Public Sector Jobs in Reading

Public Sector
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 41 58
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 56 97 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.00% 5.32% 5.39%
As % of the General category 16.97% 10.68% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 20 48 25
10th Percentile £28,275 £41,250 £45,350
25th Percentile £35,563 £49,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £70,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £89,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All General Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 330 908 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 64.83% 49.78% 63.90%
Number of salaries quoted 143 503 415
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,175 £28,200
25th Percentile £44,375 £35,625 £36,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £83,125 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,250 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.63% -9.91%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Reading over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Reading

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 14 (25.00%) JBoss
1 14 (25.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.36%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) AWS
2 27 (48.21%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (48.21%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (48.21%) Serverless
3 20 (35.71%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.71%) AWS KMS
6 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (8.93%) Route 53
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.79%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) DNS
1 1 (1.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (60.71%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (48.21%) Relational Database
3 13 (23.21%) RDBMS
4 7 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (8.93%) DynamoDB
7 3 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 34 (60.71%) Jenkins
1 34 (60.71%) JUnit
2 21 (37.50%) Git
3 20 (35.71%) Mockito
4 13 (23.21%) JMeter
5 7 (12.50%) Maven
5 7 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 6 (10.71%) DbUnit
6 6 (10.71%) jMock
7 5 (8.93%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (5.36%) JIRA
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Marketing
3 6 (10.71%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Electronics
4 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (58.93%) Developer
1 33 (58.93%) Java Developer
2 5 (8.93%) Consultant
2 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 5 (8.93%) Lead
2 5 (8.93%) Lead Developer
2 5 (8.93%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (7.14%) Sales Consultant
3 4 (7.14%) Sales Executive
4 3 (5.36%) Senior
4 3 (5.36%) Telesales Executive
5 2 (3.57%) Designer
5 2 (3.57%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Service Designer
5 2 (3.57%) User Researcher
6 1 (1.79%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (60.71%) Spring
2 33 (58.93%) Spring Boot
2 33 (58.93%) Web Services
3 31 (55.36%) REST
4 27 (48.21%) Apache Camel
5 21 (37.50%) SOAP
6 20 (35.71%) ActiveMQ
6 20 (35.71%) RESTful
7 19 (33.93%) Hibernate
8 14 (25.00%) J2EE
9 13 (23.21%) HTML
9 13 (23.21%) jQuery
9 13 (23.21%) WireMock
10 7 (12.50%) JPA
11 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
11 6 (10.71%) Bootstrap
11 6 (10.71%) PowerMock
12 5 (8.93%) JSON
12 5 (8.93%) Spring Batch
12 5 (8.93%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 30 (53.57%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.93%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.36%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (5.36%) Social Media
4 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.57%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) Agile
2 34 (60.71%) Microservices
2 34 (60.71%) TDD
3 33 (58.93%) BDD
4 29 (51.79%) Scrum
5 28 (50.00%) Kanban
6 16 (28.57%) DevOps
7 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 13 (23.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (23.21%) Process Management
8 13 (23.21%) Workflow
9 11 (19.64%) Decision-Making
10 10 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (14.29%) Architectural Design
11 8 (14.29%) CRM
12 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
13 6 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (10.71%) Open Source
13 6 (10.71%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
3 13 (23.21%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.36%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) VBA
5 2 (3.57%) C++
6 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (48.21%) Security Cleared
2 26 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.79%) MCSA
3 1 (1.79%) MCSE
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.00%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (58.93%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Postfix
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (48.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (25.00%) Ansible
3 13 (23.21%) Kibana
4 2 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.79%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.79%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.79%) vRealize
5 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Dynatrace
1 13 (23.21%) Splunk
2 9 (16.07%) Salesforce
3 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.93%) SAP
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.36%) Oracle
5 2 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco
6 1 (1.79%) Dell
6 1 (1.79%) Juniper
6 1 (1.79%) VMware