Public Sector Contract Job Trends 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 26 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 13 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 19.40% 12.12% 4.41%
As % of the General category 26.00% 28.57% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile £334 £191 -
25th Percentile £384 £264 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £320 £350
Median % change year-on-year +44.53% -8.57% -27.27%
75th Percentile £534 £451 £375
90th Percentile £596 £462 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

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 50 28 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 74.63% 42.42% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 8
10th Percentile £220 £240 £336
25th Percentile £375 £300 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £365 £500
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% -27.04% +17.71%
75th Percentile £588 £452 £531
90th Percentile £618 £526 £558
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £510 £513
% change year-on-year -4.41% -0.49% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £29.00 £23.82 £21.30
% change year-on-year +21.75% +11.83% +30.20%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Solihull over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Solihull

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Public Sector

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 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) GCP
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
5 2 (15.38%) Route 53
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) BGP
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) IPsec
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) MPLS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) TACACS
2 2 (15.38%) VLAN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
1 4 (30.77%) JUnit
1 4 (30.77%) Maven
1 4 (30.77%) Mockito
1 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
2 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (15.38%) DbUnit
2 2 (15.38%) jMock
General
1 6 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
1 4 (30.77%) Product Owner
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Support
2 2 (15.38%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) WAN Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
1 4 (30.77%) Bootstrap
1 4 (30.77%) JPA
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) SOAP
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Hibernate
2 2 (15.38%) PowerMock
2 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Batch
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Integration
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) Coaching
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Product Backlog
3 4 (30.77%) Product Management
3 4 (30.77%) Product Requirements
3 4 (30.77%) Product Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) Product Vision
3 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
3 4 (30.77%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) R
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Salesforce
3 4 (30.77%) Google
3 4 (30.77%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Arista
4 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
4 2 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) Databricks