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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 32 7
Rank change year-on-year -30 -25 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 17 25 61
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.71% 5.83% 15.84%
As % of the General category 3.91% 8.99% 22.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 57
10th Percentile £332 £194 £493
25th Percentile £448 £209 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £386 £700
Median % change year-on-year +28.24% -44.86% +21.74%
75th Percentile £528 £540 £745
90th Percentile £530 £573 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £386 £650
% change year-on-year +23.06% -40.62% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year +2.59% - -

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 435 278 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 69.38% 64.80% 69.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 138 165
10th Percentile £305 £300 £400
25th Percentile £400 £439 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £515 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% -12.33% +16.44%
75th Percentile £538 £593 £688
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -7.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £14.08 £13.14 £18.65
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +5.26%

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 18 October 2025.

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 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) CloudBees
6 1 (5.88%) Cohesity
6 1 (5.88%) Collibra
6 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) DataStage
4 1 (5.88%) DB2
4 1 (5.88%) Metadata
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Risk Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Supply Chain Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Commvault Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Field Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Support
3 1 (5.88%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Report Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.88%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) NumPy
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Online Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (17.65%) Data Security
4 3 (17.65%) High Availability
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
5 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Groovy
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) CISM
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Grafana
3 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Commvault
1 2 (11.76%) Google
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (5.88%) Centrify
2 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.88%) GoldenSource
2 1 (5.88%) Informatica
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) Thycotic