Public Sector Contracts in South Yorkshire

Public Sector
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 34 11 2
Rank change year-on-year -23 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 14 54 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.75% 11.82% 24.67%
As % of the General category 5.83% 19.78% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 46 121
10th Percentile £322 £408 £400
25th Percentile £340 £434 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% -19.23% +33.33%
75th Percentile £447 £572 £700
90th Percentile £469 £685 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.50 £11.94 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.94% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.16 £15.17 -
% change year-on-year +98.78% - -

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 240 273 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 64.34% 59.74% 74.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 154 269
10th Percentile £306 £296 £300
25th Percentile £388 £418 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £675
90th Percentile £650 £634 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - £12.34 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £13.23 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.72% -48.12% +20.97%
75th Percentile £18.50 £13.96 £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £37.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in South Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in South Yorkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in South Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in South Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield -29 13 £369 -29.71% 15
Public Sector
Yorkshire

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (21.43%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.14%) CloudBees
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Vagrant
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Commvault Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Relationships Manager
3 1 (7.14%) IT Support
3 1 (7.14%) React Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Marketing Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Supplier Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Supplier Relationship Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Change Management
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) LLM
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (7.14%) Design Patterns
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (7.14%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.14%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Commvault
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Civica
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk