £281 £294 £325
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £660
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 1,102 1,245
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.94 £16.61 £15.93
Median hourly rate £29.75 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +20.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £57.44 £57.33 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £21.54
% change year-on-year +1.85% +25.35% +24.87%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 Contract 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 31 October 2024. 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 +7 465 £600 -0.83% 480
London -51 282 £618 +0.41% 157
Work from Home +70 225 £575 -3.36% 277
UK excluding London +70 206 £518 +7.81% 394
Midlands +51 81 £575 +19.79% 60
West Midlands +42 72 £575 +19.79% 27
North of England +48 39 £480 -20.60% 108
South East +40 37 £550 +10.00% 100
Scotland -4 20 £400 -8.31% 42
South West +29 16 £488 +2.63% 32
Yorkshire +25 16 £480 -20.60% 25
North West +28 14 - - 63
East of England +22 9 £525 +223.08% 30
North East +2 9 £450 - 22
East Midlands +8 8 £500 +17.65% 33
Northern Ireland -5 5 £525 - 13
Wales - 3 £349 - 16

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.02%) Confluence
2 12 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.96%) CMS
5 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Mule
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.34%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.19%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) NEC Housing
1 9 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.77%) Exstream
2 4 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.77%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 4 (0.77%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.38%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.19%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 48 (9.20%) AWS
2 46 (8.81%) Azure
3 18 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 17 (3.26%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (1.72%) Snowflake
7 8 (1.53%) GCP
7 8 (1.53%) SaaS
8 7 (1.34%) Serverless
9 6 (1.15%) OCI
9 6 (1.15%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (0.96%) GitHub
11 4 (0.77%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.92%) VPN
2 7 (1.34%) Firewall
3 6 (1.15%) Kerberos
3 6 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (0.96%) ATM
4 5 (0.96%) Network Security
4 5 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.77%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.77%) LAN
5 4 (0.77%) MPLS
5 4 (0.77%) WAN
6 3 (0.57%) 2G
6 3 (0.57%) 3G
6 3 (0.57%) 4G
6 3 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.57%) Intranet
6 3 (0.57%) IPsec
6 3 (0.57%) SDH
6 3 (0.57%) VLAN
7 2 (0.38%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.68%) Metadata
2 12 (2.30%) Power BI
3 7 (1.34%) MySQL
4 4 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.77%) Parquet
4 4 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.77%) SAP HANA
5 3 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.57%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (0.57%) Tableau
6 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.38%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.38%) KDB
6 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.38%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.75%) JIRA
2 10 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.96%) Git
3 5 (0.96%) Selenium
4 4 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.57%) JUnit
5 3 (0.57%) TestNG
6 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.38%) GitLab
6 2 (0.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.19%) CANoe
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) TestComplete
General
1 180 (34.48%) Finance
2 143 (27.39%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (6.32%) Law
5 21 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (3.64%) Legal
8 14 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.49%) Banking
10 11 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.72%) Marketing
13 5 (0.96%) Advertising
13 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.96%) Local Government
14 3 (0.57%) Automotive
14 3 (0.57%) Back Office
15 2 (0.38%) Electronics
15 2 (0.38%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (23.56%) Analyst
2 81 (15.52%) Senior
3 77 (14.75%) Business Analyst
4 49 (9.39%) Lead
5 46 (8.81%) Project Manager
6 44 (8.43%) Architect
7 37 (7.09%) Developer
8 34 (6.51%) Senior Analyst
9 33 (6.32%) Consultant
10 32 (6.13%) Insurance Business Analyst
11 29 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
12 23 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.45%) IT Manager
14 16 (3.07%) Business Systems Analyst
15 14 (2.68%) Insurance Systems Analyst
16 12 (2.30%) IT Project Manager
17 11 (2.11%) Delivery Manager
17 11 (2.11%) IT Analyst
17 11 (2.11%) Senior Manager
17 11 (2.11%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.07%) .NET
2 9 (1.72%) AngularJS
2 9 (1.72%) EDI
3 8 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (1.34%) REST
5 6 (1.15%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (1.15%) GraphQL
5 6 (1.15%) React
6 5 (0.96%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.96%) ADO
7 4 (0.77%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.77%) CSS
7 4 (0.77%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.77%) HTML
7 4 (0.77%) HTML5 Boilerplate
7 4 (0.77%) Kafka
7 4 (0.77%) LINQ
7 4 (0.77%) RESTful
8 3 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.79%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 9 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.15%) Reinsurance
8 5 (0.96%) Algorithms
8 5 (0.96%) Blockchain
8 5 (0.96%) Blog
8 5 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.96%) NHS
8 5 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 5 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.77%) FMCG
9 4 (0.77%) Mainframe
9 4 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.32%) Windows
2 9 (1.72%) Linux
3 5 (0.96%) Mac OS
3 5 (0.96%) Unix
3 5 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.19%) Debian
5 1 (0.19%) Fedora
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (24.52%) Agile
2 101 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 70 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (9.96%) Project Management
5 46 (8.81%) Mentoring
6 40 (7.66%) Migration
7 34 (6.51%) Project Delivery
8 32 (6.13%) Analytics
9 31 (5.94%) DevOps
10 30 (5.75%) Risk Management
11 25 (4.79%) Data Modelling
11 25 (4.79%) Roadmaps
12 24 (4.60%) CI/CD
12 24 (4.60%) Decision-Making
12 24 (4.60%) Scrum
13 23 (4.41%) Change Management
13 23 (4.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (4.21%) Data Science
15 21 (4.02%) Service Delivery
16 20 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.05%) SQL
2 22 (4.21%) JavaScript
3 20 (3.83%) Java
4 19 (3.64%) Python
5 14 (2.68%) C#
6 13 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.53%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (1.15%) R
10 3 (0.57%) Bicep
10 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.38%) Go
11 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 2 (0.38%) Scala
12 1 (0.19%) Bash
12 1 (0.19%) Groovy
12 1 (0.19%) PHP
12 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 37 (7.09%) Degree
3 30 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (1.53%) CISSP
5 7 (1.34%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.15%) CISM
6 6 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.15%) PMP
7 5 (0.96%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.77%) CISA
9 3 (0.57%) CCNP
9 3 (0.57%) CIPD
9 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.57%) CRISC
9 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.38%) CCNA
10 2 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.36%) QA
2 26 (4.98%) PMO
3 19 (3.64%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.49%) SLA
5 12 (2.30%) NIST
6 10 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.34%) GDPR
8 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.96%) NCSC
10 2 (0.38%) COBIT
10 2 (0.38%) IFRS
10 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.38%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) EMIR
11 1 (0.19%) HL7
11 1 (0.19%) MiFID
11 1 (0.19%) P3O
11 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.96%) Docker
4 4 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.38%) Terminal Server
5 2 (0.38%) XenApp
5 2 (0.38%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.11%) Terraform
3 8 (1.53%) Grafana
4 6 (1.15%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.57%) Ansible
6 3 (0.57%) Packer
6 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.57%) SCCM
6 3 (0.57%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.19%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 61 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 18 (3.45%) Splunk
3 17 (3.26%) ServiceNow
4 15 (2.87%) Oracle
5 14 (2.68%) VMware
6 13 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.30%) SAP
8 9 (1.72%) NEC
9 7 (1.34%) Adobe
10 6 (1.15%) Cisco
10 6 (1.15%) IFS
10 6 (1.15%) Okta
10 6 (1.15%) Workday
11 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.96%) BT
11 5 (0.96%) Google
11 5 (0.96%) Murex
11 5 (0.96%) QAD
12 4 (0.77%) Citrix
12 4 (0.77%) OpenText