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 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 24 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +21
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 140 144 146
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.29% 8.22% 6.51%
As % of the General category 10.78% 11.66% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 99 93
10th Percentile £402 £406 £377
25th Percentile £455 £453 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £588 £563
90th Percentile £738 £728 £643
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £18.41 - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.84 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -
75th Percentile £25.77 £32.88 -
90th Percentile £56.36 £39.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £20.84 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year -5.27% - -

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 1,299 1,235 1,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 58.38% 70.53% 65.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 778 1,051
10th Percentile £356 £330 £338
25th Percentile £455 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £706 £687 £688
90th Percentile £813 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.05 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £45.08 £58.75 £27.25
90th Percentile £53.50 £108.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.83 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.46% +31.30% -28.57%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 5 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.43%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.71%) iTrent
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.43%) AWS
2 29 (20.71%) Azure
3 15 (10.71%) GCP
4 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 10 (7.14%) Serverless
6 9 (6.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.57%) GitHub
8 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (2.86%) PaaS
9 4 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.86%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.14%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.14%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) 3G
3 1 (0.71%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.71%) 4G
3 1 (0.71%) 5G
3 1 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.71%) DNS
3 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.71%) Junos
3 1 (0.71%) LAN
3 1 (0.71%) LTE
3 1 (0.71%) NGFW
3 1 (0.71%) NX-OS
3 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.71%) Power BI
2 4 (2.86%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.14%) Metadata
4 2 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.71%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.71%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.71%) OLTP
5 1 (0.71%) Power Query
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 9 (6.43%) Git
3 3 (2.14%) Selenium
4 2 (1.43%) ERwin
4 2 (1.43%) GitLab
4 2 (1.43%) Postman
5 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.71%) MSTest
5 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Finance
4 13 (9.29%) Military
5 7 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Legal
8 3 (2.14%) Local Government
8 3 (2.14%) Marketing
8 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Police
9 2 (1.43%) Banking
9 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.71%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Publishing
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (17.14%) Senior
2 22 (15.71%) Analyst
3 18 (12.86%) Architect
4 14 (10.00%) Developer
5 13 (9.29%) Business Analyst
6 12 (8.57%) Lead
7 7 (5.00%) Data Scientist
7 7 (5.00%) User Researcher
8 6 (4.29%) Product Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.57%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Test Leader
11 3 (2.14%) Designer
11 3 (2.14%) Platform Architect
11 3 (2.14%) Senior Architect
11 3 (2.14%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.29%) Pandas
2 5 (3.57%) NumPy
2 5 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 4 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (2.14%) .NET
4 3 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.43%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.43%) Django
5 2 (1.43%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.43%) React
6 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.71%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.71%) Flask
6 1 (0.71%) JSON
6 1 (0.71%) Kafka
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
2 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.14%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.43%) NHS
4 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.86%) Linux
2 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.71%) Android
3 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.43%) Agile
2 28 (20.00%) AI
3 24 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (14.29%) Analytics
4 20 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (13.57%) CI/CD
6 18 (12.86%) Machine Learning
7 17 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (10.71%) DevOps
9 15 (10.71%) Generative AI
10 14 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (9.29%) Decision-Making
11 13 (9.29%) User Research
12 12 (8.57%) Data Science
12 12 (8.57%) Migration
12 12 (8.57%) Roadmaps
13 11 (7.86%) Observability
13 11 (7.86%) Test Automation
14 10 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.86%) Python
2 7 (5.00%) Java
2 7 (5.00%) SQL
3 4 (2.86%) Ruby
4 3 (2.14%) Apex Code
4 3 (2.14%) Bicep
4 3 (2.14%) C#
5 2 (1.43%) Bash
5 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.71%) C
6 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.71%) Korn
6 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.71%) ProC
6 1 (0.71%) R
6 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 69 (49.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) Degree
3 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) CISSP
6 2 (1.43%) CISM
6 2 (1.43%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.43%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.71%) APMP
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) IIBA
7 1 (0.71%) IISP
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) MBA
7 1 (0.71%) MOS
7 1 (0.71%) MRICS
7 1 (0.71%) OSCP
7 1 (0.71%) RIBA
7 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
4 3 (2.14%) NCSC
4 3 (2.14%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) SLA
5 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) COBIT
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (6.43%) Terraform
2 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
4 1 (0.71%) Salt
4 1 (0.71%) SCCM
4 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) Databricks
3 5 (3.57%) Google
3 5 (3.57%) Oracle
4 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.14%) Foundry
5 3 (2.14%) IBM
5 3 (2.14%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco
6 2 (1.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.71%) Apple
7 1 (0.71%) BMC
7 1 (0.71%) Dell
7 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Juniper
7 1 (0.71%) Pega
7 1 (0.71%) VMware