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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 150 170
Rank change year-on-year -57 +20 +80
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 499 532 633
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.35% 1.69% 1.47%
As % of the General category 2.25% 2.74% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 287 454
10th Percentile £172 £375 £386
25th Percentile £335 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £800 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile £14.77 - £12.27
25th Percentile £15.75 - £14.42
Median hourly rate £16.84 - £40.00
75th Percentile £19.99 - £61.00
90th Percentile £127.99 - £63.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.84 - £55.80
% change year-on-year - - +302.16%

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 22,156 19,437 25,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.92% 61.74% 58.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,937 11,580 16,620
10th Percentile £284 £288 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,362 653 1,306
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.55 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.48 £20.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £23.00 £27.50 £28.47
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -3.41% +13.88%
75th Percentile £46.00 £53.75 £56.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.38 £26.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% - +17.78%

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 19 January 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 19 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 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 19 January 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 -51 451 £475 -20.83% 838
London -9 270 £568 -7.72% 260
Work from Home -16 223 £450 -25.00% 483
UK excluding London -70 183 £375 -28.57% 808
Midlands -61 56 £188 -67.39% 100
North of England -51 39 £375 -16.67% 151
South East -14 38 £375 -21.05% 298
West Midlands -66 32 £195 -66.09% 53
East Midlands -11 24 £168 -64.76% 47
North West -28 24 £470 +4.47% 73
South West -19 20 £570 +16.92% 93
East of England -11 16 £353 -32.86% 72
Scotland +5 15 £175 -61.11% 79
Yorkshire -41 12 £200 -56.16% 48
North East -19 3 £400 -11.11% 30
Wales -5 1 £331 -37.52% 25
Northern Ireland -9 1 £625 +8.70% 6

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 14 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (2.00%) Confluence
4 8 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.00%) CMS
6 4 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.80%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.80%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) Camunda
7 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 19 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.00%) Adobe Captivate
3 5 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.60%) Trello
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.40%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.40%) InVision
6 2 (0.40%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 113 (22.65%) Azure
2 71 (14.23%) AWS
3 34 (6.81%) Power Platform
4 26 (5.21%) GitHub
5 25 (5.01%) GCP
6 24 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.21%) SaaS
10 15 (3.01%) dbt
11 14 (2.81%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (2.20%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.00%) Serverless
14 9 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.60%) Figma
15 8 (1.60%) Google Workspace
16 7 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (1.20%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.61%) Network Security
2 11 (2.20%) Firewall
3 9 (1.80%) VPN
4 6 (1.20%) WAN
5 5 (1.00%) LAN
6 4 (0.80%) DNS
6 4 (0.80%) VSAN
6 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.60%) AMQP
7 3 (0.60%) DHCP
7 3 (0.60%) Intranet
7 3 (0.60%) VLAN
8 2 (0.40%) SMS
8 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.20%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.20%) SAN
9 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.20%) SMTP
9 1 (0.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.81%) Power BI
2 20 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.00%) Metadata
6 8 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.40%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.00%) Tableau
10 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.80%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.60%) Big Data
11 3 (0.60%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.60%) Looker
11 3 (0.60%) SSDT
11 3 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (4.61%) Git
2 17 (3.41%) JIRA
3 9 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.40%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.00%) Maven
6 4 (0.80%) GitLab
6 4 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.60%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.40%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.40%) JMeter
8 2 (0.40%) JUnit
8 2 (0.40%) MLflow
8 2 (0.40%) Mockito
8 2 (0.40%) Vite
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.20%) TestNG
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 174 (34.87%) Social Skills
2 123 (24.65%) Finance
3 58 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.01%) Banking
6 21 (4.21%) Marketing
7 19 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.81%) Legal
9 11 (2.20%) Local Government
10 10 (2.00%) Fire and Rescue
10 10 (2.00%) Retail
11 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Law
13 5 (1.00%) Military
13 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Publishing
14 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (16.23%) Analyst
2 42 (8.42%) Architect
3 41 (8.22%) Lead
4 39 (7.82%) Senior
5 33 (6.61%) Data Engineer
6 32 (6.41%) Developer
7 27 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 26 (5.21%) Project Manager
9 24 (4.81%) Business Analyst
10 21 (4.21%) Consultant
11 19 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.21%) IT Analyst
13 15 (3.01%) IT Engineer
13 15 (3.01%) IT Support
13 15 (3.01%) Service Analyst
13 15 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.61%) Designer
14 13 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (2.61%) PMO Lead
15 12 (2.40%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.41%) EDI
2 12 (2.40%) Spring
2 12 (2.40%) Spring Boot
3 11 (2.20%) React
4 10 (2.00%) YAML
5 9 (1.80%) HTML
5 9 (1.80%) REST
6 8 (1.60%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.40%) Middleware
8 6 (1.20%) .NET
8 6 (1.20%) PySpark
9 5 (1.00%) CSS
9 5 (1.00%) Kafka
9 5 (1.00%) RESTful
9 5 (1.00%) XML
10 4 (0.80%) Akka
10 4 (0.80%) Hibernate
10 4 (0.80%) JPA
10 4 (0.80%) scikit-learn
10 4 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.61%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 17 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.20%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.00%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.00%) Replication
10 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.80%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.82%) Windows
2 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.80%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.60%) Linux
5 4 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (15.63%) Agile
3 67 (13.43%) CI/CD
3 67 (13.43%) DevOps
4 59 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (8.62%) Analytics
7 38 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (7.21%) Data Modelling
8 36 (7.21%) Decision-Making
9 35 (7.01%) Migration
9 35 (7.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 34 (6.81%) Project Management
11 30 (6.01%) Mentoring
11 30 (6.01%) Test Automation
12 28 (5.61%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (5.21%) Business Analysis
13 26 (5.21%) Coaching
13 26 (5.21%) Data Governance
14 25 (5.01%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.22%) Python
1 56 (11.22%) SQL
2 29 (5.81%) Java
3 20 (4.01%) JavaScript
4 10 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (1.80%) C#
6 7 (1.40%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.00%) Bash
8 5 (1.00%) Go
9 4 (0.80%) Rust
9 4 (0.80%) Scala
10 3 (0.60%) C++
10 3 (0.60%) R
11 2 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.40%) AWK
11 2 (0.40%) C
11 2 (0.40%) Perl
11 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 51 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.41%) Degree
4 16 (3.21%) AWS Certification
5 14 (2.81%) DBS Check
6 9 (1.80%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.20%) CISSP
9 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.80%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.60%) PMP
10 3 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.61%) Accessibility
1 23 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.41%) QA
3 17 (3.41%) GDPR
4 14 (2.81%) PMO
5 11 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.00%) GRC
6 5 (1.00%) NIST
6 5 (1.00%) SLA
7 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.60%) WCAG
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.40%) PSD2
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.01%) Docker
3 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.80%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.80%) vSphere
5 3 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.40%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (7.62%) Terraform
2 27 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (2.20%) Grafana
5 9 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.40%) Ansible
7 5 (1.00%) SCCM
8 4 (0.80%) Argo
8 4 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.80%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.20%) Nessus
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 72 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.01%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.81%) Databricks
4 18 (3.61%) Oracle
5 16 (3.21%) Google
6 13 (2.61%) VMware
7 12 (2.40%) Cisco
7 12 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.20%) Adobe
9 5 (1.00%) Citrix
9 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.00%) SAP
10 4 (0.80%) Apple
10 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.80%) Lotus
10 4 (0.80%) Netskope
11 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.60%) CODA
11 3 (0.60%) Commvault
11 3 (0.60%) Talend