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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 16 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 3,136 4,405 5,455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.62% 9.09% 7.68%
As % of the General category 14.80% 15.34% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,106 3,292 4,276
10th Percentile £313 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +5.39% +4.62%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £600
90th Percentile £725 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 83 159
10th Percentile £12.74 £14.13 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.39 £17.05 £15.96
Median hourly rate £21.50 £20.64 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.20% +11.11%
75th Percentile £54.77 £28.75 £27.25
90th Percentile £70.39 £47.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.84% +2.10% +7.82%

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 21,189 28,708 40,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.25% 56.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,665 20,155 28,265
10th Percentile £281 £315 £317
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 931 1,312
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £32.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +46.91% -0.99%
75th Percentile £52.35 £60.56 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.59 £70.00 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +8 1,483 £525 -6.67% 401
North of England -6 464 £510 -2.86% 245
South East -3 416 £450 -7.79% 258
South West 0 371 £575 - 138
North West -2 304 £513 -1.91% 143
Midlands -6 225 £450 -12.20% 152
West Midlands -8 163 £500 -7.41% 107
Yorkshire -12 138 £525 -4.55% 69
East Midlands -7 61 £360 -40.00% 44
East of England -46 55 £450 -25.00% 63
North East -1 36 £538 -2.27% 35
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
1 121 (3.86%) SharePoint
2 49 (1.56%) Confluence
3 44 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.83%) CMS
5 16 (0.51%) nginx
6 14 (0.45%) Apache
7 12 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.32%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 8 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.26%) Site Server
12 5 (0.16%) Camunda
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
13 4 (0.13%) JBoss
13 4 (0.13%) SAS
13 4 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 93 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.22%) Sketch
8 5 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.13%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.096%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.096%) Trello
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.064%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.032%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.032%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.032%) Blender
12 1 (0.032%) Revit
12 1 (0.032%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.54%) Primavera
3 15 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.32%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.16%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
8 5 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
8 5 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
9 4 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
9 4 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.13%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.13%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.096%) Aareon QL
10 3 (0.096%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.096%) SAP QM
11 2 (0.064%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 467 (14.89%) Azure
2 281 (8.96%) AWS
3 165 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 147 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 136 (4.34%) Power Platform
6 71 (2.26%) PaaS
7 67 (2.14%) SaaS
8 63 (2.01%) Serverless
9 52 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
9 52 (1.66%) IaaS
10 48 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 45 (1.43%) Entra ID
12 43 (1.37%) GitHub
13 39 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 36 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (1.12%) Amazon S3
16 33 (1.05%) GCP
16 33 (1.05%) PowerApps
17 28 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
18 24 (0.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.15%) Firewall
2 103 (3.28%) WAN
3 81 (2.58%) LAN
4 46 (1.47%) VPN
5 41 (1.31%) Wireless
6 40 (1.28%) Network Security
7 37 (1.18%) DNS
8 30 (0.96%) BGP
9 26 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (0.73%) IPsec
11 21 (0.67%) Internet
12 20 (0.64%) DHCP
12 20 (0.64%) Intrusion Detection
13 19 (0.61%) OSPF
14 18 (0.57%) MPLS
14 18 (0.57%) SAN
14 18 (0.57%) TCP/IP
15 16 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.51%) VoIP
16 15 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 99 (3.16%) Power BI
3 85 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
4 74 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (1.82%) Metadata
6 51 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 42 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 40 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 31 (0.99%) GIS
10 25 (0.80%) Big Data
11 24 (0.77%) Metadata Repository
12 21 (0.67%) Data Vault
12 21 (0.67%) Oracle Database
13 20 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (0.61%) MySQL
15 17 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.48%) DynamoDB
16 15 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 14 (0.45%) MongoDB
17 14 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (2.93%) Git
2 75 (2.39%) JIRA
3 44 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 28 (0.89%) JUnit
5 27 (0.86%) GitLab
5 27 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 25 (0.80%) Selenium
7 17 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.51%) PVCS
9 14 (0.45%) ERwin
10 13 (0.41%) Postman
10 13 (0.41%) SpecFlow
11 11 (0.35%) JMeter
12 9 (0.29%) Maven
13 8 (0.26%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.26%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.19%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.19%) Mockito
14 6 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
14 6 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 580 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 547 (17.44%) Finance
3 284 (9.06%) Telecoms
4 268 (8.55%) Marketing
5 259 (8.26%) Manufacturing
6 255 (8.13%) Electronics
7 233 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (2.87%) Local Government
9 43 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (1.18%) Legal
12 35 (1.12%) Back Office
13 33 (1.05%) Police
13 33 (1.05%) Retail
14 32 (1.02%) Military
15 30 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (0.86%) Publishing
17 25 (0.80%) Banking
18 24 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 464 (14.80%) Architect
2 373 (11.89%) Senior
3 327 (10.43%) Developer
4 290 (9.25%) Analyst
5 194 (6.19%) Project Manager
6 193 (6.15%) Consultant
6 193 (6.15%) Lead
7 107 (3.41%) Network Engineer
8 104 (3.32%) Business Analyst
9 95 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
10 80 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 79 (2.52%) Data Engineer
12 78 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
13 76 (2.42%) Data Architect
14 74 (2.36%) Technical Architect
15 66 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
16 64 (2.04%) Senior Developer
17 63 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
17 63 (2.01%) Senior Manager
17 63 (2.01%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (3.22%) .NET
2 77 (2.46%) REST
3 65 (2.07%) HTML
4 59 (1.88%) Spring
5 57 (1.82%) CSS
6 56 (1.79%) Spring Boot
7 51 (1.63%) Node.js
8 45 (1.43%) React
9 44 (1.40%) XML
10 40 (1.28%) Kafka
11 37 (1.18%) JSON
12 31 (0.99%) .NET Core
13 30 (0.96%) AngularJS
14 29 (0.92%) Web Services
15 27 (0.86%) RESTful
16 26 (0.83%) .NET Framework
17 25 (0.80%) Hibernate
18 22 (0.70%) JPA
18 22 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
19 18 (0.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 100 (3.19%) Management Information System
2 83 (2.65%) Data Centre
3 82 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 80 (2.55%) NHS
5 67 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.31%) Data Structures
7 40 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (1.24%) PKI
9 34 (1.08%) Replication
10 32 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (0.89%) Reference Data
12 27 (0.86%) Virtual Team
13 25 (0.80%) Cloud Native
14 24 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 21 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
18 19 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
18 19 (0.61%) Driving Licence
19 18 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 259 (8.26%) Windows
2 159 (5.07%) Linux
3 82 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.04%) Windows 10
5 45 (1.43%) Unix
6 33 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 33 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 26 (0.83%) Android
9 22 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.48%) Windows 7
12 13 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (0.32%) Mac OS X
15 6 (0.19%) VMS
15 6 (0.19%) Windows Vista
16 5 (0.16%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.13%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (20.73%) Agile
2 380 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
3 343 (10.94%) DevOps
4 312 (9.95%) Programme Management
5 301 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 271 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
7 258 (8.23%) Digital Marketing
8 242 (7.72%) Project Management
9 239 (7.62%) Migration
10 180 (5.74%) ITIL
11 174 (5.55%) CI/CD
12 164 (5.23%) Change Management
13 145 (4.62%) PRINCE2
14 141 (4.50%) Scrum
15 139 (4.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 139 (4.43%) Project Delivery
16 134 (4.27%) Cybersecurity
16 134 (4.27%) Roadmaps
17 130 (4.15%) Data Modelling
18 116 (3.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (6.79%) SQL
2 178 (5.68%) Python
3 143 (4.56%) Java
4 119 (3.79%) C#
5 117 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 114 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 42 (1.34%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.24%) C
9 38 (1.21%) C++
10 32 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 26 (0.83%) Bash
11 26 (0.83%) Bicep
12 18 (0.57%) PHP
13 16 (0.51%) Ruby
13 16 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.45%) R
15 13 (0.41%) Go
16 12 (0.38%) ABAP
16 12 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,465 (46.72%) Security Cleared
2 931 (29.69%) SC Cleared
3 409 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 220 (7.02%) Degree
5 55 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (1.18%) CCNA
7 37 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 28 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 27 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (0.80%) CCNP
12 23 (0.73%) CISSP
13 22 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 14 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
14 14 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.45%) PMP
15 13 (0.41%) CISM
15 13 (0.41%) HNC
15 13 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (2.52%) QA
2 70 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 61 (1.95%) SLA
4 57 (1.82%) Data Quality
5 55 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (1.53%) PMO
7 47 (1.50%) GDPR
8 40 (1.28%) NIST
9 24 (0.77%) NCSC
10 19 (0.61%) WCAG
11 14 (0.45%) JSP 440
12 11 (0.35%) HL7
13 10 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.26%) ISO 22301
15 8 (0.26%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.22%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 178 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 100 (3.19%) Docker
3 63 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 21 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.45%) Firmware
8 13 (0.41%) NFS
8 13 (0.41%) vSphere
9 11 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.26%) HDFS
11 8 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.096%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.064%) iptables
13 2 (0.064%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.032%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.032%) RACF
14 1 (0.032%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 108 (3.44%) Terraform
2 103 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 69 (2.20%) Ansible
4 30 (0.96%) SCCM
5 22 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.54%) Puppet
7 17 (0.54%) vCenter Server
8 16 (0.51%) Grafana
9 15 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.41%) SCOM
12 11 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.29%) Kibana
13 9 (0.29%) OPNET
14 7 (0.22%) Packer
14 7 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.22%) VxRail
15 6 (0.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 406 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 326 (10.40%) SAP
3 106 (3.38%) Oracle
4 96 (3.06%) VMware
5 91 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 87 (2.77%) Cisco
7 49 (1.56%) Juniper
8 44 (1.40%) Dell
9 34 (1.08%) Sparx
10 33 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 31 (0.99%) Google
12 29 (0.92%) Citrix
13 25 (0.80%) Adobe
14 24 (0.77%) Splunk
15 22 (0.70%) Veeam
16 21 (0.67%) IBM
17 20 (0.64%) Red Hat
18 19 (0.61%) Remedy
19 18 (0.57%) NetApp
20 17 (0.54%) Atlassian