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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 16 4
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 80 138 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.68% 8.30% 15.44%
As % of the General category 12.35% 14.33% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 98 291
10th Percentile £313 £339 £304
25th Percentile £350 £435 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £519 £581 £688
90th Percentile £575 £671 £743
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 1
10th Percentile £21.12 - -
25th Percentile £25.04 £12.53 £20.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £15.17 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.28% -29.44% +14.97%
75th Percentile £34.15 £18.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £34.34 £20.74 -
England median hourly rate £23.45 £21.50 £20.60
% change year-on-year +9.07% +4.37% +3.00%

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 648 963 1,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 62.25% 57.94% 61.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 557 919
10th Percentile £235 £200 £300
25th Percentile £353 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £619
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 83 17
10th Percentile £11.60 - £12.00
25th Percentile £16.44 £12.15 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.53 £14.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.70% -18.75% -3.74%
75th Percentile £22.14 £15.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £32.53 £25.83 £57.64
England median hourly rate £27.45 £30.12 £32.00
% change year-on-year -8.86% -5.88% +48.84%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -5 60 £475 -5.00% 84
South Yorkshire -18 15 £369 -29.71% 24
North Yorkshire +1 3 £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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) AWS
2 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.75%) Azure
4 4 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 2 (2.50%) GitHub
6 2 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.25%) CloudBees
7 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (1.25%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (1.25%) DNS
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.25%) Network Security
1 1 (1.25%) NGFW
1 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 6 (7.50%) MySQL
3 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.50%) Big Data
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (2.50%) QlikView
5 2 (2.50%) Tableau
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Git
1 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.25%) GitLab
3 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 3 (3.75%) Selenium
4 2 (2.50%) JUnit
5 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.25%) JMeter
5 1 (1.25%) Maven
5 1 (1.25%) Postman
5 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.25%) TestNG
5 1 (1.25%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Law
5 4 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Local Government
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (7.50%) Lead
4 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) IT Support
6 4 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Writer
7 3 (3.75%) Architect
7 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Data Migration Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.75%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Migration Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Support Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Test Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) React
2 4 (5.00%) .NET
2 4 (5.00%) cloud-init
3 3 (3.75%) Playwright
4 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.50%) Node.js
4 2 (2.50%) OAuth
4 2 (2.50%) PySpark
4 2 (2.50%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) SAML
4 2 (2.50%) SOAP
4 2 (2.50%) Spring
4 2 (2.50%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.50%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.25%) D3.js
5 1 (1.25%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.25%) OpenID
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) NHS
2 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.50%) CMDB
4 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.00%) CentOS
3 4 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Android
4 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (21.25%) Agile
3 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.00%) Change Management
5 11 (13.75%) DevOps
5 11 (13.75%) Project Management
5 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (12.50%) Migration
7 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (7.50%) Data Migration
9 6 (7.50%) Data Protection
9 6 (7.50%) Software Engineering
9 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.25%) Data Analysis
10 5 (6.25%) Information Governance
10 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (6.25%) Risk Management
10 5 (6.25%) Service Delivery
10 5 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) Python
2 7 (8.75%) Bash
2 7 (8.75%) SQL
3 6 (7.50%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) Go
4 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.50%) C#
5 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.50%) Ruby
5 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
6 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Perl
6 1 (1.25%) PHP
6 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.25%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) CBAP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.25%) NIST
5 1 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) SLA
5 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.25%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) Packer
3 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.25%) Ansible
5 1 (1.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.25%) Puppet
5 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) SAP
4 4 (5.00%) Brio
5 3 (3.75%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco
6 2 (2.50%) Commvault
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Civica
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.25%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) Virgin Media