Inclusion and Diversity Contracts

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 have cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 205 507
Rank change year-on-year +42 +302 +108
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 659 771 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.29% 0.43%
As % of the General category 2.60% 2.21% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 502 273
10th Percentile £400 £450 £406
25th Percentile £513 £531 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +16.40%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -0.98% +7.89% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 1
10th Percentile £11.36 - -
25th Percentile £12.27 £13.31 £47.50
Median hourly rate £21.64 £39.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.51% -22.00% +144.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £58.70 £64.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.62 £13.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +41.41% -72.25% +144.89%

All General Skills
UK

Inclusion and Diversity is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,387 34,897 49,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.23% 58.47% 56.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,033 24,201 34,488
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,062 1,440
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.42 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +59.71% -2.60%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £46.67
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.91% +65.08% -7.50%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Top 17 Contract 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 29 April 2024. 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 +30 570 £611 +1.88% 1,199
London -1 404 £615 +2.50% 481
Work from Home +39 245 £600 - 589
UK excluding London +177 213 £508 -0.98% 834
Midlands +79 59 £575 - 126
West Midlands +76 56 £600 +4.35% 89
South East +35 56 £545 -16.15% 199
Scotland +38 34 £388 -14.84% 99
North of England +46 26 £494 +2.12% 195
South West +23 15 £650 +0.93% 88
North West +34 14 £538 +7.50% 110
Wales - 11 £505 - 26
East of England +21 10 £675 +33.66% 100
North East +24 7 - - 31
Yorkshire +26 5 £325 -46.59% 57
Northern Ireland +10 3 - - 26
East Midlands - 3 £550 - 37

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.06%) SAS
3 5 (0.76%) CMS
4 4 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.61%) Drupal
5 3 (0.46%) Confluence
6 2 (0.30%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.30%) Mendix
6 2 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.15%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.61%) InVision
5 4 (0.61%) Sketch
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.15%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.61%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.30%) Exstream
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.15%) HealthRoster
4 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 74 (11.23%) AWS
2 66 (10.02%) Azure
3 35 (5.31%) Power Platform
4 18 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (1.82%) GitHub
6 11 (1.67%) GCP
7 10 (1.52%) Boomi
8 9 (1.37%) Serverless
9 8 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.21%) Snowflake
10 6 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.91%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.61%) BrowserStack
12 4 (0.61%) Figma
12 4 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.37%) Firewall
2 7 (1.06%) Kerberos
2 7 (1.06%) Network Security
3 5 (0.76%) LAN
3 5 (0.76%) SSL
3 5 (0.76%) WAN
4 4 (0.61%) VPN
5 3 (0.46%) 2G
5 3 (0.46%) 3G
5 3 (0.46%) 4G
5 3 (0.46%) ATM
5 3 (0.46%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.46%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (0.46%) SDH
6 2 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.31%) Power BI
2 24 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (1.97%) NoSQL
3 13 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (1.67%) MySQL
5 10 (1.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.21%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.21%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.61%) Data Vault
9 4 (0.61%) GIS
9 4 (0.61%) KDB
9 4 (0.61%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.46%) CockroachDB
10 3 (0.46%) Tableau
11 2 (0.30%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (3.03%) JIRA
2 11 (1.67%) GitLab
3 8 (1.21%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.21%) Selenium
4 7 (1.06%) GCC
4 7 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 6 (0.91%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.76%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.76%) Gradle
6 5 (0.76%) Maven
7 4 (0.61%) Axure RP
7 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
9 2 (0.30%) Git
9 2 (0.30%) webpack
10 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 178 (27.01%) Finance
2 173 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 34 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.01%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 26 (3.95%) Law
7 22 (3.34%) Banking
8 19 (2.88%) Marketing
9 12 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.67%) Legal
11 7 (1.06%) Front Office
12 6 (0.91%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.76%) Aviation
13 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.76%) Publishing
14 4 (0.61%) Electronics
14 4 (0.61%) Retail
15 3 (0.46%) Advertising
15 3 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 152 (23.07%) Analyst
2 91 (13.81%) Business Analyst
3 76 (11.53%) Developer
3 76 (11.53%) Project Manager
4 66 (10.02%) Senior
5 58 (8.80%) Architect
6 35 (5.31%) Lead
7 34 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (5.01%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 27 (4.10%) Consultant
10 26 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (3.64%) Software Engineer
12 22 (3.34%) Change Manager
13 21 (3.19%) Data Analyst
14 20 (3.03%) Senior Business Analyst
15 17 (2.58%) Full Stack Engineer
16 15 (2.28%) C# Developer
17 14 (2.12%) Product Owner
18 12 (1.82%) Java Developer
18 12 (1.82%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.03%) AngularJS
2 18 (2.73%) REST
3 17 (2.58%) Spring
4 15 (2.28%) React
4 15 (2.28%) Spring Boot
5 13 (1.97%) .NET
6 12 (1.82%) HTML
6 12 (1.82%) JPA
7 11 (1.67%) CSS
7 11 (1.67%) JSON
8 9 (1.37%) Node.js
9 7 (1.06%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.06%) Kafka
9 7 (1.06%) KnockoutJS
9 7 (1.06%) LLVM
10 6 (0.91%) RESTful
11 4 (0.61%) Catalyst
11 4 (0.61%) JWT
11 4 (0.61%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (0.61%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.25%) Reinsurance
2 26 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 14 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.67%) NHS
7 10 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.21%) Smartphone
10 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.91%) CSOC
11 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.76%) PKI
13 4 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.88%) Windows
2 10 (1.52%) Unix
3 9 (1.37%) Linux
4 5 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (25.34%) Agile
2 63 (9.56%) Migration
2 63 (9.56%) Project Management
3 61 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 58 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 57 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (6.83%) CI/CD
7 42 (6.37%) Software Engineering
8 41 (6.22%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (5.92%) SDLC
10 38 (5.77%) Scrum
11 37 (5.61%) Analytics
11 37 (5.61%) Mentoring
12 34 (5.16%) DevOps
13 33 (5.01%) Data Modelling
14 32 (4.86%) Change Management
14 32 (4.86%) Roadmaps
14 32 (4.86%) Test Automation
15 31 (4.70%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (4.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (11.23%) SQL
2 48 (7.28%) Java
3 33 (5.01%) Python
4 27 (4.10%) C#
5 23 (3.49%) TypeScript
6 19 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.06%) C
8 7 (1.06%) C++
8 7 (1.06%) PHP
8 7 (1.06%) Scala
9 5 (0.76%) Perl
10 3 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) Ruby
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) Smalltalk
12 1 (0.15%) Solidity
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (8.19%) Degree
2 35 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 27 (4.10%) SC Cleared
4 13 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 11 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.21%) PhD
7 5 (0.76%) CISSP
8 4 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.61%) CISM
8 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.46%) APMP
9 3 (0.46%) CISA
9 3 (0.46%) HNC
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.46%) NVQ Level 4
9 3 (0.46%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.46%) SANS
10 2 (0.30%) CCIE
10 2 (0.30%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.03%) QA
2 17 (2.58%) GDPR
3 14 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.12%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.67%) PMO
5 8 (1.21%) SLA
6 7 (1.06%) NIST
6 7 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.76%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.30%) P3O
10 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.15%) COBIT
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (1.37%) Docker
2 7 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (2.43%) Terraform
2 12 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.52%) Grafana
4 7 (1.06%) SCCM
5 5 (0.76%) Ansible
6 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.46%) Argo
8 2 (0.30%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.67%) Atlassian
2 11 (1.67%) Okta
2 11 (1.67%) SAP
2 11 (1.67%) ServiceNow
3 10 (1.52%) BT
4 9 (1.37%) Google
5 7 (1.06%) IFS
5 7 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.06%) VMware
6 6 (0.91%) Cisco
6 6 (0.91%) Guidewire
7 5 (0.76%) CA
7 5 (0.76%) Oracle
8 4 (0.61%) Databricks
8 4 (0.61%) Hotjar
8 4 (0.61%) ION Trading
8 4 (0.61%) Juniper
8 4 (0.61%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.61%) Screaming Frog