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 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +21
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 139 137 153
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.04% 7.80% 6.96%
As % of the General category 10.50% 11.02% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 92 104
10th Percentile £400 £407 £383
25th Percentile £455 £447 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £586 £563
90th Percentile £738 £672 £642
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £18.41 - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.84 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -
75th Percentile £25.77 £27.44 -
90th Percentile £56.36 £37.23 -
Central London median hourly rate £20.84 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year -5.27% - -

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 1,324 1,243 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 57.52% 70.79% 66.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 775 1,037
10th Percentile £363 £335 £340
25th Percentile £458 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £688
90th Percentile £813 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £552 £575 £560
% change year-on-year -4.04% +2.68% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 9
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.58 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +23.23% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.65 £48.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £53.25 £96.38 £32.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £30.04 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.43% +22.59% -30.00%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
London Bridge 0 1 - -
Public Sector
Central 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 (2.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Camunda
2 1 (0.72%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.44%) Exchequer
2 2 (1.44%) iTrent
3 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.72%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.30%) Azure
2 29 (20.86%) AWS
3 15 (10.79%) GCP
4 12 (8.63%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.47%) Azure Machine Learning
5 9 (6.47%) Serverless
6 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.60%) GitHub
7 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.88%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (2.88%) PaaS
8 4 (2.88%) Power Automate
8 4 (2.88%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.16%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.16%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.88%) Firewall
2 2 (1.44%) Network Security
3 1 (0.72%) 3G
3 1 (0.72%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.72%) 4G
3 1 (0.72%) 5G
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.72%) Junos
3 1 (0.72%) LAN
3 1 (0.72%) LTE
3 1 (0.72%) NGFW
3 1 (0.72%) NX-OS
3 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) Power BI
2 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.88%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.16%) Metadata
4 2 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.44%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.44%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.72%) GIS
5 1 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.72%) OLTP
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.72%) Power Query
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Git
1 9 (6.47%) JIRA
2 2 (1.44%) GitLab
2 2 (1.44%) Selenium
3 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.72%) ERwin
3 1 (0.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 41 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.23%) Finance
4 14 (10.07%) Military
5 6 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Legal
7 4 (2.88%) Local Government
7 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Marketing
8 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.44%) Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Police
10 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (15.83%) Senior
2 20 (14.39%) Architect
3 19 (13.67%) Analyst
4 14 (10.07%) Developer
5 12 (8.63%) Lead
6 11 (7.91%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.04%) Data Scientist
7 7 (5.04%) Product Manager
8 6 (4.32%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.32%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.32%) User Researcher
9 4 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (2.88%) Consultant
9 4 (2.88%) Designer
9 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (2.88%) Test Leader
10 3 (2.16%) Platform Architect
10 3 (2.16%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.32%) Pandas
2 5 (3.60%) NumPy
2 5 (3.60%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.16%) REST
4 2 (1.44%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.44%) Django
4 2 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.44%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.44%) React
5 1 (0.72%) .NET
5 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.72%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.72%) jBPM
5 1 (0.72%) JMS
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.72%) Playwright
5 1 (0.72%) Spring
5 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.72%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.23%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.16%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.44%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.44%) NHS
4 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.44%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.72%) CMDB
5 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.72%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.88%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.02%) Agile
2 29 (20.86%) AI
3 25 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (15.11%) Analytics
5 19 (13.67%) CI/CD
5 19 (13.67%) Machine Learning
5 19 (13.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (11.51%) Generative AI
9 15 (10.79%) DevOps
9 15 (10.79%) Roadmaps
10 14 (10.07%) Migration
11 13 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.35%) User Research
12 12 (8.63%) Data Science
12 12 (8.63%) Decision-Making
13 11 (7.91%) Data Modelling
13 11 (7.91%) Observability
14 10 (7.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.95%) Python
2 7 (5.04%) Java
3 6 (4.32%) SQL
4 4 (2.88%) Ruby
5 3 (2.16%) Bicep
6 2 (1.44%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.44%) Bash
6 2 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.72%) C
7 1 (0.72%) C#
7 1 (0.72%) Korn
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.72%) ProC
7 1 (0.72%) R
7 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 81 (58.27%) Security Cleared
2 64 (46.04%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.04%) Degree
3 7 (5.04%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.16%) CISSP
6 2 (1.44%) CISM
6 2 (1.44%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.44%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.72%) APMP
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) IIBA
7 1 (0.72%) IISP
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) MBA
7 1 (0.72%) MOS
7 1 (0.72%) MRICS
7 1 (0.72%) OSCP
7 1 (0.72%) PMP
7 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.47%) QA
2 7 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.16%) NCSC
3 3 (2.16%) NIST
3 3 (2.16%) SLA
4 2 (1.44%) GDPR
4 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.44%) PMO
5 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.72%) COBIT
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.47%) Terraform
2 8 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.72%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Grafana
4 1 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.72%) Puppet
4 1 (0.72%) Salt
4 1 (0.72%) SCCM
4 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.04%) Databricks
3 6 (4.32%) Oracle
4 5 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (2.88%) SAP
5 4 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.16%) Foundry
6 3 (2.16%) IBM
6 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.16%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.44%) Cisco
8 1 (0.72%) Apple
8 1 (0.72%) BMC
8 1 (0.72%) Dell
8 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.72%) HP
8 1 (0.72%) Juniper
8 1 (0.72%) Pega
8 1 (0.72%) VMware