Public Sector Jobs in England

Public Sector
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 52 96
Rank change year-on-year -64 +44 -6
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,310 3,568 3,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.68% 4.16% 3.46%
As % of the General category 3.85% 7.02% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 679 2,593 1,930
10th Percentile £33,950 £27,965 £32,450
25th Percentile £45,711 £40,988 £40,931
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £73,751
90th Percentile £92,100 £84,964 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,777
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.39% +1.41%

All General Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 34,026 50,841 60,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.54% 59.31% 68.22%
Number of salaries quoted 16,296 35,628 33,101
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in England

Public Sector
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London -32 417 £65,000 +8.33% 908
South East -30 275 £55,000 +10.00% 429
Midlands -41 181 £52,500 - 242
North of England -171 155 £54,228 -6.45% 399
East of England +49 138 £64,000 +34.74% 81
South West +1 118 £57,500 +12.75% 234
West Midlands -27 118 £53,688 -2.39% 161
Yorkshire -42 85 £50,000 -13.74% 132
North West -211 59 £65,000 +12.14% 220
East Midlands -39 56 £51,250 +7.89% 72
North East -47 10 £60,000 +16.50% 50
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 25 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.22%) Confluence
3 14 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.99%) JBoss
4 13 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
5 8 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.46%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.23%) nginx
7 3 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.23%) WordPress
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.076%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.99%) Adobe XD
5 9 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.38%) InVision
7 5 (0.38%) Sketch
7 5 (0.38%) Stata
8 4 (0.31%) Notion
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.076%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.076%) InDesign
10 1 (0.076%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.076%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.076%) SPSS
10 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.23%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.076%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 198 (15.11%) Azure
2 182 (13.89%) AWS
3 75 (5.73%) SaaS
4 68 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 68 (5.19%) Serverless
5 53 (4.05%) GCP
6 41 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (2.37%) GitHub
10 30 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 28 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
12 27 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (1.91%) Entra ID
14 23 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (1.76%) PowerApps
15 22 (1.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.37%) Firewall
2 22 (1.68%) LAN
3 19 (1.45%) WAN
4 16 (1.22%) DNS
4 16 (1.22%) Network Security
5 11 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.69%) Wireless
7 8 (0.61%) VPN
8 6 (0.46%) DHCP
8 6 (0.46%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.46%) VoIP
9 5 (0.38%) Intranet
9 5 (0.38%) MPLS
9 5 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.31%) 4G
10 4 (0.31%) 5G
10 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
10 4 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.31%) Modbus
10 4 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (4.66%) Relational Database
3 53 (4.05%) Power BI
4 36 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.44%) Big Data
5 32 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 29 (2.21%) MongoDB
7 26 (1.98%) RDBMS
8 19 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (1.45%) MySQL
9 17 (1.30%) Tableau
10 16 (1.22%) Data Lake
10 16 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.15%) DB2
12 10 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.69%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.46%) GIS
Development Applications
1 53 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 51 (3.89%) Git
3 41 (3.13%) JUnit
4 35 (2.67%) JIRA
5 27 (2.06%) Mockito
6 22 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 18 (1.37%) JMeter
8 12 (0.92%) Axure RP
8 12 (0.92%) Maven
9 11 (0.84%) GitLab
10 9 (0.69%) Postman
11 7 (0.53%) Balsamiq
11 7 (0.53%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.53%) DbUnit
11 7 (0.53%) jMock
11 7 (0.53%) Selenium
12 6 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.31%) ERwin
General
1 620 (47.33%) Social Skills
2 504 (38.47%) Finance
3 384 (29.31%) Marketing
4 163 (12.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 123 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
6 97 (7.40%) Telecoms
7 92 (7.02%) Manufacturing
8 75 (5.73%) Electronics
9 71 (5.42%) Local Government
10 49 (3.74%) Law
11 47 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
12 42 (3.21%) Retail
13 41 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (1.98%) Legal
16 14 (1.07%) Police
17 11 (0.84%) Back Office
17 11 (0.84%) Banking
18 10 (0.76%) Aerospace
19 9 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 282 (21.53%) Business Manager
2 279 (21.30%) Development Manager
3 276 (21.07%) Business Development Manager
4 171 (13.05%) Senior
5 115 (8.78%) Developer
6 91 (6.95%) Architect
7 90 (6.87%) Lead
8 78 (5.95%) Project Manager
9 74 (5.65%) Consultant
10 61 (4.66%) Analyst
11 38 (2.90%) Java Developer
12 36 (2.75%) Java Engineer
13 35 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (2.21%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (1.91%) Data Engineer
15 25 (1.91%) Senior Developer
16 24 (1.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (1.60%) Programme Manager
17 21 (1.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.96%) RESTful
2 57 (4.35%) REST
3 50 (3.82%) HTML
4 48 (3.66%) Spring
5 47 (3.59%) Spring Boot
6 44 (3.36%) React
7 40 (3.05%) CSS
8 39 (2.98%) AngularJS
8 39 (2.98%) Web Services
9 31 (2.37%) SOAP
10 28 (2.14%) OAuth
11 27 (2.06%) Apache Camel
12 26 (1.98%) .NET
12 26 (1.98%) jQuery
13 25 (1.91%) Hibernate
14 22 (1.68%) ActiveMQ
14 22 (1.68%) Kafka
15 21 (1.60%) JWT
16 19 (1.45%) Bootstrap
17 16 (1.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 54 (4.12%) e-Learning
3 48 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.98%) NHS
7 32 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 30 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.76%) Driving Licence
11 22 (1.68%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.45%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (1.30%) Social Media
16 14 (1.07%) IoT
17 13 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
18 11 (0.84%) Housing Association
18 11 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.34%) Windows
2 41 (3.13%) Linux
3 36 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.45%) Android
6 6 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.15%) Unix
9 2 (0.15%) zOS
10 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.076%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.076%) Solaris
10 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.076%) VMS
10 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (25.42%) Collaborative Working
2 326 (24.89%) Business Development
3 302 (23.05%) Collaborative Culture
4 274 (20.92%) Agile
4 274 (20.92%) Marketing Strategy
5 268 (20.46%) Facilities Management
6 215 (16.41%) Project Management
7 189 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
9 147 (11.22%) DevOps
10 145 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 145 (11.07%) Mentoring
11 135 (10.31%) Analytics
12 126 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
13 124 (9.47%) Project Delivery
14 120 (9.16%) CI/CD
15 111 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 105 (8.02%) Coaching
17 93 (7.10%) Programme Management
18 90 (6.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (9.47%) SQL
2 117 (8.93%) Java
3 106 (8.09%) Python
4 77 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.97%) C#
6 24 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 18 (1.37%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.15%) R
10 8 (0.61%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.61%) C++
10 8 (0.61%) Ruby
11 7 (0.53%) PHP
11 7 (0.53%) Scala
12 6 (0.46%) C
13 5 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.23%) Bash
14 3 (0.23%) Bicep
14 3 (0.23%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 277 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 193 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 157 (11.98%) Degree
4 39 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 26 (1.98%) CISSP
6 25 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.53%) PMP
9 18 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.22%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.84%) CISM
13 11 (0.84%) HND
13 11 (0.84%) MCSE
14 10 (0.76%) Chartered Engineer
14 10 (0.76%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.51%) QA
2 36 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 35 (2.67%) GDPR
4 29 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (1.45%) SLA
6 19 (1.45%) WCAG
7 16 (1.22%) NCSC
8 15 (1.15%) NIST
8 15 (1.15%) PMO
9 12 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.69%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.53%) GRC
12 6 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.46%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.31%) ISO 14001
14 3 (0.23%) IEC 61508
14 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (7.56%) Docker
2 44 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.31%) Firmware
5 4 (0.31%) Postfix
6 3 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.076%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.076%) RHEV
8 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 53 (4.05%) Terraform
3 33 (2.52%) Ansible
4 13 (0.99%) Kibana
5 9 (0.69%) Grafana
5 9 (0.69%) SCCM
6 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.46%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.23%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.23%) Packer
9 3 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.15%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.076%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.076%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.076%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 173 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.34%) SAP
3 67 (5.11%) Oracle
4 61 (4.66%) IBM
5 57 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 55 (4.20%) Salesforce
7 54 (4.12%) Google
8 37 (2.82%) ServiceNow
9 31 (2.37%) VMware
10 24 (1.83%) Cisco
11 22 (1.68%) Databricks
12 21 (1.60%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.45%) Splunk
14 17 (1.30%) Adobe
15 15 (1.15%) Facebook
15 15 (1.15%) Informatica
16 13 (0.99%) Dynatrace
17 9 (0.69%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.69%) YouTube
18 8 (0.61%) Dell