Public Sector Contracts in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 2,152 3,054 4,008
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.20% 13.44% 13.11%
As % of the General category 19.13% 23.95% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 2,355 3,195
10th Percentile £204 £205 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £687 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 67 122
10th Percentile £12.58 £13.31 £12.51
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.22 £15.72
Median hourly rate £22.12 £20.00 £18.95
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +5.54% +5.57%
75th Percentile £48.94 £25.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £69.90 £41.00 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £20.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% +0.50% +11.11%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,250 12,749 17,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.34% 56.13% 55.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,646 11,769
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,709 737 1,044
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.42 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +41.03% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.43
90th Percentile £67.50 £69.25 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +42.22% +6.89%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +1 580 £450 -2.70% 78
North of England -10 443 £500 -4.76% 223
South East -1 437 £455 -6.67% 180
South West 0 369 £595 +5.78% 148
North West -5 279 £500 -2.44% 140
Midlands -6 233 £450 -10.00% 135
West Midlands -5 161 £500 -7.41% 97
Yorkshire -11 132 £500 -7.41% 51
East Midlands -7 71 £396 -34.08% 38
East of England -36 66 £450 -25.00% 50
Wales +4 35 £210 -38.95% 33
North East -5 34 £500 - 34
Northern Ireland +2 22 £525 +284.62% 22
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 73 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 67 (3.11%) Confluence
3 38 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (0.88%) CMS
5 11 (0.51%) Apache
6 8 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.19%) IIS
8 4 (0.19%) SAS
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.093%) CICS
10 2 (0.093%) Drupal
10 2 (0.093%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.093%) JBoss
10 2 (0.093%) Mule
10 2 (0.093%) nginx
10 2 (0.093%) WildFly
11 1 (0.046%) Alfresco
Applications
1 90 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
4 17 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.093%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.093%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.093%) Lectora
7 2 (0.093%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.093%) Sketch
8 1 (0.046%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.046%) InVision
8 1 (0.046%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.70%) Primavera
2 10 (0.46%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.19%) iTrent
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.19%) SAP EWM
6 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.14%) Aareon QL
7 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.14%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.093%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.093%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 202 (9.39%) Azure
2 129 (5.99%) AWS
3 127 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (4.04%) Power Platform
5 59 (2.74%) SaaS
6 56 (2.60%) PaaS
7 51 (2.37%) Serverless
8 49 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.04%) IaaS
10 40 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 37 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (1.58%) OCI
13 32 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
14 31 (1.44%) Entra ID
14 31 (1.44%) OpenShift
15 25 (1.16%) Power Automate
16 19 (0.88%) PowerApps
17 17 (0.79%) GCP
17 17 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 92 (4.28%) Firewall
2 75 (3.49%) WAN
3 69 (3.21%) LAN
4 39 (1.81%) Network Security
5 31 (1.44%) VPN
6 27 (1.25%) SAN
7 25 (1.16%) DNS
8 21 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 19 (0.88%) IPsec
10 17 (0.79%) DHCP
11 16 (0.74%) BGP
11 16 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
12 15 (0.70%) Internet
13 14 (0.65%) Intranet
13 14 (0.65%) VoIP
14 12 (0.56%) TCP/IP
14 12 (0.56%) Wireless
15 11 (0.51%) 4G
16 10 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (0.46%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (2.56%) Power BI
3 32 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 29 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 23 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.02%) MySQL
9 21 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (0.98%) Metadata
10 19 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (0.74%) Big Data
12 15 (0.70%) GIS
13 13 (0.60%) Data Lake
13 13 (0.60%) Tableau
14 12 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
16 10 (0.46%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.42%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 102 (4.74%) JIRA
2 41 (1.91%) Git
3 27 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.02%) GitLab
5 21 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 16 (0.74%) PVCS
7 15 (0.70%) JUnit
8 8 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.33%) Selenium
10 6 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.28%) JMeter
10 6 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.23%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.23%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.19%) Maven
12 4 (0.19%) MSI
12 4 (0.19%) Subversion
13 3 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 451 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 322 (14.96%) Finance
3 193 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (7.06%) Telecoms
5 151 (7.02%) Marketing
6 142 (6.60%) Manufacturing
7 139 (6.46%) Electronics
8 63 (2.93%) Local Government
9 43 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (1.12%) Legal
12 24 (1.12%) Publishing
13 20 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (0.88%) Military
15 13 (0.60%) Back Office
16 10 (0.46%) Police
17 9 (0.42%) Banking
18 8 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (0.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 263 (12.22%) Architect
2 240 (11.15%) Analyst
3 238 (11.06%) Senior
4 193 (8.97%) Developer
5 158 (7.34%) Project Manager
6 134 (6.23%) Lead
7 84 (3.90%) Consultant
8 76 (3.53%) Network Engineer
9 62 (2.88%) Business Analyst
10 61 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (2.70%) Senior Manager
12 57 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (2.46%) Network Architect
14 52 (2.42%) Administrator
15 51 (2.37%) Service Analyst
16 50 (2.32%) Delivery Manager
17 49 (2.28%) Service Desk Analyst
18 46 (2.14%) IT Support
19 44 (2.04%) Support Officer
20 43 (2.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (2.70%) REST
2 49 (2.28%) React
3 47 (2.18%) CSS
3 47 (2.18%) HTML
4 41 (1.91%) .NET
5 39 (1.81%) AWS CDK
6 38 (1.77%) Node.js
7 28 (1.30%) Spring
7 28 (1.30%) Spring Boot
8 22 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
9 21 (0.98%) Web Services
10 17 (0.79%) Hibernate
11 15 (0.70%) OpenID
11 15 (0.70%) RESTful
12 14 (0.65%) JPA
12 14 (0.65%) SAML
12 14 (0.65%) SOAP
13 13 (0.60%) AngularJS
14 12 (0.56%) OAuth
14 12 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 74 (3.44%) Data Centre
3 68 (3.16%) NHS
4 53 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 37 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (1.39%) PKI
7 27 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 23 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 21 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 20 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
12 19 (0.88%) CMDB
12 19 (0.88%) Driving Licence
13 15 (0.70%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
14 14 (0.65%) Replication
15 13 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
16 12 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
17 11 (0.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 11 (0.51%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 222 (10.32%) Windows
2 114 (5.30%) Linux
3 64 (2.97%) Windows 10
4 52 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.21%) Unix
7 24 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.02%) Android
9 16 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.60%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.42%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.33%) Windows Vista
13 6 (0.28%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.14%) AIX
15 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.14%) Solaris
15 3 (0.14%) zOS
16 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (19.84%) Agile
2 215 (9.99%) Business Intelligence
2 215 (9.99%) Project Management
3 202 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 179 (8.32%) DevOps
6 172 (7.99%) Programme Management
7 140 (6.51%) Migration
8 138 (6.41%) ITIL
9 136 (6.32%) Digital Marketing
10 121 (5.62%) Roadmaps
11 118 (5.48%) PRINCE2
12 114 (5.30%) Project Delivery
13 110 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
14 109 (5.07%) Change Management
15 102 (4.74%) Service Management
16 101 (4.69%) Scrum
17 96 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 96 (4.46%) Mentoring
18 95 (4.41%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 103 (4.79%) SQL
2 90 (4.18%) Python
3 88 (4.09%) Java
4 75 (3.49%) JavaScript
5 59 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 50 (2.32%) TypeScript
7 38 (1.77%) C#
8 34 (1.58%) C
9 33 (1.53%) C++
10 32 (1.49%) Bash
11 29 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.70%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (0.37%) R
16 6 (0.28%) VB
17 5 (0.23%) Perl
18 4 (0.19%) Groovy
18 4 (0.19%) Scala
18 4 (0.19%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 917 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 489 (22.72%) SC Cleared
3 319 (14.82%) DV Cleared
4 181 (8.41%) Degree
5 49 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (1.63%) CCNA
8 25 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 24 (1.12%) CISSP
10 23 (1.07%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 22 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.98%) CCNP
13 17 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (0.79%) HNC
13 17 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
13 17 (0.79%) MCSE
14 16 (0.74%) PMP
15 14 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 13 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (3.44%) Disclosure Scotland
2 68 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 56 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.09%) SLA
5 31 (1.44%) QA
6 29 (1.35%) GDPR
6 29 (1.35%) NIST
6 29 (1.35%) PMO
7 23 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 15 (0.70%) WCAG
9 12 (0.56%) JSP 440
10 11 (0.51%) NCSC
11 10 (0.46%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 9 (0.42%) HL7
12 9 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 123 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 62 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (2.28%) Docker
4 29 (1.35%) VMware NSX
5 20 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.84%) vSphere
7 14 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.51%) BitLocker
8 11 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.093%) iptables
13 2 (0.093%) KVM
13 2 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.093%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.046%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.046%) OpenIDM
14 1 (0.046%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 54 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.18%) Ansible
3 42 (1.95%) Terraform
4 41 (1.91%) SCCM
5 34 (1.58%) Grafana
6 16 (0.74%) SCOM
6 16 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 15 (0.70%) Kibana
7 15 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.60%) Puppet
9 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (0.42%) vRealize
11 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.33%) OPNET
11 7 (0.33%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.28%) logstash
12 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.28%) VxRail
13 5 (0.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 290 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 169 (7.85%) SAP
3 108 (5.02%) Oracle
4 92 (4.28%) VMware
5 71 (3.30%) Cisco
6 44 (2.04%) Dell
7 42 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 34 (1.58%) Juniper
9 27 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.21%) Atlassian
11 25 (1.16%) Palo Alto
12 22 (1.02%) Citrix
12 22 (1.02%) Google
13 17 (0.79%) IBM
14 16 (0.74%) Apple
15 14 (0.65%) Remedy
16 13 (0.60%) Adobe
17 12 (0.56%) SolarWinds
18 11 (0.51%) Brio
18 11 (0.51%) HP