Public Sector Contracts in Lancashire

Public Sector
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Sector 10 12 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.05% 5.66% 18.87%
As % of the General category 10.10% 11.65% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 37
10th Percentile £356 £311 £341
25th Percentile £425 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £700
90th Percentile £590 £701 £720
North West median daily rate £470 £497 £525
% change year-on-year -5.34% -5.43% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.19
25th Percentile - - £16.20
Median hourly rate - £19.18 £16.44
Median % change year-on-year - +16.70% +20.58%
75th Percentile - - £16.70
90th Percentile - - £16.73
North West median hourly rate £21.27 £26.00 £16.85
% change year-on-year -18.19% +54.30% -29.05%

All General Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 99 103 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 50.00% 48.58% 54.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 92
10th Percentile £153 £259 £330
25th Percentile £393 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £584 £633 £636
90th Percentile £630 £773 £700
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.10% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 42 24
10th Percentile £26.88 - £16.70
25th Percentile £37.91 £16.06 £23.15
Median hourly rate £55.20 £23.34 £47.19
Median % change year-on-year +136.50% -50.54% +62.72%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £58.62
90th Percentile £76.66 - £76.91
North West median hourly rate £29.14 £32.90 £26.60
% change year-on-year -11.43% +23.67% +33.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Lancashire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Lancashire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Lancashire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Public Sector
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston -1 4 £497 -20.73% 1
Blackpool -1 2 £495 +85.05% 3
Chorley +1 1 £575 +4.55%
Fleetwood - 1 £140 -
Public Sector
North West

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Serverless
1 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CESG
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Kanban
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Product Management
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) SABSA
3 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) COBIT
1 1 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) BMC
1 1 (10.00%) Dell
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow