Public Sector Contracts with Work from Home Options

Public Sector
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 15 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,527 2,616 4,602
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.03% 10.25% 10.32%
As % of the General category 17.05% 17.53% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 2,080 3,832
10th Percentile £319 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £642 £600
90th Percentile £700 £743 £676
UK median daily rate £516 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +5.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 23 44
10th Percentile £13.11 £16.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.00 £21.29
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -6.06% -0.51%
75th Percentile £68.28 £26.15 £28.75
90th Percentile £87.52 £47.50 £61.58
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.11%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,955 14,919 24,216
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.82% 58.43% 54.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,880 10,507 17,563
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 342 350
10th Percentile £14.02 £19.01 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.00 £19.35
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +53.85% +38.30%
75th Percentile £52.88 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Public Sector
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Public Sector trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Public Sector daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Sector.

Public Sector hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Public Sector hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 57 (3.73%) Confluence
2 50 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.44%) CMS
5 11 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 10 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2003
6 10 (0.65%) nginx
7 9 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.59%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.46%) IIS
8 7 (0.46%) WordPress
9 5 (0.33%) SAS
10 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.20%) JBoss
11 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 43 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.26%) Sketch
6 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.13%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.13%) Lectora
7 2 (0.13%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.065%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.065%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.065%) Blender
8 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.065%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
2 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.39%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.39%) SAP PSCD
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.33%) Primavera
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
6 4 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 273 (17.88%) Azure
2 167 (10.94%) AWS
3 95 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
4 88 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 53 (3.47%) Serverless
7 35 (2.29%) GitHub
8 34 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 31 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (1.83%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.64%) GCP
11 25 (1.64%) OCI
12 24 (1.57%) SaaS
13 23 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (1.51%) PowerApps
14 22 (1.44%) PaaS
15 19 (1.24%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.11%) OpenShift
17 16 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.75%) Firewall
2 21 (1.38%) WAN
3 16 (1.05%) LAN
3 16 (1.05%) VPN
3 16 (1.05%) Wireless
4 15 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
4 15 (0.98%) Network Security
5 11 (0.72%) NetScaler
6 10 (0.65%) DNS
6 10 (0.65%) Skype
7 9 (0.59%) 4G
7 9 (0.59%) BGP
7 9 (0.59%) IPsec
8 8 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (0.52%) Intranet
8 8 (0.52%) OSPF
8 8 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.46%) 3G
9 7 (0.46%) Internet
9 7 (0.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.67%) Power BI
2 53 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 46 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (2.10%) Data Lake
5 31 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (1.51%) MongoDB
7 21 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.24%) Metadata
9 18 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (0.98%) Oracle Database
12 14 (0.92%) GIS
12 14 (0.92%) NoSQL
13 12 (0.79%) Big Data
13 12 (0.79%) Tableau
14 11 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (0.65%) RDBMS
16 9 (0.59%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 86 (5.63%) JIRA
2 40 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 32 (2.10%) Git
4 20 (1.31%) Cypress.io
5 16 (1.05%) Visual Studio
6 13 (0.85%) GitLab
7 12 (0.79%) Selenium
8 11 (0.72%) ERwin
9 10 (0.65%) PVCS
10 7 (0.46%) Postman
10 7 (0.46%) SpecFlow
11 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.39%) JMeter
11 6 (0.39%) Maven
12 4 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.26%) NUnit
12 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.26%) Protractor
12 4 (0.26%) SoapUI
General
1 333 (21.81%) Social Skills
2 287 (18.80%) Finance
3 117 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 108 (7.07%) Marketing
6 103 (6.75%) Manufacturing
7 101 (6.61%) Electronics
8 29 (1.90%) Local Government
9 28 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (1.83%) Retail
10 24 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (1.24%) Police
11 19 (1.24%) Publishing
12 17 (1.11%) Back Office
12 17 (1.11%) Law
13 16 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.05%) Military
14 14 (0.92%) Legal
15 10 (0.65%) General Ledger
16 9 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 231 (15.13%) Architect
2 195 (12.77%) Senior
3 181 (11.85%) Developer
4 155 (10.15%) Analyst
5 106 (6.94%) Lead
6 100 (6.55%) Project Manager
7 98 (6.42%) Consultant
8 62 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
9 57 (3.73%) Business Analyst
10 43 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
11 42 (2.75%) Designer
12 40 (2.62%) Senior Manager
12 40 (2.62%) Technical Architect
13 38 (2.49%) Data Engineer
14 36 (2.36%) Senior Developer
15 35 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
16 33 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
16 33 (2.16%) Data Architect
17 30 (1.96%) DBA
18 29 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.37%) .NET
2 55 (3.60%) HTML
3 46 (3.01%) CSS
4 35 (2.29%) REST
5 30 (1.96%) React
5 30 (1.96%) XML
6 29 (1.90%) Node.js
7 23 (1.51%) AWS CDK
7 23 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
8 22 (1.44%) Web Services
9 20 (1.31%) RESTful
10 19 (1.24%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.24%) JSON
10 19 (1.24%) Spring
11 16 (1.05%) .NET Core
11 16 (1.05%) ASP.NET
11 16 (1.05%) SAML
12 14 (0.92%) .NET Framework
12 14 (0.92%) Spring Boot
13 12 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (3.41%) Product Ownership
2 47 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 35 (2.29%) Data Structures
4 24 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.38%) Cloud Native
6 21 (1.38%) NHS
7 20 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (0.98%) Wiki
10 13 (0.85%) CMDB
11 12 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
12 11 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.65%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.52%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.52%) PKI
14 8 (0.52%) Replication
15 7 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 75 (4.91%) Windows
2 69 (4.52%) Linux
3 27 (1.77%) Unix
4 25 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (0.59%) Android
8 9 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.59%) zOS
9 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.26%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.20%) VMS
11 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.13%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (23.97%) Agile
2 200 (13.10%) DevOps
3 171 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
4 140 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 133 (8.71%) Migration
6 126 (8.25%) Project Management
7 122 (7.99%) CI/CD
8 116 (7.60%) Programme Management
9 110 (7.20%) Roadmaps
10 104 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
11 103 (6.75%) Digital Marketing
12 84 (5.50%) Project Delivery
13 81 (5.30%) ITIL
14 79 (5.17%) Service Management
15 74 (4.85%) Analytics
16 73 (4.78%) Cybersecurity
17 71 (4.65%) Change Management
17 71 (4.65%) Scrum
18 68 (4.45%) Data Protection
18 68 (4.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 125 (8.19%) SQL
2 107 (7.01%) Python
3 79 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 72 (4.72%) PowerShell
5 71 (4.65%) Java
6 59 (3.86%) C#
7 36 (2.36%) TypeScript
8 26 (1.70%) Bash
9 18 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 14 (0.92%) C
11 13 (0.85%) Bicep
12 12 (0.79%) ABAP
12 12 (0.79%) PHP
12 12 (0.79%) Ruby
13 11 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.65%) COBOL
15 9 (0.59%) C++
15 9 (0.59%) REXX
16 7 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 552 (36.15%) Security Cleared
2 421 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 124 (8.12%) Degree
4 73 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 28 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (1.44%) CISSP
7 19 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (0.98%) ISTQB
8 15 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 14 (0.92%) CISM
10 11 (0.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 11 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.59%) APMP
12 9 (0.59%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.59%) CCNA
13 8 (0.52%) ISEB
14 7 (0.46%) CCNP
14 7 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.86%) Accessibility
2 41 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (2.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 35 (2.29%) QA
5 30 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.77%) GDPR
7 24 (1.57%) PMO
8 22 (1.44%) SLA
9 17 (1.11%) NIST
10 14 (0.92%) NCSC
11 13 (0.85%) WCAG
12 7 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.46%) COBIT
13 6 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 22301
13 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.20%) GPG13
15 3 (0.20%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 81 (5.30%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.01%) Docker
3 16 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.33%) ACF2
7 5 (0.33%) Firmware
7 5 (0.33%) RACF
8 4 (0.26%) IAG
8 4 (0.26%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
11 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.065%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (4.98%) Terraform
2 47 (3.08%) Ansible
3 36 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 23 (1.51%) Grafana
5 14 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (0.85%) Puppet
7 12 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 12 (0.79%) SCCM
8 9 (0.59%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.46%) Kibana
10 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.26%) Data Guard
12 3 (0.20%) CFEngine
12 3 (0.20%) Dell DRAC
12 3 (0.20%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.20%) PowerBroker
13 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 195 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.97%) SAP
3 85 (5.57%) Oracle
4 48 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 26 (1.70%) Atlassian
6 23 (1.51%) VMware
7 21 (1.38%) Sparx
8 18 (1.18%) Cisco
9 17 (1.11%) Google
10 15 (0.98%) Adobe
11 14 (0.92%) NetApp
12 13 (0.85%) Citrix
13 12 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.72%) Databricks
14 11 (0.72%) Dell
14 11 (0.72%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.72%) Splunk
15 10 (0.65%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.65%) IBM
15 10 (0.65%) Red Hat