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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 158 167
Rank change year-on-year -88 +9 +51
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 488 522 645
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.10% 1.80% 1.46%
As % of the General category 1.95% 2.86% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 272 471
10th Percentile £173 £219 £375
25th Percentile £350 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £613 £660 £688
90th Percentile £675 £766 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £508 £511
% change year-on-year -18.72% -0.64% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 22
10th Percentile £14.94 - £11.37
25th Percentile £16.16 - £12.56
Median hourly rate £17.42 £22.14 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -21.32% +0.68% -16.82%
75th Percentile £50.38 - £47.50
90th Percentile £108.65 £36.28 £58.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.84 £22.14 £21.64
% change year-on-year -23.94% +2.31% +55.96%

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 25,086 18,273 25,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.44% 62.88% 58.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,628 11,727 16,422
10th Percentile £303 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,551 706 1,837
10th Percentile £13.72 £15.00 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £19.79 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.53 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +13.56% -25.71%
75th Percentile £58.84 £58.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £27.97 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.82% +11.88% -20.97%

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 28 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 15 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 28 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 -93 443 £475 -20.83% 780
Work from Home -24 230 £537 -10.50% 357
London -53 227 £550 -10.57% 340
UK excluding London -91 213 £413 -18.72% 663
Midlands -59 66 £495 -1.00% 78
South East -53 53 £375 -27.01% 265
West Midlands -50 42 £540 +2.86% 46
North of England -86 42 £425 -5.56% 143
East of England -14 27 £520 +235.48% 48
East Midlands -23 24 £155 -65.56% 32
North West -43 24 £375 -16.67% 65
South West -44 18 £539 +2.57% 70
Yorkshire -69 10 £275 -39.73% 58
Scotland -3 9 £213 -54.05% 46
North East -10 8 £425 -5.56% 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 18 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.66%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.46%) Confluence
5 8 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.82%) WordPress
8 2 (0.41%) Apache
8 2 (0.41%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Appian
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
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 25 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.82%) Trello
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe Captivate
4 3 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.41%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.41%) InVision
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) CODA-Financials
2 2 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.41%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.20%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.20%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (23.57%) Azure
2 81 (16.60%) AWS
3 34 (6.97%) Power Platform
4 33 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (4.71%) GitHub
6 21 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
8 18 (3.69%) dbt
8 18 (3.69%) GCP
9 16 (3.28%) SaaS
10 15 (3.07%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.46%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.05%) Google Workspace
13 10 (2.05%) Serverless
14 9 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.64%) Figma
16 7 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.69%) TCP/IP
2 15 (3.07%) Ethernet
3 12 (2.46%) Firewall
4 10 (2.05%) Network Security
5 8 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (1.43%) WAN
7 6 (1.23%) DHCP
7 6 (1.23%) DNS
8 5 (1.02%) HTTP
8 5 (1.02%) LAN
8 5 (1.02%) VLAN
8 5 (1.02%) VPN
8 5 (1.02%) VSAN
9 3 (0.61%) AMQP
10 2 (0.41%) Intranet
10 2 (0.41%) MPLS
10 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.20%) SAN
11 1 (0.20%) VoIP
11 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (5.94%) Power BI
2 25 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.25%) Big Data
6 10 (2.05%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.43%) Metadata
9 6 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.23%) DB2
9 6 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.23%) Tableau
10 5 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.02%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.82%) Looker
11 4 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.92%) Git
2 20 (4.10%) JIRA
3 9 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.23%) GitLab
4 6 (1.23%) JMeter
5 5 (1.02%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.02%) Gatling
5 5 (1.02%) LoadRunner
5 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.61%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.61%) Maven
6 3 (0.61%) Selenium
6 3 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.41%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.41%) fastlane
7 2 (0.41%) JUnit
7 2 (0.41%) Mockito
7 2 (0.41%) Snyk
8 1 (0.20%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
General
1 160 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 114 (23.36%) Finance
3 69 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 58 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (4.51%) Banking
6 17 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.66%) Local Government
8 10 (2.05%) Fire and Rescue
8 10 (2.05%) Marketing
8 10 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (1.84%) Retail
10 8 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.43%) Legal
12 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.82%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.82%) Military
13 4 (0.82%) Publishing
14 3 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (15.57%) Analyst
2 39 (7.99%) Data Engineer
3 34 (6.97%) Architect
3 34 (6.97%) Lead
3 34 (6.97%) Senior
4 30 (6.15%) Support Engineer
5 29 (5.94%) Developer
6 25 (5.12%) Consultant
7 20 (4.10%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.10%) IT Engineer
8 19 (3.89%) IT Support
9 17 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
10 16 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.28%) Project Manager
11 15 (3.07%) Business Analyst
11 15 (3.07%) IT Analyst
11 15 (3.07%) Technical Engineer
12 14 (2.87%) Service Analyst
13 12 (2.46%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.48%) EDI
2 13 (2.66%) YAML
3 10 (2.05%) Middleware
3 10 (2.05%) PySpark
4 8 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 8 (1.64%) HTML
4 8 (1.64%) React
5 7 (1.43%) .NET
6 6 (1.23%) REST
6 6 (1.23%) Spring
6 6 (1.23%) Spring Boot
7 4 (0.82%) CSS
7 4 (0.82%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.82%) JPA
7 4 (0.82%) RESTful
8 3 (0.61%) JSON
8 3 (0.61%) Kafka
8 3 (0.61%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.61%) Web Services
8 3 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.71%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.07%) Industry 4.0
5 15 (3.07%) Robotics
6 9 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.43%) Replication
7 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.02%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.02%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.82%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.61%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.38%) Windows
2 17 (3.48%) Windows 10
3 11 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.05%) Linux
5 6 (1.23%) AIX
5 6 (1.23%) Unix
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
1 127 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (14.96%) Agile
3 71 (14.55%) CI/CD
4 68 (13.93%) Decision-Making
5 65 (13.32%) DevOps
6 61 (12.50%) Analytics
7 47 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (8.81%) Migration
9 38 (7.79%) Data Modelling
10 37 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (7.38%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (6.97%) Customer Service
13 31 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (6.35%) Data Engineering
14 30 (6.15%) Mentoring
14 30 (6.15%) Test Automation
15 29 (5.94%) AI
16 27 (5.53%) Data Governance
16 27 (5.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 77 (15.78%) SQL
2 65 (13.32%) Python
3 20 (4.10%) PowerShell
4 18 (3.69%) Java
5 16 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.25%) Bash
7 10 (2.05%) R
8 8 (1.64%) C#
9 6 (1.23%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.02%) VBA
11 3 (0.61%) Go
11 3 (0.61%) Scala
12 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.41%) AWK
12 2 (0.41%) Groovy
12 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.41%) Ruby
12 2 (0.41%) Rust
13 1 (0.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 73 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 44 (9.02%) Degree
4 17 (3.48%) DBS Check
5 15 (3.07%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.82%) CISSP
9 4 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (0.61%) ACCA
10 3 (0.61%) CIMA
10 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.61%) SANS
11 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.89%) QA
4 9 (1.84%) GDPR
5 8 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.23%) PMO
7 5 (1.02%) SLA
7 5 (1.02%) WCAG
8 4 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.61%) GRC
10 2 (0.41%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.41%) NIST
10 2 (0.41%) PSD2
10 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) GxP
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.69%) Docker
3 10 (2.05%) 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%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (7.38%) Terraform
2 22 (4.51%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.07%) Grafana
4 14 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.84%) Ansible
5 9 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.23%) IBM BigFix
6 6 (1.23%) Kibana
6 6 (1.23%) SCCM
6 6 (1.23%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.61%) Argo
8 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.41%) Rancher
10 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.20%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.20%) vRealize
10 1 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 75 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.94%) Databricks
3 21 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.10%) Oracle
5 17 (3.48%) Google
6 15 (3.07%) SAP
6 15 (3.07%) Siemens
7 13 (2.66%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.46%) VMware
9 11 (2.25%) Salesforce
10 10 (2.05%) Cisco
11 9 (1.84%) Adobe
12 7 (1.43%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.23%) IBM
14 5 (1.02%) Meraki
15 4 (0.82%) Dell
15 4 (0.82%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.82%) Talend
16 3 (0.61%) Citrix
16 3 (0.61%) Commvault