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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 105 123 143
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.46% 15.36% 15.59%
As % of the General category 21.38% 22.57% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 90 102
10th Percentile £290 £248 £150
25th Percentile £400 £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.54% -5.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £582
90th Percentile £608 £653 £674
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £17.20 £19.59 -
Median hourly rate £21.01 £23.05 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +87.97% -
75th Percentile £25.35 £31.44 -
90th Percentile £27.63 £38.08 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £24.42 £17.50
% change year-on-year -29.44% +39.54% -6.67%

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 491 545 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 67.63% 68.04% 59.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 335 376
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £381 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £619
90th Percentile £638 £625 £718
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 21
10th Percentile £15.66 £19.59 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.87 £12.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £26.50 £16.34
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +62.18% -45.02%
75th Percentile £32.08 £53.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £72.28 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £24.44
% change year-on-year -25.54% -1.78% +41.02%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.95%) CICS
3 1 (0.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.95%) InDesign
5 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.95%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.95%) iTrent
2 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.62%) AWS
2 22 (20.95%) Azure
3 10 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (7.62%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.62%) Serverless
5 7 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (6.67%) SaaS
5 7 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.76%) GCP
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) WAN
2 4 (3.81%) VPN
3 3 (2.86%) LAN
3 3 (2.86%) MPLS
4 2 (1.90%) Firewall
4 2 (1.90%) Network Security
4 2 (1.90%) SDH
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.95%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.95%) IPv4
5 1 (0.95%) Multicast
5 1 (0.95%) SAN
5 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.95%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) MySQL
1 9 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 6 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.76%) Power BI
3 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.81%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.90%) Tableau
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.95%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (1.90%) GitLab
2 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.95%) JUnit
3 1 (0.95%) MLflow
3 1 (0.95%) Mockito
3 1 (0.95%) NUnit
3 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (18.10%) Finance
4 6 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Police
6 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Local Government
7 2 (1.90%) Publishing
8 1 (0.95%) Billing
8 1 (0.95%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Military
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (17.14%) Architect
2 16 (15.24%) Analyst
3 8 (7.62%) Senior
4 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.71%) Developer
6 5 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) DBA
7 4 (3.81%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.81%) Site Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Configuration Manager
8 3 (2.86%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.86%) Lead
8 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.86%) Systems Manager
9 2 (1.90%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) React
2 5 (4.76%) Node.js
3 4 (3.81%) JSON
4 3 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (2.86%) XML
5 2 (1.90%) .NET
5 2 (1.90%) Spring
5 2 (1.90%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.95%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.95%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.95%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.95%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.95%) HTML
6 1 (0.95%) J2EE
6 1 (0.95%) JPA
6 1 (0.95%) OAuth
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.95%) SOAP
6 1 (0.95%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.67%) NHS
3 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.81%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.81%) IVR
5 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.86%) Replication
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.95%) CCTV
7 1 (0.95%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.95%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.95%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.95%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.86%) Unix
4 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.00%) Migration
1 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (15.24%) Agile
3 14 (13.33%) SDLC
3 14 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (10.48%) CI/CD
4 11 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (10.48%) Microservices
4 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (9.52%) Decision-Making
5 10 (9.52%) DevOps
5 10 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (7.62%) Data Protection
6 8 (7.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 8 (7.62%) Roadmaps
6 8 (7.62%) Runbook
7 7 (6.67%) Cloud Security
7 7 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.19%) Python
2 13 (12.38%) Java
3 10 (9.52%) SQL
4 6 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.81%) Bicep
6 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) Bash
7 2 (1.90%) C#
7 2 (1.90%) Go
8 1 (0.95%) COBOL
8 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.95%) JCL
8 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.95%) Perl
8 1 (0.95%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 38 (36.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.48%) Degree
2 11 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.71%) CISSP
5 5 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.86%) CISM
7 3 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.86%) GIAC
7 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.86%) SSCP
8 2 (1.90%) CCAB
8 2 (1.90%) CEH
8 2 (1.90%) CIPD
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.95%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.95%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.95%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) QA
2 9 (8.57%) GDPR
3 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.76%) PMO
5 4 (3.81%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (2.86%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.86%) NCSC
6 3 (2.86%) SLA
7 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.90%) NIST
8 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.95%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.76%) Docker
3 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.95%) HDFS
4 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (8.57%) Terraform
2 5 (4.76%) Ansible
3 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.90%) SCCM
4 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.95%) Kibana
5 1 (0.95%) logstash
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.95%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.95%) vMotion
5 1 (0.95%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Cisco
3 7 (6.67%) Oracle
4 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.81%) Splunk
6 3 (2.86%) Avaya
6 3 (2.86%) Genesys
6 3 (2.86%) Google
6 3 (2.86%) Greenplum
6 3 (2.86%) Informatica
6 3 (2.86%) Pega
6 3 (2.86%) Talend
7 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.90%) SAP
8 1 (0.95%) Brocade
8 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.95%) NetApp
8 1 (0.95%) Remedy
8 1 (0.95%) VMware