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 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 11
Rank change year-on-year -29 -16 -8
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 41 14 45
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 4.48% 5.24% 12.75%
As % of the General category 7.04% 7.61% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 9 40
10th Percentile £313 £135 £424
25th Percentile £378 £209 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £217 £525
Median % change year-on-year +95.69% -58.63% -16.00%
75th Percentile £462 £356 £579
90th Percentile £535 £485 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £234 £525
% change year-on-year +81.94% -55.51% -12.50%

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 582 184 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 63.54% 68.91% 59.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 115 119
10th Percentile £352 £333 £285
25th Percentile £422 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.72% -6.55%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £587
90th Percentile £688 £650 £640
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - +26.98% -68.13%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £16.19 £12.75
% change year-on-year - +26.98% -48.15%

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 12 March 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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 6 (14.63%) GCP
2 6 (14.63%) OpenShift
3 5 (12.20%) GitHub
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.32%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.44%) Cohesity
6 1 (2.44%) Collibra
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) Firewall
3 2 (4.88%) NAS
4 1 (2.44%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.44%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) Internet
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.76%) Power BI
3 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.44%) DataStage
4 1 (2.44%) DB2
4 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.44%) Looker
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) Parquet
4 1 (2.44%) Power Query
4 1 (2.44%) PowerPivot
4 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 6 (14.63%) GitLab
3 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.76%) Git
5 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.44%) PyCharm
5 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.44%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
3 6 (14.63%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Law
5 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Billing
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Analyst
2 5 (12.20%) Developer
2 5 (12.20%) Project Manager
3 4 (9.76%) IT Support
3 4 (9.76%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (7.32%) Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Lead
5 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (2.44%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Scala Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) REST
2 3 (7.32%) JSON
2 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 3 (7.32%) Node.js
2 3 (7.32%) Spring
3 2 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.44%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.44%) Flask
4 1 (2.44%) NumPy
4 1 (2.44%) OpenID
4 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.44%) Pandas
4 1 (2.44%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.44%) PySpark
4 1 (2.44%) pytest
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 5 (12.20%) Linux
3 4 (9.76%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (21.95%) Agile
3 8 (19.51%) DevOps
3 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.07%) Dashboard Development
5 6 (14.63%) Observability
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 5 (12.20%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
7 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
7 4 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (9.76%) Microservices
7 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
7 4 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (9.76%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) Java
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) Ruby
5 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.88%) VBA
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) Groovy
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
6 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (78.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) CISM
4 1 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) OCP
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) NFS
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.51%) Ansible
3 7 (17.07%) Terraform
4 5 (12.20%) Grafana
5 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.44%) Argo
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.88%) Commvault
5 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.44%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.44%) Centrify
6 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.44%) Databricks
6 1 (2.44%) F5
6 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.44%) Informatica
6 1 (2.44%) Isilon
6 1 (2.44%) NetApp
6 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.44%) Thycotic