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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 19 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 160 93 121
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.48% 12.92% 17.87%
As % of the General category 20.59% 19.21% 29.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 64 97
10th Percentile £351 £214 £196
25th Percentile £375 £370 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £576 £578 £588
90th Percentile £775 £638 £683
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £14.05 £18.52
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 £29.84
90th Percentile - £14.97 £37.70
Scotland median hourly rate £13.50 £19.37 £19.38
% change year-on-year -30.29% -0.08% +12.61%

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 777 484 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.46% 67.22% 59.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 312 288
10th Percentile £255 £268 £204
25th Percentile £359 £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +3.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £547 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £622 £638
Scotland median daily rate £465 £472 £450
% change year-on-year -1.38% +4.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 11 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.93 £17.08
25th Percentile £13.50 £15.55 £19.32
Median hourly rate £32.34 £19.97 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +61.92% -8.69% +66.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £36.50
90th Percentile - - £43.89
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £16.92
% change year-on-year -16.22% +13.65% -51.66%

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 23 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 14 (8.75%) Confluence
2 6 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.13%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.63%) InDesign
3 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.88%) AWS
2 13 (8.13%) Azure
2 13 (8.13%) OCI
3 12 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.63%) GCP
5 5 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.13%) SaaS
6 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.88%) GitHub
8 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.25%) Boomi
8 2 (1.25%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.25%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.25%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.25%) IaaS
8 2 (1.25%) Miro
8 2 (1.25%) Serverless
8 2 (1.25%) Slack
8 2 (1.25%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.88%) DNS
1 3 (1.88%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (1.88%) SSH
1 3 (1.88%) SSL
2 2 (1.25%) VoIP
3 1 (0.63%) Network Security
3 1 (0.63%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) MySQL
1 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (3.75%) MariaDB
2 6 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.88%) Metadata
3 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.88%) Power BI
3 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.25%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.75%) JIRA
2 10 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.00%) Git
4 6 (3.75%) Gradle
4 6 (3.75%) Maven
5 4 (2.50%) Subversion
6 3 (1.88%) GoCD
6 3 (1.88%) JProfiler
6 3 (1.88%) JUnit
6 3 (1.88%) webpack
7 2 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.25%) Selenium
8 1 (0.63%) Appium
8 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.63%) Postman
8 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 39 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.88%) Finance
4 9 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (2.50%) Military
6 3 (1.88%) Publishing
6 3 (1.88%) Retail
7 2 (1.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 30 (18.75%) Architect
2 21 (13.13%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (9.38%) Analyst
3 15 (9.38%) Technical Architect
4 14 (8.75%) Senior
5 10 (6.25%) Administrator
5 10 (6.25%) Consultant
5 10 (6.25%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 9 (5.63%) DBA
7 7 (4.38%) Cloud Consultant
7 7 (4.38%) Linux Administrator
7 7 (4.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 7 (4.38%) Oracle Consultant
7 7 (4.38%) SQL DBA
7 7 (4.38%) SQL Server DBA
7 7 (4.38%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (3.75%) Designer
8 6 (3.75%) Developer
8 6 (3.75%) HR Consultant
8 6 (3.75%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.50%) Spring
1 12 (7.50%) Spring Boot
2 7 (4.38%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Jest
3 6 (3.75%) Node.js
3 6 (3.75%) React
3 6 (3.75%) RESTful
4 5 (3.13%) REST
5 4 (2.50%) Middleware
5 4 (2.50%) Playwright
5 4 (2.50%) Web Services
6 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.88%) FreeMarker
6 3 (1.88%) JSF
6 3 (1.88%) Redux
6 3 (1.88%) Vue
7 2 (1.25%) ADO
8 1 (0.63%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.63%) HTML
8 1 (0.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.88%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.88%) NHS
6 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.25%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.63%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.63%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.00%) Linux
2 8 (5.00%) Windows
3 7 (4.38%) SUSE
4 3 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.25%) Android
5 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (21.88%) Agile
2 27 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (10.63%) CI/CD
5 15 (9.38%) DevOps
5 15 (9.38%) Roadmaps
6 14 (8.75%) Decision-Making
6 14 (8.75%) Mentoring
6 14 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (7.50%) Coaching
7 12 (7.50%) Scrum
8 11 (6.88%) Microservices
8 11 (6.88%) Project Delivery
8 11 (6.88%) Risk Management
9 10 (6.25%) ERP
10 9 (5.63%) Migration
10 9 (5.63%) Test Automation
10 9 (5.63%) User Experience
11 8 (5.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.00%) Java
2 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.38%) Python
4 6 (3.75%) Bash
5 5 (3.13%) SQL
5 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.88%) Groovy
8 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.63%) C#
9 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.75%) Degree
4 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.25%) IIBA
6 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) CISA
7 1 (0.63%) CISM
7 1 (0.63%) CISSP
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) HND
7 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.63%) LFCS
7 1 (0.63%) RHCE
7 1 (0.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (3.75%) QA
3 6 (3.75%) WCAG
4 5 (3.13%) GDPR
4 5 (3.13%) PMO
5 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.88%) NCSC
5 3 (1.88%) NIST
6 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (3.75%) Docker
2 5 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.88%) Ceph
3 3 (1.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.25%) Squid
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.38%) Ansible
2 5 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.88%) Istio
4 1 (0.63%) Argo
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (16.88%) Oracle
2 18 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.13%) Google
4 5 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.88%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.88%) VMware
6 2 (1.25%) Adobe
6 2 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.63%) Dell
7 1 (0.63%) Okta
7 1 (0.63%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.63%) Workday