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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,976 5,448 7,787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 9.70% 8.89%
As % of the General category 16.08% 16.57% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,666 4,101 6,096
10th Percentile £276 £270 £263
25th Percentile £413 £415 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £590
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 88 176
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.79 £12.80
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £15.98
Median hourly rate £21.86 £20.42 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +2.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £49.50 £27.66 £27.56
90th Percentile £69.50 £47.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +7.50% +6.67% +4.17%

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 24,727 32,883 49,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.62% 58.56% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,561 22,792 34,447
10th Percentile £275 £313 £324
25th Percentile £413 £440 £426
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,973 991 1,415
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.56 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.57% +42.77% +0.31%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 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
England -1 3,090 £525 - 1,180
UK excluding London -4 2,138 £500 - 968
London +8 1,440 £525 -4.55% 346
Work from Home -1 1,397 £513 -5.09% 672
Scotland +1 588 £450 -2.70% 115
North of England -7 453 £500 -4.76% 262
South East -4 426 £460 -5.64% 198
South West 0 366 £582 +3.24% 159
North West -5 293 £500 -4.31% 156
Midlands -4 232 £450 -11.11% 135
West Midlands -6 164 £500 -7.41% 97
Yorkshire -13 130 £500 -7.41% 68
East Midlands -9 67 £396 -34.08% 37
East of England -42 60 £450 -25.00% 54
North East -6 32 £500 -8.05% 39
Wales -3 27 £500 +17.65% 35
Northern Ireland +7 19 £600 +339.56% 32

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
1 152 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 108 (2.72%) Confluence
3 64 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.06%) CMS
5 20 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 18 (0.45%) nginx
7 16 (0.40%) Apache
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%) Site Server
10 7 (0.18%) WordPress
11 6 (0.15%) IIS
11 6 (0.15%) JBoss
11 6 (0.15%) SAS
12 5 (0.13%) Camunda
Applications
1 116 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 111 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.13%) Sketch
8 5 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.075%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.075%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.050%) Camtasia
10 2 (0.050%) CANalyzer
10 2 (0.050%) Lectora
10 2 (0.050%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.025%) InVision
Business Applications
1 21 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.38%) Primavera
3 15 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 10 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 10 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
9 4 (0.10%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.10%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.10%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 573 (14.41%) Azure
2 354 (8.90%) AWS
3 214 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
4 183 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 178 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (2.52%) Serverless
7 84 (2.11%) SaaS
8 81 (2.04%) PaaS
9 76 (1.91%) Entra ID
10 67 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 67 (1.69%) GitHub
11 64 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (1.51%) IaaS
13 58 (1.46%) OCI
14 55 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
15 54 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 49 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
17 46 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 46 (1.16%) GCP
17 46 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.57%) Firewall
2 111 (2.79%) WAN
3 90 (2.26%) LAN
4 51 (1.28%) VPN
5 47 (1.18%) Network Security
6 41 (1.03%) DNS
7 39 (0.98%) Wireless
8 34 (0.86%) BGP
9 29 (0.73%) SAN
10 28 (0.70%) IPsec
10 28 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (0.63%) Internet
12 24 (0.60%) DHCP
13 23 (0.58%) Intranet
13 23 (0.58%) VoIP
14 22 (0.55%) OSPF
15 20 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
15 20 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.50%) MPLS
15 20 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 133 (3.35%) Power BI
3 125 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (1.48%) Relational Database
6 58 (1.46%) Metadata
7 48 (1.21%) Oracle Database
8 45 (1.13%) GIS
9 44 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 43 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 34 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
12 31 (0.78%) Big Data
13 30 (0.75%) MongoDB
13 30 (0.75%) MySQL
14 27 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
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%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 164 (4.12%) JIRA
2 108 (2.72%) Git
3 62 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 40 (1.01%) GitLab
5 36 (0.91%) Selenium
6 32 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 29 (0.73%) JUnit
8 20 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.40%) Postman
10 16 (0.40%) PVCS
11 15 (0.38%) JMeter
12 14 (0.35%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.33%) SpecFlow
14 12 (0.30%) Maven
15 10 (0.25%) ERwin
16 9 (0.23%) Artifactory
17 8 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
18 7 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
18 7 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 785 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 627 (15.77%) Finance
3 311 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
4 288 (7.24%) Marketing
4 288 (7.24%) Telecoms
5 272 (6.84%) Manufacturing
6 267 (6.72%) Electronics
7 97 (2.44%) Local Government
8 69 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 55 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (1.11%) Back Office
11 44 (1.11%) Legal
12 36 (0.91%) Military
12 36 (0.91%) Publishing
13 31 (0.78%) Banking
13 31 (0.78%) Retail
14 29 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (0.68%) Law
16 26 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 550 (13.83%) Architect
2 457 (11.49%) Senior
3 414 (10.41%) Developer
4 396 (9.96%) Analyst
5 252 (6.34%) Lead
6 240 (6.04%) Project Manager
7 223 (5.61%) Consultant
8 139 (3.50%) Business Analyst
9 127 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
10 116 (2.92%) Network Engineer
11 90 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 89 (2.24%) Data Engineer
13 88 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
14 87 (2.19%) Technical Architect
15 85 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
16 83 (2.09%) Senior Manager
17 82 (2.06%) Designer
18 77 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
19 75 (1.89%) Data Architect
20 68 (1.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (3.82%) .NET
2 114 (2.87%) REST
3 109 (2.74%) HTML
4 92 (2.31%) CSS
5 84 (2.11%) React
6 70 (1.76%) Spring
7 66 (1.66%) Node.js
8 65 (1.63%) XML
9 64 (1.61%) Spring Boot
10 46 (1.16%) JSON
11 44 (1.11%) Web Services
12 43 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
12 43 (1.08%) RESTful
13 39 (0.98%) AWS CDK
13 39 (0.98%) SAML
14 38 (0.96%) Kafka
15 37 (0.93%) AngularJS
16 36 (0.91%) .NET Core
16 36 (0.91%) OpenID
17 32 (0.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 144 (3.62%) Management Information System
2 119 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 101 (2.54%) Data Centre
4 83 (2.09%) NHS
5 76 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 50 (1.26%) Data Structures
7 47 (1.18%) PKI
8 45 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 37 (0.93%) Replication
11 33 (0.83%) Cloud Native
11 33 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 30 (0.75%) Reference Data
13 29 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 29 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (0.73%) Virtual Team
14 28 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
15 25 (0.63%) Public Cloud
16 24 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
17 23 (0.58%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 319 (8.02%) Windows
2 199 (5.01%) Linux
3 94 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 74 (1.86%) Windows 10
5 63 (1.58%) Unix
6 34 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 34 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (0.83%) Android
7 33 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (0.38%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
13 10 (0.25%) Mac OS X
13 10 (0.25%) Ubuntu
13 10 (0.25%) zOS
14 7 (0.18%) VMS
14 7 (0.18%) Windows Vista
15 5 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (21.58%) Agile
2 437 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
3 432 (10.87%) DevOps
4 360 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 335 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
5 335 (8.43%) Programme Management
6 318 (8.00%) Project Management
7 314 (7.90%) Migration
8 268 (6.74%) Digital Marketing
9 227 (5.71%) CI/CD
10 221 (5.56%) ITIL
11 200 (5.03%) Scrum
12 195 (4.90%) Change Management
13 194 (4.88%) Project Delivery
14 192 (4.83%) Roadmaps
15 188 (4.73%) PRINCE2
16 182 (4.58%) Service Management
17 175 (4.40%) Analytics
18 167 (4.20%) Continuous Improvement
19 157 (3.95%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 273 (6.87%) SQL
2 229 (5.76%) Python
3 195 (4.90%) Java
4 174 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 158 (3.97%) PowerShell
6 139 (3.50%) C#
7 81 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 44 (1.11%) Bash
9 40 (1.01%) C
9 40 (1.01%) C++
9 40 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 29 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 28 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 27 (0.68%) Bicep
13 20 (0.50%) PHP
14 18 (0.45%) R
15 17 (0.43%) Ruby
16 14 (0.35%) Go
17 13 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,686 (42.40%) Security Cleared
2 1,100 (27.67%) SC Cleared
3 429 (10.79%) DV Cleared
4 307 (7.72%) Degree
5 64 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 44 (1.11%) CCNA
9 37 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 30 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 28 (0.70%) CISSP
13 25 (0.63%) CCNP
14 24 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
15 21 (0.53%) MCSE
16 19 (0.48%) HNC
16 19 (0.48%) PMP
17 17 (0.43%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.43%) ISTQB
18 16 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 96 (2.41%) QA
3 81 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 81 (2.04%) SLA
4 73 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 62 (1.56%) PMO
6 60 (1.51%) Data Quality
7 46 (1.16%) GDPR
8 41 (1.03%) NIST
9 30 (0.75%) WCAG
10 24 (0.60%) 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%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 10 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 10 (0.25%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 233 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 114 (2.87%) Docker
3 78 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 27 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.45%) vSphere
8 14 (0.35%) Firmware
9 13 (0.33%) NFS
9 13 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (0.28%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.20%) HDFS
11 8 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.13%) ACF2
13 5 (0.13%) RACF
14 4 (0.10%) IAG
14 4 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
15 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (3.22%) Terraform
2 119 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 87 (2.19%) Ansible
4 47 (1.18%) SCCM
5 39 (0.98%) Grafana
6 27 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 21 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (0.50%) Puppet
10 19 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 16 (0.40%) SCOM
12 15 (0.38%) Kibana
13 13 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 12 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
15 11 (0.28%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.23%) OPNET
17 8 (0.20%) vRealize
18 7 (0.18%) Packer
19 6 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 560 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 336 (8.45%) SAP
3 200 (5.03%) Oracle
4 113 (2.84%) VMware
5 103 (2.59%) Cisco
6 101 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 60 (1.51%) Dell
8 51 (1.28%) Juniper
9 45 (1.13%) Google
10 38 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 34 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 33 (0.83%) Citrix
13 31 (0.78%) Sparx
14 29 (0.73%) CyberArk
15 28 (0.70%) Adobe
15 28 (0.70%) IBM
15 28 (0.70%) Red Hat
16 27 (0.68%) Splunk
17 24 (0.60%) NetApp
18 23 (0.58%) Fortinet