Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 199 364
Rank change year-on-year +76 +165 +90
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 263 213 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.06% 1.03% 0.35%
As % of the General category 3.30% 1.88% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 111 51
10th Percentile £185 £256 £311
25th Percentile £400 £403 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £517
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -1.84% +8.84%
75th Percentile £566 £653 £650
90th Percentile £643 £775 £739
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.83% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 3
10th Percentile - £8.00 -
25th Percentile - £11.45 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £19.62 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year +12.84% +41.41% -72.25%
75th Percentile - £34.21 £44.22
90th Percentile - £58.70 £62.09
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £21.99 £39.00
% change year-on-year +0.68% -43.62% -22.00%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,965 11,346 13,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.27% 54.67% 56.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,921 6,475 9,256
10th Percentile £213 £205 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 1,658 785
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £24.66 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% -8.32% +65.08%
75th Percentile £55.25 £52.78 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.25 £69.30
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +72 77 £450 -8.86% 565
South East +43 53 £508 -6.88% 587
Midlands +8 49 £455 -20.87% 346
Yorkshire +45 43 £400 +23.08% 168
South West +65 37 £525 -19.23% 249
West Midlands -9 32 £460 -23.33% 205
North West +30 30 £450 -16.28% 334
Scotland 0 21 £463 +19.35% 206
East of England +36 17 £303 -55.19% 217
East Midlands +28 17 £438 -20.45% 121
Northern Ireland -4 7 £410 - 55
North East -5 4 £475 - 68
Wales -5 2 £431 -14.74% 56
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (6.84%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.18%) Confluence
3 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.14%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.76%) Apache
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 41 (15.59%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (5.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.66%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (9.51%) Azure
3 24 (9.13%) Entra ID
4 14 (5.32%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.18%) AWS
6 5 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.90%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.14%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (1.14%) GCP
7 3 (1.14%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.14%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.76%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.38%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.38%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.38%) Slack
9 1 (0.38%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.94%) Firewall
2 12 (4.56%) Intranet
3 10 (3.80%) VLAN
4 8 (3.04%) WAN
5 7 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.28%) Network Security
6 6 (2.28%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.90%) LAN
8 4 (1.52%) 4G
8 4 (1.52%) MPLS
9 3 (1.14%) 2G
9 3 (1.14%) 3G
9 3 (1.14%) 5G
9 3 (1.14%) BGP
9 3 (1.14%) Ethernet
9 3 (1.14%) OSPF
9 3 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.14%) VPN
10 2 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.76%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.18%) Power BI
2 10 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.28%) Oracle Database
4 5 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.14%) Flink
6 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.76%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.76%) Big Data
7 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.76%) HBase
7 2 (0.76%) Impala
7 2 (0.76%) Metadata
7 2 (0.76%) Power Query
7 2 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.38%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.38%) GIS
8 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.18%) JIRA
2 4 (1.52%) JUnit
3 3 (1.14%) Git
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.76%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.76%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.76%) GitLab
4 2 (0.76%) GoogleTest
4 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.76%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.38%) Jasmine
General
1 124 (47.15%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.73%) Finance
3 43 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.84%) Retail
5 16 (6.08%) Law
6 14 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.56%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.18%) Local Government
8 11 (4.18%) Public Speaking
8 11 (4.18%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.28%) Legal
9 6 (2.28%) Police
10 5 (1.90%) Automotive
11 4 (1.52%) Banking
12 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.76%) Marketing
13 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.38%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 39 (14.83%) Analyst
2 31 (11.79%) IT Support
3 26 (9.89%) Developer
4 18 (6.84%) Senior
5 16 (6.08%) Lead
6 14 (5.32%) 1st Line Support
7 13 (4.94%) Support Manager
8 12 (4.56%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.18%) Communications Officer
9 11 (4.18%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.80%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.80%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.42%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.42%) Service Analyst
11 9 (3.42%) Service Manager
12 8 (3.04%) 1st Line Support Manager
12 8 (3.04%) IT Support Manager
12 8 (3.04%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.66%) Designer
13 7 (2.66%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.66%) Akka
1 7 (2.66%) CSS
2 5 (1.90%) AngularJS
2 5 (1.90%) EDI
2 5 (1.90%) Kafka
2 5 (1.90%) Play Framework
3 4 (1.52%) HTML
3 4 (1.52%) LDAP
3 4 (1.52%) React
3 4 (1.52%) RESTful
3 4 (1.52%) Spring
4 3 (1.14%) .NET
4 3 (1.14%) jQuery
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.76%) JSON
5 2 (0.76%) OLE
6 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.38%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.08%) Management Information System
2 13 (4.94%) iPhone
2 13 (4.94%) Smartphone
3 10 (3.80%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.42%) Driving Licence
4 9 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.90%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (1.90%) IoT
7 5 (1.90%) Photography
7 5 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.52%) Molecular Biology
8 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.14%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.14%) Equities
9 3 (1.14%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.55%) Windows
2 18 (6.84%) Linux
3 14 (5.32%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.52%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.14%) Unix
8 2 (0.76%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.38%) Android
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (19.01%) Agile
3 43 (16.35%) ITIL
4 42 (15.97%) Service Management
5 32 (12.17%) Customer Service
6 26 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (9.89%) Mentoring
7 25 (9.51%) ITSM
8 22 (8.37%) Migration
9 21 (7.98%) CI/CD
10 20 (7.60%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (6.84%) Visualisation
13 17 (6.46%) Decision-Making
13 17 (6.46%) Incident Management
13 17 (6.46%) Problem Management
13 17 (6.46%) Risk Management
14 16 (6.08%) Project Management
15 15 (5.70%) Microservices
16 13 (4.94%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.46%) SQL
2 10 (3.80%) Java
3 9 (3.42%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.04%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.66%) Python
5 7 (2.66%) Scala
6 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.14%) C#
8 2 (0.76%) C++
8 2 (0.76%) Groovy
8 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.38%) Bash
9 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.38%) VB
9 1 (0.38%) VBA
9 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.93%) Degree
3 32 (12.17%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.56%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.90%) Postgraduate
7 4 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.14%) CISSP
9 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.76%) ACCA
9 2 (0.76%) CCNP
9 2 (0.76%) CIMA
9 2 (0.76%) CISM
9 2 (0.76%) CRISC
9 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.38%) APMP
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.70%) SLA
2 11 (4.18%) QA
3 10 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.28%) PMO
5 5 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.90%) NIST
6 4 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 33 (12.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.66%) Docker
3 3 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.76%) HDFS
5 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 16 (6.08%) Jamf Pro
2 9 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.04%) SCCM
4 7 (2.66%) Kibana
4 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.14%) Ansible
6 3 (1.14%) Grafana
7 2 (0.76%) Terraform
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 51 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.41%) ServiceNow
3 13 (4.94%) Apple
4 9 (3.42%) Google
4 9 (3.42%) Oracle
5 8 (3.04%) VMware
6 6 (2.28%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.28%) Cisco
7 5 (1.90%) SAP
8 4 (1.52%) BT
8 4 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.14%) IFS
9 3 (1.14%) Lotus
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
10 2 (0.76%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.76%) BMC
10 2 (0.76%) Intel
10 2 (0.76%) SolarWinds