Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the West Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 55 131
Rank change year-on-year -10 +76 +32
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 32 56 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.38% 2.88% 0.34%
As % of the General category 3.80% 5.09% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 50 6
10th Percentile £195 £375 £335
25th Percentile £413 £427 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +4.35% +22.67%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £650
90th Percentile - £1,025 -
England median daily rate £550 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.36 £13.31
Median hourly rate - £11.73 £13.88
Median % change year-on-year - -15.50% -
75th Percentile - £12.09 £14.44
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £18.80 £39.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% -51.81% -22.00%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 841 1,101 1,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.53% 56.55% 58.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 758 972
10th Percentile £185 £263 £237
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 111 42
10th Percentile - £11.06 £11.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%
75th Percentile £28.18 £39.34 £26.82
90th Percentile £33.91 £56.25 £56.63
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the West Midlands

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwickshire -7 18 £513 -26.79% 36
Birmingham +9 6 £455 -4.36% 68
Solihull +18 1 £460 +5.14% 4
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 7
Inclusion and Diversity
England

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.38%) IBM Notes
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) ScriptRunner
General
1 19 (59.38%) Finance
2 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Automotive
5 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Data Entry Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) SCCM Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Service Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) PMO Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 1 (3.13%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (6.25%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (15.63%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (15.63%) IoT
4 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (25.00%) Migration
2 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (15.63%) Business Transformation
3 5 (15.63%) CAFM
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
3 5 (15.63%) Data Architecture
3 5 (15.63%) Energy Management
3 5 (15.63%) Facilities Management
3 5 (15.63%) Informatics
3 5 (15.63%) Process Management
3 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (12.50%) ITSM
4 4 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (12.50%) RBAC
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) PMO
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (15.63%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
4 3 (9.38%) Lotus
5 2 (6.25%) Blue Prism
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) VMware