Public Sector Job Trends in Croydon

Public Sector
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +17
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 15 30 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 12.82% 18.63% 20.55%
As % of the General category 21.43% 21.43% 35.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £42,973 £40,415 £72,125
25th Percentile £44,544 £42,200 £79,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,975 £61,250 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% -25.76% -5.71%
75th Percentile £54,394 £65,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £56,558 £68,750 -
South London median annual salary £45,000 £51,420 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% +14.27% -48.57%

All General Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 70 140 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 59.83% 86.96% 57.53%
Number of salaries quoted 18 23 41
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,440 £39,420
25th Percentile £35,688 £51,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,875 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.83% +7.21% +4.55%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,272 £83,750
90th Percentile £61,600 £68,500 £103,750
South London median annual salary £44,500 £53,750 £54,250
% change year-on-year -17.21% -0.92% -1.36%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Croydon

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Croydon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (80.00%) Amazon ECS
1 12 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
1 12 (80.00%) Serverless
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 12 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) DB2
3 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.67%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (80.00%) JMeter
1 12 (80.00%) JUnit
1 12 (80.00%) Mockito
2 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Java Developer
1 12 (80.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (86.67%) REST
2 12 (80.00%) ActiveMQ
2 12 (80.00%) Apache Camel
2 12 (80.00%) Hibernate
2 12 (80.00%) HTML
2 12 (80.00%) jQuery
2 12 (80.00%) JSON
2 12 (80.00%) Spring
2 12 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (80.00%) Web Services
2 12 (80.00%) WireMock
2 12 (80.00%) XML
3 2 (13.33%) PySpark
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 12 (80.00%) BDD
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 12 (80.00%) Microservices
2 12 (80.00%) Process Management
2 12 (80.00%) SDLC
2 12 (80.00%) TDD
2 12 (80.00%) Workflow
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Metadata Management
5 1 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.67%) DataOps
5 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 12 (80.00%) Java
2 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kibana
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Dynatrace
1 12 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) BMC
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Talend