Public Sector Contracts in Central London

Public Sector
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 41 71
Rank change year-on-year +16 +30 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 172 193 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.09% 5.12% 3.48%
As % of the General category 10.77% 8.23% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 111 111
10th Percentile £375 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £376 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +14.17%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £580
90th Percentile £644 £700 £696
London median daily rate £535 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -4.89% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -31.43%
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -27.48% -2.65% +2.72%

All General Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,597 2,346 2,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.86% 62.20% 56.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,654 1,880
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £675
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 27
10th Percentile £20.04 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £21.36 £16.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £21.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -51.72% +148.57%
75th Percentile £30.25 £43.88 £60.25
90th Percentile £47.65 £56.75 £68.15
London median hourly rate £28.00 £31.92 £37.50
% change year-on-year -12.28% -14.88% +33.83%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London +14 150 £500 -4.76% 29
Camden +1 9 £538 +8.69%
West End of London +4 8 £538 +8.69% 2
Lambeth +1 1 £205 -56.84%
City of Westminster -2 1 - - 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £400 -
Public Sector
London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 11 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.91%) Site Server
3 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.58%) Camunda
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Documentum
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.42%) Azure
2 30 (17.44%) AWS
3 23 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.40%) Amazon S3
4 11 (6.40%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.23%) Serverless
6 8 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.65%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.65%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.91%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (2.91%) IaaS
7 5 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.33%) PaaS
9 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.74%) GitHub
9 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.65%) Firewall
1 8 (4.65%) WAN
2 6 (3.49%) LAN
3 5 (2.91%) Wireless
4 4 (2.33%) FTP
4 4 (2.33%) NetScaler
4 4 (2.33%) VPN
5 3 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.16%) BGP
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.16%) IPsec
6 2 (1.16%) OSPF
6 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.16%) Softphone
6 2 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.16%) VoIP
6 2 (1.16%) WLAN
7 1 (0.58%) DMZ
7 1 (0.58%) DNS
7 1 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) Power BI
2 10 (5.81%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.49%) Parquet
5 5 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.91%) GIS
5 5 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.74%) Tableau
8 2 (1.16%) Big Data
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.16%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.58%) OLAP
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (2.33%) JIRA
2 3 (1.74%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.16%) Postman
3 2 (1.16%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.58%) ERwin
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) JUnit
4 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (17.44%) Finance
2 29 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 14 (8.14%) Local Government
4 13 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.65%) General Ledger
5 8 (4.65%) Retail
6 6 (3.49%) Police
6 6 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Law
8 4 (2.33%) Advertising
8 4 (2.33%) Back Office
8 4 (2.33%) Fire and Rescue
8 4 (2.33%) Legal
8 4 (2.33%) Marketing
9 3 (1.74%) Electronics
9 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (12.21%) Architect
2 20 (11.63%) Consultant
2 20 (11.63%) Senior
3 18 (10.47%) Developer
4 16 (9.30%) Analyst
5 11 (6.40%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.23%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Consultant
8 7 (4.07%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.07%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.07%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.49%) Lead
10 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (2.91%) Network Operations Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.33%) Designer
11 4 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.33%) Implementation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.65%) JSON
1 8 (4.65%) Kafka
1 8 (4.65%) REST
2 6 (3.49%) .NET
2 6 (3.49%) Apache Avro
3 5 (2.91%) CSS
3 5 (2.91%) HTML
3 5 (2.91%) SAML
3 5 (2.91%) Spring
4 4 (2.33%) LDAP
4 4 (2.33%) Node.js
4 4 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.33%) XML
5 3 (1.74%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.74%) Web Services
6 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.16%) CSS3
6 2 (1.16%) HTML5
6 2 (1.16%) jQuery
6 2 (1.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.65%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.33%) Replication
3 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.74%) PKI
3 3 (1.74%) Social Media
4 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.58%) CCTV
5 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.58%) Clustering
5 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.58%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.58%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.65%) Linux
2 7 (4.07%) Windows
3 5 (2.91%) Unix
4 3 (1.74%) Android
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (19.19%) Agile
2 29 (16.86%) DevOps
3 21 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (8.14%) ETL
5 13 (7.56%) Analytics
6 12 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (6.98%) Project Management
6 12 (6.98%) Scrum
7 11 (6.40%) Data Modelling
7 11 (6.40%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (5.81%) Migration
8 10 (5.81%) Requirements Workshops
8 10 (5.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (5.23%) Decision-Making
9 9 (5.23%) SFIA
9 9 (5.23%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (4.65%) Accounts Payable
10 8 (4.65%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.05%) Python
2 18 (10.47%) SQL
3 8 (4.65%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.65%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.07%) Java
5 5 (2.91%) Korn
6 4 (2.33%) C#
7 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.58%) PHP
8 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 58 (33.72%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.88%) Degree
4 15 (8.72%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.91%) CISSP
7 3 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.74%) CCNA
7 3 (1.74%) CCSK
8 2 (1.16%) CISM
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CISA
9 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.58%) MBA
9 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) PMO
1 6 (3.49%) SLA
2 5 (2.91%) GDPR
2 5 (2.91%) QA
3 4 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.33%) NIST
4 3 (1.74%) NCSC
5 2 (1.16%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.33%) HDFS
2 4 (2.33%) NFS
3 2 (1.16%) Docker
3 2 (1.16%) Firmware
3 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.07%) Terraform
2 5 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.58%) SCCM
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) Oracle
2 10 (5.81%) SAP
3 5 (2.91%) ESRI
4 4 (2.33%) Citrix
4 4 (2.33%) Isilon
5 3 (1.74%) Brandwatch
5 3 (1.74%) Cisco
5 3 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.16%) Dell
6 2 (1.16%) Google
6 2 (1.16%) IBM
6 2 (1.16%) Juniper
6 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.16%) Siebel
6 2 (1.16%) VMware
7 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.58%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Zoho