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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 117 105 111
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.29% 12.96% 15.42%
As % of the General category 17.65% 18.78% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 68 87
10th Percentile £313 £235 £203
25th Percentile £394 £370 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -0.53% -5.28%
75th Percentile £604 £541 £581
90th Percentile £775 £629 £683
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -2.70%
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 £19.83 £15.96
% change year-on-year +28.01% +24.25% +3.94%

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 663 559 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 64.00% 69.01% 54.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 376 287
10th Percentile £250 £300 £223
25th Percentile £324 £374 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £648 £600 £651
Scotland median daily rate £460 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -1.02% +3.28% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 8
10th Percentile £13.49 £15.09 £14.68
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.80 £16.61
Median hourly rate £16.86 £19.97 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% -8.91% -11.42%
75th Percentile £40.48 £26.21 £36.32
90th Percentile £43.96 - £50.33
Scotland median hourly rate £16.82 £19.37 £16.71
% change year-on-year -13.14% +15.89% -12.88%

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 27 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 10 (8.55%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) CMS
2 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.85%) InDesign
3 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.08%) AWS
2 13 (11.11%) OCI
3 11 (9.40%) Azure
4 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.13%) GCP
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.56%) SaaS
9 2 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.71%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.71%) GitHub
9 2 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.71%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.71%) Serverless
9 2 (1.71%) Slack
9 2 (1.71%) SonarCloud
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (1.71%) DNS
2 2 (1.71%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.71%) SSH
2 2 (1.71%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) MPLS
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) SDH
3 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.84%) MySQL
2 7 (5.98%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.42%) MariaDB
4 4 (3.42%) Power BI
5 3 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (2.56%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.71%) Metadata
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.71%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.85%) QlikView
7 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (8.55%) JIRA
2 8 (6.84%) Git
3 7 (5.98%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.42%) Gradle
4 4 (3.42%) Maven
4 4 (3.42%) Subversion
5 3 (2.56%) GoCD
5 3 (2.56%) JProfiler
5 3 (2.56%) JUnit
6 2 (1.71%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.71%) Selenium
6 2 (1.71%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.85%) Appium
7 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.85%) Postman
7 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.38%) Finance
3 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Publishing
7 3 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Military
8 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (11.97%) Analyst
1 14 (11.97%) Architect
2 13 (11.11%) Senior
3 10 (8.55%) Consultant
4 9 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Cloud Consultant
6 7 (5.98%) Designer
6 7 (5.98%) Developer
6 7 (5.98%) Lead
6 7 (5.98%) Oracle Consultant
7 6 (5.13%) Help Desk Consultant
7 6 (5.13%) HR Consultant
7 6 (5.13%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
8 4 (3.42%) Administrator
8 4 (3.42%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.42%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (2.56%) 1st Line Support
9 3 (2.56%) Procurement Consultant
9 3 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) Spring
1 9 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 7 (5.98%) React
3 4 (3.42%) Jest
3 4 (3.42%) Middleware
3 4 (3.42%) Node.js
3 4 (3.42%) Playwright
3 4 (3.42%) RESTful
3 4 (3.42%) Web Services
4 3 (2.56%) FreeMarker
4 3 (2.56%) JSF
4 3 (2.56%) REST
5 2 (1.71%) ADO
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.85%) JSON
6 1 (0.85%) OAuth
6 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.85%) Redux
6 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.56%) NHS
4 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.85%) CCTV
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.85%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.84%) Linux
2 7 (5.98%) Windows
3 4 (3.42%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.85%) Android
5 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.66%) Agile
2 19 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (13.68%) CI/CD
3 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (12.82%) DevOps
4 15 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 13 (11.11%) Migration
6 12 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (9.40%) Microservices
8 10 (8.55%) ERP
8 10 (8.55%) Scrum
8 10 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (7.69%) Test Automation
10 8 (6.84%) Coaching
10 8 (6.84%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.84%) Decision-Making
10 8 (6.84%) Project Delivery
11 7 (5.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (5.98%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.38%) Java
2 8 (6.84%) Python
2 8 (6.84%) SQL
3 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.56%) Bash
6 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.85%) Bicep
7 1 (0.85%) C#
7 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 35 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.27%) Degree
5 4 (3.42%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.56%) CCAB
7 2 (1.71%) IIBA
7 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CIMA
8 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.84%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.84%) QA
2 4 (3.42%) PMO
3 3 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.56%) GDPR
4 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.71%) NCSC
4 2 (1.71%) NIST
4 2 (1.71%) WCAG
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.71%) Ceph
2 2 (1.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.71%) Squid
2 2 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.69%) Terraform
2 6 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.27%) Ansible
3 5 (4.27%) Istio
4 2 (1.71%) Argo
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
5 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Oracle
2 14 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.27%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.42%) Google
6 2 (1.71%) VMware
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) BT
7 1 (0.85%) Dell
7 1 (0.85%) FIS
7 1 (0.85%) Fiserv
7 1 (0.85%) Okta
7 1 (0.85%) Openreach
7 1 (0.85%) SmartStream
7 1 (0.85%) Workday