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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 16 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,120 4,231 5,418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.33% 8.99% 7.72%
As % of the General category 14.53% 15.21% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,082 3,169 4,257
10th Percentile £310 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +4.08%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £606
90th Percentile £713 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 78 159
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.85 £12.92
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £15.96
Median hourly rate £22.75 £20.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.08 £28.39 £25.68
90th Percentile £72.42 £47.00 £62.90
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £20.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% +0.50% +11.11%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,479 27,824 40,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.31% 59.12% 57.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,766 19,590 28,334
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,832 910 1,276
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +36.51% +6.90%
75th Percentile £52.50 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year -6.25% +42.14% +6.95%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +7 1,446 £525 -4.55% 341
North of England -9 448 £500 -4.76% 222
South East +1 442 £458 -6.15% 179
South West 0 371 £595 +5.78% 146
North West -5 283 £500 -2.44% 136
Midlands -3 236 £450 -10.00% 136
West Midlands -6 163 £511 -5.32% 98
Yorkshire -13 133 £500 -7.41% 53
East Midlands -6 72 £396 -34.08% 38
East of England -33 67 £450 -25.00% 48
North East -5 34 £500 - 35
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
1 135 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.60%) Confluence
3 42 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.83%) CMS
5 14 (0.45%) Apache
6 13 (0.42%) nginx
7 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
7 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
8 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.22%) Site Server
12 5 (0.16%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 5 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.096%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 91 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.16%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.096%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.064%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.032%) Blender
11 1 (0.032%) Revit
11 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (0.51%) Primavera
3 15 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
3 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
8 4 (0.13%) SAP EWM
8 4 (0.13%) SAP SD
9 3 (0.096%) Aareon QL
9 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.096%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.096%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.096%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.096%) SAP QM
10 2 (0.064%) Loan IQ
10 2 (0.064%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 475 (15.22%) Azure
2 265 (8.49%) AWS
3 178 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 145 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 140 (4.49%) Power Platform
6 68 (2.18%) PaaS
7 67 (2.15%) SaaS
8 62 (1.99%) Serverless
9 51 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
10 50 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
10 50 (1.60%) Entra ID
11 48 (1.54%) IaaS
12 43 (1.38%) GitHub
13 40 (1.28%) Power Automate
14 34 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.09%) PowerApps
15 32 (1.03%) Amazon S3
15 32 (1.03%) GCP
16 28 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 26 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 127 (4.07%) Firewall
2 97 (3.11%) WAN
3 78 (2.50%) LAN
4 43 (1.38%) Network Security
5 40 (1.28%) VPN
6 35 (1.12%) DNS
7 32 (1.03%) Wireless
8 26 (0.83%) BGP
8 26 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 20 (0.64%) DHCP
10 20 (0.64%) SAN
11 19 (0.61%) IPsec
12 17 (0.54%) Internet
12 17 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 17 (0.54%) TCP/IP
13 16 (0.51%) MPLS
13 16 (0.51%) OSPF
13 16 (0.51%) VoIP
14 15 (0.48%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.69%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.21%) Power BI
3 82 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.60%) Metadata
7 41 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 41 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 30 (0.96%) GIS
9 25 (0.80%) Big Data
9 25 (0.80%) Oracle Database
10 24 (0.77%) Metadata Repository
11 21 (0.67%) Data Vault
11 21 (0.67%) MySQL
12 20 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.48%) BigQuery
15 15 (0.48%) Tableau
16 13 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 99 (3.17%) Git
2 71 (2.28%) JIRA
3 44 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.12%) GitLab
5 28 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 26 (0.83%) JUnit
7 24 (0.77%) Selenium
8 16 (0.51%) PVCS
9 13 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.38%) Postman
11 10 (0.32%) JMeter
12 8 (0.26%) ERwin
12 8 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
12 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.19%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.19%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.19%) MSI
13 6 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 556 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 538 (17.24%) Finance
3 277 (8.88%) Telecoms
4 270 (8.65%) Marketing
5 260 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 256 (8.21%) Electronics
7 237 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
8 94 (3.01%) Local Government
9 40 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (1.15%) Legal
11 36 (1.15%) Military
12 35 (1.12%) Back Office
13 33 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (0.90%) Retail
15 27 (0.87%) Banking
15 27 (0.87%) Publishing
16 24 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (0.74%) Police
18 21 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 460 (14.74%) Architect
2 362 (11.60%) Senior
3 301 (9.65%) Analyst
3 301 (9.65%) Developer
4 185 (5.93%) Lead
4 185 (5.93%) Project Manager
5 178 (5.71%) Consultant
6 107 (3.43%) Network Engineer
7 105 (3.37%) Business Analyst
8 97 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
9 86 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 85 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 80 (2.56%) Data Engineer
12 76 (2.44%) Technical Architect
13 66 (2.12%) Data Architect
13 66 (2.12%) Senior Manager
14 65 (2.08%) Delivery Manager
15 63 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
16 62 (1.99%) Support Engineer
17 55 (1.76%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (3.40%) .NET
2 75 (2.40%) REST
3 63 (2.02%) HTML
4 54 (1.73%) CSS
4 54 (1.73%) Spring
5 51 (1.63%) Spring Boot
6 50 (1.60%) React
7 49 (1.57%) Node.js
8 44 (1.41%) XML
9 37 (1.19%) Kafka
10 34 (1.09%) JSON
11 31 (0.99%) .NET Core
11 31 (0.99%) AngularJS
12 28 (0.90%) RESTful
13 27 (0.87%) .NET Framework
14 26 (0.83%) Web Services
15 25 (0.80%) Hibernate
16 22 (0.71%) JPA
16 22 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
17 17 (0.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.21%) Management Information System
2 85 (2.72%) Data Centre
3 80 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 78 (2.50%) NHS
5 71 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 45 (1.44%) Data Structures
7 39 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.03%) PKI
9 31 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 31 (0.99%) Replication
10 29 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 28 (0.90%) Reference Data
12 27 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
15 21 (0.67%) Public Cloud
16 20 (0.64%) CMDB
17 18 (0.58%) Freedom of Information
17 18 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 269 (8.62%) Windows
2 174 (5.58%) Linux
3 82 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 61 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 45 (1.44%) Unix
6 30 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 30 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (0.93%) Android
8 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 19 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (0.26%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Vista
15 6 (0.19%) VMS
16 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (21.09%) Agile
2 383 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
3 345 (11.06%) DevOps
4 301 (9.65%) Programme Management
5 293 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 274 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
7 257 (8.24%) Digital Marketing
8 243 (7.79%) Migration
9 241 (7.72%) Project Management
10 170 (5.45%) CI/CD
11 168 (5.38%) ITIL
12 166 (5.32%) Change Management
13 152 (4.87%) Scrum
14 150 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 140 (4.49%) PRINCE2
16 138 (4.42%) Project Delivery
17 127 (4.07%) Service Management
18 125 (4.01%) Cybersecurity
19 124 (3.97%) Data Modelling
20 119 (3.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 208 (6.67%) SQL
2 178 (5.71%) Python
3 137 (4.39%) Java
4 132 (4.23%) PowerShell
5 118 (3.78%) C#
6 116 (3.72%) JavaScript
7 44 (1.41%) TypeScript
8 40 (1.28%) C
8 40 (1.28%) C++
9 34 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 29 (0.93%) Bash
11 26 (0.83%) Bicep
12 16 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.42%) Go
14 13 (0.42%) PHP
15 12 (0.38%) R
15 12 (0.38%) Ruby
15 12 (0.38%) Scala
16 11 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,485 (47.60%) Security Cleared
2 933 (29.90%) SC Cleared
3 424 (13.59%) DV Cleared
4 236 (7.56%) Degree
5 51 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.09%) CCNA
10 23 (0.74%) CCNP
11 20 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 18 (0.58%) PMP
13 16 (0.51%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 14 (0.45%) CISSP
15 13 (0.42%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.38%) HNC
16 12 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (2.31%) QA
2 65 (2.08%) SLA
3 60 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 55 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 47 (1.51%) PMO
6 44 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (1.15%) GDPR
8 34 (1.09%) NIST
9 19 (0.61%) NCSC
9 19 (0.61%) WCAG
10 12 (0.38%) JSP 440
11 11 (0.35%) HL7
11 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.22%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 185 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 99 (3.17%) Docker
3 78 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (0.67%) vSphere
7 20 (0.64%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.48%) Firmware
9 14 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.32%) NFS
10 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
11 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.064%) iptables
13 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.032%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 117 (3.75%) Terraform
2 115 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 72 (2.31%) Ansible
4 34 (1.09%) SCCM
5 22 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.54%) Puppet
8 16 (0.51%) SCOM
8 16 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.48%) Grafana
10 13 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 11 (0.35%) Kibana
11 11 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.26%) vRealize
13 7 (0.22%) OPNET
14 6 (0.19%) logstash
14 6 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 437 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 323 (10.35%) SAP
3 111 (3.56%) Oracle
4 110 (3.53%) VMware
5 86 (2.76%) Cisco
6 81 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 44 (1.41%) Juniper
8 43 (1.38%) Dell
9 33 (1.06%) Citrix
10 30 (0.96%) Google
10 30 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 29 (0.93%) Sparx
12 28 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 23 (0.74%) Adobe
13 23 (0.74%) IBM
14 22 (0.71%) Splunk
15 21 (0.67%) NetApp
16 20 (0.64%) CyberArk
16 20 (0.64%) Remedy
17 18 (0.58%) Atlassian