Public Sector Jobs 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -44 +2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 33 160 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.34% 5.75% 7.06%
As % of the General category 3.70% 10.83% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15 133 96
10th Percentile £50,094 £24,200 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,988 £43,750 £43,964
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £59,000 £57,001
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +3.51% +9.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,772 £73,751
90th Percentile £77,250 £84,964 £82,751
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% - -

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 common skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 891 1,478 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 63.28% 53.11% 66.07%
Number of salaries quoted 464 1,186 918
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,829 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -0.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £81,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +10.53%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Birmingham over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Birmingham

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.03%) SAP HCM
1 1 (3.03%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (21.21%) AWS KMS
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure
6 2 (6.06%) Google Ads
6 2 (6.06%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Route 53
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) FTP
2 3 (9.09%) HTTP
2 3 (9.09%) SMTP
2 3 (9.09%) SSH
3 2 (6.06%) MPLS
3 2 (6.06%) VoIP
4 1 (3.03%) IMAP
4 1 (3.03%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Power BI
3 2 (6.06%) Tableau
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) DB2
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Git
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
1 8 (24.24%) JIRA
2 6 (18.18%) Vagrant
3 2 (6.06%) Maven
4 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.03%) DbUnit
4 1 (3.03%) jMock
4 1 (3.03%) JUnit
4 1 (3.03%) Mockito
4 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Marketing
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (12.12%) Legal
5 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Local Government
7 2 (6.06%) Advertising
7 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Law
8 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Marketing Manager
1 6 (18.18%) Operations Manager
2 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Civil Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Developer
3 3 (9.09%) Development Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Lead
3 3 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
1 2 (6.06%) Bootstrap
1 2 (6.06%) SOAP
1 2 (6.06%) Spring
1 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
1 2 (6.06%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) CSS
2 1 (3.03%) EDI
2 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.03%) JPA
2 1 (3.03%) LDAP
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
2 1 (3.03%) Node.js
2 1 (3.03%) PowerMock
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Batch
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (12.12%) Replication
3 3 (9.09%) NHS
3 3 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (9.09%) SCADA
4 2 (6.06%) CCTV
4 2 (6.06%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Social Media
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) VMS
3 4 (12.12%) Windows
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 9 (27.27%) Analytics
3 8 (24.24%) Intelligent Automation
3 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
4 7 (21.21%) Change Management
4 7 (21.21%) Data Governance
4 7 (21.21%) Data Privacy
4 7 (21.21%) Data Security
4 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
4 7 (21.21%) DevOps
4 7 (21.21%) Project Delivery
5 6 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (18.18%) B2B
5 6 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 6 (18.18%) CRM
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (18.18%) Marketing Automation
5 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 6 (18.18%) Project Management
5 6 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
1 7 (21.21%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) Groovy
3 4 (12.12%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Perl
4 2 (6.06%) PHP
5 1 (3.03%) ABAP
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) Degree
3 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) HNC
4 2 (6.06%) HND
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) GDPR
2 6 (18.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.03%) NCSC
4 1 (3.03%) NIST
4 1 (3.03%) P3O
4 1 (3.03%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.12%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Dovecot
4 1 (3.03%) Postfix
4 1 (3.03%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Grafana
2 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.03%) Nessus
5 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 5 (15.15%) Facebook
3 3 (9.09%) Juniper
3 3 (9.09%) YouTube
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Hotjar
4 2 (6.06%) Instagram
4 2 (6.06%) Optimizely
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) SAP