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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 59 86
Rank change year-on-year -51 +27 -3
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,339 4,092 3,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.59% 4.17% 3.73%
As % of the General category 3.85% 6.96% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 826 2,961 2,371
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,486 £40,988 £41,580
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,480
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.62% +4.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,875 £84,964 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £48,526
% change year-on-year +4.76% +8.19% +2.16%

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 34,738 58,777 72,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.32% 59.87% 68.74%
Number of salaries quoted 18,372 39,592 38,758
10th Percentile £28,013 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.38% -9.52% +5.00%

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 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the UK

Public Sector
Top 18 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 26 April 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
England -69 1,134 £60,000 +9.09% 2,051
UK excluding London -59 866 £55,000 +4.76% 1,201
Work from Home -48 486 £60,000 +3.51% 1,114
London -53 365 £65,000 +8.33% 1,052
North of England -106 223 £54,228 -6.45% 305
Midlands -32 187 £52,500 - 223
South East -71 161 £57,500 +15.00% 262
West Midlands -21 132 £53,688 -2.39% 136
North West -132 114 £65,000 +12.14% 173
South West +3 112 £61,250 +16.67% 187
Yorkshire -32 99 £50,000 -13.74% 93
East of England +21 74 £64,000 +34.74% 74
Scotland +35 57 £51,695 +14.88% 91
East Midlands -22 47 £50,000 +5.26% 84
Wales +4 46 £56,000 +5.75% 42
Northern Ireland +6 21 £70,000 +100.00% 40
North East -39 9 £60,000 +9.09% 40
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -

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 33 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.87%) Confluence
3 16 (1.19%) nginx
4 14 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.90%) JBoss
5 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 10 (0.75%) CMS
7 8 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.60%) Camunda
7 8 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.45%) Apache
8 6 (0.45%) IIS
8 6 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.22%) WordPress
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.075%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 58 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.90%) Adobe XD
5 9 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.37%) Stata
7 5 (0.37%) Trello
8 4 (0.30%) InVision
8 4 (0.30%) Notion
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 4 (0.30%) Sketch
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
11 1 (0.075%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.075%) Revit
11 1 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 62 (4.63%) NEC Housing
2 15 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.90%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 11 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.37%) SAP HCM
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.22%) Sprinklr
9 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 227 (16.95%) Azure
2 211 (15.76%) AWS
3 90 (6.72%) SaaS
4 79 (5.90%) Power Platform
5 76 (5.68%) Serverless
6 63 (4.71%) GCP
7 49 (3.66%) IBM Cloud
8 47 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (3.36%) GitHub
10 43 (3.21%) PaaS
11 41 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
12 36 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
13 34 (2.54%) OCI
14 33 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
17 29 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.14%) Firewall
2 26 (1.94%) WAN
3 25 (1.87%) LAN
4 21 (1.57%) Network Security
5 18 (1.34%) Wireless
6 16 (1.19%) DNS
6 16 (1.19%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.97%) VPN
8 10 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.67%) 5G
9 9 (0.67%) MPLS
9 9 (0.67%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.67%) VoIP
10 7 (0.52%) Internet
11 6 (0.45%) DHCP
11 6 (0.45%) Ethernet
11 6 (0.45%) IPsec
11 6 (0.45%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.37%) 4G
12 5 (0.37%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (5.15%) Relational Database
3 61 (4.56%) Power BI
4 38 (2.84%) SQL Server
5 34 (2.54%) Big Data
5 34 (2.54%) RDBMS
6 29 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 26 (1.94%) Oracle Database
8 24 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.79%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.57%) MySQL
10 18 (1.34%) Tableau
11 15 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (0.90%) Metadata
12 12 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 71 (5.30%) Git
2 58 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.51%) JIRA
4 46 (3.44%) JUnit
5 33 (2.46%) Mockito
6 29 (2.17%) Maven
7 28 (2.09%) SonarQube
8 26 (1.94%) JMeter
9 16 (1.19%) Selenium
10 15 (1.12%) GitLab
11 14 (1.05%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.05%) Postman
12 11 (0.82%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.75%) Axure RP
14 8 (0.60%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.60%) TestNG
15 6 (0.45%) Balsamiq
15 6 (0.45%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.45%) TeamCity
15 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 457 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 385 (28.75%) Finance
3 172 (12.85%) Local Government
4 167 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (12.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 147 (10.98%) Marketing
6 120 (8.96%) Manufacturing
7 117 (8.74%) Telecoms
8 96 (7.17%) Electronics
9 81 (6.05%) Police
10 53 (3.96%) Law
11 48 (3.58%) Retail
12 47 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (2.61%) Social Housing
16 34 (2.54%) Legal
17 14 (1.05%) Back Office
18 10 (0.75%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 250 (18.67%) Senior
2 145 (10.83%) Consultant
3 127 (9.48%) Developer
4 126 (9.41%) Architect
5 97 (7.24%) Lead
6 95 (7.09%) Project Manager
7 84 (6.27%) Analyst
8 52 (3.88%) Senior Manager
9 50 (3.73%) Implementation Consultant
9 50 (3.73%) Java Engineer
10 44 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
11 39 (2.91%) Java Developer
12 36 (2.69%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (2.32%) Senior Developer
14 29 (2.17%) DevOps Engineer
15 26 (1.94%) Audit Manager
15 26 (1.94%) Technical Architect
16 25 (1.87%) Senior Audit Manager
16 25 (1.87%) Senior Project Manager
17 24 (1.79%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.45%) RESTful
2 69 (5.15%) REST
3 62 (4.63%) HTML
4 52 (3.88%) Spring
5 51 (3.81%) React
6 48 (3.58%) Spring Boot
7 47 (3.51%) CSS
8 41 (3.06%) Web Services
9 37 (2.76%) .NET
10 30 (2.24%) AngularJS
10 30 (2.24%) Apache Camel
10 30 (2.24%) OAuth
11 29 (2.17%) SOAP
12 27 (2.02%) Hibernate
13 25 (1.87%) Kafka
13 25 (1.87%) Node.js
13 25 (1.87%) WireMock
14 22 (1.64%) ActiveMQ
15 21 (1.57%) JWT
16 20 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 57 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.66%) Blockchain
3 49 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (3.66%) NHS
3 49 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (3.44%) Housing Association
5 41 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.91%) e-Learning
7 36 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.32%) Cloud Native
10 30 (2.24%) Driving Licence
11 26 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 22 (1.64%) IoT
13 21 (1.57%) Social Media
14 19 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.42%) PMI
15 16 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
16 15 (1.12%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.68%) Windows
2 43 (3.21%) Linux
3 39 (2.91%) Unix
4 31 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 12 (0.90%) Solaris
6 10 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.60%) Android
8 7 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.075%) Robot Operating System
12 1 (0.075%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.075%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (26.06%) Agile
2 251 (18.75%) Project Management
3 222 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
4 178 (13.29%) DevOps
5 168 (12.55%) Artificial Intelligence
6 164 (12.25%) Mentoring
7 162 (12.10%) Project Delivery
8 161 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
9 155 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 152 (11.35%) Analytics
11 144 (10.75%) CI/CD
12 137 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 128 (9.56%) Coaching
14 117 (8.74%) Programme Management
15 114 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
16 101 (7.54%) Software Engineering
17 100 (7.47%) Digital Marketing
18 97 (7.24%) Service Delivery
19 95 (7.09%) Scrum
20 93 (6.95%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 196 (14.64%) SQL
2 145 (10.83%) Java
3 122 (9.11%) Python
4 103 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 65 (4.85%) C#
6 24 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 21 (1.57%) Shell Script
8 19 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.19%) R
11 15 (1.12%) Ruby
12 9 (0.67%) C++
13 8 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.60%) Lua
13 8 (0.60%) PHP
14 7 (0.52%) Scala
15 6 (0.45%) C
15 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.30%) Groovy
17 3 (0.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 365 (27.26%) Security Cleared
2 221 (16.50%) SC Cleared
3 194 (14.49%) Degree
4 81 (6.05%) DBS Check
5 59 (4.41%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (2.54%) PMI Certification
7 29 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.94%) ACCA
9 24 (1.79%) CISSP
10 22 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.49%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (1.34%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.19%) PMP
14 14 (1.05%) CISM
15 12 (0.90%) CCNA
16 11 (0.82%) HND
17 10 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.54%) Accessibility
2 53 (3.96%) QA
3 36 (2.69%) Data Quality
4 33 (2.46%) GDPR
5 31 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (1.87%) GAAP
6 25 (1.87%) IFRS
7 21 (1.57%) ISO 9001
8 20 (1.49%) NIST
9 19 (1.42%) NCSC
10 18 (1.34%) PMO
10 18 (1.34%) SLA
10 18 (1.34%) WCAG
11 16 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.52%) GRC
14 6 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.30%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.30%) ISO 14001
16 3 (0.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 121 (9.04%) Docker
2 44 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) RHEV
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (8.44%) Kubernetes
2 66 (4.93%) Terraform
3 42 (3.14%) Ansible
4 17 (1.27%) Kibana
5 10 (0.75%) Grafana
5 10 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.67%) SCCM
7 8 (0.60%) Kustomize
7 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.60%) Packer
8 6 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 4 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.22%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.075%) DameWare
13 1 (0.075%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.075%) Nessus
Vendors
1 211 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 104 (7.77%) SAP
3 100 (7.47%) Oracle
4 69 (5.15%) NEC
5 65 (4.85%) Red Hat
6 60 (4.48%) Google
6 60 (4.48%) IBM
7 58 (4.33%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.54%) Cisco
8 34 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 27 (2.02%) VMware
10 25 (1.87%) Databricks
11 23 (1.72%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.64%) Splunk
13 21 (1.57%) Dynatrace
14 17 (1.27%) Adobe
14 17 (1.27%) Citrix
14 17 (1.27%) Facebook
15 15 (1.12%) Informatica
16 12 (0.90%) PeopleSoft