Public Sector Contracts in Wales

Public Sector
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 40 32 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 13.75% 8.14% 9.91%
As % of the General category 26.14% 18.18% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 50
10th Percentile £167 £160 £154
25th Percentile £263 £210 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £620 £536
90th Percentile £540 £668 £589
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.47% -1.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £20.15 - -
25th Percentile £20.38 £21.25 £18.03
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.50 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +24.58% -12.96%
75th Percentile £22.25 £23.75 £18.09
90th Percentile £22.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -

All General Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 153 176 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 52.58% 44.78% 47.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 96 215
10th Percentile £166 £143 £164
25th Percentile £261 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +5.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £558 £550
90th Percentile £590 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 14
10th Percentile £15.40 £11.39 -
25th Percentile £20.00 £11.88 £10.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £22.68 £11.56
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +96.19% -51.33%
75th Percentile £41.25 £51.75 £29.84
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.40 £46.14
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
South Wales +9 27 £331 -34.58% 55
West Wales +2 7 £475 -5.00% 3
Dyfed - 2 £525 -
North Wales - 1 - - 1
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) AWS
2 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) GCP
3 2 (5.00%) PaaS
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.50%) dbt
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) BGP
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) OSPF
1 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
1 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
1 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Metadata
1 4 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Adabas
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Selenium
2 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.50%) tSQLt
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Welsh Language
4 2 (5.00%) Digital Health
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Designer
4 3 (7.50%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Field Service Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Interaction Designer
5 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Migration Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Principal Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) FHIR
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) Node.js
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.50%) PySpark
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) NHS
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
2 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
3 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
4 6 (15.00%) Coaching
4 6 (15.00%) Data Science
4 6 (15.00%) DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) ITIL
4 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
5 5 (12.50%) Data Privacy
5 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 5 (12.50%) Migration
5 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 5 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) C#
3 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) Ruby
3 2 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Go
4 1 (2.50%) Natural
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) R
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Degree
2 13 (32.50%) Master's Degree
3 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 8 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.00%) CITP
6 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.50%) HL7
1 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Google
3 4 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 4 (10.00%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Juniper
5 1 (2.50%) RedGate
5 1 (2.50%) Remedy
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds