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 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 127 60 85
Rank change year-on-year -67 +25 -26
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 970 2,949 2,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.46% 3.95% 3.83%
As % of the General category 3.64% 7.05% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 449 2,057 1,302
10th Percentile £31,142 £29,750 £30,775
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% +2.08%
75th Percentile £70,250 £67,968 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,964 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,554
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.00% +1.01%

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 26,671 41,817 39,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.73% 56.08% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11,889 26,883 18,174
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 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
South East -25 286 £55,000 +5.37% 1,492
Midlands -35 177 £54,000 +8.00% 1,077
North of England -175 158 £53,250 -8.13% 1,270
East of England +50 133 £64,000 +34.74% 781
West Midlands -25 120 £57,500 +4.55% 577
South West -4 110 £62,500 +22.55% 747
Yorkshire -53 83 £49,500 -14.60% 506
Scotland +32 64 £52,500 +23.53% 239
North West -201 63 £69,637 +20.14% 598
East Midlands -32 53 £39,919 -15.96% 437
Wales -11 29 £57,500 +8.58% 180
Northern Ireland +11 20 £57,500 +64.29% 92
North East -40 11 £55,000 +8.91% 170
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 - 13
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 32 (3.30%) Confluence
2 17 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.44%) JBoss
3 14 (1.44%) Red Hat Fuse
4 13 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.72%) nginx
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
6 5 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.52%) CMS
6 5 (0.52%) IIS
6 5 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.21%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.10%) Moodle
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Totara
9 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 39 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.62%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.10%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.10%) Revit
7 1 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.21%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.10%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.10%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.10%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 154 (15.88%) AWS
2 115 (11.86%) Azure
3 66 (6.80%) Serverless
4 46 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
5 45 (4.64%) SaaS
6 35 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (3.40%) Amazon S3
8 32 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
9 31 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (3.09%) Power Platform
11 29 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (2.89%) GCP
13 27 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (2.27%) AWS KMS
15 21 (2.16%) GitHub
16 19 (1.96%) Entra ID
17 18 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.20%) Firewall
2 24 (2.47%) LAN
3 19 (1.96%) DNS
4 15 (1.55%) WAN
5 10 (1.03%) Network Security
5 10 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.72%) SAN
7 6 (0.62%) DHCP
7 6 (0.62%) HTTP
7 6 (0.62%) VoIP
7 6 (0.62%) VPN
7 6 (0.62%) Wireless
8 5 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.52%) FTP
8 5 (0.52%) SMTP
8 5 (0.52%) SSH
8 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.41%) MPLS
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 33 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (2.47%) Big Data
5 22 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 21 (2.16%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 18 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 18 (1.86%) Power BI
9 16 (1.65%) RDBMS
10 15 (1.55%) MySQL
10 15 (1.55%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (0.93%) Tableau
13 6 (0.62%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.52%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.41%) Metadata
15 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (6.39%) Jenkins
2 55 (5.67%) Git
3 47 (4.85%) JUnit
4 42 (4.33%) JIRA
5 33 (3.40%) Mockito
6 26 (2.68%) SonarQube
7 18 (1.86%) Maven
8 16 (1.65%) JMeter
9 11 (1.13%) DbUnit
9 11 (1.13%) jMock
9 11 (1.13%) Vagrant
10 10 (1.03%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (0.93%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.82%) GitLab
13 7 (0.72%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.52%) Postman
14 5 (0.52%) Selenium
14 5 (0.52%) TestNG
15 3 (0.31%) ERwin
General
1 437 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 418 (43.09%) Finance
3 274 (28.25%) Marketing
4 119 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (8.66%) Local Government
7 60 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 57 (5.88%) Manufacturing
9 46 (4.74%) Electronics
10 41 (4.23%) Law
11 35 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (2.99%) Legal
13 18 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.65%) Retail
15 10 (1.03%) Police
16 8 (0.82%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.52%) Back Office
17 5 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 213 (21.96%) Business Manager
1 213 (21.96%) Development Manager
2 211 (21.75%) Business Development Manager
3 149 (15.36%) Senior
4 88 (9.07%) Developer
5 75 (7.73%) Lead
6 52 (5.36%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.05%) Analyst
7 49 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 46 (4.74%) Java Engineer
9 45 (4.64%) Java Developer
10 44 (4.54%) Consultant
11 39 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (3.81%) Audit Manager
12 37 (3.81%) Senior Audit Manager
13 35 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (3.61%) Senior Java Engineer
14 30 (3.09%) Architect
15 28 (2.89%) Support Engineer
16 18 (1.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.08%) Spring Boot
2 57 (5.88%) RESTful
3 56 (5.77%) Spring
4 47 (4.85%) REST
5 41 (4.23%) Web Services
6 29 (2.99%) SOAP
7 27 (2.78%) Apache Camel
7 27 (2.78%) Hibernate
8 26 (2.68%) ActiveMQ
9 24 (2.47%) AngularJS
10 22 (2.27%) HTML
11 20 (2.06%) Kafka
11 20 (2.06%) OAuth
12 18 (1.86%) React
12 18 (1.86%) WireMock
13 15 (1.55%) Bootstrap
14 14 (1.44%) J2EE
14 14 (1.44%) jQuery
14 14 (1.44%) JWT
15 13 (1.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (8.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 44 (4.54%) e-Learning
3 40 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (2.06%) NHS
7 19 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 19 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.44%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
10 13 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.34%) SCADA
11 12 (1.24%) Social Media
12 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.82%) CCTV
13 8 (0.82%) IoT
13 8 (0.82%) Replication
14 7 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.08%) Windows
2 34 (3.51%) Windows Server
3 33 (3.40%) Linux
4 11 (1.13%) VMS
5 5 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.52%) Unix
5 5 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.41%) Android
6 4 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (26.29%) Collaborative Working
2 254 (26.19%) Business Development
3 235 (24.23%) Collaborative Culture
4 232 (23.92%) Agile
5 207 (21.34%) Marketing Strategy
6 206 (21.24%) Facilities Management
7 151 (15.57%) Project Management
8 118 (12.16%) Artificial Intelligence
9 115 (11.86%) DevOps
10 106 (10.93%) Coaching
11 105 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (10.52%) Mentoring
13 101 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (9.07%) Project Delivery
15 78 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 72 (7.42%) Analytics
16 72 (7.42%) CI/CD
17 69 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
18 63 (6.49%) Software Engineering
19 61 (6.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 122 (12.58%) Java
2 79 (8.14%) SQL
3 78 (8.04%) Python
4 31 (3.20%) JavaScript
5 28 (2.89%) C#
6 27 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.44%) Groovy
8 14 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.72%) C++
10 6 (0.62%) C
10 6 (0.62%) R
11 5 (0.52%) Bash
11 5 (0.52%) PHP
12 4 (0.41%) Scala
13 3 (0.31%) Perl
13 3 (0.31%) VBA
14 2 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.10%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 114 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.69%) Degree
4 37 (3.81%) ACCA
5 21 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.34%) MCSE
9 12 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.24%) MCSA
10 11 (1.13%) A+ Certification
10 11 (1.13%) HND
10 11 (1.13%) MCP
11 10 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.03%) Chartered Engineer
11 10 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.82%) CISM
13 8 (0.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.81%) GAAP
1 37 (3.81%) IFRS
2 22 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.06%) QA
3 20 (2.06%) SLA
4 18 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.65%) GDPR
6 12 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.82%) NCSC
8 7 (0.72%) GRC
8 7 (0.72%) NIST
9 6 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.62%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.62%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.52%) PMO
11 4 (0.41%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.31%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.21%) COBIT
13 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (8.97%) Docker
2 49 (5.05%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.62%) Firmware
5 6 (0.62%) Postfix
6 4 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.21%) Squid
8 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.10%) HDFS
9 1 (0.10%) RHEV
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.23%) Terraform
3 39 (4.02%) Ansible
4 21 (2.16%) Grafana
5 18 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.44%) Kibana
7 5 (0.52%) Kustomize
7 5 (0.52%) Packer
7 5 (0.52%) SCCM
7 5 (0.52%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.31%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.21%) Nessus
10 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.21%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.21%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.10%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.10%) Oozie
Vendors
1 122 (12.58%) Microsoft
2 58 (5.98%) Red Hat
3 55 (5.67%) IBM
4 50 (5.15%) Oracle
5 49 (5.05%) SAP
6 44 (4.54%) Salesforce
7 35 (3.61%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.37%) Google
8 23 (2.37%) VMware
9 17 (1.75%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.65%) Atlassian
10 16 (1.65%) Informatica
11 14 (1.44%) Cisco
11 14 (1.44%) Splunk
12 13 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.34%) Facebook
13 11 (1.13%) YouTube
14 10 (1.03%) Juniper
15 9 (0.93%) Databricks
16 7 (0.72%) Palo Alto