Public Sector Jobs in the South East

Public Sector
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the South East. 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 92 67 130
Rank change year-on-year -25 +63 +46
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 286 635 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.97% 3.62% 2.58%
As % of the General category 4.34% 6.47% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 73 341 213
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,198 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +1.85% -1.44%
75th Percentile £68,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All General Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,596 9,822 8,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.46% 56.00% 63.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 6,125 4,315
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the South East

Public Sector
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley +3 96 £52,500 -4.55% 501
Surrey +33 82 £68,750 +37.50% 160
Berkshire +4 70 £55,000 -12.00% 292
Hampshire -53 41 £67,500 +42.11% 225
Kent +46 36 £62,500 +123.49% 129
Buckinghamshire +25 19 £53,750 +13.16% 140
East Sussex +19 17 £57,500 -8.47% 70
Middlesex - 9 - -
Oxfordshire -7 7 £37,000 -35.97% 70
West Sussex +26 2 - - 66
Home Counties 0 1 £50,000 -
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.90%) JBoss
1 14 (4.90%) Red Hat Fuse
2 11 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.75%) Apache
3 5 (1.75%) IIS
4 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) MicroStation
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (2.80%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.29%) AWS
2 27 (9.44%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (9.44%) Serverless
3 20 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.45%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (2.10%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.10%) AWS KMS
7 5 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.75%) Route 53
8 4 (1.40%) Azure
9 3 (1.05%) GCP
9 3 (1.05%) SaaS
10 2 (0.70%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.35%) Dropbox
11 1 (0.35%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.35%) GitHub
11 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.80%) DNS
2 7 (2.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.75%) Firewall
4 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.70%) RS-485
5 2 (0.70%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) 3G
6 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.35%) GPRS
6 1 (0.35%) HTTP
6 1 (0.35%) Intelligent Network
6 1 (0.35%) Intranet
6 1 (0.35%) LTE
6 1 (0.35%) Modbus
6 1 (0.35%) RS-232
6 1 (0.35%) VSAN
6 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 7 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.45%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.05%) Power BI
7 3 (1.05%) Tableau
8 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.35%) Big Data
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 37 (12.94%) Jenkins
1 37 (12.94%) JUnit
2 23 (8.04%) Mockito
3 21 (7.34%) Git
4 13 (4.55%) JMeter
5 7 (2.45%) Maven
5 7 (2.45%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.10%) DbUnit
6 6 (2.10%) JIRA
6 6 (2.10%) jMock
7 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 175 (61.19%) Social Skills
2 154 (53.85%) Finance
3 148 (51.75%) Marketing
4 40 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.64%) Manufacturing
6 16 (5.59%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (4.55%) Electronics
9 10 (3.50%) Local Government
10 7 (2.45%) Legal
10 7 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.75%) Back Office
11 5 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Law
12 3 (1.05%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Automotive
13 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 130 (45.45%) Development Manager
2 129 (45.10%) Business Development Manager
2 129 (45.10%) Business Manager
3 47 (16.43%) Developer
4 37 (12.94%) Java Developer
5 14 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (3.85%) Analyst
6 11 (3.85%) Consultant
6 11 (3.85%) Lead
7 10 (3.50%) Senior
8 9 (3.15%) Oracle Developer
8 9 (3.15%) Technical Developer
9 7 (2.45%) Sales Executive
9 7 (2.45%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (2.10%) Supplier Manager
11 5 (1.75%) Civil Engineer
11 5 (1.75%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (1.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.94%) Spring
2 36 (12.59%) Spring Boot
3 33 (11.54%) Web Services
4 31 (10.84%) REST
5 27 (9.44%) Apache Camel
6 23 (8.04%) RESTful
7 22 (7.69%) Hibernate
8 21 (7.34%) SOAP
9 20 (6.99%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (4.90%) J2EE
11 13 (4.55%) HTML
11 13 (4.55%) jQuery
11 13 (4.55%) WireMock
12 9 (3.15%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.45%) JPA
14 6 (2.10%) Bootstrap
14 6 (2.10%) Kafka
14 6 (2.10%) PowerMock
14 6 (2.10%) React
15 5 (1.75%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (8.04%) e-Learning
2 23 (8.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.80%) Social Media
5 7 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.75%) Client/Server
6 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.75%) NHS
6 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.05%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.70%) SCADA
9 1 (0.35%) NB-IoT
9 1 (0.35%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.50%) Windows
2 7 (2.45%) Linux
3 6 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (48.60%) Collaborative Working
2 138 (48.25%) Business Development
3 128 (44.76%) Facilities Management
3 128 (44.76%) Marketing Strategy
4 127 (44.41%) Collaborative Culture
5 60 (20.98%) Agile
6 37 (12.94%) Microservices
7 34 (11.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 34 (11.89%) DevOps
7 34 (11.89%) TDD
8 33 (11.54%) BDD
9 32 (11.19%) Scrum
10 31 (10.84%) Coaching
11 28 (9.79%) Kanban
11 28 (9.79%) Mentoring
12 24 (8.39%) Containerisation
12 24 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (6.99%) Roadmaps
14 19 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (6.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.64%) Java
2 23 (8.04%) Python
3 16 (5.59%) SQL
4 14 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.05%) VBA
8 2 (0.70%) C++
8 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) C
9 1 (0.35%) C#
9 1 (0.35%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.99%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.24%) Degree
4 6 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (0.70%) APMG
6 2 (0.70%) Postgraduate
6 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CCNP
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CISSP
7 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) HND
7 1 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.35%) MCSA
7 1 (0.35%) MCSE
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.24%) SLA
2 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (13.29%) Docker
2 6 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Postfix
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.90%) Ansible
3 13 (4.55%) Kibana
4 5 (1.75%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.70%) Grafana
5 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.35%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.35%) vRealize
6 1 (0.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (8.39%) IBM
1 24 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.04%) Red Hat
3 19 (6.64%) Oracle
4 13 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.55%) SAP
4 13 (4.55%) Splunk
5 12 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.15%) VMware
7 5 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.40%) Juniper
9 2 (0.70%) Adobe
9 2 (0.70%) Apple
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco
9 2 (0.70%) EMC
9 2 (0.70%) Foundry
9 2 (0.70%) Freescale
9 2 (0.70%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.70%) Palantir
10 1 (0.35%) Google