Public Sector Jobs in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 89 58
Rank change year-on-year +29 -31 +34
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 2,957 2,203 3,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.17% 3.66% 5.00%
As % of the General category 7.27% 5.32% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,045 1,343 1,763
10th Percentile £29,133 £30,000 £30,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,260 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,526 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.19% +2.16% -3.06%
75th Percentile £67,968 £65,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £79,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.62% +2.69% -

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,700 41,380 42,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.36% 68.67% 60.02%
Number of salaries quoted 26,450 18,780 24,155
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +49 1,143 £57,965 +25.40% 196
South East +62 637 £50,000 - 162
North West +52 612 £57,965 +24.59% 119
Midlands +18 437 £52,500 -4.55% 115
Yorkshire +46 349 £57,965 +27.94% 59
South West 0 308 £51,000 +7.37% 106
West Midlands +11 282 £55,000 - 88
North East +37 183 £50,251 +8.07% 18
Scotland -76 171 £44,674 -11.92% 79
East Midlands +35 155 £47,500 +4.90% 26
East of England +9 119 £47,500 +10.22% 65
Wales +13 93 £53,000 +18.66% 33
Northern Ireland +49 55 £35,000 -9.68% 15
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 98 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.86%) Confluence
3 49 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (1.35%) nginx
5 34 (1.15%) Camunda
6 31 (1.05%) JBoss
6 31 (1.05%) Red Hat Fuse
7 25 (0.85%) IIS
8 23 (0.78%) Apache
9 20 (0.68%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.34%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
14 4 (0.14%) CMS
14 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.10%) Totara
16 2 (0.068%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.068%) Captiva
16 2 (0.068%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 129 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.41%) Sketch
7 11 (0.37%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.30%) Trello
9 7 (0.24%) InVision
10 6 (0.20%) OrCAD
11 5 (0.17%) InfoPath
12 4 (0.14%) Doxygen
13 2 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.068%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.068%) Fusion 360
14 1 (0.034%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.034%) Revit
14 1 (0.034%) Simulink
14 1 (0.034%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 40 (1.35%) NEC Housing
2 18 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.068%) iTrent
6 2 (0.068%) Magento
6 2 (0.068%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.068%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.068%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.068%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.034%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.034%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.034%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 725 (24.52%) Azure
2 359 (12.14%) IBM Cloud
3 296 (10.01%) AWS
4 240 (8.12%) Power Platform
5 183 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
6 159 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
7 158 (5.34%) Serverless
8 121 (4.09%) Azure API Management
9 119 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
10 117 (3.96%) Azure Functions
11 115 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 77 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
13 59 (2.00%) OCI
14 55 (1.86%) Amazon S3
15 47 (1.59%) Amazon ECR
15 47 (1.59%) Route 53
16 42 (1.42%) SaaS
17 41 (1.39%) Entra ID
17 41 (1.39%) GitHub
18 37 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.23%) Firewall
2 42 (1.42%) DNS
2 42 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
3 36 (1.22%) Wireless
4 35 (1.18%) Network Security
5 25 (0.85%) HTTP
6 24 (0.81%) Internet
7 22 (0.74%) WAN
8 18 (0.61%) SAN
9 17 (0.57%) Intranet
10 15 (0.51%) MQTT
11 13 (0.44%) LAN
12 12 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
12 12 (0.41%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.37%) 4G
13 11 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (0.37%) iSCSI
13 11 (0.37%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.34%) LTE
14 10 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
2 302 (10.21%) NoSQL
3 301 (10.18%) MongoDB
4 242 (8.18%) DB2
5 209 (7.07%) Power BI
6 164 (5.55%) Relational Database
7 154 (5.21%) SQL Server
8 113 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
9 108 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 70 (2.37%) Oracle Database
11 54 (1.83%) Tableau
12 48 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
13 42 (1.42%) MySQL
14 32 (1.08%) GIS
15 18 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
18 10 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
18 10 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 116 (3.92%) JIRA
2 84 (2.84%) Git
3 44 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.25%) GitLab
5 25 (0.85%) CircleCI
6 23 (0.78%) IntelliJ
7 22 (0.74%) Artifactory
8 20 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 17 (0.57%) JUnit
10 15 (0.51%) Subversion
11 14 (0.47%) Maven
12 11 (0.37%) Eclipse
12 11 (0.37%) Selenium
13 10 (0.34%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.27%) JMeter
15 7 (0.24%) Bitbucket
16 6 (0.20%) WebDriver
17 5 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
17 5 (0.17%) REST Assured
17 5 (0.17%) TestNG
General
1 764 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 666 (22.52%) Finance
3 389 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 246 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
5 165 (5.58%) Marketing
6 158 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 155 (5.24%) Manufacturing
8 141 (4.77%) Electronics
8 141 (4.77%) Retail
9 123 (4.16%) Local Government
10 114 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
11 112 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
12 80 (2.71%) Police
13 76 (2.57%) Legal
14 74 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.08%) Billing
16 21 (0.71%) Law
17 20 (0.68%) Aerospace
18 17 (0.57%) Back Office
19 14 (0.47%) Games
Job Titles
1 496 (16.77%) Senior
2 392 (13.26%) Developer
3 348 (11.77%) Lead
4 226 (7.64%) Analyst
5 205 (6.93%) Consultant
6 194 (6.56%) Architect
7 166 (5.61%) Full Stack Developer
8 165 (5.58%) Project Manager
9 152 (5.14%) Full Stack Engineer
10 128 (4.33%) Azure Developer
11 118 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
12 109 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 107 (3.62%) Software Engineer
14 95 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 78 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Consultant
16 75 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
17 74 (2.50%) Business Analyst
18 72 (2.43%) IT Manager
19 71 (2.40%) Java Engineer
20 67 (2.27%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (11.19%) React
2 316 (10.69%) .NET
3 315 (10.65%) HTML
4 313 (10.59%) AngularJS
5 303 (10.25%) REST
6 295 (9.98%) Web Services
7 293 (9.91%) CSS
8 244 (8.25%) ASP.NET
9 235 (7.95%) Vue
10 233 (7.88%) ASP.NET Core
10 233 (7.88%) jQuery
11 231 (7.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 228 (7.71%) Backbone.js
12 228 (7.71%) Ember.js
13 197 (6.66%) Node.js
14 93 (3.15%) RESTful
15 78 (2.64%) Spring
16 55 (1.86%) JSON
17 52 (1.76%) XML
18 41 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 392 (13.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 364 (12.31%) Blockchain
3 233 (7.88%) Algorithms
4 231 (7.81%) Data Structures
5 203 (6.87%) e-Learning
6 122 (4.13%) Public Cloud
7 98 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 96 (3.25%) Driving Licence
9 95 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
10 83 (2.81%) NHS
11 69 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
12 67 (2.27%) Product Ownership
13 43 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
14 36 (1.22%) Housing Association
15 35 (1.18%) IoT
16 19 (0.64%) PMI
17 18 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
17 18 (0.61%) Onboarding
17 18 (0.61%) PKI
18 17 (0.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 432 (14.61%) Linux
2 429 (14.51%) Windows
3 231 (7.81%) Android
4 230 (7.78%) Apple iOS
5 64 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 59 (2.00%) Unix
7 42 (1.42%) CentOS
8 40 (1.35%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (1.35%) Debian
9 27 (0.91%) Windows 10
10 16 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.44%) Solaris
13 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 4 (0.14%) AIX
16 4 (0.14%) VMS
17 3 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (28.14%) Mentoring
2 778 (26.31%) Coaching
3 745 (25.19%) Agile
4 509 (17.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 378 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
6 377 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
6 377 (12.75%) DevOps
7 361 (12.21%) User Experience
8 359 (12.14%) Full Stack Development
9 317 (10.72%) Co-Creation
10 299 (10.11%) Design Patterns
11 269 (9.10%) Web Development
12 263 (8.89%) Project Management
13 258 (8.73%) OO
14 253 (8.56%) OOP
15 246 (8.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 245 (8.29%) MVC
17 240 (8.12%) SOLID
18 230 (7.78%) MVVM
18 230 (7.78%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 556 (18.80%) SQL
2 418 (14.14%) JavaScript
3 355 (12.01%) C#
4 350 (11.84%) Java
5 291 (9.84%) Python
6 54 (1.83%) C
7 52 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.52%) C++
9 38 (1.29%) Lua
10 34 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 30 (1.01%) Bash
12 28 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 24 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 17 (0.57%) Ruby
15 16 (0.54%) Embedded C
15 16 (0.54%) PHP
16 12 (0.41%) Go
17 10 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 9 (0.30%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 471 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 285 (9.64%) Degree
3 242 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 70 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 63 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 54 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 46 (1.56%) MCSE
9 41 (1.39%) MCSA
10 39 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (1.08%) PMI Certification
13 31 (1.05%) ACCA
14 24 (0.81%) CISSP
15 21 (0.71%) CCNP
16 19 (0.64%) CCNA
17 17 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
18 15 (0.51%) APMP
18 15 (0.51%) AWS Certification
18 15 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (4.33%) Accessibility
2 62 (2.10%) WCAG
3 61 (2.06%) QA
4 59 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 48 (1.62%) SLA
7 43 (1.45%) ISO 9001
8 37 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 36 (1.22%) GDPR
10 35 (1.18%) PMO
11 31 (1.05%) GAAP
11 31 (1.05%) IFRS
12 28 (0.95%) Data Quality
13 24 (0.81%) NIST
14 16 (0.54%) GRC
15 13 (0.44%) NCSC
16 11 (0.37%) ITGC
17 9 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 7 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
18 7 (0.24%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 180 (6.09%) Docker
2 107 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 51 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.22%) Firmware
6 17 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
9 12 (0.41%) vSphere
10 11 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.17%) XenApp
11 5 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.10%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.034%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.034%) NFS
14 1 (0.034%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.034%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (5.99%) Terraform
2 167 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 59 (2.00%) Ansible
4 52 (1.76%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.25%) EnCase
6 19 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.57%) SCCM
9 12 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
11 10 (0.34%) Grafana
11 10 (0.34%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.30%) Nagios
12 9 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.24%) SysTrack
14 6 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.20%) Kibana
15 5 (0.17%) SCOM
16 4 (0.14%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 543 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 377 (12.75%) Red Hat
3 368 (12.45%) IBM
4 182 (6.15%) SAP
5 124 (4.19%) Oracle
6 95 (3.21%) VMware
7 69 (2.33%) Cisco
8 55 (1.86%) YouTube
9 54 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.56%) CA
11 45 (1.52%) Atlassian
12 44 (1.49%) NEC
13 43 (1.45%) ServiceNow
14 35 (1.18%) Salesforce
15 30 (1.01%) EMC
16 22 (0.74%) Aruba
16 22 (0.74%) Splunk
16 22 (0.74%) Veeam
17 20 (0.68%) WSO2
18 19 (0.64%) Google