Public Sector Contracts in the East of England

Public Sector
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 13 33
Rank change year-on-year -42 +20 +22
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 62 184 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.20% 9.44% 6.18%
As % of the General category 5.41% 15.89% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 143 125
10th Percentile £194 £206 £166
25th Percentile £281 £428 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +26.32% +15.15%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £545
90th Percentile £700 £745 £629
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 8
10th Percentile £14.52 £14.05 £12.37
25th Percentile £15.24 £16.77 £12.86
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +4.48% -36.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £21.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £27.79 £21.46 £34.10
England median hourly rate £23.50 £20.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.30% +2.80% +11.11%

All General Skills
East of 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 the East of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,146 1,158 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 59.22% 59.38% 59.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 640 783
10th Percentile £215 £203 £185
25th Percentile £350 £336 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £639 £575
90th Percentile £664 £743 £659
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 238 334
10th Percentile £14.52 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.24
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% +29.99% +1.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £31.06
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire -5 20 £545 +14.74% 16
Bedfordshire 0 18 £488 -2.50% 8
Cambridgeshire -9 10 £170 -51.43% 12
Essex -18 9 £244 -48.68% 4
Norfolk -1 4 £329 +101.53%
Suffolk -9 1 £210 -70.00% 1
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 3 (4.84%) IIS
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2000
3 1 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.61%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Lorenzo
1 1 (1.61%) Primavera
1 1 (1.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (3.23%) Azure
3 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
3 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.61%) DHCP
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
2 1 (1.61%) LAN
2 1 (1.61%) RS-485
2 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.61%) VLAN
2 1 (1.61%) VPN
2 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.23%) MariaDB
2 2 (3.23%) MySQL
2 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.61%) Big Data
3 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.61%) MS Access
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.61%) Git
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
1 1 (1.61%) LabVIEW
1 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
1 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (20.97%) Finance
1 13 (20.97%) Local Government
2 10 (16.13%) Electronics
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Manufacturing
3 9 (14.52%) Marketing
3 9 (14.52%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Performance Analyst
2 7 (11.29%) Senior
3 6 (9.68%) Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 4 (6.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.23%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Embedded Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) .NET
1 3 (4.84%) CSS
1 3 (4.84%) HTML
2 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.61%) Node.js
2 1 (1.61%) NumPy
2 1 (1.61%) React
2 1 (1.61%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) Visualforce
2 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 7 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.84%) NHS
4 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.23%) FPGA
5 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.61%) iPad
5 1 (1.61%) iPhone
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Verilog
5 1 (1.61%) VHDL
5 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.84%) Linux
5 1 (1.61%) Solaris
5 1 (1.61%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.74%) Agile
1 11 (17.74%) Programme Management
2 10 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (14.52%) Digital Marketing
4 8 (12.90%) Mathematics
4 8 (12.90%) Performance Management
4 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (11.29%) Benchmarking
5 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
5 7 (11.29%) Data Collection
5 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
5 7 (11.29%) Statistics
6 6 (9.68%) PRINCE2
7 5 (8.06%) Change Management
7 5 (8.06%) Project Management
7 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
7 5 (8.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (6.45%) Time Management
9 3 (4.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.45%) C#
1 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
1 4 (6.45%) Python
1 4 (6.45%) SQL
2 3 (4.84%) C++
3 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
3 1 (1.61%) C
3 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.61%) R
3 1 (1.61%) Ruby
3 1 (1.61%) Rust
3 1 (1.61%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 16 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.23%) CCNA
5 2 (3.23%) CCNP
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PhD
6 1 (1.61%) CCIE
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) PMO
4 1 (1.61%) COBIT
4 1 (1.61%) DO-254
4 1 (1.61%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.61%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.61%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.23%) Rancher
2 1 (1.61%) Ansible
2 1 (1.61%) Kibana
2 1 (1.61%) logstash
2 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (1.61%) SCCM
2 1 (1.61%) SCOM
2 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) SAP
3 4 (6.45%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) Darktrace
4 3 (4.84%) Varonis
5 2 (3.23%) Cisco
5 2 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) BT
6 1 (1.61%) Computacenter
6 1 (1.61%) Dell
6 1 (1.61%) HP
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 1 (1.61%) McAfee
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) Remedy
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.61%) Siemens
6 1 (1.61%) Xilinx