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 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 93 46
Rank change year-on-year +67 -47 +17
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,184 455 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.88% 3.54% 5.31%
As % of the General category 12.07% 4.93% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 959 337 1,442
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,894 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,206 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +5.59% -3.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -2.65%

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 9,806 9,220 19,419
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.96% 71.77% 61.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,543 6,385 15,031
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,471 £44,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +7.02% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -12.50%

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 8 April 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 38 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.10%) Confluence
3 9 (0.76%) SAS
4 8 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.68%) Drupal
5 6 (0.51%) CMS
6 5 (0.42%) nginx
6 5 (0.42%) WordPress
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.17%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (2.36%) Adobe XD
2 19 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.42%) InVision
4 5 (0.42%) Sketch
5 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.25%) Trello
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.084%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.084%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.084%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.34%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.25%) iTrent
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.17%) Primavera
5 2 (0.17%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.084%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.084%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 232 (19.59%) Azure
2 193 (16.30%) AWS
3 81 (6.84%) Power Platform
4 79 (6.67%) GCP
5 54 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (3.13%) SaaS
7 36 (3.04%) Serverless
8 31 (2.62%) Entra ID
9 30 (2.53%) PowerApps
10 28 (2.36%) Figma
10 28 (2.36%) OCI
11 27 (2.28%) GitHub
11 27 (2.28%) Google Analytics
12 22 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 18 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 17 (1.44%) Power Automate
16 14 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.29%) Firewall
2 24 (2.03%) WAN
3 20 (1.69%) LAN
4 19 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.35%) Wireshark
6 15 (1.27%) NGFW
6 15 (1.27%) VXLAN
7 12 (1.01%) Network Security
8 11 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.84%) VLAN
10 9 (0.76%) BGP
10 9 (0.76%) SMTP
10 9 (0.76%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.76%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.76%) VPN
11 7 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.59%) MPLS
12 6 (0.51%) DMZ
12 6 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.56%) Power BI
2 30 (2.53%) Metadata
3 22 (1.86%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.77%) MongoDB
5 16 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.10%) MySQL
7 12 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 11 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.76%) Tableau
10 8 (0.68%) Looker
11 7 (0.59%) Power Query
11 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.42%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.42%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (2.03%) Axure RP
2 23 (1.94%) Balsamiq
3 22 (1.86%) Git
4 18 (1.52%) GitLab
5 15 (1.27%) JIRA
6 12 (1.01%) Jenkins
7 9 (0.76%) Selenium
7 9 (0.76%) Subversion
8 8 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.59%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.59%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.34%) NUnit
12 3 (0.25%) Gatling
12 3 (0.25%) JMeter
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 319 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 249 (21.03%) Finance
3 207 (17.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 139 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (10.81%) Law
6 80 (6.76%) Marketing
7 59 (4.98%) Telecoms
8 54 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (4.31%) Local Government
10 47 (3.97%) Manufacturing
11 45 (3.80%) Legal
12 42 (3.55%) Retail
13 38 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (2.70%) Electronics
15 29 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.77%) Banking
17 17 (1.44%) Billing
18 13 (1.10%) Police
19 10 (0.84%) General Ledger
20 9 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 306 (25.84%) Senior
2 154 (13.01%) Architect
3 137 (11.57%) Senior Manager
4 97 (8.19%) Lead
5 95 (8.02%) Developer
6 85 (7.18%) Consultant
7 61 (5.15%) Analyst
8 55 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 52 (4.39%) Project Manager
10 42 (3.55%) Data Engineer
10 42 (3.55%) Designer
10 42 (3.55%) Digital Project Manager
11 40 (3.38%) Senior Project Manager
12 38 (3.21%) Business Analyst
12 38 (3.21%) Portfolio Manager
13 37 (3.13%) Senior Digital Project Manager
13 37 (3.13%) Senior Portfolio Manager
14 36 (3.04%) Software Engineer
15 32 (2.70%) Technical Architect
16 29 (2.45%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.38%) .NET
2 34 (2.87%) REST
3 31 (2.62%) React
4 27 (2.28%) CSS
4 27 (2.28%) HTML
5 25 (2.11%) Spring
6 24 (2.03%) RESTful
7 19 (1.60%) Middleware
8 18 (1.52%) SOAP
9 17 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (1.44%) Visualforce
10 15 (1.27%) SAP CAF
10 15 (1.27%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.10%) HTML5 Canvas
12 12 (1.01%) Django
12 12 (1.01%) Node.js
13 11 (0.93%) .NET Core
13 11 (0.93%) AngularJS
14 10 (0.84%) PySpark
14 10 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.32%) Product Ownership
3 52 (4.39%) Blog
4 40 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (3.29%) NHS
6 36 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 35 (2.96%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (2.62%) Virtual Team
10 29 (2.45%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.28%) PKI
12 24 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (1.69%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.52%) Security Posture
16 17 (1.44%) Low-Code
17 15 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
17 15 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
18 14 (1.18%) PMI
19 12 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.29%) Windows
2 36 (3.04%) Linux
3 13 (1.10%) Unix
4 10 (0.84%) Android
4 10 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.25%) VME
7 1 (0.084%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (27.96%) Mentoring
2 328 (27.70%) Agile
3 280 (23.65%) Coaching
4 224 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 178 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
6 164 (13.85%) AI
7 144 (12.16%) Community of Practice
8 138 (11.66%) Analytics
9 119 (10.05%) DevOps
10 111 (9.38%) CI/CD
10 111 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 104 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
11 104 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
11 104 (8.78%) Decision-Making
12 103 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
13 100 (8.45%) Collaborative Culture
14 92 (7.77%) Roadmaps
15 85 (7.18%) Project Management
15 85 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 82 (6.93%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 104 (8.78%) Python
2 80 (6.76%) SQL
3 72 (6.08%) Java
3 72 (6.08%) JavaScript
4 44 (3.72%) C#
5 17 (1.44%) Apex Code
6 15 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.18%) VBA
8 12 (1.01%) Bash
9 11 (0.93%) R
9 11 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.68%) Scala
11 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.34%) Bicep
12 4 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.25%) COBOL
14 2 (0.17%) ABAP
14 2 (0.17%) Google Apps Script
14 2 (0.17%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 334 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 282 (23.82%) SC Cleared
3 215 (18.16%) Degree
4 45 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.87%) CISSP
7 30 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (2.28%) CISM
9 26 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.60%) ACCA
10 19 (1.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 18 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.27%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 15 (1.27%) PMI Certification
13 12 (1.01%) CHECK Team Member
14 11 (0.93%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.76%) Cyber Scheme
17 7 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.91%) Accessibility
2 51 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 48 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.05%) QA
4 37 (3.13%) GRC
5 32 (2.70%) GDPR
6 28 (2.36%) NIST
7 26 (2.20%) WCAG
8 19 (1.60%) GAAP
8 19 (1.60%) IFRS
9 16 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.10%) P3O
11 10 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.84%) NCSC
12 8 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.68%) SLA
13 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 7 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.29%) Docker
3 18 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.76%) vSphere
6 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.084%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (5.41%) Terraform
2 34 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 33 (2.79%) Ansible
4 20 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.84%) Grafana
5 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.59%) Nessus
6 7 (0.59%) Nmap
7 6 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
8 3 (0.25%) Control-M
8 3 (0.25%) OpenView
8 3 (0.25%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.17%) Kibana
9 2 (0.17%) MIIS
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.17%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 192 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.49%) Google
3 44 (3.72%) SAP
4 35 (2.96%) Oracle
4 35 (2.96%) Salesforce
5 30 (2.53%) Adobe
6 22 (1.86%) VMware
7 21 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.69%) Cisco
9 18 (1.52%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.35%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.27%) Arista
11 15 (1.27%) Aruba
11 15 (1.27%) NetScout
12 9 (0.76%) Splunk
13 8 (0.68%) Apple
13 8 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.68%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.68%) Samsung
14 7 (0.59%) Planon