Public Sector Contracts in Blandford Forum

Public Sector
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Blandford Forum. 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 6 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 40.00% - 41.67%
As % of the General category 44.44% - 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £604
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £610
75th Percentile £575 - £612
90th Percentile - - £614
Dorset median daily rate £550 £575 £610
% change year-on-year -4.35% -5.74% -6.15%

All General Skills
Blandford Forum

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 Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 90.00% 75.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £494 - £600
25th Percentile £525 - £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £610
75th Percentile £575 - £614
90th Percentile £581 - £629
Dorset median daily rate £475 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +8.57% -20.45% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £11.87 -
Dorset median hourly rate £15.31 £15.62 £56.29
% change year-on-year -1.98% -72.25% +11.33%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Blandford Forum

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Blandford Forum

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (100.00%) NsoIT
1 4 (100.00%) Power Management
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) VMware