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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 140 216 420
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 22.58% 30.73% 42.86%
As % of the General category 30.37% 43.64% 56.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 126 278
10th Percentile £261 £198 £164
25th Percentile £413 £377 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £536 £520 £538
90th Percentile £591 £588 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £13.51 £11.98
25th Percentile - £14.66 £12.47
Median hourly rate - £21.64 £13.54
Median % change year-on-year - +59.84% -23.59%
75th Percentile - £23.67 £18.34
90th Percentile - £25.44 £21.06
Scotland median hourly rate £22.28 £20.29 £18.21
% change year-on-year +9.81% +11.43% +6.84%

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 common skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 461 495 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 74.35% 70.41% 75.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 245 461
10th Percentile £189 £177 £170
25th Percentile £400 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £599 £623 £614
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £477
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.66% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.45 £13.28
25th Percentile - £19.64 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +4.94% +21.01%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £25.86 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -1.84% +0.46% +10.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.71%) Azure
2 25 (17.86%) AWS
3 19 (13.57%) Power Platform
4 15 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 12 (8.57%) Serverless
7 11 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.86%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 9 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (6.43%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.71%) PowerApps
11 5 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.14%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 3 (2.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 3 (2.14%) GitHub
12 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.43%) Network Security
3 2 (1.43%) VoIP
4 1 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) HTTP
4 1 (0.71%) IPsec
4 1 (0.71%) LAN
4 1 (0.71%) MQTT
4 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.71%) VPN
4 1 (0.71%) WAN
4 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) Power BI
2 10 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.14%) Metadata
6 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.43%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.71%) GIS
8 1 (0.71%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) JIRA
2 8 (5.71%) Git
3 7 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.14%) Subversion
6 2 (1.43%) Ant
6 2 (1.43%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.43%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.43%) Maven
6 2 (1.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.71%) ERwin
7 1 (0.71%) GitLab
7 1 (0.71%) Selenium
7 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.71%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.43%) Finance
3 10 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.00%) Legal
5 6 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.86%) Electronics
7 4 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.86%) Marketing
7 4 (2.86%) Retail
8 3 (2.14%) Law
8 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.43%) Back Office
9 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (19.29%) Developer
2 10 (7.14%) Support Officer
3 9 (6.43%) Analyst
3 9 (6.43%) Lead
3 9 (6.43%) Project Manager
4 7 (5.00%) Senior
5 6 (4.29%) Architect
5 6 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
5 6 (4.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (4.29%) Project Officer
5 6 (4.29%) Project Support Officer
5 6 (4.29%) User Researcher
6 5 (3.57%) Consultant
6 5 (3.57%) Power Platform Developer
6 5 (3.57%) Programme Manager
6 5 (3.57%) Technical Leader
7 4 (2.86%) .NET Developer
7 4 (2.86%) RF Engineer
7 4 (2.86%) Site Engineer
7 4 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) AWS CDK
2 12 (8.57%) .NET
3 11 (7.86%) React
4 9 (6.43%) CSS
4 9 (6.43%) HTML
5 8 (5.71%) Spring
6 7 (5.00%) PyTorch
7 6 (4.29%) REST
8 5 (3.57%) RESTful
8 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.86%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.86%) NumPy
9 4 (2.86%) OpenCV
9 4 (2.86%) Pandas
9 4 (2.86%) Spring Security
9 4 (2.86%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (2.86%) SQLAlchemy
9 4 (2.86%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (2.14%) boto
10 3 (2.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.57%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.86%) PKI
4 4 (2.86%) Wiki
5 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.14%) EPoS
5 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.43%) NHS
6 2 (1.43%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.71%) Linux
2 6 (4.29%) Unix
2 6 (4.29%) Windows
3 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (48.57%) Agile
2 27 (19.29%) DevOps
3 22 (15.71%) Project Management
4 19 (13.57%) User Experience
5 18 (12.86%) CI/CD
5 18 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (9.29%) Scrum
9 12 (8.57%) AI
9 12 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (7.14%) CRM
10 10 (7.14%) Machine Learning
10 10 (7.14%) Mentoring
10 10 (7.14%) PRINCE2
10 10 (7.14%) Project Delivery
10 10 (7.14%) Service Design
10 10 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.14%) Python
2 15 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 13 (9.29%) C#
3 13 (9.29%) TypeScript
4 10 (7.14%) Java
4 10 (7.14%) SQL
5 7 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.86%) Bash
6 4 (2.86%) Perl
6 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.43%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) C
9 1 (0.71%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.43%) Degree
3 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) CCNA
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.14%) HND
6 2 (1.43%) CCIE
6 2 (1.43%) CCIE Collaboration
6 2 (1.43%) CCNP
6 2 (1.43%) ISEB
6 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) MCSE
7 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (6.43%) GDPR
4 3 (2.14%) PMO
4 3 (2.14%) QA
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) P3O
5 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.14%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) KVM
3 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (9.29%) Grafana
2 11 (7.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Terraform
4 5 (3.57%) Ansible
5 4 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.43%) Fluentd
7 2 (1.43%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.43%) Kibana
7 2 (1.43%) logstash
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.43%) Nagios
7 2 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.86%) Oracle
3 4 (2.86%) SAP
4 3 (2.14%) Cisco
4 3 (2.14%) Commvault
4 3 (2.14%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.14%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.43%) F5
6 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.71%) IBM
6 1 (0.71%) NetApp
6 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.71%) Qualys
6 1 (0.71%) Siemens
6 1 (0.71%) VMware