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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 164 164
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +95
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 550 537 688
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.58% 1.56%
As % of the General category 2.44% 2.58% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 300 484
10th Percentile £173 £400 £400
25th Percentile £353 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £675
90th Percentile £659 £775 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £407 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -22.52% +10.53% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £15.42 - £48.70
25th Percentile £16.84 - £61.75
Median hourly rate £18.73 £21.00 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% -66.82% +95.11%
75th Percentile £22.14 - £65.25
90th Percentile £58.00 - £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.73 - £63.29
% change year-on-year - - +356.14%

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 22,544 20,791 26,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.15% 61.01% 59.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,076 12,425 17,340
10th Percentile £275 £285 £276
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,457 714 1,084
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.53 £16.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.37 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -17.07% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £53.75 £59.15
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.95 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.97 £26.00 £30.03
% change year-on-year -15.51% -13.41% +40.96%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -23 496 £475 -20.83% 568
London +17 316 £513 -16.33% 214
Work from Home -13 219 £450 -24.69% 327
UK excluding London -50 190 £407 -22.52% 542
Midlands -55 60 £266 -53.70% 94
North of England -47 40 £325 -27.78% 98
West Midlands -56 36 £413 -28.26% 57
South East -17 35 £400 -26.61% 207
East Midlands -3 24 £180 -74.29% 37
North West -21 24 £425 -5.56% 59
South West -13 20 £600 +23.08% 55
Scotland +1 18 £238 -50.00% 61
East of England -15 17 £353 -32.86% 34
Yorkshire -43 15 £200 -63.64% 24
Northern Ireland -11 2 £450 -21.74%
Wales +1 1 £331 -5.08% 7
North East -16 1 £400 -11.11% 15

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 14 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.00%) Confluence
4 8 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.91%) CMS
7 4 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.73%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.73%) WordPress
8 2 (0.36%) Apache
8 2 (0.36%) Camunda
8 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.18%) Appian
9 1 (0.18%) IIS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.09%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.73%) Trello
5 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.36%) InVision
6 2 (0.36%) Sketch
7 1 (0.18%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 9 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.36%) CODA-Financials
3 2 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.18%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.18%) iTrent
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.18%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 125 (22.73%) Azure
2 72 (13.09%) AWS
3 37 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (6.55%) Power Platform
5 29 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (5.09%) GCP
7 25 (4.55%) GitHub
8 23 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.27%) Entra ID
10 15 (2.73%) SaaS
11 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (2.18%) Google Workspace
13 11 (2.00%) dbt
13 11 (2.00%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.82%) Serverless
15 9 (1.64%) Figma
16 8 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.18%) Network Security
2 11 (2.00%) Firewall
3 10 (1.82%) VPN
4 7 (1.27%) LAN
4 7 (1.27%) WAN
5 6 (1.09%) DNS
6 5 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.73%) DHCP
8 3 (0.55%) AMQP
8 3 (0.55%) SAN
9 2 (0.36%) Intranet
9 2 (0.36%) MPLS
9 2 (0.36%) SMS
9 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.36%) VLAN
9 2 (0.36%) WLAN
10 1 (0.18%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.18%) NAS
10 1 (0.18%) PSTN
10 1 (0.18%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
1 21 (3.82%) Power BI
2 15 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.82%) Metadata
5 9 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.27%) Spark SQL
8 6 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.09%) Tableau
9 5 (0.91%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.73%) Big Data
10 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (0.55%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.55%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 23 (4.18%) Git
2 19 (3.45%) JIRA
3 9 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.09%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.91%) Maven
6 4 (0.73%) GitLab
6 4 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.55%) JUnit
7 3 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.55%) Vite
8 2 (0.36%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.36%) JMeter
8 2 (0.36%) Mockito
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.18%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) XCUITest
General
1 186 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 135 (24.55%) Finance
3 50 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.18%) Banking
6 21 (3.82%) Marketing
6 21 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.55%) Retail
8 12 (2.18%) Legal
9 11 (2.00%) Local Government
10 10 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
11 9 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.27%) Law
12 7 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.91%) Military
13 5 (0.91%) Publishing
14 4 (0.73%) Police
14 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (16.55%) Analyst
2 43 (7.82%) Architect
2 43 (7.82%) Developer
2 43 (7.82%) Lead
3 40 (7.27%) Senior
4 34 (6.18%) Project Manager
5 30 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 29 (5.27%) Support Engineer
7 27 (4.91%) Data Engineer
8 23 (4.18%) Consultant
9 19 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (2.91%) IT Analyst
10 16 (2.91%) IT Engineer
10 16 (2.91%) Service Analyst
11 15 (2.73%) IT Support
11 15 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.55%) Designer
12 14 (2.55%) Support Analyst
13 13 (2.36%) PMO Lead
14 12 (2.18%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.27%) EDI
2 17 (3.09%) React
3 16 (2.91%) Spring
4 15 (2.73%) .NET
5 14 (2.55%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.00%) REST
7 10 (1.82%) HTML
8 9 (1.64%) AngularJS
8 9 (1.64%) PySpark
8 9 (1.64%) SOAP
9 8 (1.45%) YAML
10 7 (1.27%) CSS
10 7 (1.27%) Kafka
10 7 (1.27%) Middleware
11 6 (1.09%) RESTful
12 5 (0.91%) .NET Framework
12 5 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (0.91%) XML
13 4 (0.73%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.64%) Onboarding
2 20 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.45%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.27%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.09%) Driving Licence
9 5 (0.91%) e-Learning
9 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
9 5 (0.91%) Replication
10 4 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.73%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.18%) Windows
2 12 (2.18%) Windows Server
3 9 (1.64%) Linux
4 6 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (16.91%) Agile
3 74 (13.45%) DevOps
4 69 (12.55%) CI/CD
5 64 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (8.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (8.36%) Migration
7 39 (7.09%) Analytics
8 38 (6.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (6.91%) Project Management
8 38 (6.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 34 (6.18%) Test Automation
10 32 (5.82%) Data Modelling
11 31 (5.64%) Coaching
11 31 (5.64%) Decision-Making
11 31 (5.64%) Mentoring
12 30 (5.45%) Data Governance
13 28 (5.09%) Containerisation
14 27 (4.91%) Business Analysis
14 27 (4.91%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.73%) Python
1 59 (10.73%) SQL
2 38 (6.91%) Java
3 24 (4.36%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.73%) C#
5 12 (2.18%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.45%) TypeScript
7 5 (0.91%) Bash
7 5 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.73%) Go
8 4 (0.73%) Rust
9 3 (0.55%) C++
9 3 (0.55%) R
10 2 (0.36%) AWK
10 2 (0.36%) C
10 2 (0.36%) Perl
10 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.36%) Scala
10 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 53 (9.64%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.36%) Degree
4 16 (2.91%) AWS Certification
5 15 (2.73%) DBS Check
6 9 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.09%) CISSP
9 5 (0.91%) PMP
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.73%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.55%) OCP
11 3 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.73%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.64%) QA
3 19 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.73%) PMO
5 14 (2.55%) GDPR
6 11 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.45%) SLA
8 5 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.91%) GRC
8 5 (0.91%) NIST
9 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.55%) WCAG
11 2 (0.36%) GMP
11 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) GxP
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (6.55%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.55%) Docker
3 8 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.36%) Firmware
6 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 39 (7.09%) Terraform
2 30 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (2.18%) Grafana
5 9 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.45%) SCCM
7 5 (0.91%) Ansible
8 4 (0.73%) Argo
8 4 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.18%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.18%) Demisto
10 1 (0.18%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Kibana
10 1 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.18%) Nessus
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 92 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.82%) Google
3 21 (3.82%) Oracle
4 19 (3.45%) Cisco
5 17 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.73%) Databricks
7 13 (2.36%) VMware
8 12 (2.18%) Adobe
9 6 (1.09%) Apple
9 6 (1.09%) Citrix
9 6 (1.09%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.09%) SAP
10 4 (0.73%) Commvault
10 4 (0.73%) Lotus
10 4 (0.73%) Netskope
10 4 (0.73%) UiPath
11 3 (0.55%) Meraki
11 3 (0.55%) Murex
11 3 (0.55%) Talend