Public Sector Contracts 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +18
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,031 1,523 1,824
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.21% 8.54% 6.75%
As % of the General category 12.16% 13.50% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 1,070 1,341
10th Percentile £388 £375 £363
25th Percentile £451 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £745 £743
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 16
10th Percentile £21.60 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.14 £15.50 £18.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.13 £22.71
Median % change year-on-year +106.84% -20.17% -11.57%
75th Percentile £56.25 £26.24 £37.22
90th Percentile £72.25 £67.10 £46.31
England median hourly rate £22.39 £22.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% +10.58% -

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 8,480 11,281 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.22% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 8,058 12,397
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 245 220
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 30 April 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 April 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 0 157 £525 +5.00% 41
South London -1 35 £493 -1.50% 7
West London +12 14 £400 +14.29% 11
East London +7 12 £588 +6.82% 7
North London +3 9 £405 +5.06% 3
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 30 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.13%) Confluence
3 18 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.07%) Apache
5 8 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.58%) CMS
7 6 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.48%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.48%) Drupal
9 4 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.29%) Camunda
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.097%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.097%) JBoss
12 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.58%) Sketch
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.39%) Trello
7 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.19%) InVision
7 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.097%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.097%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.097%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.097%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.097%) Revit
8 1 (0.097%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.097%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 19 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.29%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.29%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.097%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.097%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.097%) SAP CCM
7 1 (0.097%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.097%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 234 (22.70%) AWS
2 187 (18.14%) Azure
3 82 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 66 (6.40%) Serverless
5 51 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (4.56%) Amazon S3
7 41 (3.98%) GitHub
8 34 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (3.30%) Power Automate
8 34 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 32 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (2.04%) dbt
15 20 (1.94%) GCP
16 18 (1.75%) OCI
17 16 (1.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.39%) Firewall
2 18 (1.75%) VPN
3 16 (1.55%) Network Security
4 12 (1.16%) DNS
5 7 (0.68%) DHCP
5 7 (0.68%) LAN
5 7 (0.68%) WAN
5 7 (0.68%) Wireless
6 5 (0.48%) BGP
6 5 (0.48%) Internet
6 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.39%) EIGRP
7 4 (0.39%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) OSPF
7 4 (0.39%) SAN
8 3 (0.29%) IPsec
8 3 (0.29%) SSH
8 3 (0.29%) VLAN
8 3 (0.29%) VoIP
8 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (4.85%) Power BI
3 31 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 28 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (2.62%) Data Lake
5 27 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 26 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.33%) Tableau
8 19 (1.84%) Metadata
9 17 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (1.55%) SQL Server
11 15 (1.45%) MySQL
12 11 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (1.07%) Neo4j
12 11 (1.07%) Redis
13 10 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.97%) Big Data
14 9 (0.87%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (3.59%) JIRA
2 32 (3.10%) Git
3 28 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.62%) GitLab
5 19 (1.84%) JUnit
6 14 (1.36%) Mockito
7 12 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.16%) Liquibase
8 11 (1.07%) Gradle
9 9 (0.87%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.78%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.58%) Postman
11 6 (0.58%) Selenium
12 5 (0.48%) JMeter
13 4 (0.39%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.39%) Jasmine
13 4 (0.39%) MLflow
14 3 (0.29%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.29%) ScriptRunner
14 3 (0.29%) SoapUI
General
1 234 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 127 (12.32%) Finance
3 124 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.69%) Local Government
5 63 (6.11%) Marketing
6 55 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 50 (4.85%) Manufacturing
8 49 (4.75%) Electronics
9 39 (3.78%) Military
10 22 (2.13%) Law
11 19 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.84%) Police
12 14 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.36%) Legal
13 12 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.87%) Back Office
14 9 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (0.78%) Banking
16 4 (0.39%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 183 (17.75%) Architect
2 139 (13.48%) Developer
3 111 (10.77%) Senior
4 88 (8.54%) Lead
5 72 (6.98%) Analyst
6 62 (6.01%) Data Engineer
7 44 (4.27%) Consultant
7 44 (4.27%) Java Developer
8 39 (3.78%) Business Analyst
8 39 (3.78%) Project Manager
9 35 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (3.30%) Designer
11 32 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (2.91%) Technical Architect
13 29 (2.81%) AWS Architect
13 29 (2.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 28 (2.72%) Data Architect
15 26 (2.52%) Security Architect
16 24 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.50%) React
2 59 (5.72%) Kafka
3 47 (4.56%) Spring
4 44 (4.27%) Spring Boot
5 32 (3.10%) .NET
6 27 (2.62%) HTML
7 23 (2.23%) Node.js
8 21 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
9 19 (1.84%) Jinja
10 18 (1.75%) CSS
10 18 (1.75%) REST
10 18 (1.75%) Swagger
11 17 (1.65%) OpenAPI
12 15 (1.45%) OAuth
12 15 (1.45%) RESTful
13 14 (1.36%) JSON
14 13 (1.26%) Plotly
15 12 (1.16%) pydantic
15 12 (1.16%) PySpark
16 11 (1.07%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.95%) Onboarding
2 28 (2.72%) Management Information System
3 18 (1.75%) NHS
4 17 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.16%) PKI
5 12 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 8 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (0.68%) CMDB
7 7 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (0.68%) Data Structures
7 7 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (0.68%) Operational Technology
7 7 (0.68%) Public Cloud
8 6 (0.58%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.58%) Driving Licence
8 6 (0.58%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (0.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.46%) Windows
2 36 (3.49%) Linux
3 17 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.48%) Unix
9 3 (0.29%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) CentOS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.097%) VMS
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (21.73%) Agile
2 149 (14.45%) DevOps
3 141 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 115 (11.15%) CI/CD
6 96 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
7 90 (8.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 87 (8.44%) Microservices
9 74 (7.18%) Data Modelling
9 74 (7.18%) Migration
10 69 (6.69%) Analytics
11 67 (6.50%) Mentoring
11 67 (6.50%) Project Management
12 66 (6.40%) Containerisation
13 63 (6.11%) Programme Management
14 57 (5.53%) ITIL
15 52 (5.04%) Decision-Making
16 50 (4.85%) Digital Marketing
17 45 (4.36%) Risk Management
18 44 (4.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 161 (15.62%) SQL
2 130 (12.61%) Python
3 98 (9.51%) Java
4 89 (8.63%) JavaScript
5 43 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 34 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 32 (3.10%) C#
8 22 (2.13%) Bash
9 13 (1.26%) Ruby
10 12 (1.16%) Bicep
11 10 (0.97%) R
12 6 (0.58%) Scala
12 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.39%) Perl
13 4 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.29%) C++
14 3 (0.29%) Groovy
14 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.19%) Lua
Qualifications
1 589 (57.13%) Security Cleared
2 482 (46.75%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.11%) Degree
4 37 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.81%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
8 15 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.16%) CISSP
10 11 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.78%) MRICS
11 8 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.68%) OCP
13 6 (0.58%) CCNA
13 6 (0.58%) CTC Cleared
13 6 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.58%) RIBA
14 5 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.07%) Accessibility
2 33 (3.20%) QA
3 23 (2.23%) GDPR
4 20 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.84%) NIST
6 18 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.26%) GRC
8 12 (1.16%) WCAG
9 10 (0.97%) SLA
10 9 (0.87%) NCSC
11 7 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.48%) PMO
13 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (5.63%) Docker
2 33 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.48%) Firmware
4 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.29%) IAG
6 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.29%) vSphere
7 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 96 (9.31%) Kubernetes
2 74 (7.18%) Terraform
3 25 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (2.23%) Ansible
5 10 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.58%) SCCM
7 5 (0.48%) Grafana
7 5 (0.48%) Puppet
8 4 (0.39%) Istio
9 3 (0.29%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.29%) Kibana
10 2 (0.19%) Argo
10 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.19%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.19%) Rancher
10 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.19%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.19%) vMotion
11 1 (0.097%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 153 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.66%) Oracle
3 71 (6.89%) SAP
4 38 (3.69%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.91%) Virgin Media
6 23 (2.23%) Cisco
7 22 (2.13%) Databricks
8 18 (1.75%) Google
9 17 (1.65%) VMware
10 16 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.16%) Splunk
12 9 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.68%) Adobe
14 6 (0.58%) Juniper
14 6 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.48%) Apple
15 5 (0.48%) IBM
15 5 (0.48%) Palantir
15 5 (0.48%) Sparx
16 4 (0.39%) Qualys