Public Sector Contracts in South London

Public Sector
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 43 79 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 17.84% 20.41% 16.99%
As % of the General category 32.58% 30.27% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 63 54
10th Percentile £383 £450 £339
25th Percentile £443 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -13.51% +9.52%
75th Percentile £579 £650 £625
90th Percentile £634 £725 £700
London median daily rate £535 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -4.89% +7.14% +5.00%

All General Skills
South 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 South London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 132 261 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 54.77% 67.44% 55.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 199 154
10th Percentile £200 £296 £333
25th Percentile £400 £451 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +3.29% +6.50%
75th Percentile £564 £675 £638
90th Percentile £628 £850 £731
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 6
10th Percentile £15.90 £18.75 £40.95
25th Percentile £17.06 £20.00 £43.91
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year -53.39% +7.70% +5.20%
75th Percentile £69.13 - £48.58
90th Percentile £83.75 £55.22 £48.59
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 South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in South London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Croydon -1 35 £488 -9.72% 3
Merton +3 6 £563 +25.00% 1
Wandsworth - 2 £540 - 1
Public Sector
London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) nginx
3 1 (2.33%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Serverless
3 5 (11.63%) Azure
4 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) OCI
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.33%) GCP
7 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.33%) IPv4
1 1 (2.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (9.30%) GIS
1 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle ODI
3 2 (4.65%) Parquet
3 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 6 (13.95%) Git
3 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.98%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) JUnit
6 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.33%) JMeter
6 1 (2.33%) Mockito
6 1 (2.33%) Postman
6 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.33%) Selenium
6 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 5 (11.63%) Local Government
3 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Head of IT
6 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Junior
6 2 (4.65%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Junior Test Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Service Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) Spring
2 6 (13.95%) Kafka
2 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.63%) .NET
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (6.98%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.65%) Guice
5 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.65%) JSON
5 2 (4.65%) Web Services
6 1 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.33%) jBPM
6 1 (2.33%) JPA
6 1 (2.33%) jQuery
6 1 (2.33%) Middleware
6 1 (2.33%) RESTful
6 1 (2.33%) SOAP
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Unix
2 2 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Agile
2 10 (23.26%) DevOps
2 10 (23.26%) Microservices
3 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
4 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (13.95%) Scrum
5 5 (11.63%) CRM
5 5 (11.63%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (11.63%) Kanban
5 5 (11.63%) TDD
6 4 (9.30%) BDD
6 4 (9.30%) ETL
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.30%) Project Management
7 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (6.98%) Data Modelling
7 3 (6.98%) ITIL
7 3 (6.98%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.98%) Service Management
7 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Python
4 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) Lua
5 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 2 (4.65%) PHP
5 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) C
6 1 (2.33%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) C++
6 1 (2.33%) Go
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.33%) Ruby
6 1 (2.33%) Rust
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (72.09%) Security Cleared
2 30 (69.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
1 7 (16.28%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
3 2 (4.65%) Packer
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.33%) Consul
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Freshdesk
3 1 (2.33%) Granicus
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) Spotify