Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Public Sector
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 15 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.45% 1.46% 1.79%
As % of the General category 7.65% 2.33% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £303 - £378
25th Percentile £364 £306 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £312 £400
Median % change year-on-year +31.21% -22.00% +90.48%
75th Percentile £444 £318 £457
90th Percentile £481 - £476
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £488 £357
% change year-on-year -7.69% +36.55% -35.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 - £36.87
% change year-on-year - - +96.61%

All General Skills
Northamptonshire

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 general skills in Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 196 86 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 71.27% 62.77% 52.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 68 63
10th Percentile £307 £278 £209
25th Percentile £390 £354 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £391 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% -13.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £519
90th Percentile £575 £532 £624
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £420 £400
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -8.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 18
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £13.75 £15.71
Median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -61.84% +14.15%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.13 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -1.63% +28.57% +1.64%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Northamptonshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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
Northampton -14 11 £395 +26.60%
Public Sector
East Midlands

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Google Sheets
4 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospike
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Fire and Rescue
3 3 (20.00%) Police
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Information Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Manager
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) J2EE
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) OSGi
2 1 (6.67%) Pandas
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) pytest
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Information Assurance
5 3 (20.00%) Information Security
5 3 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
6 2 (13.33%) Backlog Management
6 2 (13.33%) Epics
6 2 (13.33%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
3 1 (6.67%) R
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.67%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) PMO
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce