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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 40 2
Rank change year-on-year -10 -38 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Sector 22 20 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.42% 4.37% 23.57%
As % of the General category 4.98% 7.12% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 92
10th Percentile £311 £375 £400
25th Percentile £334 £425 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £504 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.91% -22.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £484 £550 £743
90th Percentile £523 £583 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -2.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.50 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.79 £17.09 £21.31
% change year-on-year +27.52% -19.83% +26.47%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 442 281 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 68.74% 61.35% 72.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 148 191
10th Percentile £278 £313 £300
25th Percentile £365 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -8.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £700
90th Percentile £625 £640 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £464 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.20% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.78 £20.13 £16.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.45 £21.88 £27.50
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £41.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in South Yorkshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Public Sector
DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
Sheffield -20 18 £438 -13.11% 17
Doncaster - 3 £115 -
Barnsley - 1 - -
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 (13.64%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
4 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.55%) CloudBees
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Liquibase
3 1 (4.55%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Local Government
2 3 (13.64%) Retail
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Police
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Commvault Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Risk Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Supply Chain Manager
5 1 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) React Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Marketing Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) CSS
1 2 (9.09%) HTML
1 2 (9.09%) React
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.55%) Compass CSS Framework
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) jQuery
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
1 5 (22.73%) DevOps
1 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
2 4 (18.18%) Agile
2 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (18.18%) Change Management
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.64%) Data Collection
3 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.64%) Migration
3 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
3 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (9.09%) CAFM
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (9.09%) LLM
4 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery Management
4 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.55%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Ansible
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Commvault
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) GoldenSource
3 1 (4.55%) SAP