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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 151 168
Rank change year-on-year -65 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 707 636 582
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.32% 1.93% 1.50%
As % of the General category 2.40% 3.04% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 260 393
10th Percentile £306 £173 £425
25th Percentile £375 £355 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £660 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £17.48 £29.60
25th Percentile £17.36 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% -50.80% -29.13%
75th Percentile £30.28 £22.41 £48.75
90th Percentile £44.50 £65.00 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.29 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year -12.87% - -

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 29,460 20,938 22,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.93% 63.47% 57.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,430 13,030 13,856
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £415 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £749 £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 2,278 1,170 1,270
10th Percentile £13.87 £13.45 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.11 £16.25 £16.67
Median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +25.25% -28.87% +27.47%
75th Percentile £56.21 £50.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.36 £22.14 £35.00
% change year-on-year +46.17% -36.74% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -70 620 £475 - 932
UK excluding London -55 326 £425 - 830
London -60 318 £510 -5.12% 371
Work from Home -44 267 £525 +3.70% 481
Midlands -14 104 £492 +14.42% 117
West Midlands -13 80 £525 +25.00% 65
South East -36 80 £450 -11.33% 236
North of England -57 76 £425 +14.09% 162
North East +2 47 £425 +6.25% 17
South West -38 26 £475 -15.56% 194
East Midlands -10 24 £165 -63.33% 52
Scotland -26 24 £288 -37.84% 43
Yorkshire -71 15 £400 +100.00% 51
North West -48 14 £518 +29.38% 94
East of England -36 8 £425 +174.19% 71
Wales -13 7 £394 +18.90% 10
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 29

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 30 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.26%) Confluence
3 12 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.56%) CMS
4 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.27%) WordPress
6 8 (1.13%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.85%) Apache
8 4 (0.57%) Kentico
9 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.14%) Drupal
11 1 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
6 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.28%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.26%) NetSuite
2 11 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.27%) 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%) 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
1 215 (30.41%) Azure
2 122 (17.26%) AWS
3 77 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
4 70 (9.90%) Power Platform
5 62 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (6.93%) GCP
7 40 (5.66%) GitHub
8 35 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
9 32 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (4.24%) Serverless
11 27 (3.82%) Entra ID
12 25 (3.54%) Power Automate
13 24 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (3.11%) Snowflake
15 20 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (2.40%) dbt
18 16 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 15 (2.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.84%) DNS
1 13 (1.84%) Firewall
1 13 (1.84%) Network Security
2 12 (1.70%) VPN
3 11 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.41%) VLAN
4 10 (1.41%) Wireless
5 9 (1.27%) DHCP
6 6 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.85%) WAN
7 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 5 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.57%) BGP
8 4 (0.57%) OSPF
9 3 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.42%) MPLS
9 3 (0.42%) SSL
9 3 (0.42%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.28%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.93%) Power BI
2 35 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.26%) Metadata
6 14 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.27%) Big Data
8 9 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.13%) Looker
9 8 (1.13%) Power Query
9 8 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.99%) Redis
10 7 (0.99%) Tableau
11 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 40 (5.66%) JIRA
2 35 (4.95%) Git
3 28 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.39%) GitLab
5 11 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.56%) Selenium
6 10 (1.41%) fastlane
6 10 (1.41%) Postman
7 9 (1.27%) WebDriver
8 8 (1.13%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.85%) Vite
10 5 (0.71%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.71%) Crashlytics
10 5 (0.71%) Gradle
10 5 (0.71%) JUnit
10 5 (0.71%) Mockito
10 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.71%) Xcode
11 4 (0.57%) JMeter
11 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 265 (37.48%) Social Skills
2 192 (27.16%) Public Sector
3 187 (26.45%) Finance
4 104 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.25%) Banking
7 22 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.40%) Law
9 14 (1.98%) Legal
9 14 (1.98%) Marketing
10 13 (1.84%) Retail
11 10 (1.41%) Local Government
11 10 (1.41%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.99%) Publishing
15 5 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 106 (14.99%) Developer
2 98 (13.86%) Analyst
3 80 (11.32%) Senior
4 72 (10.18%) Lead
5 59 (8.35%) Architect
6 46 (6.51%) Consultant
7 33 (4.67%) Data Engineer
8 27 (3.82%) Senior Developer
9 26 (3.68%) Business Analyst
9 26 (3.68%) Data Analyst
9 26 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.25%) Support Engineer
11 22 (3.11%) IT Engineer
12 20 (2.83%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.55%) Coordinator
13 18 (2.55%) IT Support
13 18 (2.55%) Software Developer
14 15 (2.12%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (1.98%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (11.32%) Terraform
2 41 (5.80%) RESTful
3 29 (4.10%) React
4 28 (3.96%) .NET
5 23 (3.25%) GraphQL
5 23 (3.25%) HTML
6 22 (3.11%) CSS
7 21 (2.97%) PySpark
8 20 (2.83%) Node.js
9 19 (2.69%) Kafka
10 18 (2.55%) JSON
10 18 (2.55%) REST
11 17 (2.40%) Django
12 15 (2.12%) Spring
12 15 (2.12%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.84%) OAuth
14 12 (1.70%) OpenID
15 11 (1.56%) Gherkin
15 11 (1.56%) OAuth2
16 9 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 42 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.13%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.99%) EPoS
11 7 (0.99%) Replication
11 7 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.71%) Blog
12 5 (0.71%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.57%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (10.04%) Windows
2 19 (2.69%) Linux
3 17 (2.40%) Windows 10
4 16 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.70%) Android
7 4 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.57%) Unix
7 4 (0.57%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (32.11%) Agile
2 172 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (22.07%) DevOps
4 146 (20.65%) CI/CD
5 141 (19.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 126 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 113 (15.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 111 (15.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 107 (15.13%) Analytics
10 97 (13.72%) Decision-Making
11 92 (13.01%) AI
12 85 (12.02%) Migration
13 73 (10.33%) Test Automation
14 71 (10.04%) Mentoring
15 69 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 66 (9.34%) Validation
17 62 (8.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 61 (8.63%) Technical Leadership
19 59 (8.35%) Business Intelligence
20 56 (7.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 112 (15.84%) Python
2 99 (14.00%) SQL
3 60 (8.49%) JavaScript
4 43 (6.08%) C#
5 41 (5.80%) Java
6 28 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.84%) Kotlin
7 13 (1.84%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.41%) Bash
8 10 (1.41%) Go
8 10 (1.41%) Swift
9 9 (1.27%) Scala
10 8 (1.13%) Bicep
10 8 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.13%) Ruby
11 6 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.71%) Groovy
12 5 (0.71%) PHP
13 4 (0.57%) R
13 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 126 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.07%) Degree
4 27 (3.82%) DBS Check
5 25 (3.54%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.27%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.99%) CISSP
11 6 (0.85%) ACCA
11 6 (0.85%) CIMA
11 6 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.71%) CISM
12 5 (0.71%) PMP
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.42%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (13.44%) Accessibility
2 43 (6.08%) QA
3 39 (5.52%) Data Quality
4 38 (5.37%) WCAG
5 32 (4.53%) GDPR
6 21 (2.97%) SLA
7 17 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.70%) NCSC
9 9 (1.27%) PMO
10 8 (1.13%) NIST
11 6 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.85%) GRC
12 5 (0.71%) COBIT
13 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.28%) DICOM
14 2 (0.28%) GxP
14 2 (0.28%) HL7
15 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (8.06%) Docker
2 46 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.13%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.42%) Firmware
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 63 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.96%) Grafana
3 22 (3.11%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (2.12%) Ansible
6 12 (1.70%) SCCM
7 6 (0.85%) Kibana
8 5 (0.71%) Consul
8 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.42%) Packer
9 3 (0.42%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 163 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.81%) Google
3 33 (4.67%) Databricks
4 24 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.39%) SAP
5 23 (3.25%) Dynatrace
5 23 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.40%) Oracle
7 12 (1.70%) CyberArk
7 12 (1.70%) Sage
8 11 (1.56%) Splunk
9 9 (1.27%) Apple
9 9 (1.27%) Cisco
9 9 (1.27%) PagerDuty
9 9 (1.27%) VMware
10 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.13%) UiPath
11 7 (0.99%) Aspera
11 7 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (0.99%) Signiant