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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 133 127 150
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.78% 7.27% 6.93%
As % of the General category 10.29% 10.14% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 83 103
10th Percentile £389 £413 £383
25th Percentile £453 £453 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £586 £563
90th Percentile £738 £641 £643
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £18.19 - -
25th Percentile £19.62 - -
Median hourly rate £23.31 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% - -
75th Percentile £38.52 £27.44 -
90th Percentile £61.46 £37.23 -
Central London median hourly rate £23.31 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +5.93% - -

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 1,292 1,252 1,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 56.13% 71.67% 66.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 781 1,008
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £463 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.50%
75th Percentile £725 £688 £700
90th Percentile £818 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 8
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.74
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.15
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.58 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +31.99% +6.70%
75th Percentile £42.65 £48.75 £27.13
90th Percentile £53.25 £96.38 £34.33
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +21.13% -14.29%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 (2.26%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Camunda
2 1 (0.75%) CMS
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.50%) Exchequer
2 2 (1.50%) iTrent
2 2 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.56%) Azure
2 28 (21.05%) AWS
3 16 (12.03%) GCP
4 9 (6.77%) Serverless
5 7 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.51%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.76%) GitHub
8 4 (3.01%) PaaS
9 3 (2.26%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.26%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) Firewall
2 3 (2.26%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) 3G
3 1 (0.75%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.75%) 4G
3 1 (0.75%) 5G
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.75%) LAN
3 1 (0.75%) LTE
3 1 (0.75%) NGFW
3 1 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.76%) Power BI
2 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.01%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.26%) Metadata
4 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.50%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.75%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.75%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.75%) GIS
5 1 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.75%) OLTP
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) JIRA
2 8 (6.02%) Git
3 2 (1.50%) GitLab
3 2 (1.50%) Selenium
4 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.75%) ERwin
4 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.53%) Finance
4 14 (10.53%) Military
5 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Banking
6 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Legal
7 4 (3.01%) Local Government
7 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (17.29%) Architect
2 16 (12.03%) Analyst
2 16 (12.03%) Senior
3 14 (10.53%) Lead
4 13 (9.77%) Developer
5 8 (6.02%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.51%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.76%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.76%) User Researcher
9 4 (3.01%) Consultant
9 4 (3.01%) Designer
9 4 (3.01%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.01%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.01%) Test Leader
10 3 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.26%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) Pandas
2 3 (2.26%) NumPy
2 3 (2.26%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.50%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.50%) Django
3 2 (1.50%) Kafka
3 2 (1.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.50%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.50%) React
3 2 (1.50%) REST
4 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.75%) Playwright
4 1 (0.75%) PySpark
4 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.75%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.01%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.26%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.50%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.50%) NHS
4 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.50%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (20.30%) Agile
2 26 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (17.29%) AI
4 20 (15.04%) CI/CD
5 19 (14.29%) Analytics
6 18 (13.53%) DevOps
7 17 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.03%) Machine Learning
9 15 (11.28%) Migration
9 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (10.53%) Roadmaps
11 12 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (8.27%) Decision-Making
12 11 (8.27%) Generative AI
12 11 (8.27%) Test Automation
13 10 (7.52%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.52%) Data Modelling
14 9 (6.77%) Data Science
14 9 (6.77%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.28%) Python
2 8 (6.02%) Java
3 4 (3.01%) SQL
4 3 (2.26%) Bicep
4 3 (2.26%) Ruby
5 2 (1.50%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.50%) Bash
5 2 (1.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.75%) C
6 1 (0.75%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.75%) Korn
6 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.75%) ProC
6 1 (0.75%) R
6 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (58.65%) Security Cleared
2 64 (48.12%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.51%) Degree
4 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.26%) CISSP
7 2 (1.50%) CISM
7 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.50%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.75%) APMP
8 1 (0.75%) CIPD
8 1 (0.75%) IIBA
8 1 (0.75%) IISP
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) MBA
8 1 (0.75%) MOS
8 1 (0.75%) MRICS
8 1 (0.75%) OSCP
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.02%) QA
2 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.26%) NCSC
3 3 (2.26%) NIST
3 3 (2.26%) SLA
4 2 (1.50%) GDPR
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.50%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.50%) PMO
5 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.75%) COBIT
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.75%) GLP
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Terraform
2 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
4 1 (0.75%) Salt
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.02%) Databricks
3 6 (4.51%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) Oracle
4 5 (3.76%) SAP
5 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.26%) IBM
6 3 (2.26%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) Foundry
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco
8 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.75%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.75%) Pega
8 1 (0.75%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) Zerto