Public Sector Contracts in Gwent

Public Sector
South Wales > Gwent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Gwent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gwent 12.50% 14.29% 7.69%
As % of the General category 12.50% 100.00% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £166 -
Median % change year-on-year +225.30% - -
South Wales median daily rate £331 £506 £408
% change year-on-year -34.58% +24.23% -19.04%

All General Skills
Gwent

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 Gwent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gwent 100.00% 14.29% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £368 - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £166 £165
Median % change year-on-year +171.08% +0.61% -70.00%
75th Percentile £495 - £173
90th Percentile £522 - -
South Wales median daily rate £363 £450 £456
% change year-on-year -19.44% -1.37% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £10.92
75th Percentile £20.35 - -
90th Percentile - - £21.57
South Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £23.93 £10.92
% change year-on-year -12.24% +119.14% -49.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Gwent

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Gwent

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gwent

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Gwent

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gwent 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 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker