Public Sector Job Trends in Birmingham

Public Sector
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 18 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 +34 -29
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 105 154 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 6.00% 8.52% 4.51%
As % of the General category 11.85% 12.66% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 82 42 56
10th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £42,749 £45,313 £39,921
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £64,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +29.20% -11.47%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £77,250 £96,250 £77,979
West Midlands median annual salary £57,434 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.40% -4.55% -

All General Skills
Birmingham

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 886 1,216 776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 50.66% 67.29% 57.40%
Number of salaries quoted 597 505 654
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £71,298 £72,500 £65,853
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £80,049
West Midlands median annual salary £48,500 £52,500 £49,516
% change year-on-year -7.62% +6.03% -5.68%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.62%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.71%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) CMS
3 2 (1.90%) nginx
3 2 (1.90%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 21 (20.00%) Azure
2 16 (15.24%) AWS
3 11 (10.48%) Power Platform
4 9 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.76%) Serverless
7 5 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.81%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (1.90%) Route 53
11 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.95%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.71%) DNS
1 6 (5.71%) Firewall
2 5 (4.76%) FTP
2 5 (4.76%) HTTP
2 5 (4.76%) SMTP
2 5 (4.76%) SSH
3 2 (1.90%) IMAP
3 2 (1.90%) Intranet
3 2 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.95%) DHCP
4 1 (0.95%) ISDN
4 1 (0.95%) LAN
4 1 (0.95%) PSTN
4 1 (0.95%) RTP
4 1 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.95%) VoIP
4 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Power BI
2 5 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Git
1 6 (5.71%) JIRA
2 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.76%) Vagrant
3 3 (2.86%) JUnit
3 3 (2.86%) Maven
3 3 (2.86%) Mockito
4 2 (1.90%) Selenium
5 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.95%) Gatling
5 1 (0.95%) GitLab
5 1 (0.95%) MSTest
5 1 (0.95%) NUnit
5 1 (0.95%) Postman
General
1 48 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.76%) Finance
2 26 (24.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (10.48%) Telecoms
4 9 (8.57%) Marketing
5 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.62%) Electronics
5 8 (7.62%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Legal
7 2 (1.90%) Billing
7 2 (1.90%) Law
7 2 (1.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.95%) Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (20.00%) Senior
2 19 (18.10%) Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Senior Developer
4 9 (8.57%) Lead
5 8 (7.62%) Architect
6 7 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Business Development Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Business Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Development Manager
7 6 (5.71%) Field Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Field Service Technician
9 4 (3.81%) Head of Information
9 4 (3.81%) Head of Information Security
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.33%) EDI
2 8 (7.62%) .NET
3 6 (5.71%) React
3 6 (5.71%) Spring
4 3 (2.86%) CSS
4 3 (2.86%) REST
4 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (1.90%) HTML
5 2 (1.90%) LDAP
5 2 (1.90%) Playwright
5 2 (1.90%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (0.95%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.95%) Django
6 1 (0.95%) Next.js
6 1 (0.95%) Node.js
6 1 (0.95%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Blog
2 6 (5.71%) Driving Licence
2 6 (5.71%) PDA
3 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.81%) EPoS
4 4 (3.81%) NHS
4 4 (3.81%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.90%) Replication
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (4.76%) VMS
3 3 (2.86%) Windows
4 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.71%) Agile
2 21 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (19.05%) Mentoring
4 19 (18.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 18 (17.14%) AI
6 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.24%) Business Development
8 14 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 14 (13.33%) Project Management
9 13 (12.38%) Customer Service
10 10 (9.52%) Analytics
10 10 (9.52%) DevOps
11 9 (8.57%) CI/CD
11 9 (8.57%) Coaching
11 9 (8.57%) Service Delivery
11 9 (8.57%) TDD
12 8 (7.62%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.62%) Digital Marketing
12 8 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.43%) C#
2 11 (10.48%) Python
3 10 (9.52%) SQL
4 9 (8.57%) Java
4 9 (8.57%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.76%) Groovy
6 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.86%) Perl
7 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.95%) Bash
9 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.38%) Degree
4 7 (6.67%) CITP
5 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.86%) APMG
6 3 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.90%) ACCA
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.90%) CISM
7 2 (1.90%) CISSP
7 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.90%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.95%) CBAP
8 1 (0.95%) CCNA
8 1 (0.95%) CCNP
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.71%) NIST
3 4 (3.81%) COBIT
3 4 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.86%) WCAG
5 2 (1.90%) GAAP
5 2 (1.90%) IFRS
5 2 (1.90%) PMO
5 2 (1.90%) QA
6 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) DFS Replication
3 2 (1.90%) Dovecot
3 2 (1.90%) Postfix
3 2 (1.90%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) Grafana
1 5 (4.76%) Prometheus
1 5 (4.76%) Terraform
2 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.90%) Nessus
3 2 (1.90%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) SAP
3 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.71%) Planon
4 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.81%) Oracle
6 2 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.95%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.95%) Aruba
7 1 (0.95%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco
7 1 (0.95%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.95%) Google
7 1 (0.95%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.95%) UiPath