Public Sector Jobs

Public Sector
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 71 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 +27
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 2,543 2,512 4,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.23% 4.12% 3.45%
As % of the General category 5.54% 6.23% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 1,779 2,855
10th Percentile £35,709 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,997 £41,499 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,384
Median % change year-on-year - -4.15% +4.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,751 £75,688
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +6.32%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 45,941 40,323 97,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.26% 66.08% 67.96%
Number of salaries quoted 21,004 27,706 50,721
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,563 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,139 £51,500
% change year-on-year -0.28% -2.64% +8.42%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 9 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England +8 2,231 £55,000 +1.39% 822
UK excluding London +7 1,847 £52,000 +4.00% 577
Work from Home -10 908 £55,000 -2.65% 407
North of England +14 617 £49,500 +2.06% 166
London -32 499 £62,500 -10.71% 307
Midlands +28 401 £50,000 -7.41% 75
South East +9 346 £62,500 +19.05% 147
North West +20 324 £48,750 +3.72% 93
West Midlands +25 256 £54,000 -0.14% 60
South West -14 241 £55,000 +10.55% 97
Yorkshire +3 223 £49,500 -1.00% 56
East Midlands +17 139 £50,000 -4.76% 15
Scotland -23 104 £54,175 +12.71% 38
North East -15 70 £45,000 -13.46% 18
East of England -41 69 £50,000 +17.65% 27
Wales +28 61 £54,000 +20.00% 13
Northern Ireland -9 26 £35,000 - 28

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 65 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 43 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.30%) IIS
4 30 (1.18%) Confluence
5 29 (1.14%) Apache
5 29 (1.14%) Camunda
5 29 (1.14%) nginx
5 29 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 12 (0.47%) CMS
7 11 (0.43%) Tuxedo
8 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.20%) Drupal
9 5 (0.20%) WordPress
10 4 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.12%) JBoss
11 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
12 2 (0.079%) Moodle
12 2 (0.079%) Office Communications Server
13 1 (0.039%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.039%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 60 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 8 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.24%) InVision
5 6 (0.24%) Sketch
6 4 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.16%) InfoPath
6 4 (0.16%) OrCAD
7 3 (0.12%) Trello
8 1 (0.039%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.039%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 344 (13.53%) NEC Housing
2 34 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.35%) Oracle Payroll
5 6 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
6 5 (0.20%) CiviCRM
6 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.16%) Misys Midas
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) Primavera
8 3 (0.12%) iTrent
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 554 (21.79%) Azure
2 415 (16.32%) AWS
3 257 (10.11%) IBM Cloud
4 125 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (4.48%) OCI
6 110 (4.33%) GitHub
7 108 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
8 106 (4.17%) GCP
8 106 (4.17%) SaaS
9 105 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (3.85%) Amazon S3
11 97 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 95 (3.74%) Amazon ECR
12 95 (3.74%) Route 53
13 94 (3.70%) Power Platform
14 66 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
15 64 (2.52%) PowerApps
16 62 (2.44%) Power Automate
17 59 (2.32%) PaaS
18 57 (2.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 86 (3.38%) Firewall
2 54 (2.12%) DNS
3 35 (1.38%) LAN
3 35 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
4 31 (1.22%) Network Security
5 30 (1.18%) DHCP
6 24 (0.94%) VPN
7 22 (0.87%) Wireless
8 20 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 19 (0.75%) VLAN
10 17 (0.67%) NGFW
10 17 (0.67%) VXLAN
10 17 (0.67%) WAN
11 16 (0.63%) Wireshark
12 15 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.51%) Internet
14 9 (0.35%) Modbus
15 8 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
16 6 (0.24%) LTE
16 6 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 181 (7.12%) MongoDB
3 155 (6.10%) NoSQL
4 122 (4.80%) DB2
5 119 (4.68%) Relational Database
6 115 (4.52%) Oracle Database
7 110 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
8 76 (2.99%) SQL Server
9 67 (2.63%) Power BI
10 59 (2.32%) BusinessObjects
11 56 (2.20%) MySQL
12 24 (0.94%) Big Data
13 22 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
14 19 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (0.59%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 12 (0.47%) GIS
18 9 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
18 9 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 121 (4.76%) JIRA
2 69 (2.71%) CircleCI
3 57 (2.24%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.08%) Git
5 34 (1.34%) Selenium
6 28 (1.10%) GitLab
7 24 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 13 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.47%) JUnit
9 12 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
9 12 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 11 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
10 11 (0.43%) Robot Framework
11 10 (0.39%) JMeter
12 9 (0.35%) Axure RP
13 8 (0.31%) Maven
13 8 (0.31%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.28%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 757 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 683 (26.86%) Finance
3 455 (17.89%) Local Government
4 365 (14.35%) Police
5 303 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 213 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
7 158 (6.21%) Marketing
8 154 (6.06%) Social Housing
9 127 (4.99%) Telecoms
10 118 (4.64%) Manufacturing
11 114 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
12 102 (4.01%) Electronics
13 72 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
14 60 (2.36%) Legal
15 48 (1.89%) Retail
16 33 (1.30%) Back Office
17 32 (1.26%) Law
18 24 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
19 16 (0.63%) Financial Institution
19 16 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 480 (18.88%) Senior
2 397 (15.61%) Consultant
3 229 (9.01%) Developer
4 205 (8.06%) Architect
5 186 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 160 (6.29%) Lead
7 157 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 143 (5.62%) Implementation Consultant
9 125 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 112 (4.40%) Analyst
11 108 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
12 102 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 93 (3.66%) Senior Consultant
14 81 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
15 69 (2.71%) Software Engineer
16 63 (2.48%) Technical Consultant
17 60 (2.36%) Technical Architect
18 58 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
19 57 (2.24%) Support Consultant
20 55 (2.16%) Senior Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (9.36%) React
2 217 (8.53%) .NET
3 215 (8.45%) HTML
4 197 (7.75%) CSS
5 174 (6.84%) AngularJS
6 166 (6.53%) Web Services
7 159 (6.25%) REST
8 120 (4.72%) ASP.NET
9 117 (4.60%) ASP.NET Core
10 114 (4.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 113 (4.44%) jQuery
12 109 (4.29%) Vue
13 108 (4.25%) Backbone.js
13 108 (4.25%) Ember.js
14 97 (3.81%) RESTful
15 93 (3.66%) Node.js
16 54 (2.12%) .NET Core
17 37 (1.45%) Spring
18 30 (1.18%) Swagger
19 26 (1.02%) KeystoneJS
Miscellaneous
1 280 (11.01%) Hybrid Cloud
2 259 (10.18%) Blockchain
3 202 (7.94%) e-Learning
4 151 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 126 (4.95%) Housing Association
6 124 (4.88%) Algorithms
7 117 (4.60%) Data Structures
8 111 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
9 105 (4.13%) Public Cloud
10 92 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
11 77 (3.03%) Data Centre
12 65 (2.56%) Onboarding
12 65 (2.56%) Product Ownership
13 59 (2.32%) Driving Licence
14 58 (2.28%) NHS
15 47 (1.85%) Mobile App
16 31 (1.22%) IoT
17 25 (0.98%) PKI
18 20 (0.79%) Cloud Native
18 20 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 340 (13.37%) Windows
2 299 (11.76%) Linux
3 176 (6.92%) Unix
4 121 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 118 (4.64%) Android
6 82 (3.22%) Solaris
7 55 (2.16%) Windows Server
8 29 (1.14%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 12 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.31%) CentOS
11 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
12 7 (0.28%) Debian
12 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.079%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.039%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (28.43%) Agile
2 455 (17.89%) Mentoring
3 428 (16.83%) Coaching
4 398 (15.65%) DevOps
5 367 (14.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 308 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 288 (11.33%) Project Management
7 288 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 256 (10.07%) Test Automation
9 235 (9.24%) CI/CD
10 231 (9.08%) Containerisation
11 226 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 213 (8.38%) Housing Management
13 206 (8.10%) User Experience
14 196 (7.71%) Customer Service
15 186 (7.31%) Business Intelligence
16 184 (7.24%) Software Engineering
17 168 (6.61%) ITIL
18 164 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
18 164 (6.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 526 (20.68%) SQL
2 311 (12.23%) JavaScript
3 310 (12.19%) C#
4 213 (8.38%) Java
5 191 (7.51%) Python
6 52 (2.04%) TypeScript
7 50 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 42 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 36 (1.42%) C++
10 34 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.10%) C
12 26 (1.02%) Lua
12 26 (1.02%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.79%) Ruby
14 19 (0.75%) R
15 11 (0.43%) COBOL
15 11 (0.43%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 10 (0.39%) Go
16 10 (0.39%) Scala
17 6 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 480 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 384 (15.10%) Degree
3 291 (11.44%) DBS Check
4 243 (9.56%) SC Cleared
5 74 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 61 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 60 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 44 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 41 (1.61%) CISSP
11 38 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 35 (1.38%) AWS Certification
13 33 (1.30%) CISM
14 27 (1.06%) ACCA
15 24 (0.94%) PMI Certification
16 22 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
17 21 (0.83%) PMP
18 17 (0.67%) ISACA
19 16 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 394 (15.49%) Accessibility
2 97 (3.81%) QA
3 57 (2.24%) ISO 9001
4 54 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.53%) NCSC
6 38 (1.49%) PMO
7 26 (1.02%) GAAP
7 26 (1.02%) IFRS
8 23 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (0.90%) NIST
9 20 (0.79%) Data Quality
10 19 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 19 (0.75%) GDPR
11 18 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 16 (0.63%) SLA
13 15 (0.59%) GRC
13 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 13 (0.51%) IASME
15 12 (0.47%) WCAG
16 10 (0.39%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 221 (8.69%) Docker
2 94 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.51%) Firmware
8 8 (0.31%) vSphere
9 6 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.16%) XenApp
11 4 (0.16%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.079%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.039%) RACF
Systems Management
1 268 (10.54%) Kubernetes
2 237 (9.32%) Terraform
3 115 (4.52%) Prometheus
4 88 (3.46%) Ansible
5 40 (1.57%) Grafana
6 27 (1.06%) Kibana
7 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.59%) Puppet
9 12 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.43%) SCCM
11 10 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 10 (0.39%) Nagios
12 9 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.24%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.20%) WSUS
15 4 (0.16%) Argo
15 4 (0.16%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.16%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 440 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 362 (14.24%) NEC
3 267 (10.50%) IBM
4 264 (10.38%) Red Hat
5 177 (6.96%) Oracle
6 121 (4.76%) SAP
7 118 (4.64%) Dynatrace
8 80 (3.15%) Citrix
9 76 (2.99%) VMware
10 49 (1.93%) Cisco
11 44 (1.73%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.02%) Capita
12 26 (1.02%) Google
13 23 (0.90%) Aruba
14 19 (0.75%) BMC
15 18 (0.71%) Arista
16 17 (0.67%) Adobe
17 16 (0.63%) F5
17 16 (0.63%) NetScout
18 14 (0.55%) Veeam