Public Sector Contracts in Yorkshire

Public Sector
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in 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 25 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 77 148 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.57% 8.76% 14.75%
As % of the General category 12.22% 15.32% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 106 292
10th Percentile £313 £303 £305
25th Percentile £350 £434 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £531 £582 £675
90th Percentile £600 £720 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile £20.83 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 £12.53 -
Median hourly rate £30.16 £15.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +98.78% - -
75th Percentile £34.23 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £34.37 £20.74 -
England median hourly rate £22.27 £22.12 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.70% +10.58% -

All General Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 630 966 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 61.95% 57.19% 60.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 558 954
10th Percentile £254 £198 £304
25th Percentile £360 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 79 14
10th Percentile £11.60 £12.07 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.55 £14.63 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -18.11% -4.49%
75th Percentile £22.14 £15.19 £35.24
90th Percentile £38.68 £23.37 £63.82
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Yorkshire

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -1 59 £475 -5.00% 49
South Yorkshire -23 14 £369 -29.71% 18
North Yorkshire -1 2 £550 +21.28% 9
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.29%) AWS
2 7 (9.09%) Azure
3 6 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.60%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) GitHub
5 2 (2.60%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.30%) CloudBees
6 1 (1.30%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.30%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.30%) Slack
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
1 6 (7.79%) MySQL
1 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.79%) Power BI
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.60%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (2.60%) QlikView
4 2 (2.60%) Tableau
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.09%) Git
3 6 (7.79%) GitLab
4 4 (5.19%) JIRA
5 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.60%) Jasmine
6 2 (2.60%) JUnit
6 2 (2.60%) Selenium
7 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 21 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Finance
4 4 (5.19%) Law
5 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Local Government
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) Analyst
2 11 (14.29%) Senior
3 8 (10.39%) Project Manager
4 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Lead
5 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) IT Support
6 4 (5.19%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Technical Writer
7 3 (3.90%) Architect
7 3 (3.90%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) cloud-init
1 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.19%) .NET
2 4 (5.19%) React
2 4 (5.19%) Spring
2 4 (5.19%) Spring Batch
2 4 (5.19%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.60%) OAuth
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.60%) Playwright
3 2 (2.60%) RESTful
3 2 (2.60%) SAML
4 1 (1.30%) CSS
4 1 (1.30%) HTML
4 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.30%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.30%) React Native
4 1 (1.30%) SOAP
4 1 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) NHS
2 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) CMDB
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) PKI
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.48%) Linux
2 10 (12.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (7.79%) CentOS
3 6 (7.79%) Unix
4 1 (1.30%) Android
4 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.30%) Windows
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.68%) Agile
3 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
4 13 (16.88%) DevOps
5 12 (15.58%) Project Management
5 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (14.29%) Change Management
7 8 (10.39%) Software Engineering
7 8 (10.39%) TDD
8 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (9.09%) Migration
9 6 (7.79%) BDD
9 6 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.79%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (7.79%) Microservices
9 6 (7.79%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (7.79%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.49%) Coaching
10 5 (6.49%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.18%) Python
2 11 (14.29%) Bash
3 9 (11.69%) Java
3 9 (11.69%) SQL
4 6 (7.79%) Go
5 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.60%) Ruby
6 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Groovy
7 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.30%) Perl
7 1 (1.30%) PHP
7 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.30%) Scala
7 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CBAP
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.60%) PMO
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
5 1 (1.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.30%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Terraform
2 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.79%) Packer
3 2 (2.60%) Grafana
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Consul
4 1 (1.30%) Istio
4 1 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.30%) linkerd
4 1 (1.30%) Puppet
4 1 (1.30%) Rancher
4 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 7 (9.09%) Oracle
2 5 (6.49%) SAP
3 3 (3.90%) Google
4 2 (2.60%) Brio
4 2 (2.60%) Commvault
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco
5 1 (1.30%) Civica
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (1.30%) Okta
5 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) Virgin Media