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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 148 163
Rank change year-on-year -61 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 641 610 654
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.22% 1.88% 1.53%
As % of the General category 2.23% 2.98% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 241 444
10th Percentile £306 £181 £413
25th Percentile £375 £358 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -20.83% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £660 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 18
10th Percentile £18.40 - £9.92
25th Percentile £19.00 - £12.99
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +0.68% -59.37%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £44.18
90th Percentile £106.30 £42.50 £51.38
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 28,784 20,447 24,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.71% 63.01% 57.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,221 12,834 15,299
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.67% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 1,047 1,882
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.31 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £26.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +24.53% -19.44% +7.71%
75th Percentile £62.94 £52.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.24 £70.06 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £22.63 £32.12
% change year-on-year +45.82% -29.53% +23.52%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -79 552 £490 -3.45% 1,075
London -52 295 £525 -4.55% 409
UK excluding London -96 276 £450 - 902
Work from Home -44 251 £525 -0.94% 801
Midlands -31 87 £525 +20.69% 117
South East -51 69 £450 -11.33% 250
West Midlands -35 68 £525 +26.51% 52
North of England -89 56 £425 +6.25% 213
North East - 28 £425 - 32
Scotland -20 21 £250 -45.95% 100
East Midlands -17 19 £165 -63.33% 65
East of England -20 19 £425 +30.77% 82
South West -39 19 £475 -20.83% 78
Yorkshire -88 15 £375 +0.67% 63
North West -54 13 £365 -8.85% 118
Wales -11 4 £475 +10.32% 56
Northern Ireland 0 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 27 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.87%) Confluence
3 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.56%) CMS
6 7 (1.09%) WordPress
7 5 (0.78%) Apache
8 4 (0.62%) Kentico
9 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.31%) 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 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.47%) Trello
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.31%) Sketch
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) InVision
Business Applications
1 13 (2.03%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.78%) Sage X3
5 4 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.31%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.16%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 176 (27.46%) Azure
2 106 (16.54%) AWS
3 57 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (7.33%) Power Platform
6 40 (6.24%) GCP
7 34 (5.30%) GitHub
8 26 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (3.90%) Entra ID
10 21 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (3.12%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.96%) Serverless
13 17 (2.65%) dbt
13 17 (2.65%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.56%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.12%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.34%) Ethernet
3 11 (1.72%) DNS
3 11 (1.72%) Network Security
4 10 (1.56%) Firewall
5 9 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.25%) DHCP
6 8 (1.25%) VLAN
6 8 (1.25%) VPN
6 8 (1.25%) WAN
7 6 (0.94%) HTTP
7 6 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (0.62%) MPLS
9 3 (0.47%) BGP
9 3 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.47%) LAN
9 3 (0.47%) OSPF
9 3 (0.47%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.24%) Power BI
2 29 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (4.06%) SQL Server
4 23 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.03%) Big Data
6 12 (1.87%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.56%) Metadata
8 9 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.25%) Db2
9 8 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.09%) Redis
11 6 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.94%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.94%) Power Query
11 6 (0.94%) Tableau
12 5 (0.78%) Looker
12 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (5.15%) JIRA
2 28 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.59%) Git
4 21 (3.28%) GitLab
5 10 (1.56%) fastlane
6 8 (1.25%) Selenium
7 7 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.09%) Postman
8 6 (0.94%) JMeter
8 6 (0.94%) Vite
8 6 (0.94%) WebDriver
9 5 (0.78%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.78%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.78%) Gradle
9 5 (0.78%) JUnit
9 5 (0.78%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.78%) Mockito
9 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.78%) Xcode
General
1 227 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 167 (26.05%) Finance
3 150 (23.40%) Public Sector
4 81 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
6 24 (3.74%) Banking
7 19 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (2.65%) Law
9 16 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.34%) Legal
11 14 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.72%) Marketing
14 10 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.40%) Retail
16 8 (1.25%) Local Government
16 8 (1.25%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.78%) Billing
17 5 (0.78%) General Ledger
18 4 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 86 (13.42%) Analyst
2 81 (12.64%) Developer
3 68 (10.61%) Senior
4 67 (10.45%) Lead
5 40 (6.24%) Consultant
6 38 (5.93%) Architect
7 37 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 25 (3.90%) Data Analyst
9 24 (3.74%) Business Analyst
9 24 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 22 (3.43%) IT Support
12 21 (3.28%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.12%) IT Engineer
14 17 (2.65%) Project Manager
15 15 (2.34%) Coordinator
15 15 (2.34%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.34%) Technical Engineer
16 14 (2.18%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (2.18%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.68%) RESTful
2 23 (3.59%) GraphQL
2 23 (3.59%) React
3 21 (3.28%) .NET
4 16 (2.50%) HTML
4 16 (2.50%) PySpark
4 16 (2.50%) REST
5 15 (2.34%) CSS
6 14 (2.18%) Kafka
6 14 (2.18%) Node.js
7 12 (1.87%) JSON
7 12 (1.87%) Spring
7 12 (1.87%) Spring Boot
8 9 (1.40%) Django
9 8 (1.25%) Gherkin
9 8 (1.25%) Middleware
10 7 (1.09%) ARM Templates
10 7 (1.09%) Next.js
10 7 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.94%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.27%) Onboarding
2 37 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 31 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.34%) Industry 4.0
6 15 (2.34%) Robotics
7 10 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.40%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.25%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.25%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.94%) EPoS
11 6 (0.94%) Replication
11 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.78%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (9.98%) Windows
2 19 (2.96%) Linux
2 19 (2.96%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.81%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.72%) Android
4 11 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.40%) Unix
6 6 (0.94%) AIX
7 4 (0.62%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.31%) VMS
8 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (27.61%) Agile
2 156 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (19.50%) CI/CD
4 121 (18.88%) DevOps
5 108 (16.85%) Decision-Making
6 107 (16.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 92 (14.35%) Analytics
8 86 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (13.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 78 (12.17%) Migration
11 76 (11.86%) AI
12 69 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 66 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 60 (9.36%) Test Automation
15 58 (9.05%) Mentoring
16 54 (8.42%) Validation
17 52 (8.11%) Data Modelling
18 47 (7.33%) Business Intelligence
18 47 (7.33%) User Experience
19 44 (6.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 112 (17.47%) Python
2 93 (14.51%) SQL
3 43 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 41 (6.40%) Java
5 28 (4.37%) C#
6 26 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.34%) Bash
9 13 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 11 (1.72%) R
11 10 (1.56%) Swift
12 9 (1.40%) Go
13 8 (1.25%) Bicep
13 8 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.09%) Ruby
15 5 (0.78%) VBA
16 4 (0.62%) Groovy
16 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.62%) Scala
16 4 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 104 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 58 (9.05%) Degree
4 26 (4.06%) DBS Check
5 19 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.94%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.62%) PMP
13 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.47%) CIPD
13 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.31%) ACCA
14 2 (0.31%) CRISC
14 2 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.76%) Accessibility
2 36 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.37%) QA
4 27 (4.21%) WCAG
5 22 (3.43%) GDPR
6 14 (2.18%) SLA
7 10 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.56%) PMO
8 8 (1.25%) NCSC
9 5 (0.78%) COBIT
9 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.78%) GRC
10 3 (0.47%) NIST
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.31%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (7.96%) Docker
2 45 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.18%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.94%) KVM
5 6 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.31%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.31%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Firmware
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (11.23%) Terraform
2 52 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.59%) Grafana
4 20 (3.12%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.34%) Ansible
6 13 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.87%) SCCM
8 7 (1.09%) Kibana
9 6 (0.94%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.62%) Consul
10 4 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.47%) Rancher
12 2 (0.31%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.31%) Packer
12 2 (0.31%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.06%) Salesforce
3 25 (3.90%) Google
4 24 (3.74%) Databricks
4 24 (3.74%) SAP
5 22 (3.43%) Dynatrace
5 22 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.34%) Siemens
7 13 (2.03%) Oracle
8 12 (1.87%) CyberArk
9 10 (1.56%) Sage
10 9 (1.40%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.25%) VMware
12 7 (1.09%) IBM
12 7 (1.09%) Qualys
13 6 (0.94%) Apple
14 5 (0.78%) Aspera
14 5 (0.78%) CA Agile Central
14 5 (0.78%) Cisco
14 5 (0.78%) Signiant