Public Sector Jobs in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 84 70
Rank change year-on-year +27 -14 +24
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 2,429 1,814 3,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.72% 3.77% 4.28%
As % of the General category 6.89% 5.74% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,521 1,200 1,894
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,325
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,968 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 35,229 31,627 50,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.97% 65.69% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20,712 17,348 26,425
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.42% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,720
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.19%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the UK excluding London

Public Sector
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
North of England +43 913 £57,965 +22.03% 121
South East +69 522 £51,000 +2.00% 125
North West +60 498 £57,965 +24.65% 79
Midlands +3 347 £55,000 +1.85% 73
Yorkshire +28 298 £57,965 +20.76% 34
South West 0 286 £50,952 +7.27% 101
West Midlands -5 203 £55,000 - 55
Scotland -66 148 £42,683 -15.48% 62
East Midlands +25 144 £50,000 - 18
North East +13 117 £57,965 +15.93% 11
East of England -12 84 £45,750 +8.93% 40
Wales +19 79 £52,508 +16.68% 20
Northern Ireland +14 51 £35,000 -11.95% 38
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 92 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 41 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (1.61%) nginx
4 33 (1.36%) Camunda
5 31 (1.28%) Confluence
6 26 (1.07%) IIS
7 25 (1.03%) Apache
8 16 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.45%) Tuxedo
10 6 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.25%) CMS
11 5 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.12%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.12%) Totara
13 2 (0.082%) JBoss
13 2 (0.082%) Red Hat Fuse
13 2 (0.082%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.082%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.041%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.45%) Trello
6 8 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.33%) InfoPath
7 7 (0.29%) OrCAD
7 7 (0.29%) Sketch
8 6 (0.25%) InVision
8 6 (0.25%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.082%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.041%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 83 (3.42%) NEC Housing
2 17 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
5 7 (0.29%) Oracle Payroll
6 5 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.16%) iTrent
7 4 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.082%) HiPortfolio
9 2 (0.082%) Magento
9 2 (0.082%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.082%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.082%) SAP HCM
9 2 (0.082%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.041%) Infor M3
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Cash Management
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.041%) Primavera
10 1 (0.041%) Scribe Insight
Cloud Services
1 568 (23.38%) Azure
2 406 (16.71%) IBM Cloud
3 313 (12.89%) AWS
4 176 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 144 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
6 138 (5.68%) Serverless
7 122 (5.02%) Azure API Management
8 120 (4.94%) Azure Functions
9 119 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 119 (4.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 108 (4.45%) Power Platform
11 89 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
11 89 (3.66%) OCI
12 83 (3.42%) Amazon S3
13 79 (3.25%) GitHub
14 76 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
14 76 (3.13%) Route 53
15 73 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
16 58 (2.39%) SaaS
17 48 (1.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.63%) Firewall
2 47 (1.93%) DNS
3 32 (1.32%) Network Security
3 32 (1.32%) Wireless
4 26 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (0.78%) HTTP
6 17 (0.70%) Intranet
7 15 (0.62%) LAN
8 13 (0.54%) Internet
9 12 (0.49%) DHCP
9 12 (0.49%) Modbus
10 11 (0.45%) SAN
10 11 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 10 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
11 10 (0.41%) WAN
12 9 (0.37%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.37%) iSCSI
13 8 (0.33%) FTP
13 8 (0.33%) VLAN
13 8 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (12.52%) PostgreSQL
2 300 (12.35%) MongoDB
3 295 (12.14%) NoSQL
4 242 (9.96%) DB2
5 142 (5.85%) Relational Database
6 86 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
6 86 (3.54%) Power BI
7 75 (3.09%) Oracle Database
8 52 (2.14%) Tableau
9 50 (2.06%) SQL Server
10 31 (1.28%) MySQL
11 29 (1.19%) GIS
12 18 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
14 13 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.45%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (0.37%) Redis
18 7 (0.29%) DTS
18 7 (0.29%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 84 (3.46%) JIRA
2 57 (2.35%) CircleCI
3 44 (1.81%) Git
4 31 (1.28%) GitLab
5 23 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.49%) Artifactory
6 12 (0.49%) JMeter
7 11 (0.45%) JUnit
7 11 (0.45%) Maven
7 11 (0.45%) Visual Studio
8 10 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
9 8 (0.33%) Selenium
9 8 (0.33%) Subversion
10 7 (0.29%) Eclipse
10 7 (0.29%) Mockito
10 7 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (0.21%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.12%) Jasmine
General
1 556 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 479 (19.72%) Finance
3 351 (14.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 218 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (7.95%) Local Government
6 131 (5.39%) Marketing
7 117 (4.82%) Telecoms
8 113 (4.65%) Manufacturing
9 111 (4.57%) Police
10 108 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
11 106 (4.36%) Electronics
12 83 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
13 74 (3.05%) Legal
14 59 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
15 46 (1.89%) Retail
16 33 (1.36%) Billing
17 26 (1.07%) Social Housing
18 19 (0.78%) Law
19 15 (0.62%) Back Office
19 15 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 435 (17.91%) Senior
2 309 (12.72%) Developer
3 264 (10.87%) Lead
4 173 (7.12%) Full Stack Engineer
5 159 (6.55%) Architect
6 148 (6.09%) Consultant
7 144 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
8 139 (5.72%) Analyst
9 134 (5.52%) Full Stack Developer
10 123 (5.06%) Azure Developer
10 123 (5.06%) Project Manager
11 117 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
12 93 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 86 (3.54%) Software Engineer
14 80 (3.29%) Senior DevOps
14 80 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 69 (2.84%) Category Manager
16 63 (2.59%) ICT Manager
17 59 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
18 51 (2.10%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (13.92%) React
2 321 (13.22%) HTML
3 305 (12.56%) .NET
4 296 (12.19%) CSS
5 283 (11.65%) AngularJS
6 279 (11.49%) REST
7 267 (10.99%) Web Services
8 240 (9.88%) jQuery
9 234 (9.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 233 (9.59%) ASP.NET
10 233 (9.59%) Vue
11 231 (9.51%) ASP.NET Core
11 231 (9.51%) Backbone.js
11 231 (9.51%) Ember.js
12 159 (6.55%) Node.js
13 71 (2.92%) RESTful
14 36 (1.48%) .NET Core
14 36 (1.48%) Swagger
15 33 (1.36%) KeystoneJS
16 25 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 443 (18.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 410 (16.88%) Blockchain
3 242 (9.96%) Algorithms
4 235 (9.67%) e-Learning
5 231 (9.51%) Data Structures
6 142 (5.85%) Public Cloud
7 116 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
8 105 (4.32%) Management Information System
9 91 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
10 86 (3.54%) NHS
11 56 (2.31%) Product Ownership
12 54 (2.22%) Driving Licence
13 34 (1.40%) Housing Association
14 29 (1.19%) IoT
15 26 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (1.03%) Data Centre
17 22 (0.91%) Mobile App
18 19 (0.78%) Onboarding
19 16 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
20 15 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 427 (17.58%) Windows
2 400 (16.47%) Linux
3 237 (9.76%) Apple iOS
4 235 (9.67%) Android
5 58 (2.39%) Unix
6 57 (2.35%) Windows Server
7 41 (1.69%) CentOS
8 39 (1.61%) Alpine Linux
8 39 (1.61%) Debian
9 32 (1.32%) Windows 10
10 16 (0.66%) Solaris
11 15 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
13 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
15 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (28.53%) Mentoring
2 672 (27.67%) Coaching
3 617 (25.40%) Agile
4 454 (18.69%) Artificial Intelligence
5 378 (15.56%) DevOps
6 354 (14.57%) Full Stack Development
7 318 (13.09%) User Experience
8 295 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
9 293 (12.06%) Co-Creation
10 291 (11.98%) Design Patterns
11 278 (11.45%) OO
12 255 (10.50%) Web Development
13 250 (10.29%) OOP
14 240 (9.88%) Project Management
15 236 (9.72%) SOLID
16 234 (9.63%) MVC
17 233 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
18 231 (9.51%) Design Thinking
18 231 (9.51%) MVVM
18 231 (9.51%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 428 (17.62%) SQL
2 388 (15.97%) JavaScript
3 358 (14.74%) C#
4 277 (11.40%) Java
5 215 (8.85%) Python
6 54 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 45 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 41 (1.69%) C
9 35 (1.44%) Lua
10 33 (1.36%) C++
11 24 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.58%) Bash
13 13 (0.54%) Ruby
14 12 (0.49%) Embedded C
15 11 (0.45%) COBOL
15 11 (0.45%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 10 (0.41%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.37%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.33%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.29%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 335 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 303 (12.47%) Degree
3 164 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 61 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 58 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 56 (2.31%) DBS Check
7 45 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 44 (1.81%) MCSE
9 42 (1.73%) ACCA
10 41 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 39 (1.61%) MCSA
12 27 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.62%) CCNA
15 15 (0.62%) CCNP
15 15 (0.62%) CISSP
15 15 (0.62%) PMP
16 13 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.49%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (6.26%) Accessibility
2 60 (2.47%) QA
3 44 (1.81%) WCAG
4 42 (1.73%) GAAP
4 42 (1.73%) IFRS
5 27 (1.11%) PMO
6 25 (1.03%) SLA
7 24 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (0.86%) Data Quality
9 20 (0.82%) NCSC
9 20 (0.82%) NIST
10 13 (0.54%) GRC
11 11 (0.45%) GDPR
12 10 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.37%) ITGC
14 7 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.29%) ISO 14000
15 6 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 186 (7.66%) Docker
2 87 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 49 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 27 (1.11%) Firmware
6 24 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
8 12 (0.49%) vSphere
9 9 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.29%) XenApp
10 7 (0.29%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.12%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.041%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.041%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 220 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 209 (8.60%) Terraform
3 86 (3.54%) Prometheus
4 54 (2.22%) Ansible
5 22 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.45%) Grafana
7 11 (0.45%) SCCM
8 10 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
9 9 (0.37%) Kibana
9 9 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 8 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
10 8 (0.33%) Nagios
11 7 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.29%) SysTrack
12 6 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 413 (17.00%) Red Hat
2 409 (16.84%) IBM
3 337 (13.87%) Microsoft
4 133 (5.48%) SAP
5 127 (5.23%) Oracle
6 84 (3.46%) NEC
7 83 (3.42%) Dynatrace
8 72 (2.96%) VMware
9 50 (2.06%) CA
10 48 (1.98%) Cisco
11 35 (1.44%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.07%) EMC
13 24 (0.99%) Salesforce
14 21 (0.86%) Atlassian
15 19 (0.78%) Splunk
15 19 (0.78%) Veeam
16 18 (0.74%) Google
17 16 (0.66%) Aruba
18 15 (0.62%) Dell
18 15 (0.62%) YouTube