Public Sector Contracts in Exeter

Public Sector
Devon > Exeter

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Exeter. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 11 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 11 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 27.50% 10.81% 23.89%
As % of the General category 37.93% 27.12% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 23
10th Percentile £428 £380 £435
25th Percentile £455 - £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £465
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% - +13.97%
75th Percentile - £630 £634
90th Percentile - £663 £674
Devon median daily rate £500 £465 £468
% change year-on-year +7.53% -0.53% +14.58%

All General Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 29 59 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 72.50% 39.86% 51.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 42 41
10th Percentile £302 £158 £300
25th Percentile £313 £364 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -7.00% +23.00%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £600
90th Percentile £570 £660 £675
Devon median daily rate £500 £409 £468
% change year-on-year +22.25% -12.51% +16.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £14.79 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.83% -62.11%
Devon median hourly rate £57.50 £25.28 £62.50
% change year-on-year +127.50% -59.56% +63.81%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Exeter

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Exeter

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Exeter

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Pipelines
1 4 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 1 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
General
1 5 (45.45%) Military
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Test Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Information
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Information Management
2 1 (9.09%) Head of Knowledge Management
2 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Project Officer
2 1 (9.09%) Scientific Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Product Vision
5 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft