Public Sector Contracts in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 23 22 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 112 194 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.41% 7.22% 8.57%
As % of the General category 11.63% 13.06% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 75 210
10th Percentile £321 £208 £325
25th Percentile £500 £351 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year +26.37% -6.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £601
90th Percentile - £665 £690
South East median daily rate £538 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 50 3
10th Percentile £22.97 £45.83 £31.30
25th Percentile £23.50 £51.86 £37.75
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.30 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% +23.06% +104.17%
75th Percentile £62.24 £71.87 £57.25
90th Percentile £89.10 £87.47 £61.90
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £58.30 £29.00
% change year-on-year -57.12% +101.03% +45.00%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 963 1,485 1,831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 63.73% 55.29% 62.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 787 1,231
10th Percentile £265 £205 £303
25th Percentile £409 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £601
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 137 41
10th Percentile - £17.86 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.38 £48.40 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -45.50% +49.85% +84.57%
75th Percentile £61.37 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.71 £75.24 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £23.34 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -48.13% -5.26% +137.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -2 90 £625 +34.41% 120
Buckinghamshire +8 17 £543 +17.30% 86
Oxfordshire -7 5 £438 +71.91% 62
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (1.79%) Apache
1 2 (1.79%) Camunda
1 2 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.89%) CMS
2 1 (0.89%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.89%) IIS
2 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.89%) Umbraco
2 1 (0.89%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.89%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.29%) Azure
2 11 (9.82%) AWS
3 8 (7.14%) PaaS
4 6 (5.36%) SaaS
5 4 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.57%) IaaS
6 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.79%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.79%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.79%) GCP
7 2 (1.79%) GitHub
7 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.79%) Serverless
7 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) VSAN
2 3 (2.68%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.79%) WAN
4 1 (0.89%) BGP
4 1 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.89%) DHCP
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
4 1 (0.89%) FTP
4 1 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.89%) LAN
4 1 (0.89%) MPLS
4 1 (0.89%) NGFW
4 1 (0.89%) OSPF
4 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.89%) SMTP
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.89%) Telnet
4 1 (0.89%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.68%) GIS
3 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.89%) MySQL
5 1 (0.89%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.89%) Power BI
5 1 (0.89%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Git
1 5 (4.46%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.46%) Selenium
2 4 (3.57%) JIRA
3 3 (2.68%) JUnit
3 3 (2.68%) Mockito
3 3 (2.68%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.79%) JMeter
4 2 (1.79%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.89%) DbUnit
5 1 (0.89%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.89%) jMock
5 1 (0.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (44.64%) Telecoms
2 42 (37.50%) Finance
3 37 (33.04%) Manufacturing
3 37 (33.04%) Marketing
4 36 (32.14%) Electronics
5 12 (10.71%) Social Skills
6 7 (6.25%) Military
7 6 (5.36%) Local Government
8 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (32.14%) Architect
2 28 (25.00%) Senior
3 21 (18.75%) Active Directory Architect
4 9 (8.04%) Information Security Specialist
4 9 (8.04%) Information Specialist
4 9 (8.04%) Security Specialist
4 9 (8.04%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 9 (8.04%) Senior Information Security Specialist
4 9 (8.04%) Senior Security Specialist
5 7 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 7 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 6 (5.36%) Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Analyst
7 5 (4.46%) Consultant
7 5 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Technical Architect
8 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Implementation Manager
8 4 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.57%) HTML
2 4 (3.57%) REST
3 3 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (2.68%) Gherkin
3 3 (2.68%) Hibernate
3 3 (2.68%) JSON
3 3 (2.68%) PySpark
3 3 (2.68%) Spring
3 3 (2.68%) Web Services
3 3 (2.68%) XML
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Camel
4 2 (1.79%) jQuery
4 2 (1.79%) Kafka
4 2 (1.79%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.79%) OpenJDK
4 2 (1.79%) RESTful
4 2 (1.79%) WireMock
4 2 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.36%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.68%) Driving Licence
3 3 (2.68%) PKI
3 3 (2.68%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.79%) CMDB
4 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.79%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.79%) Replication
4 2 (1.79%) SCADA
5 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.89%) CSOC
5 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (26.79%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (34.82%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (32.14%) Digital Marketing
2 36 (32.14%) Programme Management
3 33 (29.46%) Agile
4 26 (23.21%) Test Automation
5 21 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (16.07%) CI/CD
7 16 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.71%) Risk Management
10 11 (9.82%) DevOps
11 10 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (8.04%) Project Management
13 8 (7.14%) Decision-Making
13 8 (7.14%) Microservices
13 8 (7.14%) SIEM
14 7 (6.25%) ITIL
14 7 (6.25%) Process Improvement
14 7 (6.25%) TOGAF
15 6 (5.36%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.82%) SQL
3 10 (8.93%) Python
4 7 (6.25%) Java
5 6 (5.36%) Bash
6 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.79%) Bicep
8 2 (1.79%) C#
8 2 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.79%) Perl
9 1 (0.89%) COBOL
9 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 40 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 37 (33.04%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.14%) CISM
5 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.46%) Degree
6 5 (4.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.57%) MCSE
8 3 (2.68%) CISSP
9 2 (1.79%) ACCA
9 2 (1.79%) APMP
9 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.79%) CIMA
10 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.89%) GIAC
10 1 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.89%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) NCSC
2 9 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.57%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (1.79%) GDPR
4 2 (1.79%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.89%) COBIT
5 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.89%) P3O
5 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 7 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.57%) NFS
4 4 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.68%) Docker
6 1 (0.89%) Postfix
6 1 (0.89%) Samba
6 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.57%) vRealize
2 3 (2.68%) Terraform
2 3 (2.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (1.79%) Kibana
3 2 (1.79%) SCOM
4 1 (0.89%) Ansible
4 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.89%) Grafana
4 1 (0.89%) PowerCLI
4 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) SCCM
4 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.89%) yum
Vendors
1 38 (33.93%) SAP
2 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.14%) Cisco
3 8 (7.14%) VMware
4 6 (5.36%) Oracle
5 4 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.79%) HP
7 2 (1.79%) IBM
7 2 (1.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.89%) BMC
8 1 (0.89%) Citrix
8 1 (0.89%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.89%) Dell
8 1 (0.89%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.89%) ESRI
8 1 (0.89%) Juniper
8 1 (0.89%) Salesforce