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Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th Quarter 2025

Statistics based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at December 2025.


Infographic summary of private, public, devolved public and reserved public headcount and annual percentage changeNote: Reserved public corporations, public sector financial institutions and public bodies, have been combined into 'Other public sector' to ensure individual organisation figures are not disclosed.

Note: Armed Forces data is updated once per year, in the Q2 publication.

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For enquiries about this publication please contact:

Labour Market Statistics,
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser
E-mail: LMStats@gov.scot

For general enquiries about Scottish Government statistics please contact:

Office of the Chief Statistician
E-mail: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot

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