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 have cited Public Sector over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 88 84
Rank change year-on-year +32 -4 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 4,134 3,846 6,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.20% 3.72% 4.07%
As % of the General category 7.01% 5.45% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,969 2,377 3,019
10th Percentile £28,963 £32,500 £32,999
25th Percentile £40,988 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,480 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +2.69% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £71,350
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -5.00%

All General Skills
UK

Public Sector is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,958 70,613 100,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.25% 63.90%
Number of salaries quoted 39,577 38,082 51,376
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,251 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +40 3,601 £55,000 - 1,152
UK excluding London +29 2,962 £52,500 +8.25% 827
Work from Home +13 1,753 £57,965 -3.39% 547
North of England +51 1,143 £57,965 +26.01% 216
London +45 920 £60,000 -7.88% 404
South East +65 642 £50,000 - 188
North West +53 613 £57,965 +24.65% 129
Midlands +22 431 £52,500 -4.55% 136
Yorkshire +47 345 £57,965 +28.81% 67
South West -2 307 £51,750 +8.95% 103
West Midlands +11 280 £55,000 - 103
North East +35 186 £52,500 +12.90% 20
Scotland -77 175 £45,000 -11.66% 74
East Midlands +38 151 £47,500 +4.90% 33
East of England +10 121 £47,500 +6.66% 73
Wales +11 93 £52,956 +18.45% 36
Northern Ireland +46 56 £35,000 -9.68% 16

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
1 125 (3.02%) SharePoint
2 67 (1.62%) Confluence
3 61 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 42 (1.02%) nginx
5 37 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
6 36 (0.87%) Camunda
6 36 (0.87%) JBoss
7 35 (0.85%) IIS
8 33 (0.80%) Apache
9 27 (0.65%) OpenStack
10 14 (0.34%) Tomcat
11 13 (0.31%) CMS
12 12 (0.29%) Anypoint
12 12 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 9 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
14 8 (0.19%) Drupal
14 8 (0.19%) Jupyter
15 6 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 4 (0.097%) Umbraco
16 4 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 157 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 102 (2.47%) Spreadsheet
4 75 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 16 (0.39%) Sketch
7 14 (0.34%) Trello
8 11 (0.27%) AutoCAD
8 11 (0.27%) InVision
9 6 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.15%) OrCAD
10 5 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.097%) Doxygen
11 4 (0.097%) InfoPath
12 3 (0.073%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.048%) Fusion 360
14 1 (0.024%) PTC Creo
14 1 (0.024%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 48 (1.16%) NEC Housing
2 41 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
4 15 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 13 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 6 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.073%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
10 2 (0.048%) iTrent
10 2 (0.048%) Magento
10 2 (0.048%) Misys Midas
10 2 (0.048%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.048%) SAP CO
10 2 (0.048%) SAP FI
10 2 (0.048%) SAP FI/CO
10 2 (0.048%) SAP GRC
10 2 (0.048%) SAP HCM
10 2 (0.048%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 977 (23.63%) Azure
2 515 (12.46%) AWS
3 386 (9.34%) IBM Cloud
4 328 (7.93%) Power Platform
5 231 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 217 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
7 212 (5.13%) Serverless
8 140 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 138 (3.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 137 (3.31%) Azure Functions
11 132 (3.19%) Azure API Management
12 108 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
13 91 (2.20%) GCP
14 88 (2.13%) OCI
15 81 (1.96%) PowerApps
16 75 (1.81%) SaaS
17 71 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
18 70 (1.69%) GitHub
19 68 (1.64%) Amazon S3
19 68 (1.64%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 102 (2.47%) Firewall
2 55 (1.33%) DNS
3 53 (1.28%) LAN
4 48 (1.16%) Network Security
5 47 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (1.06%) WAN
7 40 (0.97%) Wireless
8 33 (0.80%) Internet
9 28 (0.68%) HTTP
10 27 (0.65%) SAN
11 21 (0.51%) TCP/IP
12 20 (0.48%) SD-WAN
13 19 (0.46%) Intranet
14 16 (0.39%) MQTT
15 15 (0.36%) Unified Communications
16 14 (0.34%) VPN
17 13 (0.31%) DHCP
18 12 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
19 11 (0.27%) 4G
19 11 (0.27%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 345 (8.35%) MongoDB
3 343 (8.30%) NoSQL
4 280 (6.77%) Power BI
5 269 (6.51%) DB2
6 226 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 197 (4.77%) SQL Server
8 121 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
9 115 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 82 (1.98%) Oracle Database
11 66 (1.60%) Tableau
12 64 (1.55%) MySQL
13 59 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
14 35 (0.85%) GIS
15 26 (0.63%) Redis
16 19 (0.46%) Data Lake
16 19 (0.46%) Power Query
16 19 (0.46%) RDBMS
16 19 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 17 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 138 (3.34%) JIRA
2 133 (3.22%) Git
3 114 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 64 (1.55%) GitLab
5 39 (0.94%) Visual Studio
6 32 (0.77%) CircleCI
7 29 (0.70%) IntelliJ
8 22 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 17 (0.41%) JMeter
9 17 (0.41%) JUnit
9 17 (0.41%) Subversion
10 16 (0.39%) Maven
11 15 (0.36%) Axure RP
12 13 (0.31%) Balsamiq
12 13 (0.31%) Eclipse
12 13 (0.31%) TeamCity
13 12 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.29%) Selenium
14 10 (0.24%) Bitbucket
14 10 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 1,152 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 893 (21.60%) Finance
3 629 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 354 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 283 (6.85%) Marketing
6 217 (5.25%) Telecoms
7 208 (5.03%) Manufacturing
8 197 (4.77%) Retail
9 195 (4.72%) Local Government
10 188 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
11 181 (4.38%) Electronics
12 126 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 120 (2.90%) Police
14 97 (2.35%) Legal
15 91 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
16 42 (1.02%) Law
17 38 (0.92%) Digital Economy
18 32 (0.77%) Billing
19 28 (0.68%) Back Office
20 24 (0.58%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 665 (16.09%) Senior
2 530 (12.82%) Developer
3 438 (10.60%) Lead
4 357 (8.64%) Architect
5 323 (7.81%) Consultant
6 301 (7.28%) Analyst
7 218 (5.27%) Project Manager
8 214 (5.18%) Full Stack Developer
9 154 (3.73%) Full Stack Engineer
10 142 (3.43%) Software Engineer
11 138 (3.34%) Azure Developer
12 136 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 130 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
14 116 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 110 (2.66%) Business Analyst
16 108 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
17 107 (2.59%) IT Manager
18 92 (2.23%) Java Engineer
19 87 (2.10%) Delivery Manager
20 81 (1.96%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (9.36%) .NET
2 371 (8.97%) React
3 363 (8.78%) HTML
4 348 (8.42%) AngularJS
5 342 (8.27%) CSS
6 339 (8.20%) Web Services
7 336 (8.13%) REST
8 266 (6.43%) ASP.NET
9 252 (6.10%) ASP.NET Core
10 247 (5.97%) Node.js
11 246 (5.95%) jQuery
12 245 (5.93%) Vue
13 241 (5.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 238 (5.76%) Backbone.js
14 238 (5.76%) Ember.js
15 130 (3.14%) RESTful
16 117 (2.83%) Spring
17 75 (1.81%) JSON
18 67 (1.62%) XML
19 55 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 419 (10.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 391 (9.46%) Blockchain
3 244 (5.90%) Algorithms
4 242 (5.85%) Data Structures
5 216 (5.22%) e-Learning
6 198 (4.79%) Management Information System
7 137 (3.31%) Public Cloud
8 120 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 118 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
10 111 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
11 107 (2.59%) Driving Licence
12 100 (2.42%) NHS
13 84 (2.03%) Onboarding
14 59 (1.43%) Social Media
15 54 (1.31%) Data Centre
16 53 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
17 51 (1.23%) IoT
18 40 (0.97%) Housing Association
19 30 (0.73%) Cyberattack
20 29 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 504 (12.19%) Windows
2 481 (11.64%) Linux
3 245 (5.93%) Android
4 244 (5.90%) Apple iOS
5 84 (2.03%) Windows Server
6 69 (1.67%) Unix
7 42 (1.02%) CentOS
8 40 (0.97%) Alpine Linux
8 40 (0.97%) Debian
9 30 (0.73%) Windows 10
10 18 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.36%) Solaris
13 9 (0.22%) VMS
13 9 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.097%) AIX
15 4 (0.097%) DC/OS
15 4 (0.097%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,046 (25.30%) Agile
2 976 (23.61%) Mentoring
3 883 (21.36%) Coaching
4 599 (14.49%) Artificial Intelligence
5 534 (12.92%) DevOps
6 517 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
7 498 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
8 424 (10.26%) Full Stack Development
9 416 (10.06%) User Experience
10 405 (9.80%) Project Management
11 373 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 328 (7.93%) Co-Creation
13 317 (7.67%) Design Patterns
14 295 (7.14%) Roadmaps
15 289 (6.99%) Programme Management
16 287 (6.94%) Web Development
17 274 (6.63%) Project Delivery
18 267 (6.46%) MVC
18 267 (6.46%) OO
19 266 (6.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 654 (15.82%) SQL
2 533 (12.89%) JavaScript
3 485 (11.73%) Java
4 478 (11.56%) C#
5 402 (9.72%) Python
6 76 (1.84%) PowerShell
7 67 (1.62%) C
8 53 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 50 (1.21%) C++
10 47 (1.14%) Bash
11 46 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 40 (0.97%) Lua
12 40 (0.97%) PHP
13 30 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.70%) Go
15 19 (0.46%) Ruby
16 16 (0.39%) Embedded C
17 15 (0.36%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.34%) Apex Code
18 14 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 854 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 533 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 499 (12.07%) Degree
4 134 (3.24%) DV Cleared
5 130 (3.14%) DBS Check
6 123 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 106 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 103 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 82 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 61 (1.48%) CISSP
11 60 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 51 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 46 (1.11%) MCSE
14 41 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 41 (0.99%) MCSA
15 40 (0.97%) CISM
16 39 (0.94%) PMI Certification
17 32 (0.77%) ACCA
18 31 (0.75%) CCNP
19 23 (0.56%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (4.11%) Accessibility
2 112 (2.71%) GDPR
3 108 (2.61%) QA
4 89 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 75 (1.81%) WCAG
6 65 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 62 (1.50%) PMO
8 57 (1.38%) SLA
9 45 (1.09%) ISO 9001
10 44 (1.06%) Data Quality
11 37 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 33 (0.80%) NIST
13 32 (0.77%) IFRS
14 31 (0.75%) GAAP
15 30 (0.73%) NCSC
16 24 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 21 (0.51%) GRC
18 18 (0.44%) ITGC
19 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
20 11 (0.27%) ISO 14000
System Software
1 295 (7.14%) Docker
2 150 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 66 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 55 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 38 (0.92%) Firmware
6 18 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 13 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
8 13 (0.31%) vSphere
9 11 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.15%) Forefront TMG
11 6 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.097%) NFS
14 3 (0.073%) XenApp
14 3 (0.073%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.024%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 259 (6.27%) Terraform
2 258 (6.24%) Kubernetes
3 99 (2.39%) Ansible
4 62 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 37 (0.90%) EnCase
6 20 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.48%) SCCM
6 20 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (0.36%) Kibana
8 14 (0.34%) Grafana
9 13 (0.31%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
11 11 (0.27%) vCenter Server
12 9 (0.22%) Nagios
12 9 (0.22%) Puppet
13 8 (0.19%) SCOM
14 7 (0.17%) SysTrack
15 6 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 752 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 408 (9.87%) Red Hat
3 396 (9.58%) IBM
4 241 (5.83%) SAP
5 184 (4.45%) Oracle
6 113 (2.73%) VMware
7 84 (2.03%) Cisco
8 83 (2.01%) YouTube
9 73 (1.77%) Google
10 69 (1.67%) Dynatrace
11 57 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 54 (1.31%) ServiceNow
13 52 (1.26%) NEC
14 48 (1.16%) CA
15 47 (1.14%) Atlassian
16 34 (0.82%) Splunk
17 31 (0.75%) Adobe
17 31 (0.75%) EMC
18 27 (0.65%) WSO2
19 23 (0.56%) Veeam