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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +21
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 909 1,396 1,775
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.00% 7.93% 7.02%
As % of the General category 10.29% 12.71% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 982 1,305
10th Percentile £388 £351 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £572
Median % change year-on-year - -8.22% +6.12%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £688
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 14
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £17.83
25th Percentile £22.00 £15.75 £20.12
Median hourly rate £25.08 £18.32 £30.13
Median % change year-on-year +36.91% -39.20% +17.31%
75th Percentile £47.50 £66.50 £47.53
90th Percentile £86.25 £78.00 £74.85
England median hourly rate £25.08 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.56% +23.81% +5.00%

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 8,832 10,983 16,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.00% 62.36% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,891 7,822 11,723
10th Percentile £331 £336 £374
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
England median daily rate £520 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 233 194
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £24.66 £18.79 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -7.47% -8.83%
75th Percentile £51.18 £48.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £64.50 £67.60 £71.75
England median hourly rate £27.45 £32.90 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.55% +9.65% +25.23%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -4 118 £525 +5.00% 260
South London -3 34 £493 +1.08% 27
West London +6 18 £400 +14.36% 57
East London +3 8 £563 +4.17% 40
North London 0 5 £550 +80.33% 1
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 25 (2.75%) Confluence
2 15 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.99%) Apache
6 8 (0.88%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.77%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.77%) CMS
8 6 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.55%) nginx
10 3 (0.33%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) Drupal
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
4 5 (0.55%) Sketch
5 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (0.44%) InVision
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.44%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.33%) OmniGraffle
6 3 (0.33%) UXPin
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) Revit
7 2 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 21 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payroll
5 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.33%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.22%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.11%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 236 (25.96%) AWS
2 167 (18.37%) Azure
3 61 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 52 (5.72%) Serverless
5 51 (5.61%) Amazon S3
6 48 (5.28%) GitHub
7 39 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (4.07%) GCP
9 32 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (3.52%) SaaS
10 30 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.42%) PowerApps
15 20 (2.20%) OCI
16 16 (1.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.85%) Firewall
2 20 (2.20%) VPN
3 16 (1.76%) DNS
4 12 (1.32%) Network Security
5 10 (1.10%) DHCP
6 9 (0.99%) WAN
7 8 (0.88%) LAN
8 7 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.77%) Wireless
9 6 (0.66%) SSL
10 5 (0.55%) BGP
11 4 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.44%) EIGRP
11 4 (0.44%) Internet
11 4 (0.44%) OSPF
11 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.44%) VLAN
12 3 (0.33%) Cisco Wireless
12 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (4.18%) Power BI
3 30 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.31%) Tableau
5 20 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.76%) Metadata
9 13 (1.43%) SQL Server
10 12 (1.32%) MySQL
11 10 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.10%) Redis
12 8 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.77%) GIS
14 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.66%) Oracle ODI
15 5 (0.55%) Big Data
15 5 (0.55%) DocumentDB
15 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 42 (4.62%) JIRA
2 35 (3.85%) Git
3 32 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 29 (3.19%) GitLab
5 22 (2.42%) SonarQube
6 18 (1.98%) JUnit
7 17 (1.87%) Mockito
8 11 (1.21%) Burp Suite
8 11 (1.21%) Gradle
8 11 (1.21%) Liquibase
8 11 (1.21%) Metasploit
9 8 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.66%) Selenium
11 5 (0.55%) Axure RP
11 5 (0.55%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.55%) Maven
11 5 (0.55%) MLflow
12 4 (0.44%) Postman
12 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 236 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 130 (14.30%) Finance
3 109 (11.99%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.38%) Local Government
5 54 (5.94%) Marketing
6 52 (5.72%) Telecoms
7 44 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.73%) Electronics
9 38 (4.18%) Military
10 31 (3.41%) Law
11 23 (2.53%) Police
12 19 (2.09%) Legal
13 18 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.99%) Banking
16 9 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
18 4 (0.44%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 163 (17.93%) Architect
2 122 (13.42%) Developer
3 93 (10.23%) Senior
4 66 (7.26%) Lead
5 61 (6.71%) Analyst
6 45 (4.95%) Consultant
7 42 (4.62%) Data Engineer
8 36 (3.96%) Business Analyst
8 36 (3.96%) Java Developer
8 36 (3.96%) Security Architect
9 32 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
9 32 (3.52%) Project Manager
10 28 (3.08%) AWS Architect
10 28 (3.08%) Designer
11 25 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (2.64%) Technical Architect
13 23 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.42%) Security Engineer
14 22 (2.42%) Senior Developer
15 20 (2.20%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.39%) React
2 48 (5.28%) Kafka
3 44 (4.84%) Spring
4 41 (4.51%) Spring Boot
5 27 (2.97%) REST
6 26 (2.86%) .NET
6 26 (2.86%) HTML
7 25 (2.75%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (2.42%) Node.js
9 17 (1.87%) CSS
10 16 (1.76%) OAuth
11 14 (1.54%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.54%) JSON
11 14 (1.54%) Swagger
11 14 (1.54%) Web Services
12 13 (1.43%) Jinja
12 13 (1.43%) OpenAPI
12 13 (1.43%) XML
13 11 (1.21%) OpenID
13 11 (1.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.72%) Onboarding
2 31 (3.41%) Management Information System
3 17 (1.87%) Product Ownership
4 16 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (1.54%) CSOC
5 14 (1.54%) PKI
6 13 (1.43%) NHS
7 12 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.10%) CMDB
9 9 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 9 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (0.99%) Driving Licence
10 8 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 8 (0.88%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.66%) Cloud Native
12 6 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (0.66%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.66%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.06%) Windows
2 33 (3.63%) Linux
3 13 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.66%) Android
5 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.55%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.44%) Unix
8 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.22%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.22%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (22.44%) Agile
2 125 (13.75%) DevOps
3 124 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 121 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (12.87%) CI/CD
6 89 (9.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 81 (8.91%) Business Intelligence
8 80 (8.80%) Microservices
9 70 (7.70%) Migration
10 69 (7.59%) Containerisation
11 62 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
12 60 (6.60%) Analytics
13 59 (6.49%) Decision-Making
14 54 (5.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (5.61%) Programme Management
17 49 (5.39%) ITIL
18 48 (5.28%) Data Modelling
18 48 (5.28%) Mentoring
19 47 (5.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (13.75%) SQL
2 119 (13.09%) Python
3 93 (10.23%) Java
4 67 (7.37%) JavaScript
5 37 (4.07%) TypeScript
6 28 (3.08%) Bash
7 27 (2.97%) C#
7 27 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.54%) Ruby
9 10 (1.10%) Bicep
9 10 (1.10%) C++
9 10 (1.10%) R
10 7 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.66%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.66%) Scala
12 4 (0.44%) Go
13 3 (0.33%) C
13 3 (0.33%) Groovy
13 3 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 549 (60.40%) Security Cleared
2 438 (48.18%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.62%) Degree
4 27 (2.97%) AWS Certification
5 25 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (1.76%) CREST Certified
8 14 (1.54%) CISSP
9 13 (1.43%) OSCP
10 12 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.10%) CCNP
12 10 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.10%) Tigerscheme
13 9 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.88%) CHECK Team Member
14 8 (0.88%) OCP
14 8 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.66%) CCNA
15 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.74%) Accessibility
1 34 (3.74%) QA
2 21 (2.31%) NCSC
3 19 (2.09%) NIST
4 18 (1.98%) GDPR
5 17 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.21%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.99%) WCAG
9 8 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (0.88%) GRC
9 8 (0.88%) SLA
10 7 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.77%) PMO
10 7 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (8.14%) Docker
2 32 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.77%) Firmware
4 7 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.66%) vSphere
6 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.33%) IAG
8 2 (0.22%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.22%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.22%) XenApp
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Postfix
9 1 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 85 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 82 (9.02%) Terraform
3 30 (3.30%) Ansible
4 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.21%) Nmap
7 10 (1.10%) Grafana
8 6 (0.66%) Puppet
9 5 (0.55%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) Istio
10 4 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.33%) Argo
11 3 (0.33%) CA Spectrum
11 3 (0.33%) Kibana
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.22%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) vMotion
Vendors
1 128 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.48%) Oracle
3 64 (7.04%) SAP
4 37 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.19%) Cisco
6 23 (2.53%) Google
6 23 (2.53%) Splunk
7 20 (2.20%) Virgin Media
8 17 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.76%) VMware
10 12 (1.32%) Veracode
11 9 (0.99%) Adobe
11 9 (0.99%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.88%) Juniper
13 7 (0.77%) Palo Alto
14 6 (0.66%) F5
14 6 (0.66%) Palantir
15 5 (0.55%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.55%) SolarWinds