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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 9 2
Rank change year-on-year -25 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 12 45 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.99% 12.89% 27.84%
As % of the General category 5.58% 21.95% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 40 117
10th Percentile £135 £424 £413
25th Percentile £209 £434 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% -19.23% +36.84%
75th Percentile £438 £579 £700
90th Percentile £476 £720 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £345 £525 £650
% change year-on-year -34.38% -19.23% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 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 common skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 215 205 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 71.43% 58.74% 82.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 117 262
10th Percentile £355 £276 £389
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £473 £550
% change year-on-year +5.82% -14.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £16.37 £13.56 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.10 £14.97 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.38 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -31.86% +59.38%
75th Percentile £18.50 £19.72 £32.75
90th Percentile £18.51 £21.09 £37.10
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.99 £11.00
% change year-on-year +40.15% +18.09% -41.85%

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 2 April 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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) First Line Help Desk Support
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Relationships Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Marketing Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Supplier Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Supplier Relationship Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) React
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Agile
1 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL
1 2 (16.67%) LLM
1 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (16.67%) Project Management
1 2 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (8.33%) B2B
2 1 (8.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (8.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) PHP
2 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle