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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 87 117 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.97% 17.21% 20.90%
As % of the General category 17.94% 29.03% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 94 128
10th Percentile £200 £198 £238
25th Percentile £355 £336 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% -6.86% +4.88%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £590
90th Percentile £635 £695 £679
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £14.22 - -
Median hourly rate £14.51 £19.59 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +59.79% -77.30%
75th Percentile £14.80 £25.17 -
90th Percentile £14.97 £30.77 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £18.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.33% -23.81%

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 485 403 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 66.71% 59.26% 61.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 288 353
10th Percentile £272 £205 £325
25th Percentile £375 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £557 £590
90th Percentile £603 £641 £698
Scotland median daily rate £471 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile £13.93 £16.47 £11.10
25th Percentile £15.55 £18.77 £12.13
Median hourly rate £19.97 £21.87 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +66.19% -64.84%
75th Percentile £26.21 £32.17 £53.24
90th Percentile - £46.14 £63.44
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £17.46 £24.59
% change year-on-year +10.14% -29.00% +26.92%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector 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 18 September 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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.30%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.15%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.15%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.15%) CMS
4 1 (1.15%) Drupal
4 1 (1.15%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.15%) nginx
4 1 (1.15%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) AWS
2 11 (12.64%) Azure
3 10 (11.49%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.75%) GitHub
6 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.60%) Slack
7 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.45%) SaaS
7 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.30%) OCI
8 2 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) VPN
1 3 (3.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.15%) Firewall
2 1 (1.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Power BI
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.45%) MySQL
2 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.30%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.30%) Power Query
3 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.15%) Big Data
4 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.15%) GIS
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.15%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.90%) JIRA
3 5 (5.75%) webpack
4 4 (4.60%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.15%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.15%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.15%) GitLab
6 1 (1.15%) Selenium
General
1 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.24%) Finance
4 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Back Office
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Publishing
7 1 (1.15%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Military
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Architect
4 6 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (5.75%) Administrator
5 5 (5.75%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Service Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Service Desk Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.60%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Senior
7 3 (3.45%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Lead
7 3 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (2.30%) Consultant
8 2 (2.30%) Security Analyst
8 2 (2.30%) Support Assistant
8 2 (2.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) HTML
1 7 (8.05%) Node.js
1 7 (8.05%) RESTful
2 6 (6.90%) CSS
3 5 (5.75%) CSS3
3 5 (5.75%) HTML5
3 5 (5.75%) React
3 5 (5.75%) Redux
4 4 (4.60%) X-Windows
5 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.45%) LDAP
5 3 (3.45%) REST
6 2 (2.30%) JSON
6 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.30%) Vue
7 1 (1.15%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.15%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.15%) Spring
7 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Device Driver
1 4 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.15%) LIMS
3 1 (1.15%) NHS
3 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Windows
2 11 (12.64%) Linux
3 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.90%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.75%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.99%) Agile
2 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (18.39%) CI/CD
4 11 (12.64%) DevOps
4 11 (12.64%) Migration
5 9 (10.34%) Coaching
5 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 8 (9.20%) Service Delivery
6 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (8.05%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (8.05%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (8.05%) Data Analysis
7 7 (8.05%) Decision-Making
7 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (8.05%) Microservices
7 7 (8.05%) Prototyping
7 7 (8.05%) Service Management
8 6 (6.90%) Customer Service
8 6 (6.90%) Design Patterns
8 6 (6.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.64%) Python
2 9 (10.34%) Java
3 8 (9.20%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.75%) SQL
6 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.45%) Bicep
8 2 (2.30%) Bash
8 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.30%) R
9 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.15%) ProC
Qualifications
1 24 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) Degree
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.60%) CISSP
6 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.60%) MCSA
7 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.30%) CEH
8 2 (2.30%) CIPD
8 2 (2.30%) CISM
8 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.30%) GIAC
8 2 (2.30%) HNC
9 1 (1.15%) ICAEW
9 1 (1.15%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) GDPR
2 5 (5.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.60%) QA
4 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.30%) SLA
5 2 (2.30%) WCAG
6 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (10.34%) Terraform
2 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.60%) Argo
3 4 (4.60%) Istio
3 4 (4.60%) SCCM
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.30%) Grafana
5 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.15%) Kibana
6 1 (1.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) Oracle
3 3 (3.45%) Splunk
4 2 (2.30%) Apple
5 1 (1.15%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.15%) F5
5 1 (1.15%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.15%) Okta
5 1 (1.15%) Pega
5 1 (1.15%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.15%) Remedy
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.15%) SAP
5 1 (1.15%) Workday