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 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 31 18
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 -11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 96 20 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 9.38% 3.97% 7.49%
As % of the General category 16.96% 6.23% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 16 39
10th Percentile £300 £291 £150
25th Percentile £406 £420 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £339
Median % change year-on-year - +47.49% -41.04%
75th Percentile £644 £541 £594
90th Percentile £673 £639 £630
England median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.37% -0.40% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile £17.38 - -
25th Percentile £23.16 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £13.50
75th Percentile £25.50 - £21.73
90th Percentile £25.69 - £40.49
England median hourly rate £22.38 £22.39 £24.00
% change year-on-year -0.01% -6.73% +20.00%

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 566 321 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 55.33% 63.69% 49.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 220 258
10th Percentile £200 £185 £159
25th Percentile £361 £311 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 14 58
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.01 £12.28
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.68 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £26.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.98% +51.43% -9.23%
75th Percentile £25.50 £31.40 £34.56
90th Percentile £32.58 £45.13 £51.50
England median hourly rate £26.80 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.80% +7.67% -22.86%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +11 42 £550 +5.77% 4
Leicestershire +1 16 £425 -21.66% 11
Lincolnshire - 15 £474 - 5
Northamptonshire -5 14 £424 +35.82% 7
Derbyshire -8 7 £663 +120.83% 1
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 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) ContrOCC
3 1 (1.04%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.04%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.04%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.04%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.42%) Azure
2 8 (8.33%) AWS
3 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.04%) GitHub
6 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.04%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.04%) SaaS
6 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Network Security
2 3 (3.13%) Wireless
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) DNS
3 1 (1.04%) VLAN
3 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Power BI
2 2 (2.08%) Big Data
2 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Aerospike
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.04%) Metadata
3 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.04%) Power Query
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 35 (36.46%) Finance
3 23 (23.96%) Local Government
4 13 (13.54%) Fire and Rescue
5 12 (12.50%) Marketing
6 10 (10.42%) Electronics
6 10 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 10 (10.42%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Police
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Banking
9 2 (2.08%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (1.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Lead
2 16 (16.67%) Architect
3 10 (10.42%) Consultant
3 10 (10.42%) Project Officer
3 10 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (10.42%) Workstream Lead
4 7 (7.29%) SAP Architect
4 7 (7.29%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.25%) Analyst
5 6 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (5.21%) Senior
7 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
7 4 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 4 (4.17%) Service Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Information Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Migration Technician
8 3 (3.13%) Support Technician
8 3 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) EDI
2 6 (6.25%) Middleware
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
3 2 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) ADO
4 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.04%) FHIR
4 1 (1.04%) J2EE
4 1 (1.04%) Kafka
4 1 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.04%) OSGi
4 1 (1.04%) Pandas
4 1 (1.04%) PySpark
4 1 (1.04%) pytest
4 1 (1.04%) RESTful
4 1 (1.04%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.04%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.04%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.42%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Mashup
5 1 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.13%) Android
4 3 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.08%) Linux
5 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (25.00%) Analytics
3 16 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (15.63%) Agile
4 15 (15.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (14.58%) System Integration Testing
6 13 (13.54%) Migration
6 13 (13.54%) PRINCE2
6 13 (13.54%) Project Management
6 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (13.54%) Workshop Facilitation
7 11 (11.46%) Business Analysis
7 11 (11.46%) Programme Management
7 11 (11.46%) Project Governance
8 10 (10.42%) Digital Marketing
8 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.38%) Change Management
9 9 (9.38%) Logistics
9 9 (9.38%) Validation
10 8 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) SQL
2 3 (3.13%) Java
2 3 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.04%) Bicep
3 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.04%) R
3 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.04%) SOQL
3 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (39.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.17%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.04%) Degree
5 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) QA
2 6 (6.25%) GRC
3 5 (5.21%) GDPR
4 3 (3.13%) ISO 9001
4 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.08%) PMO
6 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (11.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (4.17%) SCCM
3 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.04%) Ansible
4 1 (1.04%) Istio
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.04%) Puppet
4 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (38.54%) SAP
2 7 (7.29%) Cisco
3 4 (4.17%) VMware
4 3 (3.13%) Apple
4 3 (3.13%) Dell
4 3 (3.13%) HP
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Genesys
5 2 (2.08%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (1.04%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Ariba
6 1 (1.04%) BT
6 1 (1.04%) Civica
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Northgate
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce