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 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 99 144 159
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.49% 19.30% 18.17%
As % of the General category 21.02% 29.51% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 108 110
10th Percentile £240 £189 £154
25th Percentile £400 £372 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -0.42%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £680 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £470
% change year-on-year - -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £15.24 £18.52 -
25th Percentile £17.20 - -
Median hourly rate £21.01 £19.59 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +59.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £25.35 £31.13 -
90th Percentile £27.63 £37.70 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.01 £20.29 £17.50
% change year-on-year +3.57% +15.91% +6.97%

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 common skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 471 488 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 64.17% 65.42% 63.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 315 383
10th Percentile £261 £236 £315
25th Percentile £372 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £631
90th Percentile £625 £630 £722
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile £17.28 £18.34 £12.03
25th Percentile £22.39 £19.59 £12.13
Median hourly rate £24.09 £21.87 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% +41.83% -31.04%
75th Percentile £29.16 £32.81 £18.75
90th Percentile £36.69 £42.65 £19.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.37 £22.55 £19.18
% change year-on-year -18.52% +17.54% +13.26%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025.

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 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.03%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.02%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.01%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.01%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.01%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.01%) nginx
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.01%) InDesign
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.01%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.28%) AWS
2 19 (19.19%) Azure
3 10 (10.10%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 9 (9.09%) Serverless
5 8 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (7.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (7.07%) Entra ID
7 6 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.05%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (5.05%) GitHub
8 5 (5.05%) SaaS
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.03%) GCP
10 3 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.07%) WAN
2 4 (4.04%) VPN
3 3 (3.03%) Firewall
3 3 (3.03%) LAN
3 3 (3.03%) MPLS
4 2 (2.02%) SDH
5 1 (1.01%) BGP
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.01%) IPv4
5 1 (1.01%) Multicast
5 1 (1.01%) Network Security
5 1 (1.01%) OSPF
5 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.01%) TETRA
5 1 (1.01%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.08%) Power BI
2 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.05%) DynamoDB
3 5 (5.05%) MySQL
3 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.02%) Tableau
6 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.01%) Big Data
6 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.01%) HBase
6 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.01%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Git
1 6 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.04%) JIRA
3 3 (3.03%) GitLab
3 3 (3.03%) Terragrunt
3 3 (3.03%) webpack
4 2 (2.02%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.01%) JUnit
5 1 (1.01%) MLflow
5 1 (1.01%) Mockito
5 1 (1.01%) NUnit
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
5 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.17%) Finance
4 4 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.02%) Local Government
7 1 (1.01%) Billing
7 1 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.20%) Architect
2 12 (12.12%) Analyst
3 11 (11.11%) Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.07%) Senior
6 5 (5.05%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Lead
7 4 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Architect
8 3 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (3.03%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) Node.js
2 6 (6.06%) React
3 5 (5.05%) HTML
3 5 (5.05%) RESTful
4 4 (4.04%) JSON
4 4 (4.04%) REST
5 3 (3.03%) .NET
5 3 (3.03%) CSS
5 3 (3.03%) CSS3
5 3 (3.03%) HTML5
5 3 (3.03%) Redux
5 3 (3.03%) Spring
5 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.02%) J2EE
6 2 (2.02%) Kafka
6 2 (2.02%) XML
7 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) NHS
2 5 (5.05%) Device Driver
3 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.04%) IVR
3 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.02%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Linux
2 6 (6.06%) Windows
3 3 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.20%) CI/CD
2 18 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (17.17%) Agile
4 14 (14.14%) DevOps
4 14 (14.14%) Migration
5 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
6 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (11.11%) Microservices
7 11 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (10.10%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (9.09%) Analytics
9 9 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.09%) SDLC
10 8 (8.08%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (8.08%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (8.08%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.07%) Coaching
11 7 (7.07%) Data Protection
11 7 (7.07%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.18%) Python
2 15 (15.15%) Java
3 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.05%) SQL
6 3 (3.03%) Bicep
7 2 (2.02%) Bash
7 2 (2.02%) C#
7 2 (2.02%) Go
7 2 (2.02%) R
8 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.13%) Degree
2 13 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (7.07%) CISSP
4 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.05%) MCSA
6 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.04%) CISM
7 3 (3.03%) CEH
7 3 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.03%) GIAC
7 3 (3.03%) SSCP
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.02%) CIPD
8 2 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.01%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.11%) GDPR
2 7 (7.07%) QA
3 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.05%) PMO
4 4 (4.04%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (3.03%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.03%) SLA
6 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.01%) NCSC
7 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.08%) Docker
2 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.01%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (14.14%) Terraform
2 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.05%) SCCM
4 3 (3.03%) Argo
4 3 (3.03%) Istio
4 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.02%) Ansible
5 2 (2.02%) Grafana
5 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.01%) Kibana
6 1 (1.01%) logstash
6 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Cisco
2 7 (7.07%) Oracle
3 5 (5.05%) Splunk
4 4 (4.04%) Pega
4 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.04%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.03%) Avaya
5 3 (3.03%) Genesys
6 2 (2.02%) F5
6 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.02%) SAP
7 1 (1.01%) Adobe
7 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.01%) Informatica
7 1 (1.01%) Meraki
7 1 (1.01%) Remedy
7 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds