Public Sector Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 2,180 3,234 4,039
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.64% 13.79% 13.29%
As % of the General category 19.59% 24.42% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 2,540 3,223
10th Percentile £205 £208 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £700 £685 £638
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 71 122
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.28 £16.77 £15.72
Median hourly rate £20.74 £20.00 £18.73
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +6.81% +4.03%
75th Percentile £51.50 £25.00 £24.88
90th Percentile £69.08 £42.50 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.90%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,128 13,244 16,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.33% 56.46% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,349 9,050 11,652
10th Percentile £206 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 767 1,021
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.00 £13.89
Median hourly rate £28.42 £28.16 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +50.59% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Scotland +1 595 £463 +1.65% 74
North of England -6 482 £525 -0.10% 194
South East -4 422 £455 -9.00% 157
South West 0 374 £570 +0.88% 98
North West -1 317 £525 - 118
Midlands -3 232 £450 -10.00% 112
West Midlands -7 172 £500 -7.41% 86
Yorkshire -9 142 £525 -3.89% 57
East Midlands -7 59 £310 -46.46% 25
East of England -46 57 £413 -29.79% 65
North East -2 37 £525 -4.55% 19
Wales 0 29 £500 +17.65% 28
Northern Ireland +8 16 £625 +186.37% 18
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 78 (3.58%) Confluence
2 60 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (0.83%) CMS
5 8 (0.37%) IIS
6 6 (0.28%) Apache
7 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.14%) SAS
8 3 (0.14%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.14%) WordPress
9 2 (0.092%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.092%) CICS
9 2 (0.092%) Drupal
9 2 (0.092%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.092%) JBoss
9 2 (0.092%) Mule
9 2 (0.092%) nginx
9 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 89 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.092%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.092%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.092%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.092%) Lectora
8 2 (0.092%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.092%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.046%) Blender
9 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.046%) InVision
9 1 (0.046%) Revit
9 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (0.78%) Primavera
2 11 (0.50%) SAP PSCD
3 10 (0.46%) Teamcenter
4 8 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.37%) SAP BRIM
4 8 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
5 7 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.18%) iTrent
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.18%) SAP EWM
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
9 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 179 (8.21%) Azure
2 115 (5.28%) AWS
3 112 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (3.53%) Power Platform
5 63 (2.89%) SaaS
6 53 (2.43%) PaaS
7 49 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.16%) IaaS
9 45 (2.06%) Serverless
10 39 (1.79%) OCI
11 31 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (1.01%) Entra ID
15 22 (1.01%) Power Automate
16 20 (0.92%) OpenShift
17 15 (0.69%) GCP
17 15 (0.69%) PowerApps
18 14 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.99%) Firewall
2 84 (3.85%) WAN
3 73 (3.35%) LAN
4 36 (1.65%) Network Security
5 31 (1.42%) VPN
6 28 (1.28%) SAN
7 27 (1.24%) DNS
8 21 (0.96%) IPsec
9 20 (0.92%) BGP
10 18 (0.83%) Internet
10 18 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.83%) Wireless
11 16 (0.73%) DHCP
11 16 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 15 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (0.64%) MPLS
14 13 (0.60%) Intranet
14 13 (0.60%) VoIP
15 10 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (2.16%) Power BI
3 32 (1.47%) Oracle Database
4 30 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.38%) SQL Server
5 28 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (1.24%) Metadata
7 26 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 19 (0.87%) MySQL
10 17 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.60%) Tableau
13 11 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.50%) Big Data
13 11 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
13 11 (0.50%) GIS
14 10 (0.46%) MariaDB
15 9 (0.41%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 119 (5.46%) JIRA
2 33 (1.51%) Git
3 28 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.92%) GitLab
4 20 (0.92%) Visual Studio
5 16 (0.73%) JUnit
5 16 (0.73%) PVCS
6 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.28%) Artifactory
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.28%) Selenium
8 5 (0.23%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.23%) JMeter
8 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
9 4 (0.18%) ERwin
9 4 (0.18%) Subversion
10 3 (0.14%) Maven
10 3 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 467 (21.42%) Social Skills
2 363 (16.65%) Finance
3 185 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (7.84%) Telecoms
5 157 (7.20%) Marketing
6 151 (6.93%) Manufacturing
7 149 (6.83%) Electronics
8 51 (2.34%) Local Government
8 51 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.06%) Legal
11 23 (1.06%) Police
12 22 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (0.92%) Publishing
14 15 (0.69%) Military
15 12 (0.55%) Back Office
16 10 (0.46%) Billing
17 7 (0.32%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (0.32%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 262 (12.02%) Senior
2 259 (11.88%) Architect
3 242 (11.10%) Analyst
4 203 (9.31%) Developer
5 163 (7.48%) Project Manager
6 146 (6.70%) Lead
7 114 (5.23%) Consultant
8 80 (3.67%) Network Engineer
9 68 (3.12%) Business Analyst
10 58 (2.66%) Senior Manager
10 58 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
11 55 (2.52%) Network Architect
12 53 (2.43%) Support Engineer
13 52 (2.39%) Administrator
14 49 (2.25%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 44 (2.02%) Support Officer
17 42 (1.93%) IT Engineer
17 42 (1.93%) Service Analyst
18 40 (1.83%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.39%) REST
2 42 (1.93%) Node.js
3 41 (1.88%) React
4 39 (1.79%) HTML
5 38 (1.74%) CSS
6 37 (1.70%) .NET
7 31 (1.42%) AWS CDK
8 29 (1.33%) Spring
9 27 (1.24%) Spring Boot
10 23 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.01%) Web Services
12 17 (0.78%) Hibernate
12 17 (0.78%) OpenID
13 16 (0.73%) RESTful
14 14 (0.64%) JPA
14 14 (0.64%) SAML
14 14 (0.64%) XML
15 13 (0.60%) OAuth
15 13 (0.60%) SOAP
16 11 (0.50%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 106 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 75 (3.44%) NHS
3 73 (3.35%) Data Centre
4 54 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 38 (1.74%) PKI
6 34 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (1.38%) Driving Licence
8 29 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 22 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 19 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (0.73%) Public Cloud
13 15 (0.69%) Wiki
14 14 (0.64%) CMDB
15 13 (0.60%) Replication
16 12 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
16 12 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (0.55%) Security Operations Centre
17 10 (0.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 199 (9.13%) Windows
2 93 (4.27%) Linux
3 65 (2.98%) Windows 10
4 42 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.10%) Unix
7 19 (0.87%) Android
8 16 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.64%) Windows 7
9 14 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (0.32%) Mac OS X
12 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.28%) Windows Vista
13 3 (0.14%) AIX
13 3 (0.14%) Solaris
13 3 (0.14%) zOS
14 2 (0.092%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.092%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (19.22%) Agile
2 223 (10.23%) Project Management
3 220 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
4 205 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 203 (9.31%) Programme Management
6 197 (9.04%) Problem-Solving
7 167 (7.66%) DevOps
8 158 (7.25%) ITIL
9 147 (6.74%) Digital Marketing
10 139 (6.38%) Roadmaps
11 133 (6.10%) Migration
12 122 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
13 121 (5.55%) Project Delivery
14 120 (5.50%) PRINCE2
15 106 (4.86%) Service Management
16 105 (4.82%) Change Management
17 100 (4.59%) Mentoring
18 97 (4.45%) Risk Management
19 92 (4.22%) Continuous Improvement
19 92 (4.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (4.27%) SQL
2 84 (3.85%) Java
3 82 (3.76%) Python
4 68 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 46 (2.11%) PowerShell
6 38 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 35 (1.61%) C#
8 34 (1.56%) Bash
9 32 (1.47%) C
9 32 (1.47%) C++
10 29 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 18 (0.83%) Shell Script
11 18 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.37%) PHP
14 7 (0.32%) R
14 7 (0.32%) Ruby
15 6 (0.28%) ABAP
15 6 (0.28%) VB
16 5 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 908 (41.65%) Security Cleared
2 507 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 294 (13.49%) DV Cleared
4 167 (7.66%) Degree
5 59 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (1.97%) CCNA
6 43 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (1.51%) CISSP
8 31 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 26 (1.19%) CCNP
10 23 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 22 (1.01%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.87%) MCSE
13 17 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.78%) HNC
14 16 (0.73%) CISM
15 13 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 11 (0.50%) MCP
16 11 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 68 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 39 (1.79%) SLA
5 38 (1.74%) GDPR
6 36 (1.65%) QA
7 35 (1.61%) PMO
8 34 (1.56%) NIST
9 28 (1.28%) Data Quality
10 19 (0.87%) NCSC
11 15 (0.69%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.60%) WCAG
13 9 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.41%) HL7
13 9 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.37%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 111 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 48 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (1.74%) Docker
4 25 (1.15%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.46%) BitLocker
7 10 (0.46%) vSphere
8 7 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.28%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.092%) iptables
11 2 (0.092%) KVM
11 2 (0.092%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.092%) NFS
11 2 (0.092%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.046%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 45 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.02%) Terraform
3 43 (1.97%) Ansible
4 36 (1.65%) SCCM
5 24 (1.10%) Grafana
6 18 (0.83%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.64%) Puppet
8 13 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.50%) Kibana
9 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.46%) OPNET
11 9 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.41%) SCOM
12 8 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.37%) vRealize
13 7 (0.32%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.32%) VxRail
14 6 (0.28%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.23%) Istio
15 5 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 276 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 193 (8.85%) SAP
3 111 (5.09%) Oracle
4 80 (3.67%) VMware
5 70 (3.21%) Cisco
6 52 (2.39%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.06%) Dell
8 39 (1.79%) Juniper
9 32 (1.47%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 18 (0.83%) Red Hat
12 17 (0.78%) Google
12 17 (0.78%) SolarWinds
13 15 (0.69%) Apple
13 15 (0.69%) Citrix
13 15 (0.69%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.64%) IBM
15 13 (0.60%) HP
15 13 (0.60%) Remedy
16 12 (0.55%) Adobe