Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 74 142 163
Rank change year-on-year +68 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 37 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.21% 0.47% 0.11%
As % of the General category 3.85% 0.91% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile £478 £400 £524
25th Percentile £488 £400 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £644
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +0.93% +3.87%
75th Percentile £601 £700 £741
90th Percentile - - £745
England median daily rate £550 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £7.85 -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £18.80 £39.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% -51.81% -22.00%

All General Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 961 1,651 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.27% 51.61% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 989 1,321
10th Percentile £218 £213 £275
25th Percentile £399 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £678 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 269 128
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £87.58
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the South West

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +49 24 £601 -14.21% 38
Dorset +4 6 £525 +31.25% 43
Devon - 4 - - 52
Somerset - 1 - - 42
Bristol - 1 - - 91
Cornwall - 1 £525 - 2
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
2 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) NAS
1 1 (2.70%) Network Security
1 1 (2.70%) SAN
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.70%) VLAN
1 1 (2.70%) VoIP
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
1 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 16 (43.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Availability Manager
1 6 (16.22%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 6 (16.22%) Capacity Manager
1 6 (16.22%) Service Manager
2 3 (8.11%) Analyst
2 3 (8.11%) IT Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) IT Support
2 3 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (8.11%) Risk Manager
2 3 (8.11%) Senior
2 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Architect
3 2 (5.41%) Coordinator
3 2 (5.41%) Developer
3 2 (5.41%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Programme Manager
3 2 (5.41%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
3 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow Developer
3 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
1 3 (8.11%) CSS
1 3 (8.11%) HTML
1 3 (8.11%) jQuery
1 3 (8.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Service Management
2 15 (40.54%) ITIL
3 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (29.73%) Problem Management
4 11 (29.73%) Quality Management
4 11 (29.73%) Statistics
5 6 (16.22%) Availability Management
5 6 (16.22%) Capacity Management
5 6 (16.22%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (16.22%) Data Analysis
5 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.22%) Performance Improvement
5 6 (16.22%) Planning and Forecasting
5 6 (16.22%) Service Catalogue
5 6 (16.22%) Time Management
6 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
6 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) SC Cleared
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 2 (5.41%) CRISC
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) VMware