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 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 37 8
Rank change year-on-year -20 -29 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 37 9 44
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 4.00% 2.95% 12.64%
As % of the General category 6.43% 4.19% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 6 39
10th Percentile £311 £317 £423
25th Percentile £375 £334 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -25.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £454 £452 £582
90th Percentile £526 £504 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £375 £525
% change year-on-year +13.33% -28.57% -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 575 215 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 62.10% 70.49% 58.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 136 113
10th Percentile £357 £356 £259
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £633
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -2.55% +6.38% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £14.50
25th Percentile - £18.10 £17.31
Median hourly rate - £18.35 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.58% -13.73%
75th Percentile - £18.50 -
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.35 £13.23
% change year-on-year - +38.72% +20.27%

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 11 April 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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
1 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
2 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) GitHub
4 3 (8.11%) Google Analytics
5 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.41%) Firewall
3 2 (5.41%) NAS
4 1 (2.70%) BIG-IP
4 1 (2.70%) DHCP
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.70%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Looker
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.70%) Parquet
2 1 (2.70%) Power Query
2 1 (2.70%) PowerPivot
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) GitLab
1 5 (13.51%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.70%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Selenium
4 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Law
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Billing
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) IT Support
3 4 (10.81%) Service Desk Support
4 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Node.js Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Java Scala Developer
6 1 (2.70%) PMO Lead
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) JSON
1 3 (8.11%) Kafka
1 3 (8.11%) Node.js
1 3 (8.11%) Spring
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.41%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) Flask
3 1 (2.70%) LDAP
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) OpenID
3 1 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.70%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (2.70%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) pytest
3 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) PKI
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (18.92%) Agile
3 7 (18.92%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
4 6 (16.22%) Observability
5 5 (13.51%) Analytics
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.51%) Migration
5 5 (13.51%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (10.81%) Data Modelling
6 4 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.81%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.81%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis
7 3 (8.11%) Pair Programming
7 3 (8.11%) Problem Management
7 3 (8.11%) TDD
7 3 (8.11%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Java
4 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) Ruby
5 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.41%) VBA
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) Go
6 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (70.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) OCP
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) NFS
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.22%) Ansible
2 6 (16.22%) Terraform
3 4 (10.81%) Grafana
4 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Argo
5 1 (2.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.11%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.70%) Commvault
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) F5
4 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.70%) Isilon
4 1 (2.70%) NetApp
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) RightScale
4 1 (2.70%) SAP