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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 116 101 111
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.06% 12.77% 16.20%
As % of the General category 17.06% 18.74% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 67 84
10th Percentile £325 £250 £205
25th Percentile £389 £373 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £578
90th Percentile £775 £630 £685
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +1.82% +3.67% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £15.99 £17.99
25th Percentile - £17.34 -
Median hourly rate - £19.59 £19.59
75th Percentile - £19.75 £25.17
90th Percentile - £19.85 £30.77
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.83 £18.00
% change year-on-year - +10.17% +17.23%

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 680 539 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 64.82% 68.14% 56.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 366 274
10th Percentile £250 £295 £218
25th Percentile £325 £370 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +3.83% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £538
90th Percentile £659 £600 £635
Scotland median daily rate £463 £470 £439
% change year-on-year -1.60% +7.06% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 10
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.09 £15.34
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.80 £17.32
Median hourly rate £16.93 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +1.94% -25.37%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £32.17
90th Percentile - - £46.14
Scotland median hourly rate £16.56 £19.23 £17.00
% change year-on-year -13.91% +13.12% -30.87%

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 10 August 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
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 11 (9.48%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) CMS
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.86%) InDesign
3 1 (0.86%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.41%) AWS
2 13 (11.21%) OCI
3 11 (9.48%) Azure
4 7 (6.03%) GCP
5 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.59%) SaaS
8 2 (1.72%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub
8 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.72%) Slack
8 2 (1.72%) SonarCloud
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.86%) Boomi
9 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) DNS
1 3 (2.59%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.59%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (2.59%) SSH
1 3 (2.59%) SSL
2 1 (0.86%) MPLS
2 1 (0.86%) SDH
2 1 (0.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) MySQL
2 7 (6.03%) MariaDB
2 7 (6.03%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.59%) Power BI
4 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.59%) SQLPlus
5 2 (1.72%) Metadata
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.86%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) JIRA
2 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.90%) Git
4 6 (5.17%) Gradle
4 6 (5.17%) Maven
5 4 (3.45%) Subversion
6 3 (2.59%) GoCD
6 3 (2.59%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.59%) JUnit
6 3 (2.59%) webpack
7 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.72%) Selenium
7 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.86%) Appium
8 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.86%) Postman
8 1 (0.86%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Publishing
6 3 (2.59%) Retail
7 2 (1.72%) Banking
7 2 (1.72%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (13.79%) Analyst
2 15 (12.93%) Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Senior
4 10 (8.62%) Consultant
5 9 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Cloud Consultant
6 7 (6.03%) Designer
6 7 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Lead
6 7 (6.03%) Oracle Consultant
7 6 (5.17%) Administrator
7 6 (5.17%) Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Help Desk Consultant
7 6 (5.17%) HR Consultant
7 6 (5.17%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
8 5 (4.31%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.31%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.45%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.45%) Support Analyst
10 3 (2.59%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) Spring
1 13 (11.21%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.17%) Jest
2 6 (5.17%) Node.js
2 6 (5.17%) React
2 6 (5.17%) RESTful
3 4 (3.45%) Middleware
3 4 (3.45%) Playwright
3 4 (3.45%) Web Services
4 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.59%) FreeMarker
4 3 (2.59%) JSF
4 3 (2.59%) Redux
4 3 (2.59%) REST
4 3 (2.59%) Vue
5 2 (1.72%) ADO
6 1 (0.86%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.59%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.59%) NHS
4 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.86%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows
3 4 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.59%) SUSE
5 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.86%) Android
6 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.41%) Agile
2 20 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (13.79%) CI/CD
3 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (12.07%) DevOps
5 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
6 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.34%) Scrum
7 10 (8.62%) ERP
7 10 (8.62%) Migration
7 10 (8.62%) Project Delivery
8 9 (7.76%) Coaching
8 9 (7.76%) Decision-Making
8 9 (7.76%) Microservices
8 9 (7.76%) Test Automation
9 7 (6.03%) Change Management
9 7 (6.03%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (6.03%) Service Delivery
9 7 (6.03%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.52%) Java
2 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 8 (6.90%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) SQL
4 6 (5.17%) Bash
5 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.59%) Groovy
8 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (30.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.31%) Degree
4 5 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) CCAB
6 2 (1.72%) IIBA
6 2 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.86%) CIMA
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.45%) PMO
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) WCAG
4 1 (0.86%) GDPR
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.86%) ISO 8583
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
1 5 (4.31%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) Ceph
2 3 (2.59%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.59%) Squid
2 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Terraform
2 6 (5.17%) Ansible
2 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.31%) Istio
4 2 (1.72%) Argo
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.86%) SCCM
5 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (21.55%) Oracle
2 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.76%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.31%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.45%) Google
6 3 (2.59%) VMware
7 1 (0.86%) Adobe
7 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.86%) BT
7 1 (0.86%) Dell
7 1 (0.86%) FIS
7 1 (0.86%) Fiserv
7 1 (0.86%) Okta
7 1 (0.86%) Openreach
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.86%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.86%) SmartStream
7 1 (0.86%) Workday