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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 133 196 394
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 22.13% 29.97% 42.05%
As % of the General category 30.09% 41.53% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 117 254
10th Percentile £262 £203 £164
25th Percentile £413 £382 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £525 £550
90th Percentile £559 £588 £638
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% -20.54%
75th Percentile - £23.67 £18.34
90th Percentile - £25.44 £21.06
Scotland median hourly rate £21.01 £20.29 £18.21
% change year-on-year +3.57% +11.43% +11.28%

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 442 472 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 73.54% 72.17% 75.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 239 431
10th Percentile £179 £179 £180
25th Percentile £400 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £551
90th Percentile £599 £638 £626
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +1.11% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.18 £13.28
25th Percentile - £20.34 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.54% +4.94% +15.21%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £56.85
90th Percentile £66.75 £26.70 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -8.17% +9.18% +13.26%

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 2 December 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 (3.76%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.26%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Apache TomEE
4 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.75%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.75%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.30%) Azure
2 25 (18.80%) AWS
3 16 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 14 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 13 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.02%) Serverless
7 11 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.52%) OpenShift
9 9 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (6.77%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (5.26%) Power Automate
11 6 (4.51%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.26%) GitHub
13 3 (2.26%) Textract
13 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.26%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.50%) Network Security
3 2 (1.50%) VoIP
4 1 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.75%) HTTP
4 1 (0.75%) IPsec
4 1 (0.75%) LAN
4 1 (0.75%) MQTT
4 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.77%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (6.77%) Power BI
3 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.50%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.75%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.75%) GIS
7 1 (0.75%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.75%) Metadata
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 8 (6.02%) Git
3 7 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.26%) Subversion
6 2 (1.50%) Ant
6 2 (1.50%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.50%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.50%) Maven
6 2 (1.50%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.75%) ERwin
7 1 (0.75%) GitLab
7 1 (0.75%) Selenium
7 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.75%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.04%) Finance
3 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Legal
6 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.26%) Electronics
7 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.26%) Marketing
7 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Retail
8 2 (1.50%) Back Office
8 2 (1.50%) Law
8 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (21.05%) Developer
2 9 (6.77%) Analyst
2 9 (6.77%) Lead
2 9 (6.77%) Project Manager
2 9 (6.77%) Senior
2 9 (6.77%) Support Officer
3 7 (5.26%) Consultant
4 6 (4.51%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (4.51%) Java Developer
4 6 (4.51%) Project Officer
4 6 (4.51%) Project Support Officer
4 6 (4.51%) User Researcher
5 5 (3.76%) .NET Developer
5 5 (3.76%) Power Platform Developer
5 5 (3.76%) Technical Leader
6 4 (3.01%) Architect
6 4 (3.01%) Business Analyst
6 4 (3.01%) Programme Manager
6 4 (3.01%) Site Engineer
6 4 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.77%) AWS CDK
2 11 (8.27%) .NET
3 10 (7.52%) React
4 9 (6.77%) CSS
4 9 (6.77%) HTML
5 8 (6.02%) Spring
6 7 (5.26%) PyTorch
7 6 (4.51%) REST
8 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.01%) Hugging Face
9 4 (3.01%) NumPy
9 4 (3.01%) OpenCV
9 4 (3.01%) Pandas
9 4 (3.01%) Spring Security
9 4 (3.01%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (3.01%) SQLAlchemy
9 4 (3.01%) Thymeleaf
10 3 (2.26%) boto
10 3 (2.26%) OAuth
10 3 (2.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.76%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.76%) Wiki
4 4 (3.01%) PKI
5 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.26%) EPoS
5 3 (2.26%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.50%) NHS
6 2 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Unix
2 6 (4.51%) Windows
3 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.87%) Agile
2 25 (18.80%) DevOps
3 21 (15.79%) Project Management
4 20 (15.04%) User Experience
5 16 (12.03%) CI/CD
6 15 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (11.28%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 13 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (9.02%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (9.02%) Scrum
9 10 (7.52%) Mentoring
9 10 (7.52%) PRINCE2
9 10 (7.52%) Project Delivery
9 10 (7.52%) Service Design
9 10 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (6.77%) AI
10 9 (6.77%) Data Analysis
10 9 (6.77%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.28%) Python
2 13 (9.77%) JavaScript
2 13 (9.77%) TypeScript
3 10 (7.52%) Java
3 10 (7.52%) SQL
4 9 (6.77%) C#
5 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.01%) Bash
6 4 (3.01%) Perl
6 4 (3.01%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.50%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.77%) Degree
3 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.26%) CCNA
5 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.26%) HND
6 2 (1.50%) CCIE
6 2 (1.50%) CCIE Collaboration
6 2 (1.50%) CCNP
6 2 (1.50%) ISEB
6 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.75%) MCSE
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.53%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (5.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) PMO
4 3 (2.26%) QA
5 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.75%) NIST
5 1 (0.75%) P3O
5 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) KVM
3 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Grafana
2 11 (8.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.26%) Terraform
4 5 (3.76%) Ansible
5 4 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (1.50%) Fluentd
7 2 (1.50%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.50%) Kibana
7 2 (1.50%) logstash
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.50%) Nagios
7 2 (1.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) Oracle
3 3 (2.26%) Cisco
3 3 (2.26%) Commvault
3 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.26%) SAP
4 2 (1.50%) F5
5 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.75%) IBM
5 1 (0.75%) NetApp
5 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.75%) Qualys
5 1 (0.75%) Siemens
5 1 (0.75%) VMware