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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 34 9
Rank change year-on-year -28 -25 -7
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 39 15 47
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.92% 4.76% 12.57%
As % of the General category 6.33% 7.01% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 42
10th Percentile £313 £320 £402
25th Percentile £375 £334 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £369 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -29.71% -19.85%
75th Percentile £456 £452 £564
90th Percentile £519 £477 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £369 £525
% change year-on-year +15.18% -29.71% -19.23%
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 616 214 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 61.97% 67.94% 61.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 138 129
10th Percentile £366 £316 £371
25th Percentile £413 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -7.32% -7.24%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £588
90th Percentile £684 £650 £639
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.47% - -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 - £18.50 -
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.29 £18.35 £13.23
% change year-on-year +32.35% +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 9 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 (5.13%) Confluence
1 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.13%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) AWS
1 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) GitHub
3 3 (7.69%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) NAS
4 1 (2.56%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.56%) DHCP
4 1 (2.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Parquet
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) Git
4 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Law
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Billing
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) IT Support
3 4 (10.26%) Lead
3 4 (10.26%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (7.69%) Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Ruby Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Transformation
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Java Scala Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector Business Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) JSON
1 3 (7.69%) Kafka
1 3 (7.69%) Node.js
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (7.69%) Spring
2 2 (5.13%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.56%) Flask
3 1 (2.56%) LDAP
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.56%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) pytest
3 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.13%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Agile
3 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (15.38%) Observability
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
5 5 (12.82%) Migration
5 5 (12.82%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (12.82%) Project Management
6 4 (10.26%) Analytics
6 4 (10.26%) PRINCE2
6 4 (10.26%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.26%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (10.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (7.69%) Business Case
7 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
1 6 (15.38%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.13%) Ruby
4 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) Go
5 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.56%) Scala
5 1 (2.56%) VB
5 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) OCP
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) SLA
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) NFS
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Ansible
2 6 (15.38%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Grafana
4 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Argo
5 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Google
3 3 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) RightScale
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.56%) Commvault
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) F5
5 1 (2.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.56%) Isilon
5 1 (2.56%) NetApp
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat