Public Sector Contracts in South London

Public Sector
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 36 45 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 20.00% 18.44% 20.30%
As % of the General category 30.25% 33.83% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 64
10th Percentile £425 £380 £450
25th Percentile £450 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £499
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +0.27% -13.28%
75th Percentile £583 £582 £675
90th Percentile £600 £638 £725
London median daily rate £525 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% +7.14%

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 119 133 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 66.11% 54.51% 67.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 82 202
10th Percentile £363 £201 £301
25th Percentile £450 £402 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £706 £571 £675
90th Percentile £938 £634 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 14
10th Percentile - £16.06 £18.75
25th Percentile - £17.13 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £36.94
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -36.38% -21.09%
75th Percentile £20.38 £61.49 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £54.94
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.25 £31.92
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.50% -14.88%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in South London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Croydon +2 28 £495 +1.54% 4
Merton -1 4 £413 -26.67%
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £650 - 4
Public Sector
London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Camunda
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) Serverless
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.33%) MySQL
2 3 (8.33%) Parquet
3 2 (5.56%) GIS
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
3 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 7 (19.44%) JUnit
2 7 (19.44%) Mockito
3 5 (13.89%) Gradle
3 5 (13.89%) Liquibase
4 2 (5.56%) JMeter
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Marketing
3 6 (16.67%) Electronics
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.33%) Local Government
5 2 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Java Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (2.78%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Kafka
2 10 (27.78%) Spring
3 9 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (13.89%) JSON
4 5 (13.89%) OpenAPI
4 5 (13.89%) React
4 5 (13.89%) Swagger
5 4 (11.11%) HTML
5 4 (11.11%) XML
6 3 (8.33%) Apache Avro
6 3 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (8.33%) Keycloak
7 2 (5.56%) .NET
7 2 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.56%) Apache Camel
7 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.56%) jQuery
7 2 (5.56%) Web Services
7 2 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
2 13 (36.11%) Microservices
3 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (22.22%) TDD
6 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
6 6 (16.67%) Migration
6 6 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 6 (16.67%) Workflow
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Product Management
7 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) SQL
2 10 (27.78%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.89%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) C#
6 2 (5.56%) Lua
6 2 (5.56%) Perl
6 2 (5.56%) PHP
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) C++
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) Security Cleared
2 24 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Istio
3 2 (5.56%) Kibana
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.78%) Functional Safety
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) Rancher
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) SAP
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Infoblox
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Confluent
5 1 (2.78%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) Siemens