Public Sector Contracts in England

Public Sector
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,106 4,297 5,474
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.42% 9.05% 7.76%
As % of the General category 14.62% 15.30% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,081 3,201 4,305
10th Percentile £313 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +2.94% +4.08%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £601
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 79 158
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.90 £12.56
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £15.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £20.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.30% +2.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.08 £28.03 £25.68
90th Percentile £72.42 £47.00 £63.10
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £20.26 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.06% +1.30% +11.11%

All General Skills
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 England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,245 28,077 40,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.58% 59.14% 57.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,632 19,766 28,317
10th Percentile £280 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 893 1,284
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.70 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.44 £31.92 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +48.47% +2.14%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £67.38 £70.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +7 1,446 £525 -4.55% 334
North of England -8 459 £500 -4.76% 239
South East -2 429 £460 -5.64% 184
South West 0 368 £582 +2.11% 147
North West -4 295 £500 -2.44% 143
Midlands -5 230 £450 -10.00% 124
West Midlands -6 161 £500 -7.41% 89
Yorkshire -13 133 £500 -4.76% 59
East Midlands -8 68 £396 -34.08% 34
East of England -42 62 £450 -25.00% 43
North East -5 33 £500 -5.88% 39
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 133 (4.28%) SharePoint
2 47 (1.51%) Confluence
3 41 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.84%) CMS
5 14 (0.45%) Apache
6 13 (0.42%) nginx
7 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
7 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
8 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 10 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.23%) Site Server
12 5 (0.16%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 5 (0.16%) SAS
13 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 19 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
6 5 (0.16%) Sketch
7 3 (0.097%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.097%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.097%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.097%) Trello
8 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.064%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.032%) Blender
9 1 (0.032%) Revit
9 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
2 15 (0.48%) Primavera
2 15 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.32%) Teamcenter
5 9 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
7 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.13%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.097%) Aareon QL
8 3 (0.097%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.097%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.097%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.097%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.064%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 468 (15.07%) Azure
2 267 (8.60%) AWS
3 171 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
4 145 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 136 (4.38%) Power Platform
6 68 (2.19%) PaaS
7 66 (2.12%) SaaS
8 62 (2.00%) Serverless
9 50 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
10 49 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 49 (1.58%) IaaS
11 44 (1.42%) GitHub
12 38 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 35 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.06%) Amazon S3
14 33 (1.06%) PowerApps
15 32 (1.03%) GCP
16 28 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 24 (0.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 128 (4.12%) Firewall
2 102 (3.28%) WAN
3 81 (2.61%) LAN
4 42 (1.35%) Network Security
5 41 (1.32%) VPN
6 36 (1.16%) DNS
7 35 (1.13%) Wireless
8 30 (0.97%) BGP
9 26 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.74%) IPsec
11 21 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
12 20 (0.64%) DHCP
12 20 (0.64%) SAN
13 18 (0.58%) Internet
13 18 (0.58%) MPLS
13 18 (0.58%) OSPF
13 18 (0.58%) TCP/IP
14 16 (0.52%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.52%) VoIP
15 15 (0.48%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 98 (3.16%) Power BI
3 83 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 52 (1.67%) Metadata
6 51 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 41 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 29 (0.93%) GIS
10 26 (0.84%) Big Data
11 23 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
11 23 (0.74%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.68%) Data Vault
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.64%) MySQL
14 19 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.52%) Tableau
16 14 (0.45%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 97 (3.12%) Git
2 68 (2.19%) JIRA
3 45 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.06%) GitLab
5 28 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 27 (0.87%) JUnit
7 24 (0.77%) Selenium
8 16 (0.52%) PVCS
9 14 (0.45%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.42%) SpecFlow
11 12 (0.39%) Postman
12 10 (0.32%) ERwin
12 10 (0.32%) JMeter
13 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.19%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.19%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.19%) Maven
14 6 (0.19%) MSI
14 6 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 557 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 530 (17.06%) Finance
3 272 (8.76%) Telecoms
4 263 (8.47%) Marketing
5 254 (8.18%) Manufacturing
6 250 (8.05%) Electronics
7 234 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 87 (2.80%) Local Government
9 39 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (1.13%) Back Office
10 35 (1.13%) Legal
10 35 (1.13%) Military
11 33 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (0.97%) Retail
13 27 (0.87%) Banking
13 27 (0.87%) Publishing
14 25 (0.80%) Police
15 24 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 457 (14.71%) Architect
2 352 (11.33%) Senior
3 305 (9.82%) Developer
4 296 (9.53%) Analyst
5 187 (6.02%) Consultant
5 187 (6.02%) Lead
6 186 (5.99%) Project Manager
7 107 (3.44%) Business Analyst
7 107 (3.44%) Network Engineer
8 95 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
9 84 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 84 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 78 (2.51%) Data Engineer
11 74 (2.38%) Technical Architect
12 68 (2.19%) Data Architect
13 63 (2.03%) Senior Manager
14 62 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
15 61 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
16 58 (1.87%) Support Engineer
17 56 (1.80%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (3.35%) .NET
2 75 (2.41%) REST
3 66 (2.12%) HTML
4 57 (1.84%) CSS
5 55 (1.77%) Spring
6 53 (1.71%) Spring Boot
7 49 (1.58%) Node.js
7 49 (1.58%) React
8 44 (1.42%) XML
9 37 (1.19%) Kafka
10 34 (1.09%) JSON
11 31 (1.00%) .NET Core
12 30 (0.97%) AngularJS
13 29 (0.93%) RESTful
14 27 (0.87%) Web Services
15 26 (0.84%) .NET Framework
16 25 (0.80%) Hibernate
17 22 (0.71%) JPA
18 21 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
19 17 (0.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (3.12%) Management Information System
2 83 (2.67%) Data Centre
3 82 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 78 (2.51%) NHS
5 69 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 43 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 38 (1.22%) PKI
7 38 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.03%) Replication
9 30 (0.97%) Cloud Native
10 28 (0.90%) Reference Data
10 28 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 25 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (0.68%) Public Cloud
15 20 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
16 19 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
18 17 (0.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 262 (8.44%) Windows
2 166 (5.34%) Linux
3 81 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 61 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.42%) Unix
6 29 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 29 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.84%) Android
8 26 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (0.29%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.23%) Windows Vista
15 6 (0.19%) VMS
16 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.16%) zOS
17 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (20.83%) Agile
2 376 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
3 344 (11.08%) DevOps
4 304 (9.79%) Programme Management
5 301 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 271 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
7 251 (8.08%) Digital Marketing
8 244 (7.86%) Migration
9 239 (7.69%) Project Management
10 172 (5.54%) CI/CD
11 166 (5.34%) Change Management
12 160 (5.15%) ITIL
13 143 (4.60%) Scrum
14 139 (4.48%) PRINCE2
15 138 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 138 (4.44%) Project Delivery
16 125 (4.02%) Data Modelling
17 124 (3.99%) Cybersecurity
18 120 (3.86%) Service Management
19 115 (3.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 204 (6.57%) SQL
2 176 (5.67%) Python
3 139 (4.48%) Java
4 129 (4.15%) PowerShell
5 119 (3.83%) JavaScript
6 116 (3.73%) C#
7 44 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.26%) C
8 39 (1.26%) C++
9 34 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 29 (0.93%) Bash
11 26 (0.84%) Bicep
12 16 (0.52%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.48%) PHP
14 14 (0.45%) Go
14 14 (0.45%) Ruby
15 13 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.39%) R
16 12 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,478 (47.59%) Security Cleared
2 931 (29.97%) SC Cleared
3 418 (13.46%) DV Cleared
4 227 (7.31%) Degree
5 51 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.09%) CCNA
9 30 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 23 (0.74%) CCNP
11 20 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 15 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 14 (0.45%) CISSP
13 14 (0.45%) PMP
14 13 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
14 13 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (0.39%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.39%) HNC
15 12 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (2.35%) QA
2 64 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 63 (2.03%) SLA
4 56 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 47 (1.51%) PMO
6 45 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (1.32%) GDPR
8 37 (1.19%) NIST
9 21 (0.68%) NCSC
10 20 (0.64%) WCAG
11 14 (0.45%) JSP 440
12 11 (0.35%) HL7
12 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.32%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 7 (0.23%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 181 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 99 (3.19%) Docker
3 75 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.58%) vSphere
8 14 (0.45%) Firmware
9 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.32%) NFS
12 8 (0.26%) HDFS
12 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.064%) iptables
14 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.064%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.032%) OpenIDM
15 1 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 115 (3.70%) Terraform
2 110 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 71 (2.29%) Ansible
4 31 (1.00%) SCCM
5 20 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.58%) Puppet
8 17 (0.55%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (0.48%) Grafana
11 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.45%) SCOM
12 11 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.32%) Kibana
13 10 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.29%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.26%) OPNET
16 7 (0.23%) Packer
16 7 (0.23%) vRealize
17 6 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 424 (13.65%) Microsoft
2 318 (10.24%) SAP
3 106 (3.41%) Oracle
4 105 (3.38%) VMware
5 88 (2.83%) Cisco
6 81 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 48 (1.55%) Juniper
8 43 (1.38%) Dell
9 33 (1.06%) Palo Alto
10 31 (1.00%) Citrix
11 30 (0.97%) Google
12 29 (0.93%) Sparx
13 27 (0.87%) Red Hat
14 23 (0.74%) Adobe
14 23 (0.74%) Splunk
15 22 (0.71%) IBM
16 20 (0.64%) CyberArk
16 20 (0.64%) NetApp
17 19 (0.61%) Remedy
18 18 (0.58%) Veeam