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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 124 143 272
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 17.84% 23.21% 33.75%
As % of the General category 26.84% 31.22% 47.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 87 162
10th Percentile £263 £255 £164
25th Percentile £408 £413 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -4.15%
75th Percentile £536 £525 £533
90th Percentile £600 £580 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +3.54% +1.94% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £44.23 £12.91
Median hourly rate - £45.02 £14.67
Median % change year-on-year - +206.85% +16.47%
75th Percentile - £45.80 £17.17
90th Percentile - - £19.70
Scotland median hourly rate £13.50 £17.15 £19.17
% change year-on-year -21.28% -10.54% +24.68%

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 462 458 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 66.47% 74.35% 70.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 217 290
10th Percentile £212 £224 £162
25th Percentile £375 £413 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £538 £532
90th Percentile £650 £599 £601
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £438
% change year-on-year - +5.71% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 16
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £12.61
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.60
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -4.18% +5.25%
75th Percentile £61.50 £37.90 £24.18
90th Percentile - £60.75 £56.25
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £18.37 £16.92
% change year-on-year -12.30% +8.57% -8.29%

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 15 October 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 6 (4.84%) CMS
2 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Drupal
4 1 (0.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.97%) AWS
2 22 (17.74%) Azure
3 13 (10.48%) Amazon S3
3 13 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.45%) Serverless
7 6 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.84%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.03%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.42%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.03%) Firewall
2 3 (2.42%) DNS
3 2 (1.61%) LAN
3 2 (1.61%) SSL
3 2 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.61%) Wireless
4 1 (0.81%) Internet
4 1 (0.81%) Intranet
4 1 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (6.45%) Power BI
2 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.23%) Power Query
4 3 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.61%) Metadata
5 2 (1.61%) MS Access
5 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.81%) GIS
6 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (7.26%) GitLab
2 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.03%) Cypress.io
4 4 (3.23%) JIRA
5 2 (1.61%) Git
5 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) JMeter
6 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.48%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.03%) Local Government
6 4 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Legal
7 3 (2.42%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Back Office
8 1 (0.81%) Law
8 1 (0.81%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.81%) Police
8 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (18.55%) Developer
2 11 (8.87%) Architect
2 11 (8.87%) Project Manager
3 10 (8.06%) Analyst
3 10 (8.06%) Lead
4 7 (5.65%) Software Developer
5 6 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.03%) Project Officer
6 5 (4.03%) Project Support Officer
6 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.03%) Support Officer
7 4 (3.23%) AWS Architect
7 4 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (3.23%) Java Developer
7 4 (3.23%) Senior
7 4 (3.23%) User Researcher
8 3 (2.42%) Agile Coach
8 3 (2.42%) Backup Engineer
8 3 (2.42%) Backup Specialist
8 3 (2.42%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.06%) Terraform
2 8 (6.45%) REST
3 6 (4.84%) .NET
3 6 (4.84%) AWS CDK
3 6 (4.84%) Spring
3 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.03%) Next.js
4 5 (4.03%) React
5 4 (3.23%) HTML
5 4 (3.23%) Node.js
6 3 (2.42%) JSON
6 3 (2.42%) OAuth
6 3 (2.42%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.42%) Playwright
6 3 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.42%) SOAP
6 3 (2.42%) Spring Security
6 3 (2.42%) Web Services
7 2 (1.61%) CSS
7 2 (1.61%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.65%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.23%) NHS
5 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.61%) PKI
6 2 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.81%) PMI
7 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.03%) Windows
2 4 (3.23%) Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.32%) Agile
2 34 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (20.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (18.55%) DevOps
5 22 (17.74%) CI/CD
5 22 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (16.13%) AI
6 20 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (14.52%) Workshop Facilitation
8 16 (12.90%) Decision-Making
9 13 (10.48%) Coaching
9 13 (10.48%) Data Protection
9 13 (10.48%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 13 (10.48%) Migration
9 13 (10.48%) PRINCE2
9 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
10 12 (9.68%) Kanban
10 12 (9.68%) Observability
11 11 (8.87%) Data Modelling
11 11 (8.87%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.48%) Java
1 13 (10.48%) SQL
1 13 (10.48%) TypeScript
2 12 (9.68%) JavaScript
3 11 (8.87%) Python
4 6 (4.84%) Bicep
4 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.61%) Bash
6 2 (1.61%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.81%) VBA
7 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.23%) PMP
4 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.61%) MCSE
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.81%) CIPD
6 1 (0.81%) Degree
6 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.84%) PMO
5 5 (4.03%) GDPR
6 3 (2.42%) QA
6 3 (2.42%) WCAG
7 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (3.23%) Docker
2 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.65%) Grafana
3 3 (2.42%) Kibana
3 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.61%) Argo
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.61%) SCCM
5 1 (0.81%) Avamar
5 1 (0.81%) Istio
5 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.03%) Oracle
3 3 (2.42%) UiPath
4 2 (1.61%) Cisco
4 2 (1.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.81%) EnterpriseDB
5 1 (0.81%) Google
5 1 (0.81%) IFS
5 1 (0.81%) Infor
5 1 (0.81%) Okta
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.81%) webMethods