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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 17 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 115 194 140
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.61% 9.27% 5.07%
As % of the General category 8.91% 13.69% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 124 71
10th Percentile £405 £365 £190
25th Percentile £463 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £681
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £17.89 £42.75 -
25th Percentile £19.11 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £20.27 £90.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.48% +400.00% -20.88%
75th Percentile £20.55 £120.00 -
90th Percentile £20.58 £137.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £20.27 £90.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -77.48% +400.00% -20.88%

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 1,290 1,417 1,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 74.10% 67.73% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 857 1,255
10th Percentile £324 £350 £361
25th Percentile £413 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £798 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 13
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.18 £14.80
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +63.64% -35.29%
75th Percentile £47.50 £82.19 £46.75
90th Percentile £64.48 £109.38 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.25 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -19.29% +27.27% -33.73%

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 12 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 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) nginx
3 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.48%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.87%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.87%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.87%) Maximo
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.78%) AWS
2 14 (12.17%) Azure
3 6 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.35%) SaaS
5 4 (3.48%) GCP
5 4 (3.48%) GitHub
5 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (3.48%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.61%) Azure AI
6 3 (2.61%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.61%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.61%) Serverless
7 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.74%) Apigee
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) SSL
2 2 (1.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.87%) Intranet
3 1 (0.87%) Junos
3 1 (0.87%) LAN
3 1 (0.87%) Network Security
3 1 (0.87%) NX-OS
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) WAN
3 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) Power BI
2 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.61%) Metadata
3 2 (1.74%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (1.74%) DataStage
3 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.74%) Power Query
3 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) JIRA
2 6 (5.22%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) Postman
3 2 (1.74%) Selenium
4 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.87%) ERwin
4 1 (0.87%) git-flow
4 1 (0.87%) GitLab
4 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) MSTest
4 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (20.00%) Finance
2 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.09%) Legal
6 5 (4.35%) Military
7 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Electronics
8 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.74%) Police
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Back Office
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Publishing
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (13.91%) Analyst
2 14 (12.17%) Senior
3 11 (9.57%) Lead
4 10 (8.70%) Architect
4 10 (8.70%) Developer
5 7 (6.09%) Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Designer
7 5 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Fraud Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Head of Support
9 3 (2.61%) Business Change Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Change Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Senior Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Technical Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Technical Leader
10 2 (1.74%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) Kafka
2 5 (4.35%) REST
3 4 (3.48%) .NET
3 4 (3.48%) HTML
3 4 (3.48%) XML
4 3 (2.61%) CSS
5 2 (1.74%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.74%) JSON
5 2 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.74%) Node.js
5 2 (1.74%) OAuth
5 2 (1.74%) RESTful
5 2 (1.74%) SQLAlchemy
5 2 (1.74%) Swagger
5 2 (1.74%) Web Services
6 1 (0.87%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.87%) Pandas
6 1 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.87%) React
6 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.22%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) PKI
5 2 (1.74%) Replication
6 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.87%) BYOD
6 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Linux
1 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.70%) Agile
2 15 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 13 (11.30%) AI
3 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (10.43%) Roadmaps
5 11 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (8.70%) Migration
6 10 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (7.83%) Decision-Making
7 9 (7.83%) ERP
7 9 (7.83%) Knowledge Transfer
8 8 (6.96%) Data Governance
8 8 (6.96%) Data Migration
8 8 (6.96%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (6.09%) Business Analysis
9 7 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (6.09%) Data Mapping
9 7 (6.09%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.17%) SQL
2 13 (11.30%) Python
3 8 (6.96%) Java
4 5 (4.35%) C#
4 5 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.61%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.74%) C++
6 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.74%) Go
6 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.87%) Perl
7 1 (0.87%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 59 (51.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.35%) Degree
4 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) CISSP
5 2 (1.74%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.87%) APMG
6 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.87%) CEH
6 1 (0.87%) CISA
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.87%) GIAC
6 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.87%) OSCP
6 1 (0.87%) SANS
6 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.87%) VCAP
6 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) QA
2 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) GDPR
4 2 (1.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) COBIT
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) NCSC
5 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.22%) Terraform
3 3 (2.61%) Argo
4 2 (1.74%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.87%) Consul
5 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
5 1 (0.87%) Istio
5 1 (0.87%) Packer
5 1 (0.87%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.87%) SCCM
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.35%) Oracle
3 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.48%) SAP
4 3 (2.61%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.74%) Cisco
5 2 (1.74%) Foundry
5 2 (1.74%) IBM
5 2 (1.74%) OpenText
5 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.74%) Sparx
5 2 (1.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.87%) Aruba
6 1 (0.87%) Axway
6 1 (0.87%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.87%) Planon
6 1 (0.87%) Pure Storage
6 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds