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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 94 91
Rank change year-on-year +41 -3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 3,569 3,267 4,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.21% 3.50% 3.66%
As % of the General category 7.10% 5.10% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,604 2,011 2,556
10th Percentile £27,965 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,988 £40,931 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £71,435 £73,751 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,480 £54,474
% change year-on-year -2.62% +3.68% -0.96%

All General Skills
England

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 50,259 64,087 82,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 59.26% 68.74% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,481 34,591 45,074
10th Percentile £27,445 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
North of England +53 1,140 £57,965 +28.81% 196
London +44 903 £60,000 -7.69% 317
South East +58 639 £50,000 -0.34% 167
North West +51 616 £57,965 +26.54% 115
Midlands +16 426 £52,500 -4.55% 111
Yorkshire +43 342 £57,965 +28.81% 66
South West +2 304 £52,500 +10.53% 92
West Midlands +11 281 £55,000 - 84
North East +36 183 £56,250 +17.80% 15
East Midlands +31 145 £47,500 +13.10% 27
East of England +18 122 £47,500 +4.22% 73
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 86 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 67 (1.88%) Confluence
3 51 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.18%) nginx
5 36 (1.01%) Camunda
6 33 (0.92%) IIS
7 31 (0.87%) Apache
8 26 (0.73%) OpenStack
8 26 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
9 25 (0.70%) JBoss
10 12 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 12 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.31%) CMS
12 8 (0.22%) Drupal
12 8 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 8 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
13 7 (0.20%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
15 4 (0.11%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 140 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 113 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 102 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
4 64 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 16 (0.45%) Sketch
6 15 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 14 (0.39%) Trello
8 11 (0.31%) InVision
9 10 (0.28%) MS Visio
10 7 (0.20%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.14%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 4 (0.11%) Doxygen
13 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
14 2 (0.056%) Fusion 360
15 1 (0.028%) PTC Creo
15 1 (0.028%) Simulink
15 1 (0.028%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.028%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 36 (1.01%) NEC Housing
2 34 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.056%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.056%) iTrent
8 2 (0.056%) Magento
8 2 (0.056%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.056%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.056%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.056%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.056%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.028%) MIS ActiveH
9 1 (0.028%) Oracle FAH
9 1 (0.028%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 854 (23.93%) Azure
2 440 (12.33%) AWS
3 367 (10.28%) IBM Cloud
4 299 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 211 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
6 184 (5.16%) Serverless
7 172 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
8 129 (3.61%) Azure Functions
9 128 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 128 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
10 120 (3.36%) Azure API Management
11 97 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
12 71 (1.99%) OCI
13 68 (1.91%) GCP
14 67 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 66 (1.85%) PowerApps
16 61 (1.71%) Power Automate
17 56 (1.57%) Amazon ECR
17 56 (1.57%) Route 53
17 56 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (2.55%) Firewall
2 50 (1.40%) DNS
3 47 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (1.06%) Network Security
5 34 (0.95%) WAN
6 30 (0.84%) Internet
6 30 (0.84%) Wireless
7 25 (0.70%) LAN
8 19 (0.53%) SAN
9 17 (0.48%) Intranet
10 15 (0.42%) VPN
11 14 (0.39%) DHCP
11 14 (0.39%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.36%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.34%) HTTP
14 11 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (0.31%) iSCSI
14 11 (0.31%) LTE
15 10 (0.28%) 4G
16 9 (0.25%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
2 320 (8.97%) NoSQL
3 315 (8.83%) MongoDB
4 267 (7.48%) Power BI
5 237 (6.64%) DB2
6 202 (5.66%) Relational Database
7 181 (5.07%) SQL Server
8 119 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 108 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 72 (2.02%) Oracle Database
11 62 (1.74%) Tableau
12 57 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
13 53 (1.49%) MySQL
14 36 (1.01%) GIS
15 20 (0.56%) Data Lake
15 20 (0.56%) Metadata
16 19 (0.53%) Power Query
17 16 (0.45%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 14 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 130 (3.64%) JIRA
2 109 (3.05%) Git
3 99 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.43%) GitLab
5 31 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 22 (0.62%) Artifactory
7 21 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 18 (0.50%) Subversion
9 17 (0.48%) IntelliJ
9 17 (0.48%) JUnit
10 16 (0.45%) Maven
11 15 (0.42%) Axure RP
11 15 (0.42%) JMeter
12 13 (0.36%) Balsamiq
12 13 (0.36%) Eclipse
12 13 (0.36%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.34%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.34%) Selenium
14 10 (0.28%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.28%) REST Assured
General
1 943 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 750 (21.01%) Finance
3 545 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 306 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 211 (5.91%) Marketing
6 179 (5.02%) Retail
7 173 (4.85%) Local Government
8 163 (4.57%) Telecoms
9 149 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 140 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
11 135 (3.78%) Electronics
12 121 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
13 80 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 74 (2.07%) Legal
15 64 (1.79%) Police
16 38 (1.06%) Digital Economy
17 33 (0.92%) Billing
18 30 (0.84%) Law
19 24 (0.67%) Aerospace
20 23 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 571 (16.00%) Senior
2 424 (11.88%) Developer
3 374 (10.48%) Lead
4 288 (8.07%) Consultant
5 285 (7.99%) Architect
6 239 (6.70%) Analyst
7 189 (5.30%) Project Manager
8 181 (5.07%) Full Stack Developer
9 144 (4.03%) Full Stack Engineer
10 130 (3.64%) Azure Developer
11 123 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
12 120 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 117 (3.28%) Software Engineer
14 108 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 90 (2.52%) IT Manager
15 90 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 81 (2.27%) Junior
17 79 (2.21%) Java Engineer
18 78 (2.19%) Business Intelligence Consultant
19 71 (1.99%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (9.69%) .NET
2 331 (9.27%) React
3 314 (8.80%) HTML
4 304 (8.52%) REST
5 302 (8.46%) AngularJS
6 295 (8.27%) CSS
7 290 (8.13%) Web Services
8 244 (6.84%) ASP.NET
9 232 (6.50%) ASP.NET Core
10 227 (6.36%) jQuery
11 226 (6.33%) Vue
12 224 (6.28%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 221 (6.19%) Backbone.js
13 221 (6.19%) Ember.js
14 209 (5.86%) Node.js
15 102 (2.86%) RESTful
16 90 (2.52%) Spring
17 61 (1.71%) JSON
18 52 (1.46%) Spring Boot
19 46 (1.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 400 (11.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 372 (10.42%) Blockchain
3 227 (6.36%) Algorithms
4 225 (6.30%) Data Structures
5 205 (5.74%) e-Learning
6 144 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 131 (3.67%) Public Cloud
8 110 (3.08%) Product Ownership
9 108 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
10 102 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
11 98 (2.75%) NHS
12 88 (2.47%) Driving Licence
13 53 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 50 (1.40%) Social Media
15 42 (1.18%) IoT
16 41 (1.15%) Housing Association
17 29 (0.81%) Data Centre
17 29 (0.81%) PKI
18 26 (0.73%) Onboarding
19 20 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 443 (12.41%) Windows
2 433 (12.13%) Linux
3 227 (6.36%) Android
4 226 (6.33%) Apple iOS
5 69 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 49 (1.37%) Unix
7 42 (1.18%) CentOS
8 40 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (1.12%) Debian
9 29 (0.81%) Windows 10
10 18 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.34%) Solaris
13 9 (0.25%) VMS
13 9 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.11%) AIX
15 4 (0.11%) DC/OS
16 3 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (24.99%) Agile
2 876 (24.54%) Mentoring
3 802 (22.47%) Coaching
4 556 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
5 485 (13.59%) DevOps
6 445 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
7 428 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
8 374 (10.48%) Full Stack Development
9 358 (10.03%) User Experience
10 334 (9.36%) Project Management
11 309 (8.66%) Co-Creation
12 298 (8.35%) Design Patterns
13 264 (7.40%) Roadmaps
13 264 (7.40%) Stakeholder Management
14 260 (7.28%) Web Development
15 246 (6.89%) OO
16 243 (6.81%) MVC
17 241 (6.75%) OOP
17 241 (6.75%) SOLID
18 239 (6.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 585 (16.39%) SQL
2 469 (13.14%) JavaScript
3 426 (11.94%) Java
4 409 (11.46%) C#
5 362 (10.14%) Python
6 71 (1.99%) PowerShell
7 67 (1.88%) C
8 47 (1.32%) Bash
8 47 (1.32%) C++
9 40 (1.12%) Lua
10 36 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 35 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 29 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 27 (0.76%) PHP
14 17 (0.48%) Ruby
15 16 (0.45%) Embedded C
16 15 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 14 (0.39%) Apex Code
18 13 (0.36%) Scala
19 12 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 693 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 419 (11.74%) Degree
3 402 (11.26%) SC Cleared
4 126 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 124 (3.47%) DBS Check
6 118 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 80 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 66 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 56 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 49 (1.37%) Master's Degree
11 44 (1.23%) MCSE
12 43 (1.20%) CISSP
13 41 (1.15%) MCSA
14 40 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
15 35 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 34 (0.95%) ACCA
17 21 (0.59%) AWS Certification
17 21 (0.59%) CISM
18 19 (0.53%) CCNA
19 18 (0.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (3.84%) Accessibility
2 110 (3.08%) GDPR
3 88 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 75 (2.10%) WCAG
5 74 (2.07%) QA
6 60 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 55 (1.54%) SLA
8 46 (1.29%) PMO
9 43 (1.20%) Data Quality
9 43 (1.20%) ISO 9001
10 37 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 33 (0.92%) IFRS
12 32 (0.90%) GAAP
12 32 (0.90%) NIST
13 29 (0.81%) NCSC
14 24 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 21 (0.59%) GRC
16 11 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.31%) ISO 14000
17 10 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 269 (7.54%) Docker
2 115 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 56 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 28 (0.78%) Firmware
6 18 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.36%) vSphere
9 12 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
12 6 (0.17%) Forefront TMG
12 6 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (0.14%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.11%) NFS
15 3 (0.084%) XenApp
15 3 (0.084%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.028%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 239 (6.70%) Terraform
2 237 (6.64%) Kubernetes
3 86 (2.41%) Ansible
4 60 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.04%) EnCase
6 20 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.53%) SCCM
8 13 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.34%) CA Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
10 11 (0.31%) vCenter Server
11 10 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.25%) Kibana
12 9 (0.25%) Nagios
13 8 (0.22%) Grafana
13 8 (0.22%) Puppet
13 8 (0.22%) SCOM
14 7 (0.20%) SysTrack
15 6 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 631 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 389 (10.90%) Red Hat
3 377 (10.56%) IBM
4 178 (4.99%) SAP
5 145 (4.06%) Oracle
6 102 (2.86%) VMware
7 83 (2.33%) YouTube
8 82 (2.30%) Cisco
9 66 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 62 (1.74%) Google
11 49 (1.37%) CA
11 49 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 48 (1.34%) ServiceNow
13 46 (1.29%) Atlassian
14 36 (1.01%) NEC
15 31 (0.87%) EMC
16 30 (0.84%) Adobe
17 29 (0.81%) Splunk
18 26 (0.73%) WSO2
19 24 (0.67%) Databricks