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93

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38

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0

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1

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93 open roles

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What City of Edinburgh Council is recruiting for

GovJobs is currently tracking 93 open vacancies at City of Edinburgh Council. The biggest groups are teaching and schools (53), catering and cleaning (20) and housing and property (8). 91 of them were advertised in the last 30 days.

2 offer remote or hybrid working.

These figures are calculated from the vacancies GovJobs holds for City of Edinburgh Council today, not from published workforce statistics, and they change as adverts open and close. We collect them from Edinburgh Council.

How pay works at a local authority

Councils pay on NJC pay scales — locally agreed grades built from nationally negotiated spinal column points. Each grade covers a small range of points, and staff usually move up one point a year until they reach the top of the grade. Because grades are set locally, the same job title can sit on different grades at neighbouring councils, so compare the advertised range rather than the grade label.

How to apply to City of Edinburgh Council

Council recruitment is application-form driven, and the form is scored against the essential criteria in the person specification. Shortlisting is often done before anyone reads your CV, so every essential criterion needs to be addressed explicitly, with an example. Local government pensions come through the LGPS, and many roles are open to internal redeployees first.

GovJobs never takes the application itself — every listing above links to City of Edinburgh Council’s own advert, where you apply directly.