Public Sector Jobs in Wales

Public Sector
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in Wales. 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 51 40 41
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 29 97 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.41% 4.43% 5.92%
As % of the General category 3.09% 8.36% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 25 75 54
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,134 £33,821
25th Percentile £46,486 £44,125 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,956 £44,708
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +18.45% -14.98%
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 £117,800
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,554
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.00% +1.01%

All General Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 939 1,160 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.18% 53.02% 67.20%
Number of salaries quoted 536 784 518
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £24,501 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,860 £44,207
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -3.05% -8.85%
75th Percentile £62,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,600 £66,250 £70,075
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Wales over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in Wales

Public Sector
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the Wales 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 Wales -11 24 £60,000 +9.09% 172
West Wales +8 3 £50,124 -4.54% 1
North Wales -1 1 £30,000 -23.34% 3
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 8 (27.59%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) CMS
2 3 (10.34%) Headless CMS
3 1 (3.45%) ArcGIS
3 1 (3.45%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Contentful
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) NAS
1 2 (6.90%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Redis
3 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) GIS
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.34%) JMeter
3 3 (10.34%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.34%) Local Government
5 2 (6.90%) Electronics
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
5 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.45%) Multimedia
6 1 (3.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Senior
2 8 (27.59%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Civil Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Development Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Backend Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Development Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) GraphQL
2 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.34%) Bootstrap
2 3 (10.34%) CSS
2 3 (10.34%) Django
2 3 (10.34%) Express.js
2 3 (10.34%) FastAPI
2 3 (10.34%) Flask
2 3 (10.34%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) Keycloak
2 3 (10.34%) NestJS
2 3 (10.34%) Node.js
2 3 (10.34%) OAuth
2 3 (10.34%) OpenLayers
2 3 (10.34%) pytest
2 3 (10.34%) React
2 3 (10.34%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
2 3 (10.34%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (10.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.34%) NHS
1 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.90%) Clustering
2 2 (6.90%) CUDA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.79%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) Business Development
6 3 (10.34%) Front End Development
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (10.34%) Performance Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Project Management
6 3 (10.34%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (10.34%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (10.34%) TDD
6 3 (10.34%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 6 (20.69%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.34%) Groovy
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Atlassian
3 4 (13.79%) SAP
4 3 (10.34%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.45%) ESRI
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle