Public Sector Contracts

Public Sector
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,995 5,460 7,762
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 9.68% 8.84%
As % of the General category 16.13% 16.54% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,670 4,110 6,070
10th Percentile £275 £269 £263
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £594
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 86 177
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.71 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.26 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% +1.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £49.50 £26.85 £26.50
90th Percentile £70.39 £45.43 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.62 £20.00 £18.90
% change year-on-year +8.08% +5.82% +5.59%

All General Skills
UK

Public Sector 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 24,760 33,009 49,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.46% 58.55% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,551 22,901 34,679
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 £763 £775 £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 1,985 984 1,388
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.06
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £59.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £28.07 £19.50
% change year-on-year +1.25% +43.95% +2.63%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
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 Public Sector within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 -2 3,105 £525 - 1,181
UK excluding London -4 2,151 £500 - 903
London +7 1,447 £525 -4.63% 384
Work from Home -1 1,406 £513 -5.09% 632
Scotland +1 591 £450 -2.70% 101
North of England -7 457 £500 -4.76% 248
South East -2 429 £460 -5.64% 183
South West 0 368 £582 +2.11% 151
North West -3 293 £500 -2.44% 155
Midlands -3 230 £450 -10.00% 129
West Midlands -6 161 £500 -7.41% 94
Yorkshire -13 133 £500 -4.76% 54
East Midlands -6 68 £396 -34.08% 34
East of England -40 62 £450 -25.00% 48
North East -6 33 £500 -4.76% 41
Wales -5 29 £500 +22.70% 35
Northern Ireland +2 18 £588 +330.40% 30

Public Sector
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
1 156 (3.90%) SharePoint
2 106 (2.65%) Confluence
3 64 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.05%) CMS
5 20 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 16 (0.40%) Apache
7 15 (0.38%) nginx
8 11 (0.28%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 10 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
9 10 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 10 (0.25%) Skype for Business
10 7 (0.18%) SAS
10 7 (0.18%) Site Server
10 7 (0.18%) WordPress
11 6 (0.15%) IIS
11 6 (0.15%) JBoss
12 5 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 115 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 108 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 30 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 23 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.13%) Sketch
7 5 (0.13%) Trello
8 3 (0.075%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.075%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.050%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.050%) CANalyzer
9 2 (0.050%) Lectora
9 2 (0.050%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.025%) InVision
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.38%) Primavera
5 13 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 9 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 9 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
11 4 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle Assets
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.10%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 577 (14.44%) Azure
2 353 (8.84%) AWS
3 220 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
4 179 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
5 177 (4.43%) Power Platform
6 101 (2.53%) Serverless
7 83 (2.08%) SaaS
8 81 (2.03%) PaaS
9 77 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 69 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 68 (1.70%) GitHub
12 65 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
13 59 (1.48%) IaaS
14 57 (1.43%) OCI
15 55 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
16 53 (1.33%) Power Automate
17 50 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
18 48 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
19 46 (1.15%) GCP
20 45 (1.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.53%) Firewall
2 109 (2.73%) WAN
3 89 (2.23%) LAN
4 50 (1.25%) VPN
5 48 (1.20%) Network Security
6 41 (1.03%) DNS
7 37 (0.93%) Wireless
8 33 (0.83%) BGP
9 29 (0.73%) SAN
10 28 (0.70%) IPsec
10 28 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (0.60%) DHCP
11 24 (0.60%) Internet
12 23 (0.58%) Intranet
12 23 (0.58%) VoIP
13 21 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
13 21 (0.53%) OSPF
14 20 (0.50%) MPLS
15 19 (0.48%) TCP/IP
16 18 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 127 (3.18%) Power BI
3 124 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.48%) Metadata
6 58 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 48 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 45 (1.13%) GIS
9 44 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 43 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 34 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
12 32 (0.80%) Big Data
13 30 (0.75%) MySQL
14 29 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 29 (0.73%) MongoDB
15 23 (0.58%) Metadata Repository
15 23 (0.58%) Tableau
16 21 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
16 21 (0.53%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 162 (4.06%) JIRA
2 110 (2.75%) Git
3 63 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.03%) GitLab
5 35 (0.88%) Selenium
6 32 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 29 (0.73%) JUnit
8 21 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.40%) PVCS
10 15 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 15 (0.38%) Postman
11 14 (0.35%) JMeter
11 14 (0.35%) WebDriver
12 13 (0.33%) SpecFlow
13 12 (0.30%) Maven
14 10 (0.25%) ERwin
15 9 (0.23%) Artifactory
16 8 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
17 7 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
17 7 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 791 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 629 (15.74%) Finance
3 311 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 291 (7.28%) Marketing
5 290 (7.26%) Telecoms
6 273 (6.83%) Manufacturing
7 268 (6.71%) Electronics
8 96 (2.40%) Local Government
9 69 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
10 64 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 56 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.10%) Back Office
12 44 (1.10%) Legal
13 39 (0.98%) Publishing
14 36 (0.90%) Military
15 32 (0.80%) Retail
16 30 (0.75%) Banking
17 29 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (0.65%) Law
19 25 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 546 (13.67%) Architect
2 458 (11.46%) Senior
3 415 (10.39%) Developer
4 403 (10.09%) Analyst
5 257 (6.43%) Lead
6 237 (5.93%) Project Manager
7 222 (5.56%) Consultant
8 141 (3.53%) Business Analyst
9 126 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
10 110 (2.75%) Network Engineer
11 93 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 90 (2.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 89 (2.23%) Data Engineer
14 87 (2.18%) Technical Architect
15 86 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
16 83 (2.08%) Senior Manager
17 81 (2.03%) Designer
18 79 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
19 74 (1.85%) Data Architect
20 68 (1.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (3.80%) .NET
2 110 (2.75%) HTML
2 110 (2.75%) REST
3 93 (2.33%) CSS
4 85 (2.13%) React
5 68 (1.70%) Node.js
5 68 (1.70%) Spring
6 65 (1.63%) XML
7 64 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 45 (1.13%) JSON
9 44 (1.10%) Web Services
10 43 (1.08%) RESTful
11 42 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
12 40 (1.00%) AWS CDK
13 38 (0.95%) SAML
14 37 (0.93%) AngularJS
14 37 (0.93%) Kafka
15 36 (0.90%) .NET Core
16 34 (0.85%) OpenID
17 30 (0.75%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 143 (3.58%) Management Information System
2 118 (2.95%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 83 (2.08%) NHS
5 77 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.25%) Data Structures
7 46 (1.15%) PKI
8 45 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (0.93%) Replication
11 34 (0.85%) Cloud Native
11 34 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
12 31 (0.78%) Reference Data
13 30 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (0.75%) Virtual Team
14 29 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
15 28 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
16 26 (0.65%) CMDB
17 25 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
17 25 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 319 (7.98%) Windows
2 199 (4.98%) Linux
3 94 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 74 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 60 (1.50%) Unix
6 35 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 33 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 32 (0.80%) Android
9 31 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.38%) Windows 7
12 13 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
13 11 (0.28%) zOS
14 10 (0.25%) Mac OS X
14 10 (0.25%) Ubuntu
15 7 (0.18%) VMS
15 7 (0.18%) Windows Vista
16 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (21.63%) Agile
2 437 (10.94%) DevOps
3 434 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
4 357 (8.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 338 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
6 331 (8.29%) Programme Management
7 320 (8.01%) Project Management
8 316 (7.91%) Migration
9 269 (6.73%) Digital Marketing
10 231 (5.78%) CI/CD
11 224 (5.61%) ITIL
12 200 (5.01%) Scrum
13 194 (4.86%) Project Delivery
14 191 (4.78%) Change Management
15 190 (4.76%) Roadmaps
16 189 (4.73%) PRINCE2
17 182 (4.56%) Service Management
18 174 (4.36%) Analytics
19 168 (4.21%) Continuous Improvement
20 162 (4.06%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 273 (6.83%) SQL
2 227 (5.68%) Python
3 194 (4.86%) Java
4 176 (4.41%) JavaScript
5 158 (3.95%) PowerShell
6 140 (3.50%) C#
7 85 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 45 (1.13%) Bash
9 41 (1.03%) C++
10 40 (1.00%) C
10 40 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.73%) Shell Script
12 27 (0.68%) Bicep
12 27 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 18 (0.45%) Ruby
14 17 (0.43%) PHP
15 15 (0.38%) Go
16 14 (0.35%) R
17 13 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 12 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,692 (42.35%) Security Cleared
2 1,103 (27.61%) SC Cleared
3 431 (10.79%) DV Cleared
4 308 (7.71%) Degree
5 59 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
5 59 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 56 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (1.05%) CCNA
8 38 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 29 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 28 (0.70%) CISSP
12 24 (0.60%) CCNP
12 24 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (0.53%) MCSE
14 20 (0.50%) PMP
15 18 (0.45%) HNC
16 17 (0.43%) Azure Certification
17 16 (0.40%) ISTQB
17 16 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (2.95%) Accessibility
2 95 (2.38%) QA
3 81 (2.03%) SLA
4 77 (1.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 73 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 61 (1.53%) PMO
7 47 (1.18%) GDPR
8 42 (1.05%) NIST
9 33 (0.83%) WCAG
10 25 (0.63%) NCSC
11 14 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 11 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.28%) HL7
13 11 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 11 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 234 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 116 (2.90%) Docker
3 79 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.45%) vSphere
8 14 (0.35%) Firmware
8 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 12 (0.30%) NFS
11 11 (0.28%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.20%) HDFS
12 8 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.13%) ACF2
14 5 (0.13%) RACF
15 4 (0.10%) IAG
15 4 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
16 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 132 (3.30%) Terraform
2 123 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 87 (2.18%) Ansible
4 47 (1.18%) SCCM
5 39 (0.98%) Grafana
6 28 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 22 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (0.50%) Puppet
9 19 (0.48%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.40%) Kibana
11 15 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 15 (0.38%) SCOM
12 12 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.28%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.20%) OPNET
14 8 (0.20%) vRealize
15 7 (0.18%) Packer
16 6 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 564 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 339 (8.49%) SAP
3 198 (4.96%) Oracle
4 112 (2.80%) VMware
5 105 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 97 (2.43%) Cisco
7 60 (1.50%) Dell
8 49 (1.23%) Juniper
9 45 (1.13%) Google
10 38 (0.95%) Palo Alto
11 36 (0.90%) Atlassian
12 33 (0.83%) Citrix
13 31 (0.78%) Adobe
13 31 (0.78%) Red Hat
13 31 (0.78%) Sparx
14 29 (0.73%) CyberArk
15 28 (0.70%) IBM
16 27 (0.68%) Splunk
17 24 (0.60%) NetApp
18 23 (0.58%) Salesforce