Public Sector Contracts in England

Public Sector
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,154 4,384 5,407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.66% 9.10% 7.68%
As % of the General category 14.89% 15.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,284 4,236
10th Percentile £313 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +5.39% +5.15%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £601
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 80 154
10th Percentile £12.74 £14.59 £12.53
25th Percentile £15.39 £17.15 £15.93
Median hourly rate £21.50 £20.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% +3.00% +8.05%
75th Percentile £54.77 £28.75 £25.68
90th Percentile £70.39 £47.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.84% +2.10% +5.54%

All General Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,189 28,537 40,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.17% 59.22% 56.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,045 28,012
10th Percentile £281 £315 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £789 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 918 1,295
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.43 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.68 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £70.38 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +8 1,489 £525 -6.67% 365
North of England -5 469 £515 -1.90% 210
South East -1 416 £450 -7.79% 237
South West 0 374 £575 - 122
North West -2 309 £525 +0.38% 125
Midlands -6 223 £450 -12.83% 147
West Midlands -7 161 £500 -7.41% 106
Yorkshire -12 138 £525 -4.55% 57
East Midlands -8 61 £360 -40.00% 40
East of England -42 56 £450 -25.00% 57
North East -2 36 £538 -2.27% 29
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 119 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 50 (1.59%) Confluence
3 43 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.82%) CMS
5 16 (0.51%) nginx
6 14 (0.44%) Apache
7 12 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (0.22%) Site Server
13 5 (0.16%) Camunda
13 5 (0.16%) IIS
13 5 (0.16%) SAS
14 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 94 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.22%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.095%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.095%) Trello
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.063%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.032%) InVision
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.54%) Primavera
3 15 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.32%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
8 5 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
8 5 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.13%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.13%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.095%) Aareon QL
10 3 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.095%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.063%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 471 (14.93%) Azure
2 289 (9.16%) AWS
3 164 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (4.38%) Power Platform
6 73 (2.31%) PaaS
7 67 (2.12%) SaaS
8 63 (2.00%) Serverless
9 53 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
9 53 (1.68%) IaaS
10 49 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 45 (1.43%) Entra ID
12 44 (1.40%) GitHub
13 39 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 36 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (1.11%) GCP
16 34 (1.08%) Amazon S3
17 33 (1.05%) PowerApps
18 28 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
19 24 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 128 (4.06%) Firewall
2 103 (3.27%) WAN
3 81 (2.57%) LAN
4 46 (1.46%) VPN
5 41 (1.30%) Wireless
6 40 (1.27%) Network Security
7 36 (1.14%) DNS
8 29 (0.92%) BGP
9 26 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (0.70%) IPsec
11 21 (0.67%) Internet
12 20 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
13 19 (0.60%) DHCP
14 18 (0.57%) MPLS
14 18 (0.57%) OSPF
14 18 (0.57%) SAN
14 18 (0.57%) TCP/IP
15 16 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.51%) VoIP
16 15 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 101 (3.20%) Power BI
3 83 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.81%) Metadata
6 51 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 42 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.27%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.95%) GIS
10 25 (0.79%) Big Data
11 24 (0.76%) Metadata Repository
12 21 (0.67%) Data Vault
13 20 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.63%) Oracle Database
14 19 (0.60%) MySQL
15 18 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
15 18 (0.57%) MongoDB
16 15 (0.48%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 15 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (2.89%) Git
2 76 (2.41%) JIRA
3 47 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 31 (0.98%) GitLab
5 28 (0.89%) JUnit
6 27 (0.86%) Visual Studio
7 25 (0.79%) Selenium
8 17 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 16 (0.51%) PVCS
10 14 (0.44%) ERwin
11 13 (0.41%) Postman
11 13 (0.41%) SpecFlow
12 11 (0.35%) JMeter
13 9 (0.29%) Maven
14 8 (0.25%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.25%) WebDriver
15 6 (0.19%) Liquibase
15 6 (0.19%) Mockito
15 6 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
15 6 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 579 (18.36%) Social Skills
2 557 (17.66%) Finance
3 293 (9.29%) Telecoms
4 277 (8.78%) Marketing
5 268 (8.50%) Manufacturing
6 264 (8.37%) Electronics
7 231 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (2.85%) Local Government
9 43 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (1.14%) Legal
12 35 (1.11%) Back Office
13 34 (1.08%) Police
14 33 (1.05%) Retail
15 32 (1.01%) Military
16 29 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (0.86%) Publishing
18 25 (0.79%) Banking
19 24 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 471 (14.93%) Architect
2 375 (11.89%) Senior
3 331 (10.49%) Developer
4 289 (9.16%) Analyst
5 197 (6.25%) Lead
6 195 (6.18%) Consultant
7 194 (6.15%) Project Manager
8 106 (3.36%) Network Engineer
9 104 (3.30%) Business Analyst
10 97 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
11 79 (2.50%) Data Engineer
12 78 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 78 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 77 (2.44%) Data Architect
14 75 (2.38%) Technical Architect
15 66 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
16 65 (2.06%) Senior Developer
16 65 (2.06%) Support Engineer
17 63 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
18 62 (1.97%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (3.20%) .NET
2 76 (2.41%) REST
3 65 (2.06%) HTML
4 59 (1.87%) Spring
5 57 (1.81%) CSS
6 56 (1.78%) Node.js
6 56 (1.78%) Spring Boot
7 45 (1.43%) React
8 44 (1.40%) XML
9 40 (1.27%) Kafka
10 37 (1.17%) JSON
11 32 (1.01%) RESTful
12 31 (0.98%) .NET Core
13 30 (0.95%) AngularJS
14 29 (0.92%) Web Services
15 26 (0.82%) .NET Framework
16 25 (0.79%) Hibernate
17 22 (0.70%) JPA
17 22 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
18 18 (0.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.17%) Management Information System
2 83 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 81 (2.57%) Product Ownership
4 80 (2.54%) NHS
5 68 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 40 (1.27%) PKI
7 40 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.08%) Replication
9 32 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (0.89%) Reference Data
11 27 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 25 (0.79%) Cloud Native
13 24 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (0.70%) Public Cloud
15 21 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
17 19 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (0.60%) Driving Licence
18 18 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 257 (8.15%) Windows
2 157 (4.98%) Linux
3 81 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 63 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 45 (1.43%) Unix
6 32 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.82%) Android
9 21 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.48%) Windows 7
12 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
14 9 (0.29%) Mac OS X
15 7 (0.22%) VMS
16 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
17 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
18 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (20.64%) Agile
2 389 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
3 343 (10.88%) DevOps
4 322 (10.21%) Programme Management
5 302 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 271 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
7 267 (8.47%) Digital Marketing
8 243 (7.70%) Project Management
9 239 (7.58%) Migration
10 181 (5.74%) ITIL
11 179 (5.68%) CI/CD
12 165 (5.23%) Change Management
13 146 (4.63%) PRINCE2
14 141 (4.47%) Scrum
15 140 (4.44%) Project Delivery
16 138 (4.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 135 (4.28%) Roadmaps
18 133 (4.22%) Cybersecurity
19 130 (4.12%) Data Modelling
20 119 (3.77%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 217 (6.88%) SQL
2 179 (5.68%) Python
3 145 (4.60%) Java
4 119 (3.77%) C#
5 118 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 113 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 42 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.24%) C
9 38 (1.20%) C++
10 32 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 26 (0.82%) Bash
11 26 (0.82%) Bicep
12 18 (0.57%) PHP
13 16 (0.51%) Ruby
13 16 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.44%) R
15 13 (0.41%) ABAP
15 13 (0.41%) Go
16 11 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,470 (46.61%) Security Cleared
2 938 (29.74%) SC Cleared
3 408 (12.94%) DV Cleared
4 221 (7.01%) Degree
5 55 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (1.17%) CCNA
9 30 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 28 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
11 27 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (0.79%) CCNP
13 23 (0.73%) CISSP
14 22 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 14 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
15 14 (0.44%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.44%) PMP
16 13 (0.41%) CISM
16 13 (0.41%) HNC
16 13 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (2.54%) QA
2 70 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 60 (1.90%) SLA
4 57 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 54 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.52%) PMO
7 47 (1.49%) GDPR
8 39 (1.24%) NIST
9 24 (0.76%) NCSC
10 19 (0.60%) WCAG
11 15 (0.48%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.35%) HL7
14 9 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.25%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 7 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 177 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 99 (3.14%) Docker
3 62 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 21 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.44%) Firmware
8 13 (0.41%) NFS
8 13 (0.41%) vSphere
9 11 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.25%) HDFS
10 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.063%) iptables
12 2 (0.063%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.032%) ACF2
13 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.032%) KVM
13 1 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 116 (3.68%) Terraform
2 105 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 70 (2.22%) Ansible
4 30 (0.95%) SCCM
5 22 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (0.54%) Puppet
8 17 (0.54%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.51%) Grafana
10 15 (0.48%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.44%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.38%) SCOM
13 11 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.32%) OPNET
15 9 (0.29%) Kibana
16 7 (0.22%) Packer
16 7 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
16 7 (0.22%) VxRail
17 6 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 407 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 336 (10.65%) SAP
3 106 (3.36%) Oracle
4 95 (3.01%) VMware
5 91 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 86 (2.73%) Cisco
7 49 (1.55%) Juniper
8 44 (1.40%) Dell
9 34 (1.08%) Sparx
10 32 (1.01%) Palo Alto
11 31 (0.98%) Google
12 27 (0.86%) Citrix
13 25 (0.79%) Adobe
13 25 (0.79%) Splunk
14 22 (0.70%) Veeam
15 21 (0.67%) IBM
16 20 (0.63%) Red Hat
17 19 (0.60%) Remedy
18 18 (0.57%) NetApp
19 17 (0.54%) Atlassian