Public Sector Contracts

Public Sector
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 4,132 5,681 7,865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 9.78% 8.94%
As % of the General category 16.61% 16.72% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,755 4,327 6,133
10th Percentile £275 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £415 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 92 172
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.91 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +7.99%
75th Percentile £49.00 £27.98 £25.68
90th Percentile £68.75 £47.45 £54.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.87 £20.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.67% +4.17%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,872 33,973 49,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.08% 58.48% 56.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,679 23,569 34,307
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £770 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,928 1,040 1,416
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.23
90th Percentile £65.40 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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
England -1 3,214 £525 -2.33% 1,023
UK excluding London -1 2,186 £500 - 758
London +9 1,502 £538 -4.44% 327
Work from Home -2 1,487 £515 -4.63% 476
Scotland +1 591 £464 +1.09% 66
North of England -6 487 £525 - 212
South East -4 423 £450 -10.00% 168
South West 0 376 £570 +1.11% 94
North West -2 320 £525 - 131
Midlands -1 234 £450 -10.00% 115
West Midlands -5 173 £500 -7.41% 90
Yorkshire -8 144 £525 -4.55% 60
East Midlands -7 60 £290 -50.00% 25
East of England -42 58 £375 -34.78% 68
North East -2 38 £525 -5.41% 21
Wales -1 30 £500 +17.65% 35
Northern Ireland +8 16 £625 +108.33% 15

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 149 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 121 (2.93%) Confluence
3 71 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.97%) CMS
5 18 (0.44%) nginx
6 16 (0.39%) ArcGIS
7 13 (0.31%) Apache
7 13 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
7 13 (0.31%) Skype for Business
8 12 (0.29%) IIS
9 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
9 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
9 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 10 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (0.22%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.17%) JBoss
12 7 (0.17%) Site Server
12 7 (0.17%) WordPress
13 6 (0.15%) SAS
14 5 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 122 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 105 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.19%) Sketch
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.12%) Trello
10 4 (0.097%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.073%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.073%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.048%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.048%) InVision
12 2 (0.048%) Lectora
12 2 (0.048%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 24 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (0.41%) Primavera
3 16 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 13 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.27%) SAP PSCD
6 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
7 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
8 8 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
9 7 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.15%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
10 6 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
10 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
11 5 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
12 4 (0.097%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 577 (13.96%) Azure
2 366 (8.86%) AWS
3 222 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 184 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
5 177 (4.28%) Power Platform
6 96 (2.32%) Serverless
7 84 (2.03%) PaaS
8 83 (2.01%) SaaS
9 72 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 67 (1.62%) Amazon S3
10 67 (1.62%) IaaS
11 63 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (1.48%) GitHub
13 56 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
14 54 (1.31%) OCI
15 52 (1.26%) Power Automate
16 46 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
16 46 (1.11%) PowerApps
17 45 (1.09%) GCP
18 38 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 141 (3.41%) Firewall
2 118 (2.86%) WAN
3 95 (2.30%) LAN
4 57 (1.38%) VPN
5 50 (1.21%) Network Security
6 45 (1.09%) Wireless
7 44 (1.06%) DNS
8 33 (0.80%) BGP
9 30 (0.73%) SAN
10 28 (0.68%) IPsec
11 27 (0.65%) Internet
11 27 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
12 24 (0.58%) TCP/IP
13 23 (0.56%) DHCP
13 23 (0.56%) Intranet
14 22 (0.53%) MPLS
14 22 (0.53%) VoIP
15 20 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.48%) OSPF
16 19 (0.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 130 (3.15%) Power BI
3 119 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 81 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (1.62%) Metadata
6 58 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.11%) Oracle Database
8 45 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.04%) NoSQL
10 40 (0.97%) GIS
11 36 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
12 35 (0.85%) MongoDB
13 30 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
14 29 (0.70%) Big Data
15 27 (0.65%) MySQL
16 25 (0.61%) Metadata Repository
17 22 (0.53%) Tableau
18 21 (0.51%) Data Vault
19 20 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
20 18 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 180 (4.36%) JIRA
2 99 (2.40%) Git
3 67 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 39 (0.94%) GitLab
5 33 (0.80%) Selenium
6 31 (0.75%) JUnit
7 30 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 22 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 16 (0.39%) ERwin
9 16 (0.39%) PVCS
10 15 (0.36%) Maven
11 14 (0.34%) JMeter
11 14 (0.34%) Postman
12 13 (0.31%) SpecFlow
13 12 (0.29%) WebDriver
14 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.19%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
16 7 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 844 (20.43%) Social Skills
2 696 (16.84%) Finance
3 335 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 326 (7.89%) Marketing
5 320 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
6 311 (7.53%) Manufacturing
7 306 (7.41%) Electronics
8 99 (2.40%) Local Government
9 77 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (1.19%) Legal
13 46 (1.11%) Police
14 39 (0.94%) Back Office
15 38 (0.92%) Publishing
15 38 (0.92%) Retail
16 33 (0.80%) Military
17 30 (0.73%) Banking
17 30 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (0.73%) Law
Job Titles
1 574 (13.89%) Architect
2 505 (12.22%) Senior
3 444 (10.75%) Developer
4 405 (9.80%) Analyst
5 272 (6.58%) Lead
6 250 (6.05%) Project Manager
7 239 (5.78%) Consultant
8 147 (3.56%) Business Analyst
9 124 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
10 116 (2.81%) Network Engineer
11 96 (2.32%) Data Engineer
12 94 (2.27%) Senior Developer
13 92 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
14 91 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 88 (2.13%) Data Architect
15 88 (2.13%) Technical Architect
16 85 (2.06%) Designer
17 84 (2.03%) Senior Manager
18 83 (2.01%) DevOps Engineer
19 80 (1.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (3.63%) .NET
2 107 (2.59%) REST
3 98 (2.37%) HTML
4 84 (2.03%) CSS
5 76 (1.84%) React
6 74 (1.79%) Node.js
7 73 (1.77%) Spring
8 68 (1.65%) XML
9 66 (1.60%) Spring Boot
10 50 (1.21%) JSON
11 46 (1.11%) Web Services
12 41 (0.99%) AngularJS
12 41 (0.99%) SAML
13 40 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
13 40 (0.97%) RESTful
14 38 (0.92%) OpenID
15 36 (0.87%) Kafka
16 34 (0.82%) OAuth
17 32 (0.77%) .NET Core
18 31 (0.75%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 151 (3.65%) Management Information System
2 121 (2.93%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 92 (2.23%) NHS
5 79 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 49 (1.19%) PKI
7 48 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 46 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 44 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 40 (0.97%) Replication
11 36 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 32 (0.77%) Virtual Team
14 31 (0.75%) Cloud Native
14 31 (0.75%) Driving Licence
15 30 (0.73%) Reference Data
16 28 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
16 28 (0.68%) Public Cloud
17 26 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
18 25 (0.61%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 320 (7.74%) Windows
2 181 (4.38%) Linux
3 92 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 83 (2.01%) Windows 10
5 59 (1.43%) Unix
6 36 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
7 34 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 30 (0.73%) Android
10 26 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (0.41%) Windows 7
13 14 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.24%) Mac OS X
15 10 (0.24%) zOS
16 8 (0.19%) VMS
17 6 (0.15%) Windows Vista
18 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 877 (21.22%) Agile
2 472 (11.42%) Business Intelligence
3 437 (10.58%) DevOps
4 379 (9.17%) Programme Management
5 370 (8.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 348 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (8.03%) Project Management
8 319 (7.72%) Migration
9 308 (7.45%) Digital Marketing
10 242 (5.86%) CI/CD
11 241 (5.83%) ITIL
12 228 (5.52%) Roadmaps
13 204 (4.94%) Project Delivery
14 201 (4.86%) Scrum
15 199 (4.82%) PRINCE2
16 191 (4.62%) Change Management
17 184 (4.45%) Cybersecurity
18 182 (4.40%) Service Management
19 177 (4.28%) Analytics
20 171 (4.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 279 (6.75%) SQL
2 237 (5.74%) Python
3 196 (4.74%) Java
4 166 (4.02%) JavaScript
5 147 (3.56%) PowerShell
6 141 (3.41%) C#
7 70 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 47 (1.14%) Bash
9 40 (0.97%) C++
10 38 (0.92%) C
10 38 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 29 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 27 (0.65%) Bicep
13 24 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 23 (0.56%) PHP
15 20 (0.48%) Ruby
16 17 (0.41%) R
17 15 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.34%) Go
19 13 (0.31%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,706 (41.29%) Security Cleared
2 1,137 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 413 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 305 (7.38%) Degree
5 71 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 48 (1.16%) CCNA
9 42 (1.02%) CISSP
10 37 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 35 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (0.73%) CCNP
13 30 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 21 (0.51%) CISM
15 20 (0.48%) MCSE
15 20 (0.48%) PMP
16 18 (0.44%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.44%) HNC
16 18 (0.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 106 (2.57%) QA
3 93 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 86 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
5 74 (1.79%) SLA
6 71 (1.72%) PMO
7 63 (1.52%) Data Quality
8 61 (1.48%) GDPR
9 52 (1.26%) NIST
10 35 (0.85%) NCSC
11 31 (0.75%) WCAG
12 15 (0.36%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.34%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.27%) HL7
15 11 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 10 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.22%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 234 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 107 (2.59%) Docker
3 64 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 24 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 17 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.36%) NFS
9 13 (0.31%) Firmware
9 13 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.29%) vSphere
11 10 (0.24%) BitLocker
12 8 (0.19%) HDFS
12 8 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.12%) ACF2
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.097%) IAG
14 4 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
15 3 (0.073%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 136 (3.29%) Terraform
2 113 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 87 (2.11%) Ansible
4 46 (1.11%) SCCM
5 32 (0.77%) Grafana
6 30 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 30 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (0.48%) Puppet
8 20 (0.48%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.36%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.34%) Kibana
12 10 (0.24%) OPNET
13 9 (0.22%) SCOM
14 8 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.19%) vRealize
15 7 (0.17%) Packer
15 7 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 567 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 385 (9.32%) SAP
3 194 (4.70%) Oracle
4 119 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 102 (2.47%) VMware
6 96 (2.32%) Cisco
7 60 (1.45%) Dell
8 51 (1.23%) Juniper
9 43 (1.04%) Google
10 41 (0.99%) Sparx
11 40 (0.97%) Atlassian
12 36 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 31 (0.75%) Adobe
14 29 (0.70%) Splunk
15 26 (0.63%) Citrix
16 25 (0.61%) IBM
17 24 (0.58%) Fortinet
18 23 (0.56%) Red Hat
18 23 (0.56%) Veeam
19 21 (0.51%) CyberArk