Public Sector Contracts in Merton

Public Sector
South London > Merton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Merton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 16.67% 31.58% 14.71%
As % of the General category 25.00% 37.50% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £258 £388 £420
25th Percentile £325 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £491 £638 £488
90th Percentile £519 - -
South London median daily rate £493 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.85% -7.56%

All General Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 16 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 66.67% 84.21% 61.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 14
10th Percentile £237 £187 £333
25th Percentile £313 £250 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £478 £575 £484
90th Percentile £488 £638 £523
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £70.24 - £39.64
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.29%
75th Percentile £82.00 - £51.70
90th Percentile £82.72 - £56.85
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -49.32%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Merton

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Merton

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Merton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Merton

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Merton

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Morden -2 1 £525 -6.67%
Public Sector
South London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Local Government
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Proofpoint