Public Sector Contracts 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +31
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 133 154 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.62% 7.04% 4.90%
As % of the General category 10.70% 10.61% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 105 97
10th Percentile £406 £383 £258
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £585 £565 £588
90th Percentile £648 £644 £700
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £15.00
75th Percentile £27.44 - -
90th Percentile £37.23 - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - +15.38%

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 common skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,243 1,452 2,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 71.23% 66.36% 62.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 1,030 1,589
10th Percentile £330 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.13 £14.48
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £15.78
Median hourly rate £29.58 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% +14.29% -51.72%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £96.38 £32.05 £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £24.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +25.15% -14.29% -35.63%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the City of London

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 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the City of London

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 7 May 2025.

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 7 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
London Bridge - 1 £238 -
Public Sector
Central London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 2 (1.50%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.50%) Apache
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.75%) Camunda
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.26%) Trello
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.83%) AWS
2 15 (11.28%) Azure
3 13 (9.77%) Power Platform
3 13 (9.77%) Serverless
4 12 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.76%) Power Automate
6 5 (3.76%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub
7 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.26%) OCI
8 3 (2.26%) SaaS
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.50%) Asana
9 2 (1.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.50%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Firewall
2 2 (1.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.75%) BGP
3 1 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.75%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.75%) H.323
3 1 (0.75%) HTTP
3 1 (0.75%) IPsec
3 1 (0.75%) LAN
3 1 (0.75%) MGCP
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) OSPF
3 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.75%) SSH
3 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.75%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.75%) WAN
3 1 (0.75%) WebEx
3 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.03%) MongoDB
3 15 (11.28%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.77%) Power BI
5 7 (5.26%) Tableau
6 6 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.51%) Redis
7 5 (3.76%) DocumentDB
8 3 (2.26%) MySQL
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.75%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.75%) Power Query
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.76%) JIRA
4 2 (1.50%) GitLab
4 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.50%) JUnit
4 2 (1.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) RStudio
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 31 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (12.03%) Military
4 12 (9.02%) Finance
5 10 (7.52%) Police
6 6 (4.51%) Marketing
7 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Law
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Developer
2 21 (15.79%) Architect
3 16 (12.03%) Java Developer
4 15 (11.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 11 (8.27%) Lead
6 10 (7.52%) Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.77%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Technical Architect
8 7 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.51%) Data Scientist
9 6 (4.51%) Senior
10 5 (3.76%) Consultant
10 5 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) JavaScript Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Change Manager
11 4 (3.01%) Designer
11 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow Developer
12 3 (2.26%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.79%) React
2 20 (15.04%) Kafka
3 17 (12.78%) Spring
3 17 (12.78%) Spring Boot
4 9 (6.77%) Node.js
5 4 (3.01%) HTML
5 4 (3.01%) Pandas
5 4 (3.01%) REST
5 4 (3.01%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.01%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.26%) .NET
6 3 (2.26%) OAuth
6 3 (2.26%) OpenID
6 3 (2.26%) SAML
7 2 (1.50%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.50%) CSS
7 2 (1.50%) JSON
7 2 (1.50%) Middleware
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.01%) CMDB
3 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.50%) Digital Media
4 2 (1.50%) Graphic Design
4 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.75%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
5 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.76%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.56%) DevOps
2 27 (20.30%) Agile
3 26 (19.55%) Microservices
3 26 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (12.78%) API Development
5 15 (11.28%) Clean Code
5 15 (11.28%) SOLID
5 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 12 (9.02%) Project Management
8 11 (8.27%) CI/CD
8 11 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (7.52%) Decision-Making
10 9 (6.77%) Migration
11 8 (6.02%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (6.02%) Data Science
11 8 (6.02%) ITIL
11 8 (6.02%) Process Improvement
12 7 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.80%) SQL
2 28 (21.05%) Java
3 26 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.29%) Python
5 5 (3.76%) C#
5 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.26%) Bash
6 3 (2.26%) R
7 2 (1.50%) Bicep
7 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.50%) Ruby
7 2 (1.50%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (72.18%) Security Cleared
2 75 (56.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 13 (9.77%) Degree
5 5 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.26%) OCP
7 3 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.50%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CISM
9 1 (0.75%) CISSP
9 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) GDPR
2 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.01%) QA
3 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (2.26%) NIST
3 3 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.50%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.50%) PMO
4 2 (1.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) GRC
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (18.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.02%) Terraform
3 5 (3.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Argo
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco UCCE
4 1 (0.75%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.75%) Istio
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
4 1 (0.75%) Podman
4 1 (0.75%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (9.77%) Oracle
2 10 (7.52%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.77%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.01%) Cisco
5 3 (2.26%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.75%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.75%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.75%) Brio
6 1 (0.75%) Concur
6 1 (0.75%) Databricks
6 1 (0.75%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.75%) Pega
6 1 (0.75%) Qualys
6 1 (0.75%) Reuters
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) UiPath