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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 36 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 160 104 187
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.04% 5.87% 9.07%
As % of the General category 11.48% 7.84% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 74 129
10th Percentile £358 £414 £375
25th Percentile £453 £463 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £588
90th Percentile £748 £688 £675
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £17.89 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £19.11 £146.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.10 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year +184.43% -85.70% +719.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £27.44 £148.75
90th Percentile - £37.23 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £22.00 £147.50
% change year-on-year +172.73% -85.08% +719.44%

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 1,394 1,326 1,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 61.36% 74.83% 68.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 873 899
10th Percentile £362 £325 £363
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 10
10th Percentile £18.75 £17.02 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.13 £24.00 £17.06
Median hourly rate £22.83 £31.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% +15.74% +50.00%
75th Percentile £32.94 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £46.87 £67.89 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +25.93% +3.85%

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 8 September 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
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 8 (5.00%) Confluence
1 8 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Camunda
3 1 (0.63%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.88%) Exchequer
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.63%) iTrent
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.38%) AWS
2 29 (18.13%) Azure
3 11 (6.88%) GCP
3 11 (6.88%) Power Platform
3 11 (6.88%) Serverless
4 8 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.00%) GitHub
5 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 4 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.50%) PaaS
9 3 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (1.88%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Network Security
2 6 (3.75%) Firewall
3 5 (3.13%) DNS
4 3 (1.88%) LAN
4 3 (1.88%) VPN
5 2 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.25%) WAN
6 1 (0.63%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.63%) DHCP
6 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.63%) NGFW
6 1 (0.63%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.63%) SAN
6 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.38%) Power BI
2 5 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 5 (3.13%) Metadata
3 4 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (2.50%) Data Mining
3 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.88%) Tableau
5 2 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.63%) GIS
6 1 (0.63%) OLAP
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Git
2 9 (5.63%) JIRA
3 5 (3.13%) GitLab
4 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.88%) JUnit
4 3 (1.88%) Mockito
5 2 (1.25%) Maven
5 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 54 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.25%) Military
3 16 (10.00%) Finance
4 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.25%) Legal
6 9 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (5.00%) Local Government
8 7 (4.38%) Banking
8 7 (4.38%) Police
9 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.50%) Law
11 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Legal Technology
11 2 (1.25%) Marketing
11 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (21.25%) Architect
2 25 (15.63%) Lead
3 19 (11.88%) Senior
4 16 (10.00%) Developer
5 13 (8.13%) Analyst
6 9 (5.63%) Data Architect
7 8 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.38%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.13%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.13%) Consultant
10 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (3.13%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.50%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.50%) Platform Architect
11 4 (2.50%) Senior Architect
11 4 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.88%) Terraform
2 6 (3.75%) REST
3 5 (3.13%) .NET
3 5 (3.13%) Spring
3 5 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 5 (3.13%) Web Services
4 4 (2.50%) PySpark
4 4 (2.50%) SOAP
5 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.88%) Kafka
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.88%) RESTful
6 2 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.25%) Django
6 2 (1.25%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.25%) JPA
6 2 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.25%) React
6 2 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.50%) Taxonomies
5 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.88%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.25%) NHS
6 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Linux
1 3 (1.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Android
2 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.50%) Agile
2 36 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (18.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (16.25%) CI/CD
6 25 (15.63%) AI
6 25 (15.63%) Decision-Making
7 20 (12.50%) Analytics
7 20 (12.50%) DevOps
8 19 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.63%) Data Protection
10 16 (10.00%) Migration
11 15 (9.38%) Roadmaps
12 14 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (8.13%) Data Modelling
13 13 (8.13%) Service Management
13 13 (8.13%) Test Automation
14 12 (7.50%) Risk Management
15 11 (6.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.75%) Python
2 9 (5.63%) Java
3 6 (3.75%) SQL
4 5 (3.13%) Bicep
5 4 (2.50%) C#
5 4 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.25%) Bash
6 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.25%) Ruby
7 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.63%) R
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 80 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (6.88%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.13%) CISSP
5 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.50%) CISM
5 4 (2.50%) Degree
5 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.25%) CCNA
7 2 (1.25%) CCNP
7 2 (1.25%) CIPD
7 2 (1.25%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.63%) MBA
8 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) QA
2 9 (5.63%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.50%) GDPR
4 3 (1.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.88%) NCSC
4 3 (1.88%) NIST
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
4 3 (1.88%) WCAG
5 2 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.25%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.25%) PERC
6 1 (0.63%) COBIT
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.63%) GLP
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Ansible
2 4 (2.50%) Grafana
2 4 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.25%) Istio
4 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.63%) Puppet
4 1 (0.63%) Salt
4 1 (0.63%) SCCM
4 1 (0.63%) SELinux
Vendors
1 23 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.88%) Google
3 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.00%) Oracle
5 6 (3.75%) Databricks
5 6 (3.75%) SAP
6 3 (1.88%) Cisco
7 2 (1.25%) BMC
7 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.25%) IBM
7 2 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.25%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.25%) Remedy
7 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.25%) VMware
8 1 (0.63%) Dell
8 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.63%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.63%) Pega