Public Sector Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public Sector
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,460 2,476 4,522
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.86% 10.05% 10.29%
As % of the General category 16.75% 17.16% 18.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 1,950 3,774
10th Percentile £307 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £743 £676
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 19 47
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.05 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.98 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.13 £20.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -11.29% +5.35%
75th Percentile £73.43 £25.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £87.53 £32.50 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.26 £20.12
% change year-on-year +3.65% +0.70% +5.89%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,717 14,425 23,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.90% 58.53% 54.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 10,165 17,422
10th Percentile £330 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 325 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.85 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.95 £19.50
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +42.86% +51.48%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.96% +44.87% -

Public Sector
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Public Sector trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Public Sector daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Public Sector hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 52 (3.56%) Confluence
2 48 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.37%) CMS
5 12 (0.82%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2003
6 10 (0.68%) nginx
7 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.62%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.48%) WordPress
9 5 (0.34%) SAS
10 4 (0.27%) Apache
10 4 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 43 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.27%) Sketch
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.14%) Lectora
7 2 (0.14%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.068%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.068%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 12 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
2 10 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.41%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.34%) Primavera
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 269 (18.42%) Azure
2 161 (11.03%) AWS
3 91 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (5.21%) Power Platform
6 48 (3.29%) Serverless
7 35 (2.40%) GitHub
8 29 (1.99%) Power Automate
9 28 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 27 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (1.85%) GCP
11 24 (1.64%) OCI
11 24 (1.64%) PowerApps
12 23 (1.58%) SaaS
13 21 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.30%) Entra ID
14 19 (1.30%) PaaS
15 18 (1.23%) OpenShift
16 17 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.88%) Firewall
2 16 (1.10%) Network Security
2 16 (1.10%) WAN
3 15 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 15 (1.03%) Wireless
4 13 (0.89%) VPN
5 11 (0.75%) LAN
5 11 (0.75%) NetScaler
6 10 (0.68%) 4G
6 10 (0.68%) Skype
7 9 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (0.55%) DNS
8 8 (0.55%) Intranet
8 8 (0.55%) IPsec
9 7 (0.48%) 3G
9 7 (0.48%) BGP
9 7 (0.48%) Internet
9 7 (0.48%) OSPF
9 7 (0.48%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.77%) Power BI
2 50 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 44 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (2.19%) Data Lake
6 23 (1.58%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.30%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.23%) Metadata
8 18 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (1.10%) GIS
10 15 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (1.03%) Oracle Database
11 14 (0.96%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (0.89%) Big Data
13 11 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (0.75%) Tableau
14 10 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.62%) MySQL
15 9 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (5.41%) JIRA
2 33 (2.26%) Git
2 33 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.10%) Visual Studio
4 14 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 13 (0.89%) Selenium
6 12 (0.82%) GitLab
7 11 (0.75%) ERwin
8 10 (0.68%) PVCS
9 8 (0.55%) Postman
10 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.41%) JMeter
10 6 (0.41%) Maven
10 6 (0.41%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.27%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Protractor
12 3 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 314 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 266 (18.22%) Finance
3 110 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (6.58%) Marketing
5 95 (6.51%) Telecoms
6 90 (6.16%) Manufacturing
7 89 (6.10%) Electronics
8 31 (2.12%) Local Government
9 28 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (1.85%) Retail
11 23 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 21 (1.44%) Back Office
13 18 (1.23%) Publishing
14 17 (1.16%) Law
14 17 (1.16%) Military
15 14 (0.96%) Police
16 13 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.82%) Legal
18 10 (0.68%) General Ledger
19 9 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 223 (15.27%) Architect
2 191 (13.08%) Senior
3 169 (11.58%) Developer
4 151 (10.34%) Analyst
5 98 (6.71%) Project Manager
6 95 (6.51%) Lead
7 89 (6.10%) Consultant
8 65 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
9 56 (3.84%) Business Analyst
10 50 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (2.81%) Technical Architect
12 40 (2.74%) Designer
13 39 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 36 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 34 (2.33%) Data Engineer
16 33 (2.26%) Senior Developer
17 32 (2.19%) Delivery Manager
18 30 (2.05%) Data Architect
19 29 (1.99%) DBA
20 28 (1.92%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (5.27%) .NET
2 53 (3.63%) HTML
3 44 (3.01%) CSS
4 33 (2.26%) REST
5 29 (1.99%) XML
6 28 (1.92%) Node.js
7 25 (1.71%) React
8 24 (1.64%) Web Services
9 22 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
9 22 (1.51%) RESTful
10 20 (1.37%) AWS CDK
11 17 (1.16%) .NET Core
11 17 (1.16%) JSON
12 16 (1.10%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.10%) SAML
13 15 (1.03%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.03%) Spring
14 14 (0.96%) .NET Framework
15 13 (0.89%) SailPoint
16 11 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (3.56%) Product Ownership
2 45 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 36 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 23 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 20 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 20 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (1.37%) NHS
7 17 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (0.89%) Wiki
10 12 (0.82%) CMDB
10 12 (0.82%) Freedom of Information
11 8 (0.55%) Low-Code
11 8 (0.55%) Public Cloud
11 8 (0.55%) Replication
12 7 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.48%) PKI
12 7 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.93%) Linux
2 69 (4.73%) Windows
3 22 (1.51%) Unix
4 20 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (0.68%) Android
7 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.62%) zOS
9 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.14%) Solaris
12 2 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (23.70%) Agile
2 197 (13.49%) DevOps
3 157 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
4 132 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 129 (8.84%) Migration
5 129 (8.84%) Project Management
6 113 (7.74%) CI/CD
7 105 (7.19%) Programme Management
8 99 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (6.37%) Roadmaps
10 91 (6.23%) Digital Marketing
11 80 (5.48%) Project Delivery
12 79 (5.41%) ITIL
13 74 (5.07%) Service Management
14 72 (4.93%) Analytics
14 72 (4.93%) Change Management
15 71 (4.86%) Scrum
16 69 (4.73%) Cybersecurity
16 69 (4.73%) PRINCE2
17 66 (4.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.36%) SQL
2 100 (6.85%) Python
3 78 (5.34%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.79%) Java
5 66 (4.52%) PowerShell
6 59 (4.04%) C#
7 34 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.58%) Bash
9 19 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 14 (0.96%) C
11 13 (0.89%) Bicep
12 12 (0.82%) Ruby
13 11 (0.75%) ABAP
13 11 (0.75%) PHP
14 10 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 9 (0.62%) C++
15 9 (0.62%) COBOL
15 9 (0.62%) REXX
16 7 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 530 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 400 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 130 (8.90%) Degree
4 76 (5.21%) DV Cleared
5 27 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 19 (1.30%) CISSP
6 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 14 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.75%) CISM
12 10 (0.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 9 (0.62%) APMP
14 8 (0.55%) ISEB
15 7 (0.48%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.48%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.48%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.84%) Accessibility
2 36 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.40%) Disclosure Scotland
4 33 (2.26%) QA
5 30 (2.05%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.64%) GDPR
6 24 (1.64%) SLA
7 23 (1.58%) PMO
8 16 (1.10%) NIST
9 14 (0.96%) WCAG
10 10 (0.68%) NCSC
11 7 (0.48%) COBIT
12 6 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.41%) ISO 22301
12 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
13 3 (0.21%) GPG13
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 77 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 51 (3.49%) Docker
3 14 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.34%) ACF2
6 5 (0.34%) RACF
7 4 (0.27%) Firmware
7 4 (0.27%) IAG
7 4 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.21%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
10 1 (0.068%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.068%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 71 (4.86%) Terraform
2 46 (3.15%) Ansible
3 42 (2.88%) Kubernetes
4 25 (1.71%) Grafana
5 15 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.75%) Puppet
7 10 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.55%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.55%) SCCM
10 7 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.48%) Kibana
11 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.27%) Data Guard
13 3 (0.21%) Argo
13 3 (0.21%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.14%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 190 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.36%) SAP
3 81 (5.55%) Oracle
4 45 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 23 (1.58%) Atlassian
6 19 (1.30%) Sparx
6 19 (1.30%) VMware
7 18 (1.23%) Google
8 17 (1.16%) Cisco
9 16 (1.10%) NetApp
10 15 (1.03%) Adobe
11 14 (0.96%) Citrix
12 12 (0.82%) IBM
12 12 (0.82%) Splunk
13 11 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 11 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 11 (0.75%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.68%) Dell
15 9 (0.62%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.55%) SolarWinds