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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 32 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 160 102 191
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.40% 5.94% 9.08%
As % of the General category 11.41% 7.93% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 70 123
10th Percentile £356 £405 £375
25th Percentile £413 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +0.96% -1.89%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £599
90th Percentile £706 £688 £680
Central London median daily rate £548 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.29% +2.44% -1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £18.16 £42.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £19.79 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £20.36 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +194.77% -77.38% +400.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £22.00 £120.00
90th Percentile - £35.05 £137.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £21.18 £90.00
% change year-on-year +18.05% -76.47% +400.00%

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 general skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,402 1,286 1,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 64.88% 74.85% 68.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 899 865 874
10th Percentile £356 £327 £356
25th Percentile £463 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £781 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 10
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.85 £13.73
25th Percentile £19.13 £20.18 £18.75
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.15 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -5.38% +56.58%
75th Percentile £39.38 £43.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £63.25 £64.48 £98.13
Central London median hourly rate £35.82 £28.33 £33.75
% change year-on-year +26.46% -16.07% +50.00%

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 6 October 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 9 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.38%) Confluence
3 3 (1.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.88%) Exchequer
3 2 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.25%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.25%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.63%) iTrent
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI-FM
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.63%) Azure
2 24 (15.00%) AWS
3 13 (8.13%) Power Platform
4 10 (6.25%) GCP
5 8 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.00%) Serverless
6 6 (3.75%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.13%) GitHub
8 4 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.50%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.50%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.88%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.88%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.88%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Network Security
2 5 (3.13%) DNS
2 5 (3.13%) Firewall
3 3 (1.88%) VPN
4 2 (1.25%) LAN
4 2 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.25%) SAN
4 2 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.25%) WAN
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (0.63%) DHCP
5 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.63%) NGFW
5 1 (0.63%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.63%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.63%) Power BI
2 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.50%) Metadata
2 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.88%) Data Mining
3 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.88%) Tableau
4 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.63%) GIS
5 1 (0.63%) OLAP
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) JIRA
2 7 (4.38%) Git
3 5 (3.13%) GitLab
4 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.88%) JUnit
4 3 (1.88%) Mockito
5 2 (1.25%) Maven
5 2 (1.25%) Selenium
5 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
General
1 49 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.88%) Military
3 16 (10.00%) Finance
4 14 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (6.25%) Legal
6 9 (5.63%) Local Government
7 7 (4.38%) Banking
7 7 (4.38%) Police
8 4 (2.50%) Law
8 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Billing
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (19.38%) Architect
2 26 (16.25%) Lead
3 19 (11.88%) Senior
4 15 (9.38%) Analyst
5 13 (8.13%) Developer
6 8 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 8 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.38%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.38%) Designer
7 7 (4.38%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (3.75%) Consultant
9 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (3.13%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.13%) Senior Developer
10 4 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.50%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.50%) Product Manager
10 4 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (2.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.00%) Terraform
2 5 (3.13%) REST
2 5 (3.13%) Web Services
3 4 (2.50%) .NET
3 4 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.50%) PySpark
3 4 (2.50%) SOAP
3 4 (2.50%) Spring
3 4 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.88%) RESTful
5 2 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.25%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.25%) JPA
5 2 (1.25%) Kafka
5 2 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
5 2 (1.25%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.63%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.38%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.88%) Low-Code
5 3 (1.88%) NHS
5 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.63%) BYOD
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.88%) Windows
2 2 (1.25%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.00%) Agile
2 37 (23.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 25 (15.63%) Decision-Making
5 23 (14.38%) AI
6 21 (13.13%) CI/CD
7 19 (11.88%) Analytics
7 19 (11.88%) DevOps
8 18 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.63%) Migration
10 16 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 15 (9.38%) Roadmaps
12 14 (8.75%) Service Management
13 12 (7.50%) Data Modelling
14 11 (6.88%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (6.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 11 (6.88%) Service Delivery
14 11 (6.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.63%) Python
2 6 (3.75%) Java
2 6 (3.75%) SQL
3 3 (1.88%) Bicep
3 3 (1.88%) C#
3 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.63%) R
5 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 75 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.50%) CISSP
6 4 (2.50%) Degree
7 3 (1.88%) CCNA
7 3 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.25%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.25%) CCNP
8 2 (1.25%) CIPD
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) MCSE
8 2 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.25%) OSCP
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.13%) QA
2 10 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 10 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.13%) GDPR
4 3 (1.88%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (1.88%) NCSC
4 3 (1.88%) NIST
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
4 3 (1.88%) WCAG
5 2 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.25%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.25%) PERC
6 1 (0.63%) COBIT
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.63%) GLP
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.13%) Docker
2 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.50%) Ansible
2 4 (2.50%) Grafana
2 4 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 4 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.25%) Istio
4 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.63%) Puppet
4 1 (0.63%) Salt
4 1 (0.63%) SCCM
4 1 (0.63%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) Google
3 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.38%) Oracle
4 7 (4.38%) SAP
5 4 (2.50%) Databricks
6 2 (1.25%) BMC
6 2 (1.25%) Cisco
6 2 (1.25%) Dell
6 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.25%) Foundry
6 2 (1.25%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.25%) Remedy
6 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.25%) Splunk
6 2 (1.25%) VMware
7 1 (0.63%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.63%) Informatica
7 1 (0.63%) Palantir
7 1 (0.63%) Sitecore