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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 17 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 58 52 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.51% 7.19% 14.46%
As % of the General category 17.26% 13.72% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 111
10th Percentile £187 £150 £363
25th Percentile £320 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £617
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -32.13% +37.11%
75th Percentile £521 £538 £700
90th Percentile £614 £611 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £458 £520
% change year-on-year +1.09% -12.02% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £14.31 £16.32
25th Percentile - £14.94 £17.81
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.58% +21.47%
75th Percentile - £17.75 £27.50
90th Percentile - £18.80 £28.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.44 £19.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.97% +5.56% +9.76%

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 336 379 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 60.87% 52.42% 52.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 264 323
10th Percentile £163 £218 £263
25th Percentile £311 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -6.10% +7.89%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £643 £734 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -8.00% -2.44% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 17 23
10th Percentile - £13.22 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £15.57
Median hourly rate £20.03 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% -15.56% +27.12%
75th Percentile £26.51 £50.00 £40.66
90th Percentile £27.64 £56.25 £91.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £19.00 £21.74
% change year-on-year +43.21% -12.58% +27.85%

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 26 July 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 11 (18.97%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) IIS
2 2 (3.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Amazon S3
3 15 (25.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 15 (25.86%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (24.14%) AWS KMS
5 10 (17.24%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (13.79%) Amazon Glacier
7 7 (12.07%) Azure
8 6 (10.34%) Route 53
9 4 (6.90%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.90%) Google Analytics
9 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.72%) OCI
12 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) Firewall
2 11 (18.97%) DNS
3 10 (17.24%) FTP
3 10 (17.24%) HTTP
3 10 (17.24%) SMTP
3 10 (17.24%) SSH
4 4 (6.90%) BGP
4 4 (6.90%) MPLS
4 4 (6.90%) WAN
5 3 (5.17%) IPsec
5 3 (5.17%) VPN
6 2 (3.45%) IMAP
6 2 (3.45%) Junos
6 2 (3.45%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (3.45%) VoIP
7 1 (1.72%) ATM
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.62%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (3.45%) Power BI
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.45%) Tableau
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) Git
1 15 (25.86%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.69%) JIRA
3 10 (17.24%) Vagrant
4 5 (8.62%) Maven
5 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (6.90%) DbUnit
5 4 (6.90%) jMock
5 4 (6.90%) JUnit
5 4 (6.90%) Mockito
5 4 (6.90%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Finance
3 8 (13.79%) Marketing
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Brand Awareness
5 4 (6.90%) Electronics
5 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (15.52%) Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Campaign Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (3.45%) Administrator
8 2 (3.45%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (3.45%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) Web Services
2 5 (8.62%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (8.62%) REST
2 5 (8.62%) SOAP
2 5 (8.62%) Spring
2 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
3 4 (6.90%) .NET
3 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.90%) Bootstrap
3 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
3 4 (6.90%) JPA
3 4 (6.90%) PowerMock
3 4 (6.90%) RESTful
3 4 (6.90%) Spring Batch
3 4 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (6.90%) Spring Integration
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
4 2 (3.45%) LDAP
4 2 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (1.72%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) Replication
2 7 (12.07%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.90%) Social Media
4 3 (5.17%) PKI
5 2 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.72%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 12 (20.69%) Windows
3 10 (17.24%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (17.24%) VMS
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.45%) Unix
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.03%) DevOps
2 14 (24.14%) Change Management
3 12 (20.69%) Cloud Security
4 10 (17.24%) Agile
4 10 (17.24%) Configuration Management
4 10 (17.24%) Patch Management
4 10 (17.24%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (12.07%) Analytics
7 6 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
7 6 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.34%) Scrum
7 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
8 5 (8.62%) Intelligent Automation
8 5 (8.62%) ITIL
8 5 (8.62%) Microservices
8 5 (8.62%) Performance Metrics
8 5 (8.62%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) Java
2 14 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 13 (22.41%) Python
4 12 (20.69%) SQL
5 10 (17.24%) Groovy
6 8 (13.79%) Perl
7 3 (5.17%) C#
7 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.45%) Bash
8 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.72%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 37 (63.79%) Security Cleared
2 24 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) Degree
5 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.17%) OCP
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.45%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.72%) CCIE
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (1.72%) NIST
1 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Docker
2 12 (20.69%) Active Directory
3 10 (17.24%) DFS Replication
4 6 (10.34%) Postfix
5 2 (3.45%) Dovecot
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (3.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Grafana
2 15 (25.86%) Prometheus
3 12 (20.69%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.45%) Data Guard
5 2 (3.45%) Nessus
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (3.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) ServiceNow
2 6 (10.34%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) Adobe
3 4 (6.90%) Atlassian
3 4 (6.90%) Google
3 4 (6.90%) Juniper
3 4 (6.90%) SAP
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco
4 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Citrix
5 1 (1.72%) Commvault
5 1 (1.72%) Meraki
5 1 (1.72%) NEC
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.72%) Veeam