Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 75 150
Rank change year-on-year +17 +75 +36
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 60 60 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.00% 2.23% 0.24%
As % of the General category 4.81% 4.02% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 54 6
10th Percentile £195 £373 £335
25th Percentile £408 £416 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +22.67%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £650
90th Percentile £647 £1,003 -
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.36 £13.31
Median hourly rate - £11.73 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year - -15.50% -
75th Percentile - £12.09 £14.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £18.20 £39.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -53.34% -22.00%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,247 1,491 1,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.32% 55.41% 55.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 802 1,035 1,297
10th Percentile £186 £208 £219
25th Percentile £325 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £545 £606 £598
90th Percentile £638 £725 £696
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 165 77
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.68 £13.91 £13.31
Median hourly rate £21.20 £17.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -20.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £30.08 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £44.48 £52.56 £51.50
England median hourly rate £27.45 £30.12 £32.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -5.88% +48.84%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands -9 41 £460 -20.00% 235
East Midlands +28 19 £450 -18.18% 117
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (6.67%) IBM Notes
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (13.33%) AWS
3 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
3 7 (11.67%) GCP
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) BGP
2 2 (3.33%) DHCP
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (3.33%) IPsec
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) OSPF
2 2 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.33%) SSL
2 2 (3.33%) TACACS
2 2 (3.33%) VLAN
2 2 (3.33%) VPN
2 2 (3.33%) Wireless
3 1 (1.67%) Intranet
3 1 (1.67%) NAS
3 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Database
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.33%) Chocolatey
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 24 (40.00%) Finance
2 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.33%) Automotive
5 5 (8.33%) Law
6 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Analyst
2 6 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
2 6 (10.00%) Developer
2 6 (10.00%) IT Support
3 5 (8.33%) Automation Developer
3 5 (8.33%) Consultant
3 5 (8.33%) Lead
3 5 (8.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 4 (6.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 4 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Data Entry Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) LDAP
2 2 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (8.33%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (8.33%) IoT
5 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Agile
2 13 (21.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.33%) Customer Service
5 10 (16.67%) Migration
6 7 (11.67%) ITIL
7 6 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 6 (10.00%) Coaching
7 6 (10.00%) DevOps
8 5 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 5 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (8.33%) Business Transformation
8 5 (8.33%) Change Management
8 5 (8.33%) Data Architecture
8 5 (8.33%) Energy Management
8 5 (8.33%) ITSM
8 5 (8.33%) Process Management
8 5 (8.33%) Robotic Process Automation
8 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) SQL
2 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.33%) C#
3 2 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (1.67%) Groovy
4 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
1 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
2 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) Firmware
4 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (6.67%) SCCM
1 4 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) Nagios
3 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.00%) Cisco
3 6 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 5 (8.33%) Blue Prism
4 5 (8.33%) SAP
5 4 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 4 (6.67%) Google
5 4 (6.67%) Lotus
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Arista
6 2 (3.33%) Juniper
6 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.33%) VMware
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) Veeam