Public Sector Contracts in the Midlands

Public Sector
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 129 231 359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.27% 8.30% 11.08%
As % of the General category 10.05% 15.26% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 169 307
10th Percentile £208 £254 £205
25th Percentile £405 £359 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £536 £568 £650
90th Percentile £613 £625 £700
England median daily rate £523 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.33% - +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 14
10th Percentile £16.14 £12.55 £12.39
25th Percentile £17.42 £12.75 £13.90
Median hourly rate £18.44 £19.00 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -3.18% +21.14%
75th Percentile £20.34 £34.47 £26.29
90th Percentile £23.23 £44.40 £28.75
England median hourly rate £25.08 £22.75 £20.82
% change year-on-year +10.22% +9.27% +4.10%

All General Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,284 1,514 1,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 62.45% 54.40% 54.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 1,046 1,265
10th Percentile £195 £208 £223
25th Percentile £325 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 174 73
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.75 £11.84
25th Percentile £15.16 £13.89 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.05 £17.50 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -21.38% +20.32%
75th Percentile £31.57 £35.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.67 £51.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.50 £31.96
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.57% +48.65%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Midlands -5 105 £458 -8.38% 127
East Midlands -23 24 £475 +20.10% 89
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (1.55%) Confluence
1 2 (1.55%) IIS
1 2 (1.55%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 2 (1.55%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (1.55%) R Markdown
1 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.43%) SAP HR
2 4 (3.10%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (2.33%) SAP PSCD
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.78%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.38%) AWS
2 21 (16.28%) Azure
3 13 (10.08%) Amazon S3
4 11 (8.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (8.53%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.43%) AWS KMS
6 7 (5.43%) GCP
7 6 (4.65%) Route 53
8 5 (3.88%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (3.10%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.10%) Google Analytics
10 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.33%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.55%) OCI
11 2 (1.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) Firewall
2 8 (6.20%) BGP
2 8 (6.20%) IPsec
2 8 (6.20%) VPN
3 6 (4.65%) MPLS
3 6 (4.65%) WAN
4 5 (3.88%) DNS
5 4 (3.10%) Wireless
6 3 (2.33%) EIGRP
6 3 (2.33%) HTTP
6 3 (2.33%) Network Security
6 3 (2.33%) OSPF
7 2 (1.55%) DHCP
7 2 (1.55%) NGFW
7 2 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.55%) SSL
7 2 (1.55%) TACACS
7 2 (1.55%) VLAN
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.30%) Amazon Aurora
1 12 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.53%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (7.75%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.20%) Power BI
5 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.55%) Metadata
7 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.55%) Tableau
8 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) GIS
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.30%) JUnit
2 12 (9.30%) Maven
3 10 (7.75%) Git
3 10 (7.75%) Mockito
4 9 (6.98%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.65%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (4.65%) DbUnit
5 6 (4.65%) jMock
6 3 (2.33%) JIRA
7 2 (1.55%) GitLab
8 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.78%) JBehave
8 1 (0.78%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.78%) Selenium
8 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.78%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Finance
3 12 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Local Government
6 5 (3.88%) Back Office
6 5 (3.88%) Law
7 4 (3.10%) Brand Awareness
7 4 (3.10%) Marketing
8 2 (1.55%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (17.05%) Developer
2 14 (10.85%) Java Developer
3 11 (8.53%) Analyst
4 10 (7.75%) Architect
5 9 (6.98%) Lead
6 8 (6.20%) Consultant
6 8 (6.20%) IT Support
6 8 (6.20%) Network Engineer
6 8 (6.20%) Senior
6 8 (6.20%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Support Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (3.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.10%) Network Support
10 4 (3.10%) Network Support Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (3.10%) SAP HR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.63%) Spring
2 14 (10.85%) REST
3 13 (10.08%) SOAP
3 13 (10.08%) Web Services
4 12 (9.30%) ActiveMQ
4 12 (9.30%) Spring Boot
5 11 (8.53%) AngularJS
5 11 (8.53%) Hibernate
5 11 (8.53%) JPA
6 10 (7.75%) Bootstrap
7 9 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
8 8 (6.20%) Spring Batch
8 8 (6.20%) Spring Integration
9 6 (4.65%) PowerMock
9 6 (4.65%) RESTful
10 4 (3.10%) .NET
11 3 (2.33%) HTML
11 3 (2.33%) SAP Fiori
11 3 (2.33%) SAPUI5
11 3 (2.33%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.65%) PKI
2 6 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.10%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.10%) Social Media
4 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.78%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.78%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.78%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.78%) NHS
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) SCADA
6 1 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.55%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.23%) Agile
2 21 (16.28%) DevOps
3 20 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (13.95%) Scrum
5 15 (11.63%) Microservices
5 15 (11.63%) TDD
6 12 (9.30%) Analytics
6 12 (9.30%) CI/CD
6 12 (9.30%) Containerisation
6 12 (9.30%) Decision-Making
7 11 (8.53%) Change Management
7 11 (8.53%) Risk Management
7 11 (8.53%) Software Engineering
8 10 (7.75%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (7.75%) ITIL
9 9 (6.98%) BDD
10 8 (6.20%) Data Analytics
10 8 (6.20%) Load Balancing
11 7 (5.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) SQL
2 19 (14.73%) Java
3 10 (7.75%) Python
4 6 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.88%) C#
6 3 (2.33%) ABAP
6 3 (2.33%) Bash
6 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.55%) R
8 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.78%) COBOL
8 1 (0.78%) Groovy
8 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.78%) Perl
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
8 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (43.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.53%) Degree
4 6 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.55%) CCNA
7 2 (1.55%) CCNP
7 2 (1.55%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.55%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CCIE
8 1 (0.78%) CITP
8 1 (0.78%) OCP
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.88%) QA
3 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.33%) GDPR
4 3 (2.33%) NCSC
4 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 3 (2.33%) WCAG
5 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) GRC
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) PMO
6 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (14.73%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.43%) Postfix
3 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.78%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (10.85%) Grafana
2 12 (9.30%) Prometheus
3 10 (7.75%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.20%) Terraform
5 5 (3.88%) Ansible
6 2 (1.55%) Nagios
7 1 (0.78%) Nessus
7 1 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.98%) Cisco
3 8 (6.20%) Google
3 8 (6.20%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (6.20%) Juniper
3 8 (6.20%) Oracle
4 7 (5.43%) Adobe
4 7 (5.43%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.43%) SAP
5 6 (4.65%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.88%) Motorola
7 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.33%) Citrix
9 2 (1.55%) Arista
9 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.78%) Databricks
10 1 (0.78%) Meraki
10 1 (0.78%) Solace