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 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 57 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 -20 -32
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 25 19 18
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.47% 3.26% 4.39%
As % of the General category 4.12% 4.70% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 16
10th Percentile £358 £323 £375
25th Percentile £401 £352 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £438 £514
Median % change year-on-year +12.46% -14.80% -26.64%
75th Percentile £505 £488 £551
90th Percentile £546 £523 £602
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £403 £514
% change year-on-year +22.01% -21.47% -26.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £14.32 -
25th Percentile - £15.01 £11.75
Median hourly rate - £16.18 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.81% -
75th Percentile - £17.34 £15.25
90th Percentile - £18.04 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.20 £16.18 £13.50
% change year-on-year +37.25% +19.81% -

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 607 404 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 59.98% 69.30% 63.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 275 128
10th Percentile £362 £279 £378
25th Percentile £420 £365 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.62% -13.15%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £600
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £505
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.89% -8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile - £14.54 £15.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £15.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £36.07 £18.21 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.13% -13.31% +10.53%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.40 £21.88
90th Percentile - £18.50 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.96 £18.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +70.04% -13.31% +7.69%

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 30 August 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) OCI
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.00%) Parquet
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Subversion
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Billing
3 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Local Government
3 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) User Researcher
2 3 (12.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Transformation
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Digital Transformation Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (4.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.00%) JPA
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (4.00%) OpenID
2 1 (4.00%) OpenTofu
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) pytest
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) Swagger
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Thymeleaf
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (32.00%) User Research
4 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
4 7 (28.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (24.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) ERP
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (12.00%) Coaching
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Inclusive Design
7 3 (12.00%) Kanban
7 3 (12.00%) Project Management
7 3 (12.00%) Qualitative Research
7 3 (12.00%) Quantitative Research
7 3 (12.00%) Service Design
7 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) OCP
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Argo
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (8.00%) RightScale
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow