Public Sector Contracts in the South West

Public Sector
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 398 607 534
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 12.48% 16.56% 14.34%
As % of the General category 24.18% 33.65% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 489 423
10th Percentile £315 £381 £243
25th Percentile £475 £475 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £565 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +18.95% -3.06%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £597
90th Percentile £739 £723 £682
England median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 12
10th Percentile £12.68 £19.05 £16.15
25th Percentile £14.41 £20.59 £41.31
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% -37.01% +262.86%
75th Percentile £30.21 £67.33 £69.05
90th Percentile £34.53 £92.16 -
England median hourly rate £22.12 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +10.58% - +5.54%

All General Skills
South West

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,646 1,804 1,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.63% 49.21% 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 1,318 1,327
10th Percentile £213 £271 £227
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +11.98% +3.23%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 135 131
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £17.50 £38.53 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +46.43% +5.22%
75th Percentile £67.38 £71.28 £54.92
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.65 £63.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -13.82% +61.91% -4.44%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Wiltshire +1 177 £650 +13.04% 12
Bristol 0 135 £525 -8.70% 40
Devon -2 33 £465 - 11
Gloucestershire -17 15 £550 +10.00% 13
Somerset -8 12 £550 +33.74% 6
Dorset 0 10 £600 -1.64% 3
Cornwall -2 6 £230 -48.89% 1
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 14 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.02%) Confluence
3 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (4.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) InVision
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.25%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (9.55%) SaaS
2 35 (8.79%) Azure
2 35 (8.79%) PaaS
3 30 (7.54%) IaaS
4 28 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (5.03%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.52%) AWS
8 7 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.76%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.01%) Azure Storage
9 4 (1.01%) Entra ID
10 3 (0.75%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.50%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.50%) OCI
11 2 (0.50%) Serverless
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.55%) LAN
2 40 (10.05%) WAN
3 23 (5.78%) Firewall
4 9 (2.26%) 4G
4 9 (2.26%) Network Security
5 8 (2.01%) SAN
5 8 (2.01%) Unified Communications
6 7 (1.76%) 3G
6 7 (1.76%) VSAN
7 6 (1.51%) DHCP
7 6 (1.51%) VoIP
7 6 (1.51%) Wireless
8 5 (1.26%) DNS
8 5 (1.26%) Intranet
8 5 (1.26%) NAS
8 5 (1.26%) VPN
8 5 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.01%) PBX
9 4 (1.01%) Skype
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (2.01%) Metadata
2 7 (1.76%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (1.26%) Power BI
4 4 (1.01%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.01%) SAP HANA
4 4 (1.01%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.25%) Big Data
6 1 (0.25%) GIS
6 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.25%) Power Query
6 1 (0.25%) SQLite
6 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (3.52%) JIRA
2 4 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.50%) Git
3 2 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.25%) Checkstyle
4 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.25%) GoCD
4 1 (0.25%) MSI
4 1 (0.25%) NUnit
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (25.88%) Finance
2 84 (21.11%) Telecoms
3 77 (19.35%) Manufacturing
4 75 (18.84%) Electronics
4 75 (18.84%) Marketing
5 72 (18.09%) Social Skills
6 31 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.01%) Publishing
9 7 (1.76%) Police
10 5 (1.26%) Military
11 4 (1.01%) Fire and Rescue
11 4 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.01%) Legal
12 3 (0.75%) Digital Economy
12 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Billing
13 1 (0.25%) Law
13 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (24.37%) Architect
2 37 (9.30%) Analyst
3 36 (9.05%) Project Manager
4 33 (8.29%) Network Architect
5 29 (7.29%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (7.04%) Lead
6 28 (7.04%) Senior
7 23 (5.78%) Network Engineer
8 22 (5.53%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (4.52%) Senior Manager
11 15 (3.77%) Consultant
12 14 (3.52%) Lead Architect
13 13 (3.27%) Change Manager
13 13 (3.27%) Developer
13 13 (3.27%) Service Analyst
13 13 (3.27%) Service Desk Analyst
13 13 (3.27%) Technical Architect
14 10 (2.51%) IT Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) ITIL Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.51%) REST
2 6 (1.51%) Flash
3 4 (1.01%) .NET
3 4 (1.01%) CSS
3 4 (1.01%) SPFx
4 3 (0.75%) JSON
4 3 (0.75%) XML
5 2 (0.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.50%) Flask
5 2 (0.50%) HTML
5 2 (0.50%) PySpark
5 2 (0.50%) SAP Basis
6 1 (0.25%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.25%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.25%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.06%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.77%) PKI
4 10 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (1.76%) Clustering
5 7 (1.76%) CSOC
5 7 (1.76%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.51%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.51%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.51%) Replication
7 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (1.26%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.01%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.01%) NHS
8 4 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.75%) Blog
9 3 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.28%) Windows
2 9 (2.26%) Linux
3 6 (1.51%) Windows 10
3 6 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.75%) Windows 7
4 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.25%) VMS
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (21.86%) Agile
2 85 (21.36%) Business Intelligence
3 76 (19.10%) Programme Management
4 75 (18.84%) Digital Marketing
5 51 (12.81%) Project Management
6 48 (12.06%) ITIL
7 41 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (9.30%) Zero Trust
9 34 (8.54%) Network Management
10 31 (7.79%) PRINCE2
11 30 (7.54%) Change Management
11 30 (7.54%) Open Source
11 30 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (7.54%) Service Management
12 28 (7.04%) Business Strategy
13 25 (6.28%) Project Delivery
14 24 (6.03%) Migration
15 23 (5.78%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (5.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 18 (4.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.76%) SQL
2 9 (2.26%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.51%) C#
4 6 (1.51%) Python
5 2 (0.50%) Bash
5 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.50%) Java
5 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.25%) Bicep
6 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 273 (68.59%) Security Cleared
2 149 (37.44%) SC Cleared
3 134 (33.67%) DV Cleared
4 37 (9.30%) Degree
5 17 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (3.52%) CCNA
8 11 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 7 (1.76%) CISSP
11 5 (1.26%) CCNP
11 5 (1.26%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.01%) CLAS
12 4 (1.01%) HNC
12 4 (1.01%) HND
12 4 (1.01%) MCSE
12 4 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.77%) JSP 440
2 9 (2.26%) NIST
3 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.76%) GDPR
5 6 (1.51%) NCSC
5 6 (1.51%) RMADS
6 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.26%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.26%) SLA
7 4 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 9000
8 2 (0.50%) PMO
8 2 (0.50%) QA
9 1 (0.25%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.25%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.77%) VMware NSX
3 12 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.26%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) Docker
7 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (3.52%) vCenter Server
2 10 (2.51%) OPNET
3 6 (1.51%) SCCM
4 4 (1.01%) Ansible
5 3 (0.75%) Terraform
6 2 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.50%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.50%) Puppet
6 2 (0.50%) SCOM
6 2 (0.50%) WSUS
7 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.25%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.25%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) vRealize
7 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (20.35%) SAP
2 53 (13.32%) Microsoft
3 33 (8.29%) VMware
4 20 (5.03%) Cisco
5 14 (3.52%) Dell
6 10 (2.51%) Remedy
7 9 (2.26%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.26%) Oracle
7 9 (2.26%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.01%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.51%) Google
9 6 (1.51%) Veeam
10 5 (1.26%) Juniper
10 5 (1.26%) Nokia
11 4 (1.01%) Avaya
11 4 (1.01%) BT
11 4 (1.01%) Ericsson
11 4 (1.01%) IBM
11 4 (1.01%) Ribbon
12 3 (0.75%) Splunk