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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 28 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,528 1,843 2,176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.58% 6.78% 5.60%
As % of the General category 13.57% 10.68% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 1,354 1,710
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £745 £743 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 36
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.80 £14.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £25.07
Median hourly rate £18.13 £20.42 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -20.48% +9.51%
75th Percentile £26.24 £35.00 -
90th Percentile £67.10 £45.82 £37.27
England median hourly rate £22.12 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +10.58% - +7.90%

All General Skills
London

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,262 17,257 23,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.21% 63.52% 59.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,036 12,452 16,699
10th Percentile £336 £375 £381
25th Percentile £450 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £788
England median daily rate £538 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.67% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 231 297
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.61 £19.91
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -8.45% +29.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £58.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.38 £70.00 £64.53
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £21.43
% change year-on-year -11.76% +58.69% -4.78%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 +19 175 £500 - 33
South London -1 44 £500 -7.41% 9
East London +7 19 £550 +10.00% 14
West London +18 17 £350 -34.43% 21
North London +2 3 £385 - 6
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 67 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.09%) Confluence
3 27 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.31%) CMS
5 11 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2013
6 10 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
6 10 (0.65%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2003
7 9 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (0.59%) nginx
8 8 (0.52%) Apache
9 7 (0.46%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.46%) Site Server
10 5 (0.33%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.26%) JBoss
12 3 (0.20%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) WordPress
13 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.33%) Sketch
6 3 (0.20%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.46%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.26%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.065%) ENOVIA
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.065%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.065%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.065%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 288 (18.85%) Azure
2 196 (12.83%) AWS
3 117 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
4 87 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.27%) Serverless
7 36 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 29 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 27 (1.77%) GitHub
11 25 (1.64%) PaaS
12 23 (1.51%) Power Automate
13 22 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 22 (1.44%) PowerApps
14 21 (1.37%) IaaS
15 17 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.01%) Firewall
2 30 (1.96%) WAN
3 28 (1.83%) Wireless
4 21 (1.37%) LAN
5 20 (1.31%) VPN
6 13 (0.85%) DNS
7 12 (0.79%) BGP
7 12 (0.79%) OSPF
8 10 (0.65%) Skype
9 9 (0.59%) FTP
9 9 (0.59%) Internet
9 9 (0.59%) Network Security
10 8 (0.52%) NetScaler
10 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.52%) WLAN
11 7 (0.46%) HTTP
11 7 (0.46%) Intranet
11 7 (0.46%) IPsec
11 7 (0.46%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 57 (3.73%) Power BI
3 49 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (2.03%) Metadata
6 30 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 30 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.44%) GIS
9 20 (1.31%) Data Vault
10 19 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.18%) Big Data
12 15 (0.98%) Metadata Repository
13 14 (0.92%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.79%) Parquet
15 10 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.59%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.59%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.52%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 60 (3.93%) Git
2 47 (3.08%) JIRA
3 38 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.37%) JUnit
5 19 (1.24%) Selenium
6 15 (0.98%) GitLab
7 13 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.79%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.72%) ERwin
10 10 (0.65%) Maven
11 8 (0.52%) Postman
12 7 (0.46%) JMeter
13 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.33%) Mockito
14 5 (0.33%) WebDriver
15 4 (0.26%) Protractor
15 4 (0.26%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 277 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 253 (16.56%) Finance
3 124 (8.12%) Marketing
4 123 (8.05%) Telecoms
5 115 (7.53%) Electronics
5 115 (7.53%) Manufacturing
6 100 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (3.34%) Local Government
8 28 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (1.83%) Retail
9 24 (1.57%) Banking
10 23 (1.51%) Law
11 22 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.31%) Back Office
13 18 (1.18%) Legal
13 18 (1.18%) Publishing
14 17 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.98%) General Ledger
16 14 (0.92%) Military
16 14 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 246 (16.10%) Architect
2 188 (12.30%) Senior
3 182 (11.91%) Developer
4 128 (8.38%) Analyst
5 106 (6.94%) Consultant
6 88 (5.76%) Lead
7 69 (4.52%) Project Manager
8 64 (4.19%) Business Analyst
9 58 (3.80%) Data Architect
10 54 (3.53%) Data Engineer
11 49 (3.21%) Senior Developer
12 45 (2.95%) Designer
12 45 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
13 42 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (2.75%) Technical Architect
14 36 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 34 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
15 34 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
16 31 (2.03%) Enterprise Architect
17 30 (1.96%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.43%) .NET
2 43 (2.81%) REST
3 41 (2.68%) XML
4 37 (2.42%) Spring
5 35 (2.29%) Spring Boot
6 33 (2.16%) HTML
7 32 (2.09%) JSON
8 31 (2.03%) CSS
9 28 (1.83%) Kafka
10 26 (1.70%) .NET Core
11 24 (1.57%) AngularJS
12 23 (1.51%) .NET Framework
12 23 (1.51%) React
13 21 (1.37%) Node.js
14 16 (1.05%) ASP.NET
14 16 (1.05%) Web Services
15 14 (0.92%) RESTful
16 13 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
17 12 (0.79%) Apache Avro
17 12 (0.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 46 (3.01%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.68%) Onboarding
3 37 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 28 (1.83%) Replication
6 25 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (1.64%) Reference Data
7 22 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 20 (1.31%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
11 13 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 12 (0.79%) Freedom of Information Act
12 12 (0.79%) NHS
13 11 (0.72%) Mobile App
13 11 (0.72%) Social Media
14 9 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
14 9 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.22%) Windows
2 63 (4.12%) Linux
3 46 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (1.44%) Unix
5 22 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (0.39%) Android
10 5 (0.33%) VMS
11 3 (0.20%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (23.89%) Agile
2 214 (14.01%) DevOps
3 185 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
4 145 (9.49%) Migration
5 131 (8.57%) Programme Management
5 131 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 122 (7.98%) CI/CD
7 120 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
8 119 (7.79%) Digital Marketing
9 100 (6.54%) Scrum
10 90 (5.89%) Project Management
11 85 (5.56%) Data Modelling
12 79 (5.17%) Change Management
13 72 (4.71%) Roadmaps
14 70 (4.58%) Project Delivery
15 68 (4.45%) Microservices
15 68 (4.45%) PRINCE2
16 66 (4.32%) Analytics
17 65 (4.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 62 (4.06%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 124 (8.12%) SQL
2 120 (7.85%) Python
3 92 (6.02%) Java
4 81 (5.30%) C#
5 80 (5.24%) PowerShell
6 71 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.64%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.51%) Bicep
9 14 (0.92%) Ruby
10 10 (0.65%) Bash
10 10 (0.65%) PHP
11 9 (0.59%) Go
11 9 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.52%) ABAP
12 8 (0.52%) Korn
12 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.46%) R
14 5 (0.33%) C++
14 5 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 623 (40.77%) Security Cleared
2 491 (32.13%) SC Cleared
3 113 (7.40%) DV Cleared
4 109 (7.13%) Degree
5 29 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
10 10 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.52%) CISSP
12 7 (0.46%) OSCP
12 7 (0.46%) PMP
12 7 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.46%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 7 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 6 (0.39%) CHECK Team Leader
13 6 (0.39%) CREST Certified
13 6 (0.39%) GIAC
13 6 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.47%) QA
2 45 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.16%) PMO
4 32 (2.09%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.57%) SLA
6 20 (1.31%) NIST
7 18 (1.18%) GDPR
8 15 (0.98%) NCSC
8 15 (0.98%) WCAG
9 7 (0.46%) ISO 22301
10 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.33%) COBIT
11 5 (0.33%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.20%) GPG13
14 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.13%) HL7
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 101 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 62 (4.06%) Docker
3 15 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.72%) NFS
5 8 (0.52%) HDFS
6 7 (0.46%) Firmware
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.13%) vSphere
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (4.71%) Terraform
2 60 (3.93%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.75%) Ansible
4 22 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.39%) SCCM
7 5 (0.33%) Grafana
7 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.33%) Puppet
8 4 (0.26%) Kibana
8 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.13%) Consul
9 2 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.13%) Packer
10 1 (0.065%) systemd
10 1 (0.065%) TrustSec
10 1 (0.065%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 211 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.03%) SAP
3 56 (3.66%) Oracle
4 46 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 27 (1.77%) Sparx
6 21 (1.37%) Veeam
7 20 (1.31%) VMware
8 18 (1.18%) Splunk
9 17 (1.11%) Cisco
10 16 (1.05%) Adobe
11 15 (0.98%) NetApp
12 13 (0.85%) ESRI
12 13 (0.85%) Virgin Media
13 12 (0.79%) Google
13 12 (0.79%) Juniper
14 11 (0.72%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.65%) Dell
15 10 (0.65%) Informatica
16 9 (0.59%) Citrix
17 8 (0.52%) Isilon