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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 50 44 59
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.83% 6.04% 7.32%
As % of the General category 9.19% 10.26% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 49
10th Percentile £154 £253 £313
25th Percentile £304 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £449 £631
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -28.84% +26.20%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £745
90th Percentile £636 £655 -
England median daily rate £500 £521 £540
% change year-on-year -4.08% -3.47% +2.86%
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 £21.50 £24.09 £21.90
% change year-on-year -10.73% +10.00% +12.66%

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 544 429 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 63.48% 58.93% 49.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 258 278
10th Percentile £213 £259 £199
25th Percentile £350 £343 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £445 £470
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -5.37% -1.00%
75th Percentile £500 £533 £600
90th Percentile £625 £624 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 21 33
10th Percentile £15.67 £14.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.10 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.66 £17.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.43% -38.18% +62.39%
75th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £26.45 £55.00 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.97 £30.05
% change year-on-year -21.80% +6.39% +16.88%

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 4 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 4 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 15 £525 +10.53% 20
Lincolnshire -1 13 £158 +1.61% 5
Northamptonshire -13 10 £400 -10.11% 2
Derbyshire -1 8 £800 +50.73% 10
Leicestershire -14 4 £525 +16.93% 9
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 (2.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP ERP
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.00%) PRMS
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.00%) AWS
4 2 (4.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) Wireless
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.00%) GIS
2 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) JUnit
1 1 (2.00%) Mockito
1 1 (2.00%) Postman
1 1 (2.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (2.00%) Selenium
1 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 12 (24.00%) Manufacturing
2 12 (24.00%) Marketing
3 11 (22.00%) Electronics
3 11 (22.00%) Telecoms
4 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Local Government
6 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) IT Support
3 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (12.00%) Desktop Support
3 6 (12.00%) Developer
3 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 4 (8.00%) IT Manager
4 4 (8.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) SAP Manager
5 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Technical Support
5 3 (6.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Security Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Senior QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) REST
1 3 (6.00%) Spring
2 2 (4.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.00%) ADO
3 1 (2.00%) EDI
3 1 (2.00%) FHIR
3 1 (2.00%) J2EE
3 1 (2.00%) JDBC
3 1 (2.00%) JMS
3 1 (2.00%) JSON
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.00%) Playwright
3 1 (2.00%) SOAP
3 1 (2.00%) Web Services
3 1 (2.00%) XML
3 1 (2.00%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) NHS
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) AS400
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Android
1 6 (12.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (22.00%) Digital Marketing
2 11 (22.00%) Programme Management
3 9 (18.00%) Agile
4 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
6 5 (10.00%) DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Scrum
6 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.00%) Business Strategy
7 4 (8.00%) ITIL
7 4 (8.00%) Logistics
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) Service Management
7 4 (8.00%) Workflow
7 4 (8.00%) Workflow Management
8 3 (6.00%) Architecture Governance
8 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) SQL
2 3 (6.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.00%) C#
3 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 33 (66.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) CISM
3 2 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) ISO 9001
4 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) SAP
2 8 (16.00%) Cisco
3 6 (12.00%) Apple
3 6 (12.00%) Dell
3 6 (12.00%) HP
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.00%) Computacenter
6 1 (2.00%) Genesys
6 1 (2.00%) Rockwell
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Solace
6 1 (2.00%) Trapeze