Public Sector Contracts in the West Midlands

Public Sector
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 14 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 161 264 510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.03% 11.94% 14.21%
As % of the General category 14.89% 21.20% 24.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 231 432
10th Percentile £302 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £464
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +16.44% +9.12%
75th Percentile £562 £680 £549
90th Percentile £638 £743 £625
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £13.67 £12.13 £12.38
25th Percentile £16.63 £13.31 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.25 £16.20
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +18.83% +0.47%
75th Percentile £34.73 £27.54 £17.70
90th Percentile £39.00 £28.75 £19.75
England median hourly rate £22.75 £20.60 £20.00
% change year-on-year +10.44% +3.00% +11.11%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,081 1,245 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.92% 56.31% 57.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 871 1,543
10th Percentile £254 £263 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +17.02%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £703 £675
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 44 45
10th Percentile £11.13 £12.15 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.11 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.59 £21.69 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +27.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £54.88 £22.25
England median hourly rate £31.50 £30.65 £21.99
% change year-on-year +2.78% +39.40% +4.44%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham -14 51 £450 -30.77% 44
Shropshire +3 30 £535 -0.93% 3
Coventry +2 16 £563 +25.00% 13
Warwickshire -7 15 £538 -6.43% 5
Solihull 0 12 £375 +7.14% 7
Staffordshire -6 10 £334 -44.26% 8
Herefordshire -5 9 £567 -12.85% 3
Worcestershire -3 5 £525 +27.27% 5
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.24%) Apache
2 2 (1.24%) CICS
2 2 (1.24%) CMS
2 2 (1.24%) SAS
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.24%) CANalyzer
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle HRMS
1 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.62%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.62%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.45%) Azure
2 10 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.86%) OCI
3 3 (1.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.24%) AWS
4 2 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.24%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.24%) PaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Azure App Service
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.62%) GCP
5 1 (0.62%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (0.62%) IaaS
5 1 (0.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.21%) Network Security
2 9 (5.59%) WAN
3 8 (4.97%) Firewall
4 6 (3.73%) BGP
4 6 (3.73%) IPsec
4 6 (3.73%) MPLS
5 5 (3.11%) Junos
5 5 (3.11%) VPN
6 4 (2.48%) DNS
6 4 (2.48%) Wireless
7 3 (1.86%) DHCP
7 3 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.86%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.86%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.24%) LAN
8 2 (1.24%) SAN
8 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.62%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.62%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (1.86%) Big Data
1 3 (1.86%) DB2
1 3 (1.86%) MySQL
1 3 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.24%) IDMS
2 2 (1.24%) Power BI
3 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.62%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.62%) Metadata
3 1 (0.62%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (9.94%) PVCS
1 16 (9.94%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.35%) Git
3 3 (1.86%) JIRA
4 2 (1.24%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.24%) CANoe
4 2 (1.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) Appium
5 1 (0.62%) UI Automator
5 1 (0.62%) XCUITest
General
1 27 (16.77%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (9.94%) Finance
4 7 (4.35%) Local Government
5 5 (3.11%) Legal
5 5 (3.11%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.48%) Automotive
7 3 (1.86%) Back Office
7 3 (1.86%) Electronics
7 3 (1.86%) Marketing
8 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Military
8 2 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Publishing
8 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.62%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Police
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (10.56%) Analyst
2 16 (9.94%) C Programmer
2 16 (9.94%) Programmer
3 15 (9.32%) Senior
4 13 (8.07%) Architect
4 13 (8.07%) Project Manager
5 12 (7.45%) 3rd Line Support
6 11 (6.83%) Lead
7 10 (6.21%) Senior Manager
8 9 (5.59%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.97%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (4.97%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.73%) Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Network Manager
11 6 (3.73%) WAN Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) IT Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) SOC Analyst
13 4 (2.48%) Lead Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.11%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (1.24%) .NET
2 2 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.24%) REST
2 2 (1.24%) YAML
3 1 (0.62%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.62%) Node.js
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.62%) React
3 1 (0.62%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.62%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.62%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.62%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.73%) Cyber Defence
2 6 (3.73%) Distributed Applications
2 6 (3.73%) PKI
3 4 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.86%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.86%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (1.86%) Infotainment
4 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.86%) Mainframe
4 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.24%) Handset
5 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.62%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.29%) Windows
2 15 (9.32%) Linux
3 6 (3.73%) Android
3 6 (3.73%) Apple iOS
4 5 (3.11%) Mac OS X
4 5 (3.11%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.48%) Unix
6 3 (1.86%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.24%) zOS
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.15%) Agile
2 25 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (9.32%) Data Analysis
4 15 (9.32%) PRINCE2
4 15 (9.32%) Project Management
5 14 (8.70%) SIEM
6 13 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (7.45%) Decision-Making
8 11 (6.83%) Analytics
8 11 (6.83%) Risk Management
9 10 (6.21%) Configuration Management
9 10 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (6.21%) Project Delivery
9 10 (6.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (5.59%) ITIL
11 8 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (4.97%) Change Management
11 8 (4.97%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (11.18%) PL/SQL
2 16 (9.94%) C
3 10 (6.21%) SQL
4 4 (2.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.48%) Python
5 3 (1.86%) COBOL
5 3 (1.86%) R
6 2 (1.24%) C#
6 2 (1.24%) C++
6 2 (1.24%) CLIST
6 2 (1.24%) Java
6 2 (1.24%) REXX
6 2 (1.24%) SELCOPY
7 1 (0.62%) Bash
7 1 (0.62%) Bicep
7 1 (0.62%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.62%) Korn
7 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.62%) Swift
7 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 45 (27.95%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.07%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.45%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.83%) Degree
6 8 (4.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (4.35%) CCNA
8 5 (3.11%) CCNP
9 4 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.48%) CCIE
9 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.62%) GIAC
11 1 (0.62%) GSEC
11 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.62%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.73%) GDPR
1 6 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (3.11%) HIPAA
2 5 (3.11%) NIST
3 3 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (1.86%) SLA
4 2 (1.24%) QA
5 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.11%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.48%) vSphere
5 3 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.24%) iptables
7 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (3.11%) Ansible
1 5 (3.11%) Terraform
2 4 (2.48%) SCCM
3 3 (1.86%) CSIRT
3 3 (1.86%) Grafana
4 2 (1.24%) AirWatch
4 2 (1.24%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.24%) Kibana
4 2 (1.24%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.24%) logstash
4 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.24%) Puppet
4 2 (1.24%) Salt
5 1 (0.62%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.62%) SCOM
5 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.21%) Cisco
2 10 (6.21%) VMware
3 9 (5.59%) Dell
3 9 (5.59%) Juniper
4 8 (4.97%) Oracle
4 8 (4.97%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.11%) Citrix
6 4 (2.48%) SAP
6 4 (2.48%) Talend
7 3 (1.86%) Denodo
7 3 (1.86%) IBM
8 2 (1.24%) Apple
8 2 (1.24%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.24%) Samsung
8 2 (1.24%) Syncsort
9 1 (0.62%) Kenna
9 1 (0.62%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.62%) Trend Micro