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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,727 896 1,408
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.03% 7.06% 8.00%
As % of the General category 14.96% 10.35% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 636 999
10th Percentile £385 £386 £363
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £722 £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% -26.74%
75th Percentile £61.25 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £86.25 £78.00
England median hourly rate £22.64 £25.08 £26.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% -5.38% +28.89%

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 11,541 8,658 11,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.36% 68.19% 62.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,420 5,781 7,870
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 £814 £825
England median daily rate £522 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.46% -2.83% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 163 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +12.73% -5.51%
75th Percentile £45.75 £50.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.75 £65.81
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -16.67% +17.19%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +2 156 £550 +4.76% 55
South London +3 66 £500 +1.94% 11
West London -24 13 £500 +42.86% 13
East London +3 11 £750 +33.33% 14
North London 0 4 £420 -23.64% 2
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 42 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.69%) CMS
5 11 (0.64%) nginx
6 10 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.52%) Apache
8 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.35%) WordPress
10 5 (0.29%) Camunda
11 4 (0.23%) SAS
12 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.12%) Drupal
13 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.12%) OpenROAD
14 1 (0.058%) Mule
14 1 (0.058%) SharePoint 2013
14 1 (0.058%) Umbraco
Applications
1 36 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.46%) 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 17 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.17%) Exchequer
6 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.12%) iTrent
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.058%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.058%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 400 (23.16%) AWS
2 318 (18.41%) Azure
3 100 (5.79%) Power Platform
4 86 (4.98%) Serverless
5 84 (4.86%) GCP
6 73 (4.23%) GitHub
7 68 (3.94%) Amazon S3
8 66 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
9 60 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
10 58 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
11 49 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
12 43 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
12 43 (2.49%) Entra ID
13 41 (2.37%) SaaS
14 40 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.14%) Firewall
2 33 (1.91%) Network Security
3 22 (1.27%) DNS
4 13 (0.75%) VPN
5 9 (0.52%) LAN
6 8 (0.46%) DHCP
6 8 (0.46%) DKIM
6 8 (0.46%) NGFW
6 8 (0.46%) WAN
6 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.35%) DMARC
9 4 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.17%) 4G
10 3 (0.17%) Broadband
10 3 (0.17%) HTTP
10 3 (0.17%) Internet
10 3 (0.17%) Intranet
10 3 (0.17%) VoIP
10 3 (0.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.94%) Power BI
2 42 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 28 (1.62%) Metadata
6 27 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (1.22%) SQL Server
9 20 (1.16%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.16%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 17 (0.98%) Tableau
12 15 (0.87%) Delta Lake
13 14 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (0.64%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.58%) Relational Database
16 9 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.46%) MySQL
17 8 (0.46%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.41%) GIS
Development Applications
1 105 (6.08%) JIRA
2 91 (5.27%) Git
3 67 (3.88%) Jenkins
4 66 (3.82%) GitLab
5 15 (0.87%) Selenium
6 13 (0.75%) JUnit
7 12 (0.69%) Mockito
8 11 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 11 (0.64%) Postman
8 11 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.52%) JMeter
10 8 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.46%) 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%) WebDriver
General
1 433 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 207 (11.99%) Finance
3 136 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (5.04%) Local Government
5 66 (3.82%) Military
6 51 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 38 (2.20%) Legal
9 37 (2.14%) Police
10 36 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (1.85%) Banking
13 28 (1.62%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.56%) Law
15 25 (1.45%) Marketing
16 20 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.69%) Retail
18 10 (0.58%) Billing
18 10 (0.58%) Publishing
19 7 (0.41%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 273 (15.81%) Architect
2 235 (13.61%) Developer
3 187 (10.83%) Senior
4 184 (10.65%) Lead
5 124 (7.18%) Analyst
6 88 (5.10%) Designer
7 79 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 66 (3.82%) Business Analyst
9 63 (3.65%) User Researcher
10 62 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (3.36%) Data Engineer
12 57 (3.30%) Technical Architect
13 55 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
14 51 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
14 51 (2.95%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.84%) Consultant
16 43 (2.49%) Security Architect
17 42 (2.43%) Java Developer
18 40 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
19 38 (2.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.01%) React
2 51 (2.95%) REST
3 50 (2.90%) Spring
4 48 (2.78%) RESTful
5 45 (2.61%) Node.js
6 37 (2.14%) Spring Boot
7 36 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
8 35 (2.03%) Kafka
9 34 (1.97%) Lightning Web Components
10 30 (1.74%) .NET
11 29 (1.68%) HTML
12 28 (1.62%) Django
13 27 (1.56%) PySpark
14 26 (1.51%) AngularJS
15 24 (1.39%) Web Services
16 23 (1.33%) SOAP
17 19 (1.10%) CSS
17 19 (1.10%) Middleware
18 17 (0.98%) JSON
19 14 (0.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 65 (3.76%) Onboarding
3 51 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (2.90%) NHS
4 50 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 32 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 32 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (0.81%) Data Structures
11 13 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 13 (0.75%) Security Posture
12 12 (0.69%) Low-Code
12 12 (0.69%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.58%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
14 9 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (2.84%) Linux
2 42 (2.43%) Windows
3 17 (0.98%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.75%) Android
5 11 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.46%) 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
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.17%) VMS
10 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (27.97%) Agile
2 300 (17.37%) CI/CD
3 292 (16.91%) DevOps
4 257 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 231 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 202 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 175 (10.13%) Decision-Making
8 164 (9.50%) Migration
9 155 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 149 (8.63%) AI
11 148 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
12 146 (8.45%) Roadmaps
13 135 (7.82%) Containerisation
14 134 (7.76%) Analytics
15 133 (7.70%) Data Modelling
16 127 (7.35%) Digital Transformation Programme
17 122 (7.06%) User Research
18 107 (6.20%) Service Design
19 99 (5.73%) Microservices
20 98 (5.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 212 (12.28%) Python
2 150 (8.69%) SQL
3 125 (7.24%) Java
4 86 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 65 (3.76%) TypeScript
6 35 (2.03%) C#
7 34 (1.97%) Apex Code
8 31 (1.80%) Bash
8 31 (1.80%) Ruby
9 28 (1.62%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 17 (0.98%) Bicep
12 13 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.58%) R
14 9 (0.52%) Go
14 9 (0.52%) Groovy
14 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.29%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 964 (55.82%) Security Cleared
2 769 (44.53%) SC Cleared
3 80 (4.63%) DV Cleared
4 54 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (2.90%) Degree
6 29 (1.68%) CISSP
7 26 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 25 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.98%) CISM
12 12 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.58%) PMP
15 9 (0.52%) CCNP
15 9 (0.52%) CIMA
16 8 (0.46%) ACCA
16 8 (0.46%) CCSP
16 8 (0.46%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.41%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (7.64%) Accessibility
2 83 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 70 (4.05%) QA
4 49 (2.84%) GDPR
5 47 (2.72%) WCAG
6 42 (2.43%) PMO
7 41 (2.37%) NCSC
8 31 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.93%) NIST
10 14 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.81%) SLA
11 11 (0.64%) GRC
11 11 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
14 8 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 5 (0.29%) IFRS
16 4 (0.23%) IFRS 9
17 3 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 135 (7.82%) Docker
2 36 (2.08%) 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
1 166 (9.61%) Terraform
2 140 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.26%) Grafana
4 35 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.85%) Ansible
6 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.46%) Kibana
8 8 (0.46%) Puppet
9 7 (0.41%) Argo
10 4 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.23%) SCCM
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%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.058%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.058%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 180 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.73%) Oracle
3 87 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 61 (3.53%) Databricks
5 47 (2.72%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.49%) Google
7 42 (2.43%) SAP
8 19 (1.10%) Cisco
8 19 (1.10%) IBM
9 18 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 18 (1.04%) Foundry
10 17 (0.98%) Palantir
11 14 (0.81%) Red Hat
12 13 (0.75%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.75%) Palo Alto
13 12 (0.69%) Splunk
14 11 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.64%) VMware
15 9 (0.52%) Virgin Media
16 8 (0.46%) Fortinet