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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 123 177 325
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.47% 28.27% 37.23%
As % of the General category 26.51% 36.05% 53.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 119 202
10th Percentile £357 £191 £156
25th Percentile £409 £351 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.15%
75th Percentile £503 £500 £538
90th Percentile £600 £575 £663
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile - £20.38 £12.00
25th Percentile - £23.13 £12.94
Median hourly rate £17.23 £26.01 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% +60.03% -
75th Percentile - £32.73 £18.75
90th Percentile - £40.57 £18.88
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £22.08 £17.50
% change year-on-year -21.97% +26.17% +13.97%

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 464 491 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.36% 78.43% 69.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 250 340
10th Percentile £307 £205 £156
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £473
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -0.53% -0.53%
75th Percentile £570 £533 £563
90th Percentile £650 £603 £663
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 13 35
10th Percentile £17.65 £16.95 £13.35
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £22.88 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -12.02% +22.30%
75th Percentile £75.00 £34.29 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £57.16 £66.30
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £20.00 £18.07
% change year-on-year -18.75% +10.71% -5.81%

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 19 June 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 (1.63%) CMS
1 2 (1.63%) Drupal
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.81%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.81%) iTrent
2 1 (0.81%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.89%) Azure
2 18 (14.63%) AWS
3 15 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (12.20%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.32%) Serverless
5 8 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.69%) Azure AI
6 7 (5.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 7 (5.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 6 (4.88%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (4.07%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.25%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.44%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.07%) Firewall
2 5 (4.07%) WAN
3 4 (3.25%) LAN
3 4 (3.25%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.25%) VPN
4 3 (2.44%) DNS
4 3 (2.44%) Network Security
5 2 (1.63%) BGP
5 2 (1.63%) Intranet
5 2 (1.63%) OSPF
6 1 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.81%) HTTP
6 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) Power BI
2 6 (4.88%) Metadata
3 5 (4.07%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.63%) GIS
5 2 (1.63%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.63%) MySQL
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Power Query
6 1 (0.81%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Cypress.io
2 5 (4.07%) JIRA
3 4 (3.25%) Selenium
4 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.44%) Git
4 3 (2.44%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.81%) GitLab
6 1 (0.81%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.81%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.81%) MLflow
6 1 (0.81%) NUnit
6 1 (0.81%) Subversion
6 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.32%) Finance
2 9 (7.32%) Legal
3 7 (5.69%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.63%) Local Government
7 1 (0.81%) Back Office
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Law
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Police
7 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 16 (13.01%) Developer
2 14 (11.38%) Analyst
2 14 (11.38%) Architect
3 11 (8.94%) Senior
4 10 (8.13%) Lead
5 9 (7.32%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.69%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 7 (5.69%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) DBA
7 5 (4.07%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Architect
8 4 (3.25%) Field Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Network Field Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.20%) .NET
2 8 (6.50%) React
3 6 (4.88%) RESTful
4 5 (4.07%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.44%) REST
6 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.63%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.63%) FHIR
6 2 (1.63%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.63%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.63%) NumPy
6 2 (1.63%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.63%) Pandas
6 2 (1.63%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.63%) Web Services
7 1 (0.81%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.81%) boto
7 1 (0.81%) JWT
7 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.50%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.25%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) NHS
7 2 (1.63%) PKI
7 2 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.81%) NVMe
8 1 (0.81%) Photography
8 1 (0.81%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.50%) Linux
1 8 (6.50%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.59%) Agile
2 21 (17.07%) AI
2 21 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (15.45%) DevOps
4 18 (14.63%) CI/CD
4 18 (14.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 17 (13.82%) Roadmaps
6 16 (13.01%) Migration
7 13 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (10.57%) Machine Learning
7 13 (10.57%) OCR
7 13 (10.57%) Project Delivery
8 12 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (9.76%) User Experience
9 11 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (8.94%) Scrum
9 11 (8.94%) Validation
10 10 (8.13%) Kanban
10 10 (8.13%) Project Management
11 9 (7.32%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.63%) Python
2 13 (10.57%) C#
3 12 (9.76%) SQL
4 11 (8.94%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.07%) Bicep
6 5 (4.07%) Java
6 5 (4.07%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.81%) C++
7 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.81%) VBA
7 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (5.69%) Degree
3 5 (4.07%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.25%) CCNP
4 4 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.25%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.25%) PMP
5 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.63%) MCSE
7 1 (0.81%) CBAP
7 1 (0.81%) CCIE
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) ISEB
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) Data Quality
1 11 (8.94%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.69%) GDPR
4 6 (4.88%) QA
5 3 (2.44%) WCAG
6 2 (1.63%) PMO
7 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.44%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.63%) vSphere
4 1 (0.81%) IAG
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Terraform
2 4 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.44%) Ansible
3 3 (2.44%) Grafana
3 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.81%) Argo
4 1 (0.81%) Istio
4 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.81%) SCCM
4 1 (0.81%) vMotion
Vendors
1 19 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.69%) Cisco
2 7 (5.69%) OpenAI
3 6 (4.88%) Google
3 6 (4.88%) Oracle
3 6 (4.88%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.25%) F5
4 4 (3.25%) VMware
5 3 (2.44%) SAP
6 2 (1.63%) Arista
6 2 (1.63%) Juniper
7 1 (0.81%) AppNeta
7 1 (0.81%) IFS
7 1 (0.81%) Infor
7 1 (0.81%) Qualys
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) webMethods