Public Sector Contracts in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 14 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 59 86 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.77% 8.61% 16.71%
As % of the General category 18.15% 15.69% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 57 240
10th Percentile £308 £205 £399
25th Percentile £350 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.89% +13.50%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £700
90th Percentile £673 £720 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £27.29 - -
25th Percentile £28.86 - -
Median hourly rate £32.81 £12.53 -
Median % change year-on-year +161.85% - -
75th Percentile £34.31 £15.17 -
90th Percentile £34.40 £19.72 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.16 £15.17 -
% change year-on-year +98.78% - -

All General Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 325 548 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.31% 54.85% 60.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 314 702
10th Percentile £260 £265 £350
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £677 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 44 9
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £24.82 £13.50 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +83.85% -21.69% -7.81%
75th Percentile £36.22 £15.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £91.13 £15.25 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
% change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds -5 55 £475 -5.00% 42
Bradford +10 1 £300 -14.29% 2
Public Sector
Yorkshire

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) AWS
2 6 (10.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (6.78%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.39%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.69%) Serverless
5 1 (1.69%) Slack
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
1 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (6.78%) MySQL
2 4 (6.78%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (3.39%) QlikView
3 2 (3.39%) Tableau
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) GitLab
1 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.47%) Git
3 3 (5.08%) JIRA
4 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.39%) Jasmine
4 2 (3.39%) JUnit
4 2 (3.39%) Selenium
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (5.08%) Law
4 2 (3.39%) Finance
4 2 (3.39%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.39%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Senior
3 8 (13.56%) Project Manager
4 7 (11.86%) Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) Lead
5 6 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (8.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Technical Writer
8 3 (5.08%) Architect
8 3 (5.08%) IT Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) IT Support
8 3 (5.08%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Support Analyst
9 2 (3.39%) Information Assurance Leader
9 2 (3.39%) Lead Product Manager
9 2 (3.39%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) cloud-init
1 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
2 4 (6.78%) Spring
2 4 (6.78%) Spring Batch
2 4 (6.78%) Spring Security
3 2 (3.39%) .NET
3 2 (3.39%) OAuth
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.39%) Playwright
3 2 (3.39%) React
3 2 (3.39%) RESTful
3 2 (3.39%) SAML
4 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.69%) D3.js
4 1 (1.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.69%) OpenID
4 1 (1.69%) React Native
4 1 (1.69%) REST
4 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) NHS
2 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) CMDB
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.42%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.17%) CentOS
3 6 (10.17%) Unix
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.42%) Agile
3 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.64%) DevOps
4 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (16.95%) Project Management
6 7 (11.86%) Change Management
6 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.86%) TDD
7 6 (10.17%) BDD
7 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (10.17%) Microservices
7 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.47%) Coaching
8 5 (8.47%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (8.47%) Data Protection
8 5 (8.47%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.78%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.64%) Bash
2 10 (16.95%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) Java
5 6 (10.17%) Go
6 2 (3.39%) C#
6 2 (3.39%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CBAP
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CISSP
5 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) PMO
4 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
4 1 (1.69%) NIST
4 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Terraform
2 6 (10.17%) Packer
3 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.69%) Consul
4 1 (1.69%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) Istio
4 1 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.69%) linkerd
4 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.69%) Rancher
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle
1 4 (6.78%) SAP
2 2 (3.39%) Brio
2 2 (3.39%) Google
3 1 (1.69%) Cisco
3 1 (1.69%) Databricks
3 1 (1.69%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (1.69%) Okta
3 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.69%) Splunk
3 1 (1.69%) Virgin Media