Public Sector Jobs 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 70 118
Rank change year-on-year -50 +48 +53
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 370 880 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.81% 3.78% 3.03%
As % of the General category 3.67% 5.60% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 206 680 675
10th Percentile £42,670 £27,965 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £83,367
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,400
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.72% +2.59%

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 common skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 10,084 15,704 25,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 76.50% 67.37% 69.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,655 11,249 17,274
10th Percentile £42,336 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -13.22% +0.83%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in London over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

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 21 April 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
Central London +5 54 £65,307 +6.19% 40
South London -14 39 £62,500 +66.35% 20
West London +41 5 - - 16
North London +5 4 £62,500 +3.31% 1
East London -34 3 £70,000 +150.31% 10
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (3.24%) JBoss
1 12 (3.24%) Red Hat Fuse
2 10 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.62%) CMS
4 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (1.08%) nginx
6 3 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.81%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Camunda
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.89%) Adobe XD
3 6 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.35%) Stata
5 4 (1.08%) Notion
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.81%) InVision
6 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.81%) Sketch
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.27%) SPSS
8 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (6.22%) NEC Housing
2 14 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (2.43%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.81%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 81 (21.89%) AWS
2 70 (18.92%) Azure
3 39 (10.54%) Serverless
4 33 (8.92%) Power Platform
5 32 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (7.30%) GCP
8 22 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
9 19 (5.14%) Power Automate
9 19 (5.14%) PowerApps
10 17 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.78%) SaaS
12 10 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.70%) GitHub
13 9 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.43%) OCI
14 8 (2.16%) Google Workspace
14 8 (2.16%) IBM Cloud
14 8 (2.16%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.62%) Network Security
2 5 (1.35%) Firewall
2 5 (1.35%) WAN
3 3 (0.81%) 4G
3 3 (0.81%) 5G
3 3 (0.81%) IP Telephony
3 3 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.81%) Wireless
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.54%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.54%) Intranet
4 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.54%) LAN
4 2 (0.54%) MPLS
4 2 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.27%) BGP
5 1 (0.27%) OSPF
5 1 (0.27%) Q.931
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.05%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (12.70%) Relational Database
3 25 (6.76%) Power BI
4 24 (6.49%) RDBMS
5 13 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.43%) Big Data
7 9 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.16%) MySQL
9 6 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.62%) GIS
9 6 (1.62%) Tableau
10 5 (1.35%) Metadata
10 5 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.08%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.81%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.81%) HBase
12 3 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 46 (12.43%) Jenkins
2 40 (10.81%) Git
3 38 (10.27%) JUnit
4 25 (6.76%) Mockito
5 22 (5.95%) JMeter
6 11 (2.97%) Maven
7 9 (2.43%) Postman
8 8 (2.16%) JIRA
8 8 (2.16%) SonarQube
9 7 (1.89%) Axure RP
9 7 (1.89%) Selenium
10 6 (1.62%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.35%) DbUnit
11 5 (1.35%) jMock
12 4 (1.08%) Balsamiq
13 3 (0.81%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.81%) GitLab
13 3 (0.81%) SoapUI
13 3 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 128 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 104 (28.11%) Finance
3 55 (14.86%) Marketing
4 54 (14.59%) Local Government
5 46 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (11.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (10.27%) Manufacturing
8 35 (9.46%) Telecoms
9 31 (8.38%) Electronics
10 27 (7.30%) Police
11 16 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (4.32%) Social Housing
12 11 (2.97%) Retail
13 9 (2.43%) Law
13 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.89%) Back Office
14 7 (1.89%) Legal
15 6 (1.62%) Advertising
15 6 (1.62%) Banking
16 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (20.54%) Developer
2 68 (18.38%) Senior
3 48 (12.97%) Consultant
4 43 (11.62%) Architect
5 34 (9.19%) Java Developer
6 20 (5.41%) Lead
7 19 (5.14%) Analyst
7 19 (5.14%) Implementation Consultant
7 19 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (4.05%) Senior Developer
9 13 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.24%) Tester
11 11 (2.97%) Project Manager
12 10 (2.70%) Business Analyst
12 10 (2.70%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (2.16%) Technical Architect
15 7 (1.89%) IT Manager
15 7 (1.89%) Operations Manager
15 7 (1.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.86%) REST
2 46 (12.43%) HTML
3 43 (11.62%) Spring
4 40 (10.81%) Web Services
5 34 (9.19%) RESTful
6 33 (8.92%) Spring Boot
7 32 (8.65%) CSS
8 29 (7.84%) Apache Camel
9 25 (6.76%) Hibernate
10 23 (6.22%) SOAP
11 22 (5.95%) .NET
11 22 (5.95%) ActiveMQ
12 20 (5.41%) React
12 20 (5.41%) WireMock
13 17 (4.59%) jQuery
14 14 (3.78%) Oracle Fusion
15 13 (3.51%) JSON
15 13 (3.51%) XML
16 12 (3.24%) .NET Framework
16 12 (3.24%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (5.14%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.59%) Housing Association
3 17 (4.59%) NHS
4 16 (4.32%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.70%) Social Media
8 9 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.16%) Blockchain
10 7 (1.89%) IoT
10 7 (1.89%) Life Science
10 7 (1.89%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.62%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.62%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.35%) Blog
12 5 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.35%) Operational Technology
13 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.05%) Unix
2 9 (2.43%) Windows
3 7 (1.89%) Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Solaris
5 3 (0.81%) Android
5 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (33.78%) Agile
2 74 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 58 (15.68%) Scrum
5 55 (14.86%) DevOps
6 54 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
7 52 (14.05%) Microservices
8 47 (12.70%) Analytics
8 47 (12.70%) TDD
9 44 (11.89%) Project Management
10 43 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (11.08%) Artificial Intelligence
12 37 (10.00%) BDD
12 37 (10.00%) Workflow
13 36 (9.73%) Digital Marketing
14 35 (9.46%) Kanban
15 31 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (8.38%) Mentoring
15 31 (8.38%) Programme Management
15 31 (8.38%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (17.57%) SQL
2 64 (17.30%) JavaScript
3 55 (14.86%) Java
3 55 (14.86%) Python
4 31 (8.38%) C#
5 19 (5.14%) Shell Script
6 14 (3.78%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.70%) R
8 8 (2.16%) Ruby
9 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.08%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.08%) Scala
11 3 (0.81%) C++
11 3 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.54%) Bicep
12 2 (0.54%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) Lua
Qualifications
1 134 (36.22%) Security Cleared
2 105 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 63 (17.03%) Degree
4 33 (8.92%) DBS Check
5 18 (4.86%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.05%) CISSP
7 15 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.97%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.89%) AAT
10 7 (1.89%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.89%) ISTQB
10 7 (1.89%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.89%) PMP
11 6 (1.62%) CISM
11 6 (1.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (1.35%) CCNP
12 5 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.05%) GDPR
3 15 (4.05%) QA
4 13 (3.51%) SLA
5 12 (3.24%) WCAG
6 11 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (2.16%) NIST
9 7 (1.89%) ISO 9001
10 6 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.62%) NCSC
11 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.27%) COBIT
12 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (14.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.41%) Terraform
3 17 (4.59%) Kibana
4 15 (4.05%) Ansible
5 3 (0.81%) Kustomize
5 3 (0.81%) Packer
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.54%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.27%) DameWare
7 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.27%) Nessus
Vendors
1 60 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.19%) SAP
3 33 (8.92%) Google
4 29 (7.84%) Oracle
5 24 (6.49%) NEC
6 22 (5.95%) Splunk
7 19 (5.14%) Dynatrace
8 14 (3.78%) Databricks
9 11 (2.97%) Red Hat
10 10 (2.70%) Adobe
10 10 (2.70%) Cisco
11 8 (2.16%) IBM
11 8 (2.16%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.89%) Instagram
13 6 (1.62%) ServiceNow
14 5 (1.35%) Facebook
14 5 (1.35%) Palo Alto
15 4 (1.08%) CheckPoint
15 4 (1.08%) F5
15 4 (1.08%) Fortinet