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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 116 104 106
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.10% 13.13% 15.10%
As % of the General category 17.37% 19.08% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 69 82
10th Percentile £310 £240 £205
25th Percentile £388 £370 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year +2.89% -0.52% -5.07%
75th Percentile £614 £538 £588
90th Percentile £775 £628 £687
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £15.99 £17.45
25th Percentile - £17.34 £18.26
Median hourly rate - £19.59 £19.59
75th Percentile - £19.75 £22.38
90th Percentile - £19.85 £24.06
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.83 £15.96
% change year-on-year - +24.25% +3.94%

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 668 545 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 63.92% 68.81% 54.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 371 279
10th Percentile £250 £290 £213
25th Percentile £325 £368 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £544
90th Percentile £647 £600 £654
Scotland median daily rate £461 £467 £450
% change year-on-year -1.28% +3.83% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 9
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.09 £15.01
25th Percentile £13.60 £17.80 £16.92
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -14.87% +1.94% -20.85%
75th Percentile £42.22 £26.21 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 - £48.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.56 £19.37 £16.92
% change year-on-year -14.51% +14.45% -11.78%

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 31 July 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 10 (8.62%) 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 23 (19.83%) AWS
2 13 (11.21%) OCI
3 11 (9.48%) Azure
4 6 (5.17%) GCP
4 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.59%) SaaS
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.72%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub
7 2 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.72%) Serverless
7 2 (1.72%) Slack
7 2 (1.72%) SonarCloud
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.86%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.72%) SSH
2 2 (1.72%) SSL
3 1 (0.86%) MPLS
3 1 (0.86%) Network Security
3 1 (0.86%) SDH
3 1 (0.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.31%) MariaDB
2 5 (4.31%) MySQL
3 3 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.59%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 3 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.72%) Metadata
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.72%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (8.62%) JIRA
2 8 (6.90%) Git
3 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.45%) Gradle
4 4 (3.45%) Maven
4 4 (3.45%) Subversion
5 3 (2.59%) GoCD
5 3 (2.59%) JProfiler
5 3 (2.59%) JUnit
6 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.72%) Selenium
6 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.86%) Appium
7 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.86%) Postman
7 1 (0.86%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.86%) webpack
General
1 32 (27.59%) 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%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (13.79%) Analyst
2 14 (12.07%) Architect
3 13 (11.21%) Senior
4 10 (8.62%) Consultant
5 9 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Cloud Consultant
7 7 (6.03%) Designer
7 7 (6.03%) Lead
7 7 (6.03%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Help Desk Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) HR Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) Administrator
10 4 (3.45%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Support Analyst
11 3 (2.59%) Systems Analyst
11 3 (2.59%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Spring
1 9 (7.76%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.45%) Jest
2 4 (3.45%) Middleware
2 4 (3.45%) Node.js
2 4 (3.45%) Playwright
2 4 (3.45%) React
2 4 (3.45%) RESTful
2 4 (3.45%) Web Services
3 3 (2.59%) FreeMarker
3 3 (2.59%) JSF
3 3 (2.59%) REST
4 2 (1.72%) ADO
5 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.86%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.86%) JSON
5 1 (0.86%) JWT
5 1 (0.86%) OAuth
5 1 (0.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.59%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.59%) NHS
5 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows
3 4 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.86%) Android
5 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.86%) SUSE
5 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.83%) Agile
2 19 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (13.79%) CI/CD
3 16 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (12.93%) DevOps
4 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (11.21%) Mentoring
6 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (9.48%) Migration
8 10 (8.62%) ERP
8 10 (8.62%) Scrum
9 9 (7.76%) Project Delivery
9 9 (7.76%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.90%) Coaching
10 8 (6.90%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.90%) Decision-Making
11 7 (6.03%) Change Management
11 7 (6.03%) Microservices
11 7 (6.03%) Service Delivery
11 7 (6.03%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.07%) Java
2 8 (6.90%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.03%) SQL
4 3 (2.59%) Bash
4 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.86%) Bicep
6 1 (0.86%) C#
6 1 (0.86%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.31%) Degree
5 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.59%) CCAB
7 2 (1.72%) IIBA
7 2 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CIMA
8 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.45%) PMO
2 4 (3.45%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.72%) NCSC
4 2 (1.72%) NIST
4 2 (1.72%) WCAG
5 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.86%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.59%) Docker
3 2 (1.72%) Ceph
3 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.72%) Squid
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.76%) Terraform
2 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.31%) Ansible
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 2 (1.72%) 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