Public Sector Contracts in Sheffield

Public Sector
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 8 2
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 13 51 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.08% 13.46% 27.97%
As % of the General category 5.99% 21.89% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 46 117
10th Percentile £320 £408 £450
25th Percentile £334 £434 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -19.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £452 £572 £700
90th Percentile £477 £685 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £369 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -29.71% -19.23% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.50 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 £11.94 -
% change year-on-year +54.94% - -

All General Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 217 233 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 68.03% 61.48% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 132 249
10th Percentile £323 £375 £383
25th Percentile £389 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -6.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £688
90th Percentile £650 £644 £743
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £493 £550
% change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - £14.50 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.31 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% -13.73% +59.38%
75th Percentile £18.50 - £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 - £37.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
% change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.69%) CloudBees
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Commvault Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Relationships Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Marketing Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Supplier Relationship Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
1 4 (30.77%) Change Management
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (15.38%) LLM
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Budget Management
4 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
4 1 (7.69%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.69%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Commvault
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk