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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 141 162
Rank change year-on-year -94 +21 +45
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 540 599 659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.09% 2.05% 1.52%
As % of the General category 2.01% 3.23% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 250 458
10th Percentile £306 £183 £406
25th Percentile £381 £382 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £685 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 21
10th Percentile £18.40 - £11.36
25th Percentile £19.00 - £12.27
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +2.31% -44.51%
75th Percentile £44.50 £24.73 £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £55.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.75 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +327.96% +25.80% +26.85%

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 26,812 18,543 24,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.97% 63.34% 57.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,219 11,673 15,531
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,788 856 1,998
10th Percentile £13.95 £13.41 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.46 £28.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -6.85% -5.83%
75th Percentile £60.30 £53.95 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £24.50 £28.42
% change year-on-year +24.82% -13.79% +3.35%

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 9 June 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 9 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

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 9 June 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 -104 468 £490 -6.67% 686
London -61 251 £530 -7.83% 258
Work from Home -49 227 £525 -4.55% 360
UK excluding London -130 224 £425 -5.56% 599
South East -48 67 £425 -16.26% 195
Midlands -73 55 £540 +21.35% 90
North of England -96 55 £425 +6.25% 124
West Midlands -63 43 £540 +21.35% 42
North East +1 27 £425 -22.73% 14
East of England -33 20 £338 +3.85% 38
Scotland -23 17 £210 -54.59% 42
Yorkshire -90 15 £375 -6.25% 44
North West -52 13 £365 -14.21% 68
East Midlands -38 12 - - 48
South West -55 9 £350 -37.81% 77
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 21

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 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.85%) Confluence
3 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.67%) CMS
5 5 (0.93%) WordPress
6 4 (0.74%) Apache
6 4 (0.74%) Kentico
7 2 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.37%) Trello
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) InVision
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.30%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.37%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (24.44%) Azure
2 99 (18.33%) AWS
3 37 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (6.85%) Power Platform
4 30 (5.56%) GCP
4 30 (5.56%) GitHub
5 24 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (3.89%) Entra ID
7 18 (3.33%) dbt
8 16 (2.96%) Snowflake
9 15 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (2.59%) Serverless
11 10 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.67%) SaaS
13 8 (1.48%) Firebase
14 7 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.52%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.78%) Ethernet
3 11 (2.04%) Network Security
4 9 (1.67%) Firewall
5 8 (1.48%) VLAN
6 7 (1.30%) DNS
6 7 (1.30%) WAN
6 7 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.11%) HTTP
7 6 (1.11%) VPN
7 6 (1.11%) VSAN
8 5 (0.93%) DHCP
9 4 (0.74%) MPLS
9 4 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.56%) BGP
10 3 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.56%) OSPF
10 3 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.37%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.30%) Power BI
2 26 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.41%) Big Data
6 12 (2.22%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.48%) Db2
9 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.30%) Tableau
10 6 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.11%) Looker
10 6 (1.11%) Metadata
11 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.74%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.74%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.37%) JIRA
2 24 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.07%) Git
4 14 (2.59%) GitLab
5 8 (1.48%) fastlane
6 6 (1.11%) JMeter
6 6 (1.11%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.11%) Vite
7 5 (0.93%) Gatling
7 5 (0.93%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.74%) Android Studio
8 4 (0.74%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.74%) Crashlytics
8 4 (0.74%) Gradle
8 4 (0.74%) JUnit
8 4 (0.74%) Xcode
9 3 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.56%) Mockito
9 3 (0.56%) Snyk
General
1 180 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 148 (27.41%) Finance
3 119 (22.04%) Public Sector
4 74 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.37%) Banking
6 17 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (2.78%) Law
8 12 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.04%) Legal
9 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Marketing
13 6 (1.11%) Retail
14 5 (0.93%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.93%) Local Government
14 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.56%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 71 (13.15%) Analyst
2 59 (10.93%) Developer
2 59 (10.93%) Senior
3 45 (8.33%) Lead
4 38 (7.04%) Architect
5 35 (6.48%) Data Engineer
6 32 (5.93%) Consultant
7 25 (4.63%) Data Analyst
7 25 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (3.70%) Support Engineer
9 18 (3.33%) Business Analyst
9 18 (3.33%) Senior Developer
10 17 (3.15%) IT Support
11 16 (2.96%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (2.78%) IT Engineer
12 15 (2.78%) Project Manager
12 15 (2.78%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.89%) React
2 16 (2.96%) .NET
2 16 (2.96%) GraphQL
2 16 (2.96%) RESTful
3 12 (2.22%) REST
4 11 (2.04%) Spring
4 11 (2.04%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.67%) HTML
5 9 (1.67%) Kafka
5 9 (1.67%) PySpark
6 8 (1.48%) CSS
6 8 (1.48%) Django
7 7 (1.30%) Middleware
7 7 (1.30%) Next.js
7 7 (1.30%) YAML
8 6 (1.11%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.11%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.11%) Node.js
9 5 (0.93%) FastAPI
9 5 (0.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 28 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.78%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (2.78%) Robotics
5 13 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.48%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.11%) Replication
10 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.93%) EPoS
11 4 (0.74%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.07%) Windows
2 18 (3.33%) Linux
2 18 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.15%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.67%) Android
4 9 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.67%) Unix
5 6 (1.11%) AIX
6 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.37%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (24.26%) Agile
3 107 (19.81%) CI/CD
4 95 (17.59%) DevOps
5 92 (17.04%) Decision-Making
6 79 (14.63%) Analytics
7 71 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 66 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (10.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 56 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 55 (10.19%) Migration
12 50 (9.26%) AI
12 50 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 46 (8.52%) Test Automation
14 44 (8.15%) Mentoring
15 43 (7.96%) Data Modelling
16 41 (7.59%) Validation
17 40 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (7.04%) Data Pipeline
19 37 (6.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 92 (17.04%) Python
2 83 (15.37%) SQL
3 32 (5.93%) Java
4 25 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 16 (2.96%) Bash
7 15 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.22%) C#
9 11 (2.04%) R
10 9 (1.67%) Kotlin
10 9 (1.67%) Swift
11 7 (1.30%) Scala
12 5 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.93%) Ruby
12 5 (0.93%) VBA
13 4 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.74%) Groovy
14 3 (0.56%) Go
14 3 (0.56%) VB
15 2 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 83 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.70%) Degree
4 20 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.93%) PMP
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.56%) CISM
10 3 (0.56%) CISSP
10 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.37%) ACCA
11 2 (0.37%) CIMA
11 2 (0.37%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.78%) Accessibility
2 34 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.07%) QA
4 14 (2.59%) GDPR
5 13 (2.41%) WCAG
6 10 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.67%) SLA
8 6 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.11%) PMO
9 5 (0.93%) GRC
10 4 (0.74%) COBIT
10 4 (0.74%) NIST
11 3 (0.56%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.37%) NCSC
12 2 (0.37%) PSD2
13 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (7.41%) Docker
2 36 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.41%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.11%) KVM
5 6 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.11%) vSphere
6 4 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 59 (10.93%) Terraform
2 45 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.44%) Grafana
4 20 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.52%) Ansible
6 10 (1.85%) Kibana
6 10 (1.85%) SCCM
7 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.11%) IBM BigFix
8 6 (1.11%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.74%) Consul
9 4 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.56%) Rancher
11 2 (0.37%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.37%) Packer
11 2 (0.37%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.81%) Databricks
3 23 (4.26%) Google
4 22 (4.07%) SAP
5 19 (3.52%) Dynatrace
6 18 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 17 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.96%) Oracle
9 15 (2.78%) Siemens
10 14 (2.59%) VMware
11 8 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.30%) IBM
13 6 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.93%) PagerDuty
15 4 (0.74%) Apple
15 4 (0.74%) Cisco
15 4 (0.74%) Qualys
15 4 (0.74%) Sage
16 3 (0.56%) Dell
16 3 (0.56%) HP