Public Sector Jobs in the Midlands

Public Sector
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 61 79
Rank change year-on-year -43 +18 -21
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 185 424 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.62% 3.56% 4.17%
As % of the General category 4.39% 6.30% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 111 291 253
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,349 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £65,996 £65,870 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All General Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 4,216 6,732 6,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 59.64% 56.51% 73.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,819 4,698 3,044
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,471 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the Midlands

Public Sector
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands -29 123 £53,688 -2.39% 131
East Midlands -43 55 £51,250 +7.89% 55
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 10 (5.41%) Confluence
2 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.08%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.54%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) SAP HCM
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 36 (19.46%) Azure
2 26 (14.05%) AWS
3 12 (6.49%) SaaS
4 11 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (5.95%) GitHub
4 11 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.41%) PaaS
6 9 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.86%) Amazon S3
7 8 (4.32%) IaaS
8 7 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.78%) AWS KMS
8 7 (3.78%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
10 5 (2.70%) GCP
10 5 (2.70%) Snowflake
10 5 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.49%) WAN
2 11 (5.95%) LAN
3 5 (2.70%) DNS
3 5 (2.70%) Firewall
4 4 (2.16%) Wireless
5 3 (1.62%) FTP
5 3 (1.62%) HTTP
5 3 (1.62%) Internet
5 3 (1.62%) SMTP
5 3 (1.62%) SSH
6 2 (1.08%) DHCP
6 2 (1.08%) MPLS
6 2 (1.08%) VoIP
7 1 (0.54%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.54%) IMAP
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) SAN
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
7 1 (0.54%) VPN
7 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.70%) Power BI
4 4 (2.16%) Redis
5 3 (1.62%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.62%) Tableau
6 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.08%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.08%) Looker
6 2 (1.08%) Metadata
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (8.11%) Git
2 14 (7.57%) SonarQube
3 12 (6.49%) JIRA
4 9 (4.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.70%) Vagrant
6 4 (2.16%) Maven
7 3 (1.62%) JUnit
7 3 (1.62%) Mockito
8 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.08%) DbUnit
8 2 (1.08%) jMock
9 1 (0.54%) ERwin
9 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 55 (29.73%) Finance
2 42 (22.70%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.89%) Marketing
6 16 (8.65%) Local Government
7 13 (7.03%) Law
8 11 (5.95%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.32%) Retail
10 7 (3.78%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.24%) Legal
11 6 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.70%) Electronics
13 4 (2.16%) Police
14 2 (1.08%) Advertising
14 2 (1.08%) Banking
14 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.08%) General Ledger
14 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (11.35%) Project Manager
2 19 (10.27%) Lead
3 18 (9.73%) Consultant
3 18 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (8.11%) Integration Consultant
4 15 (8.11%) Oracle Consultant
4 15 (8.11%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 15 (8.11%) Technical Consultant
5 14 (7.57%) Senior
6 13 (7.03%) Support Engineer
7 11 (5.95%) Analyst
7 11 (5.95%) Architect
8 10 (5.41%) Developer
8 10 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.86%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (4.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (3.78%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.78%) IT Support
10 7 (3.78%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.24%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) Middleware
2 7 (3.78%) ARM Templates
2 7 (3.78%) Azure Blueprints
3 6 (3.24%) RESTful
3 6 (3.24%) SOAP
4 5 (2.70%) REST
5 4 (2.16%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.16%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.16%) Bootstrap
5 4 (2.16%) Django
5 4 (2.16%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.16%) Flask
5 4 (2.16%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.16%) Keycloak
5 4 (2.16%) OAuth
5 4 (2.16%) pytest
5 4 (2.16%) Spring
5 4 (2.16%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.16%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (2.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (8.65%) e-Learning
3 15 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.24%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.70%) NHS
7 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.62%) Replication
9 3 (1.62%) SCADA
9 3 (1.62%) Social Media
10 2 (1.08%) CCTV
10 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.27%) Windows
2 11 (5.95%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.41%) Linux
4 5 (2.70%) VMS
5 4 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.54%) Android
8 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.16%) Project Management
2 33 (17.84%) Mentoring
2 33 (17.84%) Software Engineering
3 31 (16.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (13.51%) Agile
4 25 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (12.43%) Intelligent Automation
6 22 (11.89%) Analytics
6 22 (11.89%) Decision-Making
6 22 (11.89%) DevOps
7 21 (11.35%) Coaching
8 20 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (10.27%) Business Development
10 18 (9.73%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (9.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (8.65%) Containerisation
12 16 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (8.11%) API Management
14 14 (7.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.51%) SQL
2 16 (8.65%) Python
3 9 (4.86%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.32%) Java
5 5 (2.70%) Groovy
6 3 (1.62%) R
7 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.08%) Perl
7 2 (1.08%) PHP
8 1 (0.54%) ABAP
8 1 (0.54%) Bash
8 1 (0.54%) C
8 1 (0.54%) C#
8 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.27%) Degree
3 15 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.41%) MCP
5 10 (5.41%) MCSA
5 10 (5.41%) MCSE
6 9 (4.86%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.78%) MAPM
7 7 (3.78%) MRICS
8 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.16%) CCNA
9 4 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.62%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.62%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.62%) PMP
11 2 (1.08%) CRISC
11 2 (1.08%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.41%) GDPR
2 8 (4.32%) NCSC
2 8 (4.32%) QA
3 6 (3.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.62%) GRC
5 3 (1.62%) PMO
6 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.54%) NIST
7 1 (0.54%) P3O
7 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.81%) Docker
3 6 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.62%) DFS Replication
4 3 (1.62%) Firmware
5 2 (1.08%) Postfix
5 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (7.03%) Terraform
2 12 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.95%) Grafana
3 11 (5.95%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.41%) Ansible
5 3 (1.62%) SCCM
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.08%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.54%) Nessus
7 1 (0.54%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 38 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.73%) Oracle
3 16 (8.65%) IBM
4 15 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.41%) SAP
5 10 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.86%) Google
7 7 (3.78%) Dell
8 6 (3.24%) VMware
9 5 (2.70%) Cisco
9 5 (2.70%) Facebook
10 4 (2.16%) Citrix
10 4 (2.16%) Databricks
10 4 (2.16%) DocuSign
11 3 (1.62%) Isilon
11 3 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.62%) YouTube
12 2 (1.08%) Hotjar
12 2 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (1.08%) Optimizely