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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 166 164
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +103
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 598 525 730
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.44% 1.57%
As % of the General category 2.74% 2.44% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 300 491
10th Percentile £187 £413 £400
25th Percentile £357 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £650 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -20.95% +9.38% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £17.48 - £40.10
25th Percentile £18.64 - £40.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -66.82% +17.20%
75th Percentile £22.41 - £65.25
90th Percentile £67.50 - £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.14 - £63.40
% change year-on-year - - +17.40%

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 21,792 21,474 27,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.94% 58.79% 59.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,628 12,654 18,461
10th Percentile £275 £285 £293
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £643 £662
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,377 811 1,093
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.85 £16.70
Median hourly rate £25.00 £29.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -1.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £44.09 £55.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.35 £70.00 £71.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.94 £27.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -19.13% -1.36% +23.37%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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 +13 541 £513 -14.58% 2,036
London +30 351 £550 -10.20% 921
Work from Home +8 230 £513 -13.87% 996
UK excluding London -27 215 £415 -20.95% 1,585
Midlands -37 69 £420 -26.96% 177
West Midlands -46 47 £415 -27.83% 105
North of England -29 42 £310 -35.42% 246
South East +2 37 £438 -20.45% 806
Scotland +11 30 £288 -32.35% 125
East Midlands -3 22 £430 -14.00% 60
North West -9 21 £515 - 111
Yorkshire -22 20 £200 -59.18% 86
South West +14 19 £600 +23.08% 121
East of England -8 15 £240 -54.29% 84
Wales +1 3 £331 -5.08% 30
Northern Ireland -10 2 £450 -14.29% 26
North East -18 1 £400 -11.11% 49

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 17 (2.84%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.51%) CMS
3 9 (1.51%) Confluence
4 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.84%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.67%) WordPress
7 3 (0.50%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.50%) Moodle
8 2 (0.33%) Apache
8 2 (0.33%) Camunda
8 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 30 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.00%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.33%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.17%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.33%) CODA-Financials
5 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.17%) iTrent
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 126 (21.07%) Azure
2 58 (9.70%) AWS
3 50 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 25 (4.18%) GCP
8 17 (2.84%) SaaS
9 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (2.01%) GitHub
11 11 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (1.84%) Google Workspace
12 9 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.51%) Serverless
13 7 (1.17%) dbt
13 7 (1.17%) Figma
13 7 (1.17%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.84%) Firewall
2 14 (2.34%) Network Security
3 13 (2.17%) DNS
3 13 (2.17%) VPN
4 10 (1.67%) DHCP
5 8 (1.34%) LAN
5 8 (1.34%) WAN
6 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.84%) VLAN
8 4 (0.67%) SAN
8 4 (0.67%) SSL
8 4 (0.67%) Wireless
9 3 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.50%) DMARC
9 3 (0.50%) NAS
9 3 (0.50%) SMTP
10 2 (0.33%) HTTP
10 2 (0.33%) OSPF
10 2 (0.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.68%) Power BI
2 20 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (1.84%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.34%) Metadata
8 7 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.17%) Spark SQL
9 5 (0.84%) Tableau
10 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.33%) Big Data
12 2 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (3.18%) Git
2 15 (2.51%) JIRA
3 9 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.17%) JUnit
5 6 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.50%) ERwin
7 3 (0.50%) Mockito
7 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) Vite
7 3 (0.50%) webpack
8 2 (0.33%) GitLab
8 2 (0.33%) Maven
8 2 (0.33%) Selenium
8 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.17%) Appium
9 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 193 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 165 (27.59%) Finance
3 50 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (3.85%) Banking
7 20 (3.34%) Marketing
7 20 (3.34%) Retail
8 15 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.17%) Legal
9 13 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.84%) Law
11 9 (1.51%) Police
12 7 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.00%) Electronics
13 6 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.84%) Front Office
14 5 (0.84%) Military
14 5 (0.84%) Publishing
15 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (15.55%) Analyst
2 53 (8.86%) Developer
3 49 (8.19%) Project Manager
4 46 (7.69%) Lead
5 45 (7.53%) Architect
6 41 (6.86%) Senior
7 34 (5.69%) Business Analyst
8 28 (4.68%) Support Engineer
9 22 (3.68%) IT Manager
10 20 (3.34%) IT Engineer
11 19 (3.18%) Consultant
11 19 (3.18%) Data Engineer
11 19 (3.18%) IT Support
12 17 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (2.84%) Support Analyst
13 14 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.34%) IT Analyst
14 13 (2.17%) Designer
14 13 (2.17%) IT Project Manager
14 13 (2.17%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.68%) React
2 21 (3.51%) Spring
3 20 (3.34%) .NET
4 17 (2.84%) Spring Boot
5 16 (2.68%) EDI
6 15 (2.51%) SOAP
7 13 (2.17%) REST
8 12 (2.01%) CSS
9 11 (1.84%) HTML
10 10 (1.67%) AngularJS
11 9 (1.51%) Kafka
12 8 (1.34%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.34%) PySpark
12 8 (1.34%) RESTful
13 7 (1.17%) Middleware
14 6 (1.00%) .NET Core
14 6 (1.00%) Entity Framework
15 5 (0.84%) Dapper ORM
15 5 (0.84%) LINQ
15 5 (0.84%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.02%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.18%) Data Centre
2 19 (3.18%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.51%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.84%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.51%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.17%) Learning Management System
8 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.17%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.00%) e-Learning
10 5 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.84%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.20%) Windows
2 16 (2.68%) Linux
3 15 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) Android
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Rocky
7 1 (0.17%) Unix
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (17.06%) Agile
3 65 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (10.37%) CI/CD
5 61 (10.20%) DevOps
6 57 (9.53%) Migration
7 55 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (7.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (7.02%) Project Management
10 38 (6.35%) Coaching
11 35 (5.85%) Decision-Making
12 34 (5.69%) Analytics
12 34 (5.69%) Change Management
12 34 (5.69%) Software Engineering
13 32 (5.35%) Test Automation
14 31 (5.18%) Data Modelling
14 31 (5.18%) Mentoring
15 30 (5.02%) Customer Service
16 29 (4.85%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (4.85%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 59 (9.87%) SQL
2 58 (9.70%) Python
3 46 (7.69%) Java
4 35 (5.85%) JavaScript
5 22 (3.68%) C#
6 18 (3.01%) PowerShell
7 15 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.84%) C++
8 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.67%) Go
9 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.50%) Bash
10 3 (0.50%) Rust
11 2 (0.33%) AWK
11 2 (0.33%) Bicep
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 2 (0.33%) Scala
11 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (8.03%) Security Cleared
2 42 (7.02%) Degree
3 39 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.51%) DBS Check
5 12 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.00%) CISSP
9 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.67%) APMP
10 4 (0.67%) CCNA
10 4 (0.67%) CIPD
10 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.67%) PMP
11 3 (0.50%) ACCA
11 3 (0.50%) CIMA
11 3 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.18%) PMO
2 23 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.01%) QA
4 15 (2.51%) GDPR
5 14 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.84%) SLA
7 10 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 4 (0.67%) P3O
9 4 (0.67%) WCAG
10 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.50%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.33%) GMP
11 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.17%) GxP
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (9.53%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.18%) Docker
3 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.50%) Firmware
7 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.18%) Terraform
2 22 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (2.17%) SCCM
5 11 (1.84%) Grafana
6 7 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.17%) Demisto
10 1 (0.17%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Nagios
10 1 (0.17%) Nessus
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 112 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.52%) Cisco
3 25 (4.18%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.51%) Google
5 18 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.01%) VMware
6 17 (2.84%) Oracle
7 13 (2.17%) Adobe
7 13 (2.17%) Apple
8 10 (1.67%) Databricks
9 8 (1.34%) SAP
9 8 (1.34%) UiPath
10 7 (1.17%) Citrix
10 7 (1.17%) Splunk
11 6 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.84%) Lotus
12 5 (0.84%) Veeam
13 4 (0.67%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.67%) Dell
13 4 (0.67%) Murex