Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 4 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 130 156 283
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 17.11% 24.41% 34.90%
As % of the General category 26.92% 31.84% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 97 166
10th Percentile £299 £267 £153
25th Percentile £413 £413 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £538
90th Percentile £609 £572 £608
Scotland median daily rate £475 £461 £450
% change year-on-year +2.98% +2.50% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £21.11 £12.00
25th Percentile - £24.97 £13.21
Median hourly rate - £32.19 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +114.60% -
75th Percentile - £39.40 £18.00
90th Percentile - £43.24 £19.52
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.83 £17.46
% change year-on-year - +13.57% +29.33%

All General Skills
Edinburgh

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 483 490 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 63.55% 76.68% 69.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 239 297
10th Percentile £261 £276 £156
25th Percentile £403 £413 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% -7.37%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £588 £630
Scotland median daily rate £463 £465 £445
% change year-on-year -0.43% +4.38% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 21
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.43 £13.21
25th Percentile £19.33 - £15.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.87 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +179.80% -0.72% -37.63%
75th Percentile £61.50 £39.40 £20.93
90th Percentile £75.00 £60.13 £55.00
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.23 £16.96
% change year-on-year -12.32% +13.38% -11.57%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.08%) CMS
2 2 (1.54%) Confluence
2 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) IIS
3 1 (0.77%) JBoss
3 1 (0.77%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.54%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.77%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.54%) Azure
2 21 (16.15%) AWS
3 15 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 13 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 11 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.69%) Serverless
7 6 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (4.62%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.08%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.08%) GitHub
9 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.08%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.08%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) LAN
1 5 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (3.08%) DNS
2 4 (3.08%) Firewall
3 3 (2.31%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (2.31%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.31%) VPN
3 3 (2.31%) WAN
4 2 (1.54%) SSL
4 2 (1.54%) Wireless
5 1 (0.77%) Network Security
5 1 (0.77%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) Power BI
2 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.31%) Metadata
4 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.31%) MySQL
4 3 (2.31%) Power Query
4 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.54%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.54%) MS Access
6 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.77%) GIS
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.77%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.62%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.31%) GitLab
3 3 (2.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.31%) Selenium
4 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.54%) Git
4 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.54%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.77%) JMeter
5 1 (0.77%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.46%) Finance
3 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.08%) Legal
5 4 (3.08%) Local Government
6 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Publishing
7 1 (0.77%) Back Office
7 1 (0.77%) Law
7 1 (0.77%) Police
7 1 (0.77%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (20.77%) Developer
2 14 (10.77%) Analyst
3 11 (8.46%) Project Manager
4 10 (7.69%) Architect
4 10 (7.69%) Lead
5 9 (6.92%) Senior
5 9 (6.92%) Software Developer
6 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.85%) Field Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Network Field Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Project Officer
7 5 (3.85%) Project Support Officer
7 5 (3.85%) Support Officer
7 5 (3.85%) User Researcher
8 4 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) Terraform
2 8 (6.15%) .NET
2 8 (6.15%) React
2 8 (6.15%) REST
3 6 (4.62%) AWS CDK
3 6 (4.62%) Spring
3 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
4 5 (3.85%) Next.js
5 4 (3.08%) HTML
5 4 (3.08%) Node.js
6 3 (2.31%) JSON
6 3 (2.31%) OAuth
6 3 (2.31%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.31%) Playwright
6 3 (2.31%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.31%) SOAP
6 3 (2.31%) Spring Security
6 3 (2.31%) Web Services
7 2 (1.54%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (1.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.38%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.08%) NHS
6 3 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.54%) PKI
8 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.77%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.77%) PMI
8 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.92%) Linux
1 9 (6.92%) Windows
2 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (37.69%) Agile
2 26 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (19.23%) DevOps
4 24 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (16.15%) CI/CD
6 20 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (12.31%) Migration
8 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (10.00%) AI
9 13 (10.00%) PRINCE2
9 13 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 12 (9.23%) Data Protection
11 11 (8.46%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (8.46%) Data Modelling
11 11 (8.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 11 (8.46%) Kanban
11 11 (8.46%) Project Management
11 11 (8.46%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (6.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.77%) JavaScript
1 14 (10.77%) SQL
2 13 (10.00%) Java
3 12 (9.23%) TypeScript
4 9 (6.92%) Python
5 8 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.62%) Bicep
7 5 (3.85%) C#
8 3 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.54%) Bash
10 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.77%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.77%) VBA
10 1 (0.77%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 5 (3.85%) PMP
2 5 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.08%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.31%) MCSE
4 3 (2.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.54%) Degree
5 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.77%) CBAP
6 1 (0.77%) CCNP
6 1 (0.77%) CIPD
6 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.77%) CISSP
6 1 (0.77%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.15%) PMO
4 6 (4.62%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.85%) GDPR
5 5 (3.85%) QA
6 4 (3.08%) WCAG
7 2 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.77%) GRC
8 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.77%) NCSC
8 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.08%) Docker
3 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) IAG
4 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.38%) Grafana
2 5 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.31%) Kibana
4 3 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.54%) Argo
5 2 (1.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.77%) Istio
6 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.15%) Oracle
3 5 (3.85%) Cisco
4 3 (2.31%) F5
4 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.31%) SAP
4 3 (2.31%) UiPath
5 1 (0.77%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.77%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (0.77%) IFS
5 1 (0.77%) Infor
5 1 (0.77%) Okta
5 1 (0.77%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.77%) Qualys
5 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.77%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.77%) VMware
5 1 (0.77%) webMethods