Public Sector Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Public Sector
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 92 122 151
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.45% 16.20% 16.78%
As % of the General category 19.96% 24.25% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 91 104
10th Percentile £285 £178 £150
25th Percentile £413 £370 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £588
90th Percentile £624 £675 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £17.20 £19.59 -
Median hourly rate £21.01 £26.50 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +116.15% -
75th Percentile £25.35 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £27.63 £39.30 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £24.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year -28.74% +38.17% -1.24%

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 461 503 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 67.40% 66.80% 62.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 303 377
10th Percentile £275 £253 £300
25th Percentile £385 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.28%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £625
90th Percentile £638 £624 £718
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £484
% change year-on-year - -6.93% +1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 20
10th Percentile £15.27 £19.59 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £23.01 £11.88
Median hourly rate £24.09 £29.75 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +77.61% -43.64%
75th Percentile £29.16 £48.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £46.25 £70.46 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +50.05%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Glasgow

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Glasgow

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.09%) CICS
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) nginx
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.09%) InDesign
5 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.09%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) AWS
2 20 (21.74%) Azure
3 9 (9.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (8.70%) Serverless
5 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.61%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.52%) SaaS
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (5.43%) GCP
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.17%) PaaS
10 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) WAN
2 4 (4.35%) VPN
3 3 (3.26%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) LAN
3 3 (3.26%) MPLS
4 2 (2.17%) SDH
5 1 (1.09%) BGP
5 1 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.09%) DSL
5 1 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.09%) IPv4
5 1 (1.09%) Multicast
5 1 (1.09%) Network Security
5 1 (1.09%) OSPF
5 1 (1.09%) SAN
5 1 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.78%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.61%) MySQL
3 6 (6.52%) Power BI
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.17%) Tableau
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.09%) Metadata
8 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) GitLab
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) JUnit
3 1 (1.09%) MLflow
3 1 (1.09%) Mockito
3 1 (1.09%) NUnit
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Police
6 2 (2.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Local Government
6 2 (2.17%) Publishing
6 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.09%) Billing
7 1 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (18.48%) Architect
2 12 (13.04%) Analyst
3 7 (7.61%) Developer
3 7 (7.61%) Senior
3 7 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (5.43%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 4 (4.35%) Lead
5 4 (4.35%) Security Architect
5 4 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) DBA
6 3 (3.26%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.26%) Site Engineer
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Architect
7 2 (2.17%) Data Manager
7 2 (2.17%) Planning Manager
7 2 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) React
2 5 (5.43%) JSON
2 5 (5.43%) Node.js
3 4 (4.35%) REST
3 4 (4.35%) XML
4 2 (2.17%) .NET
4 2 (2.17%) HTML
4 2 (2.17%) SOAP
4 2 (2.17%) Spring
4 2 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.09%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.09%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.09%) J2EE
5 1 (1.09%) JPA
5 1 (1.09%) OAuth
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.61%) NHS
3 4 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) IVR
4 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.26%) Replication
5 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.17%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.09%) CCTV
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.09%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Windows
3 3 (3.26%) Unix
4 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (16.30%) Agile
2 15 (16.30%) Migration
3 13 (14.13%) SDLC
4 11 (11.96%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (11.96%) Microservices
4 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (10.87%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.87%) Decision-Making
5 10 (10.87%) DevOps
5 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.70%) Data Protection
7 8 (8.70%) Roadmaps
8 7 (7.61%) Cloud Security
8 7 (7.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (7.61%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (7.61%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.39%) Python
2 13 (14.13%) Java
3 9 (9.78%) SQL
4 6 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.26%) Bicep
5 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.17%) Bash
6 2 (2.17%) C#
6 2 (2.17%) Go
7 1 (1.09%) COBOL
7 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.09%) JCL
7 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (1.09%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 31 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) Degree
3 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.52%) CISSP
6 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.26%) CISM
8 3 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.26%) GIAC
8 3 (3.26%) SSCP
9 2 (2.17%) CEH
9 2 (2.17%) CIPD
9 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.17%) MCSA
10 1 (1.09%) CCIE
10 1 (1.09%) CISA
10 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.09%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.43%) PMO
4 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.26%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.17%) SLA
7 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.09%) HDFS
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Terraform
2 5 (5.43%) Ansible
3 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.17%) SCCM
4 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Kibana
5 1 (1.09%) logstash
5 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.09%) vMotion
5 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) Cisco
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle
4 5 (5.43%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.35%) Pega
5 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.35%) Splunk
6 3 (3.26%) Avaya
6 3 (3.26%) Genesys
6 3 (3.26%) Google
6 3 (3.26%) Greenplum
6 3 (3.26%) Informatica
6 3 (3.26%) Talend
7 2 (2.17%) F5
7 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.17%) SAP
8 1 (1.09%) Brocade
8 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.09%) NetApp
8 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds