Public Sector Contracts in London

Public Sector
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in London. 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 19 27 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 1,489 1,780 2,138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.52% 6.88% 5.54%
As % of the General category 13.52% 10.88% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,303 1,731
10th Percentile £371 £363 £356
25th Percentile £443 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £743 £743 £706
England median daily rate £525 £538 £510
% change year-on-year -2.33% +5.39% +5.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 37
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.41 £14.60
25th Percentile £15.66 £20.21 £23.23
Median hourly rate £18.13 £25.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% -2.65% +7.00%
75th Percentile £25.73 £39.43 -
90th Percentile £65.90 £46.79 £37.27
England median hourly rate £21.50 £20.60 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.37% +3.00% +8.05%

All General Skills
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 London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,011 16,359 23,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.01% 63.23% 60.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,857 16,842
10th Percentile £336 £380 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 210 295
10th Percentile £15.60 £16.56 £18.70
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -20.00% +33.83%
75th Percentile £44.75 £52.92 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +15 172 £500 - 42
South London -3 43 £488 -1.97% 5
West London +21 19 £350 -34.43% 18
East London +9 18 £550 -11.29% 44
North London 0 2 £305 -35.79% 3
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 68 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.08%) Confluence
3 24 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (1.34%) CMS
5 12 (0.81%) nginx
6 10 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
6 10 (0.67%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2003
7 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
7 9 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.47%) Apache
8 7 (0.47%) ArcGIS
8 7 (0.47%) Site Server
9 4 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.27%) Camunda
9 4 (0.27%) JBoss
9 4 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Sketch
6 3 (0.20%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
3 11 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 4 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 298 (20.01%) Azure
2 187 (12.56%) AWS
3 116 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 45 (3.02%) Serverless
7 37 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 29 (1.95%) Entra ID
11 25 (1.68%) Power Automate
12 24 (1.61%) GitHub
12 24 (1.61%) PaaS
13 22 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 21 (1.41%) SaaS
15 20 (1.34%) PowerApps
16 18 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.14%) IaaS
18 16 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.75%) Firewall
2 26 (1.75%) WAN
3 22 (1.48%) Wireless
4 18 (1.21%) LAN
5 17 (1.14%) VPN
6 11 (0.74%) Skype
7 10 (0.67%) BGP
7 10 (0.67%) DNS
7 10 (0.67%) OSPF
8 8 (0.54%) FTP
8 8 (0.54%) NetScaler
8 8 (0.54%) Network Security
8 8 (0.54%) VoIP
8 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.47%) HTTP
9 7 (0.47%) Internet
10 6 (0.40%) Intranet
10 6 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 57 (3.83%) Power BI
3 47 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.01%) Metadata
7 29 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 28 (1.88%) Data Lake
9 24 (1.61%) GIS
10 21 (1.41%) Data Vault
11 17 (1.14%) Big Data
12 16 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.01%) Metadata Repository
14 13 (0.87%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.87%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.81%) Parquet
16 10 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
17 9 (0.60%) Oracle Database
18 8 (0.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 55 (3.69%) Git
2 46 (3.09%) JIRA
3 30 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.34%) Selenium
5 16 (1.07%) JUnit
6 14 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.81%) GitLab
7 12 (0.81%) SpecFlow
8 11 (0.74%) ERwin
8 11 (0.74%) Postman
9 9 (0.60%) Maven
10 7 (0.47%) JMeter
10 7 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.47%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.34%) Mockito
12 4 (0.27%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.27%) TestNG
13 3 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 277 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 250 (16.79%) Finance
3 116 (7.79%) Marketing
4 112 (7.52%) Telecoms
5 108 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 107 (7.19%) Electronics
7 105 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (2.96%) Local Government
9 31 (2.08%) Back Office
10 28 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.81%) Retail
12 23 (1.54%) Law
13 22 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.41%) Banking
15 17 (1.14%) Publishing
16 16 (1.07%) General Ledger
16 16 (1.07%) Legal
17 15 (1.01%) Military
18 13 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
19 11 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 243 (16.32%) Architect
2 187 (12.56%) Senior
3 173 (11.62%) Developer
4 133 (8.93%) Analyst
5 109 (7.32%) Consultant
6 89 (5.98%) Lead
7 69 (4.63%) Project Manager
8 64 (4.30%) Business Analyst
9 56 (3.76%) Data Architect
10 53 (3.56%) Data Engineer
11 46 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
12 45 (3.02%) Senior Developer
12 45 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 45 (3.02%) Technical Architect
13 41 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
14 40 (2.69%) Designer
15 32 (2.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
16 30 (2.01%) Enterprise Architect
16 30 (2.01%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.64%) .NET
2 40 (2.69%) HTML
2 40 (2.69%) REST
2 40 (2.69%) XML
3 34 (2.28%) Spring
4 33 (2.22%) CSS
4 33 (2.22%) Spring Boot
5 30 (2.01%) JSON
6 26 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 25 (1.68%) Kafka
8 24 (1.61%) React
9 22 (1.48%) .NET Framework
10 19 (1.28%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
11 18 (1.21%) Node.js
12 16 (1.07%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.01%) Middleware
14 12 (0.81%) Apache Avro
14 12 (0.81%) RESTful
14 12 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (3.29%) Product Ownership
2 45 (3.02%) Onboarding
3 36 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 35 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 27 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (1.75%) Reference Data
7 25 (1.68%) Replication
8 21 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 20 (1.34%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
13 12 (0.81%) Freedom of Information Act
14 11 (0.74%) NHS
15 10 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
16 9 (0.60%) Mobile App
16 9 (0.60%) Security Posture
16 9 (0.60%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.47%) Cyber Threat
17 7 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.91%) Windows
2 66 (4.43%) Linux
3 38 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.95%) Unix
5 21 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 10 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (0.60%) Android
9 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.40%) VMS
11 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.13%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.067%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (24.65%) Agile
2 206 (13.83%) DevOps
3 178 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
4 141 (9.47%) Migration
5 124 (8.33%) Programme Management
5 124 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 119 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (7.52%) CI/CD
8 111 (7.45%) Digital Marketing
9 94 (6.31%) Scrum
10 86 (5.78%) Data Modelling
11 84 (5.64%) Project Management
12 74 (4.97%) Change Management
13 68 (4.57%) PRINCE2
14 66 (4.43%) Analytics
14 66 (4.43%) Project Delivery
15 64 (4.30%) Microservices
16 63 (4.23%) Collaborative Working
16 63 (4.23%) Roadmaps
17 62 (4.16%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 133 (8.93%) SQL
2 104 (6.98%) Python
3 87 (5.84%) Java
4 81 (5.44%) C#
5 77 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 72 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 26 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.54%) Bicep
9 12 (0.81%) Ruby
10 11 (0.74%) PHP
11 9 (0.60%) Bash
11 9 (0.60%) Go
11 9 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.54%) ABAP
12 8 (0.54%) Korn
12 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.54%) R
12 8 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 611 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 481 (32.30%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.45%) Degree
4 108 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 27 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
10 7 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (0.47%) PMP
10 7 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 7 (0.47%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 7 (0.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 6 (0.40%) CISSP
11 6 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.49%) QA
2 43 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 32 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 31 (2.08%) PMO
5 26 (1.75%) SLA
6 22 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.07%) GDPR
8 15 (1.01%) NIST
9 14 (0.94%) WCAG
10 12 (0.81%) NCSC
11 10 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.40%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.34%) COBIT
13 5 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.20%) GPG13
16 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.13%) HL7
17 1 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (6.58%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.69%) Docker
3 13 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.74%) NFS
5 8 (0.54%) Firmware
5 8 (0.54%) HDFS
6 7 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.13%) vSphere
11 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (4.77%) Terraform
2 55 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.35%) Ansible
4 18 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 12 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.47%) SCCM
8 5 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.34%) Grafana
8 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.34%) Puppet
9 4 (0.27%) Packer
9 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.20%) Consul
10 3 (0.20%) Kibana
11 2 (0.13%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.067%) TrustSec
12 1 (0.067%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 216 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 138 (9.27%) SAP
3 66 (4.43%) Oracle
4 45 (3.02%) ServiceNow
5 26 (1.75%) Sparx
6 18 (1.21%) Veeam
7 17 (1.14%) Splunk
8 16 (1.07%) Cisco
8 16 (1.07%) NetApp
8 16 (1.07%) VMware
9 15 (1.01%) Adobe
10 14 (0.94%) Virgin Media
11 13 (0.87%) ESRI
12 12 (0.81%) Google
13 11 (0.74%) Dell
14 10 (0.67%) Juniper
15 9 (0.60%) Citrix
15 9 (0.60%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.54%) CyberArk
16 8 (0.54%) Informatica