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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 125 184 319
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.66% 28.31% 37.35%
As % of the General category 26.60% 36.22% 53.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 125 194
10th Percentile £355 £191 £156
25th Percentile £408 £330 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.12%
75th Percentile £524 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £573 £659
Scotland median daily rate £478 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +6.17% - -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.38 £12.00
25th Percentile - £23.13 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.23 £26.01 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% +76.31% -
75th Percentile - £32.73 £18.56
90th Percentile - £40.57 £18.79
Scotland median hourly rate £21.31 £22.08 £16.25
% change year-on-year -3.50% +35.88% +5.83%

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 470 508 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.90% 78.15% 69.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 259 325
10th Percentile £308 £205 £156
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £655
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.11% +2.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 33
10th Percentile £17.65 £16.55 £13.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £19.77 £16.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +177.27% +20.42% -14.06%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.34 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £45.80 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% +11.11% -4.46%

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 1 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 2 (1.60%) CMS
1 2 (1.60%) Drupal
2 1 (0.80%) Apache
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.80%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.80%) iTrent
2 1 (0.80%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.40%) Azure
2 19 (15.20%) AWS
3 15 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 14 (11.20%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.20%) Serverless
7 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.00%) Azure AI
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (4.00%) Firewall
2 5 (4.00%) LAN
3 4 (3.20%) WAN
4 3 (2.40%) DNS
4 3 (2.40%) Network Security
4 3 (2.40%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.40%) VPN
5 2 (1.60%) BGP
5 2 (1.60%) Intranet
5 2 (1.60%) OSPF
5 2 (1.60%) Wireless
6 1 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.80%) HTTP
6 1 (0.80%) SSL
6 1 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) Power BI
2 7 (5.60%) Metadata
3 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.40%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.60%) GIS
5 2 (1.60%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.60%) MySQL
5 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.80%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.80%) Power Query
6 1 (0.80%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Cypress.io
2 5 (4.00%) JIRA
3 4 (3.20%) Selenium
4 3 (2.40%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.40%) Git
4 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.40%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.80%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.80%) MLflow
6 1 (0.80%) NUnit
6 1 (0.80%) Subversion
6 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.20%) Finance
3 8 (6.40%) Legal
4 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.80%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Local Government
6 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
7 1 (0.80%) Law
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing
7 1 (0.80%) Police
7 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 16 (12.80%) Developer
2 12 (9.60%) Analyst
2 12 (9.60%) Architect
3 11 (8.80%) Lead
3 11 (8.80%) Senior
4 10 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.20%) Network Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 5 (4.00%) Field Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Network Field Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.00%) User Researcher
8 4 (3.20%) AWS Architect
8 4 (3.20%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) DBA
8 4 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.40%) .NET
2 6 (4.80%) React
3 5 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 5 (4.00%) REST
4 4 (3.20%) RESTful
5 3 (2.40%) SOAP
6 2 (1.60%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.60%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.60%) FHIR
6 2 (1.60%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.60%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.60%) NumPy
6 2 (1.60%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.60%) Pandas
6 2 (1.60%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.80%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.80%) JWT
7 1 (0.80%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.20%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.60%) NHS
6 2 (1.60%) PKI
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) NVMe
7 1 (0.80%) Photography
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.00%) Agile
2 23 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (16.80%) DevOps
4 19 (15.20%) CI/CD
5 18 (14.40%) AI
5 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (11.20%) Migration
7 14 (11.20%) Roadmaps
8 13 (10.40%) Project Delivery
9 12 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (8.80%) User Experience
11 10 (8.00%) Kanban
11 10 (8.00%) Scrum
12 9 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (7.20%) Machine Learning
12 9 (7.20%) OCR
12 9 (7.20%) Project Management
12 9 (7.20%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.20%) Python
2 12 (9.60%) SQL
3 11 (8.80%) C#
3 11 (8.80%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.00%) Bicep
5 5 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.20%) Java
7 1 (0.80%) C++
7 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.80%) VBA
7 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (4.80%) Degree
3 5 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 5 (4.00%) PMP
4 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.40%) CCNP
5 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.60%) MCSE
6 2 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) CBAP
7 1 (0.80%) CCIE
7 1 (0.80%) CISSP
7 1 (0.80%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) Accessibility
1 10 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.60%) GDPR
4 6 (4.80%) QA
5 3 (2.40%) WCAG
6 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.60%) PMO
7 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.80%) GRC
7 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.80%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.40%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.60%) vSphere
4 1 (0.80%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (7.20%) Terraform
2 4 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.40%) Grafana
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) Argo
5 1 (0.80%) Istio
5 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.80%) SCCM
5 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.80%) vMotion
Vendors
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) Cisco
3 6 (4.80%) Oracle
4 5 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.20%) Google
5 4 (3.20%) VMware
6 3 (2.40%) F5
6 3 (2.40%) SAP
7 2 (1.60%) Arista
7 2 (1.60%) Juniper
8 1 (0.80%) AppNeta
8 1 (0.80%) IFS
8 1 (0.80%) Infor
8 1 (0.80%) Okta
8 1 (0.80%) Qualys
8 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.80%) UiPath
8 1 (0.80%) webMethods