Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Public Sector
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 34 24
Rank change year-on-year -32 -10 -22
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 38 14 36
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.62% 4.08% 9.42%
As % of the General category 5.86% 6.11% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 34
10th Percentile £312 £320 £387
25th Percentile £375 £334 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £369 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -29.71% -25.00%
75th Percentile £453 £452 £553
90th Percentile £519 £477 £572
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £369 £525
% change year-on-year +15.18% -29.71% -21.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.50 £11.94
% change year-on-year - +54.94% -

All General Skills
Sheffield

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 649 229 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 61.81% 66.76% 62.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 149 130
10th Percentile £367 £268 £378
25th Percentile £420 £381 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -5.20% -13.04%
75th Percentile £558 £581 £576
90th Percentile £678 £650 £622
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile - - £14.50
25th Percentile - £18.10 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.42% -16.58% -13.73%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 -
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £18.35 £13.23
% change year-on-year +40.42% +38.72% -48.12%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Sheffield over the 6 months to 25 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) OpenShift
2 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) GCP
3 3 (7.89%) GitHub
3 3 (7.89%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.26%) Firewall
3 2 (5.26%) NAS
4 1 (2.63%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.63%) DHCP
4 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.63%) Parquet
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) JIRA
2 4 (10.53%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.63%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) Subversion
General
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Law
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Local Government
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Project Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) IT Support
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (7.89%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) PMO Lead
6 1 (2.63%) Transformation Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) JSON
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.26%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.63%) LDAP
3 1 (2.63%) Middleware
3 1 (2.63%) OpenID
3 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) pytest
3 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (26.32%) Agile
3 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.79%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (15.79%) Observability
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.16%) Migration
5 5 (13.16%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (13.16%) Project Management
6 4 (10.53%) Analytics
6 4 (10.53%) PRINCE2
6 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (10.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (7.89%) Business Case
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.26%) Ruby
4 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) VB
5 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) OCP
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) NFS
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.79%) Ansible
3 5 (13.16%) Terraform
4 4 (10.53%) Grafana
5 3 (7.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.63%) Argo
6 1 (2.63%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Splunk
4 2 (5.26%) RightScale
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.63%) Commvault
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) F5
5 1 (2.63%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.63%) Isilon
5 1 (2.63%) NetApp
5 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat