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 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 151 154
Rank change year-on-year -66 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 662 622 635
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.25% 1.90% 1.58%
As % of the General category 2.28% 3.02% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 239 433
10th Percentile £306 £181 £419
25th Percentile £375 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £688
90th Percentile £675 £661 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £501
% change year-on-year - -10.22% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 19 10
10th Percentile £18.40 £17.48 £10.88
25th Percentile £19.00 - £18.45
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £28.28
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -21.70% -47.76%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £37.50 £49.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.75 £22.14 £14.66
% change year-on-year +327.96% +51.00% -79.31%

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 29,045 20,618 23,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.94% 62.96% 57.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,309 12,899 14,508
10th Percentile £313 £280 £287
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £493
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.67% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,070 1,093 1,536
10th Percentile £14.09 £13.35 £13.66
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.25 £16.30
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.32 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year +30.33% -30.31% +18.97%
75th Percentile £61.18 £51.18 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £22.14 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.18% -40.96% +38.89%

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 28 July 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 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 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 28 July 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 -69 578 £475 -5.71% 1,208
London -62 300 £525 -4.55% 670
UK excluding London -70 298 £450 - 753
Work from Home -41 252 £525 +1.20% 529
Midlands -25 93 £525 +20.00% 94
South East -53 74 £450 -11.33% 216
West Midlands -22 72 £525 +26.51% 50
North of England -84 63 £425 +7.59% 163
North East - 34 £425 - 35
East Midlands -14 21 £165 -63.33% 44
Scotland -27 21 £250 -45.95% 71
South West -40 21 £475 -20.83% 110
East of England -18 20 £473 +45.38% 47
North West -52 16 £518 +29.38% 87
Yorkshire -79 13 £304 +51.88% 41
Wales -13 5 £425 -1.30% 18
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 44

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 28 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.27%) Confluence
3 12 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.66%) CMS
4 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.21%) WordPress
6 6 (0.91%) Apache
7 4 (0.60%) Kentico
8 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.45%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.45%) Trello
6 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) InVision
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.76%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 185 (27.95%) Azure
2 111 (16.77%) AWS
3 65 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (8.01%) Power Platform
5 44 (6.65%) GCP
6 30 (4.53%) GitHub
7 27 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.78%) Entra ID
9 24 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (3.63%) Serverless
10 21 (3.17%) Power Automate
10 21 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 19 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (2.57%) dbt
13 14 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.11%) SaaS
14 13 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.87%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.27%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.81%) Network Security
4 11 (1.66%) DNS
4 11 (1.66%) Firewall
4 11 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.36%) VPN
6 8 (1.21%) DHCP
6 8 (1.21%) VLAN
7 7 (1.06%) WAN
8 6 (0.91%) HTTP
8 6 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.76%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.60%) BGP
10 4 (0.60%) OSPF
10 4 (0.60%) Wireless
11 3 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.45%) LAN
11 3 (0.45%) MPLS
11 3 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.34%) Power BI
2 29 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (3.47%) SQL Server
4 22 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.96%) Big Data
6 11 (1.66%) Metadata
7 9 (1.36%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.21%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (1.06%) Db2
9 7 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.06%) Looker
9 7 (1.06%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.06%) Power Query
9 7 (1.06%) Redis
9 7 (1.06%) Tableau
10 6 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (5.59%) JIRA
2 28 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 24 (3.63%) Git
4 22 (3.32%) GitLab
5 10 (1.51%) fastlane
5 10 (1.51%) Selenium
6 9 (1.36%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.36%) Postman
7 8 (1.21%) WebDriver
8 7 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.91%) JMeter
9 6 (0.91%) Vite
10 5 (0.76%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.76%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.76%) Gradle
10 5 (0.76%) JUnit
10 5 (0.76%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.76%) Mockito
10 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.76%) Xcode
General
1 243 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 171 (25.83%) Finance
3 163 (24.62%) Public Sector
4 89 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.47%) Banking
7 20 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.57%) Law
9 16 (2.42%) Legal
9 16 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.96%) Marketing
12 10 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.51%) Retail
13 8 (1.21%) Local Government
13 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.76%) Billing
14 5 (0.76%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (13.44%) Analyst
2 85 (12.84%) Developer
3 75 (11.33%) Lead
4 68 (10.27%) Senior
5 46 (6.95%) Architect
6 41 (6.19%) Consultant
7 33 (4.98%) Data Engineer
8 26 (3.93%) Data Analyst
9 25 (3.78%) Business Analyst
10 24 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.17%) Senior Developer
12 20 (3.02%) IT Engineer
12 20 (3.02%) Support Engineer
13 19 (2.87%) IT Support
14 18 (2.72%) Coordinator
15 16 (2.42%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
16 15 (2.27%) Technical Engineer
17 14 (2.11%) Administrator
17 14 (2.11%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.68%) RESTful
2 25 (3.78%) React
3 23 (3.47%) .NET
3 23 (3.47%) GraphQL
4 18 (2.72%) HTML
5 17 (2.57%) CSS
5 17 (2.57%) PySpark
6 16 (2.42%) Kafka
6 16 (2.42%) Node.js
6 16 (2.42%) REST
7 14 (2.11%) JSON
8 12 (1.81%) Spring
8 12 (1.81%) Spring Boot
9 10 (1.51%) Django
9 10 (1.51%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.06%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.06%) HTML5
10 7 (1.06%) Next.js
10 7 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.91%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.61%) Onboarding
2 38 (5.74%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.57%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.27%) Industry 4.0
7 15 (2.27%) Robotics
8 10 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.21%) EPoS
10 8 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.91%) Replication
13 5 (0.76%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.52%) Windows
2 18 (2.72%) Linux
3 17 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.81%) Android
5 12 (1.81%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.21%) Unix
7 5 (0.76%) AIX
7 5 (0.76%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.30%) VMS
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (29.76%) Agile
2 171 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
3 133 (20.09%) DevOps
4 127 (19.18%) CI/CD
5 119 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 112 (16.92%) Decision-Making
7 100 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (14.20%) Analytics
8 94 (14.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 84 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 80 (12.08%) Migration
11 79 (11.93%) AI
12 67 (10.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (9.37%) Test Automation
14 60 (9.06%) Mentoring
15 59 (8.91%) Validation
16 52 (7.85%) Data Modelling
16 52 (7.85%) Roadmaps
17 51 (7.70%) Business Intelligence
18 49 (7.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.47%) Python
2 89 (13.44%) SQL
3 48 (7.25%) JavaScript
4 41 (6.19%) Java
5 32 (4.83%) C#
6 25 (3.78%) TypeScript
7 17 (2.57%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.11%) Bash
9 13 (1.96%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.51%) Swift
11 9 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.36%) Go
12 8 (1.21%) Bicep
12 8 (1.21%) R
13 7 (1.06%) Ruby
14 5 (0.76%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.76%) VBA
15 4 (0.60%) Groovy
15 4 (0.60%) Scala
15 4 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 104 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.91%) Degree
4 26 (3.93%) DBS Check
5 21 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.76%) PMP
12 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.45%) ACCA
13 3 (0.45%) CIMA
13 3 (0.45%) CIPD
13 3 (0.45%) CISM
13 3 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.78%) Accessibility
2 36 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 32 (4.83%) QA
3 32 (4.83%) WCAG
4 27 (4.08%) GDPR
5 17 (2.57%) SLA
6 13 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.51%) PMO
8 9 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (1.36%) NCSC
9 6 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.76%) COBIT
10 5 (0.76%) GRC
11 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.45%) NIST
12 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
13 1 (0.15%) GxP
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 51 (7.70%) Docker
2 44 (6.65%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.76%) KVM
7 4 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.30%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.30%) Firmware
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (11.03%) Terraform
2 53 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.32%) Grafana
4 20 (3.02%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.27%) Ansible
6 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.51%) SCCM
8 7 (1.06%) Kibana
9 5 (0.76%) IBM BigFix
9 5 (0.76%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.60%) Consul
10 4 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.45%) Rancher
12 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.30%) Packer
12 2 (0.30%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 137 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.68%) Google
3 28 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.63%) Databricks
5 23 (3.47%) SAP
5 23 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 21 (3.17%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.27%) Siemens
8 12 (1.81%) Sage
9 11 (1.66%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.66%) Oracle
10 9 (1.36%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.06%) Apple
11 7 (1.06%) Aspera
11 7 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (1.06%) Qualys
11 7 (1.06%) Signiant
11 7 (1.06%) VMware
12 6 (0.91%) Cisco
12 6 (0.91%) IBM