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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 167 172
Rank change year-on-year -47 +5 +65
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 487 516 640
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.24% 1.68% 1.42%
As % of the General category 2.10% 2.71% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 265 455
10th Percentile £173 £291 £375
25th Percentile £353 £453 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £675 £800 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -28.57% +3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 19
10th Percentile £14.61 - £10.40
25th Percentile £15.34 - £11.86
Median hourly rate £16.67 - £21.64
75th Percentile £62.94 - £49.35
90th Percentile £145.18 - £63.29
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.67 - £34.21
% change year-on-year - - +146.56%

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 23,185 19,019 26,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.91% 61.97% 58.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,554 11,363 17,034
10th Percentile £290 £281 £265
25th Percentile £402 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,424 603 1,632
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.12 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.83 £29.00 £25.22
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +15.01% -3.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.26 £75.00 £67.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.80 £27.06 £24.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% +12.76% -0.08%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -57 437 £475 -20.83% 673
London -27 254 £571 -6.73% 271
Work from Home -18 223 £425 -29.17% 379
UK excluding London -84 183 £375 -28.57% 635
Midlands -58 59 £195 -66.09% 75
South East -21 39 £375 +11.11% 282
North of England -67 38 £375 -16.67% 116
West Midlands -67 35 £195 -66.09% 49
North West -26 26 £470 +4.47% 60
East Midlands -18 24 £168 -64.76% 26
South West -30 19 £540 +2.86% 59
East of England -13 16 £535 - 39
Scotland +5 14 £175 -63.16% 57
Yorkshire -54 10 £375 -26.83% 35
North East -18 2 - - 21
Northern Ireland -7 1 £625 +8.70% 9

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 14 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.26%) Confluence
4 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.03%) CMS
6 4 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.82%) WordPress
7 3 (0.62%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.41%) Apache
8 2 (0.41%) Camunda
8 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) Appian
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 16 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.82%) Adobe Captivate
4 4 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.62%) Trello
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.41%) InVision
6 2 (0.41%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.41%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 112 (23.00%) Azure
2 72 (14.78%) AWS
3 36 (7.39%) Power Platform
4 26 (5.34%) GitHub
4 26 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (4.11%) GCP
7 16 (3.29%) dbt
7 16 (3.29%) SaaS
8 11 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (2.26%) Serverless
9 10 (2.05%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.85%) Entra ID
11 8 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.64%) Google Workspace
12 7 (1.44%) Figma
13 6 (1.23%) npm
13 6 (1.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.67%) Network Security
2 10 (2.05%) Firewall
3 9 (1.85%) VPN
4 8 (1.64%) WAN
5 6 (1.23%) LAN
6 5 (1.03%) DNS
6 5 (1.03%) VSAN
7 4 (0.82%) DHCP
7 4 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.62%) AMQP
8 3 (0.62%) Intranet
8 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.62%) VLAN
9 2 (0.41%) MPLS
9 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.21%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.21%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.21%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.54%) Power BI
2 19 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.85%) Big Data
5 9 (1.85%) Metadata
6 8 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.44%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
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 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (0.62%) DB2
10 3 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (5.13%) Git
2 17 (3.49%) JIRA
3 9 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.03%) GitLab
5 5 (1.03%) Maven
6 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.62%) Selenium
7 3 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.41%) JMeter
8 2 (0.41%) JUnit
8 2 (0.41%) Mockito
9 1 (0.21%) Appium
9 1 (0.21%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.21%) Gatling
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 165 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 120 (24.64%) Finance
3 61 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.93%) Banking
6 20 (4.11%) Marketing
7 16 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.67%) Legal
9 11 (2.26%) Local Government
9 11 (2.26%) Retail
10 10 (2.05%) Fire and Rescue
11 8 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Military
13 5 (1.03%) Publishing
14 4 (0.82%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.82%) Law
14 4 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (15.81%) Analyst
2 42 (8.62%) Lead
3 39 (8.01%) Architect
4 35 (7.19%) Data Engineer
5 32 (6.57%) Developer
5 32 (6.57%) Senior
6 28 (5.75%) Support Engineer
7 25 (5.13%) Project Manager
8 19 (3.90%) IT Support
9 18 (3.70%) Consultant
10 17 (3.49%) Business Analyst
10 17 (3.49%) IT Engineer
11 16 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (3.29%) IT Analyst
12 14 (2.87%) Data Analyst
12 14 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.67%) Service Analyst
13 13 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.46%) PMO Lead
15 11 (2.26%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.70%) EDI
2 11 (2.26%) Spring
2 11 (2.26%) Spring Boot
2 11 (2.26%) YAML
3 10 (2.05%) AngularJS
3 10 (2.05%) Middleware
3 10 (2.05%) React
3 10 (2.05%) REST
4 9 (1.85%) HTML
5 8 (1.64%) .NET
6 5 (1.03%) CSS
6 5 (1.03%) PySpark
7 4 (0.82%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.82%) JPA
7 4 (0.82%) Kafka
7 4 (0.82%) RESTful
8 3 (0.62%) Akka
8 3 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.62%) Playwright
8 3 (0.62%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.72%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.31%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 7 (1.44%) Virtual Team
6 6 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.03%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.03%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.03%) Replication
8 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.82%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.62%) Windows
2 13 (2.67%) Windows 10
2 13 (2.67%) Windows Server
3 11 (2.26%) Linux
4 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.82%) Unix
5 3 (0.62%) AIX
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (14.78%) Agile
3 67 (13.76%) CI/CD
3 67 (13.76%) DevOps
4 61 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (10.47%) Analytics
6 46 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (8.42%) Decision-Making
7 41 (8.42%) Migration
8 38 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (6.98%) Data Modelling
10 32 (6.57%) Mentoring
10 32 (6.57%) Project Management
10 32 (6.57%) Test Automation
11 31 (6.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (6.16%) Data Governance
13 29 (5.95%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (5.75%) Business Intelligence
15 26 (5.34%) Coaching
16 25 (5.13%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (14.17%) SQL
2 62 (12.73%) Python
3 27 (5.54%) Java
4 23 (4.72%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.29%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.26%) C#
7 9 (1.85%) R
7 9 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.64%) Bash
9 6 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.03%) Go
11 4 (0.82%) Rust
12 3 (0.62%) C++
12 3 (0.62%) Scala
13 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.41%) AWK
13 2 (0.41%) C
13 2 (0.41%) Perl
13 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (13.96%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.91%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.16%) Degree
4 16 (3.29%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.87%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.82%) ACCA
8 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.82%) CIMA
8 4 (0.82%) CISSP
8 4 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
8 4 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.62%) OCP
9 3 (0.62%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.72%) QA
2 22 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 22 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.87%) PMO
4 12 (2.46%) GDPR
5 8 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.03%) GRC
6 5 (1.03%) NIST
6 5 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.62%) SLA
8 3 (0.62%) WCAG
9 2 (0.41%) GMP
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.41%) PSD2
9 2 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (5.54%) Active Directory
2 23 (4.72%) Docker
3 6 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.03%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.03%) vSphere
5 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.62%) KVM
6 3 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (7.80%) Terraform
2 26 (5.34%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.46%) Grafana
4 10 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.64%) Ansible
7 7 (1.44%) SCCM
8 4 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.62%) Argo
9 3 (0.62%) IBM BigFix
9 3 (0.62%) Kibana
9 3 (0.62%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize
10 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 69 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.11%) Oracle
2 20 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.90%) Databricks
4 15 (3.08%) Google
4 15 (3.08%) VMware
5 12 (2.46%) Cisco
5 12 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.05%) Adobe
7 7 (1.44%) SAP
8 6 (1.23%) Citrix
8 6 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.82%) Apple
9 4 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.82%) Netskope
9 4 (0.82%) Talend
10 3 (0.62%) CODA
10 3 (0.62%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.62%) Meraki
10 3 (0.62%) MuleSoft
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