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

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 46 92 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.88% 4.56% 5.22%
As % of the General category 6.47% 8.24% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 42 68 54
10th Percentile £41,621 £39,134 £35,415
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,700 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,956 £44,708
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% +18.45% -8.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £53,399
90th Percentile £72,638 £70,250 £117,800
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,480
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.62% +3.63%

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 711 1,116 1,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 75.48% 55.27% 67.09%
Number of salaries quoted 422 766 540
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £24,304 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -2.61% -5.97%
75th Percentile £64,969 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,960 £67,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £56,745 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.09% -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 27 April 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 27 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
South Wales +7 39 £57,500 +0.44% 35
West Wales +7 5 £50,124 -4.54% 4
North Wales +1 1 £30,000 -23.34% 2
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 11 (23.91%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) CMS
2 3 (6.52%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.35%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) Azure
2 12 (26.09%) AWS
3 8 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) Contentful
6 3 (6.52%) Serverless
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
1 2 (4.35%) NAS
1 2 (4.35%) SAN
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.35%) VoIP
1 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.17%) DHCP
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.04%) Redis
3 2 (4.35%) Big Data
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) GIS
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) JIRA
2 9 (19.57%) Git
3 6 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.70%) JMeter
5 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Local Government
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Senior
2 10 (21.74%) Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Backend Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Performance Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Performance Test Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Technical Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Civil Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Development Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Development Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) GraphQL
2 6 (13.04%) Django
2 6 (13.04%) FastAPI
2 6 (13.04%) Flask
2 6 (13.04%) Keycloak
2 6 (13.04%) OAuth
2 6 (13.04%) pytest
2 6 (13.04%) RESTful
2 6 (13.04%) SQLAlchemy
2 6 (13.04%) WebSockets
3 4 (8.70%) Node.js
4 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.52%) Bootstrap
4 3 (6.52%) CSS
4 3 (6.52%) Express.js
4 3 (6.52%) HTML
4 3 (6.52%) NestJS
4 3 (6.52%) OpenLayers
4 3 (6.52%) React
4 3 (6.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) NHS
2 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.35%) Clustering
5 2 (4.35%) CUDA
6 1 (2.17%) Housing Association
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
1 4 (8.70%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) DevOps
2 12 (26.09%) Agile
3 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 9 (19.57%) Mentoring
5 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.04%) Front End Development
6 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
6 6 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.87%) Decision-Making
7 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (10.87%) IT Strategy
7 5 (10.87%) Project Management
7 5 (10.87%) Technology Strategy
8 4 (8.70%) Scrum
8 4 (8.70%) Strategic Planning
8 4 (8.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) SQL
2 10 (21.74%) Python
3 4 (8.70%) Groovy
3 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.35%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CCNA
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CWNA
4 1 (2.17%) CWTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Grafana
2 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Cisco
3 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
4 4 (8.70%) Aruba
4 4 (8.70%) HP
5 3 (6.52%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) SAP
6 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Aerohive Networks
7 1 (2.17%) Ariba
7 1 (2.17%) ESRI
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle