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 21 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 145 159
Rank change year-on-year -77 +14 +40
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 594 599 651
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.17% 2.00% 1.48%
As % of the General category 2.16% 3.15% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 245 442
10th Percentile £306 £182 £413
25th Percentile £382 £375 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £685 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £506
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 21
10th Percentile £18.40 - £11.36
25th Percentile £19.00 - £12.27
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +2.31% -45.56%
75th Percentile £44.50 - £47.50
90th Percentile £106.30 £50.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £94.75 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +327.96% +25.80% -59.94%

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 27,509 18,996 25,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.28% 63.51% 56.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,595 11,964 15,619
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -4.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £490
% change year-on-year +6.38% -4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,848 913 2,035
10th Percentile £13.99 £13.50 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.36 £28.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £61.18 £53.95 £53.00
90th Percentile £80.46 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.78 £24.34 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.56% -18.87% +15.50%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -88 517 £492 -6.29% 639
London -63 277 £525 -8.70% 284
UK excluding London -104 251 £450 - 522
Work from Home -39 244 £528 -2.99% 381
Midlands -54 69 £533 +19.66% 73
South East -54 68 £425 -16.26% 160
North of England -91 56 £425 +6.25% 115
West Midlands -45 54 £540 +21.35% 38
North East - 29 £425 - 12
Scotland -15 20 £250 -45.95% 29
East of England -29 18 £338 +3.85% 43
South West -37 18 £475 -15.59% 57
East Midlands -28 15 £133 -69.71% 35
Yorkshire -91 14 £400 +0.63% 37
North West -53 13 £365 -14.21% 66
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 31
Wales -17 1 £700 +62.57% 28

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 20 (3.37%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.68%) Confluence
5 8 (1.35%) CMS
6 5 (0.84%) WordPress
7 4 (0.67%) Apache
7 4 (0.67%) Kentico
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Sketch
4 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) InVision
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.68%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.51%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.34%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.17%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.17%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (26.60%) Azure
2 104 (17.51%) AWS
3 49 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 40 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (6.06%) GCP
7 33 (5.56%) GitHub
8 25 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (4.04%) Entra ID
10 19 (3.20%) dbt
11 17 (2.86%) Snowflake
12 16 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (2.69%) Serverless
13 13 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.68%) Firebase
15 10 (1.68%) Power Automate
15 10 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.37%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.53%) Ethernet
3 12 (2.02%) Network Security
4 10 (1.68%) Firewall
5 9 (1.52%) VLAN
5 9 (1.52%) WAN
6 8 (1.35%) DNS
6 8 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.01%) DHCP
7 6 (1.01%) HTTP
7 6 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.01%) VPN
7 6 (1.01%) VSAN
8 4 (0.67%) MPLS
9 3 (0.51%) BGP
9 3 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.51%) LAN
9 3 (0.51%) OSPF
9 3 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (6.23%) Power BI
2 26 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (4.04%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.19%) Big Data
6 12 (2.02%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.52%) Metadata
7 9 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.35%) Db2
9 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.18%) Tableau
10 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (1.01%) Looker
10 6 (1.01%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.84%) Redis
12 4 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 31 (5.22%) JIRA
2 29 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.70%) Git
4 18 (3.03%) GitLab
5 10 (1.68%) fastlane
6 6 (1.01%) JMeter
6 6 (1.01%) Vite
7 5 (0.84%) Android Studio
7 5 (0.84%) Crashlytics
7 5 (0.84%) Gatling
7 5 (0.84%) Gradle
7 5 (0.84%) JUnit
7 5 (0.84%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.84%) Mockito
7 5 (0.84%) Selenium
7 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.84%) Xcode
8 4 (0.67%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 197 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 169 (28.45%) Finance
3 138 (23.23%) Public Sector
4 82 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.71%) Banking
6 18 (3.03%) Law
7 17 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.53%) Legal
9 14 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.35%) Local Government
13 8 (1.35%) Marketing
14 7 (1.18%) Retail
15 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.84%) General Ledger
17 4 (0.67%) Police
18 3 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 79 (13.30%) Analyst
2 74 (12.46%) Developer
3 61 (10.27%) Senior
4 54 (9.09%) Lead
5 40 (6.73%) Architect
6 37 (6.23%) Consultant
7 34 (5.72%) Data Engineer
8 24 (4.04%) Data Analyst
9 23 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (3.54%) Business Analyst
11 20 (3.37%) Support Engineer
12 19 (3.20%) IT Support
12 19 (3.20%) Senior Developer
13 16 (2.69%) IT Engineer
13 16 (2.69%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.69%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (2.53%) Technical Engineer
15 14 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
17 11 (1.85%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.55%) RESTful
2 21 (3.54%) .NET
3 20 (3.37%) React
4 18 (3.03%) GraphQL
5 14 (2.36%) Kafka
5 14 (2.36%) REST
6 13 (2.19%) HTML
7 12 (2.02%) CSS
7 12 (2.02%) Spring
7 12 (2.02%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.85%) PySpark
9 9 (1.52%) Node.js
10 8 (1.35%) Django
11 7 (1.18%) ARM Templates
11 7 (1.18%) JSON
11 7 (1.18%) Middleware
11 7 (1.18%) Next.js
11 7 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.01%) YAML
13 5 (0.84%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 36 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 17 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.53%) Industry 4.0
6 15 (2.53%) Robotics
7 13 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.01%) EPoS
12 6 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.84%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.84%) Replication
14 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.60%) Windows
2 19 (3.20%) Linux
2 19 (3.20%) Windows 10
3 17 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.85%) Android
4 11 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.52%) Unix
6 6 (1.01%) AIX
7 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (25.25%) Agile
2 144 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (20.03%) CI/CD
4 111 (18.69%) DevOps
5 103 (17.34%) Decision-Making
6 87 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 86 (14.48%) Analytics
8 76 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (12.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 67 (11.28%) AI
11 65 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 64 (10.77%) Migration
13 54 (9.09%) Test Automation
14 52 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 50 (8.42%) Mentoring
16 46 (7.74%) Data Modelling
17 44 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
18 43 (7.24%) Validation
19 40 (6.73%) User Experience
20 39 (6.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 104 (17.51%) Python
2 87 (14.65%) SQL
3 40 (6.73%) Java
4 34 (5.72%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.87%) PowerShell
6 22 (3.70%) C#
7 21 (3.54%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.53%) Bash
9 11 (1.85%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.85%) R
10 10 (1.68%) Swift
11 8 (1.35%) Bicep
12 7 (1.18%) Go
12 7 (1.18%) Scala
13 6 (1.01%) Ruby
14 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.84%) VBA
15 4 (0.67%) Groovy
15 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 89 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.91%) Degree
4 20 (3.37%) DBS Check
5 15 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.67%) PMP
12 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.34%) ACCA
13 2 (0.34%) CIMA
13 2 (0.34%) CIPD
13 2 (0.34%) CISM
13 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (9.43%) Accessibility
2 33 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.87%) QA
4 20 (3.37%) WCAG
5 17 (2.86%) GDPR
6 12 (2.02%) SLA
7 9 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.18%) NCSC
8 7 (1.18%) PMO
9 5 (0.84%) COBIT
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.67%) GRC
11 3 (0.51%) NIST
12 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.34%) PSD2
13 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.17%) GMP
13 1 (0.17%) GxP
13 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (8.42%) Docker
2 41 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.19%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.01%) KVM
5 6 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.01%) vSphere
6 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (11.45%) Terraform
2 51 (8.59%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.70%) Grafana
4 19 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.86%) Ansible
6 12 (2.02%) SCCM
7 10 (1.68%) Kibana
8 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.01%) IBM BigFix
9 6 (1.01%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.67%) Consul
10 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.51%) Rancher
12 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.34%) Packer
12 2 (0.34%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.17%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 101 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.21%) Databricks
2 25 (4.21%) Google
3 22 (3.70%) SAP
4 21 (3.54%) Dynatrace
4 21 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.53%) Siemens
7 14 (2.36%) Oracle
8 12 (2.02%) CyberArk
8 12 (2.02%) VMware
9 7 (1.18%) IBM
9 7 (1.18%) PagerDuty
10 6 (1.01%) Qualys
11 5 (0.84%) Apple
11 5 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.84%) Sage
12 4 (0.67%) Cisco
13 3 (0.51%) Dell
13 3 (0.51%) HP