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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 115 105 110
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.17% 13.13% 15.41%
As % of the General category 17.42% 19.02% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 69 86
10th Percentile £313 £240 £203
25th Percentile £388 £370 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -6.22%
75th Percentile £610 £538 £584
90th Percentile £775 £628 £684
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -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 660 552 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 64.08% 69.00% 54.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 377 285
10th Percentile £250 £300 £213
25th Percentile £325 £370 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +5.62% -11.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £647 £600 £652
Scotland median daily rate £460 £467 £445
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.06% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 9
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.09 £15.01
25th Percentile £13.55 £17.80 £16.92
Median hourly rate £16.93 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +1.94% -20.85%
75th Percentile £40.48 £26.21 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 - £48.23
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £19.37 £16.92
% change year-on-year -16.09% +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 29 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) CMS
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.87%) InDesign
3 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.87%) AWS
2 13 (11.30%) OCI
3 11 (9.57%) Azure
4 6 (5.22%) GCP
4 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.61%) SaaS
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.74%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.74%) GitHub
7 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.74%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.74%) Serverless
7 2 (1.74%) Slack
7 2 (1.74%) SonarCloud
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.74%) SSH
2 2 (1.74%) SSL
3 1 (0.87%) MPLS
3 1 (0.87%) Network Security
3 1 (0.87%) SDH
3 1 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
1 6 (5.22%) MySQL
2 5 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.61%) Power BI
5 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.74%) Metadata
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.74%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.87%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) JIRA
2 8 (6.96%) Git
3 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.48%) Gradle
4 4 (3.48%) Maven
4 4 (3.48%) Subversion
5 3 (2.61%) GoCD
5 3 (2.61%) JProfiler
5 3 (2.61%) JUnit
6 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.74%) Selenium
6 2 (1.74%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.87%) Appium
7 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.87%) Postman
7 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 32 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Finance
3 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Publishing
7 2 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Marketing
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Military
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (12.17%) Analyst
1 14 (12.17%) Architect
2 13 (11.30%) Senior
3 10 (8.70%) Consultant
4 9 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Cloud Consultant
6 7 (6.09%) Designer
6 7 (6.09%) Lead
6 7 (6.09%) Oracle Consultant
7 6 (5.22%) Developer
7 6 (5.22%) Help Desk Consultant
7 6 (5.22%) HR Consultant
7 6 (5.22%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
8 5 (4.35%) Administrator
9 4 (3.48%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.48%) Support Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (2.61%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.61%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) Spring
1 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.48%) Jest
2 4 (3.48%) Middleware
2 4 (3.48%) Node.js
2 4 (3.48%) Playwright
2 4 (3.48%) React
2 4 (3.48%) RESTful
2 4 (3.48%) Web Services
3 3 (2.61%) FreeMarker
3 3 (2.61%) JSF
3 3 (2.61%) REST
4 2 (1.74%) ADO
5 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.87%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.87%) JSON
5 1 (0.87%) JWT
5 1 (0.87%) OAuth
5 1 (0.87%) Redux
5 1 (0.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.61%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.87%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.87%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Linux
2 7 (6.09%) Windows
3 4 (3.48%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.87%) SUSE
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.00%) Agile
2 19 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (13.91%) CI/CD
3 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (13.04%) DevOps
4 15 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (11.30%) Mentoring
6 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (9.57%) Migration
8 10 (8.70%) ERP
8 10 (8.70%) Scrum
9 9 (7.83%) Project Delivery
9 9 (7.83%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.96%) Coaching
10 8 (6.96%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.96%) Decision-Making
10 8 (6.96%) Microservices
11 7 (6.09%) Change Management
11 7 (6.09%) Service Delivery
11 7 (6.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.04%) Java
2 8 (6.96%) Python
3 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.09%) SQL
4 3 (2.61%) Bash
4 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.87%) Bicep
6 1 (0.87%) C#
6 1 (0.87%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 34 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.35%) Degree
5 4 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.61%) CCAB
7 2 (1.74%) IIBA
7 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CIMA
8 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.35%) QA
3 4 (3.48%) PMO
4 3 (2.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 2 (1.74%) NIST
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.87%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.61%) Docker
3 2 (1.74%) Ceph
3 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.74%) Squid
3 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) Ansible
3 5 (4.35%) Istio
4 2 (1.74%) Argo
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.87%) SCCM
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Oracle
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.83%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.48%) Google
6 2 (1.74%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Adobe
7 1 (0.87%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.87%) BT
7 1 (0.87%) Dell
7 1 (0.87%) FIS
7 1 (0.87%) Fiserv
7 1 (0.87%) Okta
7 1 (0.87%) Openreach
7 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.87%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.87%) SmartStream
7 1 (0.87%) Workday