Hybrid/Remote Public Sector Job Trends

Public Sector
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 48 60
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 0
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,727 921 999
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.20% 5.69% 4.31%
As % of the General category 11.89% 7.91% 6.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,314 506 654
10th Percentile £37,325 £33,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,959 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £91,269 £84,375 £84,964
UK median annual salary £64,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.17% +4.55% -

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 14,529 11,640 14,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 60.61% 71.91% 62.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,982 6,326 8,483
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Sector and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Public Sector job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Public Sector
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Public Sector.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Public Sector over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Public Sector salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Public Sector
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 43 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 17 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.75%) Apache
4 13 (0.75%) Confluence
5 11 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 8 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.29%) CMS
7 5 (0.29%) MS Project Server
7 5 (0.29%) SAS
8 4 (0.23%) WordPress
9 3 (0.17%) Camunda
10 2 (0.12%) nginx
10 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.058%) Moodle
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.75%) AutoCAD
5 11 (0.64%) Adobe XD
5 11 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.52%) Civil 3D
6 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.52%) Navisworks
6 9 (0.52%) Revit
7 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.23%) Windchill
8 3 (0.17%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
9 2 (0.12%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.058%) Elementor
10 1 (0.058%) InVision
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 15 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.87%) Workday HCM
4 14 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
4 14 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 13 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.41%) iTrent
7 5 (0.29%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 4 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
9 3 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
11 1 (0.058%) Elite 3E
11 1 (0.058%) HFM
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 334 (19.34%) AWS
2 295 (17.08%) Azure
3 94 (5.44%) GCP
4 76 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 73 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (3.24%) SaaS
7 40 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (1.91%) Serverless
9 31 (1.80%) Entra ID
9 31 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
10 30 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (1.56%) Azure AKS
12 26 (1.51%) GitHub
13 25 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.39%) Google Analytics
15 21 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
16 19 (1.10%) Slack
17 17 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
18 16 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (0.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.37%) WAN
2 39 (2.26%) Network Security
3 35 (2.03%) LAN
4 32 (1.85%) Firewall
5 24 (1.39%) DNS
6 21 (1.22%) DHCP
7 16 (0.93%) VLAN
8 14 (0.81%) BGP
9 12 (0.69%) Unified Communications
10 11 (0.64%) CTI
10 11 (0.64%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.64%) VoIP
11 10 (0.58%) MPLS
11 10 (0.58%) OSPF
11 10 (0.58%) VPN
11 10 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (0.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.76%) Power BI
2 63 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (2.84%) MongoDB
4 39 (2.26%) MySQL
5 37 (2.14%) Metadata
6 28 (1.62%) NoSQL
7 27 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 20 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 17 (0.98%) Spark SQL
10 16 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 14 (0.81%) Big Data
12 14 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 12 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (0.64%) Tableau
15 10 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (0.52%) Metadata Repository
17 8 (0.46%) DynamoDB
18 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 61 (3.53%) Git
2 40 (2.32%) GitLab
3 24 (1.39%) JIRA
4 16 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.46%) Balsamiq
6 6 (0.35%) Axure RP
7 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.17%) Mercurial
9 3 (0.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.058%) Mocha
10 1 (0.058%) Ranorex
10 1 (0.058%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.058%) Zephyr
General
1 402 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 240 (13.90%) Finance
3 224 (12.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 167 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (8.16%) Law
6 87 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
6 87 (5.04%) Local Government
7 80 (4.63%) Legal
8 67 (3.88%) Marketing
9 66 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (2.55%) Retail
11 37 (2.14%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (1.33%) Banking
13 23 (1.33%) Police
14 21 (1.22%) General Ledger
15 14 (0.81%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.69%) Multimedia
17 10 (0.58%) Social Housing
18 8 (0.46%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 436 (25.25%) Senior
2 294 (17.02%) Architect
3 187 (10.83%) Lead
4 138 (7.99%) Analyst
5 137 (7.93%) Consultant
6 100 (5.79%) Technical Architect
7 97 (5.62%) Business Analyst
8 91 (5.27%) Developer
9 83 (4.81%) Senior Manager
10 65 (3.76%) Data Architect
11 62 (3.59%) Data Engineer
11 62 (3.59%) Lead Architect
12 61 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
13 59 (3.42%) Technical Leader
14 57 (3.30%) Senior Architect
14 57 (3.30%) Software Engineer
15 55 (3.18%) Delivery Manager
15 55 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
16 53 (3.07%) Designer
17 51 (2.95%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (4.98%) Terraform
2 73 (4.23%) .NET
3 50 (2.90%) Node.js
4 38 (2.20%) CSS
5 35 (2.03%) React
6 33 (1.91%) HTML
7 32 (1.85%) PySpark
8 27 (1.56%) REST
9 25 (1.45%) Middleware
10 24 (1.39%) Spring
11 23 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
12 21 (1.22%) RESTful
13 19 (1.10%) .NET Core
13 19 (1.10%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.10%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.04%) Web Services
15 16 (0.93%) Kafka
16 14 (0.81%) Entity Framework
16 14 (0.81%) SOAP
16 14 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (5.33%) Cloud Native
2 72 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 57 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 55 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 48 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.43%) NHS
7 38 (2.20%) e-Learning
8 37 (2.14%) Blog
9 31 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 30 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.16%) CMDB
13 19 (1.10%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (1.04%) Public Cloud
15 17 (0.98%) PKI
16 14 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.63%) Windows
2 73 (4.23%) Linux
3 54 (3.13%) Unix
4 24 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.058%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.058%) Solaris
7 1 (0.058%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (31.96%) Agile
2 531 (30.75%) Mentoring
3 490 (28.37%) Coaching
4 351 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 221 (12.80%) CI/CD
6 217 (12.57%) AI
7 215 (12.45%) Decision-Making
8 205 (11.87%) Analytics
9 202 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 198 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
11 197 (11.41%) Community of Practice
12 180 (10.42%) DevOps
13 172 (9.96%) Technology Strategy
14 170 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 161 (9.32%) Scrum
16 151 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
17 146 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
18 137 (7.93%) Roadmaps
19 132 (7.64%) Project Delivery
20 125 (7.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.34%) Java
2 134 (7.76%) SQL
3 119 (6.89%) JavaScript
4 118 (6.83%) Python
5 66 (3.82%) C#
6 25 (1.45%) C++
7 24 (1.39%) Bash
8 22 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 18 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.46%) Bicep
11 8 (0.46%) PHP
11 8 (0.46%) Scala
12 7 (0.41%) Ruby
13 5 (0.29%) R
14 4 (0.23%) ABAP
14 4 (0.23%) C
14 4 (0.23%) Perl
15 3 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 437 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 350 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 213 (12.33%) Degree
4 86 (4.98%) DV Cleared
5 53 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.66%) CISSP
7 37 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (2.14%) CISM
8 24 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 12 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.69%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.58%) CREST Certified
10 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.52%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 9 (0.52%) PMP
12 7 (0.41%) APMP
12 7 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 7 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (8.51%) Accessibility
2 77 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.13%) NCSC
4 54 (3.13%) QA
5 44 (2.55%) NIST
6 37 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 29 (1.68%) WCAG
8 28 (1.62%) GDPR
8 28 (1.62%) GRC
9 20 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 16 (0.93%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.69%) SLA
13 9 (0.52%) ISO 19650
13 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 9 (0.52%) PMO
14 8 (0.46%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 55 (3.18%) Docker
2 44 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.46%) vSphere
6 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.08%) Ansible
3 14 (0.81%) Argo
4 12 (0.69%) Grafana
5 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.23%) FTK
9 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.17%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.058%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.058%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.058%) Kibana
12 1 (0.058%) MIIS
Vendors
1 208 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.00%) Oracle
3 55 (3.18%) Google
4 50 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 32 (1.85%) Cisco
6 30 (1.74%) VMware
7 29 (1.68%) Workday
8 26 (1.51%) YouTube
9 23 (1.33%) Adobe
10 21 (1.22%) SAP
11 17 (0.98%) Splunk
12 15 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 13 (0.75%) Avaya
13 13 (0.75%) Databricks
13 13 (0.75%) Pega
14 11 (0.64%) Genesys
15 10 (0.58%) Fortinet
15 10 (0.58%) Palo Alto
16 6 (0.35%) Citrix
16 6 (0.35%) NetApp