Public Sector Contracts in Central London

Public Sector
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 39 70
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 172 204 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.17% 5.39% 3.63%
As % of the General category 10.93% 8.64% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 118 121
10th Percentile £375 £197 £325
25th Percentile £413 £368 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.24%
75th Percentile £561 £614 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
London median daily rate £525 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -27.48% -2.65% +7.00%

All General Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,573 2,362 2,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 65.54% 62.35% 56.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,673 1,883
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £444 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £685
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 30
10th Percentile £19.98 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.33 £21.00
Median hourly rate £24.00 £28.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -31.71% +134.29%
75th Percentile £27.50 £44.93 £57.00
90th Percentile £41.60 £56.25 £66.35
London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +33.83%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Central London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Central London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 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
City of London +14 150 £500 -4.76% 41
Camden +1 9 £538 +8.69%
West End of London +5 8 £538 +8.69%
Lambeth +2 1 £205 -56.84%
City of Westminster -1 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £400 -
Public Sector
London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 9 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.33%) Site Server
3 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.58%) Camunda
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) Documentum
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.67%) Azure
2 29 (16.86%) AWS
3 23 (13.37%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (6.40%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.23%) Amazon S3
5 9 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.23%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (5.23%) Serverless
6 8 (4.65%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.65%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.91%) Amazon MSK
8 5 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (2.33%) IaaS
9 4 (2.33%) PaaS
10 3 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.74%) GitHub
10 3 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.65%) WAN
2 7 (4.07%) Firewall
3 6 (3.49%) LAN
4 4 (2.33%) FTP
4 4 (2.33%) NetScaler
4 4 (2.33%) Wireless
5 3 (1.74%) VPN
5 3 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.16%) BGP
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.16%) IPsec
6 2 (1.16%) OSPF
6 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.16%) Softphone
6 2 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.16%) VoIP
6 2 (1.16%) WLAN
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.58%) NAS
7 1 (0.58%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) Power BI
2 10 (5.81%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.49%) Parquet
4 6 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (2.91%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.91%) GIS
5 5 (2.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.74%) Tableau
8 2 (1.16%) Big Data
8 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.16%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.58%) OLAP
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (2.33%) JIRA
2 3 (1.74%) Git
2 3 (1.74%) Postman
2 3 (1.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.16%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.58%) ERwin
4 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.58%) JUnit
4 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (17.44%) Finance
2 28 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.98%) Local Government
5 8 (4.65%) General Ledger
5 8 (4.65%) Retail
6 7 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Back Office
8 5 (2.91%) Law
8 5 (2.91%) Police
9 4 (2.33%) Advertising
9 4 (2.33%) Fire and Rescue
9 4 (2.33%) Legal
9 4 (2.33%) Marketing
10 3 (1.74%) Electronics
10 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (12.21%) Senior
2 19 (11.05%) Analyst
2 19 (11.05%) Architect
2 19 (11.05%) Consultant
2 19 (11.05%) Developer
3 11 (6.40%) Data Engineer
4 9 (5.23%) Project Manager
5 8 (4.65%) Business Analyst
5 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Consultant
6 7 (4.07%) Data Architect
6 7 (4.07%) Network Engineer
7 6 (3.49%) Lead
7 6 (3.49%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (2.91%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (2.91%) Network Operations Engineer
8 5 (2.91%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (2.33%) Designer
9 4 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.33%) Implementation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.65%) JSON
1 8 (4.65%) Kafka
2 7 (4.07%) REST
3 6 (3.49%) .NET
3 6 (3.49%) Apache Avro
3 6 (3.49%) Spring
4 5 (2.91%) CSS
4 5 (2.91%) HTML
4 5 (2.91%) Node.js
4 5 (2.91%) SAML
4 5 (2.91%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.33%) LDAP
5 4 (2.33%) XML
6 3 (1.74%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.74%) Web Services
7 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.16%) CSS3
7 2 (1.16%) jQuery
7 2 (1.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.65%) Data Structures
2 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.33%) Replication
4 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.74%) PKI
5 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.16%) Social Media
6 1 (0.58%) CCTV
6 1 (0.58%) Clustering
6 1 (0.58%) CMDB
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.58%) Robotics
6 1 (0.58%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.58%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.07%) Linux
2 6 (3.49%) Windows
3 5 (2.91%) Unix
4 4 (2.33%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.51%) Agile
2 29 (16.86%) DevOps
3 21 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (8.14%) Analytics
4 14 (8.14%) Scrum
5 13 (7.56%) ETL
5 13 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (7.56%) Project Management
5 13 (7.56%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (6.40%) Data Modelling
7 10 (5.81%) Decision-Making
7 10 (5.81%) Migration
7 10 (5.81%) Requirements Workshops
7 10 (5.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (5.23%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (4.65%) Accounts Payable
9 8 (4.65%) Accounts Receivable
9 8 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (4.65%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.47%) Python
1 18 (10.47%) SQL
2 9 (5.23%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.65%) Java
4 7 (4.07%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.33%) C#
5 4 (2.33%) Korn
6 3 (1.74%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.58%) PHP
8 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 78 (45.35%) Security Cleared
2 58 (33.72%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.30%) Degree
3 16 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.74%) CCNA
5 3 (1.74%) CISSP
6 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.16%) CISM
7 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CCSK
7 1 (0.58%) CISA
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) MBA
7 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.49%) PMO
1 6 (3.49%) SLA
2 5 (2.91%) QA
3 4 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.16%) NIST
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.58%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.33%) HDFS
2 4 (2.33%) NFS
3 2 (1.16%) Docker
3 2 (1.16%) Firmware
3 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.07%) Terraform
2 5 (2.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.16%) Ansible
3 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.58%) SCCM
4 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) SAP
3 9 (5.23%) Oracle
4 4 (2.33%) Citrix
4 4 (2.33%) ESRI
4 4 (2.33%) Isilon
5 3 (1.74%) Cisco
6 2 (1.16%) Brandwatch
6 2 (1.16%) Dell
6 2 (1.16%) Google
6 2 (1.16%) IBM
6 2 (1.16%) Juniper
6 2 (1.16%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.16%) Siebel
6 2 (1.16%) VMware
7 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.58%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.58%) Okta
7 1 (0.58%) Palantir