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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 349 470
Rank change year-on-year +154 +121 -61
Contract jobs citing Inclusion and Diversity 221 89 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.06% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the General category 1.97% 0.69% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 48 30
10th Percentile £256 £279 £263
25th Percentile £400 £402 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £534
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.34% +12.91%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £676
90th Percentile £798 £683 £726
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
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 11,199 12,812 17,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.77% 56.25% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 8,701 11,756
10th Percentile £205 £228 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,693 722 1,032
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
South East +35 61 £400 -36.00% 304
Midlands +72 60 £563 -2.17% 165
West Midlands +60 56 £600 +4.35% 125
North of England +47 35 £480 -7.16% 230
Scotland +46 35 £394 -12.50% 126
South West +12 15 £650 +20.93% 133
North West +29 14 £538 - 149
Yorkshire +28 12 £478 -21.53% 47
North East +18 9 - - 39
Wales - 7 £501 - 21
East of England +9 6 £675 +33.66% 107
Northern Ireland +3 4 - - 22
East Midlands - 4 £538 - 40
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 (4.07%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.71%) SAS
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) GeoServer
Applications
1 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Exstream
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.86%) AWS
2 21 (9.50%) Azure
3 16 (7.24%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (2.71%) GCP
5 6 (2.71%) GitHub
5 6 (2.71%) Serverless
6 5 (2.26%) BrowserStack
7 4 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.45%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.26%) Firewall
1 5 (2.26%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (1.81%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.36%) 2G
3 3 (1.36%) 3G
3 3 (1.36%) 4G
3 3 (1.36%) ATM
3 3 (1.36%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (1.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.36%) SDH
4 2 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.90%) LAN
4 2 (0.90%) VPN
4 2 (0.90%) WAN
5 1 (0.45%) FlexRay
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.45%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.24%) Power BI
2 7 (3.17%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.71%) Crystal Reports
3 6 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.26%) GIS
4 5 (2.26%) MySQL
5 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.36%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.90%) DB2
7 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.90%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.45%) Ingres
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.45%) QGIS
8 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (2.71%) GitLab
2 5 (2.26%) Cypress.io
2 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.26%) JIRA
3 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.36%) GCC
3 3 (1.36%) JMeter
4 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.45%) CANoe
5 1 (0.45%) Git
5 1 (0.45%) Selenium
5 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 76 (34.39%) Finance
2 45 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 31 (14.03%) Telecoms
4 21 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.98%) Legal
7 9 (4.07%) Law
8 7 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.71%) Banking
10 5 (2.26%) Aviation
10 5 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.26%) Marketing
11 3 (1.36%) Police
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Billing
12 2 (0.90%) Digital Economy
12 2 (0.90%) Games
12 2 (0.90%) Local Government
13 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (16.74%) Analyst
2 19 (8.60%) Developer
3 18 (8.14%) Full Stack Engineer
3 18 (8.14%) Project Manager
3 18 (8.14%) Senior
4 16 (7.24%) Software Engineer
5 13 (5.88%) Architect
5 13 (5.88%) Lead
6 11 (4.98%) Consultant
6 11 (4.98%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 9 (4.07%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.07%) Change Manager
7 9 (4.07%) Java Engineer
8 8 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.17%) IT Manager
10 6 (2.71%) IFS Developer
10 6 (2.71%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (2.71%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (2.26%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.79%) Spring
2 14 (6.33%) AngularJS
2 14 (6.33%) REST
3 13 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 12 (5.43%) JPA
5 11 (4.98%) React
6 9 (4.07%) CSS
6 9 (4.07%) HTML
7 5 (2.26%) Next.js
7 5 (2.26%) RESTful
8 3 (1.36%) .NET
8 3 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.36%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.36%) LLVM
8 3 (1.36%) Vue
9 2 (0.90%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.90%) PostGIS
9 2 (0.90%) PySpark
10 1 (0.45%) Jest
10 1 (0.45%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.43%) Public Cloud
2 8 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (3.62%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.17%) NHS
4 6 (2.71%) CSOC
4 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.26%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.81%) DTCC
6 4 (1.81%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.36%) LIMS
8 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) iPad
8 2 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.17%) Unix
2 6 (2.71%) Windows
3 5 (2.26%) Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (23.53%) Agile
2 30 (13.57%) CI/CD
2 30 (13.57%) Software Engineering
3 29 (13.12%) Project Management
4 28 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (11.76%) Analytics
6 24 (10.86%) SDLC
7 22 (9.95%) Full Stack Development
8 19 (8.60%) Microservices
8 19 (8.60%) Roadmaps
9 18 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (8.14%) Operational Stability
9 18 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (7.69%) Change Management
11 16 (7.24%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (7.24%) Project Delivery
12 15 (6.79%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (6.79%) Risk Management
13 14 (6.33%) Infrastructure Management
13 14 (6.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.93%) SQL
2 27 (12.22%) Java
3 20 (9.05%) TypeScript
4 8 (3.62%) C#
5 6 (2.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.81%) Python
7 3 (1.36%) C
8 2 (0.90%) C++
8 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.45%) PHP
9 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.45%) Scala
9 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (11.76%) Degree
2 17 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.62%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.81%) PhD
7 3 (1.36%) APMP
7 3 (1.36%) CISSP
7 3 (1.36%) HNC
7 3 (1.36%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (0.90%) APMG
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.90%) CISM
8 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.90%) SANS
9 1 (0.45%) ACCA
9 1 (0.45%) CIMA
9 1 (0.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) GDPR
2 10 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.52%) QA
3 4 (1.81%) NCSC
3 4 (1.81%) PMO
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.36%) NIST
4 3 (1.36%) P3O
4 3 (1.36%) SLA
5 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.98%) Grafana
2 4 (1.81%) Ansible
2 4 (1.81%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.81%) Terraform
3 3 (1.36%) SCCM
4 1 (0.45%) Argo
4 1 (0.45%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.43%) BT
2 12 (5.43%) IFS
3 8 (3.62%) SAP
4 7 (3.17%) F5
5 5 (2.26%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.81%) CheckPoint
6 4 (1.81%) Google
6 4 (1.81%) Oracle
6 4 (1.81%) PagerDuty
7 3 (1.36%) CA
7 3 (1.36%) InterSystems
8 2 (0.90%) Cisco
8 2 (0.90%) Greenplum
8 2 (0.90%) Juniper
8 2 (0.90%) OpenText
8 2 (0.90%) Progress
8 2 (0.90%) VMware
9 1 (0.45%) Remedy
9 1 (0.45%) Salesforce