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 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 31 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 69 25 61
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.21% 4.37% 7.92%
As % of the General category 11.98% 7.02% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 15 39
10th Percentile £395 £208 £150
25th Percentile £413 £319 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £360
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +31.94% -40.00%
75th Percentile £653 £530 £582
90th Percentile £670 £572 £621
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 7
10th Percentile - - £12.35
25th Percentile £17.50 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £25.15 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +86.30% -28.00%
75th Percentile £25.50 - £18.49
90th Percentile £25.74 - £34.24
England median hourly rate £23.83 £23.45 £21.50
% change year-on-year +1.60% +9.07% +4.57%

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 576 356 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 51.85% 62.24% 52.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 232 273
10th Percentile £232 £207 £167
25th Percentile £390 £313 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £423 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% +5.63% -12.81%
75th Percentile £545 £500 £550
90th Percentile £615 £562 £635
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 23 55
10th Percentile £13.17 £14.75 £12.19
25th Percentile £15.17 £17.25 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.38 £23.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.11% +35.29% -23.63%
75th Percentile £25.50 £31.03 £34.13
90th Percentile £70.93 £38.57 £51.91
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.20% -8.82% -6.63%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +2 37 £600 +17.65% 9
Lincolnshire -1 11 £525 - 3
Northamptonshire -6 11 £434 +15.67% 4
Leicestershire -5 5 £425 -19.81% 5
Derbyshire -8 3 £353 +101.43% 5
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 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (34.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.90%) ContrOCC
3 1 (1.45%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.45%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.45%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.45%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.70%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (7.25%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) AWS
4 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.45%) Azure Storage
6 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.45%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) DHCP
2 1 (1.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) VLAN
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.90%) Power BI
1 2 (2.90%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.45%) Aerospike
2 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.45%) Big Data
2 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.45%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.45%) Power Query
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) GitLab
2 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 26 (37.68%) Finance
3 13 (18.84%) Local Government
4 5 (7.25%) Marketing
5 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Electronics
5 4 (5.80%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.80%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.35%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Police
7 2 (2.90%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Lead
2 11 (15.94%) Architect
3 10 (14.49%) Consultant
4 9 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (13.04%) Workstream Lead
5 7 (10.14%) SAP Architect
5 7 (10.14%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.70%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (7.25%) Senior
8 4 (5.80%) Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.80%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
9 3 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
9 3 (4.35%) Information Assurance Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Information Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Migration Technician
9 3 (4.35%) Service Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Support Technician
10 2 (2.90%) Migration Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) Middleware
2 2 (2.90%) Node.js
3 1 (1.45%) ADO
3 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.45%) J2EE
3 1 (1.45%) Kafka
3 1 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.45%) OSGi
3 1 (1.45%) Pandas
3 1 (1.45%) PySpark
3 1 (1.45%) pytest
3 1 (1.45%) REST
3 1 (1.45%) RESTful
3 1 (1.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.43%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (31.88%) Analytics
3 16 (23.19%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (20.29%) System Integration Testing
5 13 (18.84%) Workshop Facilitation
6 12 (17.39%) Migration
7 10 (14.49%) Agile
7 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (13.04%) Validation
9 8 (11.59%) Change Management
9 8 (11.59%) Data Migration
10 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.14%) Information Governance
10 7 (10.14%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (10.14%) Security Operations
11 6 (8.70%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 6 (8.70%) Data Modelling
11 6 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (8.70%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) SQL
2 3 (4.35%) Java
2 3 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.45%) Bicep
3 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.45%) R
3 1 (1.45%) SOQL
3 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.80%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Degree
6 1 (1.45%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.45%) PMP
6 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) GDPR
1 7 (10.14%) QA
2 6 (8.70%) GRC
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) Docker
3 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
3 1 (1.45%) Istio
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.45%) Puppet
3 1 (1.45%) SCCM
3 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (43.48%) SAP
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) Databricks
3 2 (2.90%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (1.45%) Adobe
4 1 (1.45%) Ariba
4 1 (1.45%) BT
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco
4 1 (1.45%) Civica
4 1 (1.45%) Genesys
4 1 (1.45%) Google
4 1 (1.45%) Northgate
4 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.45%) VMware