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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 19 35 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.15% 8.60% 7.86%
As % of the General category 9.79% 13.73% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 61
10th Percentile £369 £278 £248
25th Percentile £413 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £544 £540 £592
90th Percentile £588 £625 £604
South East median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -
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 £25.29 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.95% +2.67% +200.00%

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 194 255 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 62.78% 62.65% 61.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 156 379
10th Percentile £209 £200 £246
25th Percentile £350 £335 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £449 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -10.11% +2.30%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 5
10th Percentile £13.73 £16.61 £13.33
25th Percentile - £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.20 £27.50 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -48.36% +102.65% +4.38%
75th Percentile £18.00 £29.06 £23.75
90th Percentile £58.13 £33.37 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.18% +14.70% +138.10%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -2 19 £494 +19.70% 17
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 (10.53%) Camunda
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) ChatGPT
4 1 (5.26%) Figma
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Terragrunt
3 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Java Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Release Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Change and Release Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Security Officer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Service Transition Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) Keycloak
1 2 (10.53%) OpenJDK
1 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.26%) NumPy
2 1 (5.26%) Pandas
2 1 (5.26%) Prophet
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) CESG
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
1 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.53%) Debian
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) ITIL
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Change Control
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
5 2 (10.53%) Data Management
5 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.53%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) Open Source
5 2 (10.53%) Release Management
5 2 (10.53%) Requirements Management
5 2 (10.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) COBOL
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) ACCA
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) CIMA
5 1 (5.26%) APMP
5 1 (5.26%) CISSP
5 1 (5.26%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.26%) ISEB
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) HIPAA
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) NCSC
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) BMC
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Remedy
4 1 (5.26%) Sage