Inclusion and Diversity Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Inclusion and Diversity
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.78% - -
As % of the General category 4.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -15.59% -13.42% +18.18%

All General Skills
Somerset

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 in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 159 78 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 40.36% 47.27% 53.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 59 63
10th Percentile £319 £325 £201
25th Percentile £406 £459 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £620 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +24.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £593
90th Percentile £677 £723 £613
South West median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 2 28
10th Percentile £14.43 - £12.50
25th Percentile £21.06 - £22.63
Median hourly rate £50.00 £14.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +246.74% -42.32% -37.50%
75th Percentile £63.38 - £40.00
90th Percentile £63.75 - £42.40
South West median hourly rate £35.71 £27.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year +29.76% -38.84% -20.93%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in Somerset

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in Somerset over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in Somerset

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Taunton - 7 £475 - 4
Inclusion and Diversity
South West

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) MSI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) GeoJSON
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Core
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 3 (42.86%) ATL
2 3 (42.86%) COM
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) CSS3
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) HTML5
2 3 (42.86%) MFC
2 3 (42.86%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) WPF
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
2 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 5 (71.43%) API Design
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) DevSecOps
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Dependency Management
4 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 3 (42.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) SOLID
4 3 (42.86%) Static Application Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Bicep
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) NCSC
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) WCAG
3 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft