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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 74 76
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -30
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 113 304 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.18% 3.29% 4.06%
As % of the General category 5.03% 6.09% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 65 247 213
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +7.37% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
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 2,246 4,991 4,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 63.21% 53.96% 63.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 3,390 2,394
10th Percentile £25,267 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,658 £32,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.00% +3.07%
75th Percentile £64,100 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,300 £75,000 £78,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 14 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 14 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 +37 48 £65,000 +18.18% 55
Bristol +11 28 £67,500 +20.00% 92
Devon +30 15 £51,000 -19.53% 15
Wiltshire -7 7 £68,525 +34.36% 20
Somerset -11 7 £47,500 - 29
Dorset +32 6 £47,500 -9.52% 8
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 (3.54%) Confluence
1 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.24%) Azure
2 20 (17.70%) AWS
3 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (7.08%) Serverless
4 6 (5.31%) SaaS
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.54%) GitHub
6 4 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) IaaS
7 3 (2.65%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.65%) PaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) Network Security
2 2 (1.77%) DHCP
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.77%) Firewall
2 2 (1.77%) SAN
3 1 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) VPN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.42%) MySQL
3 4 (3.54%) Redis
3 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.77%) Power BI
6 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Git
2 4 (3.54%) JIRA
2 4 (3.54%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) CMake
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Subversion
4 1 (0.88%) WiX
General
1 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 33 (29.20%) Finance
3 19 (16.81%) Marketing
4 13 (11.50%) Telecoms
5 11 (9.73%) Electronics
5 11 (9.73%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.08%) Retail
7 6 (5.31%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.42%) Local Government
9 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Games
11 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Senior
2 27 (23.89%) Java Engineer
3 23 (20.35%) Senior Java Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) Business Manager
4 10 (8.85%) Project Manager
5 9 (7.96%) Business Development Manager
5 9 (7.96%) Development Manager
6 8 (7.08%) Consultant
6 8 (7.08%) Developer
6 8 (7.08%) Lead
7 7 (6.19%) Senior Manager
7 7 (6.19%) Senior Project Manager
7 7 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Architect
9 4 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) Kafka
2 6 (5.31%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.42%) RESTful
4 4 (3.54%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.54%) Django
4 4 (3.54%) FastAPI
4 4 (3.54%) Flask
4 4 (3.54%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.54%) Keycloak
4 4 (3.54%) Node.js
4 4 (3.54%) OAuth
4 4 (3.54%) pytest
4 4 (3.54%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (3.54%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.77%) HTML
5 2 (1.77%) ModSecurity
5 2 (1.77%) Spring
6 1 (0.88%) CSS
6 1 (0.88%) HTML5
6 1 (0.88%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (6.19%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.42%) e-Learning
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.65%) SCADA
6 2 (1.77%) CCTV
6 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.77%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Mixed Reality
7 1 (0.88%) PMI
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.08%) Windows
2 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.65%) Linux
4 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.48%) Agile
2 31 (27.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (21.24%) DevOps
4 23 (20.35%) SDLC
5 21 (18.58%) Project Management
6 20 (17.70%) Project Delivery
7 19 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.39%) Budget Management
8 14 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (12.39%) CI/CD
8 14 (12.39%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (12.39%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (12.39%) Roadmaps
9 12 (10.62%) Business Development
9 12 (10.62%) Programme Management
10 11 (9.73%) Analytics
10 11 (9.73%) Digital Marketing
10 11 (9.73%) ITIL
11 10 (8.85%) Containerisation
11 10 (8.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) Java
2 12 (10.62%) Python
3 9 (7.96%) SQL
4 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.77%) C++
5 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
6 1 (0.88%) C
6 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) PHP
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.16%) Degree
4 12 (10.62%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.77%) CCNA
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.77%) CISSP
6 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) HNC
7 1 (0.88%) HND
7 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.88%) NVQ Level 4
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.65%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.77%) SLA
3 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) GRC
3 1 (0.88%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.88%) NCSC
3 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (12.39%) Docker
2 6 (5.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.19%) Terraform
3 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.42%) Ansible
5 4 (3.54%) Grafana
5 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.65%) SCCM
7 2 (1.77%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 15 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.73%) SAP
3 9 (7.96%) VMware
4 6 (5.31%) IBM
4 6 (5.31%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.54%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) Facebook
6 3 (2.65%) YouTube
7 2 (1.77%) EMC
7 2 (1.77%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.88%) F5
8 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.88%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) Xero