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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 149 171
Rank change year-on-year -59 +22 +4
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 717 622 571
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.34% 1.91% 1.48%
As % of the General category 2.43% 3.01% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 253 372
10th Percentile £306 £173 £418
25th Percentile £373 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -22.92% -
75th Percentile £577 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £659 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -17.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 5
10th Percentile £15.35 £17.48 £29.60
25th Percentile £17.36 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -50.80% -29.13%
75th Percentile £30.28 £25.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £69.22 £70.00 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.90 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year +44.06% - -

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 29,557 20,661 22,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.16% 63.52% 57.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,441 12,839 13,661
10th Percentile £313 £275 £291
25th Percentile £418 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £741 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.62% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,305 1,166 1,210
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.50 £14.23
25th Percentile £16.80 £16.17 £17.12
Median hourly rate £31.10 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -31.10% +32.73%
75th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.20 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.53 £22.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year +42.98% -38.75% +38.46%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -67 620 £463 -2.63% 4,714
UK excluding London -41 325 £425 +2.41% 2,996
London -64 322 £525 -1.87% 2,791
Work from Home -41 265 £520 +6.07% 2,486
Midlands -23 100 £425 -0.58% 382
South East -34 79 £450 -11.33% 483
North of England -59 77 £425 +14.09% 670
West Midlands -20 75 £460 +9.52% 282
North East 0 49 £425 +6.25% 91
Scotland -26 27 £288 -37.84% 517
East Midlands -12 25 £164 -62.78% 100
South West -37 25 £475 -20.83% 496
North West -50 14 £518 +29.38% 411
Yorkshire -68 14 £400 +100.00% 169
East of England -32 9 £425 +174.19% 209
Wales -12 7 £394 +18.90% 52
Northern Ireland +1 1 - - 231

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 32 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.37%) Confluence
3 12 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.53%) CMS
5 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (1.26%) WordPress
7 8 (1.12%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.84%) Apache
9 4 (0.56%) Kentico
10 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.14%) Drupal
12 1 (0.14%) JBoss
12 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.42%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.42%) Trello
6 2 (0.28%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (2.37%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.70%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.70%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 211 (29.43%) Azure
2 122 (17.02%) AWS
3 79 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (10.04%) Power Platform
5 63 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (6.83%) GCP
7 41 (5.72%) GitHub
8 37 (5.16%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (4.60%) Serverless
10 27 (3.77%) Power Automate
11 25 (3.49%) Entra ID
12 23 (3.21%) Snowflake
13 22 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (2.37%) dbt
16 16 (2.23%) SaaS
17 14 (1.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.81%) DNS
1 13 (1.81%) Firewall
1 13 (1.81%) VPN
2 12 (1.67%) Network Security
3 11 (1.53%) VLAN
3 11 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.39%) Wireless
5 9 (1.26%) DHCP
6 6 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.84%) WAN
7 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.56%) BGP
8 4 (0.56%) OSPF
9 3 (0.42%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.42%) HTTP
9 3 (0.42%) MPLS
9 3 (0.42%) NGN
9 3 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.83%) Power BI
2 33 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.93%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.51%) Metadata
6 15 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.39%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.26%) Big Data
8 9 (1.26%) Power Query
8 9 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.12%) Looker
9 8 (1.12%) Tableau
10 7 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.98%) Redis
10 7 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 43 (6.00%) JIRA
2 38 (5.30%) Git
3 29 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.63%) GitLab
5 11 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.53%) Selenium
6 10 (1.39%) fastlane
6 10 (1.39%) Postman
7 9 (1.26%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.26%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.84%) Gradle
8 6 (0.84%) JUnit
8 6 (0.84%) Mockito
8 6 (0.84%) Vite
9 5 (0.70%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.70%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.70%) Xcode
10 4 (0.56%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 271 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 202 (28.17%) Public Sector
3 187 (26.08%) Finance
4 112 (15.62%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (3.63%) Banking
7 24 (3.35%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.37%) Law
10 15 (2.09%) Local Government
11 14 (1.95%) Legal
11 14 (1.95%) Marketing
12 13 (1.81%) Retail
13 12 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.98%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.98%) Military
15 7 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (15.34%) Developer
2 105 (14.64%) Analyst
3 80 (11.16%) Senior
4 72 (10.04%) Lead
5 56 (7.81%) Architect
6 46 (6.42%) Consultant
7 31 (4.32%) Data Engineer
8 28 (3.91%) Senior Developer
9 27 (3.77%) Business Analyst
9 27 (3.77%) Data Analyst
9 27 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (3.35%) Support Engineer
11 23 (3.21%) IT Engineer
12 19 (2.65%) IT Support
13 18 (2.51%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.51%) Software Developer
14 17 (2.37%) Coordinator
15 16 (2.23%) Dynamics 365 Developer
16 15 (2.09%) Administrator
17 14 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (11.30%) Terraform
2 42 (5.86%) RESTful
3 29 (4.04%) .NET
3 29 (4.04%) React
4 24 (3.35%) GraphQL
4 24 (3.35%) HTML
5 23 (3.21%) CSS
6 21 (2.93%) Node.js
7 20 (2.79%) JSON
7 20 (2.79%) Kafka
8 19 (2.65%) REST
9 17 (2.37%) Django
9 17 (2.37%) PySpark
10 16 (2.23%) Spring
10 16 (2.23%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.81%) OAuth
12 12 (1.67%) OpenID
13 11 (1.53%) Gherkin
13 11 (1.53%) OAuth2
14 9 (1.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.34%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.58%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 11 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.98%) EPoS
12 7 (0.98%) Replication
12 7 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.70%) Blog
13 5 (0.70%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 75 (10.46%) Windows
2 20 (2.79%) Linux
3 19 (2.65%) Windows 10
4 17 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.95%) Apple iOS
6 13 (1.81%) Android
7 5 (0.70%) Unix
8 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.56%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) AIX
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (32.91%) Agile
2 176 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (22.04%) DevOps
4 148 (20.64%) CI/CD
5 143 (19.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 127 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 117 (16.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 113 (15.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 103 (14.37%) Analytics
10 102 (14.23%) AI
11 97 (13.53%) Decision-Making
12 85 (11.85%) Migration
13 73 (10.18%) Mentoring
13 73 (10.18%) Test Automation
14 70 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 67 (9.34%) Validation
16 62 (8.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 62 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
17 59 (8.23%) Roadmaps
18 58 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 110 (15.34%) Python
2 101 (14.09%) SQL
3 63 (8.79%) JavaScript
4 46 (6.42%) C#
5 42 (5.86%) Java
6 28 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 14 (1.95%) Kotlin
8 13 (1.81%) PowerShell
9 10 (1.39%) Bash
9 10 (1.39%) Go
9 10 (1.39%) Scala
9 10 (1.39%) Swift
10 8 (1.12%) Bicep
10 8 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.12%) Ruby
11 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.70%) Groovy
12 5 (0.70%) PHP
13 4 (0.56%) R
13 4 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 146 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 135 (18.83%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.39%) Degree
4 28 (3.91%) DBS Check
5 27 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 25 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.81%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.26%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.98%) CISSP
12 6 (0.84%) ACCA
12 6 (0.84%) CIMA
12 6 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.70%) CISM
13 5 (0.70%) PMP
14 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.56%) DV Cleared
15 3 (0.42%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (13.81%) Accessibility
2 46 (6.42%) QA
3 41 (5.72%) WCAG
4 40 (5.58%) Data Quality
5 37 (5.16%) GDPR
6 22 (3.07%) SLA
7 17 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.67%) NCSC
9 10 (1.39%) PMO
10 8 (1.12%) NIST
11 6 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.84%) GRC
12 5 (0.70%) COBIT
13 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.28%) DICOM
14 2 (0.28%) GxP
14 2 (0.28%) HL7
System Software
1 59 (8.23%) Docker
2 45 (6.28%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.12%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
5 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.28%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.04%) Grafana
3 24 (3.35%) Prometheus
4 19 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.23%) Ansible
6 14 (1.95%) SCCM
7 6 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.70%) Consul
8 5 (0.70%) Kibana
9 3 (0.42%) Packer
9 3 (0.42%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.14%) SCOM
11 1 (0.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 162 (22.59%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.88%) Google
3 28 (3.91%) Databricks
4 24 (3.35%) Dynatrace
4 24 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.07%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.07%) SAP
6 17 (2.37%) Oracle
7 12 (1.67%) CyberArk
7 12 (1.67%) Sage
8 11 (1.53%) Splunk
9 10 (1.39%) Cisco
9 10 (1.39%) VMware
10 9 (1.26%) Apple
10 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.26%) PagerDuty
11 8 (1.12%) Qualys
11 8 (1.12%) UiPath
12 7 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (0.98%) Signiant