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 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 15 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.38% 1.88% 1.15%
As % of the General category 7.65% 2.86% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £304 £307 £386
25th Percentile £371 £308 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £319 £445
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -28.35% +111.67%
75th Percentile £460 £333 £473
90th Percentile £537 £336 £483
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -10.53% +18.75% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.50 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 - £21.73
% change year-on-year - - +15.89%

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 196 105 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 70.25% 65.63% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 78 74
10th Percentile £307 £303 £213
25th Percentile £388 £355 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £391 £485
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -19.38% +21.25%
75th Percentile £514 £488 £534
90th Percentile £575 £624 £624
East Midlands median daily rate £436 £425 £419
% change year-on-year +2.47% +1.43% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 18
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - - £15.71
Median hourly rate £25.50 - £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +58.33%
75th Percentile - - £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.59 £17.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +27.01% -2.86% +12.90%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -10 12 £409 +28.53% 1
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 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Neptune
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
4 1 (6.67%) Google Sheets
4 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
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%) BigQuery
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 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (13.33%) Police
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Information Assurance Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Information Manager
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%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) PMO 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%) LangGraph
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 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Analytics
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Compliance Audit
5 2 (13.33%) Dependency Management
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (13.33%) Portfolio Management
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 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) 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 2 (13.33%) 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