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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 58 92
Rank change year-on-year -54 +34 -8
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,349 3,834 3,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.67% 4.13% 3.62%
As % of the General category 3.95% 6.86% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 808 2,892 2,444
10th Percentile £35,837 £28,250 £32,823
25th Percentile £46,750 £40,988 £42,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,480
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.62% +3.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £84,964 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,430 £52,500 £47,610
% change year-on-year +7.49% +10.27% +0.23%

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 34,187 55,853 75,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 67.63% 60.14% 69.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,619 38,659 40,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £43,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £92,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,393 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.09% -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 3 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 3 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 -55 1,161 £60,000 +9.09% 1,965
UK excluding London -48 886 £56,430 +7.49% 1,146
Work from Home -60 458 £60,592 +4.53% 1,030
London -60 347 £67,500 +12.50% 1,003
North of England -62 280 £55,000 -5.11% 287
Midlands -25 194 £53,000 +0.95% 188
South East -59 152 £57,500 +13.30% 252
West Midlands -23 144 £55,000 - 127
North West -94 139 £62,779 +8.31% 169
Yorkshire -21 106 £50,000 -13.74% 78
South West -22 100 £60,000 +17.65% 206
East of England +29 80 £64,500 +35.79% 67
Scotland +5 44 £51,695 +14.88% 89
Wales +5 43 £56,000 +6.65% 40
East Midlands -6 41 £52,500 +8.49% 60
North East -25 34 £60,000 +3.51% 42
Northern Ireland 0 17 £75,000 +114.29% 32
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 39 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.78%) Confluence
3 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.89%) JBoss
4 12 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (0.74%) nginx
6 8 (0.59%) Camunda
7 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.44%) Apache
8 6 (0.44%) IIS
8 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.37%) CMS
10 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.074%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.074%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (0.52%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.37%) Stata
6 5 (0.37%) Trello
7 4 (0.30%) Notion
7 4 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.22%) InVision
8 3 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.074%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.074%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.074%) Revit
10 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 147 (10.90%) NEC Housing
2 13 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.89%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 11 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.30%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.22%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.15%) Infor M3
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 229 (16.98%) Azure
2 194 (14.38%) AWS
3 90 (6.67%) SaaS
4 70 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 66 (4.89%) Serverless
6 54 (4.00%) GitHub
7 51 (3.78%) GCP
8 49 (3.63%) IBM Cloud
9 47 (3.48%) PaaS
10 46 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
11 45 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 35 (2.59%) OCI
14 34 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
15 30 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
16 28 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (1.93%) Entra ID
18 25 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (3.93%) Firewall
2 29 (2.15%) Network Security
3 27 (2.00%) LAN
4 23 (1.70%) WAN
5 19 (1.41%) Wireless
6 18 (1.33%) DNS
6 18 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.04%) VPN
8 12 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (0.82%) Intranet
10 10 (0.74%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.67%) Internet
12 8 (0.59%) DHCP
13 6 (0.44%) IPsec
13 6 (0.44%) Modbus
13 6 (0.44%) MPLS
13 6 (0.44%) VoIP
13 6 (0.44%) WLAN
14 5 (0.37%) 5G
14 5 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (4.60%) Relational Database
3 53 (3.93%) Power BI
4 50 (3.71%) Oracle Database
5 35 (2.59%) SQL Server
6 32 (2.37%) BusinessObjects
6 32 (2.37%) RDBMS
7 31 (2.30%) Big Data
8 29 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
9 18 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.26%) MySQL
11 15 (1.11%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.11%) Tableau
12 13 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
13 11 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (0.74%) Metadata
15 9 (0.67%) Redis
16 6 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 72 (5.34%) JIRA
2 69 (5.11%) Git
3 48 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.52%) JUnit
5 27 (2.00%) SonarQube
6 23 (1.70%) JMeter
7 22 (1.63%) Maven
8 21 (1.56%) Mockito
9 13 (0.96%) GitLab
10 11 (0.82%) CircleCI
11 9 (0.67%) Selenium
12 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.44%) JDeveloper
12 6 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.44%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.37%) Axure RP
13 5 (0.37%) DbUnit
13 5 (0.37%) jMock
14 4 (0.30%) ERwin
General
1 448 (33.21%) Finance
2 435 (32.25%) Social Skills
3 239 (17.72%) Local Government
4 166 (12.31%) Police
5 150 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
6 142 (10.53%) Marketing
7 129 (9.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 110 (8.15%) Telecoms
9 104 (7.71%) Manufacturing
10 94 (6.97%) Electronics
11 76 (5.63%) Social Housing
12 46 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (3.41%) Retail
13 44 (3.26%) Law
14 43 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (2.00%) Legal
17 15 (1.11%) Back Office
18 10 (0.74%) Banking
19 9 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (18.53%) Senior
2 220 (16.31%) Consultant
3 128 (9.49%) Architect
4 124 (9.19%) Project Manager
5 123 (9.12%) Developer
6 115 (8.52%) Implementation Consultant
7 88 (6.52%) Lead
8 82 (6.08%) Analyst
9 53 (3.93%) Senior Manager
10 46 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 41 (3.04%) Technical Consultant
12 40 (2.97%) Senior Consultant
12 40 (2.97%) Technical Implementation Consultant
13 39 (2.89%) Senior Developer
14 34 (2.52%) Java Developer
14 34 (2.52%) Senior Project Manager
15 32 (2.37%) Senior Support Consultant
15 32 (2.37%) Support Consultant
16 30 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
16 30 (2.22%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.82%) RESTful
2 57 (4.23%) REST
3 52 (3.85%) React
4 51 (3.78%) HTML
5 43 (3.19%) .NET
6 42 (3.11%) Spring
7 39 (2.89%) Web Services
8 38 (2.82%) CSS
9 34 (2.52%) Spring Boot
10 30 (2.22%) AngularJS
11 28 (2.08%) Apache Camel
12 27 (2.00%) SOAP
13 26 (1.93%) OAuth
14 23 (1.70%) Hibernate
15 22 (1.63%) Node.js
16 20 (1.48%) ActiveMQ
17 19 (1.41%) .NET Core
18 18 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
19 17 (1.26%) jQuery
19 17 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.93%) Housing Association
2 60 (4.45%) Management Information System
3 54 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 50 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 49 (3.63%) Blockchain
6 46 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (2.52%) Driving Licence
9 32 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.37%) NHS
10 30 (2.22%) e-Learning
10 30 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 26 (1.93%) Product Ownership
12 25 (1.85%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.48%) Social Media
14 18 (1.33%) IoT
14 18 (1.33%) PMI
15 15 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.96%) Robotics
17 12 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 106 (7.86%) Windows
2 80 (5.93%) Unix
3 74 (5.49%) Linux
4 36 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.37%) Solaris
6 10 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.74%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.59%) Android
8 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (24.46%) Agile
2 257 (19.05%) Project Management
3 207 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
4 174 (12.90%) DevOps
5 165 (12.23%) Project Delivery
6 159 (11.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 158 (11.71%) Business Intelligence
8 138 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 136 (10.08%) Mentoring
10 124 (9.19%) Analytics
10 124 (9.19%) Artificial Intelligence
10 124 (9.19%) CI/CD
10 124 (9.19%) Programme Management
11 121 (8.97%) Service Delivery
12 119 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
13 118 (8.75%) Coaching
14 108 (8.01%) Software Engineering
15 107 (7.93%) Housing Management
16 98 (7.26%) Digital Marketing
17 96 (7.12%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 277 (20.53%) SQL
2 130 (9.64%) Python
3 122 (9.04%) Java
4 101 (7.49%) JavaScript
5 72 (5.34%) C#
6 42 (3.11%) PL/SQL
7 23 (1.70%) TypeScript
8 20 (1.48%) Ruby
9 18 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.19%) R
10 16 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.82%) C++
12 9 (0.67%) C
13 8 (0.59%) Lua
13 8 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.37%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.30%) Bicep
15 4 (0.30%) Groovy
15 4 (0.30%) PHP
15 4 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 350 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 195 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 174 (12.90%) Degree
4 163 (12.08%) DBS Check
5 60 (4.45%) DV Cleared
6 39 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.93%) CISSP
9 23 (1.70%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.56%) CISM
10 21 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.26%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.19%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.04%) ACCA
15 12 (0.89%) CCNA
16 11 (0.82%) CCNP
16 11 (0.82%) MRICS
16 11 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (12.38%) Accessibility
2 48 (3.56%) QA
3 40 (2.97%) ISO 9001
4 31 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 31 (2.30%) GDPR
5 28 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.56%) PMO
6 21 (1.56%) SLA
7 19 (1.41%) NCSC
8 17 (1.26%) NIST
9 13 (0.96%) GAAP
9 13 (0.96%) IFRS
10 12 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.74%) GRC
11 10 (0.74%) WCAG
12 5 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.37%) P3O
13 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 119 (8.82%) Docker
2 54 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.30%) Firmware
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.22%) vSphere
7 2 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.074%) Postfix
8 1 (0.074%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 113 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.04%) Terraform
3 43 (3.19%) Ansible
4 41 (3.04%) Kibana
5 39 (2.89%) Grafana
6 15 (1.11%) SCCM
7 14 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.37%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.15%) Nagios
12 2 (0.15%) Puppet
12 2 (0.15%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.074%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.074%) logstash
13 1 (0.074%) PowerCLI
13 1 (0.074%) vRealize
Vendors
1 225 (16.68%) Microsoft
2 156 (11.56%) NEC
3 119 (8.82%) Oracle
4 100 (7.41%) SAP
5 54 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 50 (3.71%) IBM
7 49 (3.63%) Red Hat
8 47 (3.48%) Google
9 45 (3.34%) Salesforce
10 44 (3.26%) Dynatrace
11 36 (2.67%) Cisco
11 36 (2.67%) Citrix
12 28 (2.08%) VMware
13 20 (1.48%) Splunk
14 18 (1.33%) Databricks
14 18 (1.33%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.96%) Adobe
15 13 (0.96%) Informatica
16 12 (0.89%) PeopleSoft
17 11 (0.82%) Palo Alto