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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 156 170
Rank change year-on-year -58 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 731 620 562
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.36% 1.91% 1.47%
As % of the General category 2.47% 3.00% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 251 365
10th Percentile £308 £173 £418
25th Percentile £375 £351 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -17.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 5
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.48 £29.60
25th Percentile £17.36 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.25% -50.80% -29.13%
75th Percentile £44.85 £22.32 £48.75
90th Percentile £63.32 £62.50 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.85 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year +102.57% - -

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 29,612 20,656 22,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.22% 63.55% 57.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,492 12,822 13,546
10th Percentile £313 £275 £290
25th Percentile £417 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £740 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £496
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,296 1,169 1,200
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.17 £17.08
Median hourly rate £30.73 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.19% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.65 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.48 £22.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year +42.77% -38.75% +38.46%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -63 624 £463 -1.60% 4,688
UK excluding London -37 330 £425 +2.41% 3,033
London -65 324 £525 -1.87% 2,721
Work from Home -30 272 £510 +5.15% 2,496
Midlands -23 101 £425 -0.58% 397
South East -30 79 £450 -11.33% 488
North of England -39 78 £425 +14.09% 671
West Midlands -22 77 £460 +9.52% 296
North East +3 50 £425 +6.25% 91
Scotland -24 28 £288 -36.99% 523
South West -35 25 £475 -20.83% 487
East Midlands -17 24 £164 -62.78% 101
North West -46 14 £518 +29.38% 410
Yorkshire -69 14 £400 +100.00% 171
East of England -30 9 £425 +174.19% 226
Wales -12 7 £394 +18.90% 53
Northern Ireland +3 3 - - 231

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 34 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.46%) Confluence
3 12 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.50%) CMS
5 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.23%) WordPress
7 8 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.82%) Apache
9 4 (0.55%) Kentico
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.55%) Trello
6 3 (0.41%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.27%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (2.33%) NetSuite
2 15 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.68%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
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
1 216 (29.55%) Azure
2 125 (17.10%) AWS
3 83 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 64 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (6.84%) GCP
7 44 (6.02%) GitHub
8 39 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
9 36 (4.92%) Serverless
10 34 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (4.24%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 24 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (2.33%) dbt
18 16 (2.19%) PowerApps
18 16 (2.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.78%) DNS
1 13 (1.78%) Firewall
1 13 (1.78%) VPN
2 12 (1.64%) Network Security
3 11 (1.50%) VLAN
3 11 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.37%) Wireless
5 9 (1.23%) DHCP
6 6 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.82%) WAN
7 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.55%) BGP
8 4 (0.55%) OSPF
9 3 (0.41%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.41%) HTTP
9 3 (0.41%) MPLS
9 3 (0.41%) SSL
9 3 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (7.11%) Power BI
2 34 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.46%) Metadata
6 16 (2.19%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.64%) Power Query
8 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.23%) Big Data
9 9 (1.23%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.09%) Looker
10 8 (1.09%) Redis
10 8 (1.09%) Tableau
11 7 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 45 (6.16%) JIRA
2 41 (5.61%) Git
3 30 (4.10%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.56%) GitLab
5 11 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.50%) Selenium
6 10 (1.37%) fastlane
6 10 (1.37%) Postman
7 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.23%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.82%) Gradle
8 6 (0.82%) JUnit
8 6 (0.82%) Mockito
8 6 (0.82%) Vite
9 5 (0.68%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.68%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.68%) Xcode
10 4 (0.55%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 278 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 211 (28.86%) Public Sector
3 191 (26.13%) Finance
4 113 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (3.56%) Banking
7 24 (3.28%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.87%) Local Government
9 19 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.33%) Law
11 14 (1.92%) Legal
11 14 (1.92%) Marketing
12 13 (1.78%) Retail
13 12 (1.64%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.96%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.96%) Military
15 7 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 115 (15.73%) Developer
2 107 (14.64%) Analyst
3 86 (11.76%) Senior
4 73 (9.99%) Lead
5 58 (7.93%) Architect
6 46 (6.29%) Consultant
7 31 (4.24%) Data Engineer
8 30 (4.10%) Senior Developer
9 28 (3.83%) Business Analyst
9 28 (3.83%) Data Analyst
9 28 (3.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.15%) IT Engineer
10 23 (3.15%) Support Engineer
11 19 (2.60%) IT Support
11 19 (2.60%) Project Manager
11 19 (2.60%) Software Developer
12 18 (2.46%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 17 (2.33%) Coordinator
14 15 (2.05%) Administrator
14 15 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.35%) Terraform
2 44 (6.02%) RESTful
3 29 (3.97%) .NET
3 29 (3.97%) React
4 24 (3.28%) GraphQL
4 24 (3.28%) HTML
5 23 (3.15%) CSS
6 22 (3.01%) JSON
7 21 (2.87%) Kafka
7 21 (2.87%) Node.js
8 19 (2.60%) REST
9 17 (2.33%) Django
9 17 (2.33%) PySpark
10 16 (2.19%) Spring
10 16 (2.19%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.78%) OAuth
12 12 (1.64%) OpenID
13 11 (1.50%) Gherkin
13 11 (1.50%) OAuth2
14 10 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 45 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.09%) Replication
12 8 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.96%) EPoS
13 7 (0.96%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.96%) Taxonomies
14 6 (0.82%) Blog
15 5 (0.68%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.68%) Algorithms
15 5 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 76 (10.40%) Windows
2 21 (2.87%) Linux
3 19 (2.60%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.78%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Unix
8 4 (0.55%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.55%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) AIX
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (33.52%) Agile
2 178 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
3 163 (22.30%) DevOps
4 153 (20.93%) CI/CD
5 145 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 128 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 119 (16.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 117 (16.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 105 (14.36%) AI
9 105 (14.36%) Analytics
9 105 (14.36%) Decision-Making
10 85 (11.63%) Migration
11 75 (10.26%) Mentoring
11 75 (10.26%) Test Automation
12 71 (9.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 68 (9.30%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 67 (9.17%) Validation
15 64 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
16 63 (8.62%) Data Modelling
16 63 (8.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 112 (15.32%) Python
2 104 (14.23%) SQL
3 65 (8.89%) JavaScript
4 48 (6.57%) C#
5 42 (5.75%) Java
6 28 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.05%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.92%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.50%) Bash
9 11 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (1.50%) Scala
10 10 (1.37%) Go
10 10 (1.37%) Swift
11 8 (1.09%) Bicep
11 8 (1.09%) Ruby
12 6 (0.82%) Groovy
12 6 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.68%) PHP
14 4 (0.55%) C++
14 4 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 155 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 144 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.80%) Degree
4 31 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (3.83%) DBS Check
6 27 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.78%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.23%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.96%) CISSP
12 6 (0.82%) ACCA
12 6 (0.82%) CIMA
12 6 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.68%) CISM
13 5 (0.68%) PMP
14 4 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (14.23%) Accessibility
2 46 (6.29%) QA
2 46 (6.29%) WCAG
3 42 (5.75%) GDPR
4 41 (5.61%) Data Quality
5 22 (3.01%) SLA
6 17 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.78%) NCSC
8 10 (1.37%) PMO
9 8 (1.09%) NIST
10 6 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.82%) GRC
11 5 (0.68%) COBIT
12 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.27%) DICOM
13 2 (0.27%) GxP
13 2 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 60 (8.21%) Docker
2 46 (6.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.24%) Grafana
3 25 (3.42%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.19%) Ansible
6 14 (1.92%) SCCM
7 6 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.68%) Consul
8 5 (0.68%) Kibana
9 4 (0.55%) Rancher
10 3 (0.41%) Packer
11 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.14%) SCOM
12 1 (0.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 169 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.79%) Google
3 28 (3.83%) Databricks
4 25 (3.42%) Dynatrace
4 25 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.01%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.01%) SAP
6 17 (2.33%) Oracle
7 12 (1.64%) CyberArk
7 12 (1.64%) Sage
7 12 (1.64%) Splunk
8 10 (1.37%) Cisco
8 10 (1.37%) VMware
9 9 (1.23%) Apple
9 9 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.23%) PagerDuty
10 8 (1.09%) Qualys
10 8 (1.09%) UiPath
11 7 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (0.96%) Signiant