Public Sector Contracts in England

Public Sector
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,292 4,643 5,496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.91% 9.19% 7.73%
As % of the General category 15.25% 15.50% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 3,492 4,254
10th Percentile £311 £300 £261
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £503
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +7.30% +5.95%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £734 £680
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 90 153
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.97 £12.52
25th Percentile £15.39 £17.50 £15.93
Median hourly rate £21.73 £20.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% +0.25% +7.90%
75th Percentile £55.00 £30.00 £25.68
90th Percentile £70.45 £47.63 £51.15
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +7.99%

All General Skills
England

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +10 1,519 £538 -2.32% 312
North of England -5 504 £525 - 195
South East -3 424 £450 -10.00% 166
South West 0 397 £570 +0.44% 92
North West -2 334 £525 - 114
Midlands -2 237 £450 -12.20% 112
West Midlands -5 174 £500 -7.41% 84
Yorkshire -7 148 £525 -4.55% 66
East of England -37 65 £388 -29.55% 74
East Midlands -6 62 £275 -52.34% 28
North East +2 37 £525 -5.41% 15
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 127 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 52 (1.58%) Confluence
3 49 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.79%) CMS
5 13 (0.39%) Apache
5 13 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.39%) nginx
6 12 (0.36%) Skype for Business
7 11 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2003
7 11 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
7 11 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.24%) Site Server
10 7 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.18%) IIS
11 6 (0.18%) SAS
12 4 (0.12%) JBoss
12 4 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 103 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.21%) Sketch
7 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.091%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.091%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.091%) Trello
10 2 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.061%) Windchill
11 1 (0.030%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.030%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.030%) Blender
11 1 (0.030%) Revit
11 1 (0.030%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (0.49%) Primavera
3 15 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
6 12 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
7 10 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
8 9 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
9 7 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
11 4 (0.12%) SAP SD
12 3 (0.091%) Aareon QL
12 3 (0.091%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.091%) SAP EWM
13 2 (0.061%) CA PPM
13 2 (0.061%) Sage X3
13 2 (0.061%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 472 (14.34%) Azure
2 307 (9.33%) AWS
3 181 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 134 (4.07%) Power Platform
6 74 (2.25%) PaaS
7 68 (2.07%) Serverless
8 64 (1.94%) SaaS
9 62 (1.88%) IaaS
10 51 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
11 48 (1.46%) GitHub
12 47 (1.43%) Entra ID
13 45 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
14 41 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.09%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.06%) PowerApps
18 33 (1.00%) GCP
19 27 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
20 24 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 139 (4.22%) Firewall
2 121 (3.68%) WAN
3 94 (2.86%) LAN
4 61 (1.85%) VPN
5 50 (1.52%) Wireless
6 43 (1.31%) DNS
7 42 (1.28%) Network Security
8 36 (1.09%) BGP
9 27 (0.82%) IPsec
10 25 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (0.70%) DHCP
12 22 (0.67%) Internet
12 22 (0.67%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.64%) MPLS
13 21 (0.64%) OSPF
13 21 (0.64%) TCP/IP
14 20 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
15 18 (0.55%) SAN
16 15 (0.46%) VoIP
17 14 (0.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.58%) SQL Server
2 98 (2.98%) Power BI
3 86 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (1.88%) Metadata
6 57 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 44 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 33 (1.00%) NoSQL
9 29 (0.88%) GIS
10 24 (0.73%) Big Data
10 24 (0.73%) Metadata Repository
11 22 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
12 20 (0.61%) Data Vault
13 19 (0.58%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (0.52%) MongoDB
16 16 (0.49%) DynamoDB
16 16 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (0.46%) Tableau
18 14 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 90 (2.73%) Git
2 86 (2.61%) JIRA
3 57 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.00%) GitLab
5 32 (0.97%) JUnit
6 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 22 (0.67%) Selenium
8 16 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.49%) PVCS
9 15 (0.46%) ERwin
10 14 (0.43%) SpecFlow
11 11 (0.33%) JMeter
12 10 (0.30%) Maven
12 10 (0.30%) Postman
13 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (0.18%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.18%) Mockito
14 6 (0.18%) WebDriver
15 5 (0.15%) NUnit
General
1 617 (18.74%) Social Skills
2 606 (18.41%) Finance
3 345 (10.48%) Telecoms
4 324 (9.84%) Marketing
5 314 (9.54%) Manufacturing
6 313 (9.51%) Electronics
7 239 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
8 97 (2.95%) Local Government
9 49 (1.49%) Police
10 44 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 43 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (1.25%) Legal
13 39 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (1.06%) Retail
15 30 (0.91%) Military
16 28 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (0.85%) Publishing
17 25 (0.76%) Banking
17 25 (0.76%) Law
18 22 (0.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 485 (14.73%) Architect
2 378 (11.48%) Senior
3 350 (10.63%) Developer
4 293 (8.90%) Analyst
5 206 (6.26%) Consultant
6 202 (6.14%) Lead
7 200 (6.08%) Project Manager
8 111 (3.37%) Network Engineer
9 109 (3.31%) Business Analyst
10 91 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (2.61%) Data Engineer
12 85 (2.58%) Data Architect
13 84 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 75 (2.28%) Senior Developer
15 74 (2.25%) Support Engineer
16 73 (2.22%) Technical Architect
17 71 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
18 67 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
19 64 (1.94%) Designer
19 64 (1.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (3.13%) .NET
2 76 (2.31%) REST
3 63 (1.91%) Spring
4 60 (1.82%) Node.js
5 58 (1.76%) Spring Boot
6 53 (1.61%) HTML
7 50 (1.52%) CSS
8 45 (1.37%) XML
9 42 (1.28%) React
10 39 (1.18%) JSON
11 38 (1.15%) Kafka
12 37 (1.12%) AngularJS
13 35 (1.06%) RESTful
14 32 (0.97%) Web Services
15 31 (0.94%) .NET Core
16 27 (0.82%) .NET Framework
17 26 (0.79%) Hibernate
18 23 (0.70%) JPA
19 19 (0.58%) ASP.NET
19 19 (0.58%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 106 (3.22%) Management Information System
2 97 (2.95%) NHS
3 91 (2.76%) Data Centre
4 74 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 63 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 45 (1.37%) PKI
7 43 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 43 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (1.12%) Replication
9 30 (0.91%) Cloud Native
9 30 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (0.88%) Virtual Team
11 27 (0.82%) Reference Data
12 25 (0.76%) Public Cloud
13 24 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (0.64%) CMDB
15 21 (0.64%) Driving Licence
16 20 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
16 20 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 279 (8.48%) Windows
2 150 (4.56%) Linux
3 86 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 72 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 41 (1.25%) Unix
6 34 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 34 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.70%) Android
8 23 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (0.55%) Windows 7
10 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
11 12 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (0.27%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Vista
15 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 6 (0.18%) VMS
16 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (20.20%) Agile
2 434 (13.18%) Business Intelligence
3 372 (11.30%) Programme Management
4 353 (10.72%) DevOps
5 314 (9.54%) Digital Marketing
6 308 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 287 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
8 252 (7.65%) Project Management
9 244 (7.41%) Migration
10 200 (6.08%) CI/CD
11 191 (5.80%) ITIL
12 173 (5.26%) Change Management
13 155 (4.71%) Project Delivery
14 153 (4.65%) Scrum
15 150 (4.56%) Cybersecurity
16 147 (4.47%) Roadmaps
17 145 (4.40%) PRINCE2
18 136 (4.13%) Continuous Improvement
19 132 (4.01%) Data Modelling
20 126 (3.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (6.29%) SQL
2 203 (6.17%) Python
3 149 (4.53%) Java
4 119 (3.61%) C#
5 118 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 118 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 40 (1.22%) C
6 40 (1.22%) TypeScript
7 39 (1.18%) C++
8 31 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 26 (0.79%) Bicep
10 25 (0.76%) Bash
11 21 (0.64%) Ruby
12 17 (0.52%) PHP
12 17 (0.52%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.46%) Go
14 14 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.43%) R
15 13 (0.39%) ABAP
16 11 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,506 (45.75%) Security Cleared
2 970 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 406 (12.33%) DV Cleared
4 226 (6.87%) Degree
5 60 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.18%) CCNA
8 38 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 27 (0.82%) CCNP
10 27 (0.82%) CISSP
10 27 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 21 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (0.46%) PMP
14 14 (0.43%) CISM
14 14 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 13 (0.39%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
15 13 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (2.52%) QA
2 70 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 58 (1.76%) GDPR
5 58 (1.76%) SLA
6 49 (1.49%) PMO
7 44 (1.34%) NIST
8 30 (0.91%) NCSC
9 19 (0.58%) WCAG
10 15 (0.46%) JSP 440
11 11 (0.33%) HL7
12 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.27%) ISO 22301
12 9 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 9 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.27%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 183 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 98 (2.98%) Docker
3 65 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 22 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.43%) Firmware
8 13 (0.39%) NFS
8 13 (0.39%) vSphere
9 12 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
10 10 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.24%) HDFS
13 3 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.061%) iptables
14 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.061%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.030%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.030%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.030%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 118 (3.58%) Terraform
2 104 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 77 (2.34%) Ansible
4 30 (0.91%) SCCM
5 24 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 24 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (0.67%) Puppet
7 20 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 19 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.46%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.39%) Grafana
11 13 (0.39%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.30%) OPNET
13 9 (0.27%) Kibana
13 9 (0.27%) SCOM
14 8 (0.24%) vRealize
15 6 (0.18%) VxRail
16 5 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
16 5 (0.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 407 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 378 (11.48%) SAP
3 100 (3.04%) ServiceNow
4 98 (2.98%) VMware
5 97 (2.95%) Oracle
6 89 (2.70%) Cisco
7 55 (1.67%) Juniper
8 44 (1.34%) Dell
9 41 (1.25%) Sparx
10 35 (1.06%) Palo Alto
11 31 (0.94%) Google
12 27 (0.82%) Citrix
12 27 (0.82%) Splunk
12 27 (0.82%) Veeam
13 26 (0.79%) Adobe
14 22 (0.67%) SolarWinds
15 21 (0.64%) Atlassian
16 20 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 20 (0.61%) Red Hat
17 18 (0.55%) Remedy