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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 48 12
Rank change year-on-year +28 -36 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 80 21 73
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.94% 2.78% 9.18%
As % of the General category 14.26% 4.61% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 10 42
10th Percentile £285 £246 £150
25th Percentile £425 £357 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £405 £447
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -9.40% -29.16%
75th Percentile £656 £469 £585
90th Percentile £675 £603 £620
England median daily rate £515 £501 £520
% change year-on-year +2.90% -3.75% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 10
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.60 £12.65
25th Percentile £17.74 £21.68 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.97 £25.15 £14.30
Median % change year-on-year -28.55% +75.87% -35.00%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £23.57
90th Percentile £25.77 - £43.33
England median hourly rate £25.38 £21.70 £27.00
% change year-on-year +16.96% -19.63% +28.57%

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 561 456 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 48.66% 60.40% 53.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 310 278
10th Percentile £230 £213 £200
25th Percentile £395 £323 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -9.66% -6.32%
75th Percentile £581 £488 £561
90th Percentile £672 £550 £626
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 36 44
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.19 £12.28
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.47 £12.75
Median hourly rate £19.33 £23.75 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -18.61% +41.24% -62.00%
75th Percentile £30.25 £25.15 £42.35
90th Percentile £59.15 £37.99 £51.91
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +32.46% -32.69% +27.07%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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
Lincolnshire +10 36 £525 - 2
Nottinghamshire -2 22 £638 +55.49% 2
Leicestershire +1 8 £444 -18.95% 4
Derbyshire -2 6 £180 +46.34% 1
Northamptonshire +16 5 £437 +16.50% 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 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (16.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) ContrOCC
3 1 (1.25%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.75%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.75%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (6.25%) AWS
5 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.75%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) DHCP
2 2 (2.50%) DNS
2 2 (2.50%) LAN
3 1 (1.25%) SAN
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) VLAN
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.50%) Big Data
3 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) Power Query
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Local Government
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Police
4 3 (3.75%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.25%) Banking
5 1 (1.25%) Marketing
5 1 (1.25%) Military
5 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Architect
2 10 (12.50%) Lead
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 7 (8.75%) ICT Trainer
4 7 (8.75%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Trainer
5 6 (7.50%) Consultant
6 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Manager
6 5 (6.25%) Server Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.00%) SAP Architect
7 4 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Workstream Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) Middleware
2 1 (1.25%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (1.25%) Node.js
2 1 (1.25%) OSGi
2 1 (1.25%) REST
2 1 (1.25%) RESTful
2 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.25%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (20.00%) Analytics
3 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (13.75%) Data Modelling
5 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
6 10 (12.50%) Validation
7 9 (11.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (10.00%) Visualisation
8 8 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (8.75%) Information Governance
9 7 (8.75%) Information Security
9 7 (8.75%) Migration
9 7 (8.75%) System Integration Testing
10 6 (7.50%) Data Governance
10 6 (7.50%) Data Migration
10 6 (7.50%) Data Protection
10 6 (7.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.75%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) Java
2 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.50%) Python
2 2 (2.50%) R
3 1 (1.25%) Bicep
3 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CIPD
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) GDPR
2 6 (7.50%) QA
3 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.25%) GRC
4 2 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.50%) VxRail
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) SCCM
3 1 (1.25%) SCOM
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) SAP
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.50%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe
5 1 (1.25%) Ariba
5 1 (1.25%) BT
5 1 (1.25%) Civica
5 1 (1.25%) Concur
5 1 (1.25%) Northgate
5 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds