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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 4 3
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 97 148 159
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.92% 20.44% 18.77%
As % of the General category 19.64% 31.76% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 115 113
10th Percentile £187 £193 £200
25th Percentile £403 £364 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -11.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £588
90th Percentile £660 £681 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £14.05 £18.26 -
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 £30.77 -
90th Percentile £14.97 £38.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.12 £19.59 £13.54
% change year-on-year -17.71% +44.68% -23.59%

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 494 466 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.78% 64.36% 60.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 309 363
10th Percentile £259 £211 £325
25th Percentile £380 £350 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £625
90th Percentile £628 £640 £712
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 9
10th Percentile £15.36 £18.18 £10.48
25th Percentile £20.57 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £19.59 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.97% +59.92% -67.27%
75th Percentile £26.21 £34.50 £12.38
90th Percentile £51.26 £42.81 £14.28
Scotland median hourly rate £19.05 £19.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -1.27% -1.05% +7.68%

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 6 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 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.12%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.06%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.03%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.03%) CMS
5 1 (1.03%) Drupal
5 1 (1.03%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.03%) nginx
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (1.03%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) AWS
2 18 (18.56%) Azure
3 12 (12.37%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 7 (7.22%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.15%) GitHub
6 5 (5.15%) SaaS
7 4 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.12%) Serverless
7 4 (4.12%) Slack
7 4 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) WAN
2 4 (4.12%) VPN
3 3 (3.09%) Firewall
4 2 (2.06%) LAN
4 2 (2.06%) MPLS
5 1 (1.03%) BGP
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.03%) IPv4
5 1 (1.03%) Multicast
5 1 (1.03%) Network Security
5 1 (1.03%) OSPF
5 1 (1.03%) SDH
5 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.03%) TETRA
5 1 (1.03%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.09%) MySQL
4 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.06%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.06%) Power Query
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.03%) GIS
5 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.19%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) JIRA
3 5 (5.15%) webpack
4 4 (4.12%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.03%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.03%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.03%) GitLab
6 1 (1.03%) JUnit
6 1 (1.03%) Mockito
6 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Local Government
5 2 (2.06%) Publishing
5 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.03%) Billing
6 1 (1.03%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Marketing
6 1 (1.03%) Military
6 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Analyst
2 18 (18.56%) Architect
3 10 (10.31%) Developer
4 9 (9.28%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.19%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Senior
6 5 (5.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (5.15%) Service Analyst
6 5 (5.15%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (4.12%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.09%) AWS Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.25%) Node.js
2 7 (7.22%) RESTful
3 6 (6.19%) HTML
3 6 (6.19%) React
4 5 (5.15%) CSS
4 5 (5.15%) CSS3
4 5 (5.15%) HTML5
4 5 (5.15%) Redux
5 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.06%) J2EE
6 2 (2.06%) JSON
6 2 (2.06%) REST
6 2 (2.06%) Spring
6 2 (2.06%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.06%) Vue
7 1 (1.03%) .NET
7 1 (1.03%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.03%) SOAP
7 1 (1.03%) XML
7 1 (1.03%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.15%) Device Driver
1 5 (5.15%) NHS
2 4 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) IVR
5 1 (1.03%) LIMS
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Windows
2 11 (11.34%) Linux
3 5 (5.15%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.06%) Unix
6 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.59%) Agile
2 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
2 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (11.34%) Migration
3 11 (11.34%) Roadmaps
4 10 (10.31%) Coaching
4 10 (10.31%) DevOps
4 10 (10.31%) Mentoring
5 9 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (9.28%) Microservices
5 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (7.22%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (7.22%) Decision-Making
7 7 (7.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (7.22%) Prototyping
7 7 (7.22%) Service Delivery
7 7 (7.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) Python
2 11 (11.34%) Java
3 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.09%) Bicep
4 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.09%) SQL
5 2 (2.06%) Bash
5 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.06%) R
5 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.40%) Degree
4 8 (8.25%) CISSP
5 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.15%) MCSA
7 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.12%) CISM
8 3 (3.09%) CEH
8 3 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.09%) GIAC
8 3 (3.09%) SSCP
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.06%) CIPD
9 2 (2.06%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.06%) HNC
9 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) GDPR
2 5 (5.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.12%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.06%) PMO
4 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 2 (2.06%) WCAG
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.15%) Docker
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Terraform
2 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.15%) SCCM
4 4 (4.12%) Argo
4 4 (4.12%) Istio
5 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.06%) Grafana
6 2 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.03%) Kibana
7 1 (1.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (35.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) Splunk
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) F5
5 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.03%) Apple
6 1 (1.03%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.03%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.03%) Meraki
6 1 (1.03%) Okta
6 1 (1.03%) Pega
6 1 (1.03%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.03%) Remedy
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) SolarWinds