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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 27 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 9 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 2.88% 4.67% 1.49%
As % of the General category 3.80% 7.06% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 3
10th Percentile £291 £349 £233
25th Percentile £342 £379 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £423 £325
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +30.00% +31.31%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £369
90th Percentile £616 £509 £388
East Midlands median daily rate £423 £449 £631
% change year-on-year -5.90% -28.84% +26.20%

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 237 170 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 75.72% 66.15% 51.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 121 73
10th Percentile £308 £340 £214
25th Percentile £356 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -13.09% -1.21%
75th Percentile £452 £519 £567
90th Percentile £540 £596 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -7.30% -6.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - £34.05
25th Percentile - £23.10 £46.63
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +46.59%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £17.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +25.82% -38.18% +61.76%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 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 -15 7 £375 -6.25%
Wellingborough - 1 - - 2
Kettering - 1 £425 - 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Google Gemini
1 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Mockito
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Local Government
1 1 (11.11%) Social Housing
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) CrewAI
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE
3 1 (11.11%) JDBC
3 1 (11.11%) JMS
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) LangGraph
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Twin
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Storytelling
3 1 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Solace