Public Sector Contracts in England

Public Sector
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,276 4,604 5,451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.84% 9.22% 7.66%
As % of the General category 15.15% 15.58% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,193 3,448 4,247
10th Percentile £311 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £725 £735 £686
UK median daily rate £516 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 89 149
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.60 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £17.25 £15.93
Median hourly rate £21.62 £20.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.54% +0.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £54.66 £30.00 £25.68
90th Percentile £70.12 £47.75 £55.30
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,618 29,557 40,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.31% 59.18% 56.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,947 20,746 28,118
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £686 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,789 968 1,313
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% +50.70% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.79 £46.50
90th Percentile £65.01 £70.94 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +9 1,520 £538 -4.44% 343
North of England -5 496 £525 - 210
South East -2 433 £450 -10.00% 176
South West 0 386 £570 +1.33% 97
North West -2 327 £525 - 124
Midlands -2 242 £450 -10.00% 123
West Midlands -4 178 £500 -7.41% 94
Yorkshire -8 145 £525 -4.55% 65
East Midlands -5 63 £275 -52.50% 29
East of England -42 63 £375 -34.78% 67
North East -2 39 £525 -4.55% 21
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 128 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.56%) Confluence
3 47 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.82%) CMS
5 16 (0.49%) nginx
6 13 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
7 12 (0.37%) Apache
8 11 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
8 11 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.27%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.21%) Site Server
13 5 (0.15%) Camunda
13 5 (0.15%) IIS
13 5 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 101 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.21%) Sketch
8 5 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.092%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.092%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.092%) Trello
11 2 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.061%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.031%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.031%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.031%) Blender
12 1 (0.031%) Revit
12 1 (0.031%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.031%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.52%) Primavera
3 15 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.37%) SAP PSCD
5 10 (0.31%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
6 9 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
7 6 (0.18%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.12%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.12%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.092%) Aareon QL
9 3 (0.092%) Oracle FAH
9 3 (0.092%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.061%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 475 (14.50%) Azure
2 297 (9.07%) AWS
3 180 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
5 135 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 75 (2.29%) PaaS
7 68 (2.08%) Serverless
8 65 (1.98%) SaaS
9 60 (1.83%) IaaS
10 51 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
11 48 (1.47%) Entra ID
12 45 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
13 44 (1.34%) GitHub
14 39 (1.19%) Amazon S3
14 39 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (1.13%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.07%) PowerApps
17 32 (0.98%) GCP
18 27 (0.82%) Azure Service Bus
19 24 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 136 (4.15%) Firewall
2 113 (3.45%) WAN
3 87 (2.66%) LAN
4 55 (1.68%) VPN
5 48 (1.47%) Wireless
6 41 (1.25%) Network Security
7 39 (1.19%) DNS
8 35 (1.07%) BGP
9 27 (0.82%) IPsec
10 24 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (0.67%) DHCP
12 21 (0.64%) Internet
12 21 (0.64%) MPLS
13 20 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
13 20 (0.61%) OSPF
13 20 (0.61%) SAN
13 20 (0.61%) TCP/IP
14 17 (0.52%) Intranet
14 17 (0.52%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (3.60%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.02%) Power BI
3 85 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 70 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (1.98%) Metadata
6 58 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 43 (1.31%) Data Lake
8 39 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 27 (0.82%) GIS
10 25 (0.76%) Big Data
10 25 (0.76%) Metadata Repository
11 23 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (0.64%) Data Vault
13 20 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.61%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.52%) MongoDB
14 17 (0.52%) MySQL
14 17 (0.52%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 16 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 92 (2.81%) Git
2 80 (2.44%) JIRA
3 53 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.95%) JUnit
5 29 (0.89%) GitLab
6 26 (0.79%) Visual Studio
7 23 (0.70%) Selenium
8 16 (0.49%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.49%) ERwin
8 16 (0.49%) PVCS
9 14 (0.43%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.34%) JMeter
10 11 (0.34%) Postman
11 10 (0.31%) Maven
12 8 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.18%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.18%) Mockito
13 6 (0.18%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.15%) NUnit
General
1 611 (18.65%) Social Skills
2 600 (18.32%) Finance
3 330 (10.07%) Telecoms
4 312 (9.52%) Marketing
5 302 (9.22%) Manufacturing
6 300 (9.16%) Electronics
7 242 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
8 95 (2.90%) Local Government
9 45 (1.37%) Police
10 44 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 42 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (1.22%) Legal
13 37 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (1.10%) Retail
15 30 (0.92%) Military
16 29 (0.89%) Back Office
17 28 (0.85%) Publishing
18 27 (0.82%) Banking
19 26 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 25 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 483 (14.74%) Architect
2 385 (11.75%) Senior
3 350 (10.68%) Developer
4 289 (8.82%) Analyst
5 214 (6.53%) Consultant
6 206 (6.29%) Lead
7 200 (6.11%) Project Manager
8 113 (3.45%) Network Engineer
9 108 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 89 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
11 88 (2.69%) Data Architect
12 85 (2.59%) Data Engineer
13 79 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 73 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 72 (2.20%) Senior Developer
15 72 (2.20%) Support Engineer
15 72 (2.20%) Technical Architect
16 66 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
17 65 (1.98%) Designer
18 64 (1.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.17%) .NET
2 75 (2.29%) REST
3 61 (1.86%) Spring
4 59 (1.80%) Node.js
5 58 (1.77%) Spring Boot
6 57 (1.74%) HTML
7 52 (1.59%) CSS
8 45 (1.37%) XML
9 43 (1.31%) React
10 38 (1.16%) JSON
11 36 (1.10%) AngularJS
11 36 (1.10%) Kafka
12 32 (0.98%) RESTful
13 31 (0.95%) .NET Core
13 31 (0.95%) Web Services
14 26 (0.79%) .NET Framework
14 26 (0.79%) Hibernate
15 23 (0.70%) JPA
16 19 (0.58%) ASP.NET
17 18 (0.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 99 (3.02%) Management Information System
2 91 (2.78%) NHS
3 88 (2.69%) Data Centre
4 80 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 69 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 46 (1.40%) PKI
7 44 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (1.28%) Data Structures
9 36 (1.10%) Replication
10 33 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (0.95%) Virtual Team
12 28 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 26 (0.79%) Cloud Native
13 26 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 23 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (0.67%) CMDB
16 21 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
16 21 (0.64%) Driving Licence
17 20 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 273 (8.33%) Windows
2 151 (4.61%) Linux
3 84 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 72 (2.20%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.34%) Unix
6 34 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 33 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 28 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 25 (0.76%) Android
10 23 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.52%) Windows 7
12 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 13 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.31%) Mac OS X
16 7 (0.21%) VMS
16 7 (0.21%) Windows Vista
17 6 (0.18%) Ubuntu
18 4 (0.12%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (20.60%) Agile
2 425 (12.97%) Business Intelligence
3 357 (10.90%) Programme Management
4 346 (10.56%) DevOps
5 312 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 301 (9.19%) Digital Marketing
7 286 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
8 251 (7.66%) Project Management
9 246 (7.51%) Migration
10 191 (5.83%) CI/CD
11 189 (5.77%) ITIL
12 173 (5.28%) Change Management
13 151 (4.61%) Scrum
14 149 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
14 149 (4.55%) Project Delivery
15 147 (4.49%) PRINCE2
16 144 (4.40%) Roadmaps
17 140 (4.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 133 (4.06%) Data Modelling
19 122 (3.72%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (6.53%) SQL
2 191 (5.83%) Python
3 145 (4.43%) Java
4 120 (3.66%) C#
5 117 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 115 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 39 (1.19%) C
7 39 (1.19%) TypeScript
8 38 (1.16%) C++
9 33 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 26 (0.79%) Bicep
11 25 (0.76%) Bash
12 18 (0.55%) PHP
12 18 (0.55%) Ruby
13 16 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.46%) R
15 14 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.40%) ABAP
16 13 (0.40%) Go
17 11 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,508 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 967 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 411 (12.55%) DV Cleared
4 226 (6.90%) Degree
5 58 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
6 44 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.13%) CCNA
9 30 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 28 (0.85%) CISSP
11 27 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 26 (0.79%) CCNP
13 23 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 22 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 16 (0.49%) PMP
16 15 (0.46%) CISM
17 14 (0.43%) PMI Certification
18 13 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
18 13 (0.40%) HNC
18 13 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (2.53%) QA
2 72 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 62 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 60 (1.83%) GDPR
5 59 (1.80%) SLA
6 48 (1.47%) PMO
7 45 (1.37%) NIST
8 30 (0.92%) NCSC
9 20 (0.61%) WCAG
10 15 (0.46%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.34%) HL7
13 9 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 9 (0.27%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 187 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 97 (2.96%) Docker
3 63 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.07%) VMware NSX
5 22 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.46%) vSphere
8 14 (0.43%) Firmware
9 13 (0.40%) NFS
10 11 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.24%) HDFS
12 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.061%) iptables
14 2 (0.061%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.031%) RACF
15 1 (0.031%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.031%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 119 (3.63%) Terraform
2 103 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 74 (2.26%) Ansible
4 31 (0.95%) SCCM
5 26 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (0.58%) Puppet
8 19 (0.58%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.46%) FortiGate
10 14 (0.43%) Grafana
10 14 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.31%) OPNET
13 9 (0.27%) SCOM
14 8 (0.24%) Kibana
14 8 (0.24%) vRealize
15 7 (0.21%) Packer
15 7 (0.21%) VxRail
16 5 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 418 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 373 (11.39%) SAP
3 104 (3.17%) Oracle
4 97 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 96 (2.93%) VMware
6 89 (2.72%) Cisco
7 54 (1.65%) Juniper
8 45 (1.37%) Dell
9 39 (1.19%) Sparx
10 34 (1.04%) Palo Alto
11 30 (0.92%) Google
12 26 (0.79%) Adobe
12 26 (0.79%) Citrix
12 26 (0.79%) Splunk
13 24 (0.73%) Veeam
14 20 (0.61%) Red Hat
15 19 (0.58%) Fortinet
15 19 (0.58%) IBM
16 18 (0.55%) Atlassian
16 18 (0.55%) Remedy