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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,174 4,458 5,435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.70% 9.15% 7.68%
As % of the General category 14.94% 15.44% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,337 4,249
10th Percentile £313 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +5.39% +4.94%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 82 153
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.74 £12.67
25th Percentile £15.39 £17.31 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £20.42 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% +2.10% +7.90%
75th Percentile £54.66 £27.26 £25.68
90th Percentile £70.39 £47.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.19% +6.81%

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 21,243 28,868 40,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.25% 59.22% 56.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,688 20,281 28,103
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,780 937 1,314
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.62 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £14.81
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.91 £61.25 £46.71
90th Percentile £65.33 £72.50 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -11.29% +53.22% -1.38%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +9 1,494 £525 -6.67% 331
North of England -5 476 £515 -1.90% 210
South East -2 413 £450 -9.09% 189
South West 0 374 £570 +0.44% 124
North West -2 314 £524 +0.77% 125
Midlands -4 229 £450 -10.00% 142
West Midlands -6 169 £500 -7.41% 106
Yorkshire -12 140 £525 -4.55% 59
East Midlands -5 59 £310 -48.33% 35
East of England -38 57 £413 -31.25% 57
North East -2 36 £538 -3.15% 26
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
1 119 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.54%) Confluence
3 47 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.82%) CMS
5 16 (0.50%) nginx
6 14 (0.44%) Apache
7 13 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 11 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 7 (0.22%) Site Server
12 5 (0.16%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 5 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.13%) JBoss
13 4 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 96 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.22%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.095%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.095%) Trello
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.032%) Blender
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.54%) Primavera
3 15 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.35%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.25%) SAP PSCD
9 7 (0.22%) SAP BRIM
9 7 (0.22%) SAP Hybris
10 6 (0.19%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
11 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.13%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.13%) SAP SD
12 3 (0.095%) Aareon QL
12 3 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.095%) SAP QM
13 2 (0.063%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 469 (14.78%) Azure
2 287 (9.04%) AWS
3 168 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
5 136 (4.28%) Power Platform
6 69 (2.17%) PaaS
7 63 (1.98%) SaaS
8 62 (1.95%) Serverless
9 54 (1.70%) IaaS
10 52 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
11 47 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.45%) Entra ID
13 44 (1.39%) GitHub
14 37 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (1.17%) Power Automate
15 36 (1.13%) Amazon S3
16 34 (1.07%) GCP
17 33 (1.04%) PowerApps
18 28 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
19 24 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 131 (4.13%) Firewall
2 106 (3.34%) WAN
3 82 (2.58%) LAN
4 49 (1.54%) VPN
5 43 (1.35%) Wireless
6 42 (1.32%) Network Security
7 37 (1.17%) DNS
8 31 (0.98%) BGP
9 25 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (0.76%) IPsec
11 21 (0.66%) Internet
12 20 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
12 20 (0.63%) MPLS
13 19 (0.60%) DHCP
14 18 (0.57%) OSPF
14 18 (0.57%) SAN
14 18 (0.57%) TCP/IP
15 16 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.50%) VoIP
16 15 (0.47%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.12%) Power BI
3 83 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (1.89%) Metadata
6 51 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 41 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 29 (0.91%) GIS
10 24 (0.76%) Big Data
11 23 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
12 21 (0.66%) Data Vault
13 20 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.60%) MySQL
15 17 (0.54%) MongoDB
16 16 (0.50%) DynamoDB
17 15 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 15 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (2.77%) Git
2 76 (2.39%) JIRA
3 45 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 30 (0.95%) GitLab
5 28 (0.88%) JUnit
6 27 (0.85%) Visual Studio
7 25 (0.79%) Selenium
8 18 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.50%) ERwin
9 16 (0.50%) PVCS
10 13 (0.41%) Postman
10 13 (0.41%) SpecFlow
11 11 (0.35%) JMeter
12 10 (0.32%) Maven
13 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
15 6 (0.19%) Liquibase
15 6 (0.19%) Mockito
16 4 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 593 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 571 (17.99%) Finance
3 305 (9.61%) Telecoms
4 286 (9.01%) Marketing
5 278 (8.76%) Manufacturing
6 275 (8.66%) Electronics
7 236 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
8 93 (2.93%) Local Government
9 43 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (1.20%) Police
12 37 (1.17%) Legal
13 35 (1.10%) Back Office
13 35 (1.10%) Retail
14 32 (1.01%) Military
15 30 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (0.85%) Publishing
17 26 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (0.79%) Banking
18 25 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 471 (14.84%) Architect
2 377 (11.88%) Senior
3 329 (10.37%) Developer
4 287 (9.04%) Analyst
5 205 (6.46%) Consultant
6 197 (6.21%) Lead
7 196 (6.18%) Project Manager
8 109 (3.43%) Network Engineer
9 105 (3.31%) Business Analyst
10 91 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (2.52%) Data Architect
12 79 (2.49%) Data Engineer
13 77 (2.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 76 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
15 73 (2.30%) Technical Architect
16 67 (2.11%) Senior Developer
16 67 (2.11%) Support Engineer
17 65 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
18 64 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
19 63 (1.98%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (3.12%) .NET
2 76 (2.39%) REST
3 63 (1.98%) HTML
4 58 (1.83%) Spring
5 56 (1.76%) CSS
5 56 (1.76%) Node.js
6 55 (1.73%) Spring Boot
7 44 (1.39%) XML
8 43 (1.35%) React
9 38 (1.20%) Kafka
10 37 (1.17%) JSON
11 32 (1.01%) AngularJS
12 30 (0.95%) RESTful
13 29 (0.91%) .NET Core
13 29 (0.91%) Web Services
14 26 (0.82%) Hibernate
15 24 (0.76%) .NET Framework
16 23 (0.72%) JPA
17 20 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
18 18 (0.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 98 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 83 (2.61%) Data Centre
2 83 (2.61%) NHS
3 82 (2.58%) Product Ownership
4 70 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 42 (1.32%) PKI
6 41 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 41 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.10%) Replication
8 33 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (0.91%) Virtual Team
10 28 (0.88%) Reference Data
11 25 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 24 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (0.72%) Public Cloud
14 21 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
14 21 (0.66%) Driving Licence
14 21 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
16 19 (0.60%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 258 (8.13%) Windows
2 153 (4.82%) Linux
3 82 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 46 (1.45%) Unix
6 32 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.82%) Android
9 22 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.50%) Windows 7
11 14 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (0.28%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.19%) VMS
14 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
15 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (20.60%) Agile
2 396 (12.48%) Business Intelligence
3 337 (10.62%) DevOps
4 330 (10.40%) Programme Management
5 302 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 277 (8.73%) Digital Marketing
7 276 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
8 244 (7.69%) Project Management
9 241 (7.59%) Migration
10 181 (5.70%) ITIL
11 180 (5.67%) CI/CD
12 170 (5.36%) Change Management
13 147 (4.63%) PRINCE2
14 143 (4.51%) Project Delivery
15 142 (4.47%) Scrum
16 139 (4.38%) Cybersecurity
17 138 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 136 (4.28%) Roadmaps
19 131 (4.13%) Data Modelling
20 114 (3.59%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (6.74%) SQL
2 177 (5.58%) Python
3 144 (4.54%) Java
4 117 (3.69%) C#
5 115 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 109 (3.43%) PowerShell
7 42 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.23%) C
8 39 (1.23%) C++
9 32 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 26 (0.82%) Bicep
11 24 (0.76%) Bash
12 18 (0.57%) PHP
13 17 (0.54%) Ruby
14 16 (0.50%) T-SQL
15 14 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 14 (0.44%) Go
15 14 (0.44%) R
16 13 (0.41%) ABAP
17 11 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,472 (46.38%) Security Cleared
2 939 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 405 (12.76%) DV Cleared
4 224 (7.06%) Degree
5 58 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (1.17%) CCNA
7 37 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 27 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 26 (0.82%) CCNP
10 26 (0.82%) CISSP
11 22 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 14 (0.44%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.44%) PMP
13 13 (0.41%) CISM
13 13 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
13 13 (0.41%) HNC
13 13 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.52%) QA
2 70 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 59 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 59 (1.86%) SLA
4 57 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (1.67%) GDPR
6 48 (1.51%) PMO
7 43 (1.35%) NIST
8 27 (0.85%) NCSC
9 19 (0.60%) WCAG
10 15 (0.47%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.35%) HL7
13 9 (0.28%) ISO 22301
13 9 (0.28%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 179 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 96 (3.02%) Docker
3 60 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.41%) Firmware
7 13 (0.41%) NFS
8 12 (0.38%) vSphere
9 11 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.25%) HDFS
10 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.063%) iptables
13 2 (0.063%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.032%) RACF
14 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 113 (3.56%) Terraform
2 101 (3.18%) Kubernetes
3 69 (2.17%) Ansible
4 28 (0.88%) SCCM
5 21 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.57%) Puppet
8 17 (0.54%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.44%) FortiGate
9 14 (0.44%) Grafana
10 13 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 12 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.35%) SCOM
13 10 (0.32%) OPNET
14 9 (0.28%) Kibana
15 7 (0.22%) Packer
15 7 (0.22%) VxRail
16 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 403 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 350 (11.03%) SAP
3 104 (3.28%) Oracle
4 92 (2.90%) ServiceNow
4 92 (2.90%) VMware
5 87 (2.74%) Cisco
6 51 (1.61%) Juniper
7 44 (1.39%) Dell
8 38 (1.20%) Sparx
9 33 (1.04%) Palo Alto
10 30 (0.95%) Google
11 27 (0.85%) Splunk
12 26 (0.82%) Citrix
13 25 (0.79%) Adobe
14 23 (0.72%) Veeam
15 20 (0.63%) IBM
16 19 (0.60%) Red Hat
17 18 (0.57%) NetApp
17 18 (0.57%) Remedy
18 17 (0.54%) Atlassian