Inclusion and Diversity Contract Job Trends

Inclusion and Diversity
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 153 162
Rank change year-on-year -89 +9 +49
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 490 535 646
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.07% 1.83% 1.47%
As % of the General category 1.92% 2.91% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 273 471
10th Percentile £173 £222 £380
25th Percentile £350 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £656 £681
90th Percentile £675 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £401 £475 £507
% change year-on-year -15.58% -6.27% -8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 22
10th Percentile £15.21 - £11.37
25th Percentile £16.84 - £12.56
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.14 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +0.68% -16.82%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £47.50
90th Percentile £98.25 £36.28 £58.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.84 £22.14 £21.64
% change year-on-year -23.94% +2.31% +55.96%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 25,537 18,398 25,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.82% 62.96% 58.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,887 11,782 16,206
10th Percentile £303 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,600 742 1,874
10th Percentile £13.71 £14.70 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £26.70
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +8.63% -23.73%
75th Percentile £59.00 £57.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.13 £25.28
% change year-on-year -7.83% +7.32% -17.82%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Inclusion and Diversity job vacancy trend in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 8 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 April 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
England -81 445 £450 -21.74% 780
Work from Home -21 232 £525 -9.33% 357
London -69 228 £550 -8.33% 340
UK excluding London -106 210 £401 -15.58% 663
Midlands -48 65 £533 +15.76% 78
South East -40 56 £375 -26.11% 265
West Midlands -57 41 £540 +2.86% 46
North of England -82 41 £400 -11.11% 143
East of England -17 27 £520 +71.90% 48
East Midlands -21 24 £155 -64.57% 32
North West -38 22 £375 -16.67% 65
South West -53 17 £537 +2.29% 70
Yorkshire -67 10 £275 -36.23% 58
North East -15 9 £425 -5.56% 21
Scotland -8 5 £250 -45.95% 46

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 18 (3.67%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.04%) Confluence
5 8 (1.63%) CMS
6 6 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.02%) WordPress
8 4 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.41%) Apache
9 2 (0.41%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.20%) Appian
10 1 (0.20%) Camunda
10 1 (0.20%) Drupal
10 1 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 25 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.82%) Trello
4 3 (0.61%) InVision
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.61%) Sketch
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Captivate
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.41%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.20%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (23.27%) Azure
2 78 (15.92%) AWS
3 34 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 22 (4.49%) GitHub
5 19 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (3.88%) GCP
5 19 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (3.67%) dbt
7 16 (3.27%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.27%) SaaS
8 14 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.45%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.04%) Google Workspace
11 9 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.63%) Figma
13 6 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.22%) Serverless
14 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.67%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.06%) Ethernet
3 12 (2.45%) Firewall
4 9 (1.84%) Network Security
5 7 (1.43%) VLAN
5 7 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.22%) DHCP
6 6 (1.22%) DNS
6 6 (1.22%) WAN
7 5 (1.02%) HTTP
7 5 (1.02%) VSAN
8 4 (0.82%) LAN
8 4 (0.82%) VPN
9 3 (0.61%) AMQP
10 2 (0.41%) Intranet
10 2 (0.41%) MPLS
11 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.20%) SAN
11 1 (0.20%) VoIP
11 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.92%) Power BI
2 27 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.04%) Big Data
5 10 (2.04%) Hadoop
6 8 (1.63%) DB2
6 8 (1.63%) Metadata
6 8 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.43%) Tableau
8 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.82%) Looker
9 4 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
10 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (4.49%) Git
2 18 (3.67%) JIRA
3 9 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.22%) GitLab
4 6 (1.22%) JMeter
5 5 (1.02%) Gatling
5 5 (1.02%) LoadRunner
5 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.61%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.61%) Maven
7 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.41%) fastlane
7 2 (0.41%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) Snyk
7 2 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.20%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) TestNG
General
1 162 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.24%) Finance
3 76 (15.51%) Public Sector
4 58 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.08%) Banking
6 17 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.65%) Local Government
8 12 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
9 10 (2.04%) Marketing
10 9 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.84%) Legal
10 9 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.84%) Retail
11 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.02%) Military
13 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.82%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.82%) Publishing
14 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (15.71%) Analyst
2 38 (7.76%) Data Engineer
3 35 (7.14%) Lead
3 35 (7.14%) Senior
4 34 (6.94%) Architect
5 30 (6.12%) Support Engineer
6 28 (5.71%) Developer
7 25 (5.10%) Consultant
8 22 (4.49%) Data Analyst
9 21 (4.29%) IT Engineer
10 18 (3.67%) IT Support
11 17 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.06%) IT Analyst
12 15 (3.06%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.06%) Service Analyst
12 15 (3.06%) Technical Engineer
13 14 (2.86%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.47%) EDI
2 12 (2.45%) Middleware
3 11 (2.24%) YAML
4 9 (1.84%) HTML
4 9 (1.84%) PySpark
5 8 (1.63%) React
6 6 (1.22%) .NET
6 6 (1.22%) AngularJS
6 6 (1.22%) REST
7 5 (1.02%) RESTful
8 4 (0.82%) CSS
9 3 (0.61%) Akka
9 3 (0.61%) JSON
9 3 (0.61%) SAP Basis
9 3 (0.61%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.61%) Spring
9 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.61%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.61%) Web Services
9 3 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.69%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.06%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (3.06%) Robotics
5 10 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.63%) Replication
7 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.22%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.82%) Learning Management System
10 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (7.96%) Windows
2 18 (3.67%) Windows 10
3 11 (2.24%) Linux
3 11 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.22%) AIX
4 6 (1.22%) Unix
5 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (15.10%) Agile
3 70 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 70 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 64 (13.06%) DevOps
5 60 (12.24%) Analytics
6 50 (10.20%) Migration
6 50 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (7.55%) Data Modelling
10 34 (6.94%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (6.73%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (6.73%) Customer Service
12 31 (6.33%) AI
12 31 (6.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 29 (5.92%) Roadmaps
14 27 (5.51%) Data Engineering
14 27 (5.51%) Data Governance
15 26 (5.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 77 (15.71%) SQL
2 63 (12.86%) Python
3 19 (3.88%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.06%) Java
5 14 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.04%) Bash
6 10 (2.04%) R
7 7 (1.43%) C#
8 6 (1.22%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.22%) VBA
9 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.82%) Scala
11 3 (0.61%) Go
12 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.41%) AWK
12 2 (0.41%) COBOL
12 2 (0.41%) Groovy
12 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.41%) Ruby
12 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 45 (9.18%) Degree
4 18 (3.67%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.82%) CISSP
9 4 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.61%) SANS
11 2 (0.41%) CCNA
11 2 (0.41%) CIMA
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.31%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.47%) QA
4 11 (2.24%) GDPR
5 8 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.02%) PMO
6 5 (1.02%) SLA
6 5 (1.02%) WCAG
7 4 (0.82%) GRC
7 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.41%) NIST
8 2 (0.41%) PSD2
8 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.06%) Docker
3 12 (2.45%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.22%) KVM
5 6 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.02%) vSphere
7 2 (0.41%) Firmware
7 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (7.96%) Terraform
2 20 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.06%) Grafana
4 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.84%) Ansible
6 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.22%) IBM BigFix
7 6 (1.22%) Kibana
7 6 (1.22%) SCCM
7 6 (1.22%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.61%) Argo
9 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.20%) vRealize
11 1 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 81 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.71%) Databricks
3 22 (4.49%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.88%) Oracle
4 19 (3.88%) SAP
5 18 (3.67%) Google
6 15 (3.06%) Siemens
7 14 (2.86%) VMware
8 13 (2.65%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.84%) Adobe
9 9 (1.84%) Cisco
10 7 (1.43%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.43%) IBM
11 5 (1.02%) Meraki
12 4 (0.82%) Dell
12 4 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.82%) Talend
13 3 (0.61%) Citrix
13 3 (0.61%) Commvault