Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Public Sector
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 24 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 12.63% 6.48% 10.43%
As % of the General category 20.00% 11.86% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 17
10th Percentile £299 £434 £160
25th Percentile £334 £513 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +50.00% +12.00%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £500
90th Percentile £538 £556 £528
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.66
25th Percentile - - £34.15
Median hourly rate - - £49.09
75th Percentile - - £64.83
90th Percentile - - £73.80
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £23.60 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% +24.21% +7.83%

All General Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 120 59 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 63.16% 54.63% 52.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 36 85
10th Percentile £304 £338 £176
25th Percentile £403 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +18.68%
75th Percentile £572 £625 £585
90th Percentile £709 £638 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £14.11 - £21.20
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -37.04% -8.47%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £53.89
90th Percentile - - £69.42
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £23.82 £18.50
% change year-on-year +2.18% +28.76% +4.99%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Coventry

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Coventry over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Coventry

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 2 (8.33%) SugarCRM
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) Primavera
2 1 (4.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.17%) SAP HR
2 1 (4.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Datadog
3 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (4.17%) IPv4
2 1 (4.17%) IPv6
2 1 (4.17%) MPLS
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) OSPF
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) VSAN
2 1 (4.17%) VXLAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) NUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Service Management Architect
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (4.17%) SAP PI
4 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) CMDB
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) CRM
4 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) API Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (12.50%) MVC
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.33%) High Availability
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Network Architecture
6 2 (8.33%) Network Design
6 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) UX Design
6 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.33%) PHP
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) CCIE
4 1 (4.17%) CCIE Security
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) CCSP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) JNCIE
4 1 (4.17%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) vRealize
1 2 (8.33%) VxRail
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (25.00%) VMware
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.33%) Commvault
4 2 (8.33%) HP
4 2 (8.33%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
5 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.17%) Juniper
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow