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 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 115 98 113
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.77% 12.27% 14.75%
As % of the General category 18.05% 17.35% 27.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 63 88
10th Percentile £308 £200 £196
25th Percentile £410 £370 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -1.05% -6.86%
75th Percentile £599 £531 £578
90th Percentile £775 £608 £653
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £15.99 £17.45
25th Percentile - £17.34 £18.26
Median hourly rate - £19.59 £19.59
75th Percentile - £19.75 £22.38
90th Percentile - £19.85 £24.06
Scotland median hourly rate £25.39 £22.08 £16.92
% change year-on-year +14.97% +30.50% +10.19%

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 637 565 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.20% 70.71% 53.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 371 291
10th Percentile £265 £300 £208
25th Percentile £325 £375 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -0.27% +3.06% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 15
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.09 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.67 £11.94
Median hourly rate £16.09 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +1.94% +5.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.21 £70.00
90th Percentile £42.57 £57.50 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.97 £17.50
% change year-on-year -19.33% +14.11% -3.37%

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 5 July 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
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 (7.83%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) CICS
3 1 (0.87%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.87%) InDesign
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (26.09%) AWS
2 13 (11.30%) OCI
3 10 (8.70%) Azure
4 6 (5.22%) GCP
4 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.74%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.74%) GitHub
7 2 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.74%) SaaS
7 2 (1.74%) Serverless
7 2 (1.74%) Slack
7 2 (1.74%) SonarCloud
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.74%) SSH
2 2 (1.74%) SSL
3 1 (0.87%) DSL
3 1 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.87%) MPLS
3 1 (0.87%) Network Security
3 1 (0.87%) SAN
3 1 (0.87%) SDH
3 1 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) MySQL
2 8 (6.96%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.48%) MariaDB
5 3 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.61%) Metadata
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.61%) Power BI
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.74%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.87%) Db2
7 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Git
1 8 (6.96%) JIRA
2 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.48%) Gradle
3 4 (3.48%) Maven
3 4 (3.48%) Subversion
4 3 (2.61%) GoCD
4 3 (2.61%) JProfiler
4 3 (2.61%) JUnit
5 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.74%) Selenium
5 2 (1.74%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.87%) Postman
6 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.39%) Finance
3 12 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Military
7 2 (1.74%) Police
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
8 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (13.04%) Architect
2 14 (12.17%) Analyst
2 14 (12.17%) Senior
3 10 (8.70%) Consultant
4 8 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.09%) Cloud Consultant
5 7 (6.09%) Oracle Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) Developer
6 6 (5.22%) Help Desk Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) HR Consultant
6 6 (5.22%) Lead
6 6 (5.22%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
7 5 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Administrator
8 4 (3.48%) Designer
8 4 (3.48%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Accountant
9 3 (2.61%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 3 (2.61%) Senior Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) Spring
1 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
2 7 (6.09%) React
3 4 (3.48%) Jest
3 4 (3.48%) Middleware
3 4 (3.48%) Node.js
3 4 (3.48%) Playwright
3 4 (3.48%) REST
3 4 (3.48%) RESTful
3 4 (3.48%) Web Services
4 3 (2.61%) FreeMarker
4 3 (2.61%) JSF
5 2 (1.74%) ADO
6 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.87%) JSON
6 1 (0.87%) JWT
6 1 (0.87%) OAuth
6 1 (0.87%) Redux
6 1 (0.87%) SOAP
6 1 (0.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.61%) NHS
4 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.87%) CCTV
5 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.87%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.87%) NVMe
5 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.87%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.87%) VSAM
5 1 (0.87%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Linux
2 8 (6.96%) Windows
3 4 (3.48%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.87%) Android
5 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (20.87%) Agile
2 18 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 15 (13.04%) DevOps
4 15 (13.04%) Migration
5 14 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.43%) Microservices
7 11 (9.57%) Mentoring
7 11 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (7.83%) Decision-Making
9 9 (7.83%) ERP
9 9 (7.83%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.96%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (6.96%) Scrum
10 8 (6.96%) SDLC
11 7 (6.09%) Service Delivery
11 7 (6.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.52%) Java
2 9 (7.83%) Python
2 9 (7.83%) SQL
3 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.48%) Bash
6 2 (1.74%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.87%) Bicep
7 1 (0.87%) C#
7 1 (0.87%) COBOL
7 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.87%) Groovy
7 1 (0.87%) JCL
7 1 (0.87%) Perl
7 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.87%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 41 (35.65%) Security Cleared
2 29 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) Degree
6 3 (2.61%) CCAB
6 3 (2.61%) IIBA
7 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CIMA
8 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.87%) NCDA
8 1 (0.87%) VCAP
8 1 (0.87%) VCP6
8 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) QA
2 7 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.61%) PMO
5 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 2 (1.74%) NIST
5 2 (1.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.87%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.74%) Ceph
3 2 (1.74%) Docker
3 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.74%) Squid
4 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (7.83%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) Ansible
2 6 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) Istio
4 2 (1.74%) Argo
4 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
5 1 (0.87%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.87%) SCCM
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) vMotion
5 1 (0.87%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) Oracle
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.35%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.61%) Google
5 3 (2.61%) VMware
6 1 (0.87%) Adobe
6 1 (0.87%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.87%) Brocade
6 1 (0.87%) BT
6 1 (0.87%) Cisco
6 1 (0.87%) Commvault
6 1 (0.87%) Dell
6 1 (0.87%) FIS
6 1 (0.87%) Fiserv
6 1 (0.87%) NetApp
6 1 (0.87%) Openreach
6 1 (0.87%) SmartStream
6 1 (0.87%) Workday