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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 143 160
Rank change year-on-year -84 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 559 590 660
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.12% 2.01% 1.51%
As % of the General category 2.08% 3.17% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 245 459
10th Percentile £313 £183 £407
25th Percentile £393 £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% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 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 £24.73 £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £55.00 £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 26,921 18,634 24,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.96% 63.44% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,272 11,755 15,666
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 862 2,008
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.50 £27.70 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.72% -7.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60.60 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £67.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.98 £24.34 £28.42
% change year-on-year +27.29% -14.36% +3.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -97 485 £495 -5.71% 820
London -65 261 £528 -8.26% 317
Work from Home -38 236 £525 -4.55% 471
UK excluding London -115 233 £450 - 668
South East -45 67 £425 -16.26% 207
Midlands -76 57 £540 +20.67% 94
North of England -99 56 £425 +6.25% 148
West Midlands -61 45 £540 +20.67% 56
North East -1 28 £425 -22.73% 17
East of England -26 20 £338 +3.85% 61
Scotland -24 18 £230 -50.27% 39
Yorkshire -84 15 £375 -6.25% 49
South West -45 14 £475 -15.59% 94
North West -58 13 £365 -14.21% 84
East Midlands -38 12 - - 38
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 21

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 19 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.15%) Confluence
4 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.61%) CMS
7 5 (0.89%) WordPress
8 4 (0.72%) Apache
8 4 (0.72%) Kentico
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.18%) Appian
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) nginx
10 1 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.36%) Trello
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) InVision
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.36%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.18%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.18%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (25.58%) Azure
2 105 (18.78%) AWS
3 40 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.08%) GCP
7 33 (5.90%) GitHub
8 26 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (3.94%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.04%) dbt
11 15 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (2.68%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.50%) Serverless
13 11 (1.97%) SaaS
14 10 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.61%) Firebase
16 7 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.25%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.58%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.68%) Ethernet
3 11 (1.97%) Network Security
4 8 (1.43%) DNS
4 8 (1.43%) Firewall
4 8 (1.43%) VLAN
4 8 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.25%) VPN
5 7 (1.25%) WAN
6 6 (1.07%) DHCP
6 6 (1.07%) HTTP
6 6 (1.07%) VSAN
7 4 (0.72%) MPLS
7 4 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.54%) BGP
8 3 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.54%) OSPF
8 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.54%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.36%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.26%) Power BI
2 24 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (4.11%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.33%) Big Data
6 12 (2.15%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.43%) Db2
7 8 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (1.25%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.25%) Metadata
8 7 (1.25%) Tableau
9 6 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.07%) Looker
10 5 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (5.72%) JIRA
2 26 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.29%) Git
4 15 (2.68%) GitLab
5 9 (1.61%) fastlane
6 6 (1.07%) JMeter
6 6 (1.07%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.07%) Vite
7 5 (0.89%) Android Studio
7 5 (0.89%) Crashlytics
7 5 (0.89%) Gatling
7 5 (0.89%) Gradle
7 5 (0.89%) JUnit
7 5 (0.89%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.72%) Mockito
8 4 (0.72%) Xcode
9 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.54%) Selenium
General
1 187 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 153 (27.37%) Finance
3 124 (22.18%) Public Sector
4 74 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.83%) Banking
6 17 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (2.86%) Law
8 14 (2.50%) Legal
9 12 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.43%) Marketing
14 6 (1.07%) Local Government
14 6 (1.07%) Retail
15 5 (0.89%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.72%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 72 (12.88%) Analyst
2 64 (11.45%) Developer
3 58 (10.38%) Senior
4 47 (8.41%) Lead
5 39 (6.98%) Architect
6 34 (6.08%) Consultant
6 34 (6.08%) Data Engineer
7 25 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (4.29%) Data Analyst
9 22 (3.94%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.58%) Business Analyst
11 18 (3.22%) IT Support
11 18 (3.22%) Senior Developer
12 16 (2.86%) IT Engineer
12 16 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.68%) Project Manager
13 15 (2.68%) Technical Engineer
14 13 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (2.15%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.76%) React
1 21 (3.76%) RESTful
2 19 (3.40%) .NET
3 16 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 14 (2.50%) REST
5 12 (2.15%) Spring
5 12 (2.15%) Spring Boot
6 11 (1.97%) HTML
7 10 (1.79%) CSS
7 10 (1.79%) Kafka
8 9 (1.61%) PySpark
9 8 (1.43%) Django
10 7 (1.25%) Middleware
10 7 (1.25%) Next.js
10 7 (1.25%) YAML
11 6 (1.07%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.07%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.07%) Node.js
12 5 (0.89%) JSON
12 5 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.05%) Onboarding
2 32 (5.72%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 15 (2.68%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.68%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (2.68%) Robotics
6 14 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.07%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.89%) EPoS
11 5 (0.89%) Replication
12 4 (0.72%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (9.84%) Windows
2 19 (3.40%) Linux
2 19 (3.40%) Windows 10
3 18 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.97%) Android
5 10 (1.79%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.61%) Unix
7 6 (1.07%) AIX
8 3 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.54%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (24.69%) Agile
2 136 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (19.86%) CI/CD
4 99 (17.71%) DevOps
5 93 (16.64%) Decision-Making
6 79 (14.13%) Analytics
7 78 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 71 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (11.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 57 (10.20%) Migration
11 53 (9.48%) AI
12 50 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 48 (8.59%) Test Automation
14 45 (8.05%) Mentoring
15 42 (7.51%) Data Modelling
16 41 (7.33%) Validation
17 40 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (6.80%) Data Pipeline
18 38 (6.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 97 (17.35%) Python
2 84 (15.03%) SQL
3 36 (6.44%) Java
4 28 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.22%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.86%) Bash
7 16 (2.86%) C#
8 11 (1.97%) R
9 10 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.61%) Swift
11 7 (1.25%) Scala
12 5 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.89%) Ruby
12 5 (0.89%) VBA
13 4 (0.72%) Bicep
13 4 (0.72%) Go
13 4 (0.72%) Groovy
13 4 (0.72%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 88 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.41%) Degree
4 19 (3.40%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.89%) PMP
10 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.54%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.36%) ACCA
12 2 (0.36%) CIMA
12 2 (0.36%) CIPD
12 2 (0.36%) CISM
12 2 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.41%) Accessibility
2 33 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.94%) QA
4 16 (2.86%) WCAG
5 14 (2.50%) GDPR
6 10 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.79%) SLA
7 8 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.07%) PMO
9 5 (0.89%) GRC
9 5 (0.89%) NCSC
10 4 (0.72%) COBIT
10 4 (0.72%) NIST
11 3 (0.54%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.36%) PSD2
13 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (7.87%) Docker
2 38 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.07%) KVM
5 6 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.07%) vSphere
6 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (11.81%) Terraform
2 48 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.29%) Grafana
4 20 (3.58%) Ansible
4 20 (3.58%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.97%) SCCM
6 10 (1.79%) Kibana
7 9 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.07%) IBM BigFix
8 6 (1.07%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.72%) Consul
9 4 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.54%) Rancher
11 2 (0.36%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.36%) Packer
11 2 (0.36%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.18%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 89 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.47%) Databricks
2 25 (4.47%) Google
3 23 (4.11%) SAP
4 21 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.58%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.86%) Oracle
8 15 (2.68%) Siemens
9 14 (2.50%) VMware
10 12 (2.15%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.25%) IBM
12 6 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.89%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.89%) Qualys
14 4 (0.72%) Apple
14 4 (0.72%) Cisco
14 4 (0.72%) Sage
15 3 (0.54%) Dell
15 3 (0.54%) HP
931 Inclusion and Diversity jobs Nationwide