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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 40 20
Rank change year-on-year +10 -20 +19
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 149 102 171
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.26% 5.42% 8.27%
As % of the General category 10.64% 7.32% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 70 120
10th Percentile £334 £413 £375
25th Percentile £446 £458 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% -5.19%
75th Percentile £644 £587 £588
90th Percentile £748 £680 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £520 £505
% change year-on-year +0.96% +2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £56.73 £18.06 -
25th Percentile £59.31 £19.54 £146.25
Median hourly rate £67.25 £22.00 £147.50
Median % change year-on-year +205.68% -85.08% +719.44%
75th Percentile £73.81 £32.88 £148.75
90th Percentile £75.58 £39.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £67.25 £23.54 £147.50
% change year-on-year +185.71% -84.04% +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 1,401 1,393 1,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.89% 74.06% 68.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 915 930
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £699
90th Percentile £800 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 10
10th Percentile - £17.08 £13.73
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £17.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% +53.19%
75th Percentile £34.88 £63.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £54.99 £88.75 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -26.24% +25.93% +18.68%

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 10 August 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 6 (4.03%) Confluence
1 6 (4.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.01%) CMS
3 1 (0.67%) Camunda
3 1 (0.67%) nginx
3 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.34%) Exchequer
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.67%) iTrent
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.13%) AWS
2 24 (16.11%) Azure
3 13 (8.72%) GCP
4 9 (6.04%) Serverless
5 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
5 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (4.70%) GitHub
7 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.68%) PaaS
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.01%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.01%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.01%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.01%) SaaS
9 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.70%) Firewall
1 7 (4.70%) Network Security
2 5 (3.36%) DNS
3 3 (2.01%) LAN
3 3 (2.01%) VPN
4 2 (1.34%) NGFW
4 2 (1.34%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.67%) 3G
5 1 (0.67%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.67%) 4G
5 1 (0.67%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.67%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.67%) LTE
5 1 (0.67%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.03%) Power BI
2 4 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.68%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.01%) Metadata
4 2 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.34%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.67%) OLAP
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.67%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (6.71%) Git
2 6 (4.03%) JIRA
3 5 (3.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.67%) Mockito
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 53 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.12%) Military
3 18 (12.08%) Finance
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.37%) Legal
5 8 (5.37%) Police
6 7 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Local Government
8 4 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Law
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.67%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) Architect
2 23 (15.44%) Lead
3 16 (10.74%) Senior
4 12 (8.05%) Analyst
5 11 (7.38%) Developer
6 9 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.37%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.37%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.70%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.36%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.68%) Consultant
11 4 (2.68%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (2.68%) Network Architect
11 4 (2.68%) Product Manager
11 4 (2.68%) Senior Architect
11 4 (2.68%) User Researcher
12 3 (2.01%) Data Engineer
12 3 (2.01%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.68%) PySpark
2 3 (2.01%) Kafka
2 3 (2.01%) Pandas
2 3 (2.01%) Spring
2 3 (2.01%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.34%) .NET
3 2 (1.34%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.34%) Django
3 2 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.34%) NumPy
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.34%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.34%) React
3 2 (1.34%) REST
3 2 (1.34%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.34%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.67%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.36%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.68%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.68%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.68%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.01%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.34%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.34%) NHS
5 2 (1.34%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.83%) Agile
2 31 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (20.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 28 (18.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (17.45%) AI
6 22 (14.77%) CI/CD
7 21 (14.09%) Decision-Making
8 19 (12.75%) Analytics
9 16 (10.74%) DevOps
9 16 (10.74%) Migration
10 15 (10.07%) Data Protection
11 14 (9.40%) Machine Learning
12 13 (8.72%) Data Modelling
12 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.72%) Roadmaps
13 11 (7.38%) Risk Management
13 11 (7.38%) Test Automation
14 10 (6.71%) Event-Driven
15 9 (6.04%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.72%) Python
2 7 (4.70%) Java
3 6 (4.03%) SQL
4 4 (2.68%) Bicep
5 2 (1.34%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.34%) Bash
5 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.34%) Ruby
5 2 (1.34%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.67%) C#
6 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.67%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (62.42%) Security Cleared
2 75 (50.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.05%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.36%) CISSP
6 4 (2.68%) CISM
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.01%) Degree
8 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.34%) CCNP
8 2 (1.34%) CIPD
8 2 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.34%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
9 1 (0.67%) IISP
9 1 (0.67%) ISEB
9 1 (0.67%) MBA
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.38%) QA
2 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.68%) GDPR
4 4 (2.68%) PMO
5 3 (2.01%) Government Security Classifications
5 3 (2.01%) NCSC
6 2 (1.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (1.34%) NIST
6 2 (1.34%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.34%) PERC
6 2 (1.34%) WCAG
7 1 (0.67%) COBIT
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.67%) GLP
7 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (6.71%) Terraform
2 9 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.68%) Ansible
3 4 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.34%) Grafana
4 2 (1.34%) Istio
4 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Puppet
5 1 (0.67%) Salt
5 1 (0.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 16 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.38%) Google
3 9 (6.04%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.70%) Oracle
5 6 (4.03%) SAP
6 5 (3.36%) Databricks
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco
7 3 (2.01%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.34%) BMC
8 2 (1.34%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.34%) IBM
8 2 (1.34%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.34%) Remedy
8 2 (1.34%) VMware
9 1 (0.67%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.67%) Informatica
9 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.67%) Red Hat