Public Sector Contracts in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 332 511 739
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.04% 39.61% 38.01%
As % of the General category 54.88% 54.77% 50.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 426 580
10th Percentile £178 £237 £212
25th Percentile £402 £405 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% +4.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £540
90th Percentile £686 £601 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £460 £445
% change year-on-year +3.26% +3.37% +7.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.27
25th Percentile £15.56 - £16.03
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £18.86 - £53.75
90th Percentile £20.28 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.50 £15.36 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.97% -38.58% -

All General Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 605 933 1,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.78% 72.33% 75.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 682 1,063
10th Percentile £183 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £409 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.55 £16.03
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.47 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.06% -34.95% -35.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.23 £67.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £25.82
% change year-on-year -9.83% -17.64% -9.42%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 10 (3.01%) CMS
1 10 (3.01%) Confluence
2 4 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.90%) WordPress
4 2 (0.60%) Apache
4 2 (0.60%) JBoss
4 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.60%) WildFly
5 1 (0.30%) Drupal
5 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
Applications
1 29 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (2.41%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.35%) Azure
2 40 (12.05%) AWS
3 28 (8.43%) OCI
4 25 (7.53%) Amazon S3
4 25 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (7.53%) Serverless
5 22 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (5.42%) SaaS
8 17 (5.12%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (5.12%) Power Platform
9 14 (4.22%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.31%) IaaS
11 10 (3.01%) PaaS
12 9 (2.71%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (2.11%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.81%) AWS CodeBuild
14 6 (1.81%) AWS CodeDeploy
15 5 (1.51%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.41%) LAN
1 8 (2.41%) SAN
1 8 (2.41%) WAN
2 4 (1.20%) Intranet
2 4 (1.20%) VPN
3 3 (0.90%) Firewall
3 3 (0.90%) Internet
3 3 (0.90%) IPsec
3 3 (0.90%) SCCP
3 3 (0.90%) SSL
4 2 (0.60%) HTTP
4 2 (0.60%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.30%) DHCP
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.30%) Wireless
5 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.82%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (4.52%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (3.31%) Power BI
6 10 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.81%) Tableau
9 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.90%) GIS
11 2 (0.60%) Big Data
11 2 (0.60%) Informix
11 2 (0.60%) Metadata
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (0.60%) Oracle Discoverer
12 1 (0.30%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 29 (8.73%) JIRA
2 11 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.11%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.81%) GitLab
5 4 (1.20%) Subversion
6 3 (0.90%) Maven
6 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.60%) Git
7 2 (0.60%) JUnit
7 2 (0.60%) Selenium
7 2 (0.60%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.30%) Gradle
8 1 (0.30%) gulp
8 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.30%) Travis CI
General
1 107 (32.23%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.55%) Finance
3 44 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
5 16 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.41%) Back Office
8 6 (1.81%) Publishing
9 4 (1.20%) Legal
10 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Law
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
11 2 (0.60%) Social Science
12 1 (0.30%) Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Humanities
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (16.27%) Analyst
2 51 (15.36%) Senior
3 41 (12.35%) Developer
4 37 (11.14%) Lead
5 32 (9.64%) Architect
6 25 (7.53%) Project Manager
7 21 (6.33%) Business Analyst
7 21 (6.33%) Designer
8 16 (4.82%) Support Officer
9 12 (3.61%) IT Support
10 11 (3.31%) .NET Developer
10 11 (3.31%) Consultant
11 10 (3.01%) Content Designer
11 10 (3.01%) Field Engineer
11 10 (3.01%) Field Service Engineer
11 10 (3.01%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.71%) React Developer
12 9 (2.71%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.53%) AWS CDK
2 24 (7.23%) React
3 20 (6.02%) HTML
3 20 (6.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 20 (6.02%) REST
4 18 (5.42%) .NET
4 18 (5.42%) CSS
5 10 (3.01%) SOAP
6 8 (2.41%) Node.js
7 7 (2.11%) Spring
8 6 (1.81%) OAuth
8 6 (1.81%) OpenID
8 6 (1.81%) SAML
8 6 (1.81%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.81%) Web Services
8 6 (1.81%) XML
9 5 (1.51%) PostGIS
9 5 (1.51%) Spring Security
10 4 (1.20%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.90%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.94%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.61%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.61%) Wiki
4 7 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (1.51%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.51%) PKI
6 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.90%) N-Tier
7 3 (0.90%) Replication
7 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.60%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.30%) Motion Graphics
9 1 (0.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.72%) Windows
2 8 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.20%) Unix
4 3 (0.90%) Linux
4 3 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.30%) AIX
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.41%) Agile
2 46 (13.86%) Roadmaps
3 40 (12.05%) DevOps
4 39 (11.75%) User Experience
5 35 (10.54%) User Research
6 34 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (9.94%) Migration
8 32 (9.64%) Project Management
9 29 (8.73%) Coaching
10 25 (7.53%) CI/CD
10 25 (7.53%) ERP
10 25 (7.53%) Project Delivery
11 24 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (7.23%) Scrum
11 24 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (6.93%) Information Security
13 22 (6.63%) Analytics
13 22 (6.63%) Mentoring
14 21 (6.33%) Business Analysis
14 21 (6.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.73%) Java
2 24 (7.23%) JavaScript
3 23 (6.93%) Python
3 23 (6.93%) SQL
4 22 (6.63%) TypeScript
5 12 (3.61%) Bash
6 8 (2.41%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.90%) C#
8 3 (0.90%) Groovy
8 3 (0.90%) PHP
8 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.60%) C++
9 2 (0.60%) VBA
9 2 (0.60%) VBScript
10 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.30%) Go
10 1 (0.30%) R
10 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (9.64%) Degree
2 10 (3.01%) MCSE
2 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (2.71%) CCNA
3 9 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (2.41%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.11%) CISSP
5 7 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 6 (1.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 6 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.51%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.20%) CCNP
8 4 (1.20%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.90%) APMP
9 3 (0.90%) ISEB
9 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (17.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 35 (10.54%) Accessibility
3 21 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.01%) QA
5 9 (2.71%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 8 (2.41%) WCAG
7 6 (1.81%) SLA
8 5 (1.51%) PMO
9 3 (0.90%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.90%) GDPR
9 3 (0.90%) NCSC
10 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.30%) GRC
11 1 (0.30%) IFRS
11 1 (0.30%) NIST
11 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 18 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.41%) Docker
3 6 (1.81%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.52%) Grafana
2 11 (3.31%) SCCM
3 7 (2.11%) Ansible
3 7 (2.11%) Terraform
4 4 (1.20%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.90%) Kibana
6 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (18.67%) Oracle
2 60 (18.07%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.41%) VMware
4 7 (2.11%) Okta
5 5 (1.51%) Cadence
5 5 (1.51%) Dell
6 4 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.20%) F5
6 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.20%) Zscaler
7 3 (0.90%) Google
8 1 (0.30%) Adobe
8 1 (0.30%) Apple
8 1 (0.30%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco
8 1 (0.30%) Facebook
8 1 (0.30%) IBM
8 1 (0.30%) Mitel
8 1 (0.30%) Pega
8 1 (0.30%) Twitter