Public Sector Contracts in the North of England

Public Sector
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 11 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 356 505 887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.80% 10.59% 15.22%
As % of the General category 18.28% 19.32% 27.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 335 659
10th Percentile £325 £350 £306
25th Percentile £400 £428 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £560 £623 £600
90th Percentile £638 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 46 30
10th Percentile £15.04 £12.00 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.06 £14.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £28.75 £20.00 £25.75
90th Percentile £34.21 £27.00 £31.50
England median hourly rate £22.27 £22.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.58% -

All General Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the North of England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -4 199 £500 -4.76% 149
North East +6 80 £463 -11.90% 28
Yorkshire -13 77 £463 -11.90% 84
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 23 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.37%) Confluence
3 10 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.40%) nginx
5 3 (0.84%) Camunda
6 2 (0.56%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) CICS
7 1 (0.28%) Documentum
7 1 (0.28%) FileNet
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.12%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.56%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.28%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.61%) Azure
2 50 (14.04%) AWS
3 30 (8.43%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (7.30%) Power Platform
5 19 (5.34%) Entra ID
6 17 (4.78%) Serverless
7 12 (3.37%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.09%) Google Workspace
9 9 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.53%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.53%) SaaS
10 8 (2.25%) Kong
11 7 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.69%) GCP
13 5 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.12%) IaaS
15 3 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.84%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.65%) DNS
2 9 (2.53%) DHCP
2 9 (2.53%) Firewall
3 6 (1.69%) BGP
3 6 (1.69%) EIGRP
3 6 (1.69%) HSRP
3 6 (1.69%) IPsec
3 6 (1.69%) OSPF
4 5 (1.40%) SSL
4 5 (1.40%) VPN
4 5 (1.40%) WAN
4 5 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.12%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.84%) NetScaler
6 3 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) VoIP
7 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.06%) MongoDB
3 17 (4.78%) Power BI
4 16 (4.49%) MySQL
5 11 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.97%) Tableau
9 6 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.40%) Big Data
10 5 (1.40%) Siebel EIM
10 5 (1.40%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.12%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.84%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.84%) Metadata
13 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 35 (9.83%) Jenkins
2 33 (9.27%) GitLab
3 30 (8.43%) Git
4 18 (5.06%) JUnit
5 15 (4.21%) JIRA
6 13 (3.65%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.81%) Gradle
7 10 (2.81%) Liquibase
7 10 (2.81%) Mockito
8 9 (2.53%) Selenium
9 7 (1.97%) gulp
9 7 (1.97%) Jasmine
9 7 (1.97%) Maven
10 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.40%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.12%) ERwin
12 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.84%) Mocha
General
1 71 (19.94%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.20%) Finance
3 28 (7.87%) Military
4 27 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.74%) Marketing
6 21 (5.90%) Manufacturing
6 21 (5.90%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.34%) Electronics
8 9 (2.53%) Banking
9 6 (1.69%) Law
9 6 (1.69%) Local Government
10 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.12%) Legal
12 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Retail
13 2 (0.56%) Brand Awareness
13 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (20.79%) Developer
2 44 (12.36%) Analyst
3 42 (11.80%) Senior
4 30 (8.43%) Architect
5 22 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (5.34%) Business Analyst
6 19 (5.34%) Lead
7 16 (4.49%) Java Developer
7 16 (4.49%) Project Manager
8 14 (3.93%) Senior Developer
9 13 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (3.37%) Product Manager
11 11 (3.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (3.09%) Network Engineer
12 10 (2.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.81%) Software Developer
12 10 (2.81%) Technical Architect
13 9 (2.53%) Service Analyst
13 9 (2.53%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.15%) Node.js
2 25 (7.02%) React
3 24 (6.74%) Spring
3 24 (6.74%) Spring Boot
4 20 (5.62%) Kafka
5 17 (4.78%) CSS
5 17 (4.78%) HTML
6 14 (3.93%) OpenAPI
6 14 (3.93%) Swagger
7 10 (2.81%) SOAP
8 9 (2.53%) RESTful
8 9 (2.53%) Sass
9 8 (2.25%) .NET
9 8 (2.25%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.25%) cloud-init
9 8 (2.25%) Jest
10 7 (1.97%) REST
11 6 (1.69%) Express.js
11 6 (1.69%) Hibernate
11 6 (1.69%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.02%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.65%) NHS
3 10 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.40%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.12%) Smartphone
7 3 (0.84%) Blog
7 3 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.84%) PKI
7 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.56%) CMDB
8 2 (0.56%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.56%) Social Media
8 2 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.99%) Linux
2 22 (6.18%) Windows
3 18 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.93%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.09%) Unix
6 9 (2.53%) CentOS
7 6 (1.69%) VMS
8 5 (1.40%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.40%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.84%) Android
9 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (25.84%) Agile
2 65 (18.26%) DevOps
3 58 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (14.89%) CI/CD
5 38 (10.67%) Migration
6 37 (10.39%) Microservices
7 36 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (8.71%) TDD
10 28 (7.87%) ITIL
11 27 (7.58%) Project Management
11 27 (7.58%) Test Automation
12 26 (7.30%) Containerisation
13 25 (7.02%) Software Engineering
14 24 (6.74%) Change Management
15 21 (5.90%) Data Modelling
15 21 (5.90%) Digital Marketing
15 21 (5.90%) Programme Management
15 21 (5.90%) User Experience
16 20 (5.62%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.73%) Java
2 51 (14.33%) SQL
3 34 (9.55%) Python
4 28 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.62%) Bash
6 16 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 16 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.53%) Go
8 8 (2.25%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.84%) R
9 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.56%) C#
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) Ruby
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) Bicep
11 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.28%) Rust
11 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (44.66%) Security Cleared
2 119 (33.43%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.34%) Degree
4 7 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.40%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.84%) CISSP
7 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.56%) CISM
8 2 (0.56%) CSPO
8 2 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.21%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.81%) WCAG
3 9 (2.53%) QA
4 7 (1.97%) GDPR
5 6 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.69%) SLA
6 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.40%) NCSC
7 3 (0.84%) NIST
7 3 (0.84%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (10.11%) Docker
2 23 (6.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.40%) BitLocker
3 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (10.67%) Terraform
2 30 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.37%) Grafana
3 12 (3.37%) Packer
4 11 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (2.53%) Ansible
5 9 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.25%) WSUS
7 3 (0.84%) SCCM
8 2 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.56%) Consul
8 2 (0.56%) Istio
8 2 (0.56%) linkerd
8 2 (0.56%) NetApp OnCommand
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) Rancher
8 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.30%) Virgin Media
3 25 (7.02%) SAP
4 21 (5.90%) Oracle
5 17 (4.78%) Google
6 12 (3.37%) Databricks
7 11 (3.09%) Cisco
7 11 (3.09%) VMware
8 8 (2.25%) CheckPoint
9 7 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.69%) Splunk
11 5 (1.40%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.40%) Siebel
12 4 (1.12%) Brio
12 4 (1.12%) Citrix
12 4 (1.12%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.84%) Dell
13 3 (0.84%) HP
13 3 (0.84%) Informatica