Public Sector Contracts in the North West

Public Sector
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 334 517 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 12.09% 16.09% 11.99%
As % of the General category 22.57% 31.14% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 354 375
10th Percentile £350 £325 £226
25th Percentile £414 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year - +5.42% +4.84%
75th Percentile £652 £600 £586
90th Percentile £725 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £503
% change year-on-year -2.78% +7.30% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 11
10th Percentile £12.00 £15.87 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.85 £15.36
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.81
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.30% -12.05%
75th Percentile £21.00 £25.75 £22.50
90th Percentile £32.77 £31.50 £27.00
England median hourly rate £21.73 £20.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.38% +0.25% +7.90%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,480 1,660 2,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.56% 51.67% 49.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,140 1,425
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £395 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 83 115
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.67 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.04 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £52.81 £53.52
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the North West

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester -8 163 £528 +5.50% 70
Cumbria +10 56 £650 +62.50% 6
Merseyside +4 41 £425 -15.00% 15
Cheshire +11 37 £463 -14.31% 16
Lancashire -5 25 £500 -16.67% 10
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.60%) Mule
3 2 (0.60%) nginx
3 2 (0.60%) Traefik
4 1 (0.30%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Aareon QL
2 2 (0.60%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.78%) Azure
2 33 (9.88%) AWS
3 25 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (2.99%) IaaS
4 10 (2.99%) SaaS
5 8 (2.40%) PaaS
6 6 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.80%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.50%) GCP
7 5 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.90%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (0.90%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.60%) GitHub
9 2 (0.60%) Kong
9 2 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.19%) Firewall
2 8 (2.40%) VPN
3 6 (1.80%) DNS
4 4 (1.20%) BGP
4 4 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (1.20%) DSL
4 4 (1.20%) EIGRP
4 4 (1.20%) HSRP
4 4 (1.20%) IPsec
4 4 (1.20%) NetScaler
4 4 (1.20%) Network Security
4 4 (1.20%) OSPF
4 4 (1.20%) SNMP
4 4 (1.20%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.90%) InfiniBand
5 3 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.69%) Relational Database
2 8 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.10%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (1.50%) Metadata
5 5 (1.50%) Power BI
6 3 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.30%) MySQL
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (3.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.99%) Git
2 10 (2.99%) JIRA
3 9 (2.69%) GitLab
4 6 (1.80%) JUnit
5 4 (1.20%) ERwin
6 2 (0.60%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.60%) Log4j
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.30%) Mocha
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.30%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (17.66%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.07%) Finance
3 30 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.89%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.59%) Electronics
5 12 (3.59%) Manufacturing
5 12 (3.59%) Marketing
6 10 (2.99%) Local Government
7 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.69%) Legal
8 8 (2.40%) Police
9 5 (1.50%) Military
10 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Retail
11 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Advertising
13 1 (0.30%) Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Front Office
13 1 (0.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (15.87%) Architect
2 41 (12.28%) Analyst
3 40 (11.98%) Developer
4 37 (11.08%) Consultant
5 34 (10.18%) Senior
6 20 (5.99%) Lead
7 18 (5.39%) Project Manager
8 17 (5.09%) Business Analyst
9 15 (4.49%) ServiceNow Developer
10 13 (3.89%) Service Analyst
10 13 (3.89%) Service Desk Analyst
11 12 (3.59%) Senior Developer
11 12 (3.59%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
12 11 (3.29%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.29%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.99%) Lead Architect
14 9 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.40%) Incident Manager
15 8 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.49%) Node.js
2 10 (2.99%) REST
3 9 (2.69%) Spring
4 8 (2.40%) Hibernate
4 8 (2.40%) Spring Boot
5 7 (2.10%) React
6 6 (1.80%) JPA
7 5 (1.50%) RESTful
8 4 (1.20%) Jinja
8 4 (1.20%) PySpark
9 3 (0.90%) Django
10 2 (0.60%) .NET
10 2 (0.60%) CSS
10 2 (0.60%) Flask
10 2 (0.60%) HTML
10 2 (0.60%) JSON
10 2 (0.60%) Kafka
10 2 (0.60%) LDAP
10 2 (0.60%) OAuth
10 2 (0.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.19%) Management Information System
1 14 (4.19%) Virtual Team
2 11 (3.29%) Public Cloud
3 10 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.40%) CMDB
5 8 (2.40%) Digital Signage
6 7 (2.10%) NHS
7 6 (1.80%) PKI
8 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
9 4 (1.20%) Wiki
10 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.60%) Clustering
11 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.68%) Windows
2 10 (2.99%) Linux
3 9 (2.69%) Android
4 8 (2.40%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.10%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.80%) Unix
7 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.60%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (17.66%) Agile
2 44 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (11.38%) DevOps
4 36 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (10.18%) Programme Management
6 33 (9.88%) Mentoring
7 30 (8.98%) Migration
7 30 (8.98%) Service Management
8 29 (8.68%) ITIL
9 28 (8.38%) CI/CD
9 28 (8.38%) Project Management
9 28 (8.38%) Roadmaps
10 22 (6.59%) Customer Service
11 21 (6.29%) Change Management
12 20 (5.99%) Programme Delivery
12 20 (5.99%) Project Delivery
13 19 (5.69%) Microservices
14 18 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (5.39%) Information Security
14 18 (5.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.49%) Python
2 14 (4.19%) Java
3 6 (1.80%) JavaScript
3 6 (1.80%) Ruby
3 6 (1.80%) SQL
3 6 (1.80%) TypeScript
4 4 (1.20%) Perl
4 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.20%) Tcl
5 3 (0.90%) Go
5 3 (0.90%) MATLAB
6 2 (0.60%) Bash
7 1 (0.30%) C
7 1 (0.30%) C++
7 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.30%) PHP
7 1 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (36.23%) Security Cleared
2 93 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.99%) Degree
4 14 (4.19%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.50%) CCNA
7 4 (1.20%) CISSP
8 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.90%) CCNP
8 3 (0.90%) CISM
8 3 (0.90%) HNC
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.90%) NVQ Level 4
9 2 (0.60%) APMG
9 2 (0.60%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.89%) GDPR
2 12 (3.59%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.10%) SLA
6 4 (1.20%) NCSC
6 4 (1.20%) NIST
7 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.60%) QA
8 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.30%) ISO17020
8 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.40%) Docker
3 7 (2.10%) Firmware
4 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 17 (5.09%) Terraform
2 13 (3.89%) Ansible
3 10 (2.99%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.10%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.80%) Puppet
6 4 (1.20%) CFEngine
6 4 (1.20%) PowerBroker
6 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.60%) Consul
8 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.60%) Graphite
8 2 (0.60%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.60%) Istio
8 2 (0.60%) linkerd
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.60%) Podman
8 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.60%) SCCM
8 2 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.38%) ServiceNow
3 12 (3.59%) SAP
4 5 (1.50%) Cisco
4 5 (1.50%) Citrix
5 4 (1.20%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.20%) CA
5 4 (1.20%) Databricks
5 4 (1.20%) Dell
5 4 (1.20%) Logitech
5 4 (1.20%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.20%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.20%) Sparx
5 4 (1.20%) VMware
6 3 (0.90%) Aareon
6 3 (0.90%) Google
6 3 (0.90%) Isilon
6 3 (0.90%) Northgate
6 3 (0.90%) Splunk