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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 15 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 122 203 134
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.80% 9.47% 4.91%
As % of the General category 9.21% 14.02% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 127 68
10th Percentile £412 £352 £181
25th Percentile £463 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £639
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £521 £500
% change year-on-year +0.72% +4.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £17.89 £23.85 -
25th Percentile £19.11 £26.63 -
Median hourly rate £20.27 £32.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.62% +80.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £20.55 £91.25 -
90th Percentile £20.58 £125.75 -
Central London median hourly rate £20.27 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -37.62% +80.56% +20.00%

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 1,324 1,448 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 73.76% 67.54% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 872 1,262
10th Percentile £321 £350 £358
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £589
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.64% +0.64%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £697
90th Percentile £775 £797 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -5.98% -0.43% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 12
10th Percentile £16.96 £13.45 -
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +26.21% -40.45%
75th Percentile £44.72 £78.75 £52.25
90th Percentile £64.11 £103.75 £73.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.57% +27.27% -36.22%

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 22 November 2025.

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 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.82%) nginx
3 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.28%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.82%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.82%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.82%) Maximo
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.11%) AWS
1 16 (13.11%) Azure
2 9 (7.38%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.28%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (3.28%) PowerApps
3 4 (3.28%) SaaS
4 3 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.46%) Azure AI
4 3 (2.46%) GCP
4 3 (2.46%) GitHub
4 3 (2.46%) Power Automate
4 3 (2.46%) Serverless
5 2 (1.64%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (1.64%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (1.64%) Miro
5 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.46%) Firewall
2 2 (1.64%) DNS
2 2 (1.64%) VPN
3 1 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.82%) Intranet
3 1 (0.82%) Junos
3 1 (0.82%) LAN
3 1 (0.82%) Network Security
3 1 (0.82%) NX-OS
3 1 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.82%) WAN
3 1 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) Power BI
2 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.46%) Metadata
3 2 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (1.64%) DataStage
3 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.64%) Power Query
3 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) JIRA
2 6 (4.92%) Git
3 2 (1.64%) Postman
3 2 (1.64%) Selenium
4 1 (0.82%) ERwin
4 1 (0.82%) git-flow
4 1 (0.82%) GitLab
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) MSTest
4 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (21.31%) Finance
2 21 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Legal
5 3 (2.46%) Banking
5 3 (2.46%) Marketing
5 3 (2.46%) Military
6 2 (1.64%) Electronics
6 2 (1.64%) Local Government
6 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.64%) Police
6 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.82%) Back Office
7 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (17.21%) Analyst
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 10 (8.20%) Business Analyst
3 10 (8.20%) Developer
3 10 (8.20%) Lead
4 9 (7.38%) Architect
5 7 (5.74%) Consultant
6 6 (4.92%) Designer
7 5 (4.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) Fraud Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) Head of Support
8 4 (3.28%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Business Change Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Change Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Technical Leader
9 3 (2.46%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) Kafka
1 6 (4.92%) REST
2 4 (3.28%) .NET
2 4 (3.28%) HTML
2 4 (3.28%) XML
3 3 (2.46%) CSS
4 2 (1.64%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.64%) JSON
4 2 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.64%) NumPy
4 2 (1.64%) OAuth
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.64%) Pandas
4 2 (1.64%) RESTful
4 2 (1.64%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.64%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (1.64%) Swagger
4 2 (1.64%) Web Services
5 1 (0.82%) Node.js
5 1 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.92%) Data Structures
2 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.64%) NHS
5 2 (1.64%) Replication
6 1 (0.82%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.82%) BYOD
6 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.82%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.82%) PKI
6 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) Windows
2 1 (0.82%) Android
2 1 (0.82%) Linux
2 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) Agile
2 19 (15.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 17 (13.93%) AI
4 14 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (9.84%) Roadmaps
5 12 (9.84%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (9.02%) Decision-Making
6 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.20%) ERP
7 10 (8.20%) Knowledge Transfer
7 10 (8.20%) Migration
7 10 (8.20%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (7.38%) Business Analysis
8 9 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (7.38%) Data Governance
8 9 (7.38%) User Research
9 8 (6.56%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (6.56%) Analytics
9 8 (6.56%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.48%) Python
1 14 (11.48%) SQL
2 6 (4.92%) Java
3 5 (4.10%) C#
3 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.46%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.64%) Go
7 1 (0.82%) C++
7 1 (0.82%) R
7 1 (0.82%) Ruby
7 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (65.57%) Security Cleared
2 62 (50.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.92%) Degree
5 4 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.82%) APMG
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.82%) CISA
7 1 (0.82%) CISSP
7 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) IIBA
7 1 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.82%) VCAP
7 1 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) QA
2 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.46%) GDPR
5 2 (1.64%) NIST
6 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.82%) COBIT
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.82%) NCSC
6 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.10%) Terraform
3 3 (2.46%) Argo
4 2 (1.64%) Ansible
4 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.64%) SCCM
5 1 (0.82%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.82%) Consul
5 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.82%) Istio
5 1 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.82%) Packer
5 1 (0.82%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.92%) Oracle
3 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.28%) SAP
4 3 (2.46%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.64%) Cisco
5 2 (1.64%) Databricks
5 2 (1.64%) Foundry
5 2 (1.64%) IBM
5 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.64%) OpenText
5 2 (1.64%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.64%) Sparx
6 1 (0.82%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.82%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.82%) Planon
6 1 (0.82%) Pure Storage
6 1 (0.82%) UiPath
6 1 (0.82%) Workday
6 1 (0.82%) Zscaler