Public Sector Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 97 139 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.16% 15.85% 21.01%
As % of the General category 17.57% 28.60% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 100 168
10th Percentile £298 £156 £244
25th Percentile £413 £358 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £482
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.62% +7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £622 £675 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £19.62 - -
25th Percentile £19.67 £23.34 -
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% - -
75th Percentile £23.83 £25.17 -
90th Percentile £26.18 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.33 £17.50 £15.36
% change year-on-year +39.03% +13.97% -39.78%

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 552 486 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 69.17% 55.42% 67.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 328 471
10th Percentile £313 £225 £325
25th Percentile £399 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -0.84% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £600
90th Percentile £606 £696 £723
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.21% - +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 11
10th Percentile £16.75 £11.50 £13.13
25th Percentile £19.63 £15.42 £26.63
Median hourly rate £23.17 £18.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year +28.69% -62.29% +88.84%
75th Percentile £55.69 £41.56 £59.65
90th Percentile £74.10 £75.00 £66.56
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 £19.17 £19.88
% change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -23.54%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Glasgow

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Glasgow

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Glasgow

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Glasgow

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.34%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.06%) JBoss
3 2 (2.06%) OpenROAD
4 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe XD
5 2 (2.06%) Sketch
6 1 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.62%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) AWS
3 10 (10.31%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.09%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (3.09%) OCI
7 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.06%) Figma
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.03%) GCP
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) WAN
2 2 (2.06%) Network Security
2 2 (2.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.03%) 4G
3 1 (1.03%) Intranet
3 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) MySQL
2 6 (6.19%) MariaDB
3 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) EDRMS
4 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.03%) OLAP
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Git
2 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.12%) JIRA
3 3 (3.09%) webpack
4 1 (1.03%) Gatling
4 1 (1.03%) JMeter
4 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Back Office
5 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Local Government
6 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.03%) Electronics
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (21.65%) Developer
2 19 (19.59%) Analyst
3 9 (9.28%) Project Manager
4 8 (8.25%) Senior
5 7 (7.22%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Consultant
6 6 (6.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (5.15%) Lead
7 5 (5.15%) Service Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Administrator
8 4 (4.12%) Designer
8 4 (4.12%) Service Designer
9 3 (3.09%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (3.09%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.09%) IT Services Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Power Apps Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) SharePoint Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (2.06%) Senior Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) CSS
1 9 (9.28%) HTML
1 9 (9.28%) Node.js
2 7 (7.22%) Spring
2 7 (7.22%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.19%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.19%) REST
4 5 (5.15%) React
5 4 (4.12%) HTML5
5 4 (4.12%) RESTful
6 3 (3.09%) CSS3
6 3 (3.09%) Express.js
6 3 (3.09%) LDAP
6 3 (3.09%) Redux
6 3 (3.09%) X-Windows
7 2 (2.06%) Laravel
7 2 (2.06%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (2.06%) SOAP
7 2 (2.06%) Vue
7 2 (2.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.06%) NHS
3 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.03%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.03%) CMDB
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) PMI
4 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Windows
3 4 (4.12%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.09%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) Android
5 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (21.65%) Agile
3 14 (14.43%) Project Management
4 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
4 13 (13.40%) DevOps
4 13 (13.40%) Microservices
5 11 (11.34%) Mentoring
6 10 (10.31%) ITIL
6 10 (10.31%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.31%) Service Management
7 9 (9.28%) Knowledge Transfer
7 9 (9.28%) Service Delivery
8 7 (7.22%) CRM
8 7 (7.22%) Programme Management
8 7 (7.22%) Service Design
8 7 (7.22%) TDD
9 6 (6.19%) Data Security
9 6 (6.19%) Scrum
9 6 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.19%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.53%) JavaScript
2 11 (11.34%) Shell Script
2 11 (11.34%) TypeScript
3 10 (10.31%) Java
4 7 (7.22%) SQL
5 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.09%) Python
7 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.06%) Bicep
7 2 (2.06%) PHP
7 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.03%) Bash
8 1 (1.03%) C#
8 1 (1.03%) ProC
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) PMP
6 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.03%) ACCA
7 1 (1.03%) CCNA
7 1 (1.03%) CCNP
7 1 (1.03%) CIMA
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CISM
7 1 (1.03%) CISSP
7 1 (1.03%) HNC
7 1 (1.03%) ICAEW
7 1 (1.03%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (5.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.12%) PMO
4 3 (3.09%) WCAG
5 2 (2.06%) GDPR
5 2 (2.06%) GRC
5 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.06%) SLA
6 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) Docker
3 3 (3.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.03%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.28%) Terraform
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.06%) CASB
4 1 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.28%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.09%) Adobe
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
4 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.06%) Snow
6 1 (1.03%) Apple
6 1 (1.03%) BT
6 1 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.03%) Equitrac
6 1 (1.03%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Workday