Public Sector Job Trends in Stevenage

Public Sector
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Stevenage. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 28 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 12 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Stevenage 2.01% 2.55% 1.43%
As % of the General category 12.00% 4.90% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,780 £62,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,625 -
90th Percentile £84,250 £81,950 -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +33.33% +10.21%

All General Skills
Stevenage

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 general skills in Stevenage.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 100 102 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stevenage 16.78% 52.04% 57.14%
Number of salaries quoted 55 35 62
10th Percentile £28,500 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,390 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £45,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -20.35% +2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,875 £64,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £68,400 £67,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £50,500 £50,967 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.92% -2.92% -4.55%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Stevenage

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Stevenage

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Stevenage over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Stevenage

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (25.00%) Boomi
3 3 (25.00%) Matillion
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (33.33%) MS Access
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) Pentaho
2 3 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (25.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 8 (66.67%) Law
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 4 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Applications Support
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) Workflow
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Extraction
5 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) RBAC
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) Microservices
6 2 (16.67%) Presales
6 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 4 (33.33%) VB
3 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
1 3 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
2 4 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 4 (33.33%) NEC
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) Informatica
3 3 (25.00%) Talend
4 1 (8.33%) Pega
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow