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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 180 168
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 +106
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 601 521 743
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.79% 1.40% 1.56%
As % of the General category 2.85% 2.38% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 303 502
10th Percentile £194 £430 £410
25th Percentile £381 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £658 £775 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -20.95% +5.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile £17.48 £24.15 £40.10
25th Percentile £18.64 £28.88 £40.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £38.00 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% -39.96% +17.20%
75th Percentile £22.41 £48.38 £65.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £53.85 £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 - £63.40
% change year-on-year - - +17.40%

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 21,089 21,888 28,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.97% 58.73% 59.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,149 12,915 18,977
10th Percentile £275 £285 £300
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £646 £664
90th Percentile £738 £760 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,274 873 1,080
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.00 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £16.47
Median hourly rate £24.34 £31.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.49 £57.33
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.25 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £29.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.59% +11.54% +21.24%

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 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 +23 541 £500 -16.67% 1,575
London +40 345 £550 -11.65% 673
UK excluding London -1 226 £415 -20.95% 1,253
Work from Home +5 218 £500 -13.04% 864
Midlands -33 72 £415 -27.83% 147
West Midlands -39 50 £415 -27.83% 86
North of England -22 47 £400 -16.67% 222
South East +12 37 £438 -20.45% 586
Scotland +13 33 £294 -26.56% 103
Yorkshire -12 25 £200 -58.33% 64
East Midlands +1 22 £446 -15.00% 59
North West -4 21 £400 - 113
South West +18 19 £600 +23.08% 105
East of England +1 15 £240 -54.29% 73
Wales +5 3 £331 -5.08% 27
Northern Ireland -11 2 £450 -14.29% 17
North East -16 1 £400 -11.11% 45

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 16 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.00%) Confluence
2 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.66%) CMS
4 3 (0.50%) Alfresco
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.50%) HCL Notes
4 3 (0.50%) Moodle
5 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.33%) WordPress
6 1 (0.17%) Camunda
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 32 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.00%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.33%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.16%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.33%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
4 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.17%) iTrent
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 123 (20.47%) Azure
2 57 (9.48%) AWS
3 55 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (5.66%) Power Platform
5 30 (4.99%) Entra ID
6 28 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (4.33%) GCP
8 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (2.33%) SaaS
9 11 (1.83%) GitHub
9 11 (1.83%) Google Workspace
10 10 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.50%) Serverless
12 8 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.16%) Figma
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
14 6 (1.00%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) Firewall
2 16 (2.66%) VPN
3 14 (2.33%) DNS
3 14 (2.33%) Network Security
4 11 (1.83%) DHCP
5 8 (1.33%) LAN
5 8 (1.33%) WAN
6 6 (1.00%) VLAN
6 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.83%) SSL
7 5 (0.83%) Wireless
8 4 (0.67%) SAN
8 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.50%) BGP
9 3 (0.50%) DMARC
9 3 (0.50%) EIGRP
9 3 (0.50%) HTTP
9 3 (0.50%) IPsec
9 3 (0.50%) OSPF
9 3 (0.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.49%) Power BI
2 18 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.66%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.50%) Metadata
7 8 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.16%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.50%) Tableau
12 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.33%) Big Data
12 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (3.00%) JIRA
2 16 (2.66%) Git
3 8 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.33%) JUnit
4 6 (1.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (1.00%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.50%) ERwin
6 3 (0.50%) Mockito
6 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.50%) Vite
6 3 (0.50%) webpack
7 2 (0.33%) Maven
7 2 (0.33%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.33%) Selenium
7 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Appium
8 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 191 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 172 (28.62%) Finance
3 42 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 24 (3.99%) Banking
5 24 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
5 24 (3.99%) Retail
6 17 (2.83%) Marketing
7 15 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.33%) Law
8 14 (2.33%) Legal
9 13 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.50%) Police
11 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.16%) Electronics
13 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.83%) Front Office
14 5 (0.83%) Military
14 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 94 (15.64%) Analyst
2 53 (8.82%) Developer
3 49 (8.15%) Project Manager
4 46 (7.65%) Architect
5 45 (7.49%) Lead
6 42 (6.99%) Senior
7 36 (5.99%) Business Analyst
8 30 (4.99%) IT Support
9 28 (4.66%) IT Manager
9 28 (4.66%) Support Engineer
10 23 (3.83%) IT Engineer
11 20 (3.33%) Consultant
12 18 (3.00%) Support Analyst
13 17 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.66%) Data Engineer
15 15 (2.50%) 1st Line Support
16 14 (2.33%) Designer
16 14 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (2.16%) IT Project Manager
17 13 (2.16%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.66%) React
2 20 (3.33%) Spring
3 19 (3.16%) .NET
4 15 (2.50%) SOAP
4 15 (2.50%) Spring Boot
5 13 (2.16%) CSS
5 13 (2.16%) REST
6 12 (2.00%) EDI
7 10 (1.66%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.50%) HTML
8 9 (1.50%) Kafka
9 8 (1.33%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.33%) PySpark
10 7 (1.16%) RESTful
11 6 (1.00%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.00%) Entity Framework
12 5 (0.83%) Dapper ORM
12 5 (0.83%) LINQ
12 5 (0.83%) Middleware
12 5 (0.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.15%) Onboarding
2 21 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 17 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.16%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.16%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.16%) Public Cloud
5 11 (1.83%) Driving Licence
5 11 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.50%) Smartphone
8 8 (1.33%) iPhone
9 7 (1.16%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.00%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.83%) Fixed Income
11 5 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.83%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.15%) Windows
2 19 (3.16%) Linux
3 16 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.33%) Android
7 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Rocky
8 1 (0.17%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (17.64%) Agile
3 63 (10.48%) CI/CD
3 63 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 60 (9.98%) Migration
5 59 (9.82%) DevOps
6 54 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 44 (7.32%) Project Management
9 41 (6.82%) Coaching
10 36 (5.99%) Customer Service
11 35 (5.82%) Decision-Making
11 35 (5.82%) Software Engineering
12 34 (5.66%) Analytics
12 34 (5.66%) Change Management
13 32 (5.32%) Service Management
13 32 (5.32%) Test Automation
14 30 (4.99%) Mentoring
15 29 (4.83%) Data Governance
15 29 (4.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (9.65%) Python
2 54 (8.99%) SQL
3 46 (7.65%) Java
4 32 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 21 (3.49%) C#
6 19 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.00%) C++
9 4 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.67%) Go
9 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.50%) Bash
10 3 (0.50%) Rust
11 2 (0.33%) Bicep
11 2 (0.33%) C
11 2 (0.33%) Groovy
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) Scala
11 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (7.82%) Security Cleared
2 45 (7.49%) Degree
3 40 (6.66%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.50%) DBS Check
5 13 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.16%) CISSP
7 7 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.00%) APMP
8 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.83%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.67%) CCNA
10 4 (0.67%) CIPD
10 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.67%) PMP
11 3 (0.50%) ACCA
11 3 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.99%) PMO
2 23 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.83%) QA
4 16 (2.66%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.50%) GDPR
6 11 (1.83%) SLA
7 10 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.00%) P3O
9 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.67%) NIST
10 4 (0.67%) WCAG
11 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) GRC
11 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.33%) GMP
12 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.17%) GxP
13 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 62 (10.32%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.16%) Docker
3 13 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.50%) Firmware
7 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 25 (4.16%) Terraform
2 23 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.00%) Grafana
4 12 (2.00%) SCCM
5 11 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.33%) Nagios
8 2 (0.33%) Nessus
9 1 (0.17%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.17%) Demisto
9 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.17%) Kibana
9 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 125 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.16%) Cisco
3 30 (4.99%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.99%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.66%) Google
6 20 (3.33%) VMware
7 18 (3.00%) Apple
8 14 (2.33%) Oracle
9 11 (1.83%) Adobe
10 10 (1.66%) SAP
11 9 (1.50%) Databricks
12 8 (1.33%) Splunk
12 8 (1.33%) Veeam
13 7 (1.16%) Citrix
13 7 (1.16%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.00%) UiPath
15 5 (0.83%) IFS
16 4 (0.67%) Dell
16 4 (0.67%) Murex
16 4 (0.67%) Netskope