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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 140 152
Rank change year-on-year -67 +12 +28
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 704 645 605
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.96% 1.55%
As % of the General category 2.40% 3.09% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 259 416
10th Percentile £306 £173 £425
25th Percentile £373 £369 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -20.83% -
75th Percentile £581 £625 £678
90th Percentile £675 £661 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 7
10th Percentile £14.85 £17.48 £19.64
25th Percentile £16.73 - £27.61
Median hourly rate £19.65 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% -50.80% -16.86%
75th Percentile £29.41 £22.23 £48.13
90th Percentile £75.40 £60.00 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £22.14 £25.91
% change year-on-year +100.99% -14.53% -63.45%

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 29,391 20,891 22,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.05% 63.47% 57.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,419 13,009 14,041
10th Percentile £313 £276 £290
25th Percentile £414 £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 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 1,139 1,376
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.25 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.24 £16.30 £17.08
Median hourly rate £31.53 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +25.36% -34.02% +38.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £58.12
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +45.61% -41.45% +52.48%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -70 619 £475 -5.00% 4,185
UK excluding London -53 327 £425 -2.86% 2,428
London -54 313 £510 -7.27% 2,502
Work from Home -39 265 £525 -1.87% 2,077
Midlands -17 102 £509 +16.23% 324
South East -43 84 £450 -11.33% 414
West Midlands -21 78 £525 +23.53% 235
North of England -67 73 £425 +7.59% 592
North East -3 42 £425 +6.25% 94
East Midlands -20 24 £165 -63.33% 89
South West -44 23 £475 -15.56% 298
Scotland -17 22 £250 -45.95% 415
North West -46 17 £518 +29.38% 349
East of England -23 16 £425 +174.19% 180
Yorkshire -79 14 £400 +100.00% 151
Wales -13 6 £375 +13.23% 61
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 166

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 29 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.27%) Confluence
3 12 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.70%) CMS
4 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.28%) WordPress
6 6 (0.85%) Apache
7 4 (0.57%) Kentico
8 3 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.14%) Drupal
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.43%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.43%) Trello
5 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) Sketch
6 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) InVision
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.71%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.71%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 208 (29.55%) Azure
2 117 (16.62%) AWS
3 73 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (9.23%) Power Platform
5 63 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (6.82%) GCP
7 36 (5.11%) GitHub
8 32 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (3.84%) Entra ID
10 27 (3.84%) Serverless
11 26 (3.69%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (2.98%) Snowflake
13 17 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.41%) dbt
14 16 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (1.99%) SaaS
17 13 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.85%) Network Security
3 12 (1.70%) DNS
3 12 (1.70%) Firewall
4 11 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (1.42%) Ethernet
5 10 (1.42%) VLAN
5 10 (1.42%) Wireless
6 9 (1.28%) VPN
7 8 (1.14%) DHCP
8 7 (0.99%) HTTP
9 6 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
9 6 (0.85%) WAN
10 5 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.57%) BGP
11 4 (0.57%) OSPF
12 3 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (0.43%) MPLS
12 3 (0.43%) SSL
12 3 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.68%) Power BI
2 32 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.85%) Metadata
6 10 (1.42%) Big Data
6 10 (1.42%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.14%) Looker
7 8 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.99%) Power Query
8 7 (0.99%) Redis
8 7 (0.99%) Tableau
9 6 (0.85%) Hadoop
10 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 39 (5.54%) JIRA
2 32 (4.55%) Git
3 27 (3.84%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.13%) GitLab
5 11 (1.56%) Selenium
6 10 (1.42%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.42%) fastlane
6 10 (1.42%) Postman
7 9 (1.28%) WebDriver
8 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.85%) JMeter
9 6 (0.85%) Vite
10 5 (0.71%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.71%) Gatling
10 5 (0.71%) Gradle
10 5 (0.71%) JUnit
10 5 (0.71%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.71%) Mockito
10 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.71%) Xcode
General
1 266 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 185 (26.28%) Finance
2 185 (26.28%) Public Sector
3 100 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (3.13%) Banking
6 20 (2.84%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.41%) Law
9 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.13%) Legal
10 14 (1.99%) Marketing
11 10 (1.42%) Retail
12 9 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.14%) Local Government
14 6 (0.85%) Publishing
15 5 (0.71%) Billing
15 5 (0.71%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 99 (14.06%) Developer
2 98 (13.92%) Analyst
3 79 (11.22%) Senior
4 73 (10.37%) Lead
5 51 (7.24%) Architect
6 47 (6.68%) Consultant
7 32 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 27 (3.84%) Business Analyst
8 27 (3.84%) Data Analyst
9 25 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.41%) Senior Developer
11 22 (3.13%) IT Engineer
11 22 (3.13%) Support Engineer
12 18 (2.56%) Coordinator
12 18 (2.56%) IT Support
12 18 (2.56%) Project Manager
13 15 (2.13%) Software Developer
13 15 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (1.99%) Administrator
14 14 (1.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.11%) RESTful
2 27 (3.84%) React
3 26 (3.69%) .NET
4 23 (3.27%) GraphQL
5 22 (3.13%) HTML
6 21 (2.98%) CSS
7 19 (2.70%) Node.js
7 19 (2.70%) PySpark
8 18 (2.56%) Kafka
8 18 (2.56%) REST
9 17 (2.41%) JSON
10 15 (2.13%) Django
11 13 (1.85%) Spring
11 13 (1.85%) Spring Boot
12 11 (1.56%) Gherkin
13 10 (1.42%) OAuth
13 10 (1.42%) OpenID
14 9 (1.28%) OAuth2
15 8 (1.14%) HTML5
16 7 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.66%) Onboarding
2 39 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.40%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.42%) Industry 4.0
9 10 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.42%) Robotics
10 9 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 7 (0.99%) EPoS
11 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.85%) Replication
12 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 68 (9.66%) Windows
2 19 (2.70%) Linux
3 17 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.70%) Android
7 7 (0.99%) Unix
8 5 (0.71%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.43%) AIX
10 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (30.97%) Agile
2 181 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (21.31%) DevOps
4 141 (20.03%) CI/CD
5 137 (19.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 120 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 108 (15.34%) Decision-Making
8 107 (15.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 103 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 102 (14.49%) Analytics
11 88 (12.50%) AI
12 85 (12.07%) Migration
13 68 (9.66%) Test Automation
14 67 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 65 (9.23%) Mentoring
16 64 (9.09%) Validation
17 57 (8.10%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 57 (8.10%) Technical Leadership
18 56 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
19 55 (7.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 111 (15.77%) Python
2 96 (13.64%) SQL
3 56 (7.95%) JavaScript
4 40 (5.68%) C#
5 39 (5.54%) Java
6 27 (3.84%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.85%) Bash
8 13 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.42%) Go
9 10 (1.42%) Swift
10 9 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.14%) Bicep
12 7 (0.99%) Ruby
13 6 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.85%) Scala
14 5 (0.71%) Groovy
14 5 (0.71%) PHP
14 5 (0.71%) R
15 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 121 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.38%) Degree
4 26 (3.69%) DBS Check
5 23 (3.27%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.28%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.85%) ACCA
9 6 (0.85%) CIMA
9 6 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.71%) CISSP
10 5 (0.71%) PMP
11 3 (0.43%) CIPD
11 3 (0.43%) CISM
11 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (12.78%) Accessibility
2 41 (5.82%) QA
3 37 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 36 (5.11%) WCAG
5 30 (4.26%) GDPR
6 21 (2.98%) SLA
7 15 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.28%) NCSC
9 8 (1.14%) PMO
10 7 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.71%) COBIT
12 5 (0.71%) GRC
13 4 (0.57%) NIST
14 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.28%) DICOM
15 2 (0.28%) HL7
16 1 (0.14%) GxP
16 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 55 (7.81%) Docker
2 46 (6.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.43%) Firmware
7 3 (0.43%) KVM
8 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.28%) vSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (10.80%) Terraform
2 59 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 26 (3.69%) Grafana
4 22 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.13%) Ansible
7 11 (1.56%) SCCM
8 7 (0.99%) Kibana
9 5 (0.71%) Consul
9 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.43%) IBM BigFix
10 3 (0.43%) Packer
10 3 (0.43%) Rancher
10 3 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 159 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.55%) Google
3 30 (4.26%) Databricks
4 25 (3.55%) SAP
5 24 (3.41%) Dynatrace
5 24 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 14 (1.99%) Oracle
7 12 (1.70%) Sage
8 11 (1.56%) CyberArk
9 10 (1.42%) Siemens
10 9 (1.28%) Apple
10 9 (1.28%) Cisco
10 9 (1.28%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.14%) Splunk
11 8 (1.14%) VMware
12 7 (0.99%) Aspera
12 7 (0.99%) Signiant
12 7 (0.99%) Workday