Public Sector Contracts in West Wales

Public Sector
Wales > West Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in West Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 7 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Wales 46.67% 29.41% 24.32%
As % of the General category 77.78% 41.67% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £298 £440 £251
25th Percentile £438 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £541
90th Percentile £593 - £544
Wales median daily rate £419 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -16.25% +17.65% -15.28%

All General Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 60.00% 70.59% 48.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 15
10th Percentile £355 £198 £171
25th Percentile £413 £200 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £525
90th Percentile £590 - £541
Wales median daily rate £375 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -21.05% +2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Wales median hourly rate £21.00 £22.68 £11.56
% change year-on-year -7.41% +96.19% -53.76%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in West Wales

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in West Wales

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in West Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in West Wales over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in West Wales

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in West Wales

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 7 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
Swansea +2 7 £475 -5.00% 3
Public Sector
Wales

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Field Service Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Agile
1 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Break/Fix
1 1 (14.29%) Data Science
1 1 (14.29%) ETL
1 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) LLM
1 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) F5
1 1 (14.29%) Juniper
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds