Public Sector Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public Sector
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 16 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,497 2,562 4,561
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.92% 10.20% 10.32%
As % of the General category 16.87% 17.45% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 2,034 3,804
10th Percentile £315 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £600
90th Percentile £700 £743 £676
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 42
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.50 £21.29
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -3.71% -0.51%
75th Percentile £68.75 £26.73 £28.75
90th Percentile £87.53 £48.13 £63.53
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.99%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,875 14,682 24,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.79% 58.44% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,816 10,345 17,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 336 345
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.99 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.52%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.90
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Public Sector
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Public Sector trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Public Sector daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Public Sector hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 54 (3.61%) Confluence
2 48 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.40%) CMS
5 11 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2003
6 10 (0.67%) nginx
7 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.60%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.47%) WordPress
9 6 (0.40%) IIS
10 5 (0.33%) SAS
11 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.20%) JBoss
12 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 44 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.27%) Sketch
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.13%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.13%) Lectora
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.067%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
2 10 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.40%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Primavera
5 5 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 264 (17.64%) Azure
2 157 (10.49%) AWS
3 92 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
4 89 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (5.01%) Power Platform
6 47 (3.14%) Serverless
7 32 (2.14%) GitHub
8 28 (1.87%) Amazon S3
8 28 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
8 28 (1.87%) Power Automate
9 26 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (1.67%) GCP
10 25 (1.67%) OCI
11 24 (1.60%) SaaS
12 23 (1.54%) PowerApps
13 20 (1.34%) PaaS
14 18 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.20%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.07%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.87%) Firewall
2 19 (1.27%) WAN
3 17 (1.14%) Network Security
4 16 (1.07%) Wireless
5 15 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (0.94%) LAN
6 14 (0.94%) VPN
7 11 (0.73%) NetScaler
8 10 (0.67%) Skype
9 9 (0.60%) 4G
9 9 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
9 9 (0.60%) Intranet
10 8 (0.53%) DNS
10 8 (0.53%) IPsec
10 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.47%) 3G
11 7 (0.47%) BGP
11 7 (0.47%) Internet
11 7 (0.47%) OSPF
11 7 (0.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.74%) Power BI
2 52 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 40 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (2.14%) Data Lake
5 31 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.27%) Metadata
8 19 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 14 (0.94%) GIS
11 14 (0.94%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (0.80%) Big Data
12 12 (0.80%) Tableau
13 11 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (0.60%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.60%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (5.48%) JIRA
2 34 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.07%) Git
4 16 (1.07%) Visual Studio
5 15 (1.00%) Cypress.io
6 13 (0.87%) GitLab
7 12 (0.80%) Selenium
8 11 (0.73%) ERwin
9 10 (0.67%) PVCS
10 7 (0.47%) Postman
11 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.40%) JMeter
11 6 (0.40%) Maven
11 6 (0.40%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.27%) Protractor
12 4 (0.27%) SoapUI
13 3 (0.20%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 330 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 283 (18.90%) Finance
3 115 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (7.08%) Marketing
4 106 (7.08%) Telecoms
5 101 (6.75%) Manufacturing
6 99 (6.61%) Electronics
7 30 (2.00%) Local Government
8 28 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.87%) Retail
9 24 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (1.27%) Publishing
11 18 (1.20%) Police
12 17 (1.14%) Back Office
12 17 (1.14%) Law
12 17 (1.14%) Military
13 14 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (0.94%) Legal
14 10 (0.67%) General Ledger
15 9 (0.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (15.30%) Architect
2 195 (13.03%) Senior
3 176 (11.76%) Developer
4 152 (10.15%) Analyst
5 100 (6.68%) Lead
6 99 (6.61%) Project Manager
7 98 (6.55%) Consultant
8 62 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 56 (3.74%) Business Analyst
10 43 (2.87%) Designer
10 43 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (2.74%) Senior Manager
12 40 (2.67%) Technical Architect
13 36 (2.40%) Senior Developer
14 35 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
15 34 (2.27%) Data Engineer
16 32 (2.14%) Data Architect
17 31 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
18 30 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
19 29 (1.94%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.34%) .NET
2 49 (3.27%) HTML
3 40 (2.67%) CSS
4 31 (2.07%) REST
5 29 (1.94%) Node.js
5 29 (1.94%) XML
6 24 (1.60%) React
7 22 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 22 (1.47%) Web Services
8 20 (1.34%) RESTful
9 19 (1.27%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.20%) JSON
11 17 (1.14%) AWS CDK
12 16 (1.07%) SAML
12 16 (1.07%) Spring
13 15 (1.00%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.00%) ASP.NET
14 14 (0.94%) .NET Framework
15 12 (0.80%) SailPoint
16 11 (0.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (3.47%) Product Ownership
2 46 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 35 (2.34%) Data Structures
4 25 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.40%) Cloud Native
7 20 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.27%) NHS
9 16 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 16 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.00%) Wiki
11 13 (0.87%) CMDB
12 12 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
13 10 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.60%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.53%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.53%) Replication
16 7 (0.47%) PKI
16 7 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.81%) Windows
2 67 (4.48%) Linux
3 23 (1.54%) Unix
3 23 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 12 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (0.60%) Android
7 9 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.60%) zOS
8 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.20%) VMS
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.13%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (23.58%) Agile
2 192 (12.83%) DevOps
3 168 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
4 139 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 134 (8.95%) Migration
6 126 (8.42%) Project Management
7 115 (7.68%) CI/CD
8 114 (7.62%) Programme Management
9 103 (6.88%) Roadmaps
10 102 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (6.75%) Digital Marketing
12 84 (5.61%) Project Delivery
13 83 (5.54%) ITIL
14 76 (5.08%) Service Management
15 74 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
16 72 (4.81%) Analytics
16 72 (4.81%) Change Management
17 71 (4.74%) Scrum
18 69 (4.61%) Data Protection
19 67 (4.48%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.15%) SQL
2 103 (6.88%) Python
3 74 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 69 (4.61%) Java
4 69 (4.61%) PowerShell
5 58 (3.87%) C#
6 30 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 25 (1.67%) Bash
8 19 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 13 (0.87%) Bicep
9 13 (0.87%) C
10 12 (0.80%) ABAP
10 12 (0.80%) PHP
11 11 (0.73%) Ruby
12 10 (0.67%) COBOL
12 10 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.60%) C++
13 9 (0.60%) REXX
14 7 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 542 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 412 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 124 (8.28%) Degree
4 72 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 27 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.47%) CISSP
7 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 14 (0.94%) CISM
9 14 (0.94%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 10 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.60%) APMP
13 9 (0.60%) CCNA
14 8 (0.53%) ISEB
15 7 (0.47%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.47%) CCNP
15 7 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 41 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 35 (2.34%) QA
5 29 (1.94%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.80%) GDPR
7 23 (1.54%) PMO
8 22 (1.47%) SLA
9 17 (1.14%) NIST
10 14 (0.94%) NCSC
11 13 (0.87%) WCAG
12 7 (0.47%) COBIT
13 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.40%) ISO 22301
13 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.20%) GPG13
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 79 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.94%) Docker
3 15 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.33%) ACF2
7 5 (0.33%) Firmware
7 5 (0.33%) RACF
8 4 (0.27%) IAG
8 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
11 1 (0.067%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.067%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (4.81%) Terraform
2 46 (3.07%) Ansible
3 36 (2.40%) Kubernetes
4 20 (1.34%) Grafana
5 14 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.80%) Puppet
6 12 (0.80%) SCCM
7 11 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.47%) Kibana
9 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.27%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.20%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.20%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.13%) Istio
13 2 (0.13%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 194 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.95%) SAP
3 80 (5.34%) Oracle
4 47 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 23 (1.54%) Atlassian
6 22 (1.47%) VMware
7 21 (1.40%) Sparx
8 17 (1.14%) Cisco
8 17 (1.14%) Google
9 15 (1.00%) Adobe
10 14 (0.94%) NetApp
11 13 (0.87%) Citrix
12 11 (0.73%) Dell
12 11 (0.73%) Fortinet
12 11 (0.73%) IBM
12 11 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 11 (0.73%) Splunk
13 10 (0.67%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.60%) Red Hat
14 9 (0.60%) Salesforce