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 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 123 149 280
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 17.35% 23.46% 33.86%
As % of the General category 26.86% 30.98% 48.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 93 163
10th Percentile £267 £272 £162
25th Percentile £413 £413 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £538
90th Percentile £622 £593 £606
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
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% +28.76%
75th Percentile - £39.40 £18.00
90th Percentile - £43.24 £19.52
Scotland median hourly rate £13.50 £19.37 £19.17
% change year-on-year -30.29% +1.02% +42.00%

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 458 481 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.60% 75.75% 70.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 235 298
10th Percentile £223 £263 £161
25th Percentile £391 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £621
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -1.60% +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 18
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.08 £12.85
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.98
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -1.81% +2.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £52.90 £23.92
90th Percentile £69.60 £60.75 £55.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% +6.83% -26.80%

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 18 September 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 5 (4.07%) CMS
2 2 (1.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.81%) JBoss
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.33%) AWS
2 22 (17.89%) Azure
3 13 (10.57%) Amazon S3
4 12 (9.76%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.50%) Serverless
8 6 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.25%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.44%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (2.44%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) Firewall
1 4 (3.25%) LAN
1 4 (3.25%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.44%) DNS
3 2 (1.63%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.63%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.63%) SSL
3 2 (1.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.63%) WAN
3 2 (1.63%) Wireless
4 1 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.69%) Power BI
3 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.44%) Power Query
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.63%) Metadata
6 2 (1.63%) MS Access
6 2 (1.63%) MySQL
6 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.81%) GIS
7 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.81%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) GitLab
2 7 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.07%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.44%) JIRA
5 2 (1.63%) Git
5 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.81%) JMeter
6 1 (0.81%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.81%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.57%) Finance
3 10 (8.13%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.07%) Local Government
4 5 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Legal
5 3 (2.44%) Publishing
6 1 (0.81%) Back Office
6 1 (0.81%) Law
6 1 (0.81%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.81%) Police
6 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (20.33%) Developer
2 10 (8.13%) Architect
2 10 (8.13%) Project Manager
3 9 (7.32%) Analyst
3 9 (7.32%) Lead
4 8 (6.50%) Software Developer
5 7 (5.69%) Senior
6 6 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Project Officer
7 5 (4.07%) Project Support Officer
7 5 (4.07%) Support Officer
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Architect
8 4 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.25%) Consultant
8 4 (3.25%) Field Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.25%) Network Field Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.13%) Terraform
2 8 (6.50%) REST
3 6 (4.88%) AWS CDK
3 6 (4.88%) Spring
3 6 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.07%) .NET
4 5 (4.07%) Next.js
4 5 (4.07%) React
5 4 (3.25%) HTML
5 4 (3.25%) Node.js
6 3 (2.44%) JSON
6 3 (2.44%) OAuth
6 3 (2.44%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.44%) Playwright
6 3 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.44%) SOAP
6 3 (2.44%) Spring Security
6 3 (2.44%) Web Services
7 2 (1.63%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.63%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.69%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (5.69%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.25%) NHS
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.63%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
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%) PKI
7 1 (0.81%) PMI
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Linux
1 7 (5.69%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.65%) Agile
2 30 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (18.70%) DevOps
3 23 (18.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 22 (17.89%) CI/CD
5 20 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (14.63%) AI
8 17 (13.82%) Workshop Facilitation
9 15 (12.20%) Migration
10 13 (10.57%) PRINCE2
11 12 (9.76%) Data Protection
11 12 (9.76%) Decision-Making
11 12 (9.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 12 (9.76%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.94%) Coaching
12 11 (8.94%) Kanban
12 11 (8.94%) Observability
12 11 (8.94%) Project Delivery
12 11 (8.94%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.38%) Java
1 14 (11.38%) JavaScript
2 13 (10.57%) TypeScript
3 12 (9.76%) SQL
4 11 (8.94%) Python
5 7 (5.69%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.88%) Bicep
7 3 (2.44%) C#
8 2 (1.63%) Bash
8 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.81%) R
9 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.81%) VBA
9 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (4.07%) PMI Certification
2 5 (4.07%) PMP
3 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.25%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.63%) MCSE
6 1 (0.81%) CIPD
6 1 (0.81%) Degree
6 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (8.13%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.88%) PMO
5 5 (4.07%) GDPR
6 4 (3.25%) QA
7 3 (2.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.81%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.81%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.69%) Grafana
3 3 (2.44%) Kibana
3 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.63%) Argo
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.63%) SCCM
5 1 (0.81%) Istio
5 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.69%) Oracle
3 4 (3.25%) Cisco
4 3 (2.44%) SAP
4 3 (2.44%) UiPath
5 2 (1.63%) F5
5 2 (1.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.81%) EnterpriseDB
6 1 (0.81%) IFS
6 1 (0.81%) Infor
6 1 (0.81%) Okta
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.81%) webMethods