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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 140 158
Rank change year-on-year -102 +18 +54
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 522 586 654
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 2.03% 1.52%
As % of the General category 1.97% 3.20% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 244 460
10th Percentile £306 £185 £400
25th Percentile £381 £385 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £594 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £685 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 21
10th Percentile £18.58 - £11.36
25th Percentile £19.44 - £12.27
Median hourly rate £22.64 £22.14 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +2.31% -44.51%
75th Percentile £85.94 £24.73 £47.50
90th Percentile £122.88 £55.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £145.00 £22.14 £17.60
% change year-on-year +554.92% +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 18,328 24,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 53.90% 63.34% 57.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,017 11,568 15,462
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -2.73% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £756 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.58% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,759 831 1,979
10th Percentile £13.72 £13.46 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.73 £16.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.94 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.06% -7.36% -7.20%
75th Percentile £60.35 £55.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.27 £24.42 £28.50
% change year-on-year +23.96% -14.32% +1.21%

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 5 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 5 June 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 5 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 -101 452 £500 -4.76% 1,105
London -67 240 £550 -4.35% 518
Work from Home -43 220 £528 -4.09% 563
UK excluding London -133 218 £425 -5.56% 777
South East -57 66 £419 -17.49% 218
Midlands -63 53 £553 +23.46% 124
North of England -102 53 £425 +6.25% 172
West Midlands -57 42 £553 +23.46% 60
North East -4 25 £425 -22.73% 23
East of England -30 20 £338 +3.85% 45
Scotland -16 17 £210 -54.59% 62
Yorkshire -82 15 £375 -6.25% 64
North West -53 13 £365 -14.21% 87
East Midlands -35 11 - - 64
South West -56 9 £350 -41.72% 93

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 20 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.38%) Trello
4 1 (0.19%) InVision
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Sketch
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 TOMS
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (24.14%) Azure
2 95 (18.20%) AWS
3 37 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 27 (5.17%) GitHub
6 25 (4.79%) GCP
7 21 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (3.83%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.26%) dbt
10 14 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (2.49%) Serverless
11 13 (2.49%) Snowflake
12 9 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.72%) SaaS
13 8 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.34%) Firebase
15 6 (1.15%) Google Workspace
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%) LAN
9 2 (0.38%) OSPF
9 2 (0.38%) Skype
9 2 (0.38%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.94%) Power BI
2 24 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 18 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.49%) Big Data
6 12 (2.30%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
8 8 (1.53%) Db2
9 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.34%) Tableau
10 6 (1.15%) Metadata
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.96%) Looker
11 5 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.77%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.77%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
13 3 (0.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 29 (5.56%) JIRA
2 22 (4.21%) Git
2 22 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.68%) 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%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.57%) Mockito
8 3 (0.57%) Selenium
8 3 (0.57%) Snyk
8 3 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 173 (33.14%) Social Skills
2 145 (27.78%) Finance
3 115 (22.03%) Public Sector
4 69 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.56%) Banking
6 17 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (2.68%) Law
8 11 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.11%) Legal
8 11 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.34%) Marketing
11 6 (1.15%) Retail
12 5 (0.96%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.96%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.57%) Front Office
14 3 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (12.84%) Analyst
2 57 (10.92%) Developer
3 55 (10.54%) Senior
4 45 (8.62%) Lead
5 38 (7.28%) Architect
6 31 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 30 (5.75%) Consultant
8 25 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 24 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (3.83%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.26%) Business Analyst
11 17 (3.26%) IT Support
12 16 (3.07%) Senior Developer
12 16 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (2.87%) IT Engineer
13 15 (2.87%) Project Manager
13 15 (2.87%) Technical Engineer
14 13 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.83%) React
2 16 (3.07%) GraphQL
3 15 (2.87%) RESTful
4 14 (2.68%) .NET
5 11 (2.11%) REST
6 10 (1.92%) Spring
6 10 (1.92%) Spring Boot
7 9 (1.72%) Kafka
8 8 (1.53%) HTML
8 8 (1.53%) PySpark
9 7 (1.34%) CSS
9 7 (1.34%) Django
9 7 (1.34%) Middleware
9 7 (1.34%) Next.js
9 7 (1.34%) YAML
10 6 (1.15%) ARM Templates
11 5 (0.96%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.96%) JSON
11 5 (0.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.75%) 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
10 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.34%) Replication
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%) EPoS
13 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.77%) NHS
13 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.20%) Windows
2 18 (3.45%) Linux
2 18 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 17 (3.26%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.72%) Android
4 9 (1.72%) Unix
5 8 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.15%) AIX
7 3 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.38%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (24.14%) Agile
3 101 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 89 (17.05%) Decision-Making
4 89 (17.05%) DevOps
5 74 (14.18%) Analytics
6 65 (12.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 61 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (10.34%) Migration
9 53 (10.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 52 (9.96%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (9.00%) AI
13 45 (8.62%) Test Automation
14 42 (8.05%) Mentoring
15 41 (7.85%) Data Modelling
16 39 (7.47%) Validation
17 37 (7.09%) Business Intelligence
18 36 (6.90%) User Experience
19 35 (6.70%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 86 (16.48%) Python
2 78 (14.94%) SQL
3 29 (5.56%) Java
4 23 (4.41%) JavaScript
4 23 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.87%) Bash
6 14 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.30%) C#
8 11 (2.11%) R
9 9 (1.72%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.53%) Swift
11 7 (1.34%) Scala
12 5 (0.96%) VBA
13 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.77%) Groovy
13 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.77%) Ruby
14 3 (0.57%) Go
14 3 (0.57%) VB
15 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 80 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.43%) Degree
4 21 (4.02%) 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
11 4 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.57%) CISM
12 3 (0.57%) CISSP
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%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 32 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.02%) QA
4 13 (2.49%) GDPR
5 12 (2.30%) WCAG
6 10 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.72%) SLA
8 6 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.96%) GRC
9 5 (0.96%) PMO
10 4 (0.77%) COBIT
10 4 (0.77%) NIST
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 39 (7.47%) Docker
2 35 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.49%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.15%) KVM
5 6 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.15%) vSphere
6 4 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 53 (10.15%) Terraform
2 43 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.41%) Grafana
4 18 (3.45%) Ansible
4 18 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.72%) Kibana
5 9 (1.72%) SCCM
6 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
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%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 79 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.98%) Databricks
3 21 (4.02%) Google
4 20 (3.83%) SAP
5 19 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.87%) 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%) Qualys