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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 145 159
Rank change year-on-year -102 +14 +53
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 466 567 651
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.95% 1.53%
As % of the General category 1.82% 3.08% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 248 470
10th Percentile £230 £192 £400
25th Percentile £363 £400 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £688
90th Percentile £675 £729 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £414 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 22
10th Percentile £15.21 - £11.37
25th Percentile £16.84 - £12.56
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.14 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +0.68% -43.62%
75th Percentile £24.38 £24.73 £47.50
90th Percentile £98.25 £40.00 £58.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.84 £22.14 £19.62
% change year-on-year -23.94% +12.84% +41.41%

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 25,625 18,400 24,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.73% 63.31% 58.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,671 11,698 15,628
10th Percentile £309 £287 £275
25th Percentile £410 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 787 1,929
10th Percentile £13.95 £14.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £17.34 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.82% -11.29%
75th Percentile £60.72 £56.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.16 £24.59 £28.50
% change year-on-year +14.52% -13.74% -5.00%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -121 408 £475 -11.63% 836
London -72 223 £550 -8.33% 320
Work from Home -46 200 £540 -4.00% 445
UK excluding London -142 186 £414 -10.00% 645
South East -57 55 £401 -21.08% 203
Midlands -76 46 £540 +20.00% 109
North of England -100 43 £425 - 179
West Midlands -67 34 £540 +20.00% 50
East of England -30 21 £155 -48.76% 37
North East -3 18 £425 -22.73% 25
North West -50 14 £325 -25.71% 84
East Midlands -35 12 £149 -66.94% 59
Scotland -11 11 £230 -50.27% 34
South West -58 11 £350 -33.33% 60
Yorkshire -90 11 £375 -6.25% 71

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 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.93%) Confluence
5 8 (1.72%) CMS
6 6 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.07%) WordPress
8 4 (0.86%) Kentico
9 2 (0.43%) Apache
9 2 (0.43%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.21%) Appian
10 1 (0.21%) Drupal
10 1 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Trello
4 2 (0.43%) InVision
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) Sketch
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.43%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.21%) SAP FS
5 1 (0.21%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (22.53%) Azure
2 83 (17.81%) AWS
3 37 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 31 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (4.08%) GitHub
7 18 (3.86%) Entra ID
8 16 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (3.43%) dbt
8 16 (3.43%) GCP
9 15 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.36%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (1.93%) Serverless
12 8 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (1.72%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.50%) SaaS
14 6 (1.29%) Figma
15 5 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.86%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.22%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.15%) Firewall
4 9 (1.93%) Network Security
5 8 (1.72%) VLAN
6 7 (1.50%) DNS
7 6 (1.29%) HTTP
7 6 (1.29%) VSAN
7 6 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.07%) DHCP
9 4 (0.86%) WAN
10 3 (0.64%) VPN
11 2 (0.43%) AMQP
11 2 (0.43%) Intranet
11 2 (0.43%) LAN
11 2 (0.43%) MPLS
12 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.21%) Multicast
12 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (7.08%) Power BI
2 24 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.22%) Big Data
5 14 (3.00%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.72%) DB2
9 7 (1.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.50%) Tableau
10 6 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.07%) Looker
11 5 (1.07%) Metadata
12 4 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.86%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.86%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (4.08%) JIRA
2 17 (3.65%) Git
3 13 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.15%) GitLab
5 6 (1.29%) JMeter
5 6 (1.29%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.29%) Vite
6 5 (1.07%) Gatling
6 5 (1.07%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.86%) fastlane
8 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.64%) Snyk
9 2 (0.43%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.43%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.43%) Gradle
9 2 (0.43%) JUnit
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.43%) Selenium
9 2 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 142 (30.47%) Social Skills
2 107 (22.96%) Finance
3 90 (19.31%) Public Sector
4 55 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.29%) Banking
6 17 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.15%) Legal
7 10 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.50%) Marketing
8 7 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.07%) Local Government
10 5 (1.07%) Retail
11 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.86%) General Ledger
11 4 (0.86%) Law
12 3 (0.64%) Front Office
12 3 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (14.59%) Analyst
2 41 (8.80%) Developer
3 38 (8.15%) Lead
3 38 (8.15%) Senior
4 34 (7.30%) Architect
5 33 (7.08%) Data Engineer
6 25 (5.36%) Consultant
6 25 (5.36%) Data Analyst
7 22 (4.72%) Support Engineer
8 19 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (3.65%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.43%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.43%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (3.22%) IT Support
11 15 (3.22%) Technical Engineer
12 13 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (2.79%) Data Scientist
12 13 (2.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.36%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.86%) React
2 12 (2.58%) GraphQL
3 9 (1.93%) .NET
3 9 (1.93%) PySpark
3 9 (1.93%) YAML
4 7 (1.50%) HTML
4 7 (1.50%) RESTful
5 6 (1.29%) CSS
5 6 (1.29%) Middleware
5 6 (1.29%) Next.js
5 6 (1.29%) REST
6 5 (1.07%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.07%) Kafka
6 5 (1.07%) Spring
6 5 (1.07%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.64%) Django
7 3 (0.64%) EDI
7 3 (0.64%) JSON
7 3 (0.64%) Web Services
7 3 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.01%) Onboarding
2 24 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 15 (3.22%) Industry 4.0
3 15 (3.22%) Robotics
4 12 (2.58%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.15%) Replication
6 9 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.86%) EPoS
11 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.86%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.15%) Windows
2 15 (3.22%) Windows 10
2 15 (3.22%) Windows Server
3 14 (3.00%) Linux
4 8 (1.72%) Unix
5 6 (1.29%) AIX
6 5 (1.07%) Android
6 5 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (20.39%) Agile
3 80 (17.17%) Decision-Making
4 77 (16.52%) CI/CD
5 71 (15.24%) DevOps
6 66 (14.16%) Analytics
7 48 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (9.87%) Migration
9 44 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 39 (8.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 38 (8.15%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (7.73%) AI
13 35 (7.51%) Data Modelling
13 35 (7.51%) Roadmaps
14 34 (7.30%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (7.30%) Test Automation
15 33 (7.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 31 (6.65%) Data Governance
17 30 (6.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.09%) Python
2 74 (15.88%) SQL
3 19 (4.08%) Java
4 18 (3.86%) PowerShell
5 17 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.79%) R
7 12 (2.58%) Bash
7 12 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.29%) C#
8 6 (1.29%) Scala
9 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.07%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.07%) Swift
9 5 (1.07%) VBA
10 4 (0.86%) Groovy
11 3 (0.64%) Go
11 3 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.64%) Ruby
12 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 69 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.58%) Degree
4 17 (3.65%) DBS Check
5 13 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.86%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.64%) CISM
9 3 (0.64%) CISSP
9 3 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.64%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.43%) CIPD
10 2 (0.43%) CRISC
11 1 (0.21%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.65%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.22%) QA
4 12 (2.58%) GDPR
5 11 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.72%) WCAG
7 6 (1.29%) GRC
8 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.07%) SLA
9 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.86%) NIST
10 3 (0.64%) PMO
11 2 (0.43%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.43%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.43%) NCSC
11 2 (0.43%) PSD2
12 1 (0.21%) GMP
12 1 (0.21%) GxP
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (7.51%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.94%) Docker
3 13 (2.79%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.29%) KVM
6 6 (1.29%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.29%) vSphere
7 4 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (9.44%) Terraform
2 26 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.08%) Grafana
4 14 (3.00%) Ansible
5 11 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.72%) Kibana
6 8 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.29%) IBM BigFix
7 6 (1.29%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.86%) SCCM
9 3 (0.64%) Rancher
9 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.43%) Consul
10 2 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.43%) Packer
11 1 (0.21%) Argo
11 1 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 73 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.79%) Databricks
3 19 (4.08%) Google
3 19 (4.08%) SAP
4 17 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.43%) Oracle
6 15 (3.22%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.22%) Siemens
6 15 (3.22%) VMware
7 13 (2.79%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.50%) IBM
9 6 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.86%) HP
11 3 (0.64%) Acronis
11 3 (0.64%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.64%) Apple
11 3 (0.64%) Cisco
11 3 (0.64%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.64%) Dell
11 3 (0.64%) MuleSoft