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 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 93 123 153
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.46% 16.21% 16.68%
As % of the General category 20.26% 24.12% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 91 108
10th Percentile £285 £178 £150
25th Percentile £413 £370 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.82%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £588
90th Percentile £627 £675 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +1.12% -6.32% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £15.24 - -
25th Percentile £17.20 £19.59 -
Median hourly rate £21.01 £26.50 £12.26
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +116.15% -
75th Percentile £25.35 £34.50 -
90th Percentile £27.63 £39.30 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £24.18 £17.50
% change year-on-year -28.74% +38.17% -1.24%

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 459 510 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 66.43% 67.19% 61.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 310 382
10th Percentile £278 £261 £308
25th Percentile £383 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.82%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £626
90th Percentile £638 £625 £722
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £485
% change year-on-year - -7.22% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 20
10th Percentile £15.27 £19.59 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £23.01 £11.88
Median hourly rate £24.09 £29.75 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +77.61% -30.53%
75th Percentile £29.16 £48.13 £19.50
90th Percentile £46.25 £70.46 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.87 £24.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.54% -7.69% +53.53%

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 4 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

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 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache
3 1 (1.08%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.08%) CICS
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.08%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.08%) InDesign
5 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) AWS
2 21 (22.58%) Azure
3 9 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (7.53%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.53%) Serverless
4 7 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.45%) SaaS
6 5 (5.38%) GCP
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.15%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) WAN
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 3 (3.23%) Firewall
3 3 (3.23%) LAN
3 3 (3.23%) MPLS
4 2 (2.15%) Network Security
4 2 (2.15%) SDH
5 1 (1.08%) BGP
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.08%) DSL
5 1 (1.08%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.08%) IPv4
5 1 (1.08%) OSPF
5 1 (1.08%) SAN
5 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) MySQL
1 9 (9.68%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.38%) Power BI
2 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.08%) Metadata
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (2.15%) GitLab
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.08%) JUnit
3 1 (1.08%) MLflow
3 1 (1.08%) Mockito
3 1 (1.08%) NUnit
3 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Finance
4 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Police
6 2 (2.15%) Banking
6 2 (2.15%) Local Government
6 2 (2.15%) Publishing
6 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.08%) Billing
7 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.08%) Military
7 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (19.35%) Architect
2 12 (12.90%) Analyst
3 7 (7.53%) Senior
3 7 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.45%) Developer
5 5 (5.38%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.30%) DBA
6 4 (4.30%) Lead
6 4 (4.30%) Security Architect
6 4 (4.30%) Site Engineer
6 4 (4.30%) Technical Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Architect
8 2 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.45%) React
2 5 (5.38%) Node.js
3 4 (4.30%) JSON
4 3 (3.23%) REST
4 3 (3.23%) XML
5 2 (2.15%) .NET
5 2 (2.15%) Spring
5 2 (2.15%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.08%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.08%) J2EE
6 1 (1.08%) JPA
6 1 (1.08%) Kafka
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.08%) PySpark
6 1 (1.08%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.53%) NHS
3 4 (4.30%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) IVR
4 3 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.23%) Replication
5 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.15%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.08%) MISP
6 1 (1.08%) NVMe
6 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Windows
3 3 (3.23%) Unix
4 2 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (16.13%) Migration
3 14 (15.05%) Agile
3 14 (15.05%) SDLC
4 11 (11.83%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (11.83%) Microservices
4 11 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (10.75%) CI/CD
5 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (9.68%) Decision-Making
6 9 (9.68%) DevOps
7 8 (8.60%) Roadmaps
7 8 (8.60%) Runbook
8 7 (7.53%) Cloud Security
8 7 (7.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (7.53%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (7.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.13%) Python
2 13 (13.98%) Java
3 9 (9.68%) SQL
4 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.30%) Bicep
6 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.15%) Bash
7 2 (2.15%) C#
7 2 (2.15%) Go
8 1 (1.08%) COBOL
8 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.08%) JCL
8 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.08%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 32 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.75%) Degree
4 9 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.45%) CISSP
6 5 (5.38%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.23%) CISM
8 3 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.23%) GIAC
8 3 (3.23%) SSCP
9 2 (2.15%) CEH
9 2 (2.15%) CIPD
9 2 (2.15%) MCSA
10 1 (1.08%) GCIH
10 1 (1.08%) IIBA
10 1 (1.08%) NCDA
10 1 (1.08%) VCAP
10 1 (1.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) QA
2 7 (7.53%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.38%) PMO
4 4 (4.30%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.23%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.15%) SLA
7 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.38%) Docker
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.08%) HDFS
4 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (9.68%) Terraform
2 5 (5.38%) Ansible
3 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.15%) SCCM
4 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) Kibana
5 1 (1.08%) logstash
5 1 (1.08%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.08%) vMotion
5 1 (1.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.60%) Cisco
3 6 (6.45%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.30%) Splunk
6 3 (3.23%) Avaya
6 3 (3.23%) Genesys
6 3 (3.23%) Google
6 3 (3.23%) Greenplum
6 3 (3.23%) Informatica
6 3 (3.23%) Pega
6 3 (3.23%) Talend
7 2 (2.15%) F5
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.15%) SAP
8 1 (1.08%) Brocade
8 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.08%) Commvault
8 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds