Public Sector Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 10 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 2,142 3,136 4,033
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.55% 13.63% 13.24%
As % of the General category 19.41% 24.11% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,379 2,440 3,218
10th Percentile £205 £207 £205
25th Percentile £399 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.24%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £565
90th Percentile £695 £681 £638
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 70 127
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.33 £16.77 £15.72
Median hourly rate £20.87 £20.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £50.75 £26.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £68.91 £42.50 £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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,038 13,006 16,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.38% 56.52% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,309 8,866 11,696
10th Percentile £208 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,650 739 1,034
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.90 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.16 £36.12
90th Percentile £67.04 £70.00 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Scotland +1 588 £450 -2.17% 99
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
Wales -2 27 £500 +17.65% 33
Northern Ireland +10 18 £625 +357.88% 28
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 75 (3.50%) Confluence
2 55 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (0.79%) CMS
5 9 (0.42%) Apache
6 6 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.19%) IIS
8 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.14%) SAS
8 3 (0.14%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.14%) WordPress
9 2 (0.093%) CICS
9 2 (0.093%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.093%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.093%) Mule
9 2 (0.093%) nginx
9 2 (0.093%) Traefik
9 2 (0.093%) WildFly
Applications
1 87 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.093%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.093%) Lectora
7 2 (0.093%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.093%) Sketch
8 1 (0.047%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.047%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.047%) Blender
8 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.047%) Revit
8 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (0.79%) Primavera
2 10 (0.47%) Teamcenter
3 8 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 8 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.23%) SAP BRIM
5 5 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
5 5 (0.23%) SAP PSCD
6 4 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.19%) iTrent
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.19%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 183 (8.54%) Azure
2 126 (5.88%) AWS
3 115 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (3.78%) Power Platform
5 62 (2.89%) SaaS
6 55 (2.57%) PaaS
7 48 (2.24%) Serverless
8 46 (2.15%) IaaS
9 45 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (1.87%) OCI
11 35 (1.63%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
14 30 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (1.26%) OpenShift
16 23 (1.07%) Entra ID
17 22 (1.03%) Power Automate
18 16 (0.75%) GCP
18 16 (0.75%) PowerApps
19 15 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.15%) Firewall
2 77 (3.59%) WAN
3 68 (3.17%) LAN
4 34 (1.59%) Network Security
5 29 (1.35%) VPN
6 28 (1.31%) DNS
7 25 (1.17%) SAN
8 19 (0.89%) IPsec
8 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.84%) BGP
9 18 (0.84%) Internet
10 17 (0.79%) DHCP
10 17 (0.79%) Wireless
11 15 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (0.70%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.65%) VoIP
13 13 (0.61%) Intranet
14 12 (0.56%) HTTP
14 12 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (2.24%) Power BI
3 32 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 28 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
5 26 (1.21%) SQL Server
6 25 (1.17%) Metadata
6 25 (1.17%) MongoDB
7 22 (1.03%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 19 (0.89%) MySQL
10 16 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.70%) GIS
12 14 (0.65%) Tableau
13 13 (0.61%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.56%) Big Data
15 11 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
16 10 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
17 9 (0.42%) MariaDB
17 9 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 114 (5.32%) JIRA
2 34 (1.59%) Git
3 28 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.03%) GitLab
5 20 (0.93%) Visual Studio
6 16 (0.75%) PVCS
7 15 (0.70%) JUnit
8 7 (0.33%) Selenium
9 6 (0.28%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.23%) JMeter
10 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.19%) Maven
11 4 (0.19%) Subversion
12 3 (0.14%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 451 (21.06%) Social Skills
2 338 (15.78%) Finance
3 182 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (7.42%) Telecoms
5 146 (6.82%) Marketing
6 141 (6.58%) Manufacturing
7 138 (6.44%) Electronics
8 51 (2.38%) Local Government
9 45 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.03%) Legal
13 20 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (0.93%) Publishing
14 17 (0.79%) Police
15 15 (0.70%) Military
16 13 (0.61%) Back Office
17 7 (0.33%) Billing
17 7 (0.33%) Fire and Rescue
17 7 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 256 (11.95%) Architect
2 253 (11.81%) Senior
3 240 (11.20%) Analyst
4 201 (9.38%) Developer
5 162 (7.56%) Project Manager
6 138 (6.44%) Lead
7 102 (4.76%) Consultant
8 77 (3.59%) Network Engineer
9 65 (3.03%) Business Analyst
10 62 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 55 (2.57%) Network Architect
11 55 (2.57%) Senior Manager
12 51 (2.38%) Administrator
13 49 (2.29%) Delivery Manager
13 49 (2.29%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 45 (2.10%) Support Officer
16 42 (1.96%) IT Support
17 41 (1.91%) Service Analyst
18 40 (1.87%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (2.57%) REST
2 43 (2.01%) HTML
3 42 (1.96%) CSS
4 41 (1.91%) Node.js
5 39 (1.82%) React
6 36 (1.68%) AWS CDK
7 33 (1.54%) .NET
8 29 (1.35%) Spring
8 29 (1.35%) Spring Boot
9 25 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
10 23 (1.07%) Web Services
11 17 (0.79%) Hibernate
11 17 (0.79%) OpenID
11 17 (0.79%) RESTful
12 14 (0.65%) JPA
12 14 (0.65%) SAML
12 14 (0.65%) SOAP
12 14 (0.65%) XML
13 13 (0.61%) OAuth
14 11 (0.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 73 (3.41%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.22%) NHS
4 49 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 37 (1.73%) PKI
6 34 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.31%) Driving Licence
7 28 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (1.17%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
11 19 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 15 (0.70%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.65%) CMDB
14 13 (0.61%) Replication
15 12 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
16 10 (0.47%) CCTV
16 10 (0.47%) Clustering
16 10 (0.47%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 198 (9.24%) Windows
2 99 (4.62%) Linux
3 64 (2.99%) Windows 10
4 44 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.12%) Unix
7 19 (0.89%) Android
8 17 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.65%) Windows 7
11 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.33%) Mac OS X
14 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.28%) Windows Vista
15 3 (0.14%) AIX
15 3 (0.14%) Solaris
15 3 (0.14%) zOS
16 2 (0.093%) Data ONTAP
16 2 (0.093%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (19.33%) Agile
2 224 (10.46%) Project Management
3 210 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
4 202 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 194 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (8.82%) Programme Management
7 168 (7.84%) DevOps
8 158 (7.38%) ITIL
9 137 (6.40%) Digital Marketing
10 133 (6.21%) Migration
11 131 (6.12%) Roadmaps
12 119 (5.56%) PRINCE2
13 118 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
14 115 (5.37%) Project Delivery
15 109 (5.09%) Service Management
16 107 (5.00%) Change Management
17 97 (4.53%) Risk Management
18 94 (4.39%) Mentoring
19 93 (4.34%) Scrum
20 91 (4.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 94 (4.39%) SQL
2 87 (4.06%) Java
3 80 (3.73%) Python
4 68 (3.17%) JavaScript
5 46 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 42 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 35 (1.63%) C#
8 33 (1.54%) C
9 31 (1.45%) Bash
9 31 (1.45%) C++
10 29 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 18 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.28%) R
14 6 (0.28%) VB
15 5 (0.23%) ABAP
15 5 (0.23%) Perl
15 5 (0.23%) PHP
15 5 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 900 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 498 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 302 (14.10%) DV Cleared
4 167 (7.80%) Degree
5 57 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (1.87%) CCNA
8 32 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
9 30 (1.40%) CISSP
10 23 (1.07%) CCNP
10 23 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 22 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.03%) MCSE
12 17 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (0.79%) HNC
13 15 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (0.65%) CISM
15 13 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 12 (0.56%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (3.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 65 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 63 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (1.87%) SLA
5 34 (1.59%) QA
6 32 (1.49%) GDPR
6 32 (1.49%) NIST
6 32 (1.49%) PMO
7 26 (1.21%) Data Quality
8 15 (0.70%) JSP 440
8 15 (0.70%) NCSC
9 13 (0.61%) WCAG
10 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.42%) HL7
10 9 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.42%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.33%) RMADS
13 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 112 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 52 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.15%) Docker
4 25 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 19 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 11 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.51%) vSphere
8 7 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.28%) Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.093%) iptables
11 2 (0.093%) KVM
11 2 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.093%) NFS
11 2 (0.093%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.093%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.047%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 53 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.01%) Terraform
3 42 (1.96%) Ansible
4 36 (1.68%) SCCM
5 29 (1.35%) Grafana
6 17 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 14 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.56%) Puppet
9 11 (0.51%) Kibana
9 11 (0.51%) SCOM
10 10 (0.47%) OPNET
11 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.33%) vRealize
13 7 (0.33%) VxRail
14 6 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (0.23%) Argo
15 5 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 278 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 177 (8.26%) SAP
3 113 (5.28%) Oracle
4 81 (3.78%) VMware
5 72 (3.36%) Cisco
6 53 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.10%) Dell
8 38 (1.77%) Juniper
9 29 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 24 (1.12%) Palo Alto
11 18 (0.84%) Google
12 17 (0.79%) Citrix
12 17 (0.79%) Red Hat
13 16 (0.75%) SolarWinds
14 15 (0.70%) Apple
14 15 (0.70%) Fortinet
14 15 (0.70%) IBM
15 14 (0.65%) Remedy
16 13 (0.61%) HP
17 12 (0.56%) Adobe