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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Sector 38 36 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 21.35% 19.46% 22.64%
As % of the General category 33.33% 37.50% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 56
10th Percentile £442 £401 £391
25th Percentile £450 £413 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.94% -15.83%
75th Percentile £530 £506 £576
90th Percentile £645 £524 £675
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £28.97 £43.86
% change year-on-year +3.57% -33.96% +70.79%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 114 96 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 64.04% 51.89% 72.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 61 170
10th Percentile £213 £213 £313
25th Percentile £409 £405 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £465 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% -14.68% -0.91%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £647
90th Percentile £701 £725 £726
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 15
10th Percentile - - £19.36
25th Percentile - £17.25 £41.80
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -63.19% +17.71%
75th Percentile - £21.75 £55.39
90th Percentile - - £66.54
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.00 £31.92
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.78% -11.33%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in South London over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Public Sector

Public Sector
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon +2 30 £493 +1.08% 5
Merton -3 3 £450 +5.88% 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £650 -
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 7 (18.42%) Confluence
1 7 (18.42%) nginx
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) Camunda
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.26%) SAS
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) Azure
3 14 (36.84%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (31.58%) Amazon S3
5 10 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (23.68%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (21.05%) AWS KMS
7 8 (21.05%) Route 53
8 7 (18.42%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (18.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (10.53%) GCP
10 4 (10.53%) SaaS
11 3 (7.89%) Serverless
12 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 2 (5.26%) Oracle CX
13 1 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) DNS
1 7 (18.42%) Firewall
1 7 (18.42%) FTP
1 7 (18.42%) HTTP
1 7 (18.42%) IMAP
1 7 (18.42%) OpenLDAP
1 7 (18.42%) SMTP
1 7 (18.42%) SSH
2 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.63%) SSL
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (28.95%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (18.42%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.26%) GIS
4 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.26%) Redis
5 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (28.95%) Git
3 10 (26.32%) JUnit
3 10 (26.32%) Mockito
4 8 (21.05%) Vagrant
5 7 (18.42%) JIRA
6 5 (13.16%) Gradle
6 5 (13.16%) Liquibase
7 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
8 3 (7.89%) Maven
9 2 (5.26%) JMeter
10 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (2.63%) DbUnit
10 1 (2.63%) jMock
General
1 15 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
2 7 (18.42%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Marketing
4 5 (13.16%) Electronics
4 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Local Government
6 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Developer
2 10 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Java Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Spring
2 13 (34.21%) Spring Boot
3 7 (18.42%) Kafka
3 7 (18.42%) LDAP
4 5 (13.16%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
4 5 (13.16%) OpenAPI
4 5 (13.16%) React
4 5 (13.16%) REST
4 5 (13.16%) Swagger
5 4 (10.53%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.53%) HTML
5 4 (10.53%) XML
6 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
6 3 (7.89%) JPA
6 3 (7.89%) SOAP
6 3 (7.89%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (7.89%) Web Services
7 2 (5.26%) Apache Camel
7 2 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Replication
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) PKI
4 2 (5.26%) CSOC
4 2 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (18.42%) Ubuntu
3 7 (18.42%) VMS
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.63%) Android
5 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) CI/CD
2 19 (50.00%) DevOps
3 16 (42.11%) Microservices
4 14 (36.84%) Agile
5 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
5 13 (34.21%) TDD
6 9 (23.68%) Cloud Security
7 8 (21.05%) Change Management
7 8 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (18.42%) Configuration Management
8 7 (18.42%) Patch Management
8 7 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (18.42%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (15.79%) Migration
10 5 (13.16%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (13.16%) Programme Management
10 5 (13.16%) Risk Management
10 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
11 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Java
2 14 (36.84%) SQL
3 10 (26.32%) Python
4 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 7 (18.42%) Groovy
6 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.63%) C#
Qualifications
1 27 (71.05%) SC Cleared
1 27 (71.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) AWS Certification
2 7 (18.42%) Azure Certification
2 7 (18.42%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) CREST Certified
3 1 (2.63%) GIAC
3 1 (2.63%) RIBA
3 1 (2.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (60.53%) Docker
2 8 (21.05%) Postfix
3 7 (18.42%) DFS Replication
3 7 (18.42%) Dovecot
3 7 (18.42%) Squid
4 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
5 2 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Grafana
1 10 (26.32%) Prometheus
2 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.05%) Terraform
4 7 (18.42%) Nessus
4 7 (18.42%) Proxmox
5 2 (5.26%) Istio
5 2 (5.26%) Kibana
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.63%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
2 8 (21.05%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (15.79%) SAP
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
5 4 (10.53%) Splunk
6 2 (5.26%) Cisco
6 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.26%) Infoblox
6 2 (5.26%) Oracle
6 2 (5.26%) VMware
7 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.63%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.63%) Salesforce