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

6 months to
6 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 3,107 4,283 5,507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.34% 9.05% 7.75%
As % of the General category 14.52% 15.30% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,075 3,202 4,327
10th Percentile £310 £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 £643 £605
90th Percentile £716 £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 78 158
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.85 £12.88
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £15.94
Median hourly rate £22.75 £20.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55.08 £28.39 £25.68
90th Percentile £72.42 £47.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £20.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% +0.50% +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 21,402 28,000 40,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 57.46% 59.16% 57.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,721 19,718 28,625
10th Percentile £281 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +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 1,821 893 1,300
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.43 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.83 £31.76 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +47.72% +2.14%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.00 £47.50
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% +5.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 1,442 £525 -4.55% 299
North of England -7 451 £500 -4.76% 217
South East -1 432 £458 -6.15% 173
South West 0 371 £582 +1.75% 140
North West -5 286 £500 -2.44% 131
Midlands -5 231 £450 -10.00% 124
West Midlands -6 159 £500 -7.41% 88
Yorkshire -13 133 £500 -6.10% 51
East Midlands -8 71 £396 -34.08% 36
East of England -35 66 £450 -25.00% 45
North East -4 34 £500 -4.76% 37
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 49 (1.58%) Confluence
3 42 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.84%) CMS
5 14 (0.45%) Apache
5 14 (0.45%) nginx
6 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
7 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
7 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
7 10 (0.32%) Skype for Business
8 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.23%) Site Server
11 5 (0.16%) Camunda
11 5 (0.16%) IIS
11 5 (0.16%) SAS
12 4 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.097%) Drupal
Applications
1 93 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.61%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.16%) Sketch
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.097%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.097%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.064%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.032%) Blender
11 1 (0.032%) InVision
11 1 (0.032%) Revit
11 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 21 (0.68%) 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
6 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 471 (15.16%) Azure
2 264 (8.50%) AWS
3 176 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
5 137 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 68 (2.19%) PaaS
7 66 (2.12%) SaaS
8 62 (2.00%) Serverless
9 50 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
9 50 (1.61%) Entra ID
10 49 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 49 (1.58%) IaaS
11 43 (1.38%) GitHub
12 39 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 34 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (1.09%) PowerApps
14 33 (1.06%) GCP
15 32 (1.03%) Amazon S3
16 28 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
17 25 (0.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.06%) Firewall
2 98 (3.15%) WAN
3 79 (2.54%) LAN
4 43 (1.38%) Network Security
5 41 (1.32%) VPN
6 36 (1.16%) DNS
7 33 (1.06%) Wireless
8 27 (0.87%) BGP
9 26 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
11 20 (0.64%) DHCP
11 20 (0.64%) IPsec
11 20 (0.64%) SAN
12 18 (0.58%) TCP/IP
13 17 (0.55%) Internet
13 17 (0.55%) OSPF
14 16 (0.51%) MPLS
14 16 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.51%) VoIP
15 15 (0.48%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.19%) Power BI
3 83 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 71 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 50 (1.61%) Metadata
7 41 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 30 (0.97%) GIS
10 25 (0.80%) Big Data
11 24 (0.77%) Oracle Database
12 23 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
13 22 (0.71%) MySQL
14 21 (0.68%) Data Vault
15 20 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (0.51%) Tableau
18 15 (0.48%) BigQuery
19 13 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 99 (3.19%) Git
2 72 (2.32%) JIRA
3 44 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.13%) GitLab
5 28 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 26 (0.84%) JUnit
7 24 (0.77%) Selenium
8 16 (0.51%) PVCS
9 13 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.39%) Postman
11 10 (0.32%) ERwin
11 10 (0.32%) JMeter
12 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.23%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (0.19%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.19%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.19%) MSI
14 6 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.16%) SonarQube
General
1 558 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 540 (17.38%) Finance
3 275 (8.85%) Telecoms
4 268 (8.63%) Marketing
5 259 (8.34%) Manufacturing
6 255 (8.21%) Electronics
7 233 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
8 92 (2.96%) Local Government
9 40 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 40 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (1.16%) Military
11 35 (1.13%) Back Office
11 35 (1.13%) Legal
12 33 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (0.97%) Retail
14 28 (0.90%) Banking
15 27 (0.87%) Publishing
16 25 (0.80%) Police
17 24 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 460 (14.81%) Architect
2 359 (11.55%) Senior
3 302 (9.72%) Analyst
3 302 (9.72%) Developer
4 186 (5.99%) Lead
4 186 (5.99%) Project Manager
5 180 (5.79%) Consultant
6 107 (3.44%) Business Analyst
6 107 (3.44%) Network Engineer
7 96 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
8 86 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 85 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 79 (2.54%) Data Engineer
11 76 (2.45%) Technical Architect
12 67 (2.16%) Data Architect
12 67 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
13 65 (2.09%) Senior Manager
14 63 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
15 60 (1.93%) Support Engineer
16 54 (1.74%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.38%) .NET
2 76 (2.45%) REST
3 67 (2.16%) HTML
4 58 (1.87%) CSS
5 54 (1.74%) Spring
6 51 (1.64%) Spring Boot
7 50 (1.61%) React
8 47 (1.51%) Node.js
9 44 (1.42%) XML
10 37 (1.19%) Kafka
11 34 (1.09%) JSON
12 32 (1.03%) .NET Core
13 31 (1.00%) AngularJS
14 28 (0.90%) RESTful
15 27 (0.87%) .NET Framework
16 26 (0.84%) Web Services
17 25 (0.80%) Hibernate
18 22 (0.71%) JPA
19 21 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
20 17 (0.55%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (3.19%) Management Information System
2 84 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 81 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 79 (2.54%) NHS
5 70 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 44 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 40 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.09%) PKI
9 31 (1.00%) Replication
10 29 (0.93%) Cloud Native
11 28 (0.90%) Reference Data
11 28 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 27 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (0.68%) Public Cloud
16 19 (0.61%) CMDB
16 19 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
17 18 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
17 18 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 266 (8.56%) Windows
2 171 (5.50%) Linux
3 82 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 61 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.42%) Unix
6 29 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 28 (0.90%) Android
7 28 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 8 (0.26%) Mac OS X
13 7 (0.23%) Windows Vista
14 6 (0.19%) VMS
15 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (21.24%) Agile
2 381 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
3 346 (11.14%) DevOps
4 302 (9.72%) Programme Management
5 295 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 272 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
7 256 (8.24%) Digital Marketing
8 243 (7.82%) Project Management
9 241 (7.76%) Migration
10 171 (5.50%) CI/CD
11 167 (5.37%) ITIL
12 165 (5.31%) Change Management
13 153 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 151 (4.86%) Scrum
15 140 (4.51%) PRINCE2
16 139 (4.47%) Project Delivery
17 125 (4.02%) Data Modelling
18 123 (3.96%) Service Management
19 122 (3.93%) Cybersecurity
20 120 (3.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 208 (6.69%) SQL
2 178 (5.73%) Python
3 136 (4.38%) Java
4 130 (4.18%) PowerShell
5 120 (3.86%) JavaScript
6 118 (3.80%) C#
7 44 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 40 (1.29%) C
8 40 (1.29%) C++
9 34 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 30 (0.97%) Bash
11 26 (0.84%) Bicep
12 16 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.45%) Go
13 14 (0.45%) PHP
13 14 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.42%) Ruby
15 12 (0.39%) R
15 12 (0.39%) Scala
16 11 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1,476 (47.51%) Security Cleared
2 928 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 421 (13.55%) DV Cleared
4 235 (7.56%) Degree
5 51 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.09%) CCNA
10 23 (0.74%) CCNP
11 20 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 19 (0.61%) PMP
13 17 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 15 (0.48%) CISSP
14 15 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 13 (0.42%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.39%) HNC
16 12 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (2.32%) QA
2 65 (2.09%) SLA
3 61 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 57 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 48 (1.54%) PMO
6 45 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (1.22%) GDPR
8 35 (1.13%) NIST
9 20 (0.64%) NCSC
9 20 (0.64%) WCAG
10 13 (0.42%) JSP 440
11 11 (0.35%) HL7
11 11 (0.35%) NIST 800
12 10 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 7 (0.23%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 184 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 99 (3.19%) Docker
3 77 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 23 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.58%) vSphere
8 15 (0.48%) Firmware
9 13 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.32%) NFS
10 10 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
11 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.064%) iptables
13 2 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.032%) ACF2
14 1 (0.032%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.032%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 116 (3.73%) Terraform
2 112 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 72 (2.32%) Ansible
4 35 (1.13%) SCCM
5 21 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 18 (0.58%) Puppet
8 16 (0.51%) SCOM
8 16 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 15 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.48%) Grafana
10 14 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 11 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (0.32%) Kibana
13 8 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.23%) OPNET
14 7 (0.23%) Packer
14 7 (0.23%) vRealize
15 6 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 435 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 321 (10.33%) SAP
3 109 (3.51%) Oracle
3 109 (3.51%) VMware
4 87 (2.80%) Cisco
5 80 (2.57%) ServiceNow
6 45 (1.45%) Juniper
7 43 (1.38%) Dell
8 32 (1.03%) Citrix
9 31 (1.00%) Google
9 31 (1.00%) Palo Alto
10 30 (0.97%) Sparx
11 28 (0.90%) Red Hat
12 23 (0.74%) Splunk
13 22 (0.71%) Adobe
13 22 (0.71%) IBM
14 20 (0.64%) CyberArk
14 20 (0.64%) NetApp
15 19 (0.61%) Remedy
16 17 (0.55%) Atlassian