Public Sector Jobs in London

Public Sector
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 113 173
Rank change year-on-year +44 +60 -51
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 903 1,105 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.85% 3.09% 2.51%
As % of the General category 5.71% 4.47% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 695 671 876
10th Percentile £27,965 £45,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £49,539
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%

All General Skills
London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,828 24,723 44,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 67.42% 69.03% 67.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,305 16,984 22,561
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in London.

Salary trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -39 76 £62,500 - 33
South London +41 64 £37,572 +51.81% 9
East London +20 43 £27,965 -53.39% 16
West London -49 6 £44,500 -1.11% 19
North London -15 2 £60,500 - 4
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 26 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.99%) OpenStack
3 16 (1.77%) Apache
4 12 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.33%) Confluence
5 11 (1.22%) JBoss
5 11 (1.22%) Red Hat Fuse
6 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (1.00%) IIS
8 8 (0.89%) CMS
8 8 (0.89%) Drupal
8 8 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.44%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (0.44%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.33%) WordPress
11 2 (0.22%) Camunda
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
11 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Documentum
Applications
1 60 (6.64%) Spreadsheet
2 27 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.44%) Adobe XD
5 10 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.55%) Trello
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.33%) InVision
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.33%) Sketch
8 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.11%) Blender
Business Applications
1 18 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.44%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (17.94%) AWS
2 159 (17.61%) Azure
3 63 (6.98%) Power Platform
4 50 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (4.98%) Serverless
6 39 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
7 38 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
8 36 (3.99%) Power Automate
8 36 (3.99%) PowerApps
9 35 (3.88%) GCP
10 33 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (3.21%) dbt
12 26 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (2.66%) IBM Cloud
14 20 (2.21%) SaaS
15 19 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (2.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (2.10%) OCI
16 18 (1.99%) Azure Functions
17 16 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.21%) Firewall
2 15 (1.66%) LAN
2 15 (1.66%) WAN
3 14 (1.55%) DNS
4 11 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.00%) DHCP
6 8 (0.89%) VPLS
7 7 (0.78%) Internet
8 6 (0.66%) BGP
8 6 (0.66%) IGRP
8 6 (0.66%) MPLS
8 6 (0.66%) Network Security
8 6 (0.66%) VRRP
9 4 (0.44%) VPN
9 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.33%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.33%) Wireless
10 3 (0.33%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.22%) HTTP
11 2 (0.22%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.64%) Relational Database
2 55 (6.09%) Power BI
3 45 (4.98%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 35 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 29 (3.21%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.55%) DB2
8 17 (1.88%) Metadata
9 14 (1.55%) RDBMS
10 11 (1.22%) MySQL
10 11 (1.22%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 6 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.55%) Big Data
15 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
15 4 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (7.53%) Jenkins
2 45 (4.98%) Git
3 19 (2.10%) JIRA
4 17 (1.88%) JUnit
5 14 (1.55%) JMeter
6 13 (1.44%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.44%) Balsamiq
6 13 (1.44%) GitLab
7 12 (1.33%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.55%) Gatling
10 5 (0.55%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.55%) Selenium
10 5 (0.55%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.55%) TestNG
11 4 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.44%) Mockito
11 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 283 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 174 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 170 (18.83%) Finance
4 81 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (8.19%) Marketing
6 71 (7.86%) Local Government
7 53 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (4.87%) Retail
9 31 (3.43%) Digital Economy
10 26 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 22 (2.44%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.10%) Law
13 18 (1.99%) Legal
14 16 (1.77%) Electronics
15 14 (1.55%) Police
16 12 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.22%) Automotive
18 10 (1.11%) Back Office
19 9 (1.00%) Brand Awareness
20 5 (0.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 117 (12.96%) Senior
2 105 (11.63%) Architect
3 96 (10.63%) Developer
4 85 (9.41%) Consultant
5 60 (6.64%) Analyst
6 59 (6.53%) Lead
7 38 (4.21%) Java Developer
8 35 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
8 35 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 33 (3.65%) Project Manager
10 32 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
11 27 (2.99%) IT Manager
11 27 (2.99%) Technical Architect
12 25 (2.77%) Business Analyst
13 23 (2.55%) Software Engineer
14 22 (2.44%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 20 (2.21%) Data Architect
15 20 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.21%) Tester
16 19 (2.10%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.20%) .NET
2 45 (4.98%) Spring
3 43 (4.76%) REST
4 42 (4.65%) Web Services
5 34 (3.77%) HTML
5 34 (3.77%) Node.js
6 32 (3.54%) AngularJS
7 31 (3.43%) CSS
8 30 (3.32%) RESTful
9 28 (3.10%) Spring Boot
10 26 (2.88%) React
11 22 (2.44%) Apache Camel
12 20 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (2.10%) JSON
14 14 (1.55%) SOAP
15 13 (1.44%) ASP.NET
16 12 (1.33%) ASP.NET Core
16 12 (1.33%) jQuery
16 12 (1.33%) XML
17 11 (1.22%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.76%) Management Information System
2 49 (5.43%) Social Media
3 47 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (2.66%) Blockchain
6 24 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.66%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.55%) NHS
9 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.33%) e-Learning
9 12 (1.33%) IoT
10 11 (1.22%) Cyberattack
10 11 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.11%) PKI
12 9 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.89%) BBC
14 7 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.98%) Windows
2 38 (4.21%) Linux
3 16 (1.77%) Unix
4 13 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.89%) Android
5 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.44%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (25.58%) Agile
2 129 (14.29%) DevOps
3 114 (12.62%) Mentoring
4 110 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (11.85%) Project Management
6 97 (10.74%) Project Delivery
7 85 (9.41%) Business Intelligence
8 81 (8.97%) CI/CD
8 81 (8.97%) Scrum
9 77 (8.53%) Coaching
10 74 (8.19%) Cybersecurity
10 74 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 72 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
12 71 (7.86%) Microservices
13 66 (7.31%) Decision-Making
14 63 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence
15 61 (6.76%) Case Management
16 60 (6.64%) Creative Thinking
16 60 (6.64%) Test Automation
17 58 (6.42%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 120 (13.29%) Java
2 92 (10.19%) JavaScript
3 87 (9.63%) Python
4 78 (8.64%) SQL
5 73 (8.08%) C#
6 19 (2.10%) Shell Script
7 16 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.33%) C
8 12 (1.33%) PHP
9 11 (1.22%) Bash
10 8 (0.89%) MATLAB
10 8 (0.89%) Scala
11 6 (0.66%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.55%) Perl
12 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.44%) C++
14 3 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.33%) R
15 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 255 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 184 (20.38%) Degree
3 178 (19.71%) SC Cleared
4 77 (8.53%) DBS Check
5 54 (5.98%) DV Cleared
6 49 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (3.43%) Master's Degree
10 27 (2.99%) Azure Certification
11 21 (2.33%) CISSP
12 10 (1.11%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.11%) CISM
13 8 (0.89%) CISA
14 7 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.78%) CREST Certified
15 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.66%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (0.66%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.19%) GDPR
2 33 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 30 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.21%) PMO
5 19 (2.10%) QA
6 15 (1.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 14 (1.55%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.44%) WCAG
9 12 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.22%) NCSC
11 10 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.89%) NIST
13 7 (0.78%) SLA
14 6 (0.66%) ITGC
15 5 (0.55%) GRC
16 4 (0.44%) ISO 14000
17 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
18 2 (0.22%) WAI
19 1 (0.11%) IFRS
19 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 106 (11.74%) Docker
2 17 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.33%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (0.33%) NFS
5 3 (0.33%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.22%) vSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (9.63%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.87%) Terraform
3 41 (4.54%) Ansible
4 13 (1.44%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.78%) Kibana
6 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (0.44%) Puppet
7 3 (0.33%) Grafana
7 3 (0.33%) Nessus
7 3 (0.33%) SCOM
7 3 (0.33%) WSUS
8 2 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.22%) Packer
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 166 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.32%) Oracle
3 28 (3.10%) SAP
3 28 (3.10%) YouTube
4 27 (2.99%) Google
5 26 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 25 (2.77%) IBM
7 18 (1.99%) WSO2
8 17 (1.88%) Adobe
8 17 (1.88%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.44%) NEC
11 12 (1.33%) Cisco
12 9 (1.00%) Sybase
12 9 (1.00%) VMware
13 8 (0.89%) Databricks
14 7 (0.78%) Capita
14 7 (0.78%) Splunk
15 6 (0.66%) Mercator
15 6 (0.66%) Sage