Public Sector Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 14 8
Rank change year-on-year -28 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 24 79 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.34% 9.08% 13.24%
As % of the General category 5.52% 17.32% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 45 119
10th Percentile £246 £150 £207
25th Percentile £357 £254 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -33.33% +39.53%
75th Percentile £469 £577 £700
90th Percentile £537 £620 £745
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £19.60 £12.55 -
25th Percentile £21.68 £12.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.30% -38.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £23.00
90th Percentile - £44.40 -
England median hourly rate £25.08 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.56% +23.81% +5.00%

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 common skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 435 456 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 60.58% 52.41% 53.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 285 407
10th Percentile £213 £185 £223
25th Percentile £320 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £613
90th Percentile £546 £638 £740
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 57 32
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.22 £13.17
25th Percentile £18.34 £13.50 £19.05
Median hourly rate £21.39 £16.63 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -38.38% +11.30%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.77 £51.91 -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.78% +9.65% +26.04%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the East Midlands

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the East Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the East Midlands

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 3 July 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 0 9 £410 +296.14% 29
Northamptonshire -16 5 £375 -16.67% 7
Derbyshire -11 4 £123 -38.50% 12
Lincolnshire +2 3 - - 6
Leicestershire -14 3 £475 +5.56% 20
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (4.17%) Primavera
1 1 (4.17%) SAP HR
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
2 1 (4.17%) Serverless
2 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) GIS
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JUnit
1 1 (4.17%) Mockito
1 1 (4.17%) Ranorex
1 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (20.83%) Law
2 3 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (20.83%) IT Support
3 4 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Chief Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) QA Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior QA Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Build Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) HR Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Hibernate
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) J2EE
2 1 (4.17%) JDBC
2 1 (4.17%) JMS
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Agile
1 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
2 3 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (8.33%) Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (4.17%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (4.17%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Code Quality
4 1 (4.17%) Decision-Making
4 1 (4.17%) Design Patterns
4 1 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.17%) Roadmaps
4 1 (4.17%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (4.17%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (4.17%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Apex Code
2 2 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.17%) X++
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Computacenter
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Solace
4 1 (4.17%) Trapeze