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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Sector 92 110 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.55% 15.90% 22.01%
As % of the General category 18.89% 27.43% 35.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 85 143
10th Percentile £200 £191 £254
25th Percentile £350 £313 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £635 £694 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +2.74% -5.45% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £15.56 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £16.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.46 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - -
75th Percentile £18.71 £25.17 -
90th Percentile £19.43 £30.77 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.83 £18.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% +33.33% -23.81%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 487 401 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 66.44% 57.95% 62.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 282 369
10th Percentile £275 £205 £325
25th Percentile £362 £323 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £588 £630 £688
Scotland median daily rate £463 £439 £475
% change year-on-year +5.35% -7.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £15.09 £16.01 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +35.10% -56.81%
75th Percentile £26.21 £34.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - £48.23 £64.16
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £17.00 £19.18
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.37% -3.38%

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
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 28 August 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
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 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.43%) Confluence
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (2.17%) JBoss
4 2 (2.17%) OpenROAD
4 2 (2.17%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.09%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.09%) CMS
5 1 (1.09%) Drupal
5 1 (1.09%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.09%) nginx
5 1 (1.09%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.22%) AWS
2 13 (14.13%) Azure
3 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (5.43%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.43%) GitHub
6 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.35%) Slack
7 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.17%) OCI
8 2 (2.17%) SaaS
8 2 (2.17%) Serverless
8 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.09%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) WAN
2 2 (2.17%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Power BI
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.26%) MySQL
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.17%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.17%) Power Query
4 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) Git
1 9 (9.78%) JIRA
2 6 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.43%) webpack
4 4 (4.35%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.17%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.09%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.09%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.09%) GitLab
6 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 30 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Finance
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Back Office
5 3 (3.26%) Local Government
5 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Analyst
2 13 (14.13%) Developer
3 8 (8.70%) Architect
4 6 (6.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.43%) Administrator
5 5 (5.43%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.43%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Senior
5 5 (5.43%) Service Analyst
5 5 (5.43%) Service Desk Analyst
5 5 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) Consultant
7 3 (3.26%) Designer
7 3 (3.26%) Lead
7 3 (3.26%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.26%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.17%) Planning Manager
8 2 (2.17%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) HTML
1 8 (8.70%) Node.js
2 7 (7.61%) CSS
2 7 (7.61%) RESTful
3 6 (6.52%) HTML5
3 6 (6.52%) React
3 6 (6.52%) REST
4 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.43%) CSS3
4 5 (5.43%) Redux
5 4 (4.35%) X-Windows
6 3 (3.26%) LDAP
7 2 (2.17%) .NET
7 2 (2.17%) Java SE
7 2 (2.17%) JSON
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (2.17%) SOAP
7 2 (2.17%) Vue
8 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC 5
8 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.35%) Device Driver
2 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) NHS
4 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.39%) Windows
2 13 (14.13%) Linux
3 8 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.52%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.43%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (3.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.83%) Agile
2 18 (19.57%) CI/CD
3 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (16.30%) DevOps
5 10 (10.87%) Migration
5 10 (10.87%) Project Management
6 9 (9.78%) Coaching
6 9 (9.78%) Mentoring
6 9 (9.78%) Service Delivery
7 8 (8.70%) Microservices
7 8 (8.70%) Service Management
8 7 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (7.61%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (7.61%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (7.61%) Data Analysis
8 7 (7.61%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.61%) Prototyping
9 6 (6.52%) Design Patterns
9 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (6.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.96%) Java
2 10 (10.87%) Python
3 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.61%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.61%) SQL
6 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.17%) Bash
7 2 (2.17%) Bicep
7 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.17%) R
8 1 (1.09%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) ProC
Qualifications
1 25 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.04%) Degree
4 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.35%) MCSA
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.26%) CISSP
6 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.17%) CEH
7 2 (2.17%) CIPD
7 2 (2.17%) CISM
7 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) GIAC
7 2 (2.17%) HNC
8 1 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) GDPR
2 5 (5.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.26%) PMO
4 3 (3.26%) QA
4 3 (3.26%) WCAG
5 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.17%) SLA
6 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.09%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Terraform
2 7 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.35%) Argo
3 4 (4.35%) Istio
3 4 (4.35%) SCCM
4 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.61%) Oracle
3 2 (2.17%) Apple
3 2 (2.17%) Splunk
4 1 (1.09%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.09%) Cisco
4 1 (1.09%) F5
4 1 (1.09%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.09%) Okta
4 1 (1.09%) Pega
4 1 (1.09%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.09%) SAP
4 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.09%) Snow
4 1 (1.09%) Workday