Public Sector Contracts in Scotland

Public Sector
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Public Sector 588 791 1,182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 27.48% 29.32% 34.71%
As % of the General category 42.70% 43.97% 48.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 632 963
10th Percentile £156 £204 £213
25th Percentile £263 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +8.43%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £541
90th Percentile £650 £601 £600
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £12.00 £13.20 £16.32
25th Percentile £12.94 £13.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £15.36 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.97% -40.94% -64.63%
75th Percentile £18.86 £16.47 £48.00
90th Percentile £24.57 £16.91 £57.10
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £20.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.84% +2.10% +5.54%

All General Skills
Scotland

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,377 1,799 2,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 64.35% 66.68% 71.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,302 1,757
10th Percentile £178 £232 £230
25th Percentile £340 £405 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £550
90th Percentile £657 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 29 43
10th Percentile £12.00 £12.66 £14.65
25th Percentile £14.59 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £21.26 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -20.82% +34.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £58.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Scotland

Public Sector
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Public Sector in Scotland

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Scotland

Public Sector
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Public Sector in Scotland

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Public Sector in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Public Sector in Scotland

Public Sector
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh 0 324 £475 +2.15% 35
Glasgow -3 121 £475 -4.76% 48
South Lanarkshire +1 57 £600 +33.33%
Dundee +1 13 £275 -5.17% 2
South Ayrshire 0 11 £144 +5.79%
Lanarkshire +4 9 £400 -15.12% 33
Renfrewshire -2 8 £225 +6.38% 1
West Lothian +5 5 £188 -54.55%
Midlothian 0 3 £428 -12.31% 17
Aberdeen 0 2 £220 +60.00% 1
Inverclyde - 2 £172 -
Argyll and Bute - 2 £198 -
Fife +1 1 £428 -31.60% 1
Stirling - 1 £525 - 2
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 60 (10.20%) Confluence
2 15 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.21%) CMS
4 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) WordPress
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.34%) WildFly
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 40 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.34%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (0.34%) Camtasia
6 2 (0.34%) Lectora
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.68%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.68%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.51%) iTrent
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.17%) assyst
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
4 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 57 (9.69%) AWS
2 49 (8.33%) Azure
3 35 (5.95%) Serverless
4 34 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (5.61%) Amazon S3
6 31 (5.27%) Power Platform
7 30 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (5.10%) OCI
8 29 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.40%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.72%) SaaS
12 10 (1.70%) IaaS
12 10 (1.70%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.53%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (1.53%) PaaS
14 8 (1.36%) Entra ID
14 8 (1.36%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.70%) Firewall
2 7 (1.19%) Intranet
2 7 (1.19%) SAN
3 6 (1.02%) Internet
3 6 (1.02%) LAN
3 6 (1.02%) VoIP
3 6 (1.02%) VPN
4 5 (0.85%) SSL
4 5 (0.85%) WAN
5 4 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (0.68%) IPsec
5 4 (0.68%) Network Security
5 4 (0.68%) SCCP
6 3 (0.51%) DNS
6 3 (0.51%) WLAN
7 2 (0.34%) DHCP
7 2 (0.34%) HTTP
7 2 (0.34%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.17%) 5G
8 1 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (3.91%) Oracle Database
3 22 (3.74%) Oracle Reports
4 21 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (3.40%) Power BI
6 15 (2.55%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.36%) GIS
10 7 (1.19%) Tableau
11 6 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.85%) Big Data
12 5 (0.85%) MySQL
13 4 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.68%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.68%) Oracle Database 11g
13 4 (0.68%) QGIS
14 3 (0.51%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.51%) Informix
Development Applications
1 91 (15.48%) JIRA
2 13 (2.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.19%) GitLab
4 5 (0.85%) Artifactory
4 5 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.85%) Selenium
5 4 (0.68%) Git
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
5 4 (0.68%) Subversion
5 4 (0.68%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.34%) JUnit
6 2 (0.34%) Maven
6 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.34%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.17%) Gatling
7 1 (0.17%) JMeter
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 170 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.73%) Finance
3 62 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
4 27 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (1.70%) Marketing
6 10 (1.70%) Publishing
7 9 (1.53%) Back Office
8 5 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.85%) Electronics
8 5 (0.85%) Local Government
8 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 5 (0.85%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.68%) Legal
10 3 (0.51%) Banking
10 3 (0.51%) Law
11 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.34%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 92 (15.65%) Analyst
2 74 (12.59%) Senior
3 56 (9.52%) Developer
4 46 (7.82%) Project Manager
5 44 (7.48%) Lead
6 35 (5.95%) Architect
7 33 (5.61%) Support Officer
8 27 (4.59%) Business Analyst
9 26 (4.42%) IT Support
10 18 (3.06%) Consultant
10 18 (3.06%) Product Manager
11 17 (2.89%) Designer
12 16 (2.72%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.55%) IT Engineer
14 14 (2.38%) Administrator
14 14 (2.38%) Senior Manager
15 13 (2.21%) Security Analyst
15 13 (2.21%) Support Analyst
16 12 (2.04%) Field Engineer
16 12 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.12%) AWS CDK
2 21 (3.57%) HTML
2 21 (3.57%) React
2 21 (3.57%) REST
3 19 (3.23%) CSS
3 19 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (2.89%) .NET
5 14 (2.38%) Node.js
6 11 (1.87%) SOAP
7 9 (1.53%) OpenID
7 9 (1.53%) SAML
8 8 (1.36%) Web Services
9 7 (1.19%) Spring
10 6 (1.02%) PostGIS
10 6 (1.02%) SpaCy
10 6 (1.02%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.02%) XML
11 5 (0.85%) OAuth
11 5 (0.85%) RESTful
12 4 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.82%) Management Information System
2 24 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 10 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (1.19%) Wiki
8 6 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
8 6 (1.02%) PKI
9 5 (0.85%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.85%) Social Media
10 4 (0.68%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.68%) Replication
10 4 (0.68%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.68%) Video Editing
11 3 (0.51%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.12%) Windows
2 21 (3.57%) Linux
3 9 (1.53%) Unix
3 9 (1.53%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.85%) Android
6 5 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.17%) AIX
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.17%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (26.87%) Agile
2 73 (12.41%) Project Management
3 66 (11.22%) Roadmaps
4 51 (8.67%) Scrum
5 49 (8.33%) DevOps
6 48 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (7.82%) User Research
8 45 (7.65%) Project Delivery
9 44 (7.48%) ITIL
9 44 (7.48%) User Experience
10 43 (7.31%) PRINCE2
11 41 (6.97%) Risk Management
11 41 (6.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (6.80%) Coaching
12 40 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (6.46%) Migration
14 36 (6.12%) Service Management
15 35 (5.95%) Analytics
16 32 (5.44%) Information Security
16 32 (5.44%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 37 (6.29%) Java
2 33 (5.61%) SQL
3 32 (5.44%) Python
4 30 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 29 (4.93%) TypeScript
6 19 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 17 (2.89%) Bash
8 14 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.36%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.68%) Groovy
12 2 (0.34%) C#
12 2 (0.34%) C++
12 2 (0.34%) VBA
12 2 (0.34%) VBScript
13 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 104 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 84 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 59 (10.03%) Degree
4 22 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (2.55%) MCSE
6 14 (2.38%) CISSP
7 12 (2.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 11 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 9 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 8 (1.36%) CCNA
11 7 (1.19%) A+ Certification
11 7 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.19%) MCP
11 7 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.02%) CISM
13 5 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (0.68%) CLAS
14 4 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (13.95%) Disclosure Scotland
2 41 (6.97%) Accessibility
3 31 (5.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.38%) PMO
5 12 (2.04%) QA
6 11 (1.87%) SLA
7 9 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 9 (1.53%) WCAG
8 7 (1.19%) NIST
9 4 (0.68%) GDPR
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.51%) ISO 31000
10 3 (0.51%) NCSC
11 2 (0.34%) COBIT
11 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 35 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.21%) Docker
3 10 (1.70%) BitLocker
4 7 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 21 (3.57%) Grafana
2 15 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.04%) Terraform
4 11 (1.87%) SCCM
5 10 (1.70%) Ansible
6 6 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (0.85%) Kibana
8 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.34%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.34%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.17%) Istio
11 1 (0.17%) Knative
11 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.17%) QRadar
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 95 (16.16%) Microsoft
2 77 (13.10%) Oracle
3 21 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 11 (1.87%) ServiceNow
5 10 (1.70%) Dell
5 10 (1.70%) Okta
6 7 (1.19%) Cisco
6 7 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (1.19%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.19%) VMware
6 7 (1.19%) Zscaler
7 6 (1.02%) HP
7 6 (1.02%) McAfee
8 5 (0.85%) Adobe
8 5 (0.85%) Cadence
8 5 (0.85%) Google
8 5 (0.85%) SAP
9 4 (0.68%) ESRI
10 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.51%) SolarWinds