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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 146 158
Rank change year-on-year -74 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 652 620 645
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.90% 1.56%
As % of the General category 2.26% 3.03% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 238 436
10th Percentile £306 £182 £415
25th Percentile £375 £363 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -21.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £660 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 14
10th Percentile £18.40 £20.74 £8.00
25th Percentile £19.00 - £12.99
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £28.28
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -21.70% -47.76%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £44.18
90th Percentile £106.30 £40.00 £48.38
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 28,884 20,489 23,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.79% 62.87% 57.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,206 12,822 14,873
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,024 1,064 1,664
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.28 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.00 £25.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -27.14% +14.75%
75th Percentile £62.00 £51.31 £55.74
90th Percentile £81.18 £70.11 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -35.71% +34.62%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -67 567 £475 -5.00% 833
London -63 298 £525 -4.55% 486
UK excluding London -88 288 £450 - 450
Work from Home -41 254 £525 +1.20% 348
Midlands -18 95 £525 +22.09% 54
West Midlands -21 74 £525 +26.51% 28
South East -58 71 £450 -11.33% 156
North of England -87 57 £425 +6.25% 114
North East - 31 £425 - 20
East Midlands -15 21 £165 -63.33% 26
Scotland -27 21 £250 -45.95% 31
East of England -20 20 £473 +45.38% 26
South West -43 19 £475 -15.56% 52
North West -54 13 £365 -8.85% 67
Yorkshire -89 13 £304 -13.21% 27
Wales -15 4 £475 +10.32% 17
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 7

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 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.30%) Confluence
3 12 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.69%) CMS
4 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.23%) WordPress
6 6 (0.92%) Apache
7 4 (0.61%) Kentico
8 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.31%) 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 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.46%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.46%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) InVision
Business Applications
1 14 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.77%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.15%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 179 (27.45%) Azure
2 107 (16.41%) AWS
3 60 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (7.36%) Power Platform
6 41 (6.29%) GCP
7 34 (5.21%) GitHub
8 26 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (3.83%) Entra ID
10 23 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (3.22%) Serverless
11 21 (3.22%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (2.91%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.61%) dbt
14 14 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.07%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.30%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.84%) Network Security
4 11 (1.69%) DNS
5 10 (1.53%) Firewall
6 9 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.23%) DHCP
7 8 (1.23%) VLAN
7 8 (1.23%) VPN
8 7 (1.07%) WAN
9 6 (0.92%) HTTP
9 6 (0.92%) Structured Cabling
10 5 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.61%) Wireless
12 3 (0.46%) BGP
12 3 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (0.46%) LAN
12 3 (0.46%) MPLS
12 3 (0.46%) OSPF
12 3 (0.46%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.13%) Power BI
2 29 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (1.99%) Big Data
6 11 (1.69%) Metadata
7 9 (1.38%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.23%) Db2
8 8 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.07%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.07%) Power Query
9 7 (1.07%) Redis
10 6 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.92%) Tableau
11 5 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.77%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 36 (5.52%) JIRA
2 28 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.37%) Git
3 22 (3.37%) GitLab
4 10 (1.53%) fastlane
5 9 (1.38%) Selenium
6 8 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.23%) Postman
7 7 (1.07%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.92%) JMeter
8 6 (0.92%) Vite
9 5 (0.77%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.77%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.77%) Gatling
9 5 (0.77%) Gradle
9 5 (0.77%) JUnit
9 5 (0.77%) Mockito
9 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.77%) Xcode
General
1 234 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 170 (26.07%) Finance
3 155 (23.77%) Public Sector
4 86 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (3.68%) Banking
7 19 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.61%) Law
8 17 (2.61%) Legal
9 16 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.84%) Marketing
13 10 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.53%) Retail
14 8 (1.23%) Local Government
14 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.77%) Billing
15 5 (0.77%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (13.65%) Analyst
2 85 (13.04%) Developer
3 69 (10.58%) Lead
4 66 (10.12%) Senior
5 41 (6.29%) Consultant
6 39 (5.98%) Architect
7 35 (5.37%) Data Engineer
8 25 (3.83%) Business Analyst
8 25 (3.83%) Data Analyst
9 24 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (3.37%) Senior Developer
11 20 (3.07%) IT Engineer
11 20 (3.07%) IT Support
12 19 (2.91%) Support Engineer
13 17 (2.61%) Coordinator
14 16 (2.45%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.30%) Technical Engineer
16 14 (2.15%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (1.99%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.60%) RESTful
2 23 (3.53%) GraphQL
2 23 (3.53%) React
3 22 (3.37%) .NET
4 17 (2.61%) HTML
4 17 (2.61%) REST
5 16 (2.45%) CSS
5 16 (2.45%) Node.js
5 16 (2.45%) PySpark
6 15 (2.30%) Kafka
7 13 (1.99%) JSON
8 12 (1.84%) Spring
8 12 (1.84%) Spring Boot
9 9 (1.38%) Django
9 9 (1.38%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.07%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.07%) HTML5
10 7 (1.07%) Middleware
10 7 (1.07%) Next.js
10 7 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.28%) Onboarding
2 38 (5.83%) Cloud Native
3 35 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.30%) Industry 4.0
6 15 (2.30%) Robotics
7 10 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.92%) EPoS
11 6 (0.92%) Replication
11 6 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.97%) Windows
2 20 (3.07%) Linux
3 19 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.69%) Android
5 11 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.38%) Unix
7 6 (0.92%) AIX
8 4 (0.61%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.31%) VMS
10 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (28.99%) Agile
2 160 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (19.63%) CI/CD
3 128 (19.63%) DevOps
4 111 (17.02%) Decision-Making
4 111 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 93 (14.26%) Analytics
5 93 (14.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 88 (13.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 78 (11.96%) Migration
8 77 (11.81%) AI
9 75 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 67 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (9.20%) Test Automation
12 56 (8.59%) Mentoring
12 56 (8.59%) Validation
13 52 (7.98%) Data Modelling
14 49 (7.52%) Roadmaps
15 48 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (7.36%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.72%) Python
2 89 (13.65%) SQL
3 47 (7.21%) JavaScript
4 41 (6.29%) Java
5 30 (4.60%) C#
6 27 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.22%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.30%) Bash
9 13 (1.99%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.53%) Swift
11 9 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.38%) Go
12 8 (1.23%) Bicep
12 8 (1.23%) R
13 7 (1.07%) Ruby
14 5 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.77%) VBA
15 4 (0.61%) C++
15 4 (0.61%) Groovy
15 4 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.90%) Degree
4 26 (3.99%) DBS Check
5 21 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (2.91%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.07%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.77%) PMP
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.46%) CIPD
12 3 (0.46%) CISM
12 3 (0.46%) CISSP
12 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (11.20%) Accessibility
2 37 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 30 (4.60%) QA
4 29 (4.45%) WCAG
5 25 (3.83%) GDPR
6 16 (2.45%) SLA
7 12 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.53%) PMO
9 9 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (1.38%) NCSC
10 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.77%) COBIT
11 5 (0.77%) GRC
12 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.46%) NIST
13 2 (0.31%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.15%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (7.98%) Docker
2 45 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.92%) KVM
5 6 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.31%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (11.20%) Terraform
2 53 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.53%) Grafana
4 20 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.30%) Ansible
6 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.84%) SCCM
8 7 (1.07%) Kibana
9 6 (0.92%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.61%) Consul
10 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.46%) Rancher
12 2 (0.31%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 2 (0.31%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 134 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.60%) Google
3 28 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.68%) Databricks
4 24 (3.68%) SAP
5 23 (3.53%) Dynatrace
5 23 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.30%) Siemens
7 12 (1.84%) CyberArk
7 12 (1.84%) Oracle
7 12 (1.84%) Sage
8 9 (1.38%) PagerDuty
9 8 (1.23%) VMware
10 7 (1.07%) Apple
10 7 (1.07%) IBM
10 7 (1.07%) Qualys
11 6 (0.92%) Aspera
11 6 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.92%) Signiant
12 5 (0.77%) Splunk