Public Sector Jobs in the East of England

Public Sector
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 84 164
Rank change year-on-year -16 +80 -77
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 86 86 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.19% 2.63% 1.31%
As % of the General category 3.64% 4.42% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 32 71 30
10th Percentile £32,463 £25,000 £27,125
25th Percentile £43,473 £29,744 £40,602
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £47,500 £48,526
Median % change year-on-year +29.47% -2.11% -0.97%
75th Percentile £74,688 £55,625 £80,625
90th Percentile £89,500 £63,750 £90,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,604 £56,000
% change year-on-year +14.06% -6.06% +3.51%

All General Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,365 1,947 3,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 60.29% 59.54% 67.46%
Number of salaries quoted 805 1,449 1,416
10th Percentile £28,200 £25,757 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the East of England.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the East of England

Public Sector
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Hertfordshire -3 36 £70,000 +27.27% 6
Essex -1 16 - -
Cambridgeshire -3 16 £36,222 -23.74% 9
Bedfordshire -25 10 £54,250 +117.00% 5
Norfolk -24 8 £35,000 -11.81% 1
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (20.93%) NEC Housing
2 3 (3.49%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (15.12%) Azure
3 10 (11.63%) AWS
3 10 (11.63%) SaaS
4 8 (9.30%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.98%) Google Workspace
6 5 (5.81%) IaaS
6 5 (5.81%) PaaS
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Serverless
7 2 (2.33%) Twilio
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.14%) Firewall
2 6 (6.98%) DHCP
2 6 (6.98%) DNS
2 6 (6.98%) LAN
2 6 (6.98%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.98%) VLAN
2 6 (6.98%) VPN
2 6 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.16%) Network Security
4 1 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) GIS
2 5 (5.81%) Big Data
3 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.16%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Git
1 4 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 42 (48.84%) Finance
2 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
3 24 (27.91%) Local Government
4 18 (20.93%) Police
4 18 (20.93%) Social Housing
5 14 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.16%) Law
11 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Consultant
1 18 (20.93%) Implementation Consultant
2 16 (18.60%) Project Manager
3 11 (12.79%) Senior
4 8 (9.30%) Senior Manager
4 8 (9.30%) Senior Project Manager
5 7 (8.14%) Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.98%) Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) Delivery Project Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Software Delivery Project Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Software Project Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.81%) Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Coordinator
8 4 (4.65%) Project Coordinator
8 4 (4.65%) Salesforce Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) Akka
1 4 (4.65%) AngularJS
1 4 (4.65%) Bootstrap
1 4 (4.65%) HTML
2 3 (3.49%) LDAP
2 3 (3.49%) SAML
3 2 (2.33%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.33%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.16%) JWT
4 1 (1.16%) Kafka
4 1 (1.16%) Middleware
4 1 (1.16%) Node.js
4 1 (1.16%) OAuth
4 1 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.16%) RESTful
4 1 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Housing Association
2 13 (15.12%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.12%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.98%) Digital Media
5 5 (5.81%) Robotics
6 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.16%) CCTV
8 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.93%) Unix
2 13 (15.12%) Windows
3 12 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.81%) Android
4 5 (5.81%) Apple iOS
4 5 (5.81%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.56%) Project Management
2 18 (20.93%) Housing Management
3 15 (17.44%) Migration
4 14 (16.28%) PRINCE2
4 14 (16.28%) Project Delivery
5 13 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.95%) Agile
6 12 (13.95%) ITIL
6 12 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.63%) Customer Experience
7 10 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (10.47%) Data Management
8 9 (10.47%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (10.47%) Risk Management
9 8 (9.30%) Change Management
9 8 (9.30%) User Experience
10 7 (8.14%) Customer Service
10 7 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (8.14%) Line Management
10 7 (8.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.26%) SQL
2 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.65%) Python
3 2 (2.33%) Apex Code
3 2 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (24.42%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) DBS Check
3 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.30%) HND
4 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.98%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.65%) CITP
6 4 (4.65%) Postgraduate
7 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.16%) CCNA
8 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.74%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.65%) PMO
3 3 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (15.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.98%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (6.98%) Virtual Servers
2 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) NEC
2 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.95%) Salesforce
4 10 (11.63%) Google
5 6 (6.98%) Citrix
5 6 (6.98%) Veeam
5 6 (6.98%) VMware
6 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.49%) Adobe
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle