Public Sector Jobs in the South West

Public Sector
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 73 75 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 -27 -5
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 304 289 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.32% 4.13% 6.18%
As % of the General category 6.16% 6.39% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 247 214 350
10th Percentile £29,600 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,563 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,438 £63,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%

All General Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,934 4,523 4,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 53.94% 64.59% 59.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,370 2,461 2,980
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £29,725
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
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 the South West

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the South West.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the South West 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
Bristol -14 85 £57,500 +5.31% 39
Gloucestershire +13 75 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Wiltshire -2 60 £51,000 +10.27% 13
Somerset +23 28 £47,500 +10.47% 5
Cornwall +10 25 £44,371 +18.32% 1
Dorset -7 18 £52,500 +98.11% 3
Devon -34 7 £63,376 +40.83% 10
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.99%) IIS
4 2 (0.66%) JBoss
4 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
Applications
1 16 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.66%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Magento
1 2 (0.66%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.79%) Azure
2 25 (8.22%) AWS
3 20 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.92%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.29%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.29%) OneDrive
6 6 (1.97%) PaaS
7 5 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.32%) IaaS
8 4 (1.32%) OCI
9 3 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.99%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.99%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.99%) SaaS
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.66%) GCP
10 2 (0.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.93%) Firewall
2 11 (3.62%) iSCSI
3 8 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
3 8 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
3 8 (2.63%) Wireless
4 7 (2.30%) Network Security
4 7 (2.30%) SAN
5 6 (1.97%) Structured Cabling
5 6 (1.97%) VoIP
6 4 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.99%) RS-485
7 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.99%) VSAN
8 2 (0.66%) PBX
9 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.33%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.92%) Power BI
2 14 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (4.61%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.29%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.63%) MySQL
5 8 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.30%) SQLite
7 5 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.66%) DB2
8 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.29%) Subversion
2 8 (2.63%) Git
3 7 (2.30%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.30%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.32%) Gradle
4 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
General
1 58 (19.08%) Finance
2 55 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 26 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.55%) Telecoms
4 18 (5.92%) Manufacturing
4 18 (5.92%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (5.26%) Retail
6 15 (4.93%) Electronics
6 15 (4.93%) Marketing
7 12 (3.95%) Legal
8 11 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.63%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.30%) Local Government
12 5 (1.64%) Social Housing
13 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Digital Economy
14 2 (0.66%) Police
15 1 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (18.09%) Senior
2 40 (13.16%) Consultant
3 37 (12.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (8.88%) Analyst
5 23 (7.57%) Developer
6 21 (6.91%) Project Manager
7 20 (6.58%) Lead
8 17 (5.59%) Architect
9 14 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.28%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.95%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (3.62%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.62%) Junior
12 11 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (3.29%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Consultant
13 10 (3.29%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.29%) Java Software Engineer
13 10 (3.29%) Storage and Backup Engineer
13 10 (3.29%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.29%) HTML
1 10 (3.29%) React
1 10 (3.29%) RESTful
2 9 (2.96%) Spring Boot
3 8 (2.63%) Flask
3 8 (2.63%) Kafka
3 8 (2.63%) Spring
4 7 (2.30%) .NET
5 6 (1.97%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.97%) JSON
5 6 (1.97%) Node.js
5 6 (1.97%) XML
6 5 (1.64%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.64%) Laravel
6 5 (1.64%) Qt
7 4 (1.32%) CakePHP
7 4 (1.32%) Django
7 4 (1.32%) Pandas
7 4 (1.32%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.32%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.62%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (2.96%) NHS
3 9 (2.96%) PMI
4 8 (2.63%) EMC VNX
4 8 (2.63%) Replication
5 7 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.97%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (1.64%) Housing Association
8 4 (1.32%) BBC
8 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.32%) FPGA
8 4 (1.32%) IoT
8 4 (1.32%) VHDL
9 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.99%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.04%) Windows
2 51 (16.78%) Linux
3 25 (8.22%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.92%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.66%) CentOS
6 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.33%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.33%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (18.09%) Agile
2 41 (13.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (12.17%) Mentoring
4 36 (11.84%) Project Management
5 33 (10.86%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (10.53%) Roadmaps
7 31 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (8.22%) Service Delivery
9 24 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (7.89%) Software Engineering
10 23 (7.57%) DevOps
11 22 (7.24%) Migration
12 21 (6.91%) Project Delivery
13 20 (6.58%) ITIL
13 20 (6.58%) Scrum
14 17 (5.59%) Programme Management
14 17 (5.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (4.93%) Digital Marketing
16 15 (4.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.14%) Python
2 36 (11.84%) SQL
3 34 (11.18%) PowerShell
4 33 (10.86%) Java
5 27 (8.88%) Bash
6 15 (4.93%) C
7 13 (4.28%) C++
8 12 (3.95%) PHP
9 9 (2.96%) C#
9 9 (2.96%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.63%) Ruby
11 5 (1.64%) Perl
12 4 (1.32%) Embedded C
12 4 (1.32%) Embedded C++
12 4 (1.32%) Go
12 4 (1.32%) Lua
12 4 (1.32%) Rust
12 4 (1.32%) Scala
12 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 90 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.17%) Degree
3 34 (11.18%) DV Cleared
4 33 (10.86%) SC Cleared
5 10 (3.29%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.97%) HND
7 4 (1.32%) CISSP
7 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.66%) CCNP
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.66%) RIBA
9 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.33%) ISEB
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.63%) PMO
2 7 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (2.30%) GRC
3 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.64%) NIST
5 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) GDPR
6 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.66%) NCSC
6 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.33%) RMADS
System Software
1 37 (12.17%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.59%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (5.26%) Docker
5 10 (3.29%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.30%) Firmware
7 4 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.99%) Forefront TMG
8 3 (0.99%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.99%) vSphere
9 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (4.61%) SCCM
2 13 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.62%) EMC NetWorker
4 9 (2.96%) Nagios
4 9 (2.96%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.63%) ZABBIX
6 5 (1.64%) Ansible
6 5 (1.64%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.32%) Puppet
7 4 (1.32%) vRealize
8 3 (0.99%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.99%) SCOM
8 3 (0.99%) Terraform
8 3 (0.99%) WSUS
9 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 49 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.80%) VMware
3 28 (9.21%) Cisco
4 19 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 15 (4.93%) SAP
6 11 (3.62%) Brocade
6 11 (3.62%) EMC
6 11 (3.62%) Veeam
7 9 (2.96%) SolarWinds
8 8 (2.63%) NetApp
8 8 (2.63%) Oracle
9 6 (1.97%) Google
10 5 (1.64%) IBM
10 5 (1.64%) Juniper
10 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.32%) Aruba
11 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.99%) Draytek
12 3 (0.99%) SOTI
12 3 (0.99%) Trend Micro