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 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 11 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 2,152 3,084 4,022
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.33% 13.54% 13.19%
As % of the General category 19.22% 24.07% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 2,377 3,206
10th Percentile £205 £205 £205
25th Percentile £384 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £569
90th Percentile £688 £682 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 67 121
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.22 £15.63
Median hourly rate £21.62 £20.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £49.75 £25.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £70.39 £41.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £20.26 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.06% +1.30% +11.11%

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 11,199 12,812 17,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.77% 56.25% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,339 8,701 11,756
10th Percentile £205 £228 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,693 722 1,032
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.38 £68.75 £56.00
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 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
Scotland +1 590 £450 -2.70% 89
North of England -8 459 £500 -4.76% 237
South East -2 429 £460 -5.64% 184
South West 0 368 £582 +2.11% 147
North West -4 295 £500 -2.44% 142
Midlands -5 230 £450 -10.00% 124
West Midlands -6 161 £500 -7.41% 89
Yorkshire -13 133 £500 -4.76% 58
East Midlands -8 68 £396 -34.08% 34
East of England -42 62 £450 -25.00% 44
North East -5 33 £500 -5.88% 39
Wales -4 29 £500 +22.70% 38
Northern Ireland +2 18 £588 +330.40% 25
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 73 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 69 (3.21%) Confluence
3 37 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.93%) CMS
5 11 (0.51%) Apache
6 7 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.19%) IIS
8 4 (0.19%) SAS
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.093%) CICS
10 2 (0.093%) Drupal
10 2 (0.093%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.093%) JBoss
10 2 (0.093%) Mule
10 2 (0.093%) nginx
10 2 (0.093%) Traefik
10 2 (0.093%) WildFly
Applications
1 90 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.093%) Adobe Captivate
8 2 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.093%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.093%) CANalyzer
8 2 (0.093%) Lectora
8 2 (0.093%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.093%) Sketch
9 1 (0.046%) 3ds Max
9 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.046%) Blender
9 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.046%) Revit
9 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.70%) Primavera
2 10 (0.46%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (0.33%) 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 Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.19%) iTrent
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.19%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.14%) Aareon QL
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 199 (9.25%) Azure
2 127 (5.90%) AWS
3 123 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (3.95%) Power Platform
5 59 (2.74%) SaaS
6 56 (2.60%) PaaS
7 50 (2.32%) Serverless
8 48 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.04%) IaaS
10 39 (1.81%) OCI
11 38 (1.77%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (1.44%) Entra ID
15 30 (1.39%) OpenShift
16 25 (1.16%) Power Automate
17 19 (0.88%) PowerApps
18 17 (0.79%) GCP
18 17 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 93 (4.32%) Firewall
2 78 (3.62%) WAN
3 68 (3.16%) LAN
4 36 (1.67%) Network Security
5 28 (1.30%) VPN
6 27 (1.25%) SAN
7 26 (1.21%) DNS
8 19 (0.88%) IPsec
8 19 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.84%) BGP
10 17 (0.79%) DHCP
11 16 (0.74%) Internet
11 16 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (0.65%) Intranet
12 14 (0.65%) VoIP
13 13 (0.60%) TCP/IP
13 13 (0.60%) Wireless
14 12 (0.56%) MPLS
15 11 (0.51%) 4G
16 10 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (2.42%) Power BI
3 32 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.44%) Oracle Database
5 27 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 25 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
7 22 (1.02%) Metadata
7 22 (1.02%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
8 21 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 21 (0.98%) MySQL
9 18 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (0.70%) Big Data
11 14 (0.65%) GIS
11 14 (0.65%) Tableau
12 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
13 11 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
14 9 (0.42%) BigQuery
14 9 (0.42%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 107 (4.97%) JIRA
2 40 (1.86%) Git
3 28 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.98%) GitLab
4 21 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 16 (0.74%) PVCS
6 15 (0.70%) JUnit
7 7 (0.33%) Artifactory
7 7 (0.33%) Selenium
8 6 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.28%) JMeter
8 6 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
8 6 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.19%) Maven
10 4 (0.19%) MSI
10 4 (0.19%) Subversion
11 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 453 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 322 (14.96%) Finance
3 187 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (6.92%) Telecoms
5 146 (6.78%) Marketing
6 138 (6.41%) Manufacturing
7 135 (6.27%) Electronics
8 57 (2.65%) Local Government
9 44 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.12%) Publishing
13 23 (1.07%) Legal
14 20 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (0.84%) Military
16 13 (0.60%) Back Office
17 10 (0.46%) Police
18 8 (0.37%) Banking
19 7 (0.33%) Health Technology
20 6 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (11.90%) Architect
2 243 (11.29%) Analyst
3 235 (10.92%) Senior
4 192 (8.92%) Developer
5 161 (7.48%) Project Manager
6 136 (6.32%) Lead
7 96 (4.46%) Consultant
8 74 (3.44%) Network Engineer
9 67 (3.11%) Business Analyst
10 59 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
11 56 (2.60%) Senior Manager
12 53 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 53 (2.46%) Network Architect
13 51 (2.37%) Administrator
14 47 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
15 46 (2.14%) Service Analyst
16 44 (2.04%) Service Desk Analyst
16 44 (2.04%) Support Officer
17 43 (2.00%) IT Support
18 42 (1.95%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (2.74%) REST
2 48 (2.23%) CSS
2 48 (2.23%) HTML
2 48 (2.23%) React
3 40 (1.86%) .NET
4 38 (1.77%) AWS CDK
4 38 (1.77%) Node.js
5 29 (1.35%) Spring
5 29 (1.35%) Spring Boot
6 23 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (1.07%) Web Services
7 17 (0.79%) Hibernate
8 16 (0.74%) OpenID
8 16 (0.74%) RESTful
9 14 (0.65%) JPA
9 14 (0.65%) SAML
9 14 (0.65%) SOAP
10 13 (0.60%) OAuth
11 12 (0.56%) XML
12 11 (0.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 103 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 74 (3.44%) Data Centre
3 70 (3.25%) NHS
4 53 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 35 (1.63%) PKI
6 34 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 22 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 21 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 21 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 20 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (0.79%) CMDB
13 15 (0.70%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
15 13 (0.60%) Replication
16 12 (0.56%) Cloud Native
16 12 (0.56%) Freedom of Information
16 12 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
17 11 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 213 (9.90%) Windows
2 111 (5.16%) Linux
3 62 (2.88%) Windows 10
4 51 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.16%) Unix
7 23 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (0.93%) Android
9 16 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.60%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.33%) Mac OS X
12 7 (0.33%) Windows Vista
13 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.14%) AIX
14 3 (0.14%) CentOS
14 3 (0.14%) Solaris
14 3 (0.14%) zOS
15 2 (0.093%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (19.80%) Agile
2 216 (10.04%) Project Management
3 209 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
3 209 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 200 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (8.36%) Programme Management
6 179 (8.32%) DevOps
7 141 (6.55%) Migration
8 137 (6.37%) ITIL
9 132 (6.13%) Digital Marketing
10 118 (5.48%) Roadmaps
11 117 (5.44%) PRINCE2
12 115 (5.34%) Project Delivery
13 111 (5.16%) Cybersecurity
14 110 (5.11%) Change Management
15 104 (4.83%) Service Management
16 96 (4.46%) Mentoring
17 95 (4.41%) Scrum
18 94 (4.37%) Risk Management
19 89 (4.14%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 99 (4.60%) SQL
2 90 (4.18%) Java
3 88 (4.09%) Python
4 77 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 58 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 49 (2.28%) TypeScript
7 37 (1.72%) C#
8 33 (1.53%) C
9 32 (1.49%) Bash
9 32 (1.49%) C++
10 29 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 21 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.33%) R
15 6 (0.28%) VB
16 5 (0.23%) Perl
16 5 (0.23%) PHP
16 5 (0.23%) Ruby
17 4 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 915 (42.52%) Security Cleared
2 492 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 315 (14.64%) DV Cleared
4 176 (8.18%) Degree
5 50 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (1.67%) CCNA
8 25 (1.16%) CISSP
9 23 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 22 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 21 (0.98%) CCNP
12 18 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 18 (0.84%) MCSE
13 17 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (0.79%) HNC
14 16 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 12 (0.56%) PMP
17 11 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (3.58%) Disclosure Scotland
2 68 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 58 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (2.00%) SLA
5 34 (1.58%) QA
6 32 (1.49%) GDPR
7 31 (1.44%) NIST
7 31 (1.44%) PMO
8 24 (1.12%) Data Quality
9 15 (0.70%) WCAG
10 14 (0.65%) JSP 440
11 12 (0.56%) NCSC
12 10 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.46%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.42%) HL7
13 9 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.33%) RMADS
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 121 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 61 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (2.28%) Docker
4 28 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 21 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.74%) vSphere
7 14 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.51%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.093%) iptables
13 2 (0.093%) KVM
13 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.093%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.046%) ACF2
14 1 (0.046%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.046%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 54 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.14%) Ansible
3 42 (1.95%) Terraform
4 39 (1.81%) SCCM
5 32 (1.49%) Grafana
6 17 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.65%) Kibana
8 14 (0.65%) Puppet
8 14 (0.65%) SCOM
9 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.37%) OPNET
10 8 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (0.37%) vRealize
11 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.28%) VxRail
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
13 5 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 289 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.71%) SAP
3 110 (5.11%) Oracle
4 89 (4.14%) VMware
5 70 (3.25%) Cisco
6 44 (2.04%) Dell
7 43 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 36 (1.67%) Juniper
9 27 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 26 (1.21%) Red Hat
11 24 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 20 (0.93%) Citrix
12 20 (0.93%) Google
13 16 (0.74%) IBM
14 14 (0.65%) Apple
14 14 (0.65%) HP
14 14 (0.65%) Remedy
15 13 (0.60%) Adobe
16 11 (0.51%) Brio
16 11 (0.51%) SolarWinds