Public Sector Contracts in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 21 24 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +44
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 194 225 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.45% 7.94% 5.92%
As % of the General category 13.42% 12.89% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 181 172
10th Percentile £210 £315 £205
25th Percentile £351 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £463 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% +1.09% +4.57%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £541
90th Percentile £668 £688 £631
South East median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.79% -2.40% +7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 3 5
10th Percentile £44.98 £31.30 £12.78
25th Percentile £51.45 £37.75 £14.51
Median hourly rate £59.95 £49.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% +133.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £72.33 £57.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.48 £61.90 -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £39.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +49.49% +95.00% -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,446 1,745 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.51% 61.57% 60.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 1,153 1,382
10th Percentile £205 £280 £213
25th Percentile £331 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £595 £610 £575
90th Percentile £663 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 42 66
10th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.52 £22.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £30.65 £17.46
Median % change year-on-year +54.98% +75.54% -17.05%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.88 £21.85
90th Percentile £75.77 £75.58 £41.88
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -26.25%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +5 143 £460 -12.38% 45
Buckinghamshire +1 32 £463 +2.78% 24
Oxfordshire -1 19 £255 -43.44% 17
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (0.52%) Jadu
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) Moodle
Applications
1 15 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.52%) Blender
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 15 (7.73%) Primavera
2 5 (2.58%) Teamcenter
3 4 (2.06%) SAP EWM
3 4 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.55%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.52%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.37%) Azure
2 5 (2.58%) AWS
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (2.58%) Power Platform
3 3 (1.55%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.03%) PaaS
4 2 (1.03%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.03%) Slack
4 2 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.52%) GCP
5 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.52%) SaaS
5 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.82%) Firewall
2 13 (6.70%) WAN
3 12 (6.19%) Intrusion Detection
3 12 (6.19%) LAN
4 3 (1.55%) Network Security
5 2 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.03%) DHCP
5 2 (1.03%) DNS
5 2 (1.03%) InfiniBand
5 2 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.52%) BGP
6 1 (0.52%) CATAPAN
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) IPsec
6 1 (0.52%) Junos
6 1 (0.52%) MPLS
6 1 (0.52%) VPN
6 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.06%) Oracle Database
1 4 (2.06%) Power BI
1 4 (2.06%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.52%) Power Query
3 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.06%) JMeter
2 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) JUnit
4 1 (0.52%) Mockito
4 1 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.76%) Finance
3 10 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.15%) Manufacturing
3 10 (5.15%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.64%) Electronics
4 9 (4.64%) Marketing
5 4 (2.06%) Local Government
6 3 (1.55%) Aviation
7 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.52%) Environmental Health
8 1 (0.52%) French Language
8 1 (0.52%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.52%) Legal
8 1 (0.52%) Military
8 1 (0.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.26%) Senior
2 36 (18.56%) Architect
3 18 (9.28%) Security Architect
4 17 (8.76%) Administrator
4 17 (8.76%) Analyst
4 17 (8.76%) Systems Administrator
5 14 (7.22%) Consultant
6 13 (6.70%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.19%) Lead
8 11 (5.67%) Network Engineer
8 11 (5.67%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (5.15%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 10 (5.15%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 8 (4.12%) Network Architect
10 8 (4.12%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.61%) Change Analyst
11 7 (3.61%) Desktop Engineer
12 6 (3.09%) Developer
12 6 (3.09%) Senior Architect
12 6 (3.09%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.15%) Itk
2 4 (2.06%) SAP Basis
2 4 (2.06%) Web Services
3 3 (1.55%) HTML
4 2 (1.03%) .NET
4 2 (1.03%) ATL
4 2 (1.03%) CSS
4 2 (1.03%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (1.03%) Loki
5 1 (0.52%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.52%) Doctrine
5 1 (0.52%) Kafka
5 1 (0.52%) Playwright
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.52%) Twig
5 1 (0.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.12%) Management Information System
1 8 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (3.61%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.55%) Operational Technology
3 3 (1.55%) PMI
4 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.03%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.03%) NHS
4 2 (1.03%) Robotics
5 1 (0.52%) Animation
5 1 (0.52%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.52%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.52%) Life Science
5 1 (0.52%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.52%) PKI
5 1 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.52%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.28%) Windows
2 8 (4.12%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.61%) Linux
3 7 (3.61%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) Android
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (14.43%) Project Management
2 27 (13.92%) DevOps
3 24 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (10.31%) Agile
6 18 (9.28%) Change Management
6 18 (9.28%) Security Architecture
7 16 (8.25%) Programme Management
8 14 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (6.70%) Project Delivery
10 12 (6.19%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (6.19%) Configuration Management
11 11 (5.67%) PLM
12 9 (4.64%) Decision-Making
12 9 (4.64%) Digital Marketing
12 9 (4.64%) Migration
12 9 (4.64%) Portfolio Management
12 9 (4.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (4.12%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.12%) C
2 6 (3.09%) C#
3 4 (2.06%) C++
3 4 (2.06%) JavaScript
3 4 (2.06%) Python
4 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.55%) SQL
5 2 (1.03%) Bash
5 2 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.52%) Java
6 1 (0.52%) Perl
6 1 (0.52%) PHP
6 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 149 (76.80%) Security Cleared
2 82 (42.27%) DV Cleared
3 41 (21.13%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.22%) Degree
5 5 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.06%) APMP
7 3 (1.55%) CCNA
7 3 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.03%) CCNP
8 2 (1.03%) ISEB
8 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) HNC
9 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.52%) RIBA
9 1 (0.52%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.03%) PMO
1 2 (1.03%) QA
1 2 (1.03%) SLA
2 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.52%) GDPR
2 1 (0.52%) HL7
2 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (2.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.52%) Firmware
3 1 (0.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.61%) SCCM
3 5 (2.58%) SCOM
4 4 (2.06%) Ansible
5 3 (1.55%) Argo
5 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.03%) Kibana
6 2 (1.03%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.03%) Nessus
6 2 (1.03%) Terraform
7 1 (0.52%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.52%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.52%) Istio
7 1 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.52%) SafeCom
7 1 (0.52%) SELinux
7 1 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 29 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.34%) SAP
3 12 (6.19%) Cisco
4 9 (4.64%) Juniper
5 6 (3.09%) Oracle
6 5 (2.58%) Apple
7 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.55%) VMware
8 2 (1.03%) HP
8 2 (1.03%) NEC
8 2 (1.03%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.03%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.52%) Adobe
9 1 (0.52%) Cadence
9 1 (0.52%) Dell
9 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.52%) EMC
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.52%) Remedy
9 1 (0.52%) Siemens