Public Sector Contract Job Trends in London

Public Sector
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 24 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,088 1,218 1,681
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.96% 7.75% 8.25%
As % of the General category 11.66% 12.37% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 734 1,183
10th Percentile £363 £341 £380
25th Percentile £425 £428 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £625 £675
90th Percentile £690 £700 £743
England median daily rate £500 £523 £543
% change year-on-year -4.31% -3.69% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 14
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.82 £18.45
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.44 £23.06
Median hourly rate £25.08 £33.13 £42.45
Median % change year-on-year -24.30% -21.97% +118.42%
75th Percentile £46.50 £41.81 £59.90
90th Percentile £56.43 £83.50 £81.50
England median hourly rate £21.27 £23.99 £22.29
% change year-on-year -11.34% +7.63% +12.18%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,335 9,848 13,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.33% 62.63% 64.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,103 6,295 9,588
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £801
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 114 165
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.65 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.36 £26.76 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £46.94 £55.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.29 £75.88 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.29 £30.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% +7.63% +16.69%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 October 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
Central London -17 116 £520 -0.95% 148
South London +5 36 £495 +4.21% 4
West London -5 17 £500 +42.86% 12
North London -1 6 £650 +154.90%
East London +1 3 £688 +30.33% 14
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (4.04%) Confluence
2 33 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.29%) nginx
4 12 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.37%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
9 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.092%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.092%) IIS
10 1 (0.092%) Moodle
10 1 (0.092%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle UPK
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 9 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.64%) Trello
6 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.46%) Sketch
8 4 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.37%) InVision
8 4 (0.37%) OmniGraffle
8 4 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.37%) UXPin
9 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.092%) Revit
11 1 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.37%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payroll
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.18%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 224 (20.59%) AWS
1 224 (20.59%) Azure
2 90 (8.27%) Power Platform
3 64 (5.88%) GitHub
4 63 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (4.60%) Amazon S3
5 50 (4.60%) GCP
6 40 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (3.68%) Serverless
7 39 (3.58%) SaaS
8 33 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (2.67%) PowerApps
11 25 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.30%) Power Automate
12 23 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (2.11%) Entra ID
13 18 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (1.65%) OCI
14 17 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.58%) Firewall
2 25 (2.30%) DNS
3 19 (1.75%) Network Security
3 19 (1.75%) VPN
4 15 (1.38%) WAN
5 13 (1.19%) LAN
6 12 (1.10%) SSL
6 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.10%) Wireless
7 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.92%) BGP
8 10 (0.92%) OSPF
9 9 (0.83%) FTP
9 9 (0.83%) HTTP
9 9 (0.83%) IMAP
9 9 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
9 9 (0.83%) SMTP
9 9 (0.83%) SSH
10 8 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.64%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.96%) Power BI
2 42 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (2.30%) Metadata
4 21 (1.93%) Data Lake
5 19 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.29%) Oracle Database
7 14 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (1.19%) Tableau
9 12 (1.10%) SQL Server
10 9 (0.83%) Oracle ODI
11 8 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 7 (0.64%) Power Query
12 7 (0.64%) Spark SQL
13 6 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.46%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 69 (6.34%) JIRA
2 53 (4.87%) Git
3 37 (3.40%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.02%) GitLab
5 16 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.10%) Burp Suite
6 12 (1.10%) Metasploit
7 11 (1.01%) Postman
7 11 (1.01%) Selenium
8 10 (0.92%) Vagrant
9 6 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.55%) GCC
9 6 (0.55%) JUnit
10 4 (0.37%) Axure RP
10 4 (0.37%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.37%) Clang
10 4 (0.37%) MLflow
10 4 (0.37%) Mockito
11 3 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 313 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 180 (16.54%) Finance
3 116 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.07%) Telecoms
5 55 (5.06%) Local Government
6 52 (4.78%) Marketing
7 50 (4.60%) Manufacturing
8 46 (4.23%) Electronics
9 35 (3.22%) Legal
10 34 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (2.94%) Military
12 22 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.84%) Law
13 20 (1.84%) Police
14 18 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (1.19%) Retail
18 9 (0.83%) Banking
19 5 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 140 (12.87%) Architect
2 129 (11.86%) Developer
3 114 (10.48%) Senior
4 110 (10.11%) Lead
5 102 (9.38%) Analyst
6 62 (5.70%) Consultant
7 53 (4.87%) Business Analyst
8 51 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
9 40 (3.68%) Designer
10 37 (3.40%) Project Manager
11 36 (3.31%) Security Engineer
12 33 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (2.76%) Data Engineer
14 28 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (2.57%) Technical Architect
15 25 (2.30%) Data Architect
16 23 (2.11%) Service Designer
17 21 (1.93%) Security Architect
18 20 (1.84%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (1.84%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (4.96%) REST
2 32 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 28 (2.57%) React
4 27 (2.48%) .NET
5 26 (2.39%) Kafka
5 26 (2.39%) RESTful
6 25 (2.30%) JSON
7 24 (2.21%) HTML
7 24 (2.21%) Web Services
8 23 (2.11%) CSS
9 22 (2.02%) SOAP
10 21 (1.93%) Node.js
11 20 (1.84%) Spring
12 19 (1.75%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.65%) Spring Boot
14 17 (1.56%) XML
15 15 (1.38%) LDAP
16 14 (1.29%) OAuth
17 10 (0.92%) PySpark
18 9 (0.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 53 (4.87%) Onboarding
2 35 (3.22%) Cloud Native
3 30 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 23 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.11%) NHS
7 22 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.56%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.47%) CSOC
10 14 (1.29%) Replication
11 13 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.83%) PKI
16 8 (0.74%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (5.70%) Windows
2 41 (3.77%) Linux
3 15 (1.38%) Mac OS
4 12 (1.10%) Android
5 11 (1.01%) VMS
6 9 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.74%) Unix
8 6 (0.55%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.18%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.18%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.18%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.092%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.092%) VME
12 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (27.76%) Agile
2 165 (15.17%) CI/CD
3 150 (13.79%) DevOps
4 146 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 132 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 113 (10.39%) Business Intelligence
8 104 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (8.46%) Decision-Making
10 85 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
11 84 (7.72%) Roadmaps
12 83 (7.63%) AI
13 82 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 80 (7.35%) Migration
15 69 (6.34%) Analytics
15 69 (6.34%) Cloud Security
16 65 (5.97%) Service Design
17 62 (5.70%) Data Modelling
18 61 (5.61%) User Research
19 60 (5.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (12.68%) Python
2 127 (11.67%) SQL
3 81 (7.44%) Java
4 49 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 40 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 35 (3.22%) Bash
7 30 (2.76%) C#
8 22 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.56%) C++
10 14 (1.29%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.29%) Ruby
11 12 (1.10%) Go
12 10 (0.92%) Groovy
13 9 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 9 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.74%) C
15 6 (0.55%) Bicep
15 6 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.46%) R
16 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 650 (59.74%) Security Cleared
2 503 (46.23%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.60%) Degree
4 39 (3.58%) DV Cleared
5 19 (1.75%) CISSP
5 19 (1.75%) CREST Certified
5 19 (1.75%) OSCP
6 18 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 15 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (0.92%) CISM
10 10 (0.92%) Tigerscheme
11 8 (0.74%) CHECK Team Member
12 7 (0.64%) CCNP
12 7 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 6 (0.55%) CISA
14 5 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.87%) Accessibility
2 40 (3.68%) GDPR
3 38 (3.49%) QA
4 33 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.67%) NIST
6 28 (2.57%) NCSC
7 27 (2.48%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.84%) PMO
9 18 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.01%) GRC
11 10 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.92%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.92%) WCAG
12 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.28%) SLA
14 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) HL7
14 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (7.08%) Docker
2 35 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.92%) Postfix
4 9 (0.83%) DFS Replication
4 9 (0.83%) Dovecot
4 9 (0.83%) Squid
5 8 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Firmware
8 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 94 (8.64%) Terraform
2 80 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.30%) Ansible
3 25 (2.30%) Grafana
4 20 (1.84%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (1.10%) Nmap
7 10 (0.92%) Nessus
8 9 (0.83%) Proxmox
8 9 (0.83%) SCCM
8 9 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.64%) Argo
9 7 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.46%) QRadar
11 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.37%) Packer
12 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.18%) CA Spectrum
13 2 (0.18%) McAfee ePO
13 2 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 156 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.35%) SAP
3 67 (6.16%) Oracle
4 46 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.31%) Cisco
6 32 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.30%) Splunk
8 17 (1.56%) Virgin Media
9 16 (1.47%) Google
10 15 (1.38%) Apple
11 14 (1.29%) HP
11 14 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.10%) Juniper
13 12 (1.10%) VMware
14 11 (1.01%) Databricks
14 11 (1.01%) Dell
14 11 (1.01%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.01%) Veracode
15 10 (0.92%) Jaspersoft