Public Sector Contracts 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 advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 39 66
Rank change year-on-year +13 +27 +7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 151 183 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.97% 5.23% 3.50%
As % of the General category 10.42% 8.33% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 101 105
10th Percentile £383 £263 £325
25th Percentile £419 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.24%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £580
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £13.00
% change year-on-year - - -31.43%

All General Skills
City of London

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,449 2,196 2,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 66.90% 62.80% 57.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 1,546 1,767
10th Percentile £338 £370 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £691 £738 £688
90th Percentile £811 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 29
10th Percentile £18.74 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.15 £15.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.41 £21.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -48.15% +153.13%
75th Percentile £27.13 £52.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £34.33 £57.75 £63.15
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -13.58% +131.43%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the City of London

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 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the City of London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.31%) Site Server
3 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.66%) Camunda
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) JBoss
4 1 (0.66%) nginx
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (25.17%) Azure
2 28 (18.54%) AWS
3 24 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.62%) Amazon S3
4 10 (6.62%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.96%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (5.96%) Serverless
6 8 (5.30%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.30%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.31%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (3.31%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (3.31%) IaaS
8 4 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.65%) PaaS
9 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.99%) GitHub
9 3 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.99%) SaaS
10 2 (1.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.30%) Firewall
2 6 (3.97%) WAN
3 5 (3.31%) NetScaler
4 4 (2.65%) FTP
4 4 (2.65%) LAN
5 3 (1.99%) BGP
5 3 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.99%) IPsec
5 3 (1.99%) OSPF
5 3 (1.99%) VPN
6 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.32%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.32%) Wireless
6 2 (1.32%) WLAN
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.66%) DMZ
7 1 (0.66%) DNS
7 1 (0.66%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.66%) SAN
7 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.62%) Power BI
2 9 (5.96%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.97%) GIS
4 6 (3.97%) Parquet
5 5 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.31%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.65%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.99%) Tableau
8 2 (1.32%) Big Data
8 2 (1.32%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.66%) OLAP
9 1 (0.66%) OLTP
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (2.65%) JIRA
2 3 (1.99%) Git
2 3 (1.99%) Postman
2 3 (1.99%) Selenium
3 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.32%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.66%) ERwin
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) JUnit
4 1 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (16.56%) Finance
1 25 (16.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.30%) General Ledger
3 8 (5.30%) Retail
4 6 (3.97%) Back Office
4 6 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (3.31%) Local Government
6 4 (2.65%) Marketing
7 3 (1.99%) Electronics
7 3 (1.99%) Law
7 3 (1.99%) Legal
7 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.99%) Police
7 3 (1.99%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (13.25%) Developer
1 20 (13.25%) Senior
2 17 (11.26%) Analyst
3 15 (9.93%) Consultant
4 14 (9.27%) Architect
5 10 (6.62%) Data Engineer
6 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Consultant
6 8 (5.30%) Network Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.31%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (3.31%) Network Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.65%) Applications Developer
10 4 (2.65%) Designer
10 4 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.65%) Implementation Specialist
10 4 (2.65%) Lead
10 4 (2.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.30%) JSON
1 8 (5.30%) Kafka
1 8 (5.30%) REST
2 6 (3.97%) .NET
2 6 (3.97%) Apache Avro
2 6 (3.97%) Spring
3 5 (3.31%) CSS
3 5 (3.31%) HTML
3 5 (3.31%) Node.js
3 5 (3.31%) SAML
3 5 (3.31%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.65%) LDAP
4 4 (2.65%) XML
5 3 (1.99%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.99%) Web Services
6 2 (1.32%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.32%) HTML5
6 2 (1.32%) jQuery
6 2 (1.32%) RESTful
6 2 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.30%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.65%) Replication
4 3 (1.99%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.99%) PKI
5 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.32%) Social Media
6 1 (0.66%) CCTV
6 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.66%) CMDB
6 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.66%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.66%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.66%) Robotics
6 1 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.64%) Linux
2 6 (3.97%) Windows
3 5 (3.31%) Unix
4 4 (2.65%) Android
5 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (21.19%) Agile
2 30 (19.87%) DevOps
3 19 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (8.61%) ETL
4 13 (8.61%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (8.61%) Requirements Gathering
4 13 (8.61%) Scrum
5 12 (7.95%) Analytics
6 11 (7.28%) Project Management
6 11 (7.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (6.62%) Data Modelling
7 10 (6.62%) Requirements Workshops
8 9 (5.96%) Decision-Making
9 8 (5.30%) Accounts Payable
9 8 (5.30%) Accounts Receivable
9 8 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (5.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (4.64%) Acceptance Criteria
10 7 (4.64%) Migration
10 7 (4.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.58%) Python
2 17 (11.26%) SQL
3 9 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.30%) Java
4 8 (5.30%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.31%) Korn
6 4 (2.65%) C#
7 3 (1.99%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.66%) Bash
9 1 (0.66%) PHP
9 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (48.34%) Security Cleared
2 54 (35.76%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) Degree
3 15 (9.93%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.99%) CCNA
4 3 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.32%) CISM
5 2 (1.32%) CISSP
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CISA
6 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.31%) QA
2 4 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) GDPR
3 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) PMO
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.66%) GRC
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
4 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.65%) HDFS
2 4 (2.65%) NFS
3 2 (1.32%) Docker
3 2 (1.32%) Firmware
3 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.64%) Terraform
2 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.32%) Ansible
3 2 (1.32%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.66%) SCCM
4 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (13.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.62%) Oracle
3 5 (3.31%) Citrix
3 5 (3.31%) ESRI
3 5 (3.31%) SAP
4 4 (2.65%) Cisco
4 4 (2.65%) Isilon
5 3 (1.99%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.32%) Brandwatch
6 2 (1.32%) Dell
6 2 (1.32%) Google
6 2 (1.32%) IBM
6 2 (1.32%) Juniper
6 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.32%) Siebel
6 2 (1.32%) VMware
7 1 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.66%) BT
7 1 (0.66%) Okta
7 1 (0.66%) Remedy