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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 23 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 91 30 56
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 9.12% 5.15% 7.12%
As % of the General category 15.40% 8.00% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 23 40
10th Percentile £154 £173 £200
25th Percentile £393 £309 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £575
90th Percentile £628 £665 £705
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 1
10th Percentile £16.79 - -
25th Percentile £22.47 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £21.73
75th Percentile £25.50 - -
90th Percentile £25.64 - -
England median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +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 general skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 591 375 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 59.22% 64.32% 52.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 239 287
10th Percentile £199 £221 £160
25th Percentile £358 £320 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £425 £416
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% +2.16% -7.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £535
90th Percentile £583 £600 £643
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 14 46
10th Percentile £13.07 £14.01 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.94 £26.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +50.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile £25.11 £38.20 £31.56
90th Percentile £29.65 £53.50 £51.50
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.31 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.10% +16.56% -13.33%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +12 32 £525 +2.94% 10
Lincolnshire +5 19 £158 +1.61% 2
Northamptonshire -6 16 £424 +33.05% 4
Leicestershire -3 14 £425 -22.73% 10
Derbyshire -1 9 £525 +75.00% 2
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 (3.30%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (18.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.10%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
2 9 (9.89%) AWS
3 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.10%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.10%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.10%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.10%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) Power BI
2 2 (2.20%) Big Data
2 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.10%) Aerospike
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.10%) Metadata
3 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) JIRA
2 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Postman
3 1 (1.10%) Selenium
3 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (49.45%) Social Skills
2 37 (40.66%) Finance
3 20 (21.98%) Local Government
4 17 (18.68%) Marketing
5 15 (16.48%) Electronics
5 15 (16.48%) Manufacturing
5 15 (16.48%) Telecoms
6 13 (14.29%) Fire and Rescue
7 10 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Police
8 3 (3.30%) Retail
9 2 (2.20%) Banking
9 2 (2.20%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.20%) Legal
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 17 (18.68%) Lead
2 14 (15.38%) Architect
3 10 (10.99%) Project Officer
4 7 (7.69%) Consultant
4 7 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Workstream Lead
5 6 (6.59%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 6 (6.59%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (6.59%) Desktop Support
5 6 (6.59%) IT Support
5 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
6 5 (5.49%) Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Lead Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) SAP Architect
7 4 (4.40%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Senior
7 4 (4.40%) Service Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Information Assurance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) EDI
2 5 (5.49%) Middleware
3 2 (2.20%) ADO
3 2 (2.20%) REST
4 1 (1.10%) .NET
4 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.10%) FHIR
4 1 (1.10%) J2EE
4 1 (1.10%) Kafka
4 1 (1.10%) Node.js
4 1 (1.10%) OSGi
4 1 (1.10%) Pandas
4 1 (1.10%) pytest
4 1 (1.10%) RESTful
4 1 (1.10%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.10%) SOAP
4 1 (1.10%) Spring
4 1 (1.10%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.10%) Web Services
4 1 (1.10%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.99%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.59%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.10%) Mashup
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Android
1 6 (6.59%) Mac OS
1 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
2 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (2.20%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (21.98%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (17.58%) Analytics
3 16 (17.58%) Programme Management
4 15 (16.48%) Digital Marketing
5 14 (15.38%) Agile
6 13 (14.29%) Migration
6 13 (14.29%) PRINCE2
6 13 (14.29%) Project Management
7 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (12.09%) Business Analysis
8 11 (12.09%) Project Governance
9 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (9.89%) Change Management
10 9 (9.89%) Logistics
11 8 (8.79%) Service Management
11 8 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (8.79%) Workflow
12 7 (7.69%) DevOps
12 7 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.69%) SQL
2 4 (4.40%) Java
3 3 (3.30%) Python
4 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.10%) R
4 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.10%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (49.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.30%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) Degree
5 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) GRC
4 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
1 4 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.40%) SCCM
2 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Istio
3 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (36.26%) SAP
2 10 (10.99%) Cisco
3 6 (6.59%) Apple
3 6 (6.59%) Dell
3 6 (6.59%) HP
4 4 (4.40%) VMware
5 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) Genesys
6 1 (1.10%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.10%) Adobe
6 1 (1.10%) BT
6 1 (1.10%) Civica
6 1 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.10%) Northgate
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow