Public Sector Contracts in the West Midlands

Public Sector
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 13 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 174 325 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.04% 13.66% 13.84%
As % of the General category 15.96% 23.48% 24.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 284 410
10th Percentile £312 £208 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £541 £650 £540
90th Percentile £618 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £540 £503
% change year-on-year -2.78% +7.30% +5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 21
10th Percentile £13.03 £13.31 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.19 £15.06 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.70 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +4.12% -
75th Percentile £27.25 £21.50 £19.38
90th Percentile £35.00 £26.79 £22.25
England median hourly rate £21.73 £20.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.38% +0.25% +7.90%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,090 1,384 1,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.62% 58.15% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 972 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £395 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% +17.28%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 41 53
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.83% +5.88% +2.26%
75th Percentile £39.34 £27.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £23.45
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham -8 74 £450 -26.53% 51
Shropshire +14 24 £535 -0.93% 3
Coventry +1 16 £581 +29.17% 10
Solihull -3 16 £375 -7.98% 3
Staffordshire -5 11 £386 +5.15% 7
Herefordshire -3 8 £567 -12.85% 3
Worcestershire +4 6 £525 +16.67%
Warwickshire -15 5 - - 3
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.15%) CICS
3 2 (1.15%) CMS
3 2 (1.15%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.20%) Azure
2 10 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.30%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.72%) AWS
4 3 (1.72%) OCI
4 3 (1.72%) PaaS
5 2 (1.15%) Azure App Service
5 2 (1.15%) IaaS
5 2 (1.15%) SaaS
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.62%) WAN
2 11 (6.32%) BGP
2 11 (6.32%) IPsec
2 11 (6.32%) MPLS
2 11 (6.32%) Network Security
3 9 (5.17%) Firewall
4 8 (4.60%) VPN
5 6 (3.45%) Wireless
6 5 (2.87%) DNS
6 5 (2.87%) Junos
7 4 (2.30%) DHCP
8 3 (1.72%) LAN
8 3 (1.72%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.15%) 5G
9 2 (1.15%) Internet
9 2 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.72%) DB2
2 3 (1.72%) Metadata
3 2 (1.15%) Big Data
3 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.15%) IDMS
3 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.57%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.57%) MySQL
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (9.20%) PVCS
1 16 (9.20%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.30%) Git
2 4 (2.30%) JIRA
3 2 (1.15%) Appium
3 2 (1.15%) UI Automator
3 2 (1.15%) XCUITest
4 1 (0.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 35 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (9.77%) Finance
4 6 (3.45%) Local Government
4 6 (3.45%) Police
5 5 (2.87%) Legal
6 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.72%) Marketing
8 2 (1.15%) Electronics
8 2 (1.15%) Military
8 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Publishing
9 1 (0.57%) Back Office
9 1 (0.57%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (9.77%) Senior
2 16 (9.20%) Analyst
2 16 (9.20%) C Programmer
2 16 (9.20%) Programmer
3 15 (8.62%) Project Manager
4 12 (6.90%) 3rd Line Support
4 12 (6.90%) Network Engineer
5 11 (6.32%) Support Engineer
5 11 (6.32%) WAN Engineer
6 10 (5.75%) Lead
6 10 (5.75%) Senior Manager
7 9 (5.17%) Architect
8 8 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (4.60%) Developer
8 8 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Senior Project Manager
9 7 (4.02%) Consultant
9 7 (4.02%) Network Support
10 6 (3.45%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.72%) .NET
1 3 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.15%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.15%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.57%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.57%) LDAP
3 1 (0.57%) Node.js
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.57%) React
3 1 (0.57%) REST
3 1 (0.57%) Swagger
3 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.75%) PKI
2 6 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.87%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (2.87%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.72%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.72%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.72%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.15%) Handset
6 2 (1.15%) IoT
6 2 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.15%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.20%) Windows
2 12 (6.90%) Linux
3 5 (2.87%) Mac OS X
4 4 (2.30%) Android
4 4 (2.30%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.30%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.72%) Unix
5 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.15%) zOS
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (13.79%) Agile
3 20 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (9.20%) PRINCE2
6 15 (8.62%) Data Analysis
6 15 (8.62%) Project Management
6 15 (8.62%) SIEM
7 14 (8.05%) ITIL
8 12 (6.90%) Risk Management
9 11 (6.32%) Analytics
9 11 (6.32%) Decision-Making
9 11 (6.32%) Information Security
9 11 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (5.75%) Project Delivery
11 9 (5.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (4.60%) DevOps
12 8 (4.60%) Incident Management
13 7 (4.02%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.77%) PL/SQL
2 16 (9.20%) C
3 5 (2.87%) SQL
4 3 (1.72%) C#
4 3 (1.72%) C++
4 3 (1.72%) COBOL
5 2 (1.15%) CLIST
5 2 (1.15%) Java
5 2 (1.15%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.15%) Python
5 2 (1.15%) R
5 2 (1.15%) REXX
5 2 (1.15%) SELCOPY
5 2 (1.15%) Swift
6 1 (0.57%) Bash
6 1 (0.57%) Bicep
6 1 (0.57%) Bourne shell
6 1 (0.57%) Korn
Qualifications
1 75 (43.10%) Security Cleared
2 46 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (6.32%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 7 (4.02%) CCNA
7 6 (3.45%) CCNP
8 4 (2.30%) CCIE
8 4 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.72%) CISSP
9 3 (1.72%) Degree
9 3 (1.72%) GIAC
9 3 (1.72%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.15%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.15%) CISM
10 2 (1.15%) GCED
10 2 (1.15%) GSEC
10 2 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.60%) GDPR
1 8 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (2.87%) HIPAA
2 5 (2.87%) NIST
3 4 (2.30%) QA
4 3 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 3 (1.72%) ISO17020
5 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.15%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.15%) NCSC
5 2 (1.15%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 12 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.30%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.15%) iptables
3 2 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.15%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.15%) Ansible
3 2 (1.15%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.15%) Kibana
3 2 (1.15%) logstash
3 2 (1.15%) SCCM
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (8.62%) Juniper
2 12 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.17%) Cisco
3 9 (5.17%) Dell
4 8 (4.60%) Oracle
5 5 (2.87%) Citrix
5 5 (2.87%) VMware
6 4 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.72%) IBM
7 3 (1.72%) LogRhythm
7 3 (1.72%) SAP
7 3 (1.72%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.15%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.15%) Syncsort
8 2 (1.15%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.57%) Denodo
9 1 (0.57%) HP
9 1 (0.57%) Talend