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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 9 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Sector 18 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Exeter 22.22% 13.33% 10.19%
As % of the General category 42.86% 29.79% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 11
10th Percentile £484 £511 -
25th Percentile £497 £600 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £628 £465
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +35.08% -19.65%
75th Percentile £572 £664 £697
90th Percentile £581 £682 £725
Devon median daily rate £588 £600 £465
% change year-on-year -2.08% +29.03% +1.64%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 42 47 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 51.85% 44.76% 42.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 36
10th Percentile £220 £163 £325
25th Percentile £310 £388 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £562 £535
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.13% +32.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile - £675 £722
Devon median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.76 £13.86 -
Median hourly rate £22.84 £14.79 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.43% -17.83% -
75th Percentile £22.92 £18.52 -
90th Percentile - £23.56 -
Devon median hourly rate £26.96 £25.28 £50.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -49.45% +354.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Public Sector

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Pipelines
3 4 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (22.22%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Military
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Aviation
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Governance Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Head of Information Management
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
3 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 3 (16.67%) Data Management
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) SC Cleared
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow