Public Sector Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Public Sector
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 21 29 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 17 25 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 7.20% 5.25% 8.92%
As % of the General category 11.26% 10.08% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 74
10th Percentile £338 £298 £277
25th Percentile £453 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.30% +2.78% -1.10%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £524
90th Percentile £630 £720 £600
South East median daily rate £538 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £58.30 £29.00
% change year-on-year -57.12% +101.03% +45.00%

All General Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 151 248 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 63.98% 52.10% 63.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 166 439
10th Percentile £275 £201 £246
25th Percentile £402 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% +1.06% +2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £750 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 2
10th Percentile - £15.23 £12.68
25th Percentile - £19.13 £17.44
Median hourly rate £14.20 £24.72 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.55% -5.85% +113.24%
75th Percentile £20.50 £28.75 £35.44
90th Percentile £62.50 £30.00 £40.43
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Buckinghamshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Buckinghamshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Buckinghamshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Buckinghamshire

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +7 17 £543 +8.77% 43
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (11.76%) Camunda
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) PaaS
1 5 (29.41%) SaaS
2 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) VSAN
2 1 (5.88%) BGP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) MPLS
2 1 (5.88%) NGFW
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Technical Architect
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Architect
4 5 (29.41%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Consultant
6 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
7 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
1 2 (11.76%) OpenJDK
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) CESG
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps
2 6 (35.29%) TOGAF
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Data Security
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) COBOL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) MCSE
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) ACCA
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) CIMA
6 1 (5.88%) APMP
6 1 (5.88%) CCNP
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) CISSP
6 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) ISEB
6 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NCSC
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (23.53%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco
1 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow