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 advertised in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 173 316 484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.07% 13.56% 13.69%
As % of the General category 16.11% 23.46% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 276 407
10th Percentile £333 £209 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £673 £540
90th Percentile £615 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £538 £505
% change year-on-year -2.33% +6.44% +4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 18
10th Percentile £13.24 £12.00 £12.18
25th Percentile £15.47 £13.31 £13.19
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.62 £16.20
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +8.77% -4.71%
75th Percentile £23.38 £22.25 £17.70
90th Percentile £35.00 £27.13 £18.39
England median hourly rate £21.50 £20.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.29% +2.10% +8.11%

All General Skills
West Midlands

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,074 1,347 1,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 56.29% 57.81% 56.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 950 1,508
10th Percentile £263 £228 £259
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +6.37% +15.15%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 42 47
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.90 £12.50 £12.90
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +18.18% +1.54%
75th Percentile £38.13 £28.56 £18.75
90th Percentile £56.25 £56.63 £20.90
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.15% +51.16% -4.17%

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 7 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 May 2024. 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 -10 67 £450 -28.00% 53
Shropshire +14 28 £535 -0.93% 1
Coventry +11 18 £563 +25.00% 14
Solihull -2 15 £375 -7.98% 3
Staffordshire -4 12 £369 -26.23% 7
Herefordshire -3 8 £567 -12.85% 3
Worcestershire +6 5 £500 +17.65% 1
Warwickshire -11 5 - - 4
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 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.16%) CICS
3 2 (1.16%) CMS
3 2 (1.16%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.09%) Azure
2 9 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.73%) OCI
4 2 (1.16%) AWS
4 2 (1.16%) Azure App Service
4 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.16%) PaaS
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.58%) IaaS
5 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.58%) SaaS
5 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.51%) WAN
2 11 (6.36%) Network Security
3 10 (5.78%) BGP
3 10 (5.78%) Firewall
3 10 (5.78%) IPsec
3 10 (5.78%) MPLS
4 7 (4.05%) VPN
4 7 (4.05%) Wireless
5 5 (2.89%) DNS
5 5 (2.89%) Junos
6 4 (2.31%) DHCP
7 3 (1.73%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.16%) 5G
8 2 (1.16%) Internet
8 2 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.16%) LAN
8 2 (1.16%) SAN
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.73%) DB2
2 3 (1.73%) MySQL
3 2 (1.16%) Big Data
3 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.16%) IDMS
3 2 (1.16%) Metadata
3 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.58%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (9.25%) PVCS
1 16 (9.25%) Visual Studio
2 6 (3.47%) Git
3 3 (1.73%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) Appium
4 2 (1.16%) UI Automator
4 2 (1.16%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 30 (17.34%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.67%) Finance
4 6 (3.47%) Local Government
4 6 (3.47%) Police
5 5 (2.89%) Legal
6 3 (1.73%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.16%) Back Office
7 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.16%) Marketing
7 2 (1.16%) Military
7 2 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Publishing
8 1 (0.58%) Electronics
8 1 (0.58%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Law
8 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (9.83%) Analyst
2 16 (9.25%) C Programmer
2 16 (9.25%) Programmer
2 16 (9.25%) Senior
3 15 (8.67%) Project Manager
4 12 (6.94%) 3rd Line Support
4 12 (6.94%) Lead
4 12 (6.94%) Network Engineer
5 10 (5.78%) Senior Manager
5 10 (5.78%) WAN Engineer
6 9 (5.20%) Architect
6 9 (5.20%) Support Engineer
7 8 (4.62%) Developer
7 8 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (4.62%) Senior Project Manager
8 6 (3.47%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (3.47%) Consultant
8 6 (3.47%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.47%) Network Manager
8 6 (3.47%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.73%) .NET
1 3 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.16%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.58%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.58%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.58%) Node.js
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.58%) React
3 1 (0.58%) REST
3 1 (0.58%) Swagger
3 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.78%) PKI
2 6 (3.47%) Driving Licence
3 5 (2.89%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (2.89%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.73%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.73%) Digital Media
5 3 (1.73%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.73%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.16%) Handset
6 2 (1.16%) IoT
6 2 (1.16%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.25%) Windows
2 12 (6.94%) Linux
3 5 (2.89%) Mac OS X
3 5 (2.89%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.31%) Android
4 4 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.73%) Unix
6 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.16%) zOS
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 27 (15.61%) Agile
3 20 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (9.25%) PRINCE2
4 16 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (8.67%) Data Analysis
5 15 (8.67%) SIEM
6 14 (8.09%) Project Management
7 13 (7.51%) Analytics
8 12 (6.94%) ITIL
9 11 (6.36%) Decision-Making
9 11 (6.36%) Information Security
9 11 (6.36%) Risk Management
10 10 (5.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (5.78%) Project Delivery
10 10 (5.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (5.20%) User Experience
12 8 (4.62%) DevOps
12 8 (4.62%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.40%) PL/SQL
2 16 (9.25%) C
3 6 (3.47%) SQL
4 3 (1.73%) C#
4 3 (1.73%) C++
4 3 (1.73%) COBOL
5 2 (1.16%) CLIST
5 2 (1.16%) Java
5 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.16%) R
5 2 (1.16%) REXX
5 2 (1.16%) SELCOPY
5 2 (1.16%) Swift
6 1 (0.58%) Bash
6 1 (0.58%) Bicep
6 1 (0.58%) Bourne shell
6 1 (0.58%) Korn
6 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.58%) Python
6 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (43.93%) Security Cleared
2 48 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.51%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.62%) CCNA
5 8 (4.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 6 (3.47%) CCNP
7 5 (2.89%) Degree
8 4 (2.31%) CCIE
9 3 (1.73%) CISSP
9 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.73%) GIAC
9 3 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.16%) CASP
10 2 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.16%) GCED
10 2 (1.16%) GSEC
10 2 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) GDPR
1 8 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (2.89%) HIPAA
2 5 (2.89%) NIST
3 4 (2.31%) QA
4 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 3 (1.73%) ISO17020
5 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.16%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (1.16%) NCSC
5 2 (1.16%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 11 (6.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.73%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.16%) iptables
4 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.58%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.73%) Grafana
2 3 (1.73%) Terraform
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.16%) Kibana
3 2 (1.16%) logstash
3 2 (1.16%) SCCM
4 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (8.09%) Juniper
1 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.20%) Cisco
2 9 (5.20%) Dell
2 9 (5.20%) Oracle
3 5 (2.89%) VMware
4 4 (2.31%) Citrix
4 4 (2.31%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.31%) Talend
5 3 (1.73%) Denodo
5 3 (1.73%) IBM
5 3 (1.73%) LogRhythm
5 3 (1.73%) TippingPoint
6 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.16%) SAP
6 2 (1.16%) Syncsort
6 2 (1.16%) Trend Micro