Public Sector Contracts in Solihull

Public Sector
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Solihull. 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 1 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 12 16 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 35.29% 12.80% 5.08%
As % of the General category 42.86% 40.00% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 2
10th Percentile £242 £300 £338
25th Percentile £313 £316 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £375 £408
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -7.98% -
75th Percentile £438 £425 £448
90th Percentile £518 £499 £463
West Midlands median daily rate £454 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -9.26% -7.41% +20.00%

All General Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 28 40 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 82.35% 32.00% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 11
10th Percentile £278 £213 £280
25th Percentile £359 £262 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £338 £451
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -25.08% +0.11%
75th Percentile £563 £458 £499
90th Percentile £595 £813 £563
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -6.86% - +7.37%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Solihull

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Solihull

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Solihull

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Solihull

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) WAN
2 5 (41.67%) IPsec
2 5 (41.67%) MPLS
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) Junos
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (50.00%) JUnit
1 6 (50.00%) Maven
2 4 (33.33%) Mockito
3 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (25.00%) DbUnit
3 3 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (25.00%) jMock
3 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Network Support
3 3 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) WAN Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (50.00%) JPA
1 6 (50.00%) REST
1 6 (50.00%) SOAP
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
1 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 6 (50.00%) Web Services
2 5 (41.67%) AngularJS
2 5 (41.67%) Bootstrap
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Batch
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) PowerMock
4 3 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) PKI
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Microservices
1 6 (50.00%) Scrum
1 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) Kanban
3 3 (25.00%) Open Source
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (41.67%) Juniper
2 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco