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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 159 186
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 +197
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 601 651 782
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 1.50% 1.40%
As % of the General category 3.07% 2.63% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 437 510
10th Percentile £183 £413 £453
25th Percentile £381 £520 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 £800 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £503 £490
% change year-on-year -10.45% +2.55% -18.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 3
10th Percentile - £11.37 £38.85
25th Percentile - £12.56 £39.38
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.32 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -47.36% -22.12%
75th Percentile - £44.18 £57.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.63 £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £17.60 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.80% -76.22% +42.31%

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 19,607 24,770 32,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.21% 57.07% 58.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,307 15,497 22,539
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.57% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 1,967 1,037
10th Percentile £13.47 £12.79 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.34 £31.71 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +3.97% +24.49%
75th Percentile £52.75 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.13 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £30.37 £25.13
% change year-on-year -24.27% +20.88% +25.63%

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 2 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 16 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 2 July 2025. 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 +18 537 £516 -15.54% 10,968
London -2 300 £575 -6.88% 6,160
UK excluding London +65 274 £450 -10.45% 5,624
Work from Home +19 235 £535 -10.83% 5,438
North of England +40 75 £400 -16.67% 1,432
Midlands +7 65 £445 -25.83% 830
South East +45 56 £508 +6.84% 1,212
Yorkshire +32 50 £398 -16.75% 405
West Midlands -8 40 £430 -28.33% 575
Scotland +4 30 £463 +32.14% 633
East Midlands +22 25 £450 -16.28% 254
North West +21 25 £425 -20.93% 886
South West +47 24 £563 -13.42% 704
East of England +32 17 £325 -51.85% 475
Wales +3 4 £431 -14.10% 194
Northern Ireland -10 3 £410 - 171

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 34 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.33%) Confluence
3 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (2.00%) CMS
5 7 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.67%) Drupal
6 4 (0.67%) IBM Notes
7 3 (0.50%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 3 (0.50%) Moodle
7 3 (0.50%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.33%) Apache
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 56 (9.32%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.50%) InfoPath
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.17%) FileZilla
6 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.67%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.17%) Primavera
5 1 (0.17%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 91 (15.14%) Azure
2 76 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (7.82%) AWS
3 47 (7.82%) Entra ID
4 42 (6.99%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.16%) GCP
6 17 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.83%) Google Workspace
9 10 (1.66%) SaaS
10 8 (1.33%) BlazeMeter
11 7 (1.16%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.00%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.00%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.83%) Asana
13 5 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.83%) Slack
13 5 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.16%) Firewall
2 16 (2.66%) DNS
3 14 (2.33%) DHCP
3 14 (2.33%) VLAN
3 14 (2.33%) VPN
4 13 (2.16%) Intranet
5 12 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.33%) Network Security
6 8 (1.33%) WAN
7 6 (1.00%) LAN
8 5 (0.83%) SSL
9 4 (0.67%) BGP
9 4 (0.67%) EIGRP
9 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.67%) OSPF
9 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.67%) Wireless
10 3 (0.50%) HTTP
10 3 (0.50%) IPsec
10 3 (0.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.32%) Power BI
2 13 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (2.16%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.83%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 8 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (1.00%) Big Data
6 6 (1.00%) Tableau
7 5 (0.83%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (0.50%) Power Query
9 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (4.33%) JIRA
2 14 (2.33%) Git
3 8 (1.33%) JUnit
4 7 (1.16%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.16%) Selenium
5 6 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.67%) GitLab
7 4 (0.67%) HP UFT
7 4 (0.67%) TestComplete
8 3 (0.50%) ERwin
9 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.33%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.33%) JMeter
9 2 (0.33%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.33%) Mockito
9 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 199 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 149 (24.79%) Finance
3 70 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 36 (5.99%) Retail
6 22 (3.66%) Law
7 16 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.16%) Banking
9 12 (2.00%) Local Government
10 11 (1.83%) Police
10 11 (1.83%) Public Speaking
10 11 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.66%) Marketing
12 9 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.50%) Legal
13 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.83%) Electronics
15 5 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 103 (17.14%) Analyst
2 56 (9.32%) Developer
3 55 (9.15%) IT Support
4 40 (6.66%) Business Analyst
5 36 (5.99%) Project Manager
6 34 (5.66%) Senior
7 33 (5.49%) IT Manager
8 28 (4.66%) IT Engineer
9 27 (4.49%) Architect
9 27 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 26 (4.33%) Lead
11 24 (3.99%) Consultant
12 20 (3.33%) 1st Line Support
13 19 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
14 18 (3.00%) Support Manager
15 16 (2.66%) Support Analyst
16 13 (2.16%) Administrator
17 12 (2.00%) 1st Line Support Manager
17 12 (2.00%) IT Support Manager
18 11 (1.83%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.49%) React
2 18 (3.00%) .NET
3 16 (2.66%) CSS
3 16 (2.66%) EDI
4 12 (2.00%) RESTful
4 12 (2.00%) Spring
5 10 (1.66%) AngularJS
6 9 (1.50%) SOAP
7 8 (1.33%) HTML
8 7 (1.16%) JSON
9 6 (1.00%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.00%) Kafka
10 5 (0.83%) Node.js
10 5 (0.83%) REST
10 5 (0.83%) Spring Boot
11 4 (0.67%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.67%) jQuery
11 4 (0.67%) LDAP
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (0.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.99%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.16%) Smartphone
4 18 (3.00%) iPhone
5 17 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 17 (2.83%) Driving Licence
6 15 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.50%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (0.67%) Molecular Biology
14 4 (0.67%) PMI
14 4 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (12.81%) Windows
2 27 (4.49%) Linux
3 26 (4.33%) Mac OS
4 16 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.00%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.00%) Android
6 6 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.00%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.67%) Unix
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (16.97%) Agile
3 61 (10.15%) Migration
4 55 (9.15%) ITIL
5 51 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (7.99%) Customer Service
6 48 (7.99%) Service Management
7 45 (7.49%) CI/CD
7 45 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (6.99%) Decision-Making
9 41 (6.82%) DevOps
10 40 (6.66%) ITSM
10 40 (6.66%) Project Management
11 36 (5.99%) User Experience
12 35 (5.82%) Change Management
13 34 (5.66%) Analytics
14 32 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (5.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 31 (5.16%) Mentoring
16 30 (4.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (9.98%) SQL
2 48 (7.99%) Python
3 33 (5.49%) JavaScript
4 28 (4.66%) Java
5 22 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.33%) C#
7 13 (2.16%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.83%) C++
8 5 (0.83%) Scala
9 4 (0.67%) R
9 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.50%) Dart
10 3 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.33%) ABAP
11 2 (0.33%) Groovy
11 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.33%) VBA
11 2 (0.33%) VBScript
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (11.31%) Security Cleared
2 62 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 55 (9.15%) Degree
4 12 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.50%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.00%) APMP
7 6 (1.00%) CISSP
7 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.50%) ACCA
9 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.50%) CCNA
9 3 (0.50%) CIMA
9 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.50%) PMP
10 2 (0.33%) CISM
10 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.33%) QA
2 17 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.66%) SLA
4 13 (2.16%) PMO
5 6 (1.00%) P3O
6 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.67%) NIST
8 3 (0.50%) GDPR
8 3 (0.50%) WCAG
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.17%) COBIT
10 1 (0.17%) COSO
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (13.48%) Active Directory
2 14 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.66%) Docker
4 3 (0.50%) Firmware
4 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.33%) HDFS
5 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
2 19 (3.16%) SCCM
3 17 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.83%) Kubernetes
5 10 (1.66%) Grafana
5 10 (1.66%) Terraform
6 5 (0.83%) Ansible
7 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.50%) Kibana
9 2 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.33%) Nagios
10 1 (0.17%) Demisto
10 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.17%) Nessus
10 1 (0.17%) QRadar
10 1 (0.17%) VxRail
10 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 130 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.66%) ServiceNow
3 27 (4.49%) Apple
3 27 (4.49%) Google
4 26 (4.33%) Cisco
5 25 (4.16%) VMware
6 23 (3.83%) Salesforce
7 19 (3.16%) Oracle
8 12 (2.00%) SAP
9 11 (1.83%) Splunk
10 8 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.33%) Veeam
11 7 (1.16%) Databricks
11 7 (1.16%) IFS
11 7 (1.16%) UiPath
12 5 (0.83%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.83%) Blue Prism
12 5 (0.83%) BMC
12 5 (0.83%) Remedy