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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 34 5
Rank change year-on-year -22 -29 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 18 20 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.11% 5.03% 20.67%
As % of the General category 4.40% 7.81% 27.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 81
10th Percentile £323 £288 £450
25th Percentile £352 £375 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £504 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% -28.07% +16.67%
75th Percentile £496 £551 £743
90th Percentile £523 £602 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £504 £700
% change year-on-year -13.11% -28.07% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £14.32 - -
25th Percentile £15.01 £11.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.81% - -
75th Percentile £17.34 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £18.04 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.18 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +19.81% - -

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 common skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 409 256 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 70.76% 64.32% 74.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 126 193
10th Percentile £280 £362 £400
25th Percentile £371 £428 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £515 £587
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -12.33% +17.49%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £700
90th Percentile £616 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% -7.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.88 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £18.40 £21.88 £19.75
90th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £19.90
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector 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 16 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) GCP
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) CloudBees
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.56%) Vagrant
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Police
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Commvault Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support
3 2 (11.11%) Risk Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Supply Chain Manager
4 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.56%) React Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.56%) Compass CSS Framework
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) jQuery
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Change Management
2 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.11%) CAFM
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Facilities Management
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Information Security
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery Management
4 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Go
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.56%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Commvault
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) GoldenSource
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft