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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 145 99 136
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.01% 13.40% 19.71%
As % of the General category 18.81% 20.33% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 67 108
10th Percentile £363 £194 £199
25th Percentile £375 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £557
90th Percentile £736 £638 £673
Scotland median daily rate £475 £471 £450
% change year-on-year +0.84% +4.68% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £14.05 £18.26
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.22 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £14.51 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -25.93% +59.79%
75th Percentile £13.75 £14.80 £30.77
90th Percentile - £14.97 £38.50
Scotland median hourly rate £13.50 £17.15 £19.17
% change year-on-year -21.28% -10.54% +24.68%

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 771 487 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 63.88% 65.90% 62.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 322 297
10th Percentile £263 £269 £210
25th Percentile £359 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £544 £538
90th Percentile £638 £622 £633
Scotland median daily rate £463 £471 £438
% change year-on-year -1.81% +7.67% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.09 £16.47
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.99 £18.77
Median hourly rate £32.34 £23.75 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.15% +21.24% +59.92%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £31.91
90th Percentile - £57.50 £42.65
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £18.37 £16.92
% change year-on-year -12.30% +8.57% -8.29%

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 October 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 14 (9.66%) Confluence
2 7 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.69%) InDesign
3 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.55%) AWS
2 14 (9.66%) Azure
3 10 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.21%) GCP
5 8 (5.52%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.14%) OCI
7 5 (3.45%) SaaS
8 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.07%) Boomi
8 3 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.07%) GitHub
8 3 (2.07%) Miro
9 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.38%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.38%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.38%) IaaS
9 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.38%) PaaS
9 2 (1.38%) Slack
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) DNS
2 3 (2.07%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.07%) SSH
2 3 (2.07%) SSL
3 2 (1.38%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.38%) VoIP
4 1 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.69%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.52%) MySQL
3 6 (4.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (4.14%) MariaDB
3 6 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.45%) Power BI
5 4 (2.76%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.38%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.38%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.69%) Metadata
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (10.34%) JIRA
2 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.52%) Git
4 6 (4.14%) Gradle
4 6 (4.14%) Maven
5 4 (2.76%) Subversion
6 3 (2.07%) GoCD
6 3 (2.07%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.07%) JUnit
6 3 (2.07%) webpack
7 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Appium
8 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.69%) Postman
8 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 39 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.83%) Finance
3 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (3.45%) Military
5 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.07%) Publishing
5 3 (2.07%) Retail
6 2 (1.38%) Legal
6 2 (1.38%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Back Office
7 1 (0.69%) Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.69%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (20.00%) Architect
2 22 (15.17%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (8.28%) Analyst
3 12 (8.28%) Technical Architect
4 10 (6.90%) DBA
4 10 (6.90%) Senior
4 10 (6.90%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.52%) SQL DBA
5 8 (5.52%) SQL Server DBA
6 7 (4.83%) Administrator
6 7 (4.83%) Developer
6 7 (4.83%) Linux Administrator
6 7 (4.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 7 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (4.14%) Designer
8 5 (3.45%) Lead
9 4 (2.76%) Consultant
9 4 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.76%) Service Owner
9 4 (2.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) Spring
1 10 (6.90%) Spring Boot
2 7 (4.83%) Node.js
3 6 (4.14%) Jest
3 6 (4.14%) React
3 6 (4.14%) REST
3 6 (4.14%) RESTful
4 4 (2.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.76%) Terraform
4 4 (2.76%) Web Services
5 3 (2.07%) FreeMarker
5 3 (2.07%) JSF
5 3 (2.07%) Redux
5 3 (2.07%) Vue
6 2 (1.38%) Middleware
6 2 (1.38%) Playwright
7 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.69%) HTML
7 1 (0.69%) JSON
7 1 (0.69%) OpenJDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.76%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.38%) Clustering
5 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.38%) NHS
5 2 (1.38%) PKI
5 2 (1.38%) Replication
5 2 (1.38%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.38%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.34%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) SUSE
3 6 (4.14%) Windows
4 3 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.38%) macOS
6 1 (0.69%) AIX
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.52%) Agile
2 21 (14.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 13 (8.97%) CI/CD
4 13 (8.97%) Roadmaps
5 12 (8.28%) DevOps
5 12 (8.28%) Mentoring
5 12 (8.28%) Microservices
5 12 (8.28%) Scrum
6 11 (7.59%) Decision-Making
6 11 (7.59%) Project Delivery
6 11 (7.59%) Risk Management
7 10 (6.90%) Coaching
7 10 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (6.90%) User Experience
8 9 (6.21%) Migration
8 9 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (5.52%) Service Management
9 8 (5.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.66%) Java
2 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
3 6 (4.14%) Bash
3 6 (4.14%) SQL
4 5 (3.45%) Python
4 5 (3.45%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.07%) Groovy
6 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.07%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 37 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.14%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.38%) HND
6 2 (1.38%) IIBA
6 2 (1.38%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.38%) MCSA
6 2 (1.38%) MCSE
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CISA
7 1 (0.69%) CISM
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) LFCS
7 1 (0.69%) RHCE
7 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) Accessibility
1 11 (7.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.14%) QA
2 6 (4.14%) WCAG
3 5 (3.45%) GDPR
3 5 (3.45%) PMO
4 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.07%) NCSC
4 3 (2.07%) NIST
5 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (4.14%) Docker
2 5 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 5 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.07%) Ceph
3 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.38%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.38%) Squid
4 2 (1.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.83%) Ansible
2 2 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.38%) Perfmon
2 2 (1.38%) SCCM
2 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Oracle
2 18 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.45%) Google
3 5 (3.45%) MuleSoft
3 5 (3.45%) VMware
4 3 (2.07%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.38%) Adobe
5 2 (1.38%) Citrix
5 2 (1.38%) Commvault
5 2 (1.38%) Dell
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.38%) Veeam
6 1 (0.69%) Okta
6 1 (0.69%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.69%) Workday