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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 26 21
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,720 896 1,441
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.04% 7.16% 8.12%
As % of the General category 15.02% 10.52% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 636 1,016
10th Percentile £390 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 15
10th Percentile £17.02 £18.99 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.48 £22.68 £15.82
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.76 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +59.15% +42.10% -27.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.81 £63.50
90th Percentile £74.95 £86.25 £77.75
England median hourly rate £25.38 £25.08 £24.18
% change year-on-year +1.22% +3.70% +17.78%

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,451 8,518 11,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.16% 68.11% 62.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 5,698 7,919
10th Percentile £350 £331 £331
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £819 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £534
% change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 158 240
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.49 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +14.36% -5.51%
75th Percentile £45.25 £52.12 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.17 £66.20
England median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%

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 20 June 2026.

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 20 June 2026.

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 20 June 2026. 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 +2 158 £550 +4.76% 53
South London +1 63 £498 +1.48% 3
West London -30 13 £500 +25.00% 11
East London +2 11 £750 +33.33% 13
North London -1 2 £425 -22.73% 1
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 73 (4.24%) Confluence
2 42 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.58%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) nginx
6 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.47%) Apache
8 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) WordPress
10 4 (0.23%) SAS
11 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.12%) OpenROAD
13 1 (0.058%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.058%) Appian
13 1 (0.058%) R Markdown
Applications
1 36 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.058%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.17%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.12%) iTrent
6 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.058%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 398 (23.14%) AWS
2 310 (18.02%) Azure
3 104 (6.05%) Power Platform
4 86 (5.00%) Serverless
5 81 (4.71%) GCP
6 72 (4.19%) GitHub
7 68 (3.95%) Amazon S3
8 66 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
11 48 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
13 42 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (2.33%) Entra ID
14 40 (2.33%) SaaS
15 35 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.09%) Firewall
2 33 (1.92%) Network Security
3 20 (1.16%) DNS
4 12 (0.70%) VPN
5 11 (0.64%) LAN
6 10 (0.58%) WAN
7 9 (0.52%) NGFW
7 9 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.47%) DHCP
8 8 (0.47%) DKIM
8 8 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.35%) DMARC
10 4 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.17%) 4G
11 3 (0.17%) Broadband
11 3 (0.17%) HTTP
11 3 (0.17%) Intranet
11 3 (0.17%) VoIP
11 3 (0.17%) Wireless
11 3 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (4.19%) Power BI
2 40 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 29 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (1.63%) Metadata
7 22 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (1.28%) SQL Server
8 21 (1.22%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (0.99%) Tableau
12 14 (0.81%) Delta Lake
12 14 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.64%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.58%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.47%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.41%) GIS
17 7 (0.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 104 (6.05%) JIRA
2 90 (5.23%) Git
3 66 (3.84%) Jenkins
4 65 (3.78%) GitLab
5 17 (0.99%) Selenium
6 13 (0.76%) JUnit
7 12 (0.70%) Mockito
7 12 (0.70%) Postman
8 11 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.47%) JMeter
10 8 (0.47%) Snyk
11 6 (0.35%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.35%) Maven
12 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.23%) jMock
14 3 (0.17%) MLflow
General
1 429 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 206 (11.98%) Finance
3 135 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (4.94%) Local Government
5 68 (3.95%) Military
6 51 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (2.21%) Legal
9 37 (2.15%) Police
10 36 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.86%) Banking
11 32 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.63%) Law
13 28 (1.63%) Marketing
14 21 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.70%) Retail
16 10 (0.58%) Billing
17 9 (0.52%) Publishing
18 7 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 274 (15.93%) Architect
2 234 (13.60%) Developer
3 185 (10.76%) Senior
4 182 (10.58%) Lead
5 125 (7.27%) Analyst
6 88 (5.12%) Designer
7 77 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 65 (3.78%) User Researcher
10 63 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (3.37%) Technical Architect
12 56 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
13 55 (3.20%) Data Engineer
14 52 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
14 52 (3.02%) Project Manager
15 48 (2.79%) Consultant
16 44 (2.56%) Security Architect
17 40 (2.33%) Senior Developer
18 39 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
19 38 (2.21%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (2.97%) React
2 50 (2.91%) REST
3 47 (2.73%) RESTful
4 46 (2.67%) Spring
5 45 (2.62%) Node.js
6 37 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 37 (2.15%) Spring Boot
7 35 (2.03%) Kafka
7 35 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
8 30 (1.74%) .NET
8 30 (1.74%) HTML
9 27 (1.57%) AngularJS
9 27 (1.57%) Web Services
10 26 (1.51%) Django
11 22 (1.28%) PySpark
11 22 (1.28%) SOAP
12 21 (1.22%) CSS
13 18 (1.05%) Middleware
14 16 (0.93%) FastAPI
14 16 (0.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 44 (2.56%) NHS
6 32 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 29 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (0.81%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.76%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.70%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.70%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.58%) AI Agents
15 10 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 47 (2.73%) Linux
2 41 (2.38%) Windows
3 17 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.76%) Android
5 11 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.35%) Solaris
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.23%) Unix
9 4 (0.23%) VMS
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (27.79%) Agile
2 291 (16.92%) CI/CD
3 286 (16.63%) DevOps
4 251 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 198 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 174 (10.12%) Decision-Making
8 158 (9.19%) Migration
9 153 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 149 (8.66%) Roadmaps
11 148 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
12 147 (8.55%) AI
13 134 (7.79%) Containerisation
14 133 (7.73%) Data Modelling
15 130 (7.56%) Analytics
16 126 (7.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 126 (7.33%) User Research
17 108 (6.28%) Service Design
18 98 (5.70%) Test Automation
19 97 (5.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 206 (11.98%) Python
2 146 (8.49%) SQL
3 120 (6.98%) Java
4 85 (4.94%) JavaScript
5 62 (3.60%) TypeScript
6 35 (2.03%) Apex Code
6 35 (2.03%) C#
7 33 (1.92%) Ruby
8 31 (1.80%) Bash
9 30 (1.74%) PowerShell
10 21 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 16 (0.93%) Bicep
12 13 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 10 (0.58%) R
15 9 (0.52%) Go
15 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.47%) Groovy
17 4 (0.23%) Scala
17 4 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 966 (56.16%) Security Cleared
2 767 (44.59%) SC Cleared
3 80 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 50 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 50 (2.91%) Degree
5 29 (1.69%) CISSP
6 27 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 25 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.99%) CISM
11 12 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 11 (0.64%) PMP
13 9 (0.52%) CCNP
13 9 (0.52%) CIMA
13 9 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.47%) ACCA
14 8 (0.47%) APMP
14 8 (0.47%) CCSP
14 8 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (7.67%) Accessibility
2 80 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 73 (4.24%) QA
4 48 (2.79%) GDPR
4 48 (2.79%) WCAG
5 41 (2.38%) NCSC
5 41 (2.38%) PMO
6 31 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.93%) NIST
8 14 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (0.81%) SLA
9 11 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
11 9 (0.52%) GRC
12 8 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.29%) IFRS
14 4 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 132 (7.67%) Docker
2 36 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.17%) Postfix
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.058%) FreeRADIUS
6 1 (0.058%) NLBS
6 1 (0.058%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.058%) Squid
6 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.058%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 162 (9.42%) Terraform
2 137 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.27%) Grafana
4 35 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.86%) Ansible
6 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.47%) Puppet
7 8 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.41%) Argo
8 7 (0.41%) Kibana
9 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.23%) SCCM
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.17%) Salt
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.058%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.058%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 172 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 97 (5.64%) Oracle
3 87 (5.06%) Salesforce
4 56 (3.26%) Databricks
5 46 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.44%) SAP
7 41 (2.38%) Google
8 22 (1.28%) Cisco
9 19 (1.10%) IBM
10 18 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.99%) Foundry
12 14 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 14 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 13 (0.76%) Palantir
14 12 (0.70%) Splunk
15 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.64%) VMware
16 9 (0.52%) Virgin Media
16 9 (0.52%) Zscaler