Public Sector Jobs 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +30
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 38 49 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 19.10% 23.00% 10.31%
As % of the General category 20.88% 36.84% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 27 10
10th Percentile £60,500 - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £24,000 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £72,500 £24,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +192.93% -51.23%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £62,469
90th Percentile - - £87,625
South London median annual salary £62,500 £37,572 £24,750
% change year-on-year +66.35% +51.81% -56.96%

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 common skills in Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 182 133 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 91.46% 62.44% 63.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23 86 65
10th Percentile £27,000 £24,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £51,750 £28,717 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £44,441 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.26% -11.12% -
75th Percentile £66,386 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £84,375 £84,200
South London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,125
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.53% +6.25%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Croydon

Public Sector
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 10 May 2025. 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
Coulsdon - 2 - -
South Croydon - 2 - - 3
Thornton Heath - 1 - -
Public Sector
South London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 13 (34.21%) JBoss
1 13 (34.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 32 (84.21%) AWS
2 30 (78.95%) Amazon ECS
2 30 (78.95%) Amazon EKS
2 30 (78.95%) Serverless
3 19 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (5.26%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (84.21%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (78.95%) Relational Database
3 17 (44.74%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 32 (84.21%) Jenkins
1 32 (84.21%) JUnit
2 19 (50.00%) Mockito
3 17 (44.74%) JMeter
4 15 (39.47%) Git
5 2 (5.26%) DbUnit
5 2 (5.26%) jMock
5 2 (5.26%) Maven
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
1 5 (13.16%) Marketing
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (84.21%) Developer
1 32 (84.21%) Java Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Business Development Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Business Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Development Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (2.63%) Analyst
4 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
4 1 (2.63%) Junior
4 1 (2.63%) Junior Developer
4 1 (2.63%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (2.63%) Senior
4 1 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (2.63%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (84.21%) REST
1 32 (84.21%) Spring
1 32 (84.21%) Web Services
2 30 (78.95%) Apache Camel
2 30 (78.95%) Spring Boot
3 19 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 19 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 17 (44.74%) HTML
4 17 (44.74%) jQuery
4 17 (44.74%) WireMock
5 15 (39.47%) RESTful
5 15 (39.47%) SOAP
6 13 (34.21%) J2EE
7 4 (10.53%) JSON
7 4 (10.53%) XML
8 3 (7.89%) Mustache
9 2 (5.26%) JPA
9 2 (5.26%) PowerMock
9 2 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 32 (84.21%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (86.84%) Agile
2 32 (84.21%) BDD
2 32 (84.21%) Microservices
2 32 (84.21%) TDD
3 29 (76.32%) Scrum
4 28 (73.68%) Kanban
5 18 (47.37%) Collaborative Working
5 18 (47.37%) Workflow
6 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
6 17 (44.74%) Process Management
7 15 (39.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (34.21%) Architectural Design
8 13 (34.21%) DevOps
9 6 (15.79%) SDLC
10 5 (13.16%) Business Development
10 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (13.16%) Facilities Management
10 5 (13.16%) Marketing Strategy
11 2 (5.26%) BPMN
11 2 (5.26%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 32 (84.21%) Java
2 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
2 17 (44.74%) Python
2 17 (44.74%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 27 (71.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (78.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (78.95%) Kubernetes
2 17 (44.74%) Kibana
3 13 (34.21%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (44.74%) Dynatrace
1 17 (44.74%) Splunk