Public Sector Contracts in the South West

Public Sector
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 374 557 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 11.84% 16.08% 13.95%
As % of the General category 23.20% 33.12% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 446 408
10th Percentile £375 £384 £225
25th Percentile £488 £475 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +19.48% -3.75%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £600
90th Percentile £738 £718 £684
England median daily rate £525 £538 £510
% change year-on-year -2.33% +5.39% +5.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 11
10th Percentile £12.45 £20.32 £16.50
25th Percentile £14.41 £20.92 £33.38
Median hourly rate £16.50 £31.25 £63.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.20% -50.79% +262.86%
75th Percentile £34.53 £42.50 £69.05
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £20.60 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.37% +3.00% +8.05%

All General Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,612 1,682 1,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.01% 48.57% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,241 1,308
10th Percentile £215 £275 £240
25th Percentile £413 £415 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £591
90th Percentile £700 £714 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 112 141
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £23.63 £39.55 £15.90
Median hourly rate £46.39 £60.35 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +43.69% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70.66 £70.75 £55.84
90th Percentile £77.50 £86.66 £65.25
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 the South West

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +1 172 £650 +13.04% 28
Bristol -3 120 £525 -8.70% 49
Devon -1 28 £500 +7.53% 7
Gloucestershire -20 17 £588 +17.50% 19
Somerset -2 14 £532 +1.33% 4
Dorset +2 10 £575 -5.74% 5
Cornwall 0 7 £428 -10.00% 3
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (2.94%) Confluence
1 11 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) InVision
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.27%) ContrOCC
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.27%) Primavera
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.43%) Azure
1 39 (10.43%) PaaS
2 37 (9.89%) SaaS
3 30 (8.02%) IaaS
4 27 (7.22%) Cloud Computing
5 20 (5.35%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.81%) AWS
7 11 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.60%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.07%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.07%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Storage
11 3 (0.80%) OCI
11 3 (0.80%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.53%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Stack
12 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.63%) LAN
2 34 (9.09%) WAN
3 18 (4.81%) Firewall
4 9 (2.41%) 4G
5 8 (2.14%) Network Security
6 7 (1.87%) 3G
6 7 (1.87%) SAN
6 7 (1.87%) VoIP
7 6 (1.60%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.34%) PBX
8 5 (1.34%) VSAN
9 4 (1.07%) DHCP
9 4 (1.07%) Intranet
9 4 (1.07%) NAS
9 4 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.80%) DNS
10 3 (0.80%) HTTP
10 3 (0.80%) Wireless
11 2 (0.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (2.41%) Metadata
2 8 (2.14%) Metadata Repository
3 7 (1.87%) Power BI
4 4 (1.07%) Oracle Database
4 4 (1.07%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.53%) Triplestore
6 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.27%) Big Data
6 1 (0.27%) GIS
6 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Power Query
6 1 (0.27%) SQLite
6 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (3.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.07%) Git
2 4 (1.07%) GitLab
2 4 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.27%) Checkstyle
4 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.27%) GoCD
4 1 (0.27%) MSI
4 1 (0.27%) NUnit
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.27%) Postman
4 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (24.33%) Finance
2 70 (18.72%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.72%) Telecoms
3 62 (16.58%) Manufacturing
4 61 (16.31%) Marketing
5 60 (16.04%) Electronics
6 31 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.14%) Publishing
9 6 (1.60%) Local Government
10 5 (1.34%) Military
11 4 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
11 4 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.07%) Legal
11 4 (1.07%) Police
12 3 (0.80%) Digital Economy
12 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (24.87%) Architect
2 36 (9.63%) Project Manager
3 33 (8.82%) Analyst
3 33 (8.82%) Network Architect
4 29 (7.75%) Lead
4 29 (7.75%) Senior
5 26 (6.95%) Solutions Architect
6 23 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
7 18 (4.81%) Network Engineer
8 17 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (4.55%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.01%) Consultant
10 14 (3.74%) Lead Architect
10 14 (3.74%) Technical Architect
11 12 (3.21%) Developer
11 12 (3.21%) Service Analyst
11 12 (3.21%) Service Desk Analyst
12 10 (2.67%) Data Architect
12 10 (2.67%) SOC Analyst
13 9 (2.41%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.21%) REST
2 6 (1.60%) CSS
3 5 (1.34%) Flash
4 4 (1.07%) HTML
5 3 (0.80%) .NET
5 3 (0.80%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.80%) JSON
5 3 (0.80%) SPFx
5 3 (0.80%) XML
6 2 (0.53%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.53%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Jena
6 2 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.53%) Flask
6 2 (0.53%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (0.53%) Kafka
6 2 (0.53%) Loki
6 2 (0.53%) PostGIS
6 2 (0.53%) SAP Basis
7 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 15 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.48%) PKI
4 10 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.87%) CSOC
7 6 (1.60%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.60%) Replication
8 5 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.34%) Blackberry
8 5 (1.34%) Clustering
8 5 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.34%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.80%) Blog
10 3 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.35%) Windows
2 12 (3.21%) Linux
3 5 (1.34%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.53%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (22.73%) Agile
2 72 (19.25%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (16.31%) Programme Management
4 60 (16.04%) Digital Marketing
5 49 (13.10%) Project Management
6 40 (10.70%) ITIL
7 39 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (9.89%) Zero Trust
9 34 (9.09%) Network Management
10 33 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (8.56%) PRINCE2
12 29 (7.75%) Open Source
13 28 (7.49%) Business Strategy
13 28 (7.49%) Service Management
14 26 (6.95%) Change Management
15 25 (6.68%) Migration
16 24 (6.42%) Project Delivery
17 23 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
18 19 (5.08%) DevOps
19 18 (4.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (2.67%) JavaScript
2 9 (2.41%) PowerShell
3 8 (2.14%) Python
3 8 (2.14%) SQL
4 5 (1.34%) C#
5 4 (1.07%) Bash
6 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.53%) Java
6 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.53%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.27%) Bicep
7 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 264 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 141 (37.70%) SC Cleared
3 136 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 36 (9.63%) Degree
5 14 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.67%) CCNA
6 10 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (1.87%) CISSP
9 6 (1.60%) CCNP
10 5 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (1.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 4 (1.07%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.07%) CLAS
11 4 (1.07%) HNC
11 4 (1.07%) HND
12 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.80%) MCSE
12 3 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.01%) JSP 440
2 9 (2.41%) NIST
3 8 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.60%) GDPR
4 6 (1.60%) NCSC
4 6 (1.60%) RMADS
4 6 (1.60%) SLA
5 5 (1.34%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.07%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.53%) GRC
7 2 (0.53%) QA
8 1 (0.27%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.27%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (3.21%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.87%) Docker
4 7 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.34%) vSphere
6 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (3.21%) vCenter Server
2 10 (2.67%) OPNET
3 7 (1.87%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.60%) Ansible
4 6 (1.60%) Terraform
5 5 (1.34%) SCCM
6 3 (0.80%) Grafana
6 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.53%) Argo
7 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.53%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.53%) SCOM
8 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.27%) Puppet
8 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) vRealize
8 1 (0.27%) VxRail
8 1 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 66 (17.65%) SAP
2 48 (12.83%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.02%) VMware
4 17 (4.55%) Cisco
5 14 (3.74%) Dell
6 11 (2.94%) Remedy
7 10 (2.67%) Oracle
8 9 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.87%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.34%) Avaya
10 5 (1.34%) Ericsson
10 5 (1.34%) Google
10 5 (1.34%) Juniper
10 5 (1.34%) Nokia
10 5 (1.34%) Ribbon
11 4 (1.07%) IBM
11 4 (1.07%) Veeam
12 3 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.80%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.80%) SolarWinds