Public Sector Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Public Sector
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 28
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 130 113 147
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.58% 6.64% 6.82%
As % of the General category 9.97% 9.24% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 98
10th Percentile £355 £422 £380
25th Percentile £450 £458 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £587 £563
90th Percentile £735 £640 £638
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £18.51 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £20.42 £26.81 £146.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.25 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% -78.14% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.31 £148.75
90th Percentile £72.05 £41.58 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £25.08 £147.50
% change year-on-year +2.77% -83.00% -

All General Skills
City of London

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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,304 1,223 1,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 55.99% 71.81% 66.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 767 1,003
10th Percentile £356 £338 £338
25th Percentile £463 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £709 £688 £692
90th Percentile £814 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +2.69% +1.80% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 7
10th Percentile - £17.60 £18.35
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £23.16 £28.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% +36.92% +0.53%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £38.63
90th Percentile £62.50 £92.75 £89.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £29.07 £25.18
% change year-on-year -10.56% +15.45% -28.06%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the City of London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.77%) Camunda
2 1 (0.77%) CMS
2 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.54%) Exchequer
2 2 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.77%) iTrent
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.08%) AWS
2 26 (20.00%) Azure
3 17 (13.08%) GCP
4 9 (6.92%) Serverless
5 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.85%) GitHub
7 4 (3.08%) PaaS
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.31%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.62%) Firewall
2 5 (3.85%) Network Security
3 2 (1.54%) DNS
3 2 (1.54%) NGFW
4 1 (0.77%) 3G
4 1 (0.77%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.77%) 4G
4 1 (0.77%) 5G
4 1 (0.77%) DHCP
4 1 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.77%) LAN
4 1 (0.77%) LTE
4 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.08%) Data Mining
2 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.31%) Metadata
3 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.54%) Power BI
3 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.77%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.77%) GIS
4 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.77%) OLTP
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Git
2 7 (5.38%) JIRA
3 2 (1.54%) GitLab
3 2 (1.54%) Selenium
4 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.77%) ERwin
4 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
General
1 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (11.54%) Finance
4 14 (10.77%) Military
5 5 (3.85%) Banking
5 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.85%) Police
6 4 (3.08%) Legal
6 4 (3.08%) Local Government
6 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Marketing
7 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.77%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.77%) Law
8 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (18.46%) Architect
2 16 (12.31%) Lead
3 13 (10.00%) Developer
4 12 (9.23%) Analyst
5 9 (6.92%) Senior
6 7 (5.38%) Data Architect
6 7 (5.38%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.62%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Designer
8 5 (3.85%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.85%) User Researcher
9 4 (3.08%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.08%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.08%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Test Leader
10 3 (2.31%) Change Manager
10 3 (2.31%) Consultant
10 3 (2.31%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) Pandas
2 2 (1.54%) .NET
2 2 (1.54%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.54%) AWS CDK
2 2 (1.54%) Django
2 2 (1.54%) Kafka
2 2 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (1.54%) NumPy
2 2 (1.54%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.54%) React
2 2 (1.54%) REST
2 2 (1.54%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.77%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.77%) Blazor
3 1 (0.77%) jBPM
3 1 (0.77%) JMS
3 1 (0.77%) JSON
3 1 (0.77%) Playwright
3 1 (0.77%) Spring
3 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.31%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.54%) NHS
3 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.77%) CMDB
4 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.77%) PKI
4 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.77%) Unix
3 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.46%) Agile
1 24 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 18 (13.85%) AI
3 18 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (13.08%) Analytics
4 17 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (12.31%) DevOps
6 15 (11.54%) Migration
7 12 (9.23%) Machine Learning
7 12 (9.23%) Roadmaps
8 11 (8.46%) Decision-Making
8 11 (8.46%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 10 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 9 (6.92%) ITIL
10 9 (6.92%) User Research
11 8 (6.15%) Data Modelling
11 8 (6.15%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.00%) Python
2 8 (6.15%) Java
3 4 (3.08%) SQL
4 3 (2.31%) Bicep
4 3 (2.31%) Ruby
5 2 (1.54%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.54%) Bash
5 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.77%) C
6 1 (0.77%) C#
6 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.77%) Korn
6 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.77%) ProC
6 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (56.92%) Security Cleared
2 60 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) Degree
5 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.31%) CISSP
6 2 (1.54%) CISM
6 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.54%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.77%) APMP
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.77%) CCNP
7 1 (0.77%) CIPD
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.77%) MBA
7 1 (0.77%) MOS
7 1 (0.77%) MRICS
7 1 (0.77%) OSCP
7 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.31%) NCSC
4 3 (2.31%) NIST
4 3 (2.31%) SLA
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.54%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.54%) PMO
6 1 (0.77%) COBIT
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.77%) GDPR
6 1 (0.77%) GLP
6 1 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) Terraform
2 7 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.54%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.77%) Grafana
4 1 (0.77%) Puppet
4 1 (0.77%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.38%) Databricks
2 7 (5.38%) Google
3 6 (4.62%) Oracle
3 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.08%) SAP
5 3 (2.31%) BMC
5 3 (2.31%) IBM
5 3 (2.31%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.54%) Cisco
6 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.54%) Remedy
6 2 (1.54%) VMware
7 1 (0.77%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.77%) Dell
7 1 (0.77%) HP
7 1 (0.77%) Pega
7 1 (0.77%) Sitecore