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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 42 13
Rank change year-on-year +19 -29 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 80 24 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.05% 3.40% 9.09%
As % of the General category 14.21% 5.57% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 10 45
10th Percentile £309 £246 £150
25th Percentile £413 £357 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £405 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% +1.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £654 £469 £577
90th Percentile £674 £537 £620
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile - £19.60 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.68 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +86.30% -38.64%
75th Percentile - - £24.18
90th Percentile £26.07 - £44.40
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.27% -3.56% +23.81%

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 563 431 452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 49.60% 61.13% 52.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 286 280
10th Percentile £263 £213 £185
25th Percentile £400 £320 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £575
90th Percentile £663 £547 £638
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 30 57
10th Percentile £12.95 £15.12 £12.22
25th Percentile £14.65 £18.26 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +28.62% -38.38%
75th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.73 £40.06 £51.91
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.18% -16.40% +9.65%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +1 34 £600 +46.34% 9
Lincolnshire +4 23 £525 - 12
Leicestershire -2 8 £444 -6.58% 9
Northamptonshire +9 7 £444 +18.33% 9
Derbyshire -4 5 £180 +46.34% 10
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 1 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) ContrOCC
3 1 (1.25%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Azure
2 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.50%) AWS
3 6 (7.50%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.75%) SaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (2.50%) DHCP
2 2 (2.50%) DNS
2 2 (2.50%) LAN
3 1 (1.25%) SAN
3 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.25%) VLAN
3 1 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Big Data
2 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.50%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Power Query
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.25%) Finance
3 16 (20.00%) Local Government
4 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Police
6 3 (3.75%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.25%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Lead
2 16 (20.00%) Architect
3 10 (12.50%) Consultant
4 9 (11.25%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (11.25%) Workstream Lead
5 7 (8.75%) SAP Architect
5 7 (8.75%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.50%) SAP Consultant
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Programme Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Middleware
2 1 (1.25%) J2EE
2 1 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.25%) Node.js
2 1 (1.25%) OSGi
2 1 (1.25%) REST
2 1 (1.25%) RESTful
2 1 (1.25%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.25%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.25%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (30.00%) Analytics
3 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 16 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (17.50%) System Integration Testing
6 13 (16.25%) Data Modelling
7 12 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.50%) Validation
10 9 (11.25%) Migration
11 8 (10.00%) Data Governance
11 8 (10.00%) Data Migration
12 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (8.75%) Data Architecture
12 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
12 7 (8.75%) Information Governance
12 7 (8.75%) Information Security
12 7 (8.75%) Integration Patterns
13 6 (7.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (3.75%) Java
2 3 (3.75%) Python
3 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.50%) R
4 1 (1.25%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.25%) Bicep
4 1 (1.25%) SOQL
4 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.00%) Degree
4 4 (5.00%) SAP Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) CIPD
6 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) GDPR
2 7 (8.75%) QA
3 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.25%) GRC
4 2 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.50%) SCCM
2 2 (2.50%) VxRail
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) SCOM
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (32.50%) SAP
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.75%) VMware
4 2 (2.50%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Adobe
5 1 (1.25%) Ariba
5 1 (1.25%) BT
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco
5 1 (1.25%) Civica
5 1 (1.25%) Northgate
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds