Public Sector Contracts in Milton Keynes

Public Sector
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 14 21 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 17 23 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.83% 5.90% 9.32%
As % of the General category 15.60% 11.44% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 67
10th Percentile £338 £351 £295
25th Percentile £453 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £499 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% +10.83% -1.10%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £500
90th Percentile £630 £750 £592
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £543 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +17.30% +2.78% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All General Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 109 201 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 63.01% 51.54% 60.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 143 369
10th Percentile £274 £213 £228
25th Percentile £400 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +2.70% +0.54%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £570
90th Percentile £650 £750 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £508 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +6.84% +1.06% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 1
10th Percentile £13.90 £17.75 -
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.13 £9.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% +132.15% -17.90%
75th Percentile £53.75 £26.36 £10.50
90th Percentile £63.50 £30.00 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £24.72 £26.25
% change year-on-year -42.55% -5.85% +113.24%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Milton Keynes

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Milton Keynes

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Milton Keynes

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Milton Keynes

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (11.76%) Camunda
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) PaaS
1 5 (29.41%) SaaS
2 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) VSAN
2 1 (5.88%) BGP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) MPLS
2 1 (5.88%) NGFW
2 1 (5.88%) OSPF
2 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Architect
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
2 7 (41.18%) Technical Architect
3 6 (35.29%) Senior Architect
4 5 (29.41%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Consultant
6 2 (11.76%) Java Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) COBOL Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
7 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) Keycloak
1 2 (11.76%) OpenJDK
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) PKI
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) CESG
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps
2 6 (35.29%) TOGAF
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Data Management
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Data Security
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) COBOL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) MCSE
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 2 (11.76%) ACCA
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) CIMA
6 1 (5.88%) APMP
6 1 (5.88%) CCNP
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) CISSP
6 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) ISEB
6 1 (5.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) NCSC
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (23.53%) NIST
3 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (23.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco
1 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow