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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 151 168
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 750 631 567
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.37% 1.91% 1.47%
As % of the General category 2.47% 3.00% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 245 358
10th Percentile £313 £173 £423
25th Percentile £370 £350 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +3.03% -17.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 5
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.48 £29.60
25th Percentile £14.85 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £19.65 £22.14 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% -50.80% -29.13%
75th Percentile £33.84 £22.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £48.22 £72.50 £54.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.29 £22.14 -
% change year-on-year -12.87% - -

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 30,363 21,028 22,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.61% 63.69% 57.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,843 13,030 13,503
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £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 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,194 1,147
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.67
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £29.98 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -32.93% +36.36%
75th Percentile £53.87 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £70.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +40.19% -42.93% +44.51%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -64 640 £461 -1.86% 2,065
UK excluding London -29 339 £425 +3.03% 1,377
London -73 331 £510 -4.90% 1,151
Work from Home -37 276 £490 +1.55% 1,048
Midlands -17 107 £425 -0.58% 170
North of England -49 80 £425 +14.09% 239
South East -21 78 £450 -11.33% 335
West Midlands -17 77 £438 +5.42% 106
North East +3 52 £425 +6.25% 41
East Midlands -5 30 £164 -63.61% 64
Scotland -20 28 £288 -36.99% 204
South West -42 26 £475 -20.83% 254
North West -44 14 £518 +29.38% 142
Yorkshire -65 14 £400 +100.00% 57
East of England -40 10 £425 +174.19% 119
Wales -11 7 £394 +18.90% 24
Northern Ireland +2 3 - - 64

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 36 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.27%) Confluence
3 12 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.47%) CMS
4 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.20%) WordPress
6 7 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.80%) Apache
8 4 (0.53%) Kentico
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.13%) Drupal
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 2 (0.27%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.27%) Sketch
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) InVision
Business Applications
1 17 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 17 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) Sage X3
3 5 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.13%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 220 (29.33%) Azure
2 125 (16.67%) AWS
3 85 (11.33%) Azure DevOps
4 80 (10.67%) Power Platform
5 66 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (6.67%) GCP
7 48 (6.40%) GitHub
8 41 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
9 39 (5.20%) Serverless
10 36 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (4.40%) Power Automate
12 28 (3.73%) Entra ID
13 27 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.47%) Snowflake
15 23 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.27%) dbt
19 16 (2.13%) PowerApps
19 16 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.87%) Firewall
1 14 (1.87%) Network Security
1 14 (1.87%) VPN
2 13 (1.73%) DNS
3 12 (1.60%) VLAN
4 10 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (1.33%) Wireless
5 9 (1.20%) DHCP
6 6 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
6 6 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.80%) WAN
7 5 (0.67%) 3GPP
7 5 (0.67%) 5G
7 5 (0.67%) BGP
7 5 (0.67%) NGN
7 5 (0.67%) OSPF
7 5 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.67%) tcpdump
7 5 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (7.07%) Power BI
2 37 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.67%) Metadata
6 19 (2.53%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.73%) Power Query
8 10 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.20%) Looker
9 9 (1.20%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.07%) Big Data
10 8 (1.07%) Redis
10 8 (1.07%) Tableau
11 7 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 45 (6.00%) Git
1 45 (6.00%) JIRA
2 31 (4.13%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.87%) GitLab
4 11 (1.47%) Cypress.io
4 11 (1.47%) Selenium
5 10 (1.33%) Cucumber
5 10 (1.33%) fastlane
5 10 (1.33%) Postman
6 9 (1.20%) WebDriver
7 7 (0.93%) Gradle
7 7 (0.93%) JUnit
7 7 (0.93%) Mockito
8 6 (0.80%) Vite
9 5 (0.67%) Android Studio
9 5 (0.67%) Crashlytics
9 5 (0.67%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.67%) Xcode
10 4 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 293 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 220 (29.33%) Public Sector
3 197 (26.27%) Finance
4 117 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (3.47%) Banking
6 26 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 23 (3.07%) Local Government
8 21 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.27%) Law
11 16 (2.13%) Retail
12 14 (1.87%) Legal
12 14 (1.87%) Marketing
12 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.93%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.93%) Military
14 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 121 (16.13%) Developer
2 113 (15.07%) Analyst
3 92 (12.27%) Senior
4 72 (9.60%) Lead
5 58 (7.73%) Architect
6 46 (6.13%) Consultant
7 31 (4.13%) Senior Developer
8 29 (3.87%) Data Analyst
8 29 (3.87%) Data Engineer
8 29 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 28 (3.73%) Business Analyst
10 22 (2.93%) IT Engineer
10 22 (2.93%) Support Engineer
11 20 (2.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 20 (2.67%) Software Developer
12 19 (2.53%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.40%) Coordinator
13 18 (2.40%) IT Support
14 16 (2.13%) Administrator
14 16 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.33%) Terraform
2 46 (6.13%) RESTful
3 31 (4.13%) React
4 30 (4.00%) .NET
5 26 (3.47%) HTML
5 26 (3.47%) Node.js
6 25 (3.33%) CSS
6 25 (3.33%) GraphQL
7 24 (3.20%) JSON
8 23 (3.07%) Kafka
9 21 (2.80%) REST
10 17 (2.27%) Django
10 17 (2.27%) Spring
10 17 (2.27%) Spring Boot
11 15 (2.00%) PySpark
12 13 (1.73%) OAuth
13 12 (1.60%) OpenID
13 12 (1.60%) XML
13 12 (1.60%) XSLT
14 11 (1.47%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.20%) Onboarding
2 46 (6.13%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.07%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.87%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.20%) Taxonomies
11 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.07%) Replication
11 8 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.93%) Blog
12 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.80%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.80%) EPoS
14 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 76 (10.13%) Windows
2 21 (2.80%) Linux
3 18 (2.40%) Windows 10
3 18 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.73%) Android
6 5 (0.67%) Unix
7 4 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.53%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (34.40%) Agile
2 178 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
3 167 (22.27%) DevOps
4 158 (21.07%) CI/CD
5 151 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 132 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (16.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 117 (15.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 114 (15.20%) AI
10 107 (14.27%) Decision-Making
11 101 (13.47%) Analytics
12 85 (11.33%) Migration
13 78 (10.40%) Test Automation
14 76 (10.13%) Mentoring
15 72 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (9.20%) Validation
17 67 (8.93%) Data Modelling
17 67 (8.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
18 66 (8.80%) Roadmaps
19 65 (8.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 112 (14.93%) Python
2 107 (14.27%) SQL
3 72 (9.60%) JavaScript
4 50 (6.67%) C#
5 43 (5.73%) Java
6 31 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.73%) Scala
9 12 (1.60%) Bash
9 12 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (1.33%) Go
10 10 (1.33%) Swift
11 8 (1.07%) Bicep
11 8 (1.07%) Ruby
12 6 (0.80%) Groovy
12 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.67%) PHP
14 4 (0.53%) C++
14 4 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 160 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 149 (19.87%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.27%) Degree
4 33 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.73%) DBS Check
6 26 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.93%) CISSP
11 6 (0.80%) ACCA
11 6 (0.80%) CIMA
11 6 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.67%) CISM
12 5 (0.67%) PhD
12 5 (0.67%) PMP
13 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (14.40%) Accessibility
2 50 (6.67%) QA
3 49 (6.53%) WCAG
4 44 (5.87%) GDPR
5 43 (5.73%) Data Quality
6 22 (2.93%) SLA
7 18 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.87%) NCSC
9 10 (1.33%) PMO
10 9 (1.20%) NIST
11 6 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.80%) GRC
12 5 (0.67%) COBIT
13 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
14 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.27%) DICOM
14 2 (0.27%) GxP
14 2 (0.27%) HL7
System Software
1 62 (8.27%) Docker
2 46 (6.13%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 8 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.53%) Firmware
5 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.27%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.27%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.40%) Grafana
3 27 (3.60%) Prometheus
4 20 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.27%) Ansible
6 14 (1.87%) SCCM
7 7 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.67%) Consul
9 4 (0.53%) Kibana
9 4 (0.53%) Rancher
10 3 (0.40%) Packer
11 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.27%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 175 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.67%) Google
3 25 (3.33%) Databricks
3 25 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 25 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 22 (2.93%) Salesforce
5 21 (2.80%) SAP
6 18 (2.40%) Oracle
7 13 (1.73%) Splunk
8 12 (1.60%) CyberArk
8 12 (1.60%) Sage
9 11 (1.47%) Cisco
10 10 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.33%) VMware
11 9 (1.20%) Apple
11 9 (1.20%) PagerDuty
12 8 (1.07%) Qualys
12 8 (1.07%) UiPath
13 7 (0.93%) Signiant
13 7 (0.93%) Workday