Public Sector Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Public Sector
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 305 112 176
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 10.21% 8.33% 9.14%
As % of the General category 19.27% 13.63% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 74 124
10th Percentile £351 £268 £300
25th Percentile £419 £381 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -9.33% -7.19%
75th Percentile £578 £569 £550
90th Percentile £645 £610 £618
England median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.37% -0.40% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £17.09 - £12.82
25th Percentile £21.15 £14.70 £15.04
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.57 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.59% -18.07% +7.59%
75th Percentile £32.77 £17.99 £31.13
90th Percentile £60.80 £18.44 £35.00
England median hourly rate £22.38 £22.39 £24.00
% change year-on-year -0.01% -6.73% +20.00%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 general skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,583 822 1,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.01% 61.16% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 548 740
10th Percentile £300 £195 £255
25th Percentile £400 £347 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £675 £681 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 38 113
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.48 £11.07
25th Percentile £16.13 £14.00 £13.91
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.73% -9.71% +5.56%
75th Percentile £32.44 £23.67 £37.50
90th Percentile £59.50 £31.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £26.80 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.80% +7.67% -22.86%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. 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
Birmingham +1 93 £513 +4.59% 41
Shropshire -10 73 £460 +0.42% 14
Warwickshire +20 50 £550 +10.00% 9
Coventry -9 28 £500 +29.03% 1
Solihull -6 16 £402 -4.29% 2
Staffordshire +7 9 £413 -28.07% 11
Worcestershire -16 1 £363 -30.95% 2
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (7.87%) SAS
2 16 (5.25%) Confluence
3 15 (4.92%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.64%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.66%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.33%) Sketch
3 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) NEC Housing
1 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.66%) Maximo
2 2 (0.66%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.66%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.66%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) SAP PSCD
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (19.02%) AWS
2 52 (17.05%) Azure
3 13 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 13 (4.26%) Amazon S3
3 13 (4.26%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (3.93%) AWS KMS
5 11 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (3.61%) Route 53
6 10 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.30%) GitHub
7 7 (2.30%) PaaS
7 7 (2.30%) SaaS
8 6 (1.97%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.64%) GCP
10 4 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.98%) IaaS
11 3 (0.98%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.95%) Firewall
2 7 (2.30%) VPN
3 4 (1.31%) LAN
4 3 (0.98%) SSL
4 3 (0.98%) WAN
5 2 (0.66%) BGP
5 2 (0.66%) DNS
5 2 (0.66%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.66%) MPLS
5 2 (0.66%) Network Security
5 2 (0.66%) VLAN
5 2 (0.66%) Wireless
5 2 (0.66%) WLAN
6 1 (0.33%) Broadband
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.33%) DHCP
6 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.33%) IPsec
6 1 (0.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.57%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.25%) Pentaho
3 14 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (3.93%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (3.93%) Power BI
5 11 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.62%) Oracle Database
6 8 (2.62%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.64%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.31%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.98%) Metadata
10 3 (0.98%) Tableau
11 2 (0.66%) Data Hub
11 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (9.84%) Git
2 28 (9.18%) JIRA
3 25 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.59%) JUnit
5 12 (3.93%) Maven
5 12 (3.93%) Mockito
6 11 (3.61%) SonarQube
7 9 (2.95%) DbUnit
7 9 (2.95%) jMock
8 8 (2.62%) GitLab
8 8 (2.62%) JMeter
9 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.98%) Toad
11 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.66%) ERwin
11 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.66%) Postman
11 2 (0.66%) Selenium
12 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 81 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 35 (11.48%) Finance
3 31 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.87%) Local Government
5 16 (5.25%) Legal
6 15 (4.92%) Police
7 8 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.64%) Law
9 5 (1.64%) Military
10 4 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.33%) Automotive
12 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (11.15%) Developer
2 33 (10.82%) Analyst
3 32 (10.49%) Architect
4 31 (10.16%) Senior
5 24 (7.87%) Data Engineer
6 23 (7.54%) Lead
7 20 (6.56%) Java Developer
8 14 (4.59%) Business Analyst
8 14 (4.59%) Consultant
8 14 (4.59%) Release Manager
9 12 (3.93%) Accountant
9 12 (3.93%) Systems Accountant
10 11 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.28%) Senior Accountant
11 10 (3.28%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.28%) Senior Systems Accountant
12 9 (2.95%) Designer
13 8 (2.62%) DBA
14 7 (2.30%) Performance Engineer
14 7 (2.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.89%) REST
2 20 (6.56%) Spring Boot
3 19 (6.23%) Spring
4 17 (5.57%) AngularJS
5 14 (4.59%) RESTful
5 14 (4.59%) SOAP
6 12 (3.93%) Hibernate
6 12 (3.93%) JPA
6 12 (3.93%) Web Services
7 11 (3.61%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (3.61%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (3.61%) Spring Batch
7 11 (3.61%) Spring Cloud
7 11 (3.61%) Spring Integration
8 9 (2.95%) PowerMock
9 8 (2.62%) Node.js
10 7 (2.30%) Bootstrap
11 6 (1.97%) XML
12 5 (1.64%) Kafka
12 5 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.57%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.59%) Data Structures
2 14 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.95%) NHS
5 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.64%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.66%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.66%) PKI
9 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.66%) Replication
9 2 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.90%) Linux
2 9 (2.95%) Windows
3 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.98%) Unix
4 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (30.16%) Agile
2 56 (18.36%) DevOps
3 51 (16.72%) CI/CD
4 50 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 40 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (12.46%) Migration
7 34 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (10.82%) Analytics
9 31 (10.16%) Scrum
10 29 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (8.85%) Data Modelling
11 27 (8.85%) Records Management
12 26 (8.52%) Change Management
13 25 (8.20%) Containerisation
13 25 (8.20%) Data Integration
13 25 (8.20%) Decision-Making
13 25 (8.20%) ETL
14 23 (7.54%) Microservices
15 22 (7.21%) Project Delivery
16 20 (6.56%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 72 (23.61%) SQL
2 35 (11.48%) Java
3 21 (6.89%) Python
4 8 (2.62%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.62%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.30%) Bash
6 5 (1.64%) Scala
7 4 (1.31%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.98%) C#
8 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.66%) Bicep
9 2 (0.66%) Go
9 2 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.33%) COBOL
10 1 (0.33%) Groovy
10 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.33%) R
10 1 (0.33%) Ruby
10 1 (0.33%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 143 (46.89%) Security Cleared
2 81 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (2.95%) Degree
4 7 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.31%) CCNP
7 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.66%) CCIE
9 2 (0.66%) CCNA
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.25%) QA
3 10 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.31%) GDPR
5 4 (1.31%) WCAG
6 3 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.66%) NIST
7 2 (0.66%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) COBIT
8 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (9.84%) Docker
2 8 (2.62%) Postfix
3 7 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) vSphere
5 1 (0.33%) etcd
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.93%) Grafana
3 10 (3.28%) Terraform
4 5 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.98%) Ansible
6 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.66%) Kibana
6 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.66%) vRealize
6 2 (0.66%) VxRail
7 1 (0.33%) CASB
7 1 (0.33%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.33%) logstash
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (16.39%) Oracle
2 21 (6.89%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.23%) Talend
4 13 (4.26%) SAP
5 11 (3.61%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.61%) Jaspersoft
6 10 (3.28%) Denodo
6 10 (3.28%) Informatica
7 8 (2.62%) VMware
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco
8 6 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.97%) IBM
8 6 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.64%) Ariba
9 5 (1.64%) Databricks
10 4 (1.31%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.31%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.31%) Pega
10 4 (1.31%) Splunk
89 Public Sector jobs in the West Midlands