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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 207 405
Rank change year-on-year +45 +198 +224
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 660 724 531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.30% 0.60%
As % of the General category 2.65% 2.22% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 472 398
10th Percentile £404 £455 £425
25th Percentile £509 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £650
90th Percentile £800 £763 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -1.72% -7.50% +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 2
10th Percentile £11.36 - £48.15
25th Percentile £12.27 £13.31 £49.13
Median hourly rate £21.64 £39.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.51% -25.00% +154.68%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.75 £53.63
90th Percentile £57.50 £60.70 £53.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.60 £13.88 £52.00
% change year-on-year +26.85% -73.32% +154.68%

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 24,892 32,649 50,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.27% 58.55% 56.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,599 22,629 34,917
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,999 991 1,404
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +42.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £67.38 £71.28 £59.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +3.35% +41.03% +2.63%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +19 568 £611 +1.88% 1,344
London -4 385 £615 - 473
Work from Home +77 255 £600 - 698
UK excluding London +162 226 £500 -1.72% 979
Midlands +73 64 £575 +17.35% 157
South East +37 61 £475 -24.00% 272
West Midlands +62 59 £600 +22.45% 118
North of England +44 37 £480 -8.96% 208
Scotland +46 34 £388 -15.76% 125
South West +18 15 £650 +18.18% 116
North West +26 14 £538 -1.15% 130
Yorkshire +25 12 £478 -21.53% 52
North East +17 11 - - 31
Wales - 7 £501 - 22
East of England +13 6 £675 +33.66% 93
Northern Ireland 0 5 - - 21
East Midlands - 5 £538 - 39

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 12 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.06%) SAS
3 5 (0.76%) CMS
4 4 (0.61%) Confluence
4 4 (0.61%) Drupal
5 3 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) nginx
6 2 (0.30%) Mendix
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%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.15%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.15%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.91%) ION MarketView
3 5 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.45%) Exstream
4 3 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.30%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.15%) HealthRoster
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 84 (12.73%) AWS
2 58 (8.79%) Azure
3 30 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 21 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (1.97%) GCP
6 11 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (1.67%) Serverless
7 10 (1.52%) Snowflake
8 9 (1.36%) Boomi
8 9 (1.36%) GitHub
9 8 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (0.91%) BrowserStack
10 6 (0.91%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.76%) IaaS
11 5 (0.76%) PaaS
12 4 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.61%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.52%) Firewall
2 8 (1.21%) WAN
3 7 (1.06%) Kerberos
4 6 (0.91%) LAN
5 5 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (0.76%) SSL
5 5 (0.76%) VPN
6 4 (0.61%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.61%) Network Security
7 3 (0.45%) 2G
7 3 (0.45%) 3G
7 3 (0.45%) 4G
7 3 (0.45%) ATM
7 3 (0.45%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.45%) SDH
7 3 (0.45%) WLAN
8 2 (0.30%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.55%) Power BI
2 18 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.67%) MySQL
5 10 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (0.91%) Crystal Reports
7 6 (0.91%) KDB
7 6 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.76%) Data Vault
8 5 (0.76%) GIS
9 4 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.61%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.61%) Star Schema
10 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.45%) CockroachDB
10 3 (0.45%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (3.03%) JIRA
2 10 (1.52%) Cypress.io
3 8 (1.21%) GitLab
3 8 (1.21%) Selenium
4 7 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.45%) GCC
5 3 (0.45%) Git
5 3 (0.45%) JMeter
6 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.30%) Postman
6 2 (0.30%) webpack
7 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) CANoe
7 1 (0.15%) Gradle
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 182 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 176 (26.67%) Finance
3 40 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.70%) Telecoms
5 29 (4.39%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.64%) Banking
7 20 (3.03%) Law
8 19 (2.88%) Marketing
9 17 (2.58%) Legal
10 13 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.21%) Front Office
13 7 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.76%) Advertising
14 5 (0.76%) Aviation
14 5 (0.76%) Electronics
14 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.76%) Publishing
14 5 (0.76%) Retail
15 3 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 160 (24.24%) Analyst
2 93 (14.09%) Business Analyst
3 76 (11.52%) Senior
4 68 (10.30%) Developer
4 68 (10.30%) Project Manager
5 57 (8.64%) Architect
6 46 (6.97%) Lead
7 38 (5.76%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 34 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
9 31 (4.70%) Consultant
10 27 (4.09%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (3.33%) Change Manager
11 22 (3.33%) Software Engineer
12 19 (2.88%) Data Analyst
13 18 (2.73%) Full Stack Engineer
13 18 (2.73%) Senior Business Analyst
14 15 (2.27%) Senior Manager
15 13 (1.97%) Java Developer
15 13 (1.97%) Product Owner
16 12 (1.82%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.88%) AngularJS
2 17 (2.58%) React
3 15 (2.27%) REST
4 14 (2.12%) Spring
4 14 (2.12%) Spring Boot
5 12 (1.82%) HTML
6 11 (1.67%) CSS
6 11 (1.67%) JPA
7 9 (1.36%) Node.js
8 8 (1.21%) EDI
8 8 (1.21%) RESTful
9 7 (1.06%) KnockoutJS
10 6 (0.91%) JSON
10 6 (0.91%) Next.js
11 5 (0.76%) .NET
11 5 (0.76%) JWT
11 5 (0.76%) Kafka
12 4 (0.61%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.61%) Catalyst
12 4 (0.61%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 22 (3.33%) Reinsurance
3 20 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (1.97%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.67%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.52%) NHS
8 9 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.21%) Smartphone
10 7 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.91%) CSOC
11 6 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.76%) PKI
12 5 (0.76%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.61%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.61%) DTCC
13 4 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.42%) Windows
2 13 (1.97%) Linux
3 11 (1.67%) Unix
4 4 (0.61%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (23.64%) Agile
2 74 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 62 (9.39%) Migration
4 61 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 60 (9.09%) Project Management
6 55 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 43 (6.52%) Analytics
8 43 (6.52%) Software Engineering
9 40 (6.06%) Roadmaps
10 37 (5.61%) SDLC
11 33 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (5.00%) DevOps
11 33 (5.00%) Test Automation
12 32 (4.85%) Change Management
13 31 (4.70%) Cybersecurity
14 29 (4.39%) Full Stack Development
14 29 (4.39%) Mentoring
15 28 (4.24%) Microservices
15 28 (4.24%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.55%) SQL
2 51 (7.73%) Java
3 32 (4.85%) Python
4 24 (3.64%) TypeScript
5 19 (2.88%) C#
6 17 (2.58%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.91%) PHP
9 5 (0.76%) Perl
9 5 (0.76%) Scala
10 4 (0.61%) Ruby
11 3 (0.45%) C
11 3 (0.45%) C++
12 2 (0.30%) Bash
12 2 (0.30%) Go
12 2 (0.30%) VBA
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.15%) Solidity
13 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (7.42%) Degree
2 31 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.18%) SC Cleared
4 11 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.36%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.06%) CISSP
7 6 (0.91%) CISM
8 5 (0.76%) PhD
9 4 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.45%) APMP
10 3 (0.45%) CCNA
10 3 (0.45%) CCNP
10 3 (0.45%) CISA
10 3 (0.45%) HNC
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.45%) NVQ Level 4
10 3 (0.45%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.79%) QA
2 18 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.42%) GDPR
4 13 (1.97%) PMO
5 11 (1.67%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.52%) NIST
7 9 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.21%) SLA
9 7 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.76%) NCSC
11 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.45%) P3O
13 2 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.30%) GRC
13 2 (0.30%) IFRS
13 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.30%) IFRS 9
13 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.06%) Docker
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.42%) Terraform
2 14 (2.12%) Grafana
3 8 (1.21%) Ansible
3 8 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.91%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.91%) SCCM
5 4 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.30%) Puppet
7 1 (0.15%) Argo
7 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) logstash
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (1.97%) SAP
3 12 (1.82%) BT
3 12 (1.82%) IFS
4 11 (1.67%) Okta
4 11 (1.67%) VMware
5 10 (1.52%) Google
6 9 (1.36%) Cisco
6 9 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.21%) Oracle
8 7 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.06%) F5
9 6 (0.91%) Guidewire
9 6 (0.91%) ION Trading
10 5 (0.76%) CA
10 5 (0.76%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.76%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.76%) Veeam
11 4 (0.61%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.61%) Screaming Frog