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 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 -15 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 7 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.17% 1.87% 4.95%
As % of the General category 5.60% 2.63% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 13
10th Percentile £415 £298 £378
25th Percentile £418 £355 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -16.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile £460 £400 £588
90th Percentile £469 £520 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £405 £400
% change year-on-year +23.46% +1.25% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.74 £25.15 £13.50
% change year-on-year -13.58% +86.30% -38.64%

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 125 190 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 56.56% 71.16% 57.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 168 117
10th Percentile £358 £259 £304
25th Percentile £394 £349 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £390 £445
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% -12.36% +11.25%
75th Percentile £575 £450 £575
90th Percentile £600 £510 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £402 £425
% change year-on-year +24.38% -5.41% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 11
10th Percentile £20.52 £16.81 -
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% -38.89% -31.37%
75th Percentile - - £46.61
90th Percentile £48.45 - £58.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.75 £21.39 £15.82
% change year-on-year -12.34% +35.25% -42.49%

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
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 8 July 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 +12 3 £434 +15.67% 7
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 1 (14.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Fire and Rescue
2 3 (42.86%) Police
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Information Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) OSGi
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Compliance Audit
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
1 3 (42.86%) Information Assurance
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
1 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Case Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SOQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce