Public Sector Jobs in the South West

Public Sector
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -30
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 111 309 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.13% 3.15% 4.12%
As % of the General category 4.83% 6.02% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 57 253 205
10th Percentile £38,750 £29,100 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,000 £47,520
Median % change year-on-year +22.55% +7.32% +0.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £80,000 £76,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,300 5,133 4,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 64.84% 52.40% 63.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 3,475 2,300
10th Percentile £25,267 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.45% +2.79%
75th Percentile £63,908 £60,174 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,565 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the South West

Public Sector
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Gloucestershire +49 57 £65,000 +18.18% 52
Bristol +7 26 £62,500 +13.64% 89
Devon +19 8 £51,000 -19.53% 13
Wiltshire -12 7 £68,525 +34.36% 20
Somerset -11 6 £47,500 - 23
Dorset +30 5 £47,500 -9.52% 10
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (3.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.82%) AWS
2 21 (18.92%) Azure
3 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.31%) Serverless
4 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.50%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.60%) SaaS
7 3 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.70%) GCP
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub
7 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.90%) IaaS
8 1 (0.90%) OCI
8 1 (0.90%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) Network Security
2 2 (1.80%) DHCP
2 2 (1.80%) DNS
2 2 (1.80%) Firewall
2 2 (1.80%) SAN
3 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.90%) LAN
3 1 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.50%) MySQL
3 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) Redis
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.90%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Git
2 3 (2.70%) GitLab
2 3 (2.70%) JIRA
2 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.90%) CMake
3 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Subversion
3 1 (0.90%) WiX
General
1 35 (31.53%) Finance
1 35 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Marketing
3 16 (14.41%) Electronics
3 16 (14.41%) Manufacturing
3 16 (14.41%) Telecoms
4 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Retail
7 3 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Local Government
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.90%) Military
9 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (41.44%) Senior
2 36 (32.43%) Java Engineer
3 32 (28.83%) Senior Java Engineer
4 10 (9.01%) Business Manager
4 10 (9.01%) Lead
5 9 (8.11%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (8.11%) Development Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Consultant
7 6 (5.41%) Developer
8 5 (4.50%) Architect
8 5 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) Kafka
2 6 (5.41%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.60%) AWS CDK
3 4 (3.60%) Node.js
3 4 (3.60%) RESTful
4 3 (2.70%) Django
4 3 (2.70%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.70%) Flask
4 3 (2.70%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.70%) Keycloak
4 3 (2.70%) OAuth
4 3 (2.70%) pytest
4 3 (2.70%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (2.70%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.80%) HTML
5 2 (1.80%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.80%) Spring
6 1 (0.90%) CSS
6 1 (0.90%) CSS3
6 1 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.50%) e-Learning
3 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (2.70%) SCADA
5 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.90%) IoT
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (49.55%) Agile
2 40 (36.04%) Artificial Intelligence
3 33 (29.73%) SDLC
4 23 (20.72%) DevOps
5 17 (15.32%) Programme Management
5 17 (15.32%) Project Delivery
5 17 (15.32%) Project Management
6 16 (14.41%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (14.41%) Digital Marketing
7 15 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
7 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.81%) Business Development
9 11 (9.91%) Budget Management
9 11 (9.91%) CI/CD
9 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
10 10 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
10 10 (9.01%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.01%) Roadmaps
10 10 (9.01%) Scrum
11 9 (8.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 42 (37.84%) Java
2 12 (10.81%) Python
3 8 (7.21%) SQL
4 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.80%) Bash
5 2 (1.80%) C
5 2 (1.80%) C++
5 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.90%) PHP
6 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.51%) DV Cleared
4 14 (12.61%) Degree
5 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.80%) CCNA
6 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.80%) CISSP
6 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CCNP
7 1 (0.90%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.90%) CISM
7 1 (0.90%) HNC
7 1 (0.90%) HND
7 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.90%) NVQ Level 4
7 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) Def Stans
1 3 (2.70%) SLA
2 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.90%) GDPR
2 1 (0.90%) GRC
2 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.90%) JSP 440
2 1 (0.90%) NCSC
2 1 (0.90%) PMO
2 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (9.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.21%) Terraform
3 6 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.70%) Grafana
5 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.80%) SmoothWall
7 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (14.41%) SAP
2 15 (13.51%) IBM
2 15 (13.51%) Red Hat
3 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.31%) VMware
5 4 (3.60%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Facebook
6 3 (2.70%) YouTube
7 2 (1.80%) EMC
7 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.90%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.90%) F5
8 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.90%) HP
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle
8 1 (0.90%) Xero