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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 8 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 369 531 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 11.27% 15.69% 14.07%
As % of the General category 22.57% 33.15% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 420 421
10th Percentile £413 £350 £213
25th Percentile £496 £465 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £600
90th Percentile £750 £719 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 6
10th Percentile £12.45 £20.32 £17.00
25th Percentile £14.41 £20.92 £26.13
Median hourly rate £16.50 £31.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.20% -46.81% +261.54%
75th Percentile £34.53 £42.50 £65.25
90th Percentile - - £70.63
England median hourly rate £22.75 £20.60 £20.00
% change year-on-year +10.44% +3.00% +11.11%

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 1,635 1,602 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 49.95% 47.34% 51.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,167 1,335
10th Percentile £240 £284 £250
25th Percentile £413 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +8.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 112 138
10th Percentile £12.94 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £18.15 £39.04 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.65 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +39.64% -1.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £55.84
90th Percentile £73.83 £89.75 £62.66
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +1 169 £650 +13.04% 28
Bristol -4 114 £525 -6.67% 66
Devon -4 31 £575 +23.66% 10
Gloucestershire -24 19 £575 +15.00% 24
Somerset -7 14 £532 +1.33% 6
Dorset -3 10 £575 -4.76% 2
Cornwall +2 8 £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 12 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.44%) Confluence
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.27%) InVision
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.54%) 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 45 (12.20%) Azure
2 40 (10.84%) PaaS
3 37 (10.03%) SaaS
4 30 (8.13%) IaaS
5 27 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 22 (5.96%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.69%) AWS
8 12 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.36%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.08%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.81%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.81%) OCI
13 2 (0.54%) Amazon Cognito
13 2 (0.54%) GitHub
13 2 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.21%) LAN
2 32 (8.67%) WAN
3 21 (5.69%) Firewall
4 10 (2.71%) 4G
5 9 (2.44%) Network Security
6 8 (2.17%) 3G
7 7 (1.90%) SAN
7 7 (1.90%) VoIP
8 5 (1.36%) PBX
8 5 (1.36%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.08%) Intranet
9 4 (1.08%) NAS
9 4 (1.08%) VSAN
9 4 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.81%) DHCP
10 3 (0.81%) DNS
10 3 (0.81%) HTTP
10 3 (0.81%) NX-OS
10 3 (0.81%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.90%) Metadata
2 7 (1.90%) Metadata Repository
2 7 (1.90%) Power BI
3 4 (1.08%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (0.54%) Triplestore
6 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.27%) Big Data
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Power Query
6 1 (0.27%) SQLite
6 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.98%) JIRA
2 6 (1.63%) Git
3 4 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Checkstyle
6 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.27%) MSI
6 1 (0.27%) NUnit
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.27%) Postman
6 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 82 (22.22%) Finance
2 71 (19.24%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.34%) Telecoms
4 56 (15.18%) Manufacturing
5 55 (14.91%) Marketing
6 54 (14.63%) Electronics
7 29 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.17%) Local Government
10 7 (1.90%) Publishing
11 5 (1.36%) Military
12 4 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.81%) Digital Economy
13 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.27%) Fire and Rescue
15 1 (0.27%) Legal
15 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 102 (27.64%) Architect
2 36 (9.76%) Project Manager
3 34 (9.21%) Network Architect
4 32 (8.67%) Analyst
5 30 (8.13%) Senior
6 26 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (6.78%) Lead
8 22 (5.96%) Delivery Manager
9 19 (5.15%) Network Engineer
9 19 (5.15%) Senior Manager
10 17 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.34%) Technical Architect
12 14 (3.79%) Consultant
12 14 (3.79%) Lead Architect
13 12 (3.25%) Developer
13 12 (3.25%) Service Analyst
13 12 (3.25%) Service Desk Analyst
14 10 (2.71%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 10 (2.71%) Enterprise Architect
15 9 (2.44%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.25%) REST
2 6 (1.63%) CSS
3 4 (1.08%) Flash
4 3 (0.81%) .NET
4 3 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.81%) GraphQL
4 3 (0.81%) HTML
4 3 (0.81%) JSON
4 3 (0.81%) SPFx
4 3 (0.81%) XML
5 2 (0.54%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.54%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Jena
5 2 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.54%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (0.54%) Kafka
5 2 (0.54%) Loki
5 2 (0.54%) PostGIS
5 2 (0.54%) SAML
5 2 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 15 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.44%) PKI
3 9 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (1.90%) CSOC
4 7 (1.90%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (1.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (1.63%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.63%) Replication
6 5 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.36%) Blackberry
6 5 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.36%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.08%) Clustering
7 4 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.81%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.69%) Windows
2 16 (4.34%) Linux
3 4 (1.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (23.85%) Agile
2 66 (17.89%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (15.18%) Programme Management
4 54 (14.63%) Digital Marketing
5 48 (13.01%) Project Management
6 39 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (10.30%) Zero Trust
8 33 (8.94%) ITIL
8 33 (8.94%) Network Management
8 33 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (8.40%) PRINCE2
10 30 (8.13%) Open Source
11 27 (7.32%) Business Strategy
11 27 (7.32%) Migration
12 24 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (6.50%) Service Management
13 23 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (6.23%) Project Delivery
14 22 (5.96%) DevOps
15 20 (5.42%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.98%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.17%) Python
4 7 (1.90%) SQL
5 5 (1.36%) C#
6 4 (1.08%) Bash
7 3 (0.81%) Java
8 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.27%) Bicep
9 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 269 (72.90%) Security Cleared
2 146 (39.57%) SC Cleared
3 138 (37.40%) DV Cleared
4 37 (10.03%) Degree
5 12 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (1.90%) CCNA
10 6 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.36%) CCNP
11 5 (1.36%) CISSP
11 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.36%) PMP
11 5 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.08%) CESG Certified Professional
12 4 (1.08%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.08%) HNC
12 4 (1.08%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.25%) JSP 440
2 9 (2.44%) NIST
3 6 (1.63%) NCSC
3 6 (1.63%) NIST 800
3 6 (1.63%) SLA
4 5 (1.36%) GDPR
4 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.36%) RMADS
5 4 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.81%) QA
7 2 (0.54%) GRC
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 26 (7.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (3.79%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.44%) vSphere
5 8 (2.17%) Docker
6 6 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (2.98%) vCenter Server
2 8 (2.17%) Terraform
3 7 (1.90%) Ansible
3 7 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.90%) OPNET
4 4 (1.08%) SCCM
5 3 (0.81%) CSIRT
5 3 (0.81%) Grafana
5 3 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.81%) Puppet
6 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.54%) Kibana
6 2 (0.54%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.54%) logstash
6 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.54%) Salt
6 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.27%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 59 (15.99%) SAP
2 49 (13.28%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.40%) VMware
4 20 (5.42%) Cisco
5 14 (3.79%) Dell
6 12 (3.25%) Oracle
7 10 (2.71%) Remedy
8 9 (2.44%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.36%) Avaya
9 5 (1.36%) Ericsson
9 5 (1.36%) Google
9 5 (1.36%) Juniper
9 5 (1.36%) Nokia
9 5 (1.36%) Ribbon
10 4 (1.08%) Cadence
10 4 (1.08%) IBM
11 3 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.81%) ServiceNow