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IT resourcing contracts

UK public sector · 408 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
408
Last 12 months
Median contract
£114k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£562m
402 of 408 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
114
Suppliers
126

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most IT resourcing contracts took 32% of them (130 of 408).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter held steady across the period.
  • The median contract, £114k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys IT resourcing

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Police Digital Service37 contracts
  2. 2Scottish Government35 contracts
  3. 3UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS)23 contracts
  4. 4Social Security Scotland19 contracts
  5. 5Registers of Scotland18 contracts
  6. 6University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation17 contracts
  7. 7Financial Conduct Authority16 contracts
  8. 8Maritime and Coastguard Agency14 contracts
  9. 9North Lanarkshire Council13 contracts
  10. 10Department for Work and Pensions10 contracts

Top IT resourcing contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Venesky-Brown Recruitment45 contracts
  2. 2Permanent Futures39 contracts
  3. 3Hays19 contracts
  4. 4LA International17 contracts
  5. 5Keystream Group10 contracts
  6. 6Capgemini9 contracts
  7. 7Harvey Nash9 contracts
  8. 8SThree9 contracts
  9. 9Gravitas Recruitment Group7 contracts
  10. 10Berkeley Square IT Ltd6 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

123Q4 2025*89Q1 2026109Q2 202685Q3 20262Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 273 · Scotland 127 · Wales 8

London61Scotland47South West41North West22East Midlands13West Midlands13South East13Yorkshire and The Humber8Wales7North East3East of England1UK-wide or not stated179

What is included

Supply of IT people with named skills (project managers, business analysts, architects, developers, testers, product managers, specialists) on time and materials to fill gaps in the buyer's own teams, including surge capacity, secondments and resourcing frameworks.

  • Technology skills staff augmentation and resourcing frameworks
  • Surge business analysis capacity
  • Project personnel to cover shortfalls
  • Product managers and specialists for programme workstreams
  • Interim or seconded leaders for a system programme
  • Team staffing for EPR and other system programmes
  • Named-role consultants such as a BI tester

What is not included

  • Outcome-based programme, PMO or project services -> it.advice.it-programme-project-management
  • A supplier-managed digital delivery team or bench -> it.dev.digital-service-delivery
  • Development of a specified application by a supplier -> it.dev.bespoke-software-development
  • Testers supplied as a managed test service -> it.dev.software-testing-services
  • Non-IT temporary staff -> not IT (recruitment)

Often bought by the same buyers