Public Sector Contracts 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 115 151 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.74% 7.36% 11.59%
As % of the General category 12.45% 13.73% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 113 225
10th Percentile £271 £300 £213
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £532 £565 £675
90th Percentile £638 £648 £743
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile £15.87 £13.67 £12.33
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.63 £15.54
Median hourly rate £18.44 £19.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -6.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £18.70 £34.73 £27.54
90th Percentile £18.72 £39.00 £28.75
England median hourly rate £25.08 £26.50 £20.82
% change year-on-year -5.38% +27.28% +4.10%

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 common skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 924 1,100 1,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 62.22% 53.61% 55.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 745 866
10th Percentile £193 £250 £258
25th Percentile £350 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £505 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -1.46% +3.54%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £638
90th Percentile £661 £750 £725
England median daily rate £519 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 123 46
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.38 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £13.69 £14.58
Median hourly rate £24.67 £19.00 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +29.84% -15.39% +34.06%
75th Percentile £34.71 £33.11 £33.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £53.13
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +30.28%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

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 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 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
Birmingham +8 50 £500 +12.68% 191
Solihull +14 17 £420 +12.00% 1
Shropshire -9 14 £458 -14.38% 42
Warwickshire -5 13 £425 -21.00% 19
Coventry -4 7 £413 -26.67% 27
Dudley +1 5 - - 2
Herefordshire +6 3 £700 +23.57% 6
Worcestershire +2 3 £700 +33.33% 20
Staffordshire -4 2 £560 +67.46% 56
Wolverhampton - 1 £138 - 16
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (6.96%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (2.61%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.74%) IIS
3 2 (1.74%) R Markdown
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Oracle HRMS
1 3 (2.61%) SAP HR
1 3 (2.61%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.09%) AWS
2 22 (19.13%) Azure
3 17 (14.78%) Amazon S3
4 16 (13.91%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (10.43%) AWS KMS
7 10 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 8 (6.96%) GCP
9 7 (6.09%) Route 53
10 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
11 5 (4.35%) Amazon Glacier
11 5 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.48%) Adobe Analytics
12 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.48%) Google Analytics
12 4 (3.48%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (1.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) Firewall
2 8 (6.96%) DNS
3 7 (6.09%) HTTP
4 6 (5.22%) BGP
5 5 (4.35%) FTP
5 5 (4.35%) IPsec
5 5 (4.35%) SMTP
5 5 (4.35%) SSH
5 5 (4.35%) VPN
6 4 (3.48%) MPLS
6 4 (3.48%) WAN
7 3 (2.61%) EIGRP
7 3 (2.61%) Network Security
7 3 (2.61%) OSPF
8 2 (1.74%) DHCP
8 2 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.74%) SSL
8 2 (1.74%) TACACS
8 2 (1.74%) VLAN
8 2 (1.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.91%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (11.30%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (8.70%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.22%) Power BI
6 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.74%) Tableau
8 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.87%) Metadata
8 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.04%) Git
3 13 (11.30%) Maven
4 12 (10.43%) JUnit
5 10 (8.70%) Mockito
6 9 (7.83%) JIRA
6 9 (7.83%) SonarQube
7 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (6.09%) DbUnit
7 7 (6.09%) jMock
8 5 (4.35%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.74%) GitLab
10 1 (0.87%) Appium
10 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.87%) JBehave
10 1 (0.87%) NUnit
10 1 (0.87%) Selenium
10 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.91%) Finance
3 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.09%) Marketing
5 4 (3.48%) Brand Awareness
5 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.61%) Electronics
6 3 (2.61%) Local Government
6 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Military
8 1 (0.87%) Back Office
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (21.74%) Developer
2 15 (13.04%) Java Developer
3 9 (7.83%) Analyst
4 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 7 (6.09%) Architect
5 7 (6.09%) Senior
5 7 (6.09%) Support Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Lead
7 5 (4.35%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.48%) Administrator
8 4 (3.48%) Campaign Manager
8 4 (3.48%) DBA
8 4 (3.48%) Lead Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Product Owner
9 3 (2.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (2.61%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) SOAP
1 14 (12.17%) Spring
1 14 (12.17%) Web Services
2 13 (11.30%) ActiveMQ
2 13 (11.30%) REST
2 13 (11.30%) Spring Boot
3 12 (10.43%) AngularJS
3 12 (10.43%) JPA
4 11 (9.57%) Bootstrap
5 10 (8.70%) Hibernate
5 10 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (7.83%) Spring Batch
6 9 (7.83%) Spring Integration
7 7 (6.09%) .NET
7 7 (6.09%) PowerMock
7 7 (6.09%) RESTful
8 4 (3.48%) Middleware
9 3 (2.61%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (2.61%) SAPUI5
9 3 (2.61%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.35%) Replication
3 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.48%) PKI
3 4 (3.48%) Social Media
4 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) SCADA
6 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.87%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.87%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.52%) Linux
2 10 (8.70%) Windows
3 6 (5.22%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (4.35%) VMS
5 3 (2.61%) Unix
6 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.30%) Agile
2 28 (24.35%) DevOps
3 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (16.52%) Scrum
6 16 (13.91%) Microservices
7 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
7 15 (13.04%) TDD
8 14 (12.17%) Change Management
9 12 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (10.43%) Risk Management
10 11 (9.57%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.57%) ITIL
11 10 (8.70%) BDD
12 9 (7.83%) Analytics
12 9 (7.83%) Cloud Security
12 9 (7.83%) Decision-Making
12 9 (7.83%) Software Engineering
13 8 (6.96%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (6.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.61%) SQL
2 25 (21.74%) Java
3 12 (10.43%) Python
4 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.35%) C#
5 5 (4.35%) Groovy
5 5 (4.35%) Perl
6 4 (3.48%) Bash
7 3 (2.61%) ABAP
7 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.74%) R
9 1 (0.87%) Bicep
9 1 (0.87%) COBOL
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
9 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (53.04%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) OCP
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) CCIE
7 1 (0.87%) CCNP
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.87%) CITP
7 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.35%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) GDPR
3 3 (2.61%) NCSC
3 3 (2.61%) QA
3 3 (2.61%) WCAG
4 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) GRC
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.87%) NIST
5 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.96%) Postfix
4 5 (4.35%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (16.52%) Grafana
2 17 (14.78%) Prometheus
3 12 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.43%) Terraform
4 5 (4.35%) Ansible
5 2 (1.74%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.74%) Nagios
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.87%) CASB
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.87%) Nessus
6 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (6.96%) Cisco
3 8 (6.96%) Google
3 8 (6.96%) Oracle
4 7 (6.09%) Adobe
4 7 (6.09%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.22%) Juniper
5 6 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.22%) SAP
5 6 (5.22%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.35%) Motorola
7 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.74%) Arista
8 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.87%) Citrix
9 1 (0.87%) Commvault
9 1 (0.87%) Dell
9 1 (0.87%) HP
9 1 (0.87%) NEC