Public Sector Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Public Sector
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 64 30 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.07% 5.31% 5.99%
As % of the General category 11.43% 8.26% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 34
10th Percentile £154 £173 £313
25th Percentile £358 £313 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £688
90th Percentile £633 £655 £745
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £16.09 - -
25th Percentile £18.95 - -
Median hourly rate £23.83 £15.10 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.78% - -
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile £25.11 - -
England median hourly rate £21.94 £22.96 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.44% +9.31% +5.63%

All General Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 560 363 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 61.88% 64.25% 48.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 223 250
10th Percentile £198 £226 £160
25th Percentile £352 £311 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £530 £563
90th Percentile £610 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 19 29
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.01 £13.80
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.32 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -17.76% +41.56%
75th Percentile £25.14 £30.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.45 £42.74 -
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.67% -8.40% +27.38%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the East Midlands

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Nottinghamshire 0 17 £525 +5.00% 23
Lincolnshire +2 14 £158 +1.61% 7
Leicestershire -1 14 £475 -13.64% 6
Northamptonshire -14 12 £410 +16.31% 6
Derbyshire -3 7 £663 +66.67% 6
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) SAP ERP
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) PRMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) Azure
2 7 (10.94%) AWS
3 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.56%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Wireless
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) Aerospike
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.56%) Metadata
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.56%) Git
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Postman
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
3 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Finance
3 16 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 16 (25.00%) Marketing
4 15 (23.44%) Electronics
4 15 (23.44%) Telecoms
5 10 (15.63%) Fire and Rescue
5 10 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (15.63%) Local Government
6 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
7 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Architect
1 10 (15.63%) Project Officer
2 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (9.38%) Desktop Support
2 6 (9.38%) IT Support
2 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 4 (6.25%) Analyst
3 4 (6.25%) IT Manager
3 4 (6.25%) Lead
3 4 (6.25%) Service Manager
3 4 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Migration Technician
4 3 (4.69%) Programme Manager
4 3 (4.69%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.69%) SAP Manager
4 3 (4.69%) Senior
4 3 (4.69%) Support Technician
4 3 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) EDI
2 2 (3.13%) ADO
2 2 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) .NET
3 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.56%) FHIR
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.56%) Node.js
3 1 (1.56%) Pandas
3 1 (1.56%) Playwright
3 1 (1.56%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) pytest
3 1 (1.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.56%) Web Services
3 1 (1.56%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.94%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.56%) AS400
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.56%) Life Science
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Android
1 6 (9.38%) Mac OS
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (3.13%) Linux
4 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 15 (23.44%) Digital Marketing
4 12 (18.75%) PRINCE2
4 12 (18.75%) Project Management
5 11 (17.19%) Agile
5 11 (17.19%) Business Analysis
6 10 (15.63%) Migration
6 10 (15.63%) Project Governance
6 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (10.94%) Change Management
8 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (10.94%) Workflow
9 6 (9.38%) ITIL
9 6 (9.38%) Project Delivery
9 6 (9.38%) Service Management
10 5 (7.81%) DevOps
10 5 (7.81%) Logistics
11 4 (6.25%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.81%) SQL
2 2 (3.13%) Java
2 2 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (1.56%) R
3 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (64.06%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) CISM
3 1 (1.56%) CISSP
3 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (1.56%) MCP
3 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.69%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.13%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
1 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) SCCM
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Istio
3 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) SAP
2 9 (14.06%) Cisco
3 6 (9.38%) Apple
3 6 (9.38%) Dell
3 6 (9.38%) HP
4 3 (4.69%) VMware
5 2 (3.13%) Databricks
5 2 (3.13%) Genesys
6 1 (1.56%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.56%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow