Public Sector Contracts 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 188 322 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 30.27% 39.32% 40.87%
As % of the General category 39.00% 53.40% 56.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 205 411
10th Percentile £193 £163 £238
25th Percentile £388 £300 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.15% +3.33%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £572 £663 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £458 £460
% change year-on-year -1.64% -0.54% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile £20.13 £12.88 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.44 -
Median hourly rate £24.66 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% - -
75th Percentile £28.38 £18.75 -
90th Percentile £38.83 £18.88 -
Scotland median hourly rate £23.00 £17.50 £15.36
% change year-on-year +31.43% +13.97% -40.94%

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 482 603 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 77.62% 73.63% 72.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 344 652
10th Percentile £205 £178 £243
25th Percentile £400 £359 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £570 £551
90th Percentile £625 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.53% - +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 33 6
10th Percentile £19.28 £14.05 £14.11
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £18.61
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +63.06% -17.44%
75th Percentile £32.81 £60.75 £36.17
90th Percentile £55.74 £68.15 £54.25
Scotland median hourly rate £21.47 £19.17 £21.26
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.83% -20.82%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Edinburgh

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.19%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.06%) IIS
3 2 (1.06%) WordPress
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Drupal
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.53%) TPMS
Applications
1 14 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.66%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.13%) Oracle Smart View
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.53%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) iTrent
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.02%) Azure
2 28 (14.89%) AWS
3 18 (9.57%) Amazon S3
3 18 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (9.04%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.04%) Serverless
5 16 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (7.98%) Power Platform
7 14 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (5.85%) SaaS
9 7 (3.72%) PaaS
10 6 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.19%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.66%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.66%) IaaS
11 5 (2.66%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.66%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.26%) Firewall
2 4 (2.13%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.60%) LAN
3 3 (1.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.06%) 4G
4 2 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.06%) IPsec
4 2 (1.06%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) Internet
5 1 (0.53%) Intranet
5 1 (0.53%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.53%) SSL
5 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.91%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.32%) Oracle Database
4 9 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.72%) Power Query
6 6 (3.19%) GIS
7 5 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (2.13%) Tableau
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
9 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.60%) MySQL
9 3 (1.60%) Power BI
9 3 (1.60%) Redis
9 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Git
2 10 (5.32%) JIRA
3 8 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.19%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.13%) GitLab
6 3 (1.60%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.60%) Postman
6 3 (1.60%) Selenium
6 3 (1.60%) Subversion
6 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.60%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.53%) RStudio
8 1 (0.53%) TestRail
General
1 53 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.89%) Finance
3 21 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.66%) Marketing
6 5 (2.66%) Publishing
7 4 (2.13%) Electronics
7 4 (2.13%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.60%) Back Office
9 2 (1.06%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (19.15%) Analyst
2 30 (15.96%) Developer
3 25 (13.30%) Business Analyst
4 20 (10.64%) Senior
5 10 (5.32%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (5.32%) Senior Business Analyst
6 9 (4.79%) IT Engineer
6 9 (4.79%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.26%) Architect
7 8 (4.26%) Designer
8 7 (3.72%) .NET Developer
8 7 (3.72%) Deployment Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) Lead
9 6 (3.19%) Programme Manager
9 6 (3.19%) Support Officer
10 5 (2.66%) Content Designer
10 5 (2.66%) Data Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow Developer
11 4 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.13%) Information Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.51%) React
2 14 (7.45%) AWS CDK
3 13 (6.91%) .NET
4 12 (6.38%) REST
5 9 (4.79%) CSS
5 9 (4.79%) HTML
5 9 (4.79%) Node.js
5 9 (4.79%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.26%) JSON
6 8 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (3.19%) PostGIS
7 6 (3.19%) Spring
8 5 (2.66%) XML
9 4 (2.13%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.13%) Middleware
9 4 (2.13%) RESTful
10 3 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (1.60%) Next.js
10 3 (1.60%) Web Services
10 3 (1.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.85%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.79%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.19%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (3.19%) Wiki
5 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.13%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.60%) Social Media
8 2 (1.06%) Blog
8 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle Licensing
8 2 (1.06%) PKI
8 2 (1.06%) Replication
9 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.53%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.51%) Windows
2 9 (4.79%) Linux
3 5 (2.66%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.60%) Solaris
5 3 (1.60%) Unix
6 2 (1.06%) AIX
7 1 (0.53%) Android
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.17%) Agile
2 33 (17.55%) DevOps
2 33 (17.55%) Project Management
3 22 (11.70%) User Experience
4 21 (11.17%) User Research
5 20 (10.64%) CI/CD
6 19 (10.11%) Business Analysis
6 19 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (9.04%) Kanban
7 17 (9.04%) Roadmaps
7 17 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (7.98%) Analytics
8 15 (7.98%) Coaching
8 15 (7.98%) TDD
9 13 (6.91%) Mentoring
9 13 (6.91%) Scrum
9 13 (6.91%) Test Automation
10 12 (6.38%) Data Analysis
10 12 (6.38%) ITIL
10 12 (6.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.17%) JavaScript
1 21 (11.17%) SQL
2 19 (10.11%) Java
3 16 (8.51%) Python
4 7 (3.72%) Bash
4 7 (3.72%) TypeScript
4 7 (3.72%) VBA
5 6 (3.19%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.13%) C#
6 4 (2.13%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.60%) Bicep
7 3 (1.60%) C++
7 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.60%) VBScript
8 2 (1.06%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.06%) Swift
9 1 (0.53%) Groovy
9 1 (0.53%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (15.96%) Degree
2 14 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.19%) IIBA
5 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.13%) CIMA
5 4 (2.13%) ISEB
5 4 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.13%) Postgraduate
6 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.60%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.06%) MCSE
8 1 (0.53%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.72%) QA
4 4 (2.13%) NCSC
5 3 (1.60%) GDPR
5 3 (1.60%) PMO
5 3 (1.60%) WCAG
6 2 (1.06%) PERC
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) P3O
System Software
1 5 (2.66%) Docker
2 4 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.60%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.53%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.32%) SCCM
2 9 (4.79%) Grafana
3 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.66%) Terraform
5 4 (2.13%) Ansible
5 4 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (14.89%) Oracle
2 25 (13.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.72%) HP
5 4 (2.13%) Google
5 4 (2.13%) SAP
6 3 (1.60%) Cisco
6 3 (1.60%) Dell
7 2 (1.06%) BT
7 2 (1.06%) Commvault
7 2 (1.06%) F5
7 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.06%) Snow
7 2 (1.06%) Twitter
7 2 (1.06%) VMware
8 1 (0.53%) Equitrac
8 1 (0.53%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.53%) Mitel
8 1 (0.53%) SonicWALL