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 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 137 172 328
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 16.85% 26.88% 37.92%
As % of the General category 28.02% 33.73% 53.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 117 195
10th Percentile £360 £190 £156
25th Percentile £413 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £538
90th Percentile £644 £562 £663
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £20.10 £12.00
25th Percentile - £22.43 £13.21
Median hourly rate - £27.35 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - +88.62% -
75th Percentile - £37.09 £18.00
90th Percentile - £42.31 £18.83
Scotland median hourly rate £25.39 £19.83 £15.96
% change year-on-year +28.01% +24.25% +3.94%

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 489 510 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 60.15% 79.69% 70.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 263 328
10th Percentile £326 £210 £162
25th Percentile £406 £400 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +2.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £651
Scotland median daily rate £458 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -1.08% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 25
10th Percentile £15.83 £16.19 £13.23
25th Percentile £42.33 £17.54 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.68 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.84% +14.90% -15.33%
75th Percentile £66.00 £32.73 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.24 £50.06 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.71 £17.00
% change year-on-year -14.46% +15.94% -11.37%

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 19 July 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 3 (2.19%) CMS
2 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Apache
3 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.73%) Drupal
3 1 (0.73%) IIS
3 1 (0.73%) JBoss
3 1 (0.73%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.46%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.73%) iTrent
3 1 (0.73%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) Azure
2 20 (14.60%) AWS
3 19 (13.87%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.76%) Serverless
6 10 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.11%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.38%) Power Automate
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (3.65%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.92%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.92%) GitHub
10 4 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (4.38%) Firewall
3 5 (3.65%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (3.65%) LAN
4 4 (2.92%) DNS
4 4 (2.92%) WAN
5 3 (2.19%) Network Security
5 3 (2.19%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.19%) VPN
6 2 (1.46%) BGP
6 2 (1.46%) OSPF
6 2 (1.46%) SSL
6 2 (1.46%) Wireless
7 1 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.73%) HTTP
7 1 (0.73%) Intranet
7 1 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) Power BI
2 6 (4.38%) Metadata
2 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.19%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.19%) MySQL
3 3 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.46%) GIS
4 2 (1.46%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.46%) MS Access
4 2 (1.46%) Power Query
4 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.73%) Redis
5 1 (0.73%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.73%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Cypress.io
2 5 (3.65%) JIRA
3 4 (2.92%) Selenium
4 3 (2.19%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.19%) Git
4 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.19%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.73%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.73%) MLflow
5 1 (0.73%) NUnit
5 1 (0.73%) Subversion
5 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.49%) Finance
3 7 (5.11%) Legal
4 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.92%) Local Government
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Back Office
8 1 (0.73%) Law
8 1 (0.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.73%) Police
8 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 21 (15.33%) Developer
2 14 (10.22%) Architect
3 13 (9.49%) Analyst
3 13 (9.49%) Project Manager
4 11 (8.03%) Lead
4 11 (8.03%) Senior
5 9 (6.57%) Network Engineer
6 7 (5.11%) Software Developer
7 6 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Field Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) Network Field Engineer
8 5 (3.65%) User Researcher
9 4 (2.92%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) DBA
9 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) .NET
2 7 (5.11%) AWS CDK
3 5 (3.65%) React
3 5 (3.65%) REST
4 4 (2.92%) Web Services
5 3 (2.19%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.19%) FHIR
5 3 (2.19%) JSON
5 3 (2.19%) RESTful
5 3 (2.19%) SOAP
6 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.46%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.46%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.46%) HTML
6 2 (1.46%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.46%) NumPy
6 2 (1.46%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.46%) Pandas
6 2 (1.46%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.73%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.22%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.38%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.92%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.19%) NHS
7 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.46%) PKI
8 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.73%) NVMe
8 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.73%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.30%) Linux
1 10 (7.30%) Windows
2 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (2.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.23%) Agile
2 26 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (17.52%) DevOps
4 22 (16.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (15.33%) CI/CD
6 18 (13.14%) AI
6 18 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (10.95%) Migration
8 13 (9.49%) Roadmaps
9 12 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (8.76%) Kanban
9 12 (8.76%) Project Delivery
10 11 (8.03%) Scrum
10 11 (8.03%) User Experience
11 10 (7.30%) Data Protection
11 10 (7.30%) PRINCE2
11 10 (7.30%) Project Management
12 9 (6.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.22%) Python
1 14 (10.22%) SQL
2 12 (8.76%) C#
2 12 (8.76%) JavaScript
3 11 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.11%) Bicep
4 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.92%) Java
6 2 (1.46%) Bash
6 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.46%) VBA
7 1 (0.73%) C++
7 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.73%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.73%) VBScript
7 1 (0.73%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (9.49%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (4.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.65%) Degree
3 5 (3.65%) PMI Certification
3 5 (3.65%) PMP
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.19%) CCNP
5 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.19%) MCSE
5 3 (2.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CBAP
7 1 (0.73%) CCIE
7 1 (0.73%) ISEB
7 1 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.49%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.84%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.11%) QA
5 6 (4.38%) GDPR
6 4 (2.92%) PMO
7 3 (2.19%) WCAG
8 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.73%) GRC
9 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.73%) NCSC
9 1 (0.73%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.19%) Docker
2 3 (2.19%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.19%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.46%) vSphere
4 1 (0.73%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (8.03%) Terraform
2 6 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.65%) Grafana
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.46%) Ansible
6 2 (1.46%) Argo
6 2 (1.46%) SCCM
7 1 (0.73%) Istio
7 1 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.73%) vMotion
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.84%) Cisco
3 7 (5.11%) Oracle
4 5 (3.65%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.92%) VMware
6 3 (2.19%) F5
6 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.19%) SAP
7 2 (1.46%) Arista
7 2 (1.46%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) Juniper
7 2 (1.46%) UiPath
8 1 (0.73%) AppNeta
8 1 (0.73%) EnterpriseDB
8 1 (0.73%) IFS
8 1 (0.73%) Infor
8 1 (0.73%) Qualys
8 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.73%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.73%) webMethods