Gender Pay Gap 2024
Gender Pay Gap reporting compares the average pay for all men and all women in Kainos. It produces a calculation, the Gender Pay Gap, which reflects any difference between the total pay of all men and all of women in Kainos.
In the 2023–24 period, our Gender Pay Gap is 17.1%.
Our statutory requirement is only to report on Gender Pay Gap for UK-based employees. That is the information that we submit via the UK government Gender Pay Gap Service. We think it is more useful to consider everybody who is employed at Kainos, so this report uses the data for all colleagues in all countries.
It's important to stress that having a gender pay gap does not mean that we pay people differently for the same role based on their gender. That's pay equity, and at Kainos we pay people equitably when they are doing the same job, regardless of gender or any other factor.
We audit this data annually to ensure we identify, investigate and correct anomalies.
At Kainos, our Gender Pay Gap is really driven by the gender imbalance across our workforce, and an under-representation of women at senior levels. Our Gender Pay Gap will be zero when we have an equal split between men and women in Kainos and across all levels. That's why our Gender Parity Plan is important.
In the 2023–24 period, women represented 35.1% of our total workforce - with a lower proportion of women at senior levels. There is a more detailed assessment of our Gender Pay Gap below.
Our Gender Pay Gap reporting focuses only on employees, so contract staff are excluded from this report.
"As Executive Sponsor of D&I, I'm committed to making Kainos a fair and inclusive place to work - from pay and career development to creating a culture where underrepresented groups feel safe and heard. We’ve made progress on the gender pay gap, but there’s still more to do."
The breakdown
To close the gender pay gap, we must increase the proportion of women in Kainos. Right now, we have a larger proportion of men in our workforce - particularly at senior levels.
Men, Women, Hourly Pay Gap and Bonus Pay Gap percentages from 2018 to 2024:
| Men | Women | Hourly Pay Gap | Bonus Pay Gap | |
| 2024 | 64.9% | 35.1% | 17.1% | 24.1% |
| 2023 | 65.3% | 34.7% | 20.9% | 26.3% |
| 2022 | 65.9% | 34.1% | 16.7% | 35.1% |
| 2021 | 69.2% | 30.4% | 18.2% | 45.8% |
| 2020 | 67.7% | 32.2% | 18.9% | 44.6% |
| 2019 | 70.3% | 29.7% | 29.7% | 42.9% |
| 2018 | 72.0% | 28.0% | 12.5% | 50.4% |
In the 2023-24 period:
Women held 27% of senior management positions in 2023-24 (compared to 23% in 2021-22). During the reporting period, the proportion of women in Kainos increased to 35.1% (compared to 34.1% in 2021-22). Our aim is to increase the proportion of women to 38% by 2025. and although we are unlikely to meet our 2025 goals, significant progress has been made and we will continue our efforts.
In the reporting period, we saw a decrease in our gender hourly pay gap to 17.1% (compared to 20.9% in 2022-23) and a decrease in our gender bonus pay gap to 24.1% (compared to 26.3% in 2022-23).
The ‘median’ figures shown in this table take all the salaries for women in order from lowest to highest and compares the mid-point salary against the mid-point for men. The same is done for bonus.
Our Gender Pay Gap data for the period 2023-2024 shows:
- We must persist with our efforts to tackle the under-representation of women across Kainos, particularly in technical roles.
- Progress has been made with regards to representation of women in senior management positions, but we must continue to remove barriers and support the advancement of women into senior positions to close the gender pay gap.
- Our pay equity efforts remain important and in addition, we have widened bonus eligibility which has had an impact - but we acknowledge there is more to do.