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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 150 175
Rank change year-on-year -60 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 730 622 552
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.93% 1.45%
As % of the General category 2.46% 3.03% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 248 354
10th Percentile £313 £173 £425
25th Percentile £375 £352 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £654 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 5
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.48 £29.60
25th Percentile £17.36 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.25% -50.80% -29.13%
75th Percentile £44.85 £22.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £63.32 £72.50 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.85 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year +102.57% - -

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 29,647 20,544 21,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.27% 63.58% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,516 12,745 13,465
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,164 1,171
10th Percentile £13.70 £13.47 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.27% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.16 £22.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +41.36% -42.18% +46.90%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -67 624 £463 -2.63% 4,679
UK excluding London -33 331 £425 +3.03% 3,035
London -75 323 £525 -2.10% 2,709
Work from Home -37 271 £510 +4.62% 2,499
Midlands -17 102 £425 -0.58% 403
North of England -54 80 £425 +14.09% 669
West Midlands -17 77 £438 +5.42% 296
South East -35 77 £450 -11.33% 485
North East +9 52 £425 +6.25% 92
Scotland -24 28 £288 -36.99% 521
East Midlands -17 25 £164 -63.61% 107
South West -41 25 £475 -20.83% 487
North West -48 14 £518 +29.38% 408
Yorkshire -69 14 £400 +100.00% 170
East of England -27 9 £425 +174.19% 228
Wales -11 7 £394 +18.90% 53
Northern Ireland +4 3 - - 232

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 34 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.33%) Confluence
3 12 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.51%) CMS
5 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.23%) WordPress
7 8 (1.10%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.82%) Apache
9 4 (0.55%) Kentico
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (2.33%) NetSuite
2 15 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.68%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 216 (29.59%) Azure
2 124 (16.99%) AWS
3 83 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (10.55%) Power Platform
5 64 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (6.85%) GCP
7 44 (6.03%) GitHub
8 39 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (4.93%) Serverless
10 34 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (4.25%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.70%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 22 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.33%) dbt
17 16 (2.19%) PowerApps
17 16 (2.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.78%) DNS
1 13 (1.78%) Firewall
1 13 (1.78%) VPN
2 12 (1.64%) Network Security
3 11 (1.51%) VLAN
3 11 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.37%) Wireless
5 9 (1.23%) DHCP
6 6 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.82%) WAN
7 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.55%) 3GPP
8 4 (0.55%) 5G
8 4 (0.55%) BGP
8 4 (0.55%) NGN
8 4 (0.55%) OSPF
8 4 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.55%) tcpdump
8 4 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.12%) Power BI
2 34 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.47%) Metadata
6 17 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.64%) Power Query
8 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.23%) Big Data
9 9 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.10%) Looker
10 8 (1.10%) Redis
10 8 (1.10%) Tableau
11 7 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.68%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (6.03%) JIRA
2 42 (5.75%) Git
3 30 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.70%) GitLab
5 11 (1.51%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.51%) Selenium
6 10 (1.37%) fastlane
6 10 (1.37%) Postman
7 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.23%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.82%) Gradle
8 6 (0.82%) JUnit
8 6 (0.82%) Mockito
8 6 (0.82%) Vite
9 5 (0.68%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.68%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.68%) Xcode
10 4 (0.55%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 278 (38.08%) Social Skills
2 212 (29.04%) Public Sector
3 191 (26.16%) Finance
4 115 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (3.56%) Banking
7 25 (3.42%) Manufacturing
8 20 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (2.74%) Local Government
9 19 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.33%) Law
11 14 (1.92%) Legal
11 14 (1.92%) Marketing
11 14 (1.92%) Retail
12 13 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.96%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.96%) Military
14 7 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 116 (15.89%) Developer
2 109 (14.93%) Analyst
3 86 (11.78%) Senior
4 73 (10.00%) Lead
5 57 (7.81%) Architect
6 46 (6.30%) Consultant
7 31 (4.25%) Data Engineer
8 30 (4.11%) Senior Developer
9 29 (3.97%) Business Analyst
9 29 (3.97%) Data Analyst
10 28 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (3.15%) IT Engineer
11 23 (3.15%) Support Engineer
12 20 (2.74%) Software Developer
13 19 (2.60%) IT Support
13 19 (2.60%) Project Manager
14 18 (2.47%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 16 (2.19%) Coordinator
15 16 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.05%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.37%) Terraform
2 45 (6.16%) RESTful
3 29 (3.97%) .NET
3 29 (3.97%) React
4 25 (3.42%) HTML
5 24 (3.29%) CSS
5 24 (3.29%) GraphQL
6 23 (3.15%) Node.js
7 22 (3.01%) JSON
7 22 (3.01%) Kafka
8 20 (2.74%) REST
9 17 (2.33%) Django
10 16 (2.19%) PySpark
10 16 (2.19%) Spring
10 16 (2.19%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.78%) OAuth
12 12 (1.64%) OpenID
13 11 (1.51%) Gherkin
13 11 (1.51%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.32%) Onboarding
2 46 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.62%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.10%) Replication
11 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.96%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.96%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.82%) Blog
13 6 (0.82%) EPoS
14 5 (0.68%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.68%) Algorithms
14 5 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 76 (10.41%) Windows
2 21 (2.88%) Linux
3 19 (2.60%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.78%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Unix
8 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) AIX
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (33.70%) Agile
2 178 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
3 164 (22.47%) DevOps
4 153 (20.96%) CI/CD
5 144 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 129 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 117 (16.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 116 (15.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 106 (14.52%) AI
10 105 (14.38%) Decision-Making
11 104 (14.25%) Analytics
12 85 (11.64%) Migration
13 77 (10.55%) Test Automation
14 75 (10.27%) Mentoring
15 70 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
16 68 (9.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 67 (9.18%) Validation
18 64 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
19 63 (8.63%) Data Modelling
20 62 (8.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 112 (15.34%) Python
2 104 (14.25%) SQL
3 67 (9.18%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.58%) C#
5 42 (5.75%) Java
6 29 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.51%) Bash
9 11 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.51%) Scala
10 10 (1.37%) Go
10 10 (1.37%) Swift
11 8 (1.10%) Bicep
11 8 (1.10%) Ruby
12 6 (0.82%) Groovy
12 6 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.68%) PHP
14 4 (0.55%) C++
14 4 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 157 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 146 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.95%) Degree
4 31 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (3.84%) DBS Check
6 27 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 26 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.92%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.23%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.96%) CISSP
12 6 (0.82%) ACCA
12 6 (0.82%) CIMA
12 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.68%) CISM
13 5 (0.68%) PMP
14 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.25%) Accessibility
2 48 (6.58%) QA
3 46 (6.30%) WCAG
4 42 (5.75%) GDPR
5 41 (5.62%) Data Quality
6 22 (3.01%) SLA
7 17 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.78%) NCSC
9 10 (1.37%) PMO
10 8 (1.10%) NIST
11 6 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.82%) GRC
12 5 (0.68%) COBIT
13 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.27%) DICOM
14 2 (0.27%) GxP
14 2 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 61 (8.36%) Docker
2 46 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.11%) Grafana
3 25 (3.42%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.19%) Ansible
6 14 (1.92%) SCCM
7 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.68%) Consul
9 4 (0.55%) Kibana
9 4 (0.55%) Rancher
10 3 (0.41%) Packer
11 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 168 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.66%) Google
3 27 (3.70%) Databricks
4 25 (3.42%) Dynatrace
4 25 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.01%) SAP
6 17 (2.33%) Oracle
7 12 (1.64%) CyberArk
7 12 (1.64%) Sage
7 12 (1.64%) Splunk
8 10 (1.37%) Cisco
8 10 (1.37%) VMware
9 9 (1.23%) Apple
9 9 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.23%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.10%) Qualys
10 8 (1.10%) UiPath
11 7 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (0.96%) Signiant