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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 23 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 -8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 58 41 59
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.48% 5.79% 7.41%
As % of the General category 10.41% 9.95% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 48
10th Percentile £154 £226 £298
25th Percentile £304 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -18.18% +7.84%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £745
90th Percentile £636 £689 -
England median daily rate £500 £523 £538
% change year-on-year -4.31% -2.79% +0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £17.22 £16.92 -
25th Percentile £18.22 £19.64 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% - -
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.22 -
90th Percentile £25.12 £38.64 -
England median hourly rate £21.40 £24.18 £21.91
% change year-on-year -11.50% +10.39% +15.29%

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 common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 557 412 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 62.23% 58.19% 48.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 242 270
10th Percentile £206 £263 £179
25th Percentile £350 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £452
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% -1.55% -4.95%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £588
90th Percentile £622 £630 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 20 33
10th Percentile £15.56 £14.54 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.10 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -38.18% +66.67%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.90 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.92 £55.00 £69.00
England median hourly rate £24.34 £32.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -23.94% -0.99% +26.23%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 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
Nottinghamshire +7 14 £525 +10.53% 28
Lincolnshire +1 13 £158 +1.61% 4
Leicestershire -8 13 £525 +5.00% 8
Northamptonshire -14 10 £400 -4.31% 1
Derbyshire +2 8 £800 +41.22% 2
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 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) SAP ERP
1 2 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.72%) PRMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
4 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.72%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
6 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Wireless
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.72%) Big Data
2 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.72%) GIS
2 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.72%) Metadata
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.72%) Postman
2 1 (1.72%) Ranorex
2 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.59%) Finance
3 12 (20.69%) Local Government
3 12 (20.69%) Manufacturing
3 12 (20.69%) Marketing
4 11 (18.97%) Electronics
4 11 (18.97%) Telecoms
5 10 (17.24%) Fire and Rescue
5 10 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Architect
1 10 (17.24%) Project Officer
2 6 (10.34%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (10.34%) Desktop Support
2 6 (10.34%) IT Support
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 4 (6.90%) Developer
3 4 (6.90%) IT Manager
3 4 (6.90%) Lead
3 4 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.17%) SAP Manager
4 3 (5.17%) Senior
4 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.17%) Technical Support
4 3 (5.17%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.24%) EDI
2 2 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (1.72%) .NET
3 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.72%) ADO
3 1 (1.72%) CrewAI
3 1 (1.72%) FHIR
3 1 (1.72%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.72%) Playwright
3 1 (1.72%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (1.72%) SOAP
3 1 (1.72%) Spring
3 1 (1.72%) Web Services
3 1 (1.72%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.07%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.45%) NHS
3 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) AS400
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.72%) Life Science
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Android
1 6 (10.34%) Mac OS
2 4 (6.90%) Windows
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (20.69%) Project Management
3 11 (18.97%) Digital Marketing
3 11 (18.97%) PRINCE2
3 11 (18.97%) Programme Management
4 10 (17.24%) Business Analysis
4 10 (17.24%) Project Governance
5 9 (15.52%) Agile
6 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.34%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.62%) Migration
10 4 (6.90%) DevOps
10 4 (6.90%) ITIL
10 4 (6.90%) Logistics
10 4 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (6.90%) Service Management
10 4 (6.90%) Workflow
10 4 (6.90%) Workflow Management
11 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.17%) SQL
2 1 (1.72%) Apex Code
2 1 (1.72%) C#
2 1 (1.72%) Java
2 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.72%) Python
2 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
2 1 (1.72%) X++
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) CISM
3 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (1.72%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.17%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) SCCM
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) SAP
2 9 (15.52%) Cisco
3 6 (10.34%) Apple
3 6 (10.34%) Dell
3 6 (10.34%) HP
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.72%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.72%) Genesys
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Rockwell
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.72%) Trapeze