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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 22 17
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 27 52 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.42% 6.55% 9.14%
As % of the General category 5.61% 11.35% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 66
10th Percentile £289 £312 £313
25th Percentile £372 £387 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% -30.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £609 £591 £745
90th Percentile £628 £620 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £19.60 £12.45 -
25th Percentile £21.68 £12.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.30% - -
75th Percentile - £17.48 -
90th Percentile - £29.60 -
England median hourly rate £22.00 £24.09 £20.56
% change year-on-year -8.68% +17.17% +2.80%

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 481 458 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 60.96% 57.68% 49.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 276 286
10th Percentile £214 £250 £248
25th Percentile £331 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £638
90th Percentile £589 £626 £740
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.56 £15.96
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.00 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year +25.82% -46.47% +64.99%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.97 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.30 £53.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.85 £27.50
% change year-on-year -35.26% +41.27% +10.93%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector 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 September 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 September 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 -6 10 £410 - 19
Northamptonshire -18 9 £413 -13.16% 3
Lincolnshire +4 3 - - 3
Derbyshire -4 3 £123 -75.15% 6
Leicestershire -12 2 £573 +27.51% 12
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP ERP
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.70%) PRMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (3.70%) AWS
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.70%) GCP
2 1 (3.70%) Google Gemini
2 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
2 1 (3.70%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Serverless
2 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.70%) GIS
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JUnit
1 1 (3.70%) Mockito
1 1 (3.70%) Ranorex
1 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (18.52%) Law
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Local Government
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) 1st Line Support
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
1 5 (18.52%) IT Support
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) SAP Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Programme Manager
4 2 (7.41%) QA Tester
4 2 (7.41%) SAP Programme Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Security Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior QA Tester
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Tester
4 2 (7.41%) Tester
5 1 (3.70%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (3.70%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
1 2 (7.41%) REST
1 2 (7.41%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) CrewAI
2 1 (3.70%) J2EE
2 1 (3.70%) JDBC
2 1 (3.70%) JMS
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) LangGraph
2 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.70%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) AS400
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Data Fabric
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.70%) Life Science
2 1 (3.70%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Customer Service
2 4 (14.81%) Agile
2 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 3 (11.11%) ERP
3 3 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 3 (11.11%) Scrum
4 2 (7.41%) Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Information Security
4 2 (7.41%) Manual Testing
4 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.41%) Risk Management
4 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (7.41%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.70%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.70%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) CISM
3 2 (7.41%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (3.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Computacenter
4 1 (3.70%) Rockwell
4 1 (3.70%) Solace
4 1 (3.70%) Trapeze