Public Sector Contracts in the South East

Public Sector
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 19 17 28
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 429 490 539
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.60% 8.69% 7.02%
As % of the General category 15.30% 14.89% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 391 397
10th Percentile £205 £205 £200
25th Percentile £352 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 4 23
10th Percentile £42.00 £17.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £48.55 £23.50 £17.81
Median hourly rate £58.30 £39.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.49% +95.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70.39 £54.94 £23.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £64.73 £31.22
England median hourly rate £23.50 £20.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.30% +2.80% +11.11%

All General Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,804 3,291 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 49.69% 58.34% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 2,221 2,864
10th Percentile £213 £233 £213
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.76%
75th Percentile £608 £629 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £662
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 159 208
10th Percentile £12.88 £15.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £23.75 £15.47
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +150.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £70.09 £74.20 £52.65
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +3 196 £453 -1.36% 66
Hampshire +8 159 £532 +1.31% 42
Berkshire +9 149 £455 -9.00% 33
Buckinghamshire +3 31 £508 +12.78% 20
Surrey +9 23 £425 +4.94% 37
Kent -2 17 £205 - 11
Oxfordshire -4 16 £250 -42.03% 13
West Sussex -26 12 £475 -5.00% 5
East Sussex -8 7 £400 -42.86% 4
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (1.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.70%) Apache
2 3 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.47%) CICS
3 2 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.23%) CMS
4 1 (0.23%) Drupal
4 1 (0.23%) IIS
4 1 (0.23%) Jadu
4 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 17 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.23%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.23%) Blender
4 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (3.03%) Primavera
2 5 (1.17%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.93%) SAP EWM
3 4 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.70%) SAP QM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.47%) SAP PSCD
5 2 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.23%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.23%) SmartPlant
6 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 34 (7.93%) Azure
2 26 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (3.26%) Power Platform
4 10 (2.33%) AWS
5 6 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (0.93%) GCP
6 4 (0.93%) OpenShift
7 3 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.70%) GitHub
7 3 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (0.70%) PaaS
7 3 (0.70%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.47%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.47%) SaaS
8 2 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.47%) Slack
8 2 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.62%) Firewall
2 22 (5.13%) WAN
3 20 (4.66%) LAN
4 12 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (1.86%) Network Security
6 5 (1.17%) DNS
6 5 (1.17%) SAN
7 4 (0.93%) BGP
7 4 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (0.93%) Internet
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.93%) VPN
7 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.93%) Wireless
8 3 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (0.70%) MPLS
9 2 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.47%) SSL
9 2 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.10%) Electronic Patient Records
1 9 (2.10%) Power BI
2 7 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.63%) MySQL
3 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.17%) SAP HANA
4 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.93%) Metadata
5 4 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.70%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.70%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.47%) DB2
7 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.47%) IDMS
7 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.63%) Git
1 7 (1.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.93%) JMeter
3 3 (0.70%) MSI
4 2 (0.47%) ClearCase
4 2 (0.47%) ClearQuest
4 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.23%) JUnit
5 1 (0.23%) Mockito
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.23%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 65 (15.15%) Finance
2 56 (13.05%) Social Skills
3 48 (11.19%) Telecoms
4 46 (10.72%) Electronics
4 46 (10.72%) Manufacturing
4 46 (10.72%) Marketing
5 21 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.40%) Local Government
8 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.93%) Military
10 2 (0.47%) Billing
10 2 (0.47%) Environmental Health
10 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Aviation
11 1 (0.23%) French Language
11 1 (0.23%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.23%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.23%) Retail
11 1 (0.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 76 (17.72%) Senior
2 60 (13.99%) Architect
3 35 (8.16%) Developer
3 35 (8.16%) Project Manager
4 30 (6.99%) Network Engineer
5 25 (5.83%) Consultant
6 24 (5.59%) Analyst
7 22 (5.13%) Administrator
7 22 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
8 20 (4.66%) Lead
9 19 (4.43%) Security Architect
10 17 (3.96%) SAP Consultant
11 16 (3.73%) Desktop Engineer
11 16 (3.73%) Network Architect
12 15 (3.50%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.80%) Desktop Support
13 12 (2.80%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 12 (2.80%) IT Trainer
13 12 (2.80%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 12 (2.80%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.33%) Itk
2 6 (1.40%) Web Services
3 5 (1.17%) HTML
4 4 (0.93%) .NET
4 4 (0.93%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.70%) CSS
5 3 (0.70%) LDAP
5 3 (0.70%) YAML
6 2 (0.47%) ATL
6 2 (0.47%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.47%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (0.47%) Kafka
6 2 (0.47%) LAMP
6 2 (0.47%) Loki
6 2 (0.47%) Node.js
6 2 (0.47%) REST
7 1 (0.23%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.23%) Playwright
7 1 (0.23%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.69%) NHS
2 13 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.80%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.10%) CCTV
5 8 (1.86%) LIMS
6 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.17%) PKI
8 4 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.70%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.70%) Grid Computing
9 3 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.70%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.70%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.70%) PMI
10 2 (0.47%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (0.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.08%) Windows
2 40 (9.32%) Linux
3 31 (7.23%) Windows 10
4 15 (3.50%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (2.10%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.40%) Unix
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.47%) zOS
11 1 (0.23%) AIX
11 1 (0.23%) Android
11 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (12.82%) Programme Management
2 54 (12.59%) Agile
2 54 (12.59%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (10.49%) Digital Marketing
3 45 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 40 (9.32%) Project Management
5 37 (8.62%) DevOps
6 31 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (6.53%) Migration
8 21 (4.90%) Change Management
9 20 (4.66%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (4.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (4.20%) Security Architecture
12 17 (3.96%) Software Engineering
13 16 (3.73%) ITIL
13 16 (3.73%) PLM
13 16 (3.73%) Project Delivery
14 15 (3.50%) Configuration Management
15 13 (3.03%) Risk Management
16 12 (2.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 25 (5.83%) C++
2 20 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 19 (4.43%) SQL
4 17 (3.96%) C#
5 16 (3.73%) Python
6 15 (3.50%) C
7 6 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.17%) Bash
8 5 (1.17%) VB
9 4 (0.93%) Java
9 4 (0.93%) PHP
9 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.47%) ABAP
10 2 (0.47%) CLIST
10 2 (0.47%) COBOL
10 2 (0.47%) REXX
10 2 (0.47%) SELCOPY
10 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 280 (65.27%) Security Cleared
2 141 (32.87%) DV Cleared
3 96 (22.38%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.20%) Degree
5 9 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.17%) CCNA
6 5 (1.17%) CCNP
7 4 (0.93%) APMP
7 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.70%) ISEB
8 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.47%) CISM
9 2 (0.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.47%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
9 2 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.33%) ISO 9001
3 9 (2.10%) HL7
4 8 (1.86%) PMO
5 6 (1.40%) NIST
5 6 (1.40%) SLA
6 4 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.93%) GDPR
6 4 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.70%) QA
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) RMADS
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (2.80%) VMware NSX
3 7 (1.63%) Docker
4 6 (1.40%) vSphere
5 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) NFS
8 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.03%) Ansible
2 13 (3.03%) SCCM
3 12 (2.80%) Terraform
4 7 (1.63%) SCOM
5 6 (1.40%) Puppet
5 6 (1.40%) vRealize
6 5 (1.17%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.93%) Argo
7 4 (0.93%) Grafana
7 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.93%) VxRail
8 3 (0.70%) Kibana
8 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.47%) Nessus
9 2 (0.47%) WMI
9 2 (0.47%) WSUS
9 2 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (15.62%) SAP
2 60 (13.99%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.53%) VMware
4 25 (5.83%) Cisco
5 17 (3.96%) Juniper
6 12 (2.80%) Apple
7 10 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.86%) Oracle
9 7 (1.63%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.40%) Dell
11 5 (1.17%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.17%) IBM
11 5 (1.17%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.93%) F5
12 4 (0.93%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.70%) HP
14 2 (0.47%) CA
14 2 (0.47%) EMC
14 2 (0.47%) Remedy