Public Sector Contracts in Leeds

Public Sector
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 55 70 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 11.78% 8.85% 20.38%
As % of the General category 20.52% 16.95% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 49 223
10th Percentile £313 £274 £401
25th Percentile £350 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +10.58%
75th Percentile £509 £625 £700
90th Percentile £588 £720 £745
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +15.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £32.96 £12.53 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +163.05% -41.72% -4.64%
75th Percentile £34.38 - £22.25
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.81 £12.53 £21.50
% change year-on-year +161.85% -41.72% +14.97%

All General Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 268 413 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 57.39% 52.21% 61.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 242 561
10th Percentile £235 £300 £363
25th Percentile £333 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £650
90th Percentile £603 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 36 9
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.95 -
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £12.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.53 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +164.25% -30.39% -19.64%
75th Percentile £66.51 £15.19 £22.25
90th Percentile £85.74 £15.25 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.69 £17.36
% change year-on-year +61.78% -21.17% -7.17%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Leeds

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (3.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) AWS
2 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (5.45%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.45%) Serverless
4 2 (3.64%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (1.82%) OCI
5 1 (1.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.82%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.82%) DNS
1 1 (1.82%) Firewall
1 1 (1.82%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.82%) Network Security
1 1 (1.82%) NGFW
1 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
3 3 (5.45%) Power BI
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.64%) Big Data
4 2 (3.64%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (3.64%) QlikView
4 2 (3.64%) Tableau
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.82%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) GitLab
2 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.45%) Selenium
4 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
4 2 (3.64%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.82%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.82%) JMeter
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Health Technology
3 4 (7.27%) Law
4 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.55%) Developer
1 8 (14.55%) Senior
2 7 (12.73%) Analyst
2 7 (12.73%) Lead
3 5 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (7.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Technical Writer
5 3 (5.45%) Architect
5 3 (5.45%) IT Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) IT Support
5 3 (5.45%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Support Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) SAP Project Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) cloud-init
1 4 (7.27%) React
2 3 (5.45%) Playwright
2 3 (5.45%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.64%) Node.js
3 2 (3.64%) OAuth
3 2 (3.64%) PySpark
3 2 (3.64%) SAML
3 2 (3.64%) Spring
3 2 (3.64%) Spring Batch
3 2 (3.64%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.82%) .NET
4 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.82%) D3.js
4 1 (1.82%) LDAP
4 1 (1.82%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.82%) OpenID
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.82%) REST
4 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) NHS
2 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.45%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.27%) CentOS
3 4 (7.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Android
4 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.82%) Windows
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.45%) Agile
3 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (16.36%) DevOps
6 7 (12.73%) Change Management
6 7 (12.73%) Project Management
7 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
8 5 (9.09%) Information Governance
8 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 5 (9.09%) TDD
8 5 (9.09%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.27%) BDD
9 4 (7.27%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (7.27%) Customer Service
9 4 (7.27%) Data Analysis
9 4 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) Bash
2 7 (12.73%) SQL
3 5 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) Go
5 2 (3.64%) C#
5 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.82%) Perl
6 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CISSP
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) PMO
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Packer
3 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (7.27%) Brio
1 4 (7.27%) SAP
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 1 (1.82%) Databricks
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.82%) Virgin Media