Public Sector Jobs in the West Midlands

Public Sector
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 55 69
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 -10
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 132 281 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.96% 3.88% 4.65%
As % of the General category 5.37% 6.69% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 77 253 228
10th Percentile £32,500 £23,200 £31,572
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,988 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% - -
75th Percentile £65,603 £66,137 £73,751
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,964 £81,325
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%

All General Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,458 4,203 5,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 55.05% 58.05% 76.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 3,025 2,262
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,995 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,950 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,063
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.59% +0.11%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Sector in the West Midlands

Public Sector
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Sector within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham -43 43 £64,600 +7.10% 57
Staffordshire 0 23 £39,377 +57.51% 44
Solihull +26 21 £55,000 +33.33% 3
Worcestershire +28 10 £65,000 +36.84%
Warwickshire -53 8 £49,000 -18.33% 11
Coventry -1 4 £57,500 +21.05% 5
Wolverhampton +16 3 £51,000 +7.37% 1
Herefordshire - 1 £45,000 - 1
Dudley - 1 - -
Public Sector
England

Public Sector
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (4.55%) Confluence
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (11.36%) NEC Housing
2 5 (3.79%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.76%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.76%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.24%) Azure
2 19 (14.39%) AWS
3 14 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (10.61%) GitHub
3 14 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (8.33%) SaaS
5 9 (6.82%) IaaS
5 9 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.82%) PaaS
6 6 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (3.79%) GCP
7 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.79%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.03%) Boomi
9 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.52%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.52%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) WAN
2 8 (6.06%) LAN
3 5 (3.79%) MPLS
4 4 (3.03%) Network Security
4 4 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.27%) Firewall
5 3 (2.27%) Internet
5 3 (2.27%) WLAN
6 2 (1.52%) VoIP
7 1 (0.76%) 4G
7 1 (0.76%) SAN
7 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.76%) VLAN
7 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (4.55%) Redis
2 5 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (3.79%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.27%) Power BI
5 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.52%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.52%) Looker
5 2 (1.52%) Metadata
6 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) DB2
6 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (10.61%) SonarQube
2 8 (6.06%) JIRA
3 7 (5.30%) Git
4 1 (0.76%) ERwin
General
1 60 (45.45%) Finance
2 30 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.67%) Local Government
4 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (15.15%) Police
6 15 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (10.61%) Marketing
8 7 (5.30%) Social Housing
8 7 (5.30%) Telecoms
9 6 (4.55%) Retail
10 4 (3.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.52%) Banking
11 2 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Advertising
12 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Electronics
12 1 (0.76%) Games
12 1 (0.76%) Law
12 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (14.39%) Consultant
2 18 (13.64%) Senior
3 15 (11.36%) Lead
4 13 (9.85%) Architect
4 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Analyst
6 11 (8.33%) Implementation Consultant
6 11 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 8 (6.06%) Developer
7 8 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Lead Architect
8 7 (5.30%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.30%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Backend Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Marketing Manager
9 6 (4.55%) Operations Manager
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Backend Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Vendor Manager
10 5 (3.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.06%) ARM Templates
1 8 (6.06%) Azure Blueprints
2 6 (4.55%) Django
2 6 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 6 (4.55%) Flask
2 6 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 6 (4.55%) Keycloak
2 6 (4.55%) OAuth
2 6 (4.55%) pytest
2 6 (4.55%) RESTful
2 6 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
2 6 (4.55%) WebSockets
3 5 (3.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.76%) .NET
4 1 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.76%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.76%) jQuery
4 1 (0.76%) Node.js
4 1 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.30%) Housing Association
4 6 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (3.79%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.79%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.79%) NHS
6 4 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.27%) SCADA
7 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.52%) CCTV
8 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.52%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Windows
2 7 (5.30%) Unix
2 7 (5.30%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.55%) Linux
4 4 (3.03%) Solaris
4 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.24%) Software Engineering
2 27 (20.45%) Project Management
3 21 (15.91%) Intelligent Automation
4 20 (15.15%) Analytics
5 19 (14.39%) Agile
5 19 (14.39%) Decision-Making
5 19 (14.39%) Mentoring
6 16 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 16 (12.12%) DevOps
6 16 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (11.36%) Business Development
7 15 (11.36%) Containerisation
8 14 (10.61%) Data Governance
8 14 (10.61%) Project Delivery
9 13 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (9.09%) Performance Management
11 11 (8.33%) Data Migration
11 11 (8.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.52%) SQL
2 12 (9.09%) Python
3 4 (3.03%) PL/SQL
3 4 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.27%) R
5 2 (1.52%) Java
5 2 (1.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.52%) PHP
6 1 (0.76%) ABAP
6 1 (0.76%) Bash
6 1 (0.76%) C
6 1 (0.76%) C#
6 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.64%) DBS Check
3 15 (11.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (9.85%) Degree
5 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.79%) A+ Certification
6 5 (3.79%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.79%) MCP
6 5 (3.79%) MCSA
6 5 (3.79%) MCSE
7 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.27%) CCIE
8 3 (2.27%) CCNA
8 3 (2.27%) CCNP
8 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.27%) CITP
9 2 (1.52%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (1.52%) HNC
9 2 (1.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.82%) NCSC
3 8 (6.06%) GDPR
4 6 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (3.79%) ISO 9001
5 5 (3.79%) PMO
5 5 (3.79%) QA
6 3 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.52%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.76%) NIST
8 1 (0.76%) P3O
8 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (11.36%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.09%) Ansible
2 12 (9.09%) Terraform
3 6 (4.55%) Grafana
3 6 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.36%) NEC
3 9 (6.82%) Cisco
4 8 (6.06%) Citrix
4 8 (6.06%) Google
5 7 (5.30%) Dell
6 6 (4.55%) Oracle
6 6 (4.55%) SAP
7 5 (3.79%) VMware
8 4 (3.03%) Databricks
8 4 (3.03%) DocuSign
8 4 (3.03%) Facebook
9 3 (2.27%) Isilon
9 3 (2.27%) Meraki
9 3 (2.27%) YouTube
10 2 (1.52%) IBM
11 1 (0.76%) Avaya
11 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.76%) NetApp
11 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds