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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 56 78 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.81% 8.05% 16.44%
As % of the General category 14.70% 15.15% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 212
10th Percentile £309 £177 £400
25th Percentile £389 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £552 £553 £700
90th Percentile £600 £638 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £27.29 - £20.86
25th Percentile £28.86 - £21.03
Median hourly rate £32.81 £12.53 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +161.85% -41.20% +19.89%
75th Percentile £34.31 £13.85 £21.78
90th Percentile £34.40 £14.64 £22.06
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.29 £12.62 £21.41
% change year-on-year +108.38% -41.07% +14.47%

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 381 515 900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 59.91% 53.15% 61.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 299 618
10th Percentile £243 £278 £350
25th Percentile £375 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £548
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -10.50% +9.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 45 15
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -22.94% -3.74%
75th Percentile £34.15 £15.19 £21.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £31.31 £21.87
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.63 £19.00
% change year-on-year +51.38% -23.03% +1.60%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -3 47 £475 -5.00% 141
Bradford +4 4 £300 -14.29% 24
Halifax - 1 £600 -
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 1 (1.79%) CMS
1 1 (1.79%) Confluence
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.07%) AWS
1 9 (16.07%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (8.93%) Serverless
3 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.36%) GCP
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.79%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.79%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
1 1 (1.79%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.79%) Network Security
1 1 (1.79%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Big Data
3 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (3.57%) QlikView
3 2 (3.57%) Tableau
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) GitLab
3 3 (5.36%) Selenium
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) JMeter
4 1 (1.79%) JUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
4 1 (1.79%) Postman
4 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.79%) TestNG
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Health Technology
4 4 (7.14%) Law
4 4 (7.14%) Local Government
5 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (8.93%) Architect
3 5 (8.93%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Change Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Designer
5 3 (5.36%) IT Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) IT Support
5 3 (5.36%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Senior
5 3 (5.36%) Support Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Test Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Transformation Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow Administrator
6 2 (3.57%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
2 4 (7.14%) Node.js
2 4 (7.14%) React
3 3 (5.36%) Playwright
4 2 (3.57%) PySpark
4 2 (3.57%) REST
4 2 (3.57%) RESTful
4 2 (3.57%) SOAP
5 1 (1.79%) D3.js
5 1 (1.79%) Django
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) LDAP
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth
5 1 (1.79%) OpenID
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.79%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.79%) SAML
5 1 (1.79%) Web Services
5 1 (1.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) NHS
2 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.57%) CMDB
4 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Android
2 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (33.93%) Agile
2 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.07%) DevOps
5 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.71%) Data Analysis
6 6 (10.71%) Project Management
6 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 5 (8.93%) Business Analysis
7 5 (8.93%) Customer Service
7 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
7 5 (8.93%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (7.14%) Clean Code
8 4 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (8.93%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) C#
4 2 (3.57%) Java
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) CBAP
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CISSP
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.14%) GDPR
4 3 (5.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.57%) NCSC
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.79%) NIST
6 1 (1.79%) QA
6 1 (1.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Grafana
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Brio
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Google
2 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media