Public Sector Contract Job Trends 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 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 18 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 160 59 138
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 17.56% 8.74% 12.03%
As % of the General category 30.89% 18.10% 22.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 38 106
10th Percentile £359 £252 £253
25th Percentile £401 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £555
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -14.41% -3.48%
75th Percentile £600 £534 £700
90th Percentile £675 £614 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.67% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - £20.05 £12.92
25th Percentile - £22.38 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £27.50 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year -22.55% +61.24% -8.80%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £20.02
90th Percentile - - £22.28
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +12.11% +8.57% -6.54%

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 general skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 518 326 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 56.86% 48.30% 53.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 191 380
10th Percentile £214 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £575 £570 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile - £15.38 £12.53
25th Percentile £14.25 £19.19 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +70.07% -19.82%
75th Percentile £26.50 £40.81 £24.77
90th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 £30.08
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £21.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +0.24% +21.43% -7.89%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

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 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in West Yorkshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

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 January 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
Leeds +12 148 £511 +7.63% 28
Bradford - 5 £196 - 2
Wakefield - 4 £141 - 1
Huddersfield - 2 £600 - 1
Public Sector
Yorkshire

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (3.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.25%) CMS
2 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.25%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.63%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.63%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.63%) AWS
2 31 (19.38%) Azure
3 26 (16.25%) Serverless
4 19 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (6.25%) GCP
6 9 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (5.63%) GitHub
6 9 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (4.38%) OCI
7 7 (4.38%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.13%) SaaS
10 4 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) Firewall
2 2 (1.25%) Network Security
2 2 (1.25%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.63%) IPsec
3 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.63%) LAN
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
3 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.63%) VLAN
3 1 (0.63%) WAN
3 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.88%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.13%) Power BI
4 4 (2.50%) Redis
5 3 (1.88%) DocumentDB
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.25%) Tableau
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.63%) GIS
7 1 (0.63%) Power Query
7 1 (0.63%) QlikView
7 1 (0.63%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.63%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Git
2 12 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.38%) CircleCI
3 7 (4.38%) JIRA
3 7 (4.38%) Mockito
4 6 (3.75%) GitLab
5 5 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (2.50%) Selenium
7 3 (1.88%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.25%) Mocha
8 2 (1.25%) MSI
9 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.63%) ERwin
9 1 (0.63%) JMeter
9 1 (0.63%) Postman
9 1 (0.63%) Storybook
General
1 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.63%) Finance
3 13 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.13%) Digital Health
4 5 (3.13%) Health Technology
5 4 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.50%) Local Government
5 4 (2.50%) Retail
6 3 (1.88%) Marketing
6 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.25%) Electronics
7 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.25%) Military
7 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 29 (18.13%) Developer
1 29 (18.13%) Senior
2 22 (13.75%) Lead
3 16 (10.00%) Architect
3 16 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (8.13%) Analyst
5 12 (7.50%) Consultant
5 12 (7.50%) Python Developer
6 11 (6.88%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.88%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Designer
9 7 (4.38%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.38%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.75%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.75%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) React
2 12 (7.50%) Node.js
3 10 (6.25%) Kafka
4 9 (5.63%) .NET
4 9 (5.63%) FHIR
4 9 (5.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (5.00%) RESTful
6 5 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.13%) Flask
7 4 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (2.50%) Django
7 4 (2.50%) FastAPI
7 4 (2.50%) JAX-RS
7 4 (2.50%) REST
7 4 (2.50%) Swagger
8 3 (1.88%) Vue
9 2 (1.25%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.25%) Jest
9 2 (1.25%) PySpark
9 2 (1.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (26.88%) NHS
2 9 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.88%) Learning Management System
5 3 (1.88%) SCORM
5 3 (1.88%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.50%) Linux
2 8 (5.00%) Windows
3 7 (4.38%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.75%) Mac OS X
4 6 (3.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.38%) Agile
2 37 (23.13%) DevOps
3 36 (22.50%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.13%) Microservices
5 26 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (11.88%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
8 18 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (10.63%) Test Automation
10 16 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 16 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 16 (10.00%) Software Engineering
11 14 (8.75%) Scrum
11 14 (8.75%) Service Design
12 12 (7.50%) BDD
12 12 (7.50%) Migration
13 11 (6.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.38%) Python
2 15 (9.38%) Java
3 14 (8.75%) TypeScript
4 9 (5.63%) C#
4 9 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.38%) Bash
5 7 (4.38%) SQL
6 2 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.63%) Bicep
7 1 (0.63%) Go
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.63%) R
7 1 (0.63%) Rust
7 1 (0.63%) Scala
7 1 (0.63%) Solidity
7 1 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 40 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.13%) Degree
5 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.88%) CISSP
6 2 (1.25%) CCNA
6 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CCSK
7 1 (0.63%) CCSP
7 1 (0.63%) CEH
7 1 (0.63%) CISA
7 1 (0.63%) CISM
7 1 (0.63%) OSCP
7 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.88%) Accessibility
1 11 (6.88%) WCAG
2 10 (6.25%) QA
3 7 (4.38%) GDPR
3 7 (4.38%) HL7
4 3 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.25%) GRC
5 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.25%) NIST
5 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) P3O
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.63%) PSD2
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (8.13%) Docker
2 6 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) RACF
Systems Management
1 34 (21.25%) Terraform
2 18 (11.25%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.50%) Grafana
4 6 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) SCCM
5 3 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.25%) Ansible
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.75%) Oracle
3 9 (5.63%) Brio
4 8 (5.00%) SAP
5 7 (4.38%) Splunk
6 3 (1.88%) Databricks
6 3 (1.88%) Google
7 2 (1.25%) Computacenter
7 2 (1.25%) Cribl.io
7 2 (1.25%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe
8 1 (0.63%) Ariba
8 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco
8 1 (0.63%) Concur
8 1 (0.63%) F5
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.63%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.63%) Zscaler