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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 133 133 152
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.79% 7.57% 6.97%
As % of the General category 10.14% 10.58% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 90 104
10th Percentile £389 £406 £383
25th Percentile £453 £441 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £563
90th Percentile £738 £645 £642
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 1,311 1,257 1,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 57.05% 71.54% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 789 1,024
10th Percentile £363 £331 £338
25th Percentile £461 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £712 £688 £700
90th Percentile £814 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £560 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.31% -8.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 9
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.58 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% +23.23% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.65 £48.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £53.37 £96.38 £32.05
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 11 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 11 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 11 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
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.80%) Azure
2 28 (21.05%) AWS
3 16 (12.03%) GCP
4 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.77%) Serverless
6 7 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.76%) GitHub
8 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (3.01%) PaaS
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.26%) Copilot Studio
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 8 (6.02%) 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%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
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%) Power Query
5 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
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 22 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.78%) Finance
4 15 (11.28%) Military
5 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Legal
7 4 (3.01%) Local Government
7 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Police
10 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
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 21 (15.79%) Architect
2 19 (14.29%) Senior
3 18 (13.53%) Analyst
4 13 (9.77%) Developer
5 12 (9.02%) Lead
6 10 (7.52%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.51%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.51%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.51%) Product Manager
7 6 (4.51%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.51%) User Researcher
8 4 (3.01%) Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) Designer
8 4 (3.01%) Security Architect
8 4 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.01%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.26%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.26%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) Pandas
2 4 (3.01%) NumPy
2 4 (3.01%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.50%) AWS CDK
3 2 (1.50%) Django
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%) .NET
4 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.75%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.75%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.75%) jBPM
4 1 (0.75%) JMS
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.75%) Playwright
4 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.75%) Spring
4 1 (0.75%) Web Services
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%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 2 (1.50%) Windows
3 1 (0.75%) Android
3 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.80%) Agile
2 25 (18.80%) AI
2 25 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (15.04%) Analytics
3 20 (15.04%) CI/CD
4 17 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (12.78%) Machine Learning
4 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (12.03%) DevOps
6 13 (9.77%) Generative AI
6 13 (9.77%) Migration
6 13 (9.77%) Roadmaps
7 12 (9.02%) Decision-Making
7 12 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.02%) User Research
8 10 (7.52%) Containerisation
8 10 (7.52%) Data Modelling
8 10 (7.52%) Data Science
8 10 (7.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.03%) Python
2 7 (5.26%) Java
3 5 (3.76%) 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%) Data Analysis Expressions
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%) Korn
6 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.75%) ProC
6 1 (0.75%) R
6 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 77 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 62 (46.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.51%) Degree
4 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) CISSP
6 2 (1.50%) CISM
6 2 (1.50%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.50%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.75%) APMP
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) IIBA
7 1 (0.75%) IISP
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) MBA
7 1 (0.75%) MOS
7 1 (0.75%) MRICS
7 1 (0.75%) OSCP
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.75%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.26%) NCSC
4 3 (2.26%) NIST
4 3 (2.26%) SLA
5 2 (1.50%) GDPR
5 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.50%) PMO
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) COBIT
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.75%) GLP
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Terraform
2 7 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
4 1 (0.75%) Salt
4 1 (0.75%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.26%) Databricks
3 6 (4.51%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) Oracle
4 4 (3.01%) SAP
4 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.26%) IBM
5 3 (2.26%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) Foundry
7 1 (0.75%) BMC
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco
7 1 (0.75%) Dell
7 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.75%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.75%) HP
7 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.75%) Zerto