Public Sector Contracts 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 32 2
Rank change year-on-year -15 -30 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 13 31 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.85% 7.26% 26.79%
As % of the General category 4.06% 11.70% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 30 101
10th Percentile £319 £374 £450
25th Percentile £328 £425 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £488 £700
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% -30.36% +32.08%
75th Percentile £456 £554 £743
90th Percentile £486 £575 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £369 £488 £700
% change year-on-year -24.31% -30.36% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.50 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 £12.70 -
% change year-on-year +45.67% - -

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 320 265 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 70.18% 62.06% 79.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 130 211
10th Percentile £287 £374 £363
25th Percentile £388 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £503 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% -14.47% +17.50%
75th Percentile £566 £580 £700
90th Percentile £638 £622 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile £15.00 - £11.75
25th Percentile £15.78 £20.50 £12.88
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +43.33% -8.40%
75th Percentile £18.45 £22.00 £17.38
90th Percentile £18.51 - £18.65
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -13.31% +40.00% -21.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Sheffield over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Sheffield

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Sheffield

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 (23.08%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.69%) CloudBees
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Commvault Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Supply Chain Manager
3 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Change Management
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) CAFM
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Facilities Management
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (15.38%) Project Management
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery Management
3 2 (15.38%) Supply Chain Management
3 2 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.69%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk