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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 21 10
Rank change year-on-year -44 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 22 17 55
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.00% 6.69% 14.32%
As % of the General category 4.70% 10.06% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 50
10th Percentile £357 £135 £466
25th Percentile £392 £208 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £217 £593
Median % change year-on-year +112.95% -63.38% -1.17%
75th Percentile £526 £391 £715
90th Percentile £532 £545 £723
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £217 £584
% change year-on-year +112.95% -62.81% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 £11.94
% change year-on-year +2.59% +13.07% -

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 468 169 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 63.85% 66.54% 65.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 94 158
10th Percentile £313 £220 £400
25th Percentile £404 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% -5.50% -0.91%
75th Percentile £550 £599 £610
90th Percentile £675 £652 £706
South Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £12.44 £13.36
25th Percentile - £13.49 £14.47
Median hourly rate £13.85 £16.19 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% -1.13% -13.82%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £18.22
90th Percentile - £19.43 £19.29
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 £16.19 £12.99
% change year-on-year -14.45% +24.63% -31.63%

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 11 January 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
1 10 (45.45%) GCP
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.55%) Cohesity
6 1 (4.55%) Collibra
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Data Hub
4 1 (4.55%) DataStage
4 1 (4.55%) DB2
4 1 (4.55%) Looker
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power Query
4 1 (4.55%) PowerPivot
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 3 (13.64%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
4 1 (4.55%) Liquibase
4 1 (4.55%) PyCharm
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Law
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Developer
1 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (9.09%) Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
2 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
2 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Lead
3 1 (4.55%) Scala Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (13.64%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.55%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) Flask
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) jQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Online Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 4 (18.18%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Security
6 3 (13.64%) High Availability
6 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.64%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Bash
4 2 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (77.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Ansible
2 8 (36.36%) Terraform
3 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
4 5 (22.73%) Grafana
5 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
6 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.55%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.55%) Centrify
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.55%) GoldenSource
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Thycotic