Public Sector Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 107 101
Rank change year-on-year +57 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 186 95 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.73% 2.52% 2.23%
As % of the General category 6.29% 3.39% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 142 37 74
10th Percentile £31,325 £28,500 £40,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £59,403
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.62% +13.15%
75th Percentile £100,000 £60,000 £72,875
90th Percentile - £73,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £51,243
% change year-on-year +9.09% +7.33% +2.49%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,957 2,803 2,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 43.45% 74.39% 48.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,969 979 1,303
10th Percentile £28,800 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,520 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -4.96% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Public Sector job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Berkshire +28 92 £72,500 +34.88% 19
Buckinghamshire +37 64 £72,500 +38.10% 24
Oxfordshire +3 30 £60,000 +90.48% 6
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.54%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (9.68%) AWS
2 12 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (6.45%) Serverless
3 11 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (5.38%) Azure
5 8 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.23%) GCP
6 6 (3.23%) Google Analytics
6 6 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.23%) SaaS
7 3 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.61%) Cohesity
7 3 (1.61%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.08%) GitHub
8 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.54%) Figma
9 1 (0.54%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Firewall
1 2 (1.08%) LAN
1 2 (1.08%) Network Security
1 2 (1.08%) OSPF
1 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
1 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.08%) VLAN
1 2 (1.08%) VPN
1 2 (1.08%) WAN
1 2 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.08%) Wireless
1 2 (1.08%) WLAN
2 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.84%) Metadata
2 9 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.23%) Power BI
4 5 (2.69%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.08%) MySQL
5 2 (1.08%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (7.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.38%) JUnit
3 7 (3.76%) JMeter
3 7 (3.76%) Mockito
4 5 (2.69%) Git
5 2 (1.08%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.54%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.54%) JIRA
6 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.54%) Storybook
General
1 18 (9.68%) Finance
1 18 (9.68%) Law
1 18 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.45%) Marketing
5 4 (2.15%) Banking
5 4 (2.15%) Fire and Rescue
5 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (2.15%) Public Speaking
6 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (25.27%) Account Manager
2 43 (23.12%) Sales Manager
3 40 (21.51%) Enterprise Account Manager
3 40 (21.51%) Sales Account Manager
4 39 (20.97%) ServiceNow Manager
5 14 (7.53%) Architect
6 13 (6.99%) Business Development Manager
6 13 (6.99%) Business Manager
6 13 (6.99%) Developer
6 13 (6.99%) Development Manager
7 12 (6.45%) Data Architect
7 12 (6.45%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.91%) Sales Representative
9 9 (4.84%) Bid Manager
9 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 9 (4.84%) Senior
9 9 (4.84%) Support Specialist
10 7 (3.76%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.06%) Spring
2 13 (6.99%) Spring Boot
3 12 (6.45%) REST
4 11 (5.91%) HTML
5 9 (4.84%) Web Services
6 7 (3.76%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (3.76%) Apache Camel
6 7 (3.76%) Hibernate
6 7 (3.76%) jQuery
6 7 (3.76%) React
6 7 (3.76%) WireMock
7 6 (3.23%) Jakarta EE
7 6 (3.23%) JPA
8 5 (2.69%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.69%) JSON
8 5 (2.69%) XML
9 4 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.15%) JMS
9 4 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.23%) EPoS
3 6 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.69%) CCTV
4 5 (2.69%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.15%) Hackathon
5 4 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.61%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.08%) NHS
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) 3D Printing
8 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.54%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.54%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.82%) Agile
2 23 (12.37%) Technology Strategy
3 20 (10.75%) Business Development
3 20 (10.75%) Scrum
4 19 (10.22%) Community of Practice
5 18 (9.68%) Decision-Making
6 14 (7.53%) CI/CD
7 13 (6.99%) BDD
7 13 (6.99%) Computer Science
7 13 (6.99%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (6.99%) TDD
8 12 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (6.45%) Microservices
8 12 (6.45%) Service Design
9 11 (5.91%) DevOps
10 10 (5.38%) Analytics
10 10 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (5.38%) Kanban
10 10 (5.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (4.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.22%) Java
2 12 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 11 (5.91%) Python
4 9 (4.84%) SQL
5 8 (4.30%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.15%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.54%) C#
8 1 (0.54%) Groovy
8 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 55 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 41 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.98%) Degree
4 11 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.08%) CCNA
6 2 (1.08%) CHECK Team Leader
6 2 (1.08%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.08%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.08%) Cyber Scheme
6 2 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.08%) OSCP
7 1 (0.54%) ACCA
7 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.54%) CIMA
7 1 (0.54%) CISSP
7 1 (0.54%) ISEB
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.61%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) NCSC
3 2 (1.08%) WCAG
4 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) PMO
4 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (8.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.91%) Kibana
3 5 (2.69%) Ansible
3 5 (2.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (22.04%) ServiceNow
2 14 (7.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.76%) Dynatrace
3 7 (3.76%) Google
3 7 (3.76%) Splunk
4 6 (3.23%) Oracle
5 5 (2.69%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.15%) IBM
7 3 (1.61%) Commvault
7 3 (1.61%) EMC
7 3 (1.61%) ExaGrid
7 3 (1.61%) NetApp
7 3 (1.61%) Pure Storage
7 3 (1.61%) Veeam
7 3 (1.61%) Veritas
8 2 (1.08%) Aruba
8 2 (1.08%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.08%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (1.08%) SAP
8 2 (1.08%) WatchGuard