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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 155 163
Rank change year-on-year -84 +8 +49
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 482 530 646
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.82% 1.46%
As % of the General category 1.91% 2.89% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 268 469
10th Percentile £173 £215 £379
25th Percentile £347 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £600 £656 £688
90th Percentile £675 £747 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £475 £508
% change year-on-year -15.68% -6.40% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 22
10th Percentile £14.94 - £11.37
25th Percentile £16.16 - £12.56
Median hourly rate £17.42 £22.14 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -21.32% +0.68% -16.82%
75th Percentile £50.38 - £47.50
90th Percentile £108.65 £36.28 £58.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.84 £22.14 £21.64
% change year-on-year -23.94% +2.31% +55.96%

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 25,183 18,311 25,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.13% 62.97% 58.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,679 11,735 16,325
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,559 718 1,861
10th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.20 £18.92 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +11.54% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.25 £58.10 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.46 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -11.05% +10.00% -18.71%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -89 441 £425 -29.17% 780
Work from Home -30 226 £525 -12.50% 357
London -74 224 £540 -12.20% 340
UK excluding London -106 209 £401 -15.68% 663
Midlands -50 64 £495 +7.61% 78
South East -51 55 £369 -27.34% 265
North of England -85 43 £400 -11.11% 143
West Midlands -59 40 £540 +2.86% 46
East of England -20 27 £520 +235.48% 48
East Midlands -21 24 £155 -64.57% 32
North West -50 24 £375 -16.67% 65
South West -49 17 £537 +2.29% 70
Yorkshire -76 10 £275 -36.23% 58
North East -12 9 £425 -5.56% 21
Scotland -6 5 £250 -45.95% 46

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 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.28%) Confluence
5 6 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.24%) CMS
6 4 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.83%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) Appian
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.83%) Trello
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.41%) InVision
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.41%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.21%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.86%) Azure
2 77 (15.98%) AWS
3 34 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (7.05%) Power Platform
4 22 (4.56%) GitHub
5 21 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (3.73%) dbt
7 18 (3.73%) GCP
8 16 (3.32%) Entra ID
8 16 (3.32%) SaaS
9 14 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (2.49%) Snowflake
11 10 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (2.07%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.45%) Figma
13 7 (1.45%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.45%) Serverless
14 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.73%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.11%) Ethernet
3 13 (2.70%) Firewall
4 9 (1.87%) Network Security
5 8 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.45%) WAN
7 6 (1.24%) DHCP
7 6 (1.24%) DNS
7 6 (1.24%) VLAN
8 5 (1.04%) HTTP
8 5 (1.04%) LAN
8 5 (1.04%) VSAN
9 4 (0.83%) VPN
10 3 (0.62%) AMQP
11 2 (0.41%) Intranet
11 2 (0.41%) MPLS
11 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.02%) Power BI
2 26 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.56%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.07%) Big Data
5 10 (2.07%) Hadoop
6 8 (1.66%) Metadata
6 8 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.45%) DB2
7 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.24%) Tableau
9 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.83%) Looker
9 4 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.83%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (0.62%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (4.77%) Git
2 19 (3.94%) JIRA
3 9 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.24%) GitLab
4 6 (1.24%) JMeter
5 5 (1.04%) Gatling
5 5 (1.04%) LoadRunner
5 5 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.62%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.62%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.62%) Maven
6 3 (0.62%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.41%) fastlane
7 2 (0.41%) Snyk
7 2 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.21%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.21%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.21%) MLflow
General
1 160 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 107 (22.20%) Finance
3 73 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 57 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.15%) Banking
6 17 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.70%) Local Government
8 11 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.07%) Fire and Rescue
9 10 (2.07%) Marketing
10 9 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.87%) Legal
10 9 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.87%) Retail
11 7 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.83%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.83%) Military
12 4 (0.83%) Publishing
13 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (15.35%) Analyst
2 37 (7.68%) Data Engineer
3 35 (7.26%) Senior
4 34 (7.05%) Lead
5 32 (6.64%) Architect
6 30 (6.22%) Support Engineer
7 28 (5.81%) Developer
8 26 (5.39%) Consultant
9 21 (4.36%) Data Analyst
9 21 (4.36%) IT Engineer
10 18 (3.73%) IT Support
11 17 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.32%) Project Manager
13 15 (3.11%) IT Analyst
13 15 (3.11%) Technical Engineer
14 14 (2.90%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.90%) Service Analyst
15 12 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.53%) EDI
2 12 (2.49%) Middleware
2 12 (2.49%) YAML
3 9 (1.87%) PySpark
4 8 (1.66%) HTML
4 8 (1.66%) React
5 6 (1.24%) .NET
5 6 (1.24%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.04%) REST
6 5 (1.04%) RESTful
7 4 (0.83%) CSS
8 3 (0.62%) Akka
8 3 (0.62%) JSON
8 3 (0.62%) SAP Basis
8 3 (0.62%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.62%) Spring
8 3 (0.62%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.62%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.62%) Web Services
8 3 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.77%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.36%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.11%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.11%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (3.11%) Robotics
5 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.66%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.45%) Replication
7 7 (1.45%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.04%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.83%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.83%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.62%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.68%) Windows
2 17 (3.53%) Windows 10
3 11 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.07%) Linux
5 6 (1.24%) AIX
5 6 (1.24%) Unix
6 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (25.73%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (14.94%) Agile
3 71 (14.73%) CI/CD
4 69 (14.32%) Decision-Making
5 66 (13.69%) DevOps
6 59 (12.24%) Analytics
7 48 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (9.54%) Migration
9 42 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (7.68%) Data Modelling
12 34 (7.05%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (6.64%) Customer Service
14 30 (6.22%) AI
15 29 (6.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 28 (5.81%) Data Engineering
16 28 (5.81%) Data Governance
17 27 (5.60%) Mentoring
17 27 (5.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (15.77%) SQL
2 61 (12.66%) Python
3 20 (4.15%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.11%) Java
5 14 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.07%) Bash
6 10 (2.07%) R
7 7 (1.45%) C#
8 6 (1.24%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.04%) VBA
10 3 (0.62%) Go
10 3 (0.62%) Scala
11 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.41%) AWK
11 2 (0.41%) COBOL
11 2 (0.41%) Groovy
11 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.41%) Ruby
11 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 62 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.13%) Degree
4 17 (3.53%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.83%) CISSP
9 4 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.62%) SANS
11 2 (0.41%) ACCA
11 2 (0.41%) CCNA
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.53%) QA
4 10 (2.07%) GDPR
5 9 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.04%) PMO
6 5 (1.04%) SLA
6 5 (1.04%) WCAG
7 3 (0.62%) GRC
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.41%) NIST
8 2 (0.41%) PSD2
8 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.21%) GMP
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (7.47%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.90%) Docker
3 10 (2.07%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.24%) KVM
6 5 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.04%) vSphere
7 4 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (8.09%) Terraform
2 20 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.90%) Grafana
3 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.87%) Ansible
5 7 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.24%) IBM BigFix
6 6 (1.24%) Kibana
6 6 (1.24%) SCCM
6 6 (1.24%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.62%) Argo
8 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.41%) Rancher
10 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.21%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 77 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.02%) Databricks
3 22 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.94%) SAP
5 18 (3.73%) Oracle
6 17 (3.53%) Google
7 15 (3.11%) Siemens
8 13 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.49%) VMware
10 9 (1.87%) Cisco
11 8 (1.66%) Adobe
12 7 (1.45%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.24%) IBM
14 5 (1.04%) Meraki
15 4 (0.83%) Dell
15 4 (0.83%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.83%) Talend
16 3 (0.62%) Citrix
16 3 (0.62%) Commvault