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 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 102 150 162
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.08% 20.55% 18.75%
As % of the General category 20.00% 31.51% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 116 114
10th Percentile £196 £194 £200
25th Percentile £400 £377 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -11.15% +1.30%
75th Percentile £578 £557 £588
90th Percentile £645 £678 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £18.52 -
25th Percentile £14.22 - -
Median hourly rate £14.51 £19.59 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +59.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £14.80 £31.13 -
90th Percentile £14.97 £37.70 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.12 £19.59 £18.21
% change year-on-year -17.71% +7.61% +6.84%

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 510 476 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.38% 65.21% 61.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 313 371
10th Percentile £263 £213 £325
25th Percentile £395 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £626
90th Percentile £625 £636 £715
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +1.11% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.34 £10.50
25th Percentile £21.78 £19.59 £12.06
Median hourly rate £24.09 £21.87 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% +78.53% -58.78%
75th Percentile £28.83 £32.81 £17.09
90th Percentile £47.09 £42.65 £19.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.59 £19.34
% change year-on-year -1.84% +1.29% +9.14%

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 13 November 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
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 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.92%) Confluence
3 3 (2.94%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.98%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.98%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.98%) CMS
5 1 (0.98%) Drupal
5 1 (0.98%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.98%) nginx
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.53%) AWS
2 18 (17.65%) Azure
3 11 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (6.86%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.86%) Serverless
5 7 (6.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (4.90%) GitHub
7 5 (4.90%) SaaS
8 4 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.92%) Slack
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.96%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.86%) WAN
2 4 (3.92%) VPN
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
3 3 (2.94%) LAN
3 3 (2.94%) MPLS
4 2 (1.96%) SDH
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.98%) IPv4
5 1 (0.98%) Multicast
5 1 (0.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.98%) OSPF
5 1 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.98%) TETRA
5 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) Power BI
2 5 (4.90%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.90%) MySQL
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.96%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.96%) Power Query
5 2 (1.96%) Tableau
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.98%) Big Data
6 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.98%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.88%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) webpack
4 4 (3.92%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.98%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.98%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.98%) GitLab
6 1 (0.98%) JUnit
6 1 (0.98%) Mockito
6 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.96%) Local Government
5 2 (1.96%) Publishing
6 1 (0.98%) Billing
6 1 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) General Ledger
6 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.98%) Marketing
6 1 (0.98%) Military
6 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) Analyst
1 20 (19.61%) Architect
2 11 (10.78%) Developer
3 9 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (6.86%) Senior
5 6 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Lead
7 4 (3.92%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (3.92%) Service Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (3.92%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (2.94%) AWS Architect
8 3 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) Node.js
2 7 (6.86%) React
2 7 (6.86%) RESTful
3 6 (5.88%) HTML
4 5 (4.90%) CSS
4 5 (4.90%) CSS3
4 5 (4.90%) HTML5
4 5 (4.90%) Redux
5 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.96%) J2EE
6 2 (1.96%) JSON
6 2 (1.96%) REST
6 2 (1.96%) Spring
6 2 (1.96%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.96%) Vue
7 1 (0.98%) JPA
7 1 (0.98%) OAuth
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.98%) SOAP
7 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.84%) NHS
2 5 (4.90%) Device Driver
3 4 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (3.92%) IVR
3 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.98%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) LIMS
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.76%) Windows
2 11 (10.78%) Linux
3 4 (3.92%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.63%) Agile
1 19 (18.63%) CI/CD
2 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (14.71%) Migration
4 14 (13.73%) Roadmaps
5 13 (12.75%) DevOps
5 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (10.78%) Microservices
7 10 (9.80%) Analytics
7 10 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (9.80%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (7.84%) Coaching
8 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.84%) Decision-Making
8 8 (7.84%) Service Delivery
8 8 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (6.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (6.86%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.69%) Python
2 13 (12.75%) Java
3 8 (7.84%) TypeScript
4 7 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.92%) SQL
6 3 (2.94%) Bicep
6 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.96%) Bash
7 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.96%) R
7 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.75%) Degree
4 8 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.84%) CISSP
5 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.90%) MCSA
7 4 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.92%) CISM
8 3 (2.94%) CEH
8 3 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.94%) GIAC
8 3 (2.94%) SSCP
9 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.96%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.96%) HNC
9 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) GDPR
2 7 (6.86%) QA
3 5 (4.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.90%) PMO
4 4 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.92%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.94%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.94%) SLA
6 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.96%) WCAG
7 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.90%) Docker
3 3 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) Terraform
2 8 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.90%) SCCM
4 4 (3.92%) Argo
4 4 (3.92%) Istio
5 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.96%) Grafana
6 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.98%) Kibana
7 1 (0.98%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Cisco
2 7 (6.86%) Oracle
3 4 (3.92%) Pega
3 4 (3.92%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.92%) Splunk
4 3 (2.94%) Avaya
4 3 (2.94%) Genesys
5 2 (1.96%) F5
5 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (0.98%) Apple
6 1 (0.98%) ArcSight
6 1 (0.98%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.98%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.98%) Meraki
6 1 (0.98%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.98%) Remedy
6 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds