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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +26 +19 +18
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 57 99 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.09% 5.72% 5.02%
As % of the General category 17.38% 11.26% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18 47 25
10th Percentile £27,825 £41,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £32,188 £50,000 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,875 £77,500 £89,500
Berkshire median annual salary £48,750 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -19.23% +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 328 879 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 63.81% 50.78% 64.35%
Number of salaries quoted 145 500 435
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £28,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £38,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £83,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,375 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.00% -2.63% -9.12%

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 19 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 (24.56%) JBoss
1 14 (24.56%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (8.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.51%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (57.89%) AWS
2 27 (47.37%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (47.37%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (47.37%) Serverless
3 19 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (8.77%) AWS KMS
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.26%) Route 53
8 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.75%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.75%) Modbus
1 1 (1.75%) Profibus
1 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (57.89%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (47.37%) Relational Database
3 13 (22.81%) RDBMS
4 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.75%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 33 (57.89%) Jenkins
1 33 (57.89%) JUnit
2 20 (35.09%) Git
3 19 (33.33%) Mockito
4 13 (22.81%) JMeter
5 6 (10.53%) Maven
5 6 (10.53%) SonarQube
6 5 (8.77%) DbUnit
6 5 (8.77%) jMock
7 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Marketing
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.53%) Electronics
4 6 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.26%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Games
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (56.14%) Developer
1 32 (56.14%) Java Developer
2 5 (8.77%) Consultant
2 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 5 (8.77%) Sales Executive
3 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (7.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (7.02%) Lead
3 4 (7.02%) Sales Consultant
4 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
4 3 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
4 3 (5.26%) Senior
4 3 (5.26%) Telesales Executive
5 2 (3.51%) Designer
5 2 (3.51%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Incident Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Service Designer
5 2 (3.51%) User Researcher
6 1 (1.75%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (57.89%) Spring
2 32 (56.14%) REST
2 32 (56.14%) Web Services
3 31 (54.39%) Spring Boot
4 28 (49.12%) Apache Camel
5 20 (35.09%) SOAP
6 19 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (33.33%) RESTful
7 18 (31.58%) Hibernate
8 14 (24.56%) J2EE
9 13 (22.81%) HTML
9 13 (22.81%) jQuery
9 13 (22.81%) WireMock
10 6 (10.53%) JPA
10 6 (10.53%) JSON
10 6 (10.53%) XML
11 5 (8.77%) PowerMock
12 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
12 4 (7.02%) Bootstrap
12 4 (7.02%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 31 (54.39%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.02%) Social Media
4 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.51%) NHS
5 1 (1.75%) Blog
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.75%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) Agile
2 33 (57.89%) Microservices
2 33 (57.89%) TDD
3 32 (56.14%) BDD
4 27 (47.37%) Scrum
5 26 (45.61%) Kanban
6 16 (28.07%) DevOps
7 15 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (24.56%) CI/CD
9 13 (22.81%) Process Management
9 13 (22.81%) Workflow
10 11 (19.30%) Decision-Making
11 9 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (12.28%) Architectural Design
13 7 (12.28%) CRM
14 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
14 6 (10.53%) Presales
14 6 (10.53%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (57.89%) Java
2 14 (24.56%) Python
3 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.81%) Shell Script
4 4 (7.02%) SQL
5 3 (5.26%) C++
5 3 (5.26%) VBA
6 1 (1.75%) C
6 1 (1.75%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 23 (40.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.75%) MCSA
4 1 (1.75%) MCSE
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (54.39%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Postfix
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.56%) Ansible
3 13 (22.81%) Kibana
4 2 (3.51%) Grafana
4 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.75%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.75%) vRealize
5 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Dynatrace
1 13 (22.81%) Splunk
2 9 (15.79%) Salesforce
3 6 (10.53%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Juniper
6 1 (1.75%) VMware