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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 155 167
Rank change year-on-year -79 +12 +68
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 488 529 647
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 1.77% 1.45%
As % of the General category 2.01% 2.84% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 266 471
10th Percentile £173 £263 £375
25th Percentile £353 £433 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £675 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -26.83% -0.29% -0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 20
10th Percentile £14.61 - £10.88
25th Percentile £15.34 - £12.06
Median hourly rate £16.67 £22.14 £20.22
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +9.51% +45.71%
75th Percentile £17.44 - £35.66
90th Percentile £17.78 - £59.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £22.14 £27.93
% change year-on-year -25.47% -20.72% +101.26%

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 24,224 18,626 26,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.07% 62.38% 58.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,159 11,511 16,788
10th Percentile £300 £287 £263
25th Percentile £405 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £493
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.05% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,476 622 1,752
10th Percentile £13.60 £15.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.67 £20.27 £15.37
Median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +16.69% -19.43%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £27.39 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.70% +9.54% -6.17%

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 March 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
Top 16 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 March 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 -69 438 £516 -13.96% 579
London -46 232 £575 -6.50% 194
Work from Home -26 220 £475 -20.83% 402
UK excluding London -92 208 £375 -26.83% 520
Midlands -47 62 £338 -41.30% 71
South East -30 46 £369 -31.87% 185
North of England -75 40 £375 -16.67% 99
West Midlands -56 37 £375 -34.78% 39
East of England -12 29 £550 - 41
North West -36 28 £425 -5.56% 43
East Midlands -17 25 £168 -62.78% 31
South West -29 19 £540 +2.86% 54
Scotland +11 14 £175 -62.16% 53
Yorkshire -72 10 £375 -17.81% 33
North East -18 2 - - 23
Northern Ireland -6 1 £625 +8.70% 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 17 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.46%) Confluence
4 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.23%) CMS
6 4 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.82%) WordPress
7 3 (0.61%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.41%) Apache
8 2 (0.41%) Camunda
8 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Appian
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.82%) Adobe Captivate
4 4 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.61%) Trello
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.41%) InVision
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.41%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
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%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 110 (22.54%) Azure
2 78 (15.98%) AWS
3 34 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 28 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (5.12%) GitHub
6 22 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.10%) GCP
9 17 (3.48%) SaaS
10 16 (3.28%) dbt
11 11 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.25%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.05%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (1.84%) Figma
14 8 (1.64%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.64%) Serverless
15 7 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (1.43%) Power Automate
16 6 (1.23%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.69%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.07%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.05%) Firewall
3 10 (2.05%) Network Security
4 9 (1.84%) VPN
5 8 (1.64%) WAN
6 6 (1.23%) LAN
7 5 (1.02%) DNS
7 5 (1.02%) VSAN
7 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.82%) DHCP
8 4 (0.82%) HTTP
8 4 (0.82%) VLAN
9 3 (0.61%) AMQP
9 3 (0.61%) Intranet
10 2 (0.41%) MPLS
10 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.20%) BGP
11 1 (0.20%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.53%) Power BI
2 21 (4.30%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.05%) Big Data
6 9 (1.84%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.64%) Metadata
7 8 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.23%) DB2
8 6 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.23%) Tableau
9 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.82%) Looker
9 4 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (0.82%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.61%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 25 (5.12%) Git
2 19 (3.89%) JIRA
3 11 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.43%) Cucumber
4 7 (1.43%) GitLab
5 6 (1.23%) JMeter
6 5 (1.02%) Gatling
6 5 (1.02%) Maven
7 4 (0.82%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.61%) Selenium
8 3 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.41%) JUnit
9 2 (0.41%) Mockito
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.20%) TestNG
General
1 177 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.80%) Finance
3 60 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 22 (4.51%) Banking
5 19 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (2.46%) Local Government
7 12 (2.46%) Marketing
8 11 (2.25%) Retail
9 10 (2.05%) Fire and Rescue
10 8 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.64%) Legal
10 8 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.82%) Military
13 4 (0.82%) Publishing
13 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (16.60%) Analyst
2 41 (8.40%) Lead
3 38 (7.79%) Architect
4 35 (7.17%) Data Engineer
5 33 (6.76%) Senior
6 31 (6.35%) Developer
7 26 (5.33%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.10%) IT Support
9 19 (3.89%) Business Analyst
10 18 (3.69%) IT Analyst
10 18 (3.69%) Project Manager
11 17 (3.48%) IT Engineer
11 17 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.28%) Consultant
12 16 (3.28%) Data Analyst
13 15 (3.07%) Technical Engineer
14 14 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.66%) Designer
15 13 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.69%) EDI
2 12 (2.46%) React
3 11 (2.25%) Spring
3 11 (2.25%) Spring Boot
3 11 (2.25%) YAML
4 10 (2.05%) AngularJS
5 9 (1.84%) Middleware
6 8 (1.64%) HTML
6 8 (1.64%) REST
7 7 (1.43%) .NET
8 6 (1.23%) PySpark
9 4 (0.82%) CSS
9 4 (0.82%) Hibernate
9 4 (0.82%) JPA
9 4 (0.82%) Kafka
9 4 (0.82%) RESTful
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.61%) Playwright
10 3 (0.61%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.51%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.10%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.07%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (3.07%) Robotics
5 8 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.02%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.02%) Replication
9 4 (0.82%) e-Learning
9 4 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.82%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.79%) Windows
2 13 (2.66%) Windows 10
3 11 (2.25%) Linux
3 11 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.43%) Unix
5 6 (1.23%) AIX
6 3 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (29.10%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (15.57%) Agile
3 70 (14.34%) CI/CD
4 63 (12.91%) DevOps
5 59 (12.09%) Decision-Making
6 53 (10.86%) Analytics
7 52 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 47 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (8.61%) Migration
10 39 (7.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (7.79%) Customer Service
11 38 (7.79%) Data Modelling
12 35 (7.17%) Mentoring
13 30 (6.15%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (6.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (5.94%) Data Governance
15 28 (5.74%) Test Automation
16 27 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (5.53%) Coaching
16 27 (5.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (14.96%) SQL
2 64 (13.11%) Python
3 26 (5.33%) Java
4 21 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.69%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.25%) Bash
6 11 (2.25%) C#
7 10 (2.05%) R
8 9 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.82%) Go
10 4 (0.82%) VBA
11 3 (0.61%) Rust
11 3 (0.61%) Scala
12 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.41%) AWK
12 2 (0.41%) C++
12 2 (0.41%) Perl
12 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.89%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.63%) Degree
4 16 (3.28%) DBS Check
5 15 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) ACCA
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.82%) CIMA
9 4 (0.82%) CISSP
9 4 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.61%) OCP
10 3 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.51%) QA
3 11 (2.25%) PMO
4 10 (2.05%) GDPR
5 9 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.61%) GRC
8 3 (0.61%) SLA
9 2 (0.41%) GMP
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.41%) NIST
9 2 (0.41%) PSD2
9 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.41%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.30%) Docker
3 8 (1.64%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.23%) KVM
6 5 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.02%) vSphere
7 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (7.79%) Terraform
2 24 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.87%) Grafana
4 10 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.64%) Ansible
7 7 (1.43%) SCCM
8 6 (1.23%) IBM BigFix
8 6 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.02%) Kibana
10 4 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.61%) Argo
12 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) vRealize
12 1 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 71 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.30%) Databricks
2 21 (4.30%) Oracle
3 18 (3.69%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.07%) Siemens
5 13 (2.66%) Google
5 13 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.46%) Cisco
6 12 (2.46%) VMware
7 10 (2.05%) Adobe
8 9 (1.84%) SAP
9 8 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.23%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.23%) Citrix
10 6 (1.23%) IBM
11 4 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.82%) Netskope
11 4 (0.82%) Talend
12 3 (0.61%) CODA
12 3 (0.61%) Meraki
699 Inclusion and Diversity jobs Nationwide