Public Sector Contracts in Birmingham

Public Sector
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 47 74 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.00% 9.57% 17.15%
As % of the General category 13.91% 18.09% 29.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 54 131
10th Percentile £285 £238 £305
25th Percentile £405 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £700
90th Percentile £644 £588 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £454 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -9.26% -7.41% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - £12.18 £12.79
25th Percentile - £12.82 £13.31
Median hourly rate £14.70 £14.59 £16.29
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -10.41% -7.99%
75th Percentile - £17.40 £22.25
90th Percentile - £18.66 £25.10
West Midlands median hourly rate £15.57 £19.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year -18.07% +7.34% +4.12%

All General Skills
Birmingham

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 338 409 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 64.75% 52.91% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 280 361
10th Percentile £163 £212 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -12.15% +10.81%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 28
10th Percentile - £11.78 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.70 £25.33 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.95% +45.61% +0.83%
75th Percentile £24.06 £48.75 £29.12
90th Percentile £45.95 £56.25 £74.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £17.85
% change year-on-year -8.12% +9.75% +5.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (4.26%) IIS
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (8.51%) Google Analytics
1 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
2 3 (6.38%) AWS
2 3 (6.38%) Azure
3 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.26%) OCI
3 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
3 2 (4.26%) Serverless
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.13%) AWS KMS
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) BGP
1 2 (4.26%) MPLS
1 2 (4.26%) WAN
2 1 (2.13%) ATM
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.13%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Frame Relay
2 1 (2.13%) IPsec
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (2.13%) OSPF
2 1 (2.13%) SDH
2 1 (2.13%) VoIP
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (2.13%) DbUnit
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) jMock
2 1 (2.13%) JUnit
2 1 (2.13%) Maven
2 1 (2.13%) Mockito
2 1 (2.13%) MSI
2 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Brand Awareness
4 4 (8.51%) Marketing
5 3 (6.38%) Back Office
5 3 (6.38%) Military
6 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Campaign Manager
5 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Incident Responder
6 2 (4.26%) Junior
6 2 (4.26%) Junior IT Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Project Leader
6 2 (4.26%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Security Incident Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) Web Services
2 2 (4.26%) .NET
2 2 (4.26%) HTML
2 2 (4.26%) Middleware
2 2 (4.26%) Node.js
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.13%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.13%) JPA
3 1 (2.13%) OAuth
3 1 (2.13%) OpenID
3 1 (2.13%) PowerMock
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.13%) SAML
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
3 1 (2.13%) Software Packaging
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.13%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Social Media
2 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.13%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) SCADA
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) Agile
2 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (17.02%) Analytics
4 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
5 6 (12.77%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (12.77%) Project Management
6 5 (10.64%) Change Management
6 5 (10.64%) Data Analytics
6 5 (10.64%) Decision-Making
6 5 (10.64%) Intelligent Automation
6 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.51%) Content Development
7 4 (8.51%) Demand Generation
7 4 (8.51%) Lead Generation
7 4 (8.51%) Marketing Automation
7 4 (8.51%) Multichannel Marketing
7 4 (8.51%) Performance Measurement
7 4 (8.51%) Service Delivery
7 4 (8.51%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) Python
1 6 (12.77%) SQL
2 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) C#
3 3 (6.38%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.26%) VB
4 2 (4.26%) VBA
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.26%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CCIE
6 1 (2.13%) CCNP
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.13%) CITP
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) OCP
6 1 (2.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.26%) PMO
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Postfix
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Adobe
2 4 (8.51%) Google
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle
4 2 (4.26%) Citrix
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) UiPath
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.13%) Juniper
5 1 (2.13%) Meraki
5 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.13%) Tanium
5 1 (2.13%) VMware