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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 38 93 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.40% 4.52% 5.38%
As % of the General category 4.24% 8.31% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 34 70 50
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,134 £33,746
25th Percentile £46,552 £44,400 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,978 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% +18.61% -18.79%
75th Percentile £65,750 £65,000 £59,125
90th Percentile £74,379 £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 896 1,119 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 80.14% 54.40% 66.71%
Number of salaries quoted 525 762 510
10th Percentile - £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £43,379 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -1.41% -7.37%
75th Percentile £62,000 £57,488 £57,823
90th Percentile £70,600 £66,250 £70,250
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 17 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 17 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 -4 33 £62,500 +13.64% 48
West Wales +10 3 £50,124 -4.54% 2
North Wales +4 1 £30,000 -23.34% 4
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 9 (23.68%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) CMS
2 3 (7.89%) Headless CMS
3 2 (5.26%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.63%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.89%) Contentful
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Serverless
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) NAS
1 2 (5.26%) SAN
1 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.26%) VoIP
1 2 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.63%) DHCP
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.53%) Redis
3 2 (5.26%) Big Data
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.63%) GIS
4 1 (2.63%) Power BI
4 1 (2.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 7 (18.42%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) SonarQube
4 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
4 3 (7.89%) JMeter
5 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Local Government
5 2 (5.26%) Electronics
5 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.63%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Backend Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Civil Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Development Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) JavaScript Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Performance Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Performance Test Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Development Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) GraphQL
2 4 (10.53%) Django
2 4 (10.53%) FastAPI
2 4 (10.53%) Flask
2 4 (10.53%) Keycloak
2 4 (10.53%) OAuth
2 4 (10.53%) pytest
2 4 (10.53%) RESTful
2 4 (10.53%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (10.53%) WebSockets
3 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
3 3 (7.89%) CSS
3 3 (7.89%) Express.js
3 3 (7.89%) HTML
3 3 (7.89%) NestJS
3 3 (7.89%) Node.js
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) REST
3 3 (7.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) NHS
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.26%) Clustering
4 2 (5.26%) CUDA
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Agile
1 10 (26.32%) DevOps
2 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
2 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
3 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 4 (10.53%) Front End Development
6 4 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) Project Management
6 4 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.89%) API Development
7 3 (7.89%) Business Transformation
7 3 (7.89%) Line Management
7 3 (7.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) SQL
2 7 (18.42%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) Groovy
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) C++
4 2 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 4 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.63%) CWNA
5 1 (2.63%) CWTS
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Grafana
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Atlassian
2 5 (13.16%) SAP
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco
4 3 (7.89%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) Aruba
5 2 (5.26%) HP
5 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Aerohive Networks
6 1 (2.63%) Ariba
6 1 (2.63%) ESRI
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle