Public Sector Contracts in Devon

Public Sector
South West > Devon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Devon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 17 33 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 15.89% 12.00% 18.69%
As % of the General category 25.00% 28.70% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 26
10th Percentile £464 £153 £424
25th Percentile - £196 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £468
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -0.53% +14.58%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £668
90th Percentile £630 £660 £713
South West median daily rate £550 £570 £571
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.18% +20.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £29.28 - -
25th Percentile £33.77 - -
Median hourly rate £41.89 - -
75th Percentile £50.63 - -
90th Percentile £55.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £16.06 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.26% -59.85% -37.01%

All General Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 68 115 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 63.55% 41.82% 44.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 69 60
10th Percentile £187 £153 £240
25th Percentile £313 £158 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £468
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -12.51% +16.88%
75th Percentile £538 £475 £600
90th Percentile £650 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 4
10th Percentile £23.41 £10.42 £30.60
25th Percentile £27.64 £12.21 £49.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.28 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.50% -59.56% +63.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £46.25 £79.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
% change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Devon

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Devon.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Devon

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Devon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Devon

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Devon.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Devon

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Devon

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Devon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Devon

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Exeter +7 11 £500 +7.53% 2
Plymouth -6 2 - - 4
Public Sector
South West

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Pipelines
1 4 (23.53%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Military
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Test Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Information
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Information Management
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Knowledge Management
3 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Project Planner
3 1 (5.88%) Scientific Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.88%) htmx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
4 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Data Science
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.88%) Bug Management
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Data Governance
6 1 (5.88%) Earned Value Management
6 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.88%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (82.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow