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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 17 6
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 -3
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 144 92 118
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.70% 12.65% 17.05%
As % of the General category 19.43% 18.97% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 92
10th Percentile £355 £205 £198
25th Percentile £375 £352 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -1.84% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £591
90th Percentile £775 £635 £687
Scotland median daily rate £475 £456 £450
% change year-on-year +4.11% +1.39% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £17.99
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £15.09 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - -22.97% +59.79%
75th Percentile - - £25.17
90th Percentile - - £30.77
Scotland median hourly rate - £21.85 £18.00
% change year-on-year - +21.38% +33.33%

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 741 485 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.34% 66.71% 58.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 320 287
10th Percentile £250 £274 £206
25th Percentile £337 £368 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £589 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 10 10
10th Percentile £13.29 £14.97 £16.47
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.99 £18.77
Median hourly rate £40.32 £21.86 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +84.45% -0.05% +59.58%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £32.17
90th Percentile - £29.34 £46.14
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £17.46
% change year-on-year -16.22% +10.14% -8.97%

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 9 September 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 15 (10.42%) Confluence
2 6 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.47%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.69%) InDesign
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.75%) AWS
2 13 (9.03%) OCI
3 12 (8.33%) Azure
4 11 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.56%) GCP
6 5 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.78%) SaaS
8 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.39%) Boomi
9 2 (1.39%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.39%) GitHub
9 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.39%) IaaS
9 2 (1.39%) Miro
9 2 (1.39%) Serverless
9 2 (1.39%) Slack
9 2 (1.39%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) DNS
1 4 (2.78%) HTTPS
1 4 (2.78%) SSH
1 4 (2.78%) SSL
2 3 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.69%) MPLS
3 1 (0.69%) SDH
3 1 (0.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.56%) MySQL
2 7 (4.86%) MariaDB
2 7 (4.86%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.08%) Metadata
4 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.08%) SQLPlus
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.39%) Power BI
6 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (10.42%) JIRA
2 9 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.86%) Git
4 6 (4.17%) Gradle
4 6 (4.17%) Maven
5 4 (2.78%) Subversion
6 3 (2.08%) GoCD
6 3 (2.08%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.08%) JUnit
6 3 (2.08%) webpack
7 2 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.69%) Appium
8 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.69%) Postman
8 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 36 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.03%) Finance
3 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.08%) Military
5 3 (2.08%) Publishing
5 3 (2.08%) Retail
6 2 (1.39%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Legal
7 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (16.67%) Architect
2 16 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (9.03%) Senior
4 12 (8.33%) Analyst
4 12 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 10 (6.94%) Administrator
5 10 (6.94%) Consultant
6 7 (4.86%) Cloud Consultant
6 7 (4.86%) DBA
6 7 (4.86%) Linux Administrator
6 7 (4.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 7 (4.86%) Oracle Consultant
6 7 (4.86%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (4.86%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Designer
7 6 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.17%) Help Desk Consultant
7 6 (4.17%) HR Consultant
7 6 (4.17%) Lead
7 6 (4.17%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.03%) Spring
1 13 (9.03%) Spring Boot
2 7 (4.86%) Terraform
3 6 (4.17%) Jest
3 6 (4.17%) Node.js
3 6 (4.17%) React
3 6 (4.17%) RESTful
4 4 (2.78%) Middleware
4 4 (2.78%) Playwright
4 4 (2.78%) REST
4 4 (2.78%) Web Services
5 3 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.08%) FreeMarker
5 3 (2.08%) JSF
5 3 (2.08%) Redux
5 3 (2.08%) Vue
6 2 (1.39%) ADO
7 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.69%) HTML
7 1 (0.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.08%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.08%) NHS
4 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.69%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.69%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.11%) Linux
2 7 (4.86%) SUSE
2 7 (4.86%) Windows
3 3 (2.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.69%) Android
5 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.92%) Agile
2 25 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 18 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 15 (10.42%) DevOps
7 13 (9.03%) Mentoring
8 12 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 12 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 12 (8.33%) Scrum
9 11 (7.64%) ERP
10 10 (6.94%) Coaching
10 10 (6.94%) Microservices
11 9 (6.25%) Migration
11 9 (6.25%) Test Automation
12 8 (5.56%) Roadmaps
12 8 (5.56%) Service Management
12 8 (5.56%) User Experience
13 7 (4.86%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.81%) Java
2 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.86%) Python
4 6 (4.17%) Bash
4 6 (4.17%) SQL
5 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.08%) Groovy
8 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.78%) Degree
5 2 (1.39%) IIBA
5 2 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.69%) CCAB
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.69%) LFCS
6 1 (0.69%) RHCE
6 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.17%) WCAG
3 5 (3.47%) PMO
4 4 (2.78%) GDPR
4 4 (2.78%) QA
5 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.39%) NCSC
5 2 (1.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
1 5 (3.47%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Ceph
2 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.08%) Squid
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.86%) Ansible
2 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.78%) Istio
4 1 (0.69%) Argo
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (18.06%) Oracle
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.47%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.78%) Google
5 4 (2.78%) VMware
6 3 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.39%) Adobe
7 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.69%) BT
8 1 (0.69%) Dell
8 1 (0.69%) Okta
8 1 (0.69%) Openreach
8 1 (0.69%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.69%) Workday