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 21 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 84 120 145
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.63% 16.60% 16.67%
As % of the General category 18.88% 24.84% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 89 98
10th Percentile £272 £184 £150
25th Percentile £413 £378 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.82%
75th Percentile £570 £580 £588
90th Percentile £632 £688 £679
Scotland median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £17.20 £19.59 -
Median hourly rate £21.01 £26.50 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +116.15% -
75th Percentile £25.35 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £27.63 £39.30 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £24.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year -28.74% +38.17% -1.24%

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 445 483 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 66.92% 66.80% 62.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 292 368
10th Percentile £275 £245 £312
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £626
90th Percentile £638 £625 £722
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £487
% change year-on-year +3.06% -7.64% +2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 17
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.48 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.73 £12.26
Median hourly rate £24.09 £29.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +70.00% -41.12%
75th Percentile £29.16 £43.66 £19.50
90th Percentile £46.25 £66.82 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.15 £22.87
% change year-on-year -26.00% +5.60% +35.05%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.19%) CICS
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.19%) InDesign
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.57%) AWS
2 20 (23.81%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (9.52%) Serverless
5 7 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.14%) SaaS
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (5.95%) GCP
7 5 (5.95%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.57%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) WAN
2 4 (4.76%) VPN
3 3 (3.57%) Firewall
3 3 (3.57%) LAN
3 3 (3.57%) MPLS
4 2 (2.38%) SDH
5 1 (1.19%) BGP
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.19%) IPv4
5 1 (1.19%) Multicast
5 1 (1.19%) Network Security
5 1 (1.19%) OSPF
5 1 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.19%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (5.95%) MySQL
2 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.95%) Power BI
3 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.38%) Tableau
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.19%) Big Data
6 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.19%) HBase
6 1 (1.19%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Git
1 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.38%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (1.19%) JUnit
3 1 (1.19%) MLflow
3 1 (1.19%) Mockito
3 1 (1.19%) NUnit
3 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.19%) webpack
General
1 26 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Local Government
6 2 (2.38%) Police
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Billing
7 1 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (17.86%) Architect
2 12 (14.29%) Analyst
3 7 (8.33%) Developer
3 7 (8.33%) Senior
3 7 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 4 (4.76%) Lead
4 4 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 4 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (4.76%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (3.57%) DBA
5 3 (3.57%) Project Manager
5 3 (3.57%) Security Analyst
5 3 (3.57%) Site Engineer
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Architect
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (2.38%) Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) Node.js
2 5 (5.95%) JSON
3 4 (4.76%) React
3 4 (4.76%) XML
4 3 (3.57%) HTML
4 3 (3.57%) REST
5 2 (2.38%) .NET
5 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.38%) RESTful
5 2 (2.38%) Spring
5 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.19%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.19%) J2EE
6 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.19%) PySpark
6 1 (1.19%) Redux
6 1 (1.19%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) NHS
2 5 (5.95%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.76%) IVR
4 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.57%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.57%) Replication
4 3 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.38%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.19%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.19%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.19%) LIMS
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Unix
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (14.29%) Agile
3 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
3 11 (13.10%) Migration
3 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 10 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (11.90%) SDLC
5 9 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (10.71%) DevOps
5 9 (10.71%) Microservices
6 8 (9.52%) Decision-Making
6 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (9.52%) Roadmaps
6 8 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.33%) Analytics
7 7 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 7 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (8.33%) Incident Response
7 7 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.86%) Python
2 11 (13.10%) Java
3 7 (8.33%) SQL
4 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.57%) Bicep
7 2 (2.38%) Bash
7 2 (2.38%) C#
7 2 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (1.19%) COBOL
8 1 (1.19%) JCL
8 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) Degree
3 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.33%) CISSP
5 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.76%) CISM
6 4 (4.76%) GIAC
6 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.57%) CEH
7 3 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.57%) SSCP
8 2 (2.38%) CIPD
8 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.38%) MCSA
9 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (1.19%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) GDPR
1 8 (9.52%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.95%) PMO
3 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.38%) SLA
6 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.19%) NCSC
6 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
2 6 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (9.52%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
2 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) SCCM
3 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.19%) Kibana
4 1 (1.19%) logstash
4 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Cisco
3 5 (5.95%) Oracle
3 5 (5.95%) Splunk
4 4 (4.76%) Pega
4 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.57%) Avaya
5 3 (3.57%) Genesys
5 3 (3.57%) Google
5 3 (3.57%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.57%) Informatica
5 3 (3.57%) Talend
6 2 (2.38%) F5
6 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.38%) SAP
7 1 (1.19%) Adobe
7 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.19%) Remedy
7 1 (1.19%) SolarWinds