Public Sector Jobs in Dorset

Public Sector
South West > Dorset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Dorset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 88 77
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 5 15 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 1.14% 1.21% 0.31%
As % of the General category 2.27% 2.06% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile - £43,750 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +40.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £62,500 £51,000 £47,520
% change year-on-year +22.55% +7.32% +0.04%

All General Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 220 728 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 50.11% 58.62% 60.46%
Number of salaries quoted 121 322 183
10th Percentile £29,250 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,672 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,438 £61,875
90th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £73,750
South West median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
% change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +3.29%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Dorset

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Dorset

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Dorset

Public Sector
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 30 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
Poole +7 5 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Public Sector
South West

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Java Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker