Public Sector Jobs in South London

Public Sector
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 32 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 +34 +58
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 50 63 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 6.68% 7.17% 2.63%
As % of the General category 8.04% 9.26% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 42 9
10th Percentile - £24,000 -
25th Percentile - £27,965 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,840 £46,250 £24,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +88.78% -52.43%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £54,875
90th Percentile - £83,750 £87,750
London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,003
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.45% +3.08%

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 622 680 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 83.16% 77.36% 73.96%
Number of salaries quoted 101 244 241
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,965 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £34,341 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £71,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £83,750 £83,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% +5.71%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in South London

Public Sector
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Croydon -8 31 - - 6
Kingston Upon Thames +19 6 - - 3
Merton - 6 £42,840 - 3
Bromley -10 5 - - 2
Sutton - 3 - -
Public Sector
London

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (28.00%) JBoss
1 14 (28.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) AWS
2 25 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 25 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (50.00%) Serverless
3 12 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (52.00%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (22.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (52.00%) Jenkins
1 26 (52.00%) JUnit
2 15 (30.00%) Git
3 12 (24.00%) Mockito
4 11 (22.00%) JMeter
5 1 (2.00%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.00%) jMock
5 1 (2.00%) Maven
5 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (48.00%) Finance
2 22 (44.00%) Marketing
2 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Law
3 2 (4.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (52.00%) Developer
1 26 (52.00%) Java Developer
2 22 (44.00%) Business Development Manager
2 22 (44.00%) Business Manager
2 22 (44.00%) Development Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (4.00%) Procurement Officer
4 2 (4.00%) Project Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) REST
1 26 (52.00%) Spring
1 26 (52.00%) Web Services
2 25 (50.00%) Apache Camel
2 25 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 15 (30.00%) RESTful
3 15 (30.00%) SOAP
4 14 (28.00%) J2EE
5 12 (24.00%) ActiveMQ
5 12 (24.00%) Hibernate
6 11 (22.00%) HTML
6 11 (22.00%) jQuery
6 11 (22.00%) WireMock
7 4 (8.00%) JSON
7 4 (8.00%) XML
8 1 (2.00%) JPA
8 1 (2.00%) PowerMock
8 1 (2.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 26 (52.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) Collaborative Working
2 26 (52.00%) Agile
2 26 (52.00%) BDD
2 26 (52.00%) Microservices
2 26 (52.00%) TDD
3 22 (44.00%) Business Development
3 22 (44.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 22 (44.00%) Facilities Management
3 22 (44.00%) Kanban
3 22 (44.00%) Marketing Strategy
3 22 (44.00%) Scrum
4 14 (28.00%) DevOps
4 14 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.00%) Process Management
5 11 (22.00%) Workflow
6 7 (14.00%) Architectural Design
7 2 (4.00%) Benchmarking
7 2 (4.00%) Project Management
7 2 (4.00%) Spend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Java
2 11 (22.00%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (42.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 25 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (28.00%) Ansible
3 11 (22.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (22.00%) Splunk