Public Sector Contracts in the East of England

Public Sector
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 49 14
Rank change year-on-year -14 -35 +18
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 24 66 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.42% 3.40% 9.22%
As % of the General category 3.93% 5.77% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 40 139
10th Percentile £241 £194 £204
25th Percentile £313 £291 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -25.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £450 £591 £700
90th Percentile £552 £700 £745
England median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 13
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.52 £14.05
25th Percentile £15.09 £15.24 £16.77
Median hourly rate £15.33 £15.79 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -9.77% +4.48%
75th Percentile £31.95 £20.00 £21.00
90th Percentile £41.92 £27.79 £21.46
England median hourly rate £25.08 £22.75 £20.60
% change year-on-year +10.22% +10.44% +3.00%

All General Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 611 1,143 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 61.72% 58.86% 59.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 414 640
10th Percentile £200 £222 £200
25th Percentile £329 £345 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £664 £738
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 446 241
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.72 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.24 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £38.12 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +92.43% +27.81%
75th Percentile £68.88 £50.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £30.83 £31.76
% change year-on-year -8.58% -2.94% +47.72%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Cambridgeshire +10 8 £325 +91.18% 17
Suffolk -7 5 £280 +33.33% 4
Bedfordshire -12 5 - - 2
Norfolk -5 3 £488 +48.18% 5
Essex +5 2 £325 +33.33% 8
Hertfordshire +4 1 - - 42
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) Wireless
3 1 (4.17%) Broadband
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Electronics
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.17%) German Language
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) IT Support
1 5 (20.83%) Support Officer
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 2 (8.33%) Linux Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Accountant
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Accountant
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 5 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (16.67%) iPad
3 4 (16.67%) iPhone
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.17%) Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) CMDB
5 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (20.83%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
4 4 (16.67%) Antivirus Management
4 4 (16.67%) Inventory Management
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Time Management
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.33%) PRINCE2
6 2 (8.33%) Programme Management
6 2 (8.33%) Project Management
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) C++
1 2 (8.33%) Groovy
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.17%) ECDL
4 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Avamar
2 1 (4.17%) vRealize
2 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) McAfee
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) VMware