Inclusion and Diversity Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 163 205
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 +302
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 560 659 771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.51% 1.29%
As % of the General category 3.03% 2.60% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 485 502
10th Percentile £195 £400 £450
25th Percentile £400 £513 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -8.87% -0.98% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 5
10th Percentile - £11.36 -
25th Percentile - £12.27 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.64 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -44.51% -22.00%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £36.28 £58.70 £64.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 £19.62 £13.88
% change year-on-year +12.84% +41.41% -72.25%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 2025. 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 +19 497 £550 -10.02% 2,624
UK excluding London +78 263 £463 -8.87% 1,371
London -26 263 £600 -2.44% 1,460
Work from Home +34 239 £575 -4.17% 1,411
North of England +77 78 £450 -8.86% 380
South East +40 53 £508 -6.88% 299
Midlands +12 49 £455 -20.87% 215
Yorkshire +52 43 £400 +23.08% 111
South West +67 37 £525 -19.23% 167
North West +28 31 £450 -16.28% 229
West Midlands -9 31 £460 -23.33% 133
Scotland -4 21 £463 +19.35% 162
East Midlands +24 17 £438 -20.45% 82
East of England +39 16 £303 -55.19% 110
Northern Ireland -4 7 £410 - 24
North East -3 4 £475 - 45
Wales -4 2 £431 -14.74% 35

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.21%) Confluence
3 11 (1.96%) CMS
4 10 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.07%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.07%) Drupal
6 3 (0.54%) IBM Notes
6 3 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 51 (9.11%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.54%) InfoPath
5 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) FileZilla
7 1 (0.18%) Revit
7 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.79%) NEC Housing
2 6 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.36%) CiviCRM
4 2 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.36%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.36%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 72 (12.86%) Azure
2 63 (11.25%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (8.04%) Entra ID
4 40 (7.14%) AWS
4 40 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 12 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 9 (1.61%) SaaS
6 9 (1.61%) Snowflake
7 8 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.43%) Google Workspace
8 7 (1.25%) dbt
8 7 (1.25%) GCP
8 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (1.25%) PowerApps
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.71%) GitHub
10 4 (0.71%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.75%) Firewall
2 15 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (2.32%) Intranet
3 13 (2.32%) Network Security
4 11 (1.96%) VLAN
4 11 (1.96%) WAN
5 10 (1.79%) DNS
6 9 (1.61%) DHCP
7 8 (1.43%) LAN
8 7 (1.25%) BGP
9 6 (1.07%) OSPF
9 6 (1.07%) Radio Access Network
9 6 (1.07%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.07%) VPN
10 4 (0.71%) 4G
10 4 (0.71%) MPLS
10 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.71%) Wireless
11 3 (0.54%) 2G
11 3 (0.54%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.71%) Power BI
2 12 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (2.14%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.43%) Tableau
4 7 (1.25%) Big Data
4 7 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.07%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.89%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.54%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.54%) Flink
8 3 (0.54%) Metadata
8 3 (0.54%) MySQL
8 3 (0.54%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 27 (4.82%) JIRA
2 14 (2.50%) Git
3 7 (1.25%) Selenium
4 6 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.89%) GitLab
5 5 (0.89%) JUnit
6 4 (0.71%) HP UFT
6 4 (0.71%) TestComplete
7 3 (0.54%) Jasmine
7 3 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.36%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.36%) GoogleTest
8 2 (0.36%) JMeter
8 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 197 (35.18%) Social Skills
2 128 (22.86%) Finance
3 88 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.82%) Retail
6 23 (4.11%) Law
7 16 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.32%) Banking
8 13 (2.32%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.14%) Local Government
10 11 (1.96%) Public Speaking
11 10 (1.79%) Marketing
12 9 (1.61%) Legal
13 8 (1.43%) Police
14 7 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.89%) Automotive
17 4 (0.71%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (16.96%) Analyst
2 50 (8.93%) Developer
3 47 (8.39%) IT Support
4 37 (6.61%) Senior
5 35 (6.25%) Consultant
6 34 (6.07%) Architect
7 33 (5.89%) Lead
8 32 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 23 (4.11%) Support Engineer
10 22 (3.93%) IT Engineer
11 19 (3.39%) Project Manager
12 16 (2.86%) IT Manager
12 16 (2.86%) IT Support Engineer
13 15 (2.68%) 1st Line Support
14 13 (2.32%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.32%) Designer
14 13 (2.32%) Enterprise Architect
14 13 (2.32%) Service Analyst
14 13 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.32%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.96%) .NET
1 11 (1.96%) EDI
2 10 (1.79%) CSS
2 10 (1.79%) RESTful
3 8 (1.43%) Kafka
3 8 (1.43%) React
4 7 (1.25%) Akka
4 7 (1.25%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.25%) HTML
5 5 (0.89%) jQuery
5 5 (0.89%) JSON
5 5 (0.89%) Play Framework
5 5 (0.89%) Spring
6 4 (0.71%) LDAP
6 4 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.71%) Playwright
7 3 (0.54%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.54%) Flutter
8 2 (0.36%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 18 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.68%) Smartphone
5 13 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.32%) iPhone
6 11 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.43%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 6 (1.07%) IoT
10 5 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.89%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.89%) Industry 4.0
10 5 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.89%) Photography
11 4 (0.71%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.71%) Social Media
12 3 (0.54%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 63 (11.25%) Windows
2 24 (4.29%) Linux
3 21 (3.75%) Mac OS
4 14 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.43%) Android
6 8 (1.43%) Unix
7 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.89%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.18%) CentOS
12 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.18%) VMS
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (19.11%) Agile
3 59 (10.54%) ITIL
4 49 (8.75%) Service Management
4 49 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (8.57%) Migration
6 47 (8.39%) Decision-Making
7 39 (6.96%) CI/CD
7 39 (6.96%) Mentoring
8 38 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (6.61%) Customer Service
10 34 (6.07%) ITSM
11 33 (5.89%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (5.71%) Analytics
12 32 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
12 32 (5.71%) Visualisation
13 31 (5.54%) Project Management
14 30 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 30 (5.36%) DevOps
15 29 (5.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 57 (10.18%) SQL
2 40 (7.14%) Python
3 22 (3.93%) JavaScript
4 17 (3.04%) Java
5 16 (2.86%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.14%) C#
7 9 (1.61%) Scala
8 6 (1.07%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.89%) R
10 3 (0.54%) Bash
10 3 (0.54%) Dart
10 3 (0.54%) Go
11 2 (0.36%) ABAP
11 2 (0.36%) C++
11 2 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.36%) Groovy
11 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.18%) VBA
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 78 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 53 (9.46%) Degree
4 13 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.89%) CISSP
7 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.89%) Postgraduate
8 4 (0.71%) CCNP
8 4 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.54%) ACCA
9 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.54%) CCIE
9 3 (0.54%) CIMA
9 3 (0.54%) CISM
9 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.54%) PMP
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.93%) QA
2 20 (3.57%) SLA
3 18 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.61%) PMO
6 8 (1.43%) GDPR
6 8 (1.43%) NIST
7 7 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.54%) WCAG
10 2 (0.36%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.18%) COBIT
11 1 (0.18%) COSO
11 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.18%) GxP
11 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS
11 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.18%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (10.54%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.96%) Docker
2 11 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.18%) Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 20 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
2 14 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.32%) SCCM
4 10 (1.79%) Terraform
5 9 (1.61%) Ansible
6 7 (1.25%) Kibana
7 6 (1.07%) Grafana
8 5 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.36%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.18%) Istio
11 1 (0.18%) linkerd
11 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.18%) QRadar
11 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 93 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.39%) Apple
3 19 (3.39%) Oracle
4 17 (3.04%) Google
4 17 (3.04%) VMware
5 14 (2.50%) Cisco
5 14 (2.50%) SAP
6 11 (1.96%) NEC
7 8 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.07%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.07%) Databricks
8 6 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.07%) Splunk
9 5 (0.89%) Murex
9 5 (0.89%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.89%) SolarWinds
10 4 (0.71%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.71%) Reuters
10 4 (0.71%) Sage