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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 118 189 324
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.99% 30.63% 39.27%
As % of the General category 27.44% 39.46% 53.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 139 205
10th Percentile £350 £193 £156
25th Percentile £406 £388 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.15%
75th Percentile £524 £500 £538
90th Percentile £574 £571 £663
Scotland median daily rate £472 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.89% - -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile - £20.13 £12.00
25th Percentile - £22.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £17.23 £24.66 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.13% +40.91% -
75th Percentile - £28.38 £18.75
90th Percentile - £38.83 £18.83
Scotland median hourly rate £21.31 £23.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.36% +31.43% +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 430 479 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 58.27% 77.63% 73.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 257 345
10th Percentile £240 £205 £178
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £616 £663
Scotland median daily rate £467 £463 £464
% change year-on-year +0.86% -0.27% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 34
10th Percentile £17.23 £19.28 £13.33
25th Percentile £50.00 £21.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £58.00 £23.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.81% -22.95% +42.09%
75th Percentile £73.50 £32.81 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £55.74 £67.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £20.94 £19.17
% change year-on-year -22.40% +9.23% -9.83%

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 May 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 3 (2.54%) CMS
2 2 (1.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) Drupal
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.85%) InDesign
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) iTrent
2 1 (0.85%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.20%) Azure
2 18 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (14.41%) Power Platform
4 16 (13.56%) AWS
5 8 (6.78%) Serverless
6 7 (5.93%) Azure AI
6 7 (5.93%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 7 (5.93%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 7 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.93%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.08%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.24%) WAN
3 4 (3.39%) Firewall
3 4 (3.39%) LAN
3 4 (3.39%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.39%) VPN
4 3 (2.54%) DNS
4 3 (2.54%) Network Security
5 2 (1.69%) BGP
5 2 (1.69%) Intranet
5 2 (1.69%) OSPF
6 1 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.02%) Power BI
2 6 (5.08%) Metadata
3 4 (3.39%) Geospatial Data
3 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.69%) GIS
4 2 (1.69%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.69%) MySQL
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Power Query
5 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (5.08%) JIRA
2 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.39%) Selenium
3 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.54%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
5 1 (0.85%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.85%) MLflow
5 1 (0.85%) NUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Subversion
5 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.63%) Finance
3 8 (6.78%) Legal
4 7 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Back Office
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (14.41%) Developer
2 16 (13.56%) Analyst
3 14 (11.86%) Architect
4 11 (9.32%) Senior
5 10 (8.47%) Lead
6 8 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 7 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 7 (5.93%) Network Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Consultant
9 5 (4.24%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) AWS Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) DBA
10 4 (3.39%) Network Field Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.25%) .NET
2 10 (8.47%) React
3 6 (5.08%) RESTful
4 4 (3.39%) REST
5 3 (2.54%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.69%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.69%) FHIR
6 2 (1.69%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.69%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.69%) JSON
6 2 (1.69%) NumPy
6 2 (1.69%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.69%) Pandas
6 2 (1.69%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.69%) Spring
6 2 (1.69%) Web Services
7 1 (0.85%) CSS
7 1 (0.85%) HTML
7 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.47%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.08%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.54%) Wiki
7 2 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) NHS
7 2 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.85%) Animation
8 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.85%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.85%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.85%) Photography
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
8 1 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Linux
2 7 (5.93%) Windows
3 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.44%) Agile
2 22 (18.64%) DevOps
3 18 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (14.41%) AI
4 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
4 17 (14.41%) Roadmaps
5 16 (13.56%) Migration
6 15 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (11.02%) OCR
8 12 (10.17%) Machine Learning
9 11 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (9.32%) User Experience
10 10 (8.47%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.47%) Project Delivery
10 10 (8.47%) Project Management
10 10 (8.47%) Risk Management
11 9 (7.63%) Scrum
12 8 (6.78%) Decision-Making
12 8 (6.78%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.56%) Python
2 15 (12.71%) C#
3 12 (10.17%) SQL
4 11 (9.32%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.08%) Java
7 5 (4.24%) Bicep
8 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.85%) C++
9 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.85%) VBA
9 1 (0.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.32%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (5.08%) Degree
3 5 (4.24%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) CCNP
4 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.54%) PMP
5 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) CBAP
6 1 (0.85%) CCIE
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) ISEB
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.85%) MCSE
6 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (6.78%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.93%) GDPR
3 7 (5.93%) QA
4 3 (2.54%) GRC
4 3 (2.54%) WCAG
5 2 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.54%) Docker
1 3 (2.54%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.69%) vSphere
3 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) IAG
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) Terraform
2 3 (2.54%) Ansible
3 2 (1.69%) Grafana
3 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.93%) Cisco
2 7 (5.93%) OpenAI
3 6 (5.08%) Google
3 6 (5.08%) Palo Alto
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle
5 4 (3.39%) F5
5 4 (3.39%) VMware
6 2 (1.69%) Arista
6 2 (1.69%) Juniper
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) AppNeta
7 1 (0.85%) Qualys
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) webMethods