Inclusion and Diversity Contracts in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inclusion and Diversity in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Inclusion and Diversity over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 354 469
Rank change year-on-year +167 +115 -58
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 216 85 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.37% 0.17%
As % of the General category 1.95% 0.65% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 46 30
10th Percentile £256 £305 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £526
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -3.28% +11.32%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £631
90th Percentile £790 £688 £726
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £565
% change year-on-year - +6.19% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £7.52 - £48.15
25th Percentile £11.45 £13.31 £49.13
Median hourly rate £17.60 £13.88 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% -73.32% +154.68%
75th Percentile £34.21 £44.22 £53.63
90th Percentile £53.80 £62.09 £53.85
UK median hourly rate £21.64 £39.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year -44.51% -25.00% +154.68%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,072 12,978 16,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.07% 56.37% 55.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,306 8,806 11,679
10th Percentile £210 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £698 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,675 735 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.70 £19.48
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +42.20% +2.53%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.06 £36.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.93%

Inclusion and Diversity
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Inclusion and Diversity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Inclusion and Diversity in the UK excluding London

Inclusion and Diversity
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 May 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
Midlands +79 62 £550 -4.35% 191
West Midlands +64 58 £575 - 141
South East +34 56 £400 -37.25% 438
Scotland +41 34 £388 -15.76% 143
North of England +59 33 £480 -0.72% 257
South West +17 15 £650 +18.18% 144
North West +37 14 £538 +7.50% 141
Yorkshire +25 10 £480 -21.12% 66
North East +18 9 - - 54
East of England +17 7 £675 +33.66% 120
Wales - 7 £501 - 36
East Midlands - 4 £538 - 47
Northern Ireland +2 3 - - 30
Inclusion and Diversity
UK

Inclusion and Diversity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.78%) SAS
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Confluence
3 1 (0.46%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.46%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Exstream
3 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.19%) AWS
2 21 (9.72%) Azure
3 15 (6.94%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.78%) GitHub
5 6 (2.78%) Serverless
6 5 (2.31%) BrowserStack
6 5 (2.31%) GCP
7 4 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.93%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.46%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) Firewall
1 5 (2.31%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (1.85%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.39%) 2G
3 3 (1.39%) 3G
3 3 (1.39%) 4G
3 3 (1.39%) ATM
3 3 (1.39%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.39%) SDH
4 2 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.93%) LAN
4 2 (0.93%) VPN
4 2 (0.93%) WAN
5 1 (0.46%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.94%) Power BI
2 7 (3.24%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.78%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.31%) MySQL
5 4 (1.85%) GIS
5 4 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.39%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.93%) DB2
7 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.93%) Tableau
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.46%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.46%) Ingres
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.46%) QGIS
8 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.78%) GitLab
2 5 (2.31%) Cypress.io
2 5 (2.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.31%) JIRA
3 4 (1.85%) GCC
4 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.39%) JMeter
5 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.46%) CANoe
6 1 (0.46%) Git
6 1 (0.46%) Selenium
6 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 74 (34.26%) Finance
2 42 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.89%) Telecoms
4 20 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.70%) Legal
6 7 (3.24%) Law
7 6 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.31%) Aviation
8 5 (2.31%) Banking
8 5 (2.31%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.31%) Marketing
9 3 (1.39%) Police
10 2 (0.93%) Advertising
10 2 (0.93%) Billing
10 2 (0.93%) Digital Economy
10 2 (0.93%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (15.74%) Analyst
2 19 (8.80%) Developer
3 18 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 17 (7.87%) Project Manager
5 16 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 15 (6.94%) Senior
7 14 (6.48%) Architect
8 13 (6.02%) Lead
9 11 (5.09%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) Consultant
11 9 (4.17%) Change Manager
11 9 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.70%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.70%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.24%) IT Manager
14 6 (2.78%) IFS Developer
14 6 (2.78%) SAP Consultant
14 6 (2.78%) SOC Analyst
15 5 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.94%) Spring
2 14 (6.48%) AngularJS
3 13 (6.02%) REST
3 13 (6.02%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.56%) JPA
5 11 (5.09%) React
6 9 (4.17%) CSS
6 9 (4.17%) HTML
7 5 (2.31%) Next.js
7 5 (2.31%) RESTful
8 4 (1.85%) LLVM
9 3 (1.39%) .NET
9 3 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.39%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.39%) Vue
10 2 (0.93%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.93%) PostGIS
10 2 (0.93%) PySpark
11 1 (0.46%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.46%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.24%) NHS
4 6 (2.78%) CSOC
5 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.31%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.85%) DTCC
6 4 (1.85%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.39%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.39%) LIMS
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.17%) Unix
1 9 (4.17%) Windows
2 5 (2.31%) Linux
3 3 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (23.15%) Agile
2 30 (13.89%) CI/CD
3 29 (13.43%) Software Engineering
4 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (12.50%) Project Management
6 25 (11.57%) Analytics
7 24 (11.11%) SDLC
8 22 (10.19%) Full Stack Development
9 19 (8.80%) Microservices
9 19 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (8.33%) Operational Stability
10 18 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 17 (7.87%) Change Management
12 15 (6.94%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (6.94%) Project Delivery
13 14 (6.48%) Customer-Centricity
13 14 (6.48%) Infrastructure Management
13 14 (6.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.81%) SQL
2 25 (11.57%) Java
3 20 (9.26%) TypeScript
4 8 (3.70%) C#
5 6 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.85%) C
6 4 (1.85%) Python
7 3 (1.39%) C++
8 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
9 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.46%) Scala
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (12.04%) Degree
2 16 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.63%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.31%) PhD
7 3 (1.39%) APMP
7 3 (1.39%) CISSP
7 3 (1.39%) HNC
7 3 (1.39%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (0.93%) APMG
8 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CISM
8 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.93%) SANS
9 1 (0.46%) CCSP
9 1 (0.46%) CISA
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) GDPR
2 10 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.17%) QA
4 4 (1.85%) NCSC
4 4 (1.85%) PMO
5 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.39%) NIST
5 3 (1.39%) P3O
5 3 (1.39%) SLA
6 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (5.09%) Grafana
2 4 (1.85%) Ansible
2 4 (1.85%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.85%) Terraform
3 3 (1.39%) SCCM
4 1 (0.46%) Argo
4 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.56%) BT
3 11 (5.09%) IFS
4 7 (3.24%) SAP
5 6 (2.78%) F5
6 5 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.85%) Google
7 4 (1.85%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.39%) CA
8 3 (1.39%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.39%) InterSystems
8 3 (1.39%) Oracle
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco
9 2 (0.93%) Greenplum
9 2 (0.93%) Juniper
9 2 (0.93%) OpenText
9 2 (0.93%) Progress
9 2 (0.93%) VMware
10 1 (0.46%) Remedy
10 1 (0.46%) Salesforce