Public Sector Job Trends 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 16 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 25 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 89 38 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 5.29% 7.14% 4.61%
As % of the General category 10.71% 9.00% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 72 34 69
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,134
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,552 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,585 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% +8.49% +18.66%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £74,379 £70,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.48%

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 general skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 831 422 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 49.35% 79.32% 55.35%
Number of salaries quoted 423 241 758
10th Percentile £26,300 £24,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,878 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,934 £50,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.13% +14.94% -1.14%
75th Percentile £61,373 £66,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £66,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Public Sector job vacancy trend in Wales

Public Sector
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Wales over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 2026. 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 0 75 £53,171 -14.93% 21
West Wales -9 13 £69,973 +39.60% 7
North Wales -10 1 - - 1
Public Sector
UK

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.35%) Azure
2 11 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (12.36%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.62%) Figma
3 5 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.37%) AWS
5 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.25%) Serverless
6 1 (1.12%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
2 6 (6.74%) WAN
3 4 (4.49%) BGP
3 4 (4.49%) DHCP
3 4 (4.49%) DNS
3 4 (4.49%) MPLS
3 4 (4.49%) VPN
4 3 (3.37%) SMS
5 2 (2.25%) LAN
5 2 (2.25%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.12%) Big Data
1 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.12%) git-flow
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 18 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.87%) Finance
4 5 (5.62%) Legal
5 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.25%) Local Government
6 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Architect
2 21 (23.60%) Lead
3 19 (21.35%) Enterprise Architect
4 18 (20.22%) Senior
5 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) IT Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) IT Support
5 9 (10.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Designer
6 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Interaction Designer
6 5 (5.62%) Senior Designer
6 5 (5.62%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Principal Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Principal Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) .NET
2 2 (2.25%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.25%) Playwright
2 2 (2.25%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (2.25%) Spring
2 2 (2.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.12%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.12%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) NHS
2 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.49%) Low-Code
3 4 (4.49%) PKI
4 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Smart Energy
5 2 (2.25%) Blog
5 2 (2.25%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.25%) Life Science
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Genomics
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.61%) Windows
2 9 (10.11%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.49%) Linux
3 4 (4.49%) Unix
3 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.47%) Mentoring
2 18 (20.22%) Agile
3 13 (14.61%) ITIL
4 12 (13.48%) DevOps
5 10 (11.24%) CI/CD
5 10 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (10.11%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (10.11%) Problem Management
6 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (10.11%) Security Management
6 9 (10.11%) Web Filtering
7 8 (8.99%) AI
7 8 (8.99%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (6.74%) Coaching
9 6 (6.74%) Scrum
10 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (5.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (5.62%) Test Automation
10 5 (5.62%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.74%) Python
3 3 (3.37%) Bash
4 2 (2.25%) C#
4 2 (2.25%) Java
4 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.25%) Ruby
5 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (30.34%) SC Cleared
1 27 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.49%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.25%) CISM
3 2 (2.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
2 2 (2.25%) QA
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (10.11%) Hyper-V
3 9 (10.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (6.74%) Docker
5 4 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Proxmox
1 9 (10.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (4.49%) Ansible
2 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.49%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (40.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) VMware
3 4 (4.49%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) Sage
4 3 (3.37%) SAP
5 2 (2.25%) Adobe
6 1 (1.12%) Palantir