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

6 months to
21 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 155 91 124
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.20% 12.66% 18.21%
As % of the General category 20.21% 18.84% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 63 100
10th Percentile £363 £209 £197
25th Percentile £375 £366 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £775 £638 £689
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 £19.17
% change year-on-year -30.29% +1.02% +42.00%

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 767 483 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 65.33% 67.18% 60.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 314 294
10th Percentile £263 £270 £205
25th Percentile £359 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £539 £539 £550
90th Percentile £638 £613 £638
Scotland median daily rate £465 £473 £450
% change year-on-year -1.59% +5.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 11 12
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.93 £17.08
25th Percentile £13.50 £15.55 £19.32
Median hourly rate £24.67 £19.97 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +23.52% -8.69% +66.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £36.50
90th Percentile - - £43.89
Scotland median hourly rate £16.11 £19.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% +6.83% -26.80%

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 21 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 (9.03%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.23%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.65%) InDesign
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.77%) AWS
2 13 (8.39%) OCI
3 12 (7.74%) Azure
4 11 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.81%) GCP
6 4 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.58%) SaaS
7 3 (1.94%) GitHub
8 2 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.29%) Boomi
8 2 (1.29%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.29%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.29%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.29%) IaaS
8 2 (1.29%) Miro
8 2 (1.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.29%) Serverless
8 2 (1.29%) Slack
8 2 (1.29%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.94%) DNS
1 3 (1.94%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.94%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (1.94%) SSH
1 3 (1.94%) SSL
2 2 (1.29%) VoIP
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.16%) MySQL
1 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (3.87%) MariaDB
2 6 (3.87%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.94%) Metadata
3 3 (1.94%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.29%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (9.03%) JIRA
2 10 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.16%) Git
4 6 (3.87%) Gradle
4 6 (3.87%) Maven
5 4 (2.58%) Subversion
6 3 (1.94%) GoCD
6 3 (1.94%) JProfiler
6 3 (1.94%) JUnit
6 3 (1.94%) webpack
7 2 (1.29%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.29%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) Appium
8 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.65%) Postman
8 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.65%) Terragrunt
General
1 38 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.10%) Finance
3 9 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (2.58%) Military
5 3 (1.94%) Publishing
5 3 (1.94%) Retail
6 2 (1.29%) Legal
6 2 (1.29%) Marketing
7 1 (0.65%) Banking
7 1 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 28 (18.06%) Architect
2 20 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (9.68%) Technical Architect
4 14 (9.03%) Senior
5 13 (8.39%) Analyst
6 10 (6.45%) Administrator
6 10 (6.45%) Consultant
6 10 (6.45%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.81%) DBA
8 7 (4.52%) Cloud Consultant
8 7 (4.52%) Linux Administrator
8 7 (4.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.52%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (4.52%) SQL DBA
8 7 (4.52%) SQL Server DBA
8 7 (4.52%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (3.87%) Help Desk Consultant
9 6 (3.87%) HR Consultant
9 6 (3.87%) Lead
9 6 (3.87%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.74%) Spring
1 12 (7.74%) Spring Boot
2 7 (4.52%) Terraform
3 6 (3.87%) Jest
3 6 (3.87%) Node.js
3 6 (3.87%) React
3 6 (3.87%) RESTful
4 4 (2.58%) Middleware
4 4 (2.58%) Playwright
4 4 (2.58%) REST
4 4 (2.58%) Web Services
5 3 (1.94%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.94%) FreeMarker
5 3 (1.94%) JSF
5 3 (1.94%) Redux
5 3 (1.94%) Vue
6 2 (1.29%) ADO
7 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.65%) HTML
7 1 (0.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.94%) Mainframe
4 3 (1.94%) NHS
5 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.29%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.65%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.32%) Linux
2 8 (5.16%) Windows
3 7 (4.52%) SUSE
4 3 (1.94%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.29%) Android
5 2 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.94%) Agile
2 26 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (10.32%) CI/CD
5 15 (9.68%) DevOps
6 14 (9.03%) Decision-Making
6 14 (9.03%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (8.39%) Mentoring
7 13 (8.39%) Roadmaps
8 12 (7.74%) Coaching
8 12 (7.74%) Scrum
9 11 (7.10%) Project Delivery
10 10 (6.45%) ERP
10 10 (6.45%) Microservices
10 10 (6.45%) Risk Management
11 9 (5.81%) Migration
11 9 (5.81%) Test Automation
11 9 (5.81%) User Experience
12 8 (5.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.32%) Java
2 8 (5.16%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.52%) Python
4 6 (3.87%) Bash
5 5 (3.23%) SQL
5 5 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.94%) Groovy
8 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.65%) C#
9 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 44 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 41 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) Degree
4 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.29%) IIBA
6 2 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISA
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) HND
7 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.65%) LFCS
7 1 (0.65%) RHCE
7 1 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (3.87%) WCAG
4 5 (3.23%) PMO
4 5 (3.23%) QA
5 4 (2.58%) GDPR
6 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.94%) NCSC
6 3 (1.94%) NIST
7 2 (1.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (3.87%) Docker
2 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.94%) Ceph
3 3 (1.94%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.29%) Squid
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.52%) Ansible
2 5 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.94%) Istio
4 1 (0.65%) Argo
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (17.42%) Oracle
2 17 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.81%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.23%) Google
4 5 (3.23%) MuleSoft
5 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.94%) VMware
6 2 (1.29%) Adobe
6 2 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.65%) Dell
7 1 (0.65%) Okta
7 1 (0.65%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.65%) Workday