Public Sector Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 5 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.88% 4.95% 4.29%
As % of the General category 2.65% 8.70% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 10
10th Percentile £298 £378 £188
25th Percentile £355 £391 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £225
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +100.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £400 £588 £313
90th Percentile £520 £620 £403
East Midlands median daily rate £405 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +1.25% -33.33% +40.35%

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 common skills in Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 189 161 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 71.05% 56.89% 56.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 116 99
10th Percentile £259 £303 £286
25th Percentile £348 £369 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £538
90th Percentile £512 £620 £579
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% -10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile £16.81 - £32.09
25th Percentile - £14.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £21.39 £35.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% -31.37% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £46.61 £51.50
90th Percentile - £58.75 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £16.63 £26.99
% change year-on-year +28.62% -38.38% +11.30%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Northamptonshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Northamptonshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Northamptonshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Northamptonshire

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 1 July 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
Northampton -19 5 £375 -16.67% 28
Public Sector
East Midlands

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JDBC
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Compliance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Solace