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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 84 143
Rank change year-on-year -2 +59 -5
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 105 195 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.09% 2.90% 2.11%
As % of the General category 4.04% 5.50% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 50 125 61
10th Percentile £30,425 £37,976 £27,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £40,478
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,375 £70,000 £74,235
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -1.48%

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 2,598 3,543 3,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.52% 52.71% 64.45%
Number of salaries quoted 763 2,209 1,700
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,682 £34,000 £35,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,375 £60,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £73,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

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 11 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 11 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 +6 76 £60,000 +14.29% 65
Buckinghamshire +36 22 £57,750 +21.58% 16
Oxfordshire -9 7 £39,750 -30.87% 35
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 13 (12.38%) JBoss
1 13 (12.38%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 5 (4.76%) IIS
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.90%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.00%) AWS
2 32 (30.48%) Amazon ECS
2 32 (30.48%) Amazon EKS
2 32 (30.48%) Serverless
3 25 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.76%) AWS KMS
6 4 (3.81%) Azure
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.86%) GCP
7 3 (2.86%) SaaS
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.90%) Route 53
9 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.95%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.95%) GitHub
9 1 (0.95%) IaaS
9 1 (0.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.76%) Firewall
4 2 (1.90%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.90%) VPN
4 2 (1.90%) VSAN
5 1 (0.95%) Modbus
5 1 (0.95%) Profibus
5 1 (0.95%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (39.05%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (36.19%) Relational Database
3 19 (18.10%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.71%) Power BI
4 6 (5.71%) Tableau
5 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.95%) Big Data
9 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (39.05%) Jenkins
1 41 (39.05%) JUnit
2 28 (26.67%) Mockito
3 19 (18.10%) Git
3 19 (18.10%) JMeter
4 6 (5.71%) Maven
4 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.76%) DbUnit
5 5 (4.76%) jMock
6 3 (2.86%) GitLab
7 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (1.90%) JIRA
General
1 43 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.86%) Marketing
3 21 (20.00%) Finance
4 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.62%) Electronics
6 8 (7.62%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.71%) Local Government
8 5 (4.76%) Back Office
9 3 (2.86%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Games
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (39.05%) Developer
1 41 (39.05%) Java Developer
2 12 (11.43%) Development Manager
3 11 (10.48%) Business Development Manager
3 11 (10.48%) Business Manager
4 9 (8.57%) Analyst
5 7 (6.67%) Consultant
5 7 (6.67%) Data Scientist
5 7 (6.67%) Senior
6 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 5 (4.76%) Lead
6 5 (4.76%) Sales Executive
7 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (3.81%) Sales Consultant
8 3 (2.86%) Lead Developer
8 3 (2.86%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (39.05%) Spring
2 38 (36.19%) Spring Boot
3 37 (35.24%) REST
3 37 (35.24%) Web Services
4 33 (31.43%) Apache Camel
5 27 (25.71%) Hibernate
6 25 (23.81%) ActiveMQ
7 21 (20.00%) RESTful
8 19 (18.10%) HTML
8 19 (18.10%) jQuery
8 19 (18.10%) SOAP
8 19 (18.10%) WireMock
9 13 (12.38%) J2EE
10 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.71%) JPA
10 6 (5.71%) JSON
10 6 (5.71%) XML
11 5 (4.76%) PowerMock
11 5 (4.76%) React
11 5 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 36 (34.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.76%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.81%) Social Media
5 2 (1.90%) NHS
5 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.95%) Robotics
6 1 (0.95%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Windows
2 9 (8.57%) Linux
3 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.95%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (46.67%) Agile
2 42 (40.00%) Microservices
3 38 (36.19%) TDD
4 37 (35.24%) BDD
5 36 (34.29%) Scrum
6 31 (29.52%) Kanban
7 26 (24.76%) Collaborative Working
8 24 (22.86%) CI/CD
9 21 (20.00%) DevOps
10 20 (19.05%) Workflow
11 19 (18.10%) Process Management
12 18 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (13.33%) Business Development
15 13 (12.38%) Architectural Design
16 12 (11.43%) Analytics
16 12 (11.43%) Marketing Strategy
17 11 (10.48%) Facilities Management
17 11 (10.48%) Project Management
17 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.90%) Java
2 32 (30.48%) Python
3 21 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 19 (18.10%) Shell Script
4 19 (18.10%) SQL
5 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.86%) C++
6 3 (2.86%) VBA
7 1 (0.95%) C
7 1 (0.95%) C#
Qualifications
1 47 (44.76%) Security Cleared
2 43 (40.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.90%) MCSE
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.95%) MCSA
5 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) SLA
2 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) NCSC
3 1 (0.95%) NIST
System Software
1 43 (40.95%) Docker
2 7 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.86%) Postfix
4 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.10%) Kibana
3 13 (12.38%) Ansible
4 5 (4.76%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.90%) Grafana
5 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.95%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.95%) vRealize
6 1 (0.95%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) Dynatrace
1 19 (18.10%) Splunk
2 10 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
2 10 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.62%) SAP
4 7 (6.67%) VMware
5 3 (2.86%) Juniper
6 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.90%) Cisco
6 2 (1.90%) F5
7 1 (0.95%) Altera
7 1 (0.95%) Dell
7 1 (0.95%) EMC
7 1 (0.95%) Freescale
7 1 (0.95%) IBM
7 1 (0.95%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto