Public Sector Contracts in Swansea

Public Sector
West Wales > Swansea

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Swansea. 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 1 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 7 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swansea 36.84% 29.41% 25.71%
As % of the General category 70.00% 41.67% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £298 £440 £251
25th Percentile £438 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £541
90th Percentile £593 - £544
West Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All General Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10 12 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 52.63% 70.59% 48.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 14
10th Percentile £384 £198 £170
25th Percentile £425 £200 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £534 £525 £525
90th Percentile £589 - £542
West Wales median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
West Wales median hourly rate - £13.50 -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Swansea

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Swansea

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Swansea

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Swansea

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Swansea

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Agile
1 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Break/Fix
1 1 (14.29%) Data Science
1 1 (14.29%) ETL
1 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) LLM
1 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) F5
1 1 (14.29%) Juniper
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds