Public Sector Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 10 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 2,245 3,338 4,120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.88% 13.98% 13.33%
As % of the General category 19.91% 24.77% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 2,619 3,279
10th Percentile £205 £208 £205
25th Percentile £396 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +10.59%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £516 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 77 127
10th Percentile £12.56 £13.67 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £15.72
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £51.50 £26.00 £24.16
90th Percentile £68.56 £45.80 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,278 13,477 17,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.64% 56.43% 55.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,441 9,211 11,855
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,653 776 1,041
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -4.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.57 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.75 £55.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +1 606 £465 +1.09% 65
North of England -5 496 £525 - 209
South East -2 433 £450 -10.00% 173
South West 0 386 £570 +1.33% 96
North West -2 327 £525 - 124
Midlands -2 242 £450 -10.00% 119
West Midlands -4 178 £500 -7.41% 94
Yorkshire -8 145 £525 -4.55% 64
East Midlands -5 63 £275 -52.50% 25
East of England -42 63 £375 -34.78% 66
North East -2 39 £525 -4.55% 21
Wales -1 33 £500 +17.65% 35
Northern Ireland +9 16 £625 +108.33% 15
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 85 (3.79%) Confluence
2 63 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.85%) CMS
5 9 (0.40%) IIS
6 6 (0.27%) Apache
7 4 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.13%) SAS
8 3 (0.13%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.13%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.13%) WordPress
9 2 (0.089%) Drupal
9 2 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.089%) JBoss
9 2 (0.089%) Mule
9 2 (0.089%) nginx
9 2 (0.089%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.089%) WebLogic
Applications
1 91 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.089%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.089%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.089%) Lectora
8 2 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.089%) Sketch
9 1 (0.045%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.045%) Blender
9 1 (0.045%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.045%) InVision
9 1 (0.045%) Revit
9 1 (0.045%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (0.76%) Primavera
2 12 (0.53%) SAP PSCD
3 10 (0.45%) Teamcenter
4 9 (0.40%) SAP BRIM
4 9 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
5 8 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
5 8 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.18%) iTrent
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.18%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
10 3 (0.13%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 183 (8.15%) Azure
2 128 (5.70%) AWS
3 118 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 65 (2.90%) SaaS
6 55 (2.45%) PaaS
7 53 (2.36%) Serverless
8 50 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (2.18%) IaaS
10 40 (1.78%) OCI
11 36 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (1.11%) OpenShift
15 24 (1.07%) Entra ID
16 23 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 16 (0.71%) GitHub
18 15 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (4.01%) Firewall
2 88 (3.92%) WAN
3 75 (3.34%) LAN
4 35 (1.56%) Network Security
5 34 (1.51%) VPN
6 30 (1.34%) DNS
7 29 (1.29%) SAN
8 22 (0.98%) BGP
8 22 (0.98%) IPsec
9 20 (0.89%) Wireless
10 18 (0.80%) DHCP
10 18 (0.80%) Internet
11 17 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.71%) TCP/IP
13 15 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
13 15 (0.67%) MPLS
14 14 (0.62%) VoIP
15 13 (0.58%) Intranet
16 10 (0.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (2.09%) Power BI
3 33 (1.47%) SQL Server
4 32 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 30 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.29%) Metadata
7 28 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
8 27 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 22 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (0.80%) MySQL
11 16 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (0.58%) Data Lake
12 13 (0.58%) Tableau
13 12 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
14 11 (0.49%) GIS
15 10 (0.45%) Big Data
15 10 (0.45%) MariaDB
16 9 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 127 (5.66%) JIRA
2 36 (1.60%) Git
3 35 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 20 (0.89%) GitLab
4 20 (0.89%) Visual Studio
5 18 (0.80%) JUnit
6 16 (0.71%) PVCS
7 10 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.27%) Selenium
10 5 (0.22%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.22%) JMeter
10 5 (0.22%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.18%) ERwin
11 4 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.18%) Subversion
12 3 (0.13%) Maven
General
1 484 (21.56%) Social Skills
2 369 (16.44%) Finance
3 193 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (8.06%) Telecoms
5 164 (7.31%) Marketing
6 160 (7.13%) Manufacturing
7 159 (7.08%) Electronics
8 51 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 50 (2.23%) Local Government
10 42 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
11 41 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.25%) Legal
13 26 (1.16%) Police
14 22 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (0.89%) Publishing
16 14 (0.62%) Military
17 12 (0.53%) Back Office
18 11 (0.49%) Billing
19 7 (0.31%) Fire and Rescue
19 7 (0.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 268 (11.94%) Senior
2 266 (11.85%) Architect
3 253 (11.27%) Analyst
4 210 (9.35%) Developer
5 163 (7.26%) Project Manager
6 151 (6.73%) Lead
7 117 (5.21%) Consultant
8 83 (3.70%) Network Engineer
9 70 (3.12%) Business Analyst
10 59 (2.63%) Senior Manager
11 56 (2.49%) Network Architect
11 56 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
12 55 (2.45%) Support Engineer
13 53 (2.36%) Administrator
14 50 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
15 47 (2.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (2.00%) Support Officer
17 44 (1.96%) Service Analyst
18 43 (1.92%) IT Engineer
19 42 (1.87%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.58%) REST
2 48 (2.14%) React
3 46 (2.05%) HTML
4 45 (2.00%) CSS
5 44 (1.96%) Node.js
6 38 (1.69%) .NET
7 37 (1.65%) AWS CDK
8 35 (1.56%) Spring
9 33 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 25 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (1.07%) Web Services
12 18 (0.80%) RESTful
13 17 (0.76%) Hibernate
13 17 (0.76%) OpenID
14 15 (0.67%) OAuth
14 15 (0.67%) SOAP
14 15 (0.67%) XML
15 14 (0.62%) JPA
15 14 (0.62%) SAML
16 13 (0.58%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 110 (4.90%) Management Information System
2 80 (3.56%) NHS
3 78 (3.47%) Data Centre
4 55 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 40 (1.78%) PKI
6 35 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 26 (1.16%) Onboarding
10 22 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 22 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 18 (0.80%) Public Cloud
12 17 (0.76%) CMDB
12 17 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (0.67%) Wiki
14 13 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.58%) Replication
15 12 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 210 (9.35%) Windows
2 96 (4.28%) Linux
3 67 (2.98%) Windows 10
4 46 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.16%) Unix
7 19 (0.85%) Android
8 17 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.67%) Windows 7
9 15 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 7 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.31%) Windows Vista
13 3 (0.13%) AIX
13 3 (0.13%) zOS
14 2 (0.089%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.089%) Solaris
14 2 (0.089%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (19.47%) Agile
2 231 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
3 226 (10.07%) Project Management
4 211 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 210 (9.35%) Programme Management
6 207 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (7.80%) DevOps
8 160 (7.13%) ITIL
9 156 (6.95%) Digital Marketing
10 149 (6.64%) Roadmaps
11 134 (5.97%) Migration
12 123 (5.48%) Project Delivery
13 122 (5.43%) Cybersecurity
14 120 (5.35%) PRINCE2
15 111 (4.94%) Service Management
16 105 (4.68%) Change Management
17 104 (4.63%) Mentoring
18 99 (4.41%) Risk Management
19 97 (4.32%) Scrum
20 93 (4.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 96 (4.28%) SQL
2 91 (4.05%) Java
3 88 (3.92%) Python
4 78 (3.47%) JavaScript
5 52 (2.32%) PowerShell
6 44 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 36 (1.60%) C#
8 35 (1.56%) Bash
9 33 (1.47%) C
10 31 (1.38%) C++
11 28 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 19 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 16 (0.71%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.36%) PHP
15 8 (0.36%) Ruby
16 7 (0.31%) R
17 6 (0.27%) VB
18 5 (0.22%) ABAP
18 5 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 931 (41.47%) Security Cleared
2 529 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 298 (13.27%) DV Cleared
4 169 (7.53%) Degree
5 60 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
6 44 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (1.92%) CCNA
8 33 (1.47%) CISSP
9 29 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (1.20%) CCNP
11 22 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 19 (0.85%) MCSE
13 18 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (0.76%) HNC
15 16 (0.71%) CISM
16 14 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 12 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (0.53%) PMP
18 11 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.01%) Disclosure Scotland
2 71 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 70 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.78%) GDPR
5 39 (1.74%) SLA
6 36 (1.60%) PMO
6 36 (1.60%) QA
7 35 (1.56%) NIST
8 31 (1.38%) Data Quality
9 19 (0.85%) NCSC
10 15 (0.67%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.58%) WCAG
12 9 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.40%) HL7
12 9 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 118 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (1.87%) Docker
4 27 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 18 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.53%) vSphere
9 11 (0.49%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.31%) Firmware
10 7 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.089%) iptables
13 2 (0.089%) KVM
13 2 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.089%) NFS
13 2 (0.089%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.045%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 46 (2.05%) Kubernetes
1 46 (2.05%) Terraform
2 45 (2.00%) Ansible
3 38 (1.69%) SCCM
4 28 (1.25%) Grafana
5 19 (0.85%) vCenter Server
6 15 (0.67%) Puppet
7 14 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.49%) Kibana
10 10 (0.45%) OPNET
11 9 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.40%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.40%) vRealize
12 8 (0.36%) SCOM
13 7 (0.31%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.31%) VxRail
14 6 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 5 (0.22%) Istio
15 5 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 284 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 200 (8.91%) SAP
3 116 (5.17%) Oracle
4 82 (3.65%) VMware
5 72 (3.21%) Cisco
6 57 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.00%) Dell
8 41 (1.83%) Juniper
9 35 (1.56%) Atlassian
10 23 (1.02%) Palo Alto
11 19 (0.85%) Red Hat
12 18 (0.80%) SolarWinds
13 16 (0.71%) Apple
13 16 (0.71%) Citrix
13 16 (0.71%) Fortinet
14 15 (0.67%) Google
15 13 (0.58%) IBM
15 13 (0.58%) Remedy
16 11 (0.49%) Adobe
16 11 (0.49%) HP