Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the North of England

Inclusion and Diversity
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in the North of 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 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 89 154 209
Rank change year-on-year +65 +55 +26
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 79 31 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.38% 0.67% 0.16%
As % of the General category 4.03% 1.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 8
10th Percentile £183 £299 £312
25th Percentile £400 £450 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £484
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -0.72% -20.08%
75th Percentile £488 £581 £575
90th Percentile £548 £641 £628
England median daily rate £538 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.14 £34.21 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.28% - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £18.20 £39.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -53.34% -22.00%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,962 2,546 3,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.20% 54.93% 55.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 1,495 2,144
10th Percentile £239 £270 £300
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £600
90th Percentile £652 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 310 94
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.11 £14.08
25th Percentile £16.19 £13.30 £16.85
Median hourly rate £24.67 £16.06 £24.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.63% -33.29% +25.90%
75th Percentile £45.66 £33.91 £35.02
90th Percentile £72.75 £48.75 £53.24
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the North of England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the North of England

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the North of England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the North of England

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +47 46 £400 -16.67% 178
North West +31 31 £438 -18.60% 285
North East -10 2 £550 - 75
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (15.19%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 32 (40.51%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (17.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.27%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (24.05%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.53%) Azure
5 1 (1.27%) AWS
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.27%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.92%) Intranet
2 4 (5.06%) WAN
3 3 (3.80%) Firewall
3 3 (3.80%) LAN
4 2 (2.53%) BGP
4 2 (2.53%) DHCP
4 2 (2.53%) DNS
4 2 (2.53%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.53%) OSPF
4 2 (2.53%) Skype
4 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.27%) HSRP
5 1 (1.27%) IPsec
5 1 (1.27%) IPv4
5 1 (1.27%) MPLS
5 1 (1.27%) PSTN
5 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.27%) SMTP
5 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.27%) JIRA
1 1 (1.27%) ScriptRunner
General
1 52 (65.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.32%) Retail
3 11 (13.92%) Local Government
3 11 (13.92%) Public Speaking
4 6 (7.59%) Police
5 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Law
7 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Banking
7 2 (2.53%) Finance
7 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.78%) Support Manager
2 15 (18.99%) IT Support
3 14 (17.72%) Analyst
4 12 (15.19%) 1st Line Support
4 12 (15.19%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 12 (15.19%) IT Manager
4 12 (15.19%) IT Support Manager
5 11 (13.92%) Communications Officer
6 9 (11.39%) Support Analyst
7 7 (8.86%) Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Scala Developer
8 6 (7.59%) Support Assistant
9 3 (3.80%) Deployment Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) IT Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) IT Support Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.53%) Network Analyst
10 2 (2.53%) Network Project Manager
10 2 (2.53%) Release Manager
10 2 (2.53%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Akka
2 5 (6.33%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) iPhone
1 18 (22.78%) Smartphone
2 5 (6.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (3.80%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.27%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.27%) Handset
4 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.78%) Mac OS
2 5 (6.33%) Linux
3 4 (5.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (1.27%) VMS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.27%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Service Management
2 23 (29.11%) ITIL
3 21 (26.58%) Customer Service
3 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (25.32%) ITSM
5 19 (24.05%) Incident Management
6 18 (22.78%) Mobile Device Management
7 15 (18.99%) Agile
8 11 (13.92%) Business Continuity
8 11 (13.92%) Business Development
8 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
9 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
10 7 (8.86%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (8.86%) Performance Measurement
10 7 (8.86%) Visualisation
11 6 (7.59%) CI/CD
11 6 (7.59%) Code Quality
11 6 (7.59%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (7.59%) Information Security
11 6 (7.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.59%) Scala
2 1 (1.27%) Groovy
2 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.27%) SQL
2 1 (1.27%) VB
2 1 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Degree
2 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
2 9 (11.39%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.27%) CCNP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.27%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.86%) SLA
3 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.78%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (7.59%) Kibana
3 2 (2.53%) SCCM
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 20 (25.32%) ServiceNow
3 18 (22.78%) Apple
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
5 3 (3.80%) Veeam
6 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.27%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.27%) BMC
6 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.27%) Clearswift
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Huawei
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.27%) Remedy
6 1 (1.27%) Ribbon
6 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds