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 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 15 13 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 325 454 836
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.72% 9.65% 15.09%
As % of the General category 16.24% 17.53% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 290 621
10th Percentile £323 £325 £325
25th Percentile £383 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £689 £700
England median daily rate £523 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.33% - +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 46 25
10th Percentile £18.36 £12.00 £15.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £21.27 £16.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -20.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £28.75 £20.56 £25.00
90th Percentile £34.21 £30.61 £28.92
England median hourly rate £25.08 £22.75 £20.82
% change year-on-year +10.22% +9.27% +4.10%

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 2,001 2,590 3,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.84% 55.04% 55.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,505 2,105
10th Percentile £250 £263 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £582 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 318 94
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.13 £14.08
25th Percentile £15.45 £13.31 £16.68
Median hourly rate £24.50 £16.06 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year +52.55% -29.68% +20.94%
75th Percentile £43.39 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £52.73
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 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 31 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 31 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 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
North West -6 178 £500 - 197
North East +10 75 £465 -7.00% 56
Yorkshire -9 74 £460 -8.00% 92
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 13 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.69%) Confluence
3 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.92%) Documentum
4 3 (0.92%) FileNet
4 3 (0.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) CICS
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.85%) AWS
2 41 (12.62%) Azure
3 19 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (5.85%) Serverless
4 18 (5.54%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.08%) Google Workspace
6 10 (3.08%) SaaS
7 7 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.15%) GCP
8 6 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.85%) Kong
9 5 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.23%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.23%) IaaS
10 4 (1.23%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.92%) GitHub
11 3 (0.92%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.08%) DNS
1 10 (3.08%) Firewall
2 8 (2.46%) DHCP
3 6 (1.85%) BGP
3 6 (1.85%) EIGRP
3 6 (1.85%) HSRP
3 6 (1.85%) IPsec
3 6 (1.85%) OSPF
4 5 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.54%) VPN
4 5 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.23%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (1.23%) Network Security
5 4 (1.23%) WAN
6 3 (0.92%) NetScaler
6 3 (0.92%) VoIP
7 2 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.62%) MongoDB
2 15 (4.62%) Power BI
3 13 (4.00%) MySQL
4 12 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.46%) Siebel EIM
7 7 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.54%) Big Data
8 5 (1.54%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.54%) Tableau
9 4 (1.23%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.92%) Metadata
10 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.62%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.62%) QlikView
11 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (7.69%) Git
1 25 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.77%) GitLab
3 14 (4.31%) JUnit
4 13 (4.00%) JIRA
5 10 (3.08%) Gradle
5 10 (3.08%) Liquibase
5 10 (3.08%) Mockito
6 9 (2.77%) Selenium
7 8 (2.46%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.46%) Maven
8 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.85%) Artifactory
9 6 (1.85%) gulp
9 6 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.23%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.92%) Hudson
12 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.62%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.62%) Mocha
General
1 67 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.62%) Finance
3 24 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.46%) Military
5 16 (4.92%) Marketing
6 14 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.00%) Manufacturing
8 12 (3.69%) Banking
8 12 (3.69%) Electronics
9 7 (2.15%) Law
9 7 (2.15%) Local Government
10 5 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.54%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Brand Awareness
14 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (18.15%) Developer
2 48 (14.77%) Analyst
3 30 (9.23%) Architect
4 26 (8.00%) Senior
5 21 (6.46%) Business Analyst
6 16 (4.92%) Lead
7 13 (4.00%) Product Manager
8 11 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.38%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (3.08%) Technical Architect
10 9 (2.77%) React Developer
10 9 (2.77%) Service Analyst
11 8 (2.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 8 (2.46%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.46%) Software Engineer
11 8 (2.46%) Test Engineer
12 7 (2.15%) Service Desk Analyst
12 7 (2.15%) Software Developer
12 7 (2.15%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.62%) Node.js
2 24 (7.38%) React
3 18 (5.54%) Kafka
3 18 (5.54%) Spring
4 17 (5.23%) Spring Boot
5 11 (3.38%) SOAP
6 10 (3.08%) OpenAPI
6 10 (3.08%) Swagger
7 9 (2.77%) Web Services
8 8 (2.46%) .NET
8 8 (2.46%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.46%) CSS
8 8 (2.46%) HTML
8 8 (2.46%) JMS
8 8 (2.46%) PySpark
9 7 (2.15%) RESTful
10 6 (1.85%) Express.js
10 6 (1.85%) Jest
10 6 (1.85%) Sass
11 5 (1.54%) Mongoose
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.08%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.31%) NHS
3 11 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.92%) CMDB
10 3 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.92%) Social Media
11 2 (0.62%) Blog
11 2 (0.62%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.62%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.15%) Linux
2 19 (5.85%) Windows
3 14 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.54%) VMS
4 5 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.92%) Android
6 3 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.62%) Unix
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.77%) Agile
2 48 (14.77%) DevOps
2 48 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (12.31%) CI/CD
4 37 (11.38%) Migration
5 34 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (8.62%) ITIL
6 28 (8.62%) Microservices
7 27 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (6.77%) Test Automation
9 21 (6.46%) Change Management
10 20 (6.15%) Containerisation
10 20 (6.15%) Data Modelling
10 20 (6.15%) TDD
10 20 (6.15%) User Experience
11 19 (5.85%) Software Engineering
12 18 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (5.23%) Project Management
13 17 (5.23%) Roadmaps
14 15 (4.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.77%) SQL
2 43 (13.23%) Java
3 27 (8.31%) Python
4 20 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.38%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.85%) Bash
9 3 (0.92%) Rust
9 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.62%) C#
10 2 (0.62%) Perl
10 2 (0.62%) Ruby
10 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.31%) Groovy
11 1 (0.31%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.31%) PHP
11 1 (0.31%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) VB
11 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 149 (45.85%) Security Cleared
2 107 (32.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.62%) Degree
4 9 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.92%) CBAP
7 3 (0.92%) CISSP
7 3 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.92%) CSPO
7 3 (0.92%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.62%) CISM
8 2 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CIPD
9 1 (0.31%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) PMP
9 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.46%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.46%) SLA
2 8 (2.46%) WCAG
3 7 (2.15%) QA
4 6 (1.85%) GDPR
5 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.23%) NIST
6 3 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.92%) NCSC
7 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.31%) COBIT
8 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.31%) GRC
8 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.31%) PMO
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (8.00%) Docker
2 20 (6.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.54%) BitLocker
4 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.62%) vSphere
8 1 (0.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.31%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (7.69%) Terraform
2 17 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.38%) Ansible
4 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.15%) WSUS
7 6 (1.85%) Grafana
8 3 (0.92%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.92%) NetApp OnCommand
8 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.92%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.92%) vMotion
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.62%) Packer
9 2 (0.62%) Puppet
10 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.31%) Graylog
10 1 (0.31%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.08%) Oracle
3 21 (6.46%) Virgin Media
4 18 (5.54%) Google
5 17 (5.23%) SAP
6 12 (3.69%) Cisco
7 11 (3.38%) VMware
8 10 (3.08%) Databricks
9 8 (2.46%) CheckPoint
9 8 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.46%) Siebel
10 7 (2.15%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.54%) HP
12 4 (1.23%) Brio
12 4 (1.23%) Citrix
12 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.23%) Splunk
12 4 (1.23%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.92%) Meraki