Public Sector Contracts

Public Sector
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 4,030 5,534 7,854
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 9.66% 8.89%
As % of the General category 16.33% 16.51% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,696 4,184 6,143
10th Percentile £276 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £415 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £720 £721 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 90 181
10th Percentile £12.70 £13.87 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.42 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +2.10% +7.82%
75th Percentile £49.00 £27.26 £27.50
90th Percentile £68.75 £47.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.87 £20.00 £19.23
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.00% +6.83%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,681 33,520 49,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.54% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,587 23,230 34,613
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,020 1,422
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.59 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England 0 3,136 £525 -2.33% 1,240
UK excluding London -1 2,132 £500 - 995
London +8 1,483 £525 -6.67% 394
Work from Home -1 1,441 £513 -5.09% 647
Scotland +1 585 £450 -2.17% 103
North of England -6 464 £510 -2.86% 242
South East -3 416 £450 -7.79% 252
South West 0 371 £575 - 140
North West -2 304 £513 -1.91% 144
Midlands -6 225 £450 -12.20% 152
West Midlands -8 163 £500 -7.41% 108
Yorkshire -12 138 £525 -4.55% 65
East Midlands -7 61 £360 -40.00% 43
East of England -46 55 £450 -25.00% 64
North East -1 36 £538 -2.27% 35
Wales 0 27 £500 +17.65% 31
Northern Ireland +8 18 £625 +357.88% 33

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 144 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 114 (2.83%) Confluence
3 66 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (0.97%) CMS
5 20 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 18 (0.45%) nginx
7 16 (0.40%) Apache
8 13 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 12 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
10 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
10 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
11 10 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.20%) IIS
12 8 (0.20%) Site Server
13 7 (0.17%) JBoss
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 5 (0.12%) Camunda
14 5 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 115 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 110 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Sketch
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.12%) Trello
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.074%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.050%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.050%) InVision
12 2 (0.050%) Lectora
12 2 (0.050%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.025%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 22 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.42%) Primavera
4 15 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 10 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.12%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
10 5 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
10 5 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.099%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 573 (14.22%) Azure
2 360 (8.93%) AWS
3 218 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 181 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 179 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 97 (2.41%) Serverless
7 85 (2.11%) SaaS
8 83 (2.06%) PaaS
9 70 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 67 (1.66%) Amazon S3
11 64 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
11 64 (1.59%) GitHub
12 62 (1.54%) IaaS
13 57 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
14 55 (1.36%) OCI
15 52 (1.29%) Power Automate
16 49 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
17 47 (1.17%) GCP
18 43 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
18 43 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 142 (3.52%) Firewall
2 110 (2.73%) WAN
3 89 (2.21%) LAN
4 54 (1.34%) VPN
5 46 (1.14%) Network Security
6 45 (1.12%) DNS
7 43 (1.07%) Wireless
8 33 (0.82%) BGP
9 28 (0.69%) IPsec
9 28 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.67%) Internet
10 27 (0.67%) SAN
11 24 (0.60%) DHCP
12 23 (0.57%) Intranet
12 23 (0.57%) VoIP
13 22 (0.55%) OSPF
13 22 (0.55%) TCP/IP
14 21 (0.52%) HTTP
15 20 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 128 (3.18%) Power BI
3 123 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (1.54%) Metadata
6 56 (1.39%) Relational Database
7 47 (1.17%) GIS
8 46 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 45 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 43 (1.07%) NoSQL
11 37 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
12 30 (0.74%) Big Data
12 30 (0.74%) MongoDB
13 28 (0.69%) MySQL
14 25 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (0.60%) Metadata Repository
16 22 (0.55%) Tableau
17 21 (0.52%) Data Vault
18 20 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
18 20 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 173 (4.29%) JIRA
2 101 (2.51%) Git
3 61 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 36 (0.89%) Selenium
5 35 (0.87%) GitLab
6 31 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 30 (0.74%) JUnit
8 21 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.40%) Postman
10 16 (0.40%) PVCS
11 15 (0.37%) Maven
12 14 (0.35%) ERwin
12 14 (0.35%) JMeter
12 14 (0.35%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.32%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.20%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
16 7 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 814 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 652 (16.18%) Finance
3 310 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 303 (7.52%) Telecoms
5 296 (7.34%) Marketing
6 279 (6.92%) Manufacturing
7 274 (6.80%) Electronics
8 97 (2.41%) Local Government
9 73 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 67 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.09%) Back Office
12 44 (1.09%) Legal
13 37 (0.92%) Publishing
14 35 (0.87%) Retail
15 34 (0.84%) Police
16 33 (0.82%) Military
17 28 (0.69%) Banking
17 28 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 556 (13.80%) Architect
2 483 (11.99%) Senior
3 426 (10.57%) Developer
4 400 (9.93%) Analyst
5 258 (6.40%) Lead
6 250 (6.20%) Project Manager
7 223 (5.53%) Consultant
8 140 (3.47%) Business Analyst
9 128 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
10 114 (2.83%) Network Engineer
11 93 (2.31%) Delivery Manager
12 90 (2.23%) Data Engineer
13 88 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
13 88 (2.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 88 (2.18%) Technical Architect
14 84 (2.08%) Senior Developer
15 83 (2.06%) Senior Manager
16 81 (2.01%) Data Architect
16 81 (2.01%) Designer
17 78 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (3.62%) .NET
2 110 (2.73%) REST
3 102 (2.53%) HTML
4 86 (2.13%) CSS
5 75 (1.86%) React
6 71 (1.76%) Spring
7 68 (1.69%) Node.js
8 67 (1.66%) XML
9 66 (1.64%) Spring Boot
10 48 (1.19%) JSON
11 45 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
12 44 (1.09%) Web Services
13 40 (0.99%) Kafka
14 39 (0.97%) SAML
15 37 (0.92%) AngularJS
16 36 (0.89%) RESTful
17 35 (0.87%) AWS CDK
17 35 (0.87%) OpenID
18 34 (0.84%) .NET Core
19 31 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 149 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 119 (2.95%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 85 (2.11%) NHS
5 77 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 49 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 47 (1.17%) PKI
8 46 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (0.97%) Replication
11 36 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 30 (0.74%) Reference Data
14 29 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
14 29 (0.72%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (0.67%) Driving Licence
16 25 (0.62%) Public Cloud
17 24 (0.60%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 314 (7.79%) Windows
2 193 (4.79%) Linux
3 92 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 61 (1.51%) Unix
6 37 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 35 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 31 (0.77%) Android
10 28 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 23 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (0.40%) Windows 7
13 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (0.27%) Mac OS X
14 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.25%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.25%) zOS
16 7 (0.17%) VMS
17 6 (0.15%) Windows Vista
18 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (21.44%) Agile
2 440 (10.92%) Business Intelligence
3 434 (10.77%) DevOps
4 357 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 343 (8.51%) Programme Management
6 336 (8.34%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (8.24%) Project Management
8 312 (7.74%) Migration
9 277 (6.87%) Digital Marketing
10 240 (5.96%) ITIL
11 227 (5.63%) CI/CD
12 215 (5.33%) Roadmaps
13 199 (4.94%) Scrum
14 197 (4.89%) Project Delivery
15 194 (4.81%) PRINCE2
16 190 (4.71%) Change Management
17 180 (4.47%) Service Management
18 176 (4.37%) Cybersecurity
19 174 (4.32%) Continuous Improvement
20 173 (4.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 278 (6.90%) SQL
2 226 (5.61%) Python
3 196 (4.86%) Java
4 165 (4.09%) JavaScript
5 143 (3.55%) C#
5 143 (3.55%) PowerShell
6 75 (1.86%) TypeScript
7 43 (1.07%) Bash
8 40 (0.99%) C
8 40 (0.99%) C++
9 38 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 27 (0.67%) Bicep
10 27 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 25 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 20 (0.50%) PHP
13 19 (0.47%) Ruby
14 16 (0.40%) R
15 13 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.32%) Go
16 12 (0.30%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,685 (41.81%) Security Cleared
2 1,111 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 422 (10.47%) DV Cleared
4 300 (7.44%) Degree
5 66 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 60 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (1.12%) CCNA
9 41 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 37 (0.92%) CISSP
11 35 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (0.65%) CCNP
14 23 (0.57%) MCSE
15 19 (0.47%) CISM
15 19 (0.47%) PMP
16 18 (0.45%) HNC
16 18 (0.45%) PMI Certification
17 17 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (2.98%) Accessibility
2 100 (2.48%) QA
3 86 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
5 78 (1.94%) SLA
6 66 (1.64%) PMO
7 61 (1.51%) Data Quality
8 52 (1.29%) GDPR
9 48 (1.19%) NIST
10 30 (0.74%) WCAG
11 28 (0.69%) NCSC
12 14 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 12 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.27%) HL7
16 10 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 9 (0.22%) NIST 800
18 8 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 229 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 114 (2.83%) Docker
3 68 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 25 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.37%) NFS
8 14 (0.35%) Firmware
8 14 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.32%) vSphere
10 11 (0.27%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.20%) HDFS
12 8 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.12%) ACF2
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.099%) IAG
14 4 (0.099%) Time Sharing Option
15 3 (0.074%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 126 (3.13%) Terraform
2 118 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 83 (2.06%) Ansible
4 44 (1.09%) SCCM
5 37 (0.92%) Grafana
6 31 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 19 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 18 (0.45%) Puppet
11 16 (0.40%) FortiGate
11 16 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 14 (0.35%) Kibana
13 13 (0.32%) SCOM
14 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.22%) OPNET
17 7 (0.17%) Packer
17 7 (0.17%) vRealize
17 7 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 555 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 348 (8.64%) SAP
3 200 (4.96%) Oracle
4 115 (2.85%) ServiceNow
5 104 (2.58%) VMware
6 100 (2.48%) Cisco
7 61 (1.51%) Dell
8 50 (1.24%) Juniper
9 45 (1.12%) Google
10 38 (0.94%) Atlassian
10 38 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 36 (0.89%) Sparx
12 32 (0.79%) Adobe
13 30 (0.74%) Citrix
14 27 (0.67%) IBM
14 27 (0.67%) Splunk
15 24 (0.60%) CyberArk
16 23 (0.57%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.57%) NetApp
16 23 (0.57%) Red Hat