Public Sector Job Trends in London

Public Sector
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 88 73
Rank change year-on-year +35 -15 +45
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 758 423 887
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.68% 3.41% 3.79%
As % of the General category 6.66% 4.49% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 552 221 684
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,840 £27,965
25th Percentile £54,945 £52,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -10.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,375 £100,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

All General Skills
London

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 general skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 11,389 9,429 15,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 55.33% 76.08% 68.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 5,444 11,372
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -5.08%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Central London -5 61 £71,121 +18.54% 94
South London -16 13 £55,200 +28.85% 6
West London -24 12 £50,000 - 8
North London +3 4 £50,588 -19.06%
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (3.30%) Palantir Foundry
2 17 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.32%) Confluence
4 5 (0.66%) Apache
4 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.40%) CMS
5 3 (0.40%) Drupal
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (2.37%) Adobe XD
2 15 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.79%) InVision
4 6 (0.79%) Maya
4 6 (0.79%) Sketch
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) iTrent
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.13%) HFM
5 1 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.13%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 112 (14.78%) AWS
2 110 (14.51%) Azure
3 59 (7.78%) GCP
4 33 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 27 (3.56%) SaaS
6 23 (3.03%) Serverless
7 21 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.37%) Figma
9 16 (2.11%) Google Analytics
10 13 (1.72%) Power Automate
11 12 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 11 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.32%) OCI
13 10 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 9 (1.19%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.19%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.45%) Network Security
2 8 (1.06%) Firewall
2 8 (1.06%) LAN
3 7 (0.92%) WAN
4 5 (0.66%) SMTP
5 4 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (0.53%) DNS
5 4 (0.53%) HTTP
5 4 (0.53%) VPN
5 4 (0.53%) WAAS
6 2 (0.26%) 2G
6 2 (0.26%) BGP
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) MPLS
6 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.13%) Frame Relay
7 1 (0.13%) OSPF
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.43%) Power BI
2 12 (1.58%) Metadata
3 9 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.06%) DynamoDB
5 7 (0.92%) Big Data
5 7 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.53%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.40%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.40%) Tableau
9 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.26%) DB2
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.13%) Looker
10 1 (0.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (1.85%) Axure RP
2 13 (1.72%) JIRA
3 12 (1.58%) Balsamiq
4 9 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.19%) JMeter
5 7 (0.92%) Git
6 6 (0.79%) GitLab
7 5 (0.66%) Gatling
8 4 (0.53%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) Mockito
9 2 (0.26%) rollup.js
9 2 (0.26%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.13%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.13%) Locust
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 170 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 120 (15.83%) Finance
4 82 (10.82%) Law
5 63 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (6.33%) Local Government
7 42 (5.54%) Marketing
8 36 (4.75%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.64%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.24%) Retail
13 15 (1.98%) Electronics
14 13 (1.72%) Banking
14 13 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.19%) Billing
16 8 (1.06%) Legal
17 7 (0.92%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.79%) Games
18 6 (0.79%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 143 (18.87%) Senior
2 113 (14.91%) Architect
3 66 (8.71%) Consultant
4 64 (8.44%) Developer
5 63 (8.31%) Lead
6 50 (6.60%) Designer
7 40 (5.28%) Senior Manager
7 40 (5.28%) User Researcher
8 32 (4.22%) Analyst
8 32 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (3.96%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.83%) UX Designer
11 27 (3.56%) Security Architect
12 24 (3.17%) Programme Manager
13 21 (2.77%) Business Manager
14 20 (2.64%) Business Development Manager
14 20 (2.64%) Development Manager
14 20 (2.64%) Java Developer
14 20 (2.64%) Software Engineer
15 18 (2.37%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.83%) Spring
2 23 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 18 (2.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (2.37%) REST
4 17 (2.24%) React
5 16 (2.11%) HTML
6 14 (1.85%) CSS
7 10 (1.32%) .NET
7 10 (1.32%) Lightning Web Components
7 10 (1.32%) SOAP
8 9 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (1.19%) Middleware
8 9 (1.19%) RESTful
9 8 (1.06%) Node.js
9 8 (1.06%) Visualforce
10 5 (0.66%) SAML
11 4 (0.53%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.53%) Kafka
11 4 (0.53%) PySpark
12 3 (0.40%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 17 (2.24%) Public Cloud
4 16 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.58%) NHS
8 10 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.19%) Social Media
10 8 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.92%) CMDB
11 7 (0.92%) Data Centre
11 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.79%) Blockchain
12 6 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.66%) IoT
14 4 (0.53%) Blog
14 4 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.37%) Windows
2 5 (0.66%) Android
2 5 (0.66%) Linux
2 5 (0.66%) Unix
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (23.75%) Agile
2 111 (14.64%) AI
3 103 (13.59%) Technology Strategy
4 98 (12.93%) Mentoring
5 94 (12.40%) Community of Practice
6 84 (11.08%) DevOps
7 81 (10.69%) Decision-Making
8 71 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (9.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 70 (9.23%) User Research
10 68 (8.97%) Business Development
11 66 (8.71%) Analytics
12 65 (8.58%) Roadmaps
13 63 (8.31%) User Experience
14 58 (7.65%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (7.26%) CI/CD
15 55 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 52 (6.86%) Computer Science
17 49 (6.46%) Business Intelligence
18 48 (6.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 79 (10.42%) Python
2 67 (8.84%) Java
3 48 (6.33%) SQL
4 45 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.85%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.72%) C#
7 10 (1.32%) Apex Code
8 9 (1.19%) Bash
9 8 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.40%) R
10 3 (0.40%) Ruby
10 3 (0.40%) Scala
11 2 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
11 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) Bicep
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 272 (35.88%) Security Cleared
2 241 (31.79%) SC Cleared
3 155 (20.45%) Degree
4 37 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 24 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (2.11%) CISSP
9 15 (1.98%) CISM
10 10 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.06%) CCIE
12 6 (0.79%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.66%) CCNP
14 4 (0.53%) APMG
14 4 (0.53%) APMP
14 4 (0.53%) CCSE
14 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.40%) CIMA
15 3 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 22 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.24%) GRC
3 17 (2.24%) WCAG
4 14 (1.85%) QA
5 13 (1.72%) GDPR
5 13 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.19%) NCSC
6 9 (1.19%) NIST
6 9 (1.19%) PMO
7 6 (0.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.53%) SLA
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) ITGC
10 1 (0.13%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 27 (3.56%) Docker
2 15 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.22%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.09%) Terraform
3 7 (0.92%) Grafana
4 6 (0.79%) Kibana
4 6 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.66%) Ansible
6 4 (0.53%) SCCM
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) Control-M
9 1 (0.13%) OpenView
9 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.28%) Oracle
3 38 (5.01%) Google
4 32 (4.22%) Salesforce
5 27 (3.56%) Palantir
6 26 (3.43%) SAP
7 25 (3.30%) Foundry
8 18 (2.37%) Adobe
9 16 (2.11%) Cisco
9 16 (2.11%) Dell
10 11 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.32%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.06%) Databricks
13 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.66%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.66%) Cognizant
14 5 (0.66%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.66%) F5
15 4 (0.53%) AppDynamics
15 4 (0.53%) Fortinet