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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,725 909 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.94% 7.00% 7.93%
As % of the General category 14.82% 10.29% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 645 982
10th Percentile £387 £388 £351
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.22%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £725
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 14
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £22.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.08 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year +63.51% +36.91% -39.20%
75th Percentile £61.25 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £86.25 £78.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £25.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.27% -3.56% +23.81%

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 11,642 8,831 10,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.32% 68.01% 62.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,452 5,890 7,826
10th Percentile £350 £331 £336
25th Percentile £437 £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 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 165 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £18.79
Median hourly rate £32.25 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +12.73% -7.47%
75th Percentile £45.16 £51.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.88 £64.50 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.18% -16.40% +9.65%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +1 162 £525 - 124
South London +3 67 £500 +1.47% 9
West London -24 14 £500 +24.92% 18
East London +1 11 £750 +33.33% 13
North London 0 4 £420 -23.64% 3
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 (4.23%) Confluence
2 40 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 13 (0.75%) CMS
3 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.64%) nginx
5 10 (0.58%) Apache
5 10 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.35%) WordPress
9 5 (0.29%) Camunda
9 5 (0.29%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.12%) OpenROAD
12 1 (0.058%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.058%) Luigi
Applications
1 35 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.52%) 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 19 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.17%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.17%) iTrent
5 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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 FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.058%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 392 (22.72%) AWS
2 317 (18.38%) Azure
3 98 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 85 (4.93%) GCP
4 85 (4.93%) Serverless
5 74 (4.29%) GitHub
6 69 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 63 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
9 58 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (2.67%) Entra ID
12 44 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
13 43 (2.49%) SaaS
14 40 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
19 25 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.20%) Firewall
2 35 (2.03%) Network Security
3 22 (1.28%) DNS
4 15 (0.87%) VPN
5 9 (0.52%) LAN
5 9 (0.52%) WAN
6 8 (0.46%) DHCP
6 8 (0.46%) DKIM
6 8 (0.46%) NGFW
7 7 (0.41%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.35%) DMARC
9 4 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.17%) 4G
10 3 (0.17%) BGP
10 3 (0.17%) Broadband
10 3 (0.17%) HTTP
10 3 (0.17%) Internet
10 3 (0.17%) Intranet
10 3 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.77%) Power BI
2 42 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 26 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (1.51%) Metadata
6 25 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 20 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (1.10%) SQL Server
10 17 (0.99%) Tableau
11 15 (0.87%) Delta Lake
12 14 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.64%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.58%) Relational Database
15 9 (0.52%) MySQL
15 9 (0.52%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 105 (6.09%) JIRA
2 91 (5.28%) Git
3 69 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 65 (3.77%) GitLab
5 15 (0.87%) Selenium
6 14 (0.81%) JUnit
7 12 (0.70%) Mockito
8 11 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.64%) Postman
8 11 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 8 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.46%) JMeter
9 8 (0.46%) Snyk
10 7 (0.41%) Maven
11 6 (0.35%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (0.23%) DbUnit
13 4 (0.23%) jMock
13 4 (0.23%) WebDriver
General
1 432 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 213 (12.35%) Finance
3 139 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (5.28%) Local Government
5 69 (4.00%) Military
6 55 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 39 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (2.20%) Legal
8 38 (2.20%) Police
9 36 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.80%) Banking
11 30 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (1.57%) Law
12 27 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.39%) Marketing
14 19 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 11 (0.64%) Retail
16 10 (0.58%) Publishing
17 9 (0.52%) Billing
18 7 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 275 (15.94%) Architect
2 233 (13.51%) Developer
3 184 (10.67%) Senior
4 182 (10.55%) Lead
5 126 (7.30%) Analyst
6 84 (4.87%) Designer
7 78 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 68 (3.94%) Business Analyst
9 61 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
10 60 (3.48%) User Researcher
11 57 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
12 56 (3.25%) Data Engineer
12 56 (3.25%) Technical Architect
13 51 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
14 49 (2.84%) Consultant
15 47 (2.72%) Project Manager
16 43 (2.49%) Java Developer
17 42 (2.43%) Security Architect
18 39 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
19 38 (2.20%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.19%) REST
2 52 (3.01%) React
3 50 (2.90%) Spring
4 46 (2.67%) RESTful
5 44 (2.55%) Node.js
6 37 (2.14%) Kafka
6 37 (2.14%) Spring Boot
7 35 (2.03%) Oracle Fusion
8 34 (1.97%) Lightning Web Components
9 31 (1.80%) Django
10 29 (1.68%) .NET
11 28 (1.62%) HTML
12 27 (1.57%) PySpark
13 26 (1.51%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.39%) SOAP
14 24 (1.39%) Web Services
15 19 (1.10%) Middleware
16 18 (1.04%) CSS
17 17 (0.99%) JSON
18 14 (0.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 51 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
3 51 (2.96%) NHS
3 51 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 32 (1.86%) Data Centre
4 32 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 23 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (0.87%) Security Posture
9 14 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 13 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (0.75%) Low-Code
10 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 12 (0.70%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.64%) AI Agents
13 10 (0.58%) CMDB
14 9 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.84%) Linux
2 44 (2.55%) Windows
3 17 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.75%) Android
5 11 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.35%) Solaris
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
8 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.23%) Unix
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (28.23%) Agile
2 299 (17.33%) CI/CD
3 293 (16.99%) DevOps
4 261 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 240 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 203 (11.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 180 (10.43%) Decision-Making
8 169 (9.80%) Migration
9 153 (8.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 153 (8.87%) Roadmaps
10 147 (8.52%) AI
11 145 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (7.94%) Analytics
13 134 (7.77%) Containerisation
13 134 (7.77%) Data Modelling
14 127 (7.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 119 (6.90%) User Research
16 108 (6.26%) Service Design
17 101 (5.86%) Microservices
18 97 (5.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 214 (12.41%) Python
2 147 (8.52%) SQL
3 127 (7.36%) Java
4 85 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 63 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 34 (1.97%) Apex Code
6 34 (1.97%) C#
7 31 (1.80%) Ruby
8 30 (1.74%) Bash
9 28 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 19 (1.10%) Bicep
12 12 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.58%) Go
14 9 (0.52%) Groovy
14 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.46%) R
16 5 (0.29%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 966 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 778 (45.10%) SC Cleared
3 80 (4.64%) DV Cleared
4 60 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (2.78%) Degree
6 30 (1.74%) CISSP
7 26 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 23 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.04%) CISM
12 12 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.52%) CCNP
15 8 (0.46%) CCSP
15 8 (0.46%) CIMA
15 8 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
15 8 (0.46%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.41%) ACCA
16 7 (0.41%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (7.65%) Accessibility
2 84 (4.87%) Data Quality
3 68 (3.94%) QA
4 52 (3.01%) GDPR
5 47 (2.72%) WCAG
6 41 (2.38%) NCSC
6 41 (2.38%) PMO
7 32 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.99%) NIST
9 15 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.75%) SLA
11 12 (0.70%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.64%) GRC
13 10 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 5 (0.29%) IFRS
17 4 (0.23%) IFRS 9
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 134 (7.77%) Docker
2 37 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) 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
1 165 (9.57%) Terraform
2 140 (8.12%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.14%) Grafana
4 33 (1.91%) Ansible
4 33 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.46%) Kibana
7 8 (0.46%) Puppet
8 7 (0.41%) Argo
9 5 (0.29%) SCCM
10 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (0.17%) Salt
12 2 (0.12%) Consul
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.058%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.058%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 184 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.80%) Oracle
3 84 (4.87%) Salesforce
4 59 (3.42%) Databricks
5 48 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.61%) Google
6 45 (2.61%) SAP
7 21 (1.22%) Cisco
8 19 (1.10%) Foundry
8 19 (1.10%) IBM
9 18 (1.04%) Atlassian
10 17 (0.99%) Palantir
11 14 (0.81%) Palo Alto
12 13 (0.75%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.64%) VMware
15 10 (0.58%) Splunk
16 9 (0.52%) Juniper
16 9 (0.52%) Virgin Media