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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 145 159
Rank change year-on-year -70 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 624 608 659
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.91% 1.52%
As % of the General category 2.19% 3.03% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 244 447
10th Percentile £306 £182 £413
25th Percentile £381 £377 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £628 £700
90th Percentile £675 £675 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 22
10th Percentile £18.40 - £11.37
25th Percentile £19.00 - £12.56
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.32
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +3.85% -60.61%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £44.18
90th Percentile £106.30 £47.50 £56.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.75 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +327.96% +25.80% -75.17%

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 28,461 20,078 24,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.66% 63.09% 57.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,041 12,609 15,456
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £489
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.48% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,970 1,003 1,943
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.47 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.05 £16.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.21 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.60% -14.89% +6.57%
75th Percentile £60.41 £52.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.13 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +39.13% -26.40% +20.42%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -78 541 £490 -4.39% 916
London -68 288 £525 -8.70% 426
UK excluding London -93 269 £450 - 616
Work from Home -40 253 £525 -1.87% 585
Midlands -41 81 £525 +17.98% 100
South East -50 71 £425 -16.26% 166
West Midlands -35 65 £525 +22.09% 53
North of England -87 55 £425 +6.25% 154
North East - 27 £425 - 26
Scotland -23 21 £250 -45.95% 42
South West -38 20 £475 -20.83% 64
East of England -27 18 £338 +3.85% 41
East Midlands -24 16 £189 -58.06% 46
Yorkshire -83 15 £375 -5.66% 46
North West -53 13 £365 -14.21% 82
Wales -19 2 £700 +62.57% 33
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 26

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 26 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.60%) Confluence
6 8 (1.28%) CMS
7 5 (0.80%) Apache
7 5 (0.80%) WordPress
8 4 (0.64%) Kentico
9 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.16%) Drupal
11 1 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.48%) Trello
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Sketch
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) InVision
Business Applications
1 12 (1.92%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.80%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 169 (27.08%) Azure
2 104 (16.67%) AWS
3 52 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (7.37%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.41%) GCP
6 34 (5.45%) GitHub
7 26 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (3.69%) Entra ID
9 19 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 18 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (2.88%) dbt
10 18 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.72%) Serverless
12 14 (2.24%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.76%) SaaS
15 10 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.60%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.37%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.40%) Ethernet
3 11 (1.76%) Network Security
4 10 (1.60%) DNS
4 10 (1.60%) Firewall
5 9 (1.44%) WAN
6 8 (1.28%) VLAN
6 8 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.12%) DHCP
7 7 (1.12%) VPN
8 6 (0.96%) HTTP
8 6 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
9 4 (0.64%) MPLS
10 3 (0.48%) BGP
10 3 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.48%) LAN
10 3 (0.48%) OSPF
10 3 (0.48%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.41%) Power BI
2 29 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.08%) Big Data
6 12 (1.92%) Hadoop
7 11 (1.76%) Metadata
8 9 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.28%) Db2
9 8 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.12%) Tableau
11 6 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.96%) Looker
11 6 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.96%) Redis
11 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (5.13%) JIRA
2 28 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 21 (3.37%) Git
4 19 (3.04%) GitLab
5 10 (1.60%) fastlane
6 6 (0.96%) JMeter
6 6 (0.96%) Selenium
6 6 (0.96%) Vite
7 5 (0.80%) Android Studio
7 5 (0.80%) Crashlytics
7 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.80%) Gatling
7 5 (0.80%) Gradle
7 5 (0.80%) JUnit
7 5 (0.80%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.80%) Mockito
7 5 (0.80%) Postman
7 5 (0.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.80%) Xcode
8 4 (0.64%) CircleCI
General
1 216 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 167 (26.76%) Finance
3 146 (23.40%) Public Sector
4 83 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.69%) Banking
7 18 (2.88%) Law
7 18 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.40%) Legal
10 12 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.76%) Marketing
11 11 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.44%) Retail
13 8 (1.28%) Local Government
13 8 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.80%) Billing
14 5 (0.80%) General Ledger
15 4 (0.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (13.30%) Analyst
2 76 (12.18%) Developer
3 65 (10.42%) Senior
4 62 (9.94%) Lead
5 39 (6.25%) Consultant
5 39 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 37 (5.93%) Architect
7 25 (4.01%) Data Analyst
8 24 (3.85%) Business Analyst
9 23 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (3.53%) Support Engineer
11 20 (3.21%) IT Support
12 19 (3.04%) Senior Developer
13 17 (2.72%) IT Engineer
13 17 (2.72%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (2.40%) Technical Engineer
15 14 (2.24%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.24%) Coordinator
15 14 (2.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.49%) RESTful
2 21 (3.37%) .NET
2 21 (3.37%) GraphQL
2 21 (3.37%) React
3 15 (2.40%) REST
4 14 (2.24%) Kafka
4 14 (2.24%) PySpark
5 13 (2.08%) HTML
6 12 (1.92%) CSS
6 12 (1.92%) Spring
6 12 (1.92%) Spring Boot
7 10 (1.60%) JSON
7 10 (1.60%) Node.js
8 8 (1.28%) Django
8 8 (1.28%) Middleware
9 7 (1.12%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.12%) Next.js
9 7 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (0.96%) Gherkin
10 6 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 35 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.40%) Industry 4.0
7 15 (2.40%) Robotics
8 14 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.96%) EPoS
13 6 (0.96%) Replication
13 6 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.80%) Reinsurance
15 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.94%) Windows
2 19 (3.04%) Linux
2 19 (3.04%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.88%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.76%) Android
4 11 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.44%) Unix
6 6 (0.96%) AIX
7 3 (0.48%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (25.80%) Agile
2 151 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (19.23%) CI/CD
4 115 (18.43%) DevOps
5 107 (17.15%) Decision-Making
6 97 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 92 (14.74%) Analytics
8 80 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (12.18%) AI
10 75 (12.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 74 (11.86%) Migration
12 64 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 56 (8.97%) Test Automation
15 55 (8.81%) Mentoring
16 52 (8.33%) Validation
17 50 (8.01%) Data Modelling
18 47 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
19 44 (7.05%) Data Pipeline
20 43 (6.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 108 (17.31%) Python
2 92 (14.74%) SQL
3 40 (6.41%) Java
4 38 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.01%) C#
6 24 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 22 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.40%) Bash
9 12 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.76%) R
11 10 (1.60%) Swift
12 8 (1.28%) Bicep
12 8 (1.28%) Go
13 7 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.96%) Ruby
15 5 (0.80%) VBA
16 4 (0.64%) Groovy
16 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.64%) Scala
16 4 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 98 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 91 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.33%) Degree
4 24 (3.85%) DBS Check
5 16 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.64%) PMP
12 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.32%) ACCA
13 2 (0.32%) CISM
13 2 (0.32%) CRISC
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (9.78%) Accessibility
2 36 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.01%) QA
4 22 (3.53%) WCAG
5 19 (3.04%) GDPR
6 13 (2.08%) SLA
7 11 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.60%) PMO
9 8 (1.28%) NCSC
10 5 (0.80%) COBIT
10 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.80%) GRC
11 3 (0.48%) NIST
12 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.32%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (8.01%) Docker
2 43 (6.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.24%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.96%) KVM
5 6 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.32%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.16%) Firmware
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (11.06%) Terraform
2 50 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.53%) Grafana
4 19 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.56%) Ansible
6 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.92%) SCCM
7 7 (1.12%) Kibana
8 6 (0.96%) IBM BigFix
8 6 (0.96%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.64%) Consul
9 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.48%) Rancher
11 2 (0.32%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.32%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.32%) Packer
11 2 (0.32%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 117 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.49%) Databricks
3 26 (4.17%) Google
4 24 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.69%) SAP
6 22 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 21 (3.37%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.40%) Siemens
9 14 (2.24%) Oracle
10 12 (1.92%) CyberArk
11 10 (1.60%) VMware
12 9 (1.44%) PagerDuty
13 7 (1.12%) IBM
13 7 (1.12%) Qualys
13 7 (1.12%) Sage
14 6 (0.96%) Apple
15 5 (0.80%) Cisco
16 4 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.64%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.64%) Signiant