Public Sector Contracts in the South East

Public Sector
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 17 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 433 538 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.81% 9.31% 6.98%
As % of the General category 15.44% 15.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 438 408
10th Percentile £205 £205 £205
25th Percentile £348 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £510
% change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 6 24
10th Percentile £43.70 £15.56 £12.50
25th Percentile £48.70 £18.59 £15.35
Median hourly rate £58.30 £24.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.96% +22.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £70.39 £44.88 £20.38
90th Percentile £87.46 £57.25 £30.56
England median hourly rate £21.62 £20.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.54% +0.50% +9.59%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,804 3,378 4,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.57% 58.48% 54.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 2,295 2,811
10th Percentile £205 £242 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £663
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 170 214
10th Percentile £12.93 £18.24 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.54 £22.27 £14.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +131.25% -21.57%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £32.40
90th Percentile £70.07 £73.71 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.50 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.86% +50.70% -4.44%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -1 198 £455 -6.67% 65
Berkshire +4 151 £464 -15.68% 35
Hampshire +7 144 £515 -1.90% 47
Buckinghamshire -4 30 £450 - 15
West Sussex -15 24 £508 +1.60% 6
Kent +6 23 £205 - 9
Surrey +2 21 £425 +4.94% 24
Oxfordshire -4 17 £255 -43.44% 15
East Sussex -7 7 £400 -42.86% 4
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.69%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.46%) Apache
3 2 (0.46%) CICS
3 2 (0.46%) CMS
3 2 (0.46%) SAS
4 1 (0.23%) Drupal
4 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.23%) IIS
4 1 (0.23%) Jadu
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) Moodle
4 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.23%) Blender
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) Primavera
2 12 (2.77%) SAP PSCD
3 9 (2.08%) SAP BRIM
3 9 (2.08%) SAP Hybris
4 5 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.15%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.92%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.69%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP FI-CA
8 1 (0.23%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.23%) SmartPlant
8 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 32 (7.39%) Azure
2 23 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (2.77%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.08%) AWS
4 9 (2.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 5 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.15%) GitHub
6 4 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.92%) GCP
6 4 (0.92%) Serverless
7 3 (0.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (0.69%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.46%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.46%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (7.85%) Firewall
2 22 (5.08%) WAN
3 18 (4.16%) LAN
4 12 (2.77%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (1.62%) DNS
5 7 (1.62%) Network Security
6 6 (1.39%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.39%) Wireless
7 5 (1.15%) BGP
7 5 (1.15%) SAN
7 5 (1.15%) VPN
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (0.92%) DHCP
8 4 (0.92%) Internet
9 3 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.69%) MPLS
10 2 (0.46%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.46%) OSPF
10 2 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
2 8 (1.85%) Power BI
3 7 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (1.39%) MySQL
4 6 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.15%) Metadata
5 5 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.92%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.92%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.69%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.46%) DB2
8 2 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.46%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 8 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.15%) Git
3 4 (0.92%) JMeter
3 4 (0.92%) JUnit
4 2 (0.46%) ClearCase
4 2 (0.46%) ClearQuest
4 2 (0.46%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.23%) Mockito
5 1 (0.23%) MSI
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.23%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 74 (17.09%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.63%) Finance
3 54 (12.47%) Telecoms
4 46 (10.62%) Marketing
5 44 (10.16%) Electronics
5 44 (10.16%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.08%) Billing
9 8 (1.85%) Local Government
10 7 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Aviation
13 2 (0.46%) Environmental Health
13 2 (0.46%) Legal
14 1 (0.23%) French Language
14 1 (0.23%) Italian Language
14 1 (0.23%) Military
14 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 76 (17.55%) Senior
2 56 (12.93%) Architect
3 43 (9.93%) Developer
4 35 (8.08%) Consultant
4 35 (8.08%) Project Manager
5 29 (6.70%) Network Engineer
6 28 (6.47%) SAP Consultant
7 23 (5.31%) Desktop Engineer
8 22 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 19 (4.39%) Administrator
9 19 (4.39%) Desktop Support
9 19 (4.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 19 (4.39%) Lead
9 19 (4.39%) Network Architect
9 19 (4.39%) Security Architect
9 19 (4.39%) Systems Administrator
10 17 (3.93%) Analyst
11 12 (2.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 12 (2.77%) IT Trainer
11 12 (2.77%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.31%) Itk
2 8 (1.85%) Web Services
3 5 (1.15%) .NET
4 4 (0.92%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.92%) HTML
4 4 (0.92%) REST
4 4 (0.92%) SAP Basis
4 4 (0.92%) Spring
4 4 (0.92%) Spring Boot
4 4 (0.92%) Web Dynpro
5 3 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.69%) J2EE
5 3 (0.69%) Node.js
5 3 (0.69%) RESTful
5 3 (0.69%) SOAP
6 2 (0.46%) CSS
6 2 (0.46%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.46%) Kafka
6 2 (0.46%) LAMP
6 2 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.01%) NHS
2 15 (3.46%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.54%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.08%) CCTV
4 9 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.85%) LIMS
6 7 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (0.92%) PKI
9 3 (0.69%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.69%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.69%) PMI
10 2 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.46%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.46%) Grid Computing
10 2 (0.46%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.46%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.32%) Windows
2 37 (8.55%) Windows 10
3 26 (6.00%) Linux
4 11 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 9 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.92%) Unix
9 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.46%) zOS
11 1 (0.23%) AIX
11 1 (0.23%) Android
11 1 (0.23%) Debian
11 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (12.47%) Agile
1 54 (12.47%) Programme Management
2 53 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (9.93%) Digital Marketing
4 42 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 39 (9.01%) DevOps
6 38 (8.78%) Project Management
7 27 (6.24%) Migration
7 27 (6.24%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (4.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (4.16%) Project Delivery
9 18 (4.16%) Security Architecture
10 17 (3.93%) Change Management
10 17 (3.93%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (3.93%) ITIL
11 16 (3.70%) PLM
11 16 (3.70%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (3.46%) Decision-Making
13 14 (3.23%) Scrum
13 14 (3.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (5.54%) C++
2 19 (4.39%) SQL
3 17 (3.93%) C#
4 15 (3.46%) C
5 11 (2.54%) Python
6 9 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.39%) Java
9 5 (1.15%) ABAP
9 5 (1.15%) VB
10 4 (0.92%) PHP
10 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.69%) Bash
12 2 (0.46%) CLIST
12 2 (0.46%) COBOL
12 2 (0.46%) REXX
12 2 (0.46%) SELCOPY
13 1 (0.23%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 268 (61.89%) Security Cleared
2 131 (30.25%) DV Cleared
3 99 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.39%) Degree
5 10 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.39%) CCNA
7 5 (1.15%) APMP
7 5 (1.15%) CCNP
8 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.69%) ISEB
9 3 (0.69%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.46%) CISM
10 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.46%) PMP
10 2 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.08%) HL7
1 9 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.85%) ISO 9001
3 6 (1.39%) NIST
4 5 (1.15%) PMO
5 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.92%) NIST 800
5 4 (0.92%) SLA
6 3 (0.69%) GDPR
6 3 (0.69%) QA
7 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.23%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.23%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (4.16%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.31%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.62%) Docker
4 6 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.92%) vSphere
6 3 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) NFS
8 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.54%) Ansible
2 11 (2.54%) SCCM
3 7 (1.62%) Terraform
4 6 (1.39%) SCOM
5 5 (1.15%) vRealize
6 4 (0.92%) Puppet
6 4 (0.92%) VxRail
7 3 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.69%) Kibana
7 3 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.46%) Argo
8 2 (0.46%) Endace
8 2 (0.46%) Grafana
8 2 (0.46%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.46%) Nessus
8 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 78 (18.01%) SAP
2 51 (11.78%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.00%) Cisco
4 22 (5.08%) VMware
5 18 (4.16%) Juniper
6 14 (3.23%) Apple
7 12 (2.77%) Oracle
8 8 (1.85%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.39%) Dell
10 6 (1.39%) F5
11 5 (1.15%) Adobe
11 5 (1.15%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 4 (0.92%) HP
12 4 (0.92%) IBM
12 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.46%) ScienceLogic
13 2 (0.46%) Sparx