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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 96 139 152
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.71% 18.41% 17.57%
As % of the General category 20.92% 27.91% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 104 104
10th Percentile £249 £208 £150
25th Percentile £400 £391 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £478
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -4.45% +0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £591
90th Percentile £638 £681 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £15.24 £18.26 -
25th Percentile £17.20 £19.59 -
Median hourly rate £21.01 £23.05 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +87.97% -17.39%
75th Percentile £25.35 £32.81 -
90th Percentile £27.63 £38.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £23.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% +31.43% +2.70%

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 459 498 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.57% 65.96% 62.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 315 372
10th Percentile £261 £255 £314
25th Percentile £394 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £635
90th Percentile £638 £631 £722
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 12
10th Percentile £16.07 £18.34 £12.01
25th Percentile £21.69 £19.59 £12.23
Median hourly rate £24.09 £25.33 £15.71
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +61.20% -29.74%
75th Percentile £32.92 £40.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £47.96 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year -25.54% +13.29% +25.10%

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 31 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Glasgow

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 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.04%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.04%) nginx
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.04%) InDesign
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.04%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) AWS
2 20 (20.83%) Azure
3 9 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.33%) Serverless
5 7 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.25%) SaaS
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (4.17%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.13%) GitHub
9 3 (3.13%) Slack
10 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) WAN
2 4 (4.17%) VPN
3 3 (3.13%) Firewall
3 3 (3.13%) LAN
3 3 (3.13%) MPLS
4 2 (2.08%) SDH
5 1 (1.04%) BGP
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.04%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.04%) Multicast
5 1 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) OSPF
5 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.04%) TETRA
5 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Power BI
2 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (5.21%) MySQL
3 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (2.08%) Tableau
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.04%) Big Data
7 1 (1.04%) GIS
7 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.04%) HBase
7 1 (1.04%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.17%) JIRA
4 3 (3.13%) Terragrunt
4 3 (3.13%) webpack
5 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.08%) GitLab
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.04%) JUnit
6 1 (1.04%) MLflow
6 1 (1.04%) Mockito
6 1 (1.04%) NUnit
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.08%) Local Government
8 1 (1.04%) Billing
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.04%) Police
8 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (19.79%) Architect
2 11 (11.46%) Analyst
3 10 (10.42%) Developer
4 9 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.29%) Senior
6 5 (5.21%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.21%) Lead
7 4 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.17%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (3.13%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 2 (2.08%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Node.js
2 6 (6.25%) React
3 5 (5.21%) HTML
4 4 (4.17%) JSON
4 4 (4.17%) REST
4 4 (4.17%) RESTful
5 3 (3.13%) .NET
5 3 (3.13%) CSS
5 3 (3.13%) CSS3
5 3 (3.13%) HTML5
5 3 (3.13%) Redux
5 3 (3.13%) XML
6 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.08%) Spring
6 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
7 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.04%) Kafka
7 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) NHS
2 4 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (4.17%) IVR
2 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (3.13%) Device Driver
3 3 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.79%) CI/CD
2 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (16.67%) Agile
4 14 (14.58%) Migration
5 13 (13.54%) DevOps
5 13 (13.54%) Roadmaps
6 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (10.42%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (10.42%) Microservices
8 9 (9.38%) Analytics
8 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.38%) SDLC
9 8 (8.33%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.29%) Coaching
10 7 (7.29%) Data Protection
10 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
10 7 (7.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 7 (7.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) Java
3 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.25%) SQL
5 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.13%) Bicep
7 2 (2.08%) Bash
7 2 (2.08%) C#
7 2 (2.08%) Go
7 2 (2.08%) R
8 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.50%) Degree
4 8 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (7.29%) CISSP
6 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.17%) CISM
7 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.13%) CEH
8 3 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.13%) GIAC
8 3 (3.13%) MCSA
8 3 (3.13%) SSCP
9 2 (2.08%) CIPD
9 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.04%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) GDPR
2 7 (7.29%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.21%) PMO
4 4 (4.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (3.13%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.13%) SLA
6 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.04%) NCSC
7 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.29%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Terraform
2 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (3.13%) Argo
3 3 (3.13%) Istio
3 3 (3.13%) SCCM
4 2 (2.08%) Grafana
4 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.04%) Kibana
5 1 (1.04%) logstash
5 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Cisco
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 5 (5.21%) Splunk
4 4 (4.17%) Pega
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.13%) Avaya
5 3 (3.13%) Genesys
6 2 (2.08%) F5
6 2 (2.08%) Google
6 2 (2.08%) Greenplum
6 2 (2.08%) Informatica
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.08%) SAP
6 2 (2.08%) Talend
7 1 (1.04%) Adobe
7 1 (1.04%) Meraki
7 1 (1.04%) Remedy
7 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds