Public Sector Contracts in West London

Public Sector
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 14 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 6.51% 5.25% 3.09%
As % of the General category 11.48% 9.55% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 14
10th Percentile £240 £215 £325
25th Percentile £261 £270 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £534
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -34.43% +22.00%
75th Percentile £441 £488 £625
90th Percentile £490 £580 £634
London median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £21.57 -
25th Percentile - £26.72 -
Median hourly rate £22.27 £36.57 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% +46.26% +25.00%
75th Percentile £23.69 £47.66 -
90th Percentile £24.54 £53.56 -
London median hourly rate £25.08 £18.13 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.31% -27.48% -2.65%

All General Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 122 199 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 56.74% 54.97% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 140 173
10th Percentile £194 £189 £301
25th Percentile £310 £250 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £650
90th Percentile £548 £627 £743
London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 24
10th Percentile £19.20 £16.25 £25.38
25th Percentile £20.24 £18.13 £30.94
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -48.88% +174.42%
75th Percentile £29.07 £55.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £52.00 £65.00 £86.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -6.67% -20.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in West London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in West London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in West London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in West London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in West London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hillingdon +3 6 £400 +14.29% 2
Hounslow +9 2 £378 +34.82% 1
Wembley - 2 - -
Public Sector
London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) AutoCAD
1 1 (7.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Exchequer
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) BGP
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
1 2 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DMVPN
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
2 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) OSPF
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Local Government
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cabling Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Expert
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) VMWare Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
1 1 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) ITSM
2 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
2 3 (21.43%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.14%) Bill of Materials
4 1 (7.14%) Break/Fix
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
4 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
4 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) AAT
3 2 (14.29%) CCAB
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (14.29%) CIPFA
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) BICSI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
3 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Qualys
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds