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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 140 159
Rank change year-on-year -100 +19 +51
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 522 578 662
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.00% 1.54%
As % of the General category 1.97% 3.16% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 244 471
10th Percentile £306 £185 £400
25th Percentile £381 £398 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -15.42% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £685 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -6.59% -9.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 21
10th Percentile £15.28 - £11.36
25th Percentile £17.03 - £12.27
Median hourly rate £20.32 £22.14 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +2.31% -44.51%
75th Percentile £55.16 £27.32 £47.50
90th Percentile £110.56 £57.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.56 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +259.35% +25.80% +26.85%

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 26,471 18,293 24,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.86% 63.36% 57.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,041 11,592 15,561
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,748 810 1,973
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.50 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.67 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.85 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £66.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £24.34 £28.00
% change year-on-year +19.15% -13.07% +0.57%

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 30 May 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 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 15 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 30 May 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 -94 455 £481 -10.05% 1,000
London -54 248 £550 -6.38% 499
Work from Home -50 218 £530 -3.64% 506
UK excluding London -134 211 £425 -6.59% 653
South East -60 63 £413 -18.72% 194
North of England -102 53 £425 +6.25% 166
Midlands -73 51 £540 +23.43% 96
West Midlands -73 40 £540 +23.43% 43
North East -2 24 £425 -22.73% 27
East of England -32 20 £338 +3.85% 30
Scotland -14 15 £210 -54.59% 50
Yorkshire -95 15 £375 -6.25% 43
North West -62 14 £354 -16.66% 98
East Midlands -32 11 - - 53
South West -62 9 £350 -41.72% 85

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 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.92%) Confluence
3 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.72%) CMS
5 5 (0.96%) WordPress
6 4 (0.77%) Apache
6 4 (0.77%) Kentico
7 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.19%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 22 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.57%) Trello
4 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.38%) InVision
4 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.38%) Sketch
4 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.38%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.19%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.19%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (24.33%) Azure
2 95 (18.20%) AWS
3 37 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (5.17%) GitHub
7 26 (4.98%) GCP
8 21 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (3.83%) Entra ID
10 18 (3.45%) dbt
11 16 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.68%) Snowflake
13 12 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (2.30%) Serverless
14 9 (1.72%) SaaS
15 8 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.34%) Figma
16 7 (1.34%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.64%) TCP/IP
2 15 (2.87%) Ethernet
3 11 (2.11%) Network Security
4 9 (1.72%) Firewall
5 7 (1.34%) DNS
5 7 (1.34%) VLAN
5 7 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (1.15%) HTTP
6 6 (1.15%) VSAN
6 6 (1.15%) WAN
7 5 (0.96%) DHCP
7 5 (0.96%) VPN
8 3 (0.57%) MPLS
8 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.38%) BGP
9 2 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.38%) OSPF
9 2 (0.38%) Skype
9 2 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.13%) Power BI
2 25 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.21%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.49%) Big Data
6 12 (2.30%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.53%) DB2
9 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.34%) Tableau
10 6 (1.15%) Looker
10 6 (1.15%) Metadata
10 6 (1.15%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.77%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 27 (5.17%) JIRA
2 22 (4.21%) Git
2 22 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.49%) GitLab
4 7 (1.34%) fastlane
5 6 (1.15%) JMeter
5 6 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.15%) Vite
6 5 (0.96%) Gatling
6 5 (0.96%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.77%) Android Studio
7 4 (0.77%) Crashlytics
7 4 (0.77%) Gradle
7 4 (0.77%) JUnit
8 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.57%) Mockito
8 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 168 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 141 (27.01%) Finance
3 113 (21.65%) Public Sector
4 64 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.56%) Banking
6 17 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.49%) Law
8 12 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.11%) Legal
9 11 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.53%) Marketing
12 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.15%) Retail
14 5 (0.96%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.96%) Local Government
15 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.77%) Front Office
16 3 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (13.03%) Analyst
2 57 (10.92%) Developer
3 54 (10.34%) Senior
4 43 (8.24%) Lead
5 39 (7.47%) Architect
6 33 (6.32%) Data Engineer
7 31 (5.94%) Consultant
8 25 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 23 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (4.02%) Support Engineer
11 18 (3.45%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.07%) IT Support
12 16 (3.07%) Senior Developer
12 16 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.87%) IT Engineer
13 15 (2.87%) Technical Engineer
14 14 (2.68%) Project Manager
15 13 (2.49%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (2.30%) Designer
16 12 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.02%) React
2 16 (3.07%) GraphQL
3 15 (2.87%) RESTful
4 13 (2.49%) .NET
5 10 (1.92%) REST
5 10 (1.92%) Spring
5 10 (1.92%) Spring Boot
6 9 (1.72%) HTML
7 8 (1.53%) CSS
7 8 (1.53%) PySpark
7 8 (1.53%) YAML
8 7 (1.34%) Django
8 7 (1.34%) Kafka
8 7 (1.34%) Middleware
8 7 (1.34%) Next.js
9 6 (1.15%) JSON
10 5 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.96%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.77%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.94%) Onboarding
2 27 (5.17%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.87%) Industry 4.0
4 15 (2.87%) Robotics
5 13 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.53%) Replication
10 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.96%) Reinsurance
12 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.77%) EPoS
13 4 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 47 (9.00%) Windows
2 18 (3.45%) Linux
2 18 (3.45%) Windows 10
2 18 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.72%) Android
3 9 (1.72%) Unix
4 8 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.15%) AIX
6 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (24.14%) Agile
2 125 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (19.16%) CI/CD
4 89 (17.05%) DevOps
5 87 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 77 (14.75%) Analytics
7 63 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 58 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (10.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 53 (10.15%) Migration
11 50 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 45 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 45 (8.62%) Test Automation
13 44 (8.43%) AI
14 42 (8.05%) Data Modelling
14 42 (8.05%) Mentoring
15 40 (7.66%) Validation
16 38 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
16 38 (7.28%) User Experience
17 36 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.28%) Python
2 79 (15.13%) SQL
3 28 (5.36%) Java
4 23 (4.41%) JavaScript
4 23 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.87%) Bash
6 13 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.11%) C#
7 11 (2.11%) R
8 9 (1.72%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.53%) Swift
10 7 (1.34%) Scala
11 5 (0.96%) VBA
12 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.77%) Groovy
12 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.77%) Ruby
13 3 (0.57%) Go
13 3 (0.57%) VB
14 2 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 79 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.62%) Degree
4 22 (4.21%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.96%) PMP
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.57%) CISM
12 3 (0.57%) CISSP
12 3 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.38%) ACCA
13 2 (0.38%) CIMA
13 2 (0.38%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.05%) Accessibility
2 32 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.02%) QA
4 13 (2.49%) GDPR
4 13 (2.49%) WCAG
5 11 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.72%) SLA
7 8 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.96%) GRC
10 4 (0.77%) NIST
10 4 (0.77%) PMO
11 3 (0.57%) COBIT
11 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.38%) NCSC
12 2 (0.38%) PSD2
13 1 (0.19%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 36 (6.90%) Docker
2 13 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 11 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.15%) KVM
4 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.15%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.15%) vSphere
5 4 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (9.77%) Terraform
2 40 (7.66%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.60%) Grafana
4 18 (3.45%) Ansible
4 18 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.72%) Kibana
6 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.53%) SCCM
7 6 (1.15%) IBM BigFix
7 6 (1.15%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.77%) Consul
8 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.57%) Rancher
10 2 (0.38%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.38%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.19%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 81 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.36%) Databricks
3 20 (3.83%) SAP
3 20 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.64%) Google
5 18 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.26%) Oracle
7 15 (2.87%) Siemens
8 14 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.68%) VMware
9 8 (1.53%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.34%) IBM
11 6 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.77%) Cisco
13 3 (0.57%) Acronis
13 3 (0.57%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.57%) Apple
13 3 (0.57%) Dell
13 3 (0.57%) HP
13 3 (0.57%) MuleSoft