Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in England

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 157 185
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 +307
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 497 571 719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.04% 1.54% 1.43%
As % of the General category 3.19% 2.63% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 423 475
10th Percentile £185 £425 £454
25th Percentile £400 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +6.43%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 5
10th Percentile - £10.40 -
25th Percentile - £11.86 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £18.80 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.80% -51.81% -22.00%
75th Percentile - £41.48 £51.00
90th Percentile £36.28 £58.70 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £21.99 £39.00
% change year-on-year +0.68% -43.62% -22.00%

All General Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -35 263 £600 -2.04% 1,608
North of England +68 77 £450 -8.86% 422
South East +43 53 £508 -6.88% 467
Midlands +10 49 £455 -20.87% 251
Yorkshire +46 43 £400 +23.08% 127
South West +68 37 £525 -19.23% 186
West Midlands -10 32 £460 -23.33% 146
North West +33 30 £450 -16.28% 248
East of England +37 17 £303 -55.19% 146
East Midlands +24 17 £438 -20.45% 90
North East -3 4 £475 - 52
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.82%) Confluence
3 11 (2.21%) CMS
4 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.21%) Drupal
6 3 (0.60%) IBM Notes
6 3 (0.60%) IIS
6 3 (0.60%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 50 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.60%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.20%) Revit
7 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.81%) NEC Housing
2 6 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.40%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.40%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 61 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (12.07%) Azure
3 43 (8.65%) Entra ID
4 36 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 25 (5.03%) AWS
6 12 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (1.81%) Power Automate
7 9 (1.81%) Snowflake
8 8 (1.61%) Google Workspace
8 8 (1.61%) SaaS
9 7 (1.41%) dbt
9 7 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (1.41%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.21%) GCP
11 5 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.80%) Asana
12 4 (0.80%) GitHub
12 4 (0.80%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.80%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.23%) Firewall
2 15 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (2.62%) Intranet
4 11 (2.21%) VLAN
5 10 (2.01%) DNS
5 10 (2.01%) Network Security
5 10 (2.01%) WAN
6 9 (1.81%) DHCP
7 8 (1.61%) LAN
8 7 (1.41%) BGP
9 6 (1.21%) OSPF
9 6 (1.21%) Radio Access Network
9 6 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.21%) VPN
10 4 (0.80%) MPLS
10 4 (0.80%) Wireless
11 3 (0.60%) 2G
11 3 (0.60%) 3G
11 3 (0.60%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.84%) Power BI
2 12 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.61%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.41%) Tableau
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.60%) Metadata
6 3 (0.60%) MySQL
6 3 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.60%) Power Query
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.40%) Big Data
7 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (4.23%) JIRA
2 10 (2.01%) Git
3 7 (1.41%) Selenium
4 5 (1.01%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.01%) GitLab
4 5 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.80%) HP UFT
5 4 (0.80%) TestComplete
6 3 (0.60%) Jasmine
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.40%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.40%) GoogleTest
7 2 (0.40%) JUnit
7 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 172 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 110 (22.13%) Finance
3 76 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.43%) Retail
6 16 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.82%) Law
8 13 (2.62%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.41%) Local Government
10 11 (2.21%) Banking
10 11 (2.21%) Public Speaking
11 10 (2.01%) Marketing
12 9 (1.81%) Legal
13 8 (1.61%) Police
14 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.01%) Automotive
17 4 (0.80%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (17.10%) Analyst
2 48 (9.66%) IT Support
3 35 (7.04%) Developer
4 33 (6.64%) Senior
5 32 (6.44%) Consultant
6 30 (6.04%) Architect
6 30 (6.04%) Business Analyst
7 29 (5.84%) Lead
8 22 (4.43%) IT Engineer
8 22 (4.43%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.22%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (2.82%) 1st Line Support
10 14 (2.82%) IT Manager
10 14 (2.82%) Project Manager
11 13 (2.62%) Communications Officer
11 13 (2.62%) Enterprise Architect
11 13 (2.62%) Service Analyst
11 13 (2.62%) Support Manager
12 12 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.21%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.21%) EDI
2 10 (2.01%) .NET
3 7 (1.41%) Akka
3 7 (1.41%) CSS
3 7 (1.41%) HTML
3 7 (1.41%) RESTful
4 5 (1.01%) jQuery
4 5 (1.01%) Play Framework
5 4 (0.80%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.80%) LDAP
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.80%) Playwright
5 4 (0.80%) React
6 3 (0.60%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.60%) Kafka
7 2 (0.40%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.40%) Node.js
7 2 (0.40%) OLE
7 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.62%) Management Information System
2 15 (3.02%) Onboarding
2 15 (3.02%) Smartphone
3 13 (2.62%) iPhone
4 12 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 12 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.21%) Driving Licence
5 11 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.21%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.21%) IoT
6 6 (1.21%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.01%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.01%) Photography
7 5 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (0.80%) Molecular Biology
8 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.80%) Social Media
9 3 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (11.27%) Windows
2 21 (4.23%) Mac OS
3 19 (3.82%) Linux
4 9 (1.81%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.01%) Android
5 5 (1.01%) Windows 7
6 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.60%) Unix
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (18.11%) Agile
3 50 (10.06%) ITIL
4 46 (9.26%) Service Management
5 43 (8.65%) Migration
6 41 (8.25%) Decision-Making
7 40 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (7.24%) Customer Service
9 34 (6.84%) ITSM
10 32 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (6.24%) CI/CD
12 30 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (6.04%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (5.63%) Mentoring
13 28 (5.63%) User Experience
14 27 (5.43%) Analytics
14 27 (5.43%) Incident Management
14 27 (5.43%) Roadmaps
15 26 (5.23%) Project Management
16 25 (5.03%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.05%) SQL
2 29 (5.84%) Python
3 17 (3.42%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.02%) PowerShell
5 12 (2.41%) C#
6 9 (1.81%) Scala
7 7 (1.41%) Java
8 3 (0.60%) Bash
8 3 (0.60%) R
8 3 (0.60%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.40%) ABAP
9 2 (0.40%) C++
9 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.40%) Go
9 2 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) VB
10 1 (0.20%) VBA
10 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 64 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.25%) Degree
4 12 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.01%) Postgraduate
7 4 (0.80%) CCNP
7 4 (0.80%) CISSP
8 3 (0.60%) ACCA
8 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.60%) CCIE
8 3 (0.60%) CIMA
9 2 (0.40%) CISM
9 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.40%) PMP
9 2 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.82%) SLA
2 18 (3.62%) Accessibility
2 18 (3.62%) QA
3 12 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.41%) GDPR
4 7 (1.41%) PMO
5 6 (1.21%) NIST
6 5 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.20%) COBIT
9 1 (0.20%) COSO
9 1 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
9 1 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) P3O
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.21%) Docker
4 3 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 20 (4.02%) Jamf Pro
2 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (2.62%) SCCM
3 9 (1.81%) Ansible
4 7 (1.41%) Kibana
4 7 (1.41%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.21%) Terraform
6 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.60%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.20%) Consul
8 1 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
8 1 (0.20%) linkerd
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
8 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.20%) QRadar
8 1 (0.20%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) WSUS
8 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 87 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.44%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.82%) Apple
4 17 (3.42%) Google
5 14 (2.82%) Cisco
5 14 (2.82%) Oracle
5 14 (2.82%) SAP
6 12 (2.41%) VMware
7 10 (2.01%) NEC
8 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.01%) Murex
9 5 (1.01%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.80%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.80%) Databricks
10 4 (0.80%) Reuters
10 4 (0.80%) Sage
11 3 (0.60%) BMC
11 3 (0.60%) Remedy