Public Sector Contracts in Gloucestershire

Public Sector
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 23 43 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -21 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 18 15 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.57% 3.50% 10.99%
As % of the General category 13.53% 7.46% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 40
10th Percentile £111 £383 £290
25th Percentile £175 £488 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £653 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £570 £571
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.18% +20.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.12 - -
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £16.06 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.26% -59.85% -37.01%

All General Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 133 201 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.54% 46.85% 45.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 100 159
10th Percentile £184 £300 £210
25th Percentile £363 £425 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £548 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +9.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £581
90th Percentile £654 £697 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 7
10th Percentile £28.78 £14.00 £36.23
25th Percentile £54.44 £18.15 £39.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -21.57% +57.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £60.25
90th Percentile - £72.63 £79.20
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
% change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Gloucestershire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Gloucestershire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Gloucestershire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Gloucestershire

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Gloucester +8 13 £375 -9.09% 40
Cheltenham +5 1 £550 -2.22% 52
Filton +3 1 - -
Public Sector
South West

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Field Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Field Service Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Project Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) iPad
2 1 (5.56%) iPhone
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (22.22%) Break/Fix
2 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Application Security
4 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) SIEM
4 2 (11.11%) SOAR
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) Def Stans
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (11.11%) SCCM
1 2 (11.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) McAfee
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Citrix
3 2 (11.11%) Symantec
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Exabeam
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Tenable