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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 125 184 330
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.70% 28.22% 37.76%
As % of the General category 26.48% 36.08% 53.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 125 200
10th Percentile £355 £191 £156
25th Percentile £409 £330 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £516 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £573 £651
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.38 £12.00
25th Percentile - £23.13 £13.22
Median hourly rate - £26.01 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year - +76.31% -
75th Percentile - £32.73 £18.56
90th Percentile - £40.57 £18.79
Scotland median hourly rate £25.39 £22.08 £16.25
% change year-on-year +14.97% +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 472 510 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 59.30% 78.22% 70.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 259 333
10th Percentile £310 £205 £157
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 £653
Scotland median daily rate £463 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -0.43% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 33
10th Percentile £16.34 £16.55 £13.22
25th Percentile £50.00 £19.77 £16.25
Median hourly rate £58.00 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +163.64% +20.42% -14.06%
75th Percentile £70.50 £31.34 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £45.80 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% +11.11% -2.70%

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 4 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%) JBoss
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 31 (24.80%) Azure
2 21 (16.80%) AWS
3 15 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (9.60%) Amazon S3
5 12 (9.60%) Serverless
6 8 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.00%) PowerApps
10 4 (3.20%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 4 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
10 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 6 (4.80%) 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%) PostgreSQL
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%) Power Query
6 1 (0.80%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.80%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (5.60%) 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%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.40%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.80%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.80%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.80%) MLflow
5 1 (0.80%) NUnit
5 1 (0.80%) Subversion
5 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.20%) Finance
3 7 (5.60%) Legal
4 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Local Government
7 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Police
8 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (14.40%) Developer
2 12 (9.60%) Architect
3 11 (8.80%) Analyst
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%) 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%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
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 12 (9.60%) .NET
2 7 (5.60%) AWS CDK
3 5 (4.00%) React
3 5 (4.00%) REST
4 3 (2.40%) RESTful
4 3 (2.40%) SOAP
5 2 (1.60%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.60%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.60%) FHIR
5 2 (1.60%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.60%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.60%) NumPy
5 2 (1.60%) OpenCV
5 2 (1.60%) Pandas
5 2 (1.60%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.60%) Web Services
6 1 (0.80%) boto
6 1 (0.80%) JWT
6 1 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.80%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.40%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.60%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
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
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%) Photography
7 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Linux
1 9 (7.20%) Windows
2 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.60%) Agile
2 23 (18.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (16.80%) DevOps
4 19 (15.20%) CI/CD
5 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (12.80%) AI
6 16 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (11.20%) Migration
8 13 (10.40%) Project Delivery
8 13 (10.40%) Roadmaps
9 12 (9.60%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (8.80%) Kanban
10 11 (8.80%) Scrum
10 11 (8.80%) User Experience
11 9 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.20%) Project Management
11 9 (7.20%) Risk Management
12 8 (6.40%) Data Protection
12 8 (6.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.60%) JavaScript
1 12 (9.60%) Python
1 12 (9.60%) SQL
2 10 (8.00%) C#
3 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.00%) Bicep
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 12 (9.60%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (4.00%) Degree
2 5 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 5 (4.00%) PMP
3 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.40%) CCNP
4 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.60%) MCSE
5 2 (1.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) CBAP
6 1 (0.80%) CCIE
6 1 (0.80%) CISSP
6 1 (0.80%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.60%) GDPR
5 6 (4.80%) QA
6 3 (2.40%) WCAG
7 2 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.60%) PMO
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.80%) GRC
8 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.80%) NCSC
8 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%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.20%) VMware
6 3 (2.40%) F5
6 3 (2.40%) Google
6 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.40%) SAP
7 2 (1.60%) Arista
7 2 (1.60%) Juniper
8 1 (0.80%) AppNeta
8 1 (0.80%) EnterpriseDB
8 1 (0.80%) IFS
8 1 (0.80%) Infor
8 1 (0.80%) Okta
8 1 (0.80%) Qualys
8 1 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.80%) webMethods