Public Sector Job Trends in Oxford

Public Sector
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 38 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 2 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 0.83% 0.40% 0.96%
As % of the General category 2.17% 0.68% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £50,542 - £44,250
25th Percentile £55,660 £86,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,174 £87,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.52% +75.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £74,954 £88,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,231 - £55,750
Oxfordshire median annual salary £65,174 £57,500 £62,788
% change year-on-year +13.35% -8.42% -14.05%

All General Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 92 146 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 38.17% 57.71% 56.09%
Number of salaries quoted 59 51 151
10th Percentile £33,600 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% +0.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,750 £88,750 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Oxford

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Oxford over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Oxford

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft