Public Sector Job Trends 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 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 65 78
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 -1
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 435 228 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.32% 4.10% 3.08%
As % of the General category 7.48% 6.39% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 401 143 262
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £34,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £66,137
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £84,044
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.94%

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 general skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 5,812 3,570 7,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.36% 64.15% 55.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,632 1,948 4,568
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,932 £72,144
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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
West Midlands +24 353 £57,946 -10.85% 76
East Midlands -10 80 £47,375 +33.45% 30
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 18 (4.14%) SAS
2 13 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.69%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.61%) iTrent
2 6 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.46%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.46%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (14.02%) Azure
2 45 (10.34%) AWS
3 35 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (6.44%) Power Platform
5 13 (2.99%) SaaS
6 8 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.61%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.38%) GCP
9 5 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.69%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.69%) Google Sheets
11 3 (0.69%) iPaaS
11 3 (0.69%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.46%) IaaS
12 2 (0.46%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.53%) SD-WAN
1 11 (2.53%) WAN
2 9 (2.07%) VLAN
3 6 (1.38%) Firewall
4 5 (1.15%) IP Telephony
5 4 (0.92%) Network Security
6 3 (0.69%) LAN
6 3 (0.69%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.69%) VoIP
7 2 (0.46%) VPN
7 2 (0.46%) Wireless
8 1 (0.23%) BGP
8 1 (0.23%) CTI
8 1 (0.23%) DNS
8 1 (0.23%) NGFW
8 1 (0.23%) SAN
8 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.75%) Power BI
2 8 (1.84%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.61%) Power Query
3 7 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.15%) MySQL
5 5 (1.15%) Star Schema
6 4 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.69%) Looker
7 3 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.69%) Pentaho
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.46%) Metadata
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.46%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Git
2 4 (0.92%) JIRA
3 3 (0.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) JMeter
5 1 (0.23%) JUnit
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.23%) Postman
5 1 (0.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (15.86%) Finance
2 61 (14.02%) Social Skills
3 21 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.91%) Local Government
7 13 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.84%) Law
10 7 (1.61%) Back Office
11 6 (1.38%) Fire and Rescue
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing
12 3 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Billing
13 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Legal
13 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.46%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.23%) Advertising
14 1 (0.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (14.94%) Senior
2 31 (7.13%) Data Engineer
3 28 (6.44%) Business Manager
3 28 (6.44%) Senior Manager
4 25 (5.75%) Lead
4 25 (5.75%) Network Engineer
5 24 (5.52%) Architect
6 22 (5.06%) Account Manager
6 22 (5.06%) Business Development Manager
6 22 (5.06%) Development Manager
7 20 (4.60%) Accountant
8 19 (4.37%) IT Manager
9 18 (4.14%) Analyst
9 18 (4.14%) Applications Support
9 18 (4.14%) Systems Accountant
10 16 (3.68%) Designer
11 15 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.45%) Consultant
11 15 (3.45%) SAS Engineer
12 14 (3.22%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.76%) .NET
2 6 (1.38%) EDI
3 5 (1.15%) RESTful
4 4 (0.92%) Node.js
5 2 (0.46%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.46%) CSS
5 2 (0.46%) HTML
5 2 (0.46%) Middleware
6 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.23%) ADO
6 1 (0.23%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.23%) jQuery
6 1 (0.23%) JSON
6 1 (0.23%) Playwright
6 1 (0.23%) PySpark
6 1 (0.23%) React
6 1 (0.23%) SOAP
6 1 (0.23%) WireMock
6 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (2.53%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.30%) Management Information System
3 10 (2.30%) NHS
3 10 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.92%) e-Learning
7 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.69%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.69%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.69%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
8 3 (0.69%) PMI
8 3 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.46%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.45%) Windows
2 7 (1.61%) Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Unix
4 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Solaris
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (19.31%) Mentoring
2 73 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 67 (15.40%) Agile
4 66 (15.17%) Coaching
5 44 (10.11%) CRM
6 43 (9.89%) Decision-Making
7 39 (8.97%) Analytics
8 36 (8.28%) Business Development
9 35 (8.05%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (6.44%) ITIL
12 27 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (5.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (4.60%) Project Management
14 20 (4.60%) Roadmaps
15 19 (4.37%) DevOps
16 18 (4.14%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (4.14%) Customer Service
17 17 (3.91%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.29%) SQL
2 11 (2.53%) Java
2 11 (2.53%) Python
3 9 (2.07%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.15%) Bash
6 4 (0.92%) PHP
6 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.92%) R
7 3 (0.69%) C#
7 3 (0.69%) VBA
8 2 (0.46%) ABAP
9 1 (0.23%) Bicep
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.23%) RPG
9 1 (0.23%) Scala
9 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (8.74%) Security Cleared
2 29 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.14%) Degree
4 5 (1.15%) CITP
5 4 (0.92%) CCAB
5 4 (0.92%) CISM
5 4 (0.92%) CISSP
6 3 (0.69%) AAT
6 3 (0.69%) CCNP
6 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.69%) CRISC
6 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.46%) CCNA
7 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.23%) APMG
8 1 (0.23%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.68%) QA
2 15 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.22%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.15%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.92%) GRC
6 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 4 (0.92%) NCSC
6 4 (0.92%) NIST
6 4 (0.92%) SLA
7 3 (0.69%) P3O
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) PMO
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.46%) Docker
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (3.22%) Terraform
2 4 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.23%) Ansible
4 1 (0.23%) Argo
4 1 (0.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 77 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.99%) Cisco
3 11 (2.53%) VMware
4 10 (2.30%) Google
5 9 (2.07%) Oracle
6 7 (1.61%) Databricks
6 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.38%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.92%) Avaya
8 4 (0.92%) Pega
8 4 (0.92%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.92%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.69%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.69%) Dell
9 3 (0.69%) ESRI
9 3 (0.69%) Informatica
9 3 (0.69%) Planon
9 3 (0.69%) SAP
9 3 (0.69%) Talend
10 2 (0.46%) NEC