Public Sector Contracts

Public Sector
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 4,052 5,509 7,799
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 9.67% 8.91%
As % of the General category 16.41% 16.53% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,714 4,173 6,094
10th Percentile £275 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £415 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £588
90th Percentile £720 £721 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 87 177
10th Percentile £12.70 £13.91 £12.84
25th Percentile £15.39 £16.85 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.42 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +2.10% +5.54%
75th Percentile £49.00 £27.22 £27.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £45.12 £63.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.87 £20.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.67% +4.17%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,687 33,324 49,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.98% 58.52% 56.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,577 23,107 34,304
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,007 1,407
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.41 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -3.45% +52.63% -2.56%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England 0 3,154 £525 -2.33% 1,146
UK excluding London -1 2,142 £500 - 925
London +8 1,489 £525 -6.67% 367
Work from Home -1 1,451 £513 -5.09% 592
Scotland +1 588 £450 -2.17% 99
North of England -5 469 £515 -1.90% 211
South East -1 416 £450 -7.79% 241
South West 0 374 £575 - 123
North West -2 309 £525 +0.38% 126
Midlands -6 223 £450 -12.83% 148
West Midlands -7 161 £500 -7.41% 106
Yorkshire -12 138 £525 -4.55% 57
East Midlands -8 61 £360 -40.00% 41
East of England -42 56 £450 -25.00% 59
North East -2 36 £538 -2.27% 29
Wales -2 27 £500 +17.65% 34
Northern Ireland +10 18 £625 +357.88% 31

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 142 (3.50%) SharePoint
2 115 (2.84%) Confluence
3 65 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (0.96%) CMS
5 20 (0.49%) ArcGIS
6 18 (0.44%) nginx
7 16 (0.39%) Apache
8 13 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 12 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
10 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2003
10 11 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2007
11 10 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 10 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.20%) IIS
13 7 (0.17%) JBoss
13 7 (0.17%) Site Server
13 7 (0.17%) WordPress
14 6 (0.15%) SAS
15 5 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 116 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 109 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 19 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.20%) Sketch
8 6 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.12%) Trello
10 4 (0.099%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.074%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.049%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
12 2 (0.049%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.049%) InVision
12 2 (0.049%) Lectora
12 2 (0.049%) UserZoom
13 1 (0.025%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 22 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.42%) Primavera
4 15 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 10 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
7 10 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.12%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.12%) SAP BRIM
10 5 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
10 5 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
11 4 (0.099%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 578 (14.26%) Azure
2 369 (9.11%) AWS
3 216 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 181 (4.47%) Power Platform
5 179 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 98 (2.42%) Serverless
7 85 (2.10%) PaaS
7 85 (2.10%) SaaS
8 71 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 67 (1.65%) Amazon S3
10 65 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (1.60%) GitHub
11 63 (1.55%) IaaS
12 58 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
13 55 (1.36%) OCI
14 53 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 50 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
16 48 (1.18%) GCP
17 44 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
18 43 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 139 (3.43%) Firewall
2 110 (2.71%) WAN
3 89 (2.20%) LAN
4 54 (1.33%) VPN
5 46 (1.14%) Network Security
6 44 (1.09%) DNS
7 43 (1.06%) Wireless
8 31 (0.77%) BGP
9 28 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.67%) Internet
10 27 (0.67%) SAN
11 26 (0.64%) IPsec
12 23 (0.57%) DHCP
12 23 (0.57%) Intranet
12 23 (0.57%) VoIP
13 22 (0.54%) TCP/IP
14 21 (0.52%) HTTP
15 20 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.49%) MPLS
15 20 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 129 (3.18%) Power BI
3 122 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 85 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 62 (1.53%) Metadata
6 56 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 46 (1.14%) GIS
7 46 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 45 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 43 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 37 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
11 34 (0.84%) MongoDB
12 30 (0.74%) Big Data
13 28 (0.69%) MySQL
14 26 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (0.59%) Metadata Repository
16 22 (0.54%) Tableau
17 21 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
17 21 (0.52%) Data Vault
18 20 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 174 (4.29%) JIRA
2 100 (2.47%) Git
3 64 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 39 (0.96%) GitLab
5 36 (0.89%) Selenium
6 31 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 30 (0.74%) JUnit
8 21 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 17 (0.42%) Cucumber
10 16 (0.39%) Postman
10 16 (0.39%) PVCS
11 15 (0.37%) Maven
12 14 (0.35%) ERwin
12 14 (0.35%) JMeter
12 14 (0.35%) WebDriver
13 13 (0.32%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.20%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
16 7 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 816 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 662 (16.34%) Finance
3 312 (7.70%) Telecoms
4 308 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 303 (7.48%) Marketing
6 288 (7.11%) Manufacturing
7 283 (6.98%) Electronics
8 97 (2.39%) Local Government
9 75 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
10 68 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (1.09%) Back Office
13 43 (1.06%) Legal
14 37 (0.91%) Publishing
15 35 (0.86%) Police
15 35 (0.86%) Retail
16 33 (0.81%) Military
17 28 (0.69%) Banking
17 28 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 28 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 563 (13.89%) Architect
2 486 (11.99%) Senior
3 432 (10.66%) Developer
4 400 (9.87%) Analyst
5 262 (6.47%) Lead
6 250 (6.17%) Project Manager
7 225 (5.55%) Consultant
8 140 (3.46%) Business Analyst
9 130 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
10 112 (2.76%) Network Engineer
11 92 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
12 90 (2.22%) Data Engineer
13 89 (2.20%) Technical Architect
14 88 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 86 (2.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 85 (2.10%) Senior Developer
17 82 (2.02%) Data Architect
17 82 (2.02%) Designer
18 81 (2.00%) Senior Manager
19 78 (1.92%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (3.60%) .NET
2 109 (2.69%) REST
3 102 (2.52%) HTML
4 86 (2.12%) CSS
5 74 (1.83%) React
6 73 (1.80%) Node.js
7 71 (1.75%) Spring
8 67 (1.65%) XML
9 66 (1.63%) Spring Boot
10 48 (1.18%) JSON
11 45 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
12 44 (1.09%) Web Services
13 41 (1.01%) RESTful
14 40 (0.99%) Kafka
14 40 (0.99%) SAML
15 37 (0.91%) AngularJS
15 37 (0.91%) OpenID
16 36 (0.89%) AWS CDK
17 34 (0.84%) .NET Core
18 33 (0.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 149 (3.68%) Management Information System
2 117 (2.89%) Product Ownership
3 99 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 85 (2.10%) NHS
5 78 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 49 (1.21%) Data Structures
7 48 (1.18%) PKI
8 46 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 45 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (0.96%) Replication
11 36 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 31 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 30 (0.74%) Reference Data
14 29 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
14 29 (0.72%) Driving Licence
14 29 (0.72%) Virtual Team
15 27 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
16 25 (0.62%) Public Cloud
17 24 (0.59%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 312 (7.70%) Windows
2 191 (4.71%) Linux
3 91 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 77 (1.90%) Windows 10
5 62 (1.53%) Unix
6 36 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 34 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 33 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 31 (0.77%) Android
10 28 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 22 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (0.39%) Windows 7
13 13 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
15 10 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 10 (0.25%) Ubuntu
15 10 (0.25%) zOS
16 8 (0.20%) VMS
17 6 (0.15%) Windows Vista
18 5 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (21.35%) Agile
2 448 (11.06%) Business Intelligence
3 434 (10.71%) DevOps
4 360 (8.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 355 (8.76%) Programme Management
6 336 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
7 333 (8.22%) Project Management
8 312 (7.70%) Migration
9 286 (7.06%) Digital Marketing
10 242 (5.97%) ITIL
11 232 (5.73%) CI/CD
12 216 (5.33%) Roadmaps
13 199 (4.91%) Scrum
14 198 (4.89%) Project Delivery
15 197 (4.86%) PRINCE2
16 191 (4.71%) Change Management
17 184 (4.54%) Service Management
18 175 (4.32%) Cybersecurity
19 172 (4.24%) Analytics
20 171 (4.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 281 (6.93%) SQL
2 227 (5.60%) Python
3 198 (4.89%) Java
4 166 (4.10%) JavaScript
5 144 (3.55%) C#
6 142 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 76 (1.88%) TypeScript
8 43 (1.06%) Bash
9 40 (0.99%) C
9 40 (0.99%) C++
10 38 (0.94%) PL/SQL
11 27 (0.67%) Bicep
11 27 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 25 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.49%) PHP
14 19 (0.47%) Ruby
15 16 (0.39%) R
16 15 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 13 (0.32%) ABAP
17 13 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,690 (41.71%) Security Cleared
2 1,119 (27.62%) SC Cleared
3 421 (10.39%) DV Cleared
4 302 (7.45%) Degree
5 66 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
6 63 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (1.11%) CCNA
9 41 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
10 37 (0.91%) CISSP
11 35 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 31 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 26 (0.64%) CCNP
14 23 (0.57%) MCSE
15 19 (0.47%) CISM
15 19 (0.47%) PMP
16 18 (0.44%) HNC
16 18 (0.44%) PMI Certification
17 17 (0.42%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 101 (2.49%) QA
3 85 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 83 (2.05%) Disclosure Scotland
5 76 (1.88%) SLA
6 66 (1.63%) PMO
7 61 (1.51%) Data Quality
8 52 (1.28%) GDPR
9 47 (1.16%) NIST
10 30 (0.74%) WCAG
11 28 (0.69%) NCSC
12 15 (0.37%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 12 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.27%) HL7
16 11 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 10 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 9 (0.22%) NIST 800
19 8 (0.20%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 228 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 113 (2.79%) Docker
3 67 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 25 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.37%) NFS
8 14 (0.35%) Firmware
8 14 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (0.32%) vSphere
10 11 (0.27%) BitLocker
11 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.20%) HDFS
12 8 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.12%) ACF2
13 5 (0.12%) RACF
14 4 (0.099%) IAG
14 4 (0.099%) Time Sharing Option
15 3 (0.074%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 134 (3.31%) Terraform
2 120 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 84 (2.07%) Ansible
4 44 (1.09%) SCCM
5 37 (0.91%) Grafana
6 31 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.44%) Puppet
10 16 (0.39%) FortiGate
10 16 (0.39%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.35%) Kibana
12 12 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.30%) SCOM
13 10 (0.25%) OPNET
13 10 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (0.17%) Packer
14 7 (0.17%) vRealize
14 7 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 558 (13.77%) Microsoft
2 358 (8.84%) SAP
3 201 (4.96%) Oracle
4 115 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 103 (2.54%) VMware
6 98 (2.42%) Cisco
7 61 (1.51%) Dell
8 50 (1.23%) Juniper
9 44 (1.09%) Google
10 38 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 36 (0.89%) Palo Alto
11 36 (0.89%) Sparx
12 31 (0.77%) Adobe
13 28 (0.69%) Splunk
14 27 (0.67%) Citrix
14 27 (0.67%) IBM
15 24 (0.59%) CyberArk
16 23 (0.57%) Fortinet
16 23 (0.57%) NetApp
16 23 (0.57%) Red Hat