Public Sector Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 88 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +36 +15
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 96 195 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.82% 2.78% 2.34%
As % of the General category 3.60% 5.30% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 42 127 66
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,614 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £43,750 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -0.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,125 £74,235
90th Percentile £73,625 £86,750 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,198 £51,250
% change year-on-year +5.37% +1.85% -1.44%

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 common skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,669 3,680 3,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 78.52% 52.42% 64.49%
Number of salaries quoted 758 2,210 1,677
10th Percentile £26,425 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -6.58%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the Thames Valley

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Berkshire +4 70 £55,000 -12.00% 290
Buckinghamshire +25 19 £53,750 +13.16% 134
Oxfordshire -7 7 £37,000 -35.97% 69
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.58%) JBoss
1 14 (14.58%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
2 5 (5.21%) IIS
3 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.13%) Confluence
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.08%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.54%) AWS
2 27 (28.13%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (28.13%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (28.13%) Serverless
3 20 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (7.29%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.25%) AWS KMS
6 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (5.21%) Route 53
7 3 (3.13%) Azure
7 3 (3.13%) GCP
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.08%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.08%) SaaS
9 1 (1.04%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) DNS
2 7 (7.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.21%) Firewall
4 2 (2.08%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.08%) RS-485
4 2 (2.08%) VPN
5 1 (1.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (38.54%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (34.38%) Relational Database
3 13 (13.54%) RDBMS
4 7 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (5.21%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.08%) Power BI
9 2 (2.08%) Tableau
10 1 (1.04%) Big Data
10 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (38.54%) Jenkins
1 37 (38.54%) JUnit
2 23 (23.96%) Mockito
3 21 (21.88%) Git
4 13 (13.54%) JMeter
5 7 (7.29%) Maven
5 7 (7.29%) SonarQube
6 6 (6.25%) DbUnit
6 6 (6.25%) jMock
7 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (3.13%) GitLab
8 3 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 41 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) Marketing
3 23 (23.96%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Electronics
4 8 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 8 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.21%) Back Office
5 5 (5.21%) Local Government
5 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Legal
7 2 (2.08%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (38.54%) Developer
1 37 (38.54%) Java Developer
2 12 (12.50%) Development Manager
3 11 (11.46%) Business Development Manager
3 11 (11.46%) Business Manager
4 8 (8.33%) Analyst
4 8 (8.33%) Consultant
5 7 (7.29%) Senior
6 6 (6.25%) Lead
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 5 (5.21%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (4.17%) Sales Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Sales Executive
9 3 (3.13%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.13%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (38.54%) Spring
2 36 (37.50%) Spring Boot
3 33 (34.38%) Web Services
4 31 (32.29%) REST
5 27 (28.13%) Apache Camel
6 23 (23.96%) RESTful
7 22 (22.92%) Hibernate
8 21 (21.88%) SOAP
9 20 (20.83%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (14.58%) J2EE
11 13 (13.54%) HTML
11 13 (13.54%) jQuery
11 13 (13.54%) WireMock
12 9 (9.38%) AngularJS
13 7 (7.29%) JPA
14 6 (6.25%) Bootstrap
14 6 (6.25%) PowerMock
15 5 (5.21%) Spring Batch
15 5 (5.21%) Spring Integration
15 5 (5.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.21%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.21%) Social Media
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.08%) NHS
5 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) FPGA
5 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.04%) Robotics
5 1 (1.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
2 6 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.04%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.71%) Agile
2 37 (38.54%) Microservices
3 34 (35.42%) TDD
4 33 (34.38%) BDD
5 31 (32.29%) Scrum
6 28 (29.17%) Kanban
7 21 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (20.83%) DevOps
9 17 (17.71%) Business Development
9 17 (17.71%) CI/CD
10 14 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (13.54%) Process Management
11 13 (13.54%) Project Management
11 13 (13.54%) Workflow
12 12 (12.50%) Marketing Strategy
13 11 (11.46%) Collaborative Culture
13 11 (11.46%) Decision-Making
13 11 (11.46%) Facilities Management
13 11 (11.46%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) Java
2 21 (21.88%) Python
3 15 (15.63%) SQL
4 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.54%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.13%) VBA
8 2 (2.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 36 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 34 (35.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) Degree
3 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.04%) MCSA
4 1 (1.04%) MCSE
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.58%) SLA
2 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (38.54%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) Postfix
4 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.04%) Firmware
4 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.58%) Ansible
3 13 (13.54%) Kibana
4 5 (5.21%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.08%) Grafana
5 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.04%) PaperCut
6 1 (1.04%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.04%) vRealize
6 1 (1.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (13.54%) Dynatrace
1 13 (13.54%) Splunk
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.42%) Oracle
4 9 (9.38%) Salesforce
5 8 (8.33%) SAP
6 6 (6.25%) VMware
7 5 (5.21%) Atlassian
8 4 (4.17%) Juniper
9 2 (2.08%) Adobe
9 2 (2.08%) Apple
9 2 (2.08%) EMC
9 2 (2.08%) Freescale
9 2 (2.08%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (1.04%) Altera
10 1 (1.04%) Cisco
10 1 (1.04%) Dell
10 1 (1.04%) IBM