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 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 28
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 -26
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 36 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.44% 2.92% 6.76%
As % of the General category 5.54% 4.11% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 28
10th Percentile £310 £323 £372
25th Percentile £381 £346 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £403 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.83% -15.11% -32.14%
75th Percentile £496 £487 £551
90th Percentile £529 £523 £567
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £375 £475
% change year-on-year +31.20% -21.05% -30.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.20 £18.50 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

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 650 389 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 62.08% 70.99% 63.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 264 133
10th Percentile £364 £285 £379
25th Percentile £425 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £507
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -8.78% -15.50%
75th Percentile £576 £539 £588
90th Percentile £681 £625 £644
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 5
10th Percentile - £15.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £25.77 £15.78 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.07 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.13% -13.31% +10.53%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.45 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £18.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.55% -13.31% +10.53%

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 31 July 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Google Analytics
2 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) OCI
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.78%) Parquet
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Robot Framework
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Billing
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Local Government
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) User Researcher
3 4 (11.11%) IT Support
3 4 (11.11%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Transformation
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Transformation Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) PMO Lead
6 1 (2.78%) Senior
6 1 (2.78%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) JSON
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.78%) JPA
3 1 (2.78%) LDAP
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.78%) OpenID
3 1 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.78%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) pytest
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) RESTful
3 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) Swagger
3 1 (2.78%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
1 4 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (27.78%) User Research
4 9 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
6 6 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (13.89%) Analytics
7 5 (13.89%) Coaching
7 5 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.11%) DevOps
8 4 (11.11%) ERP
8 4 (11.11%) Observability
8 4 (11.11%) Performance Metrics
8 4 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 3 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
9 3 (8.33%) Business Case
9 3 (8.33%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.78%) VB
4 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) OCP
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Google
3 3 (8.33%) SAP
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.56%) RightScale
4 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) Databricks
5 1 (2.78%) F5
5 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk