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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 87 46
Rank change year-on-year +61 -41 +15
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,281 483 1,670
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.14% 3.62% 5.14%
As % of the General category 12.71% 5.05% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 352 1,438
10th Percentile £38,772 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £46,684 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £74,674 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -2.62%

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 10,076 9,572 20,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 56.15% 71.73% 61.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6,692 6,517 15,168
10th Percentile £31,138 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,419 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +10.48% -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 24 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 40 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (0.78%) Confluence
3 9 (0.70%) SAS
4 8 (0.62%) Drupal
5 6 (0.47%) Apache
5 6 (0.47%) CMS
5 6 (0.47%) nginx
6 5 (0.39%) WordPress
7 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) Camunda
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
9 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 30 (2.34%) Adobe XD
2 21 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.39%) InVision
4 5 (0.39%) Sketch
5 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.078%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.078%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.078%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.078%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.078%) MadCap Flare
8 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.55%) iTrent
3 4 (0.31%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 241 (18.81%) Azure
2 202 (15.77%) AWS
3 83 (6.48%) Power Platform
4 80 (6.25%) GCP
5 54 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (2.65%) SaaS
7 30 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.34%) Entra ID
7 30 (2.34%) Figma
8 28 (2.19%) Serverless
9 26 (2.03%) Google Analytics
9 26 (2.03%) OCI
9 26 (2.03%) PowerApps
10 23 (1.80%) GitHub
11 19 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.41%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 17 (1.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 15 (1.17%) Azure AKS
15 14 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.28%) Firewall
2 30 (2.34%) WAN
3 24 (1.87%) LAN
4 19 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.25%) Wireshark
6 15 (1.17%) Network Security
6 15 (1.17%) NGFW
6 15 (1.17%) VXLAN
7 13 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (1.01%) VLAN
8 11 (0.86%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.86%) Unified Communications
9 10 (0.78%) BGP
9 10 (0.78%) VPN
10 9 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (0.70%) SMTP
10 9 (0.70%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.62%) MPLS
11 8 (0.62%) WebEx
12 6 (0.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.22%) Power BI
2 35 (2.73%) Metadata
2 35 (2.73%) MongoDB
3 33 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.80%) NoSQL
5 15 (1.17%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 13 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.94%) MySQL
8 11 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 9 (0.70%) Tableau
10 8 (0.62%) Looker
11 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.39%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.39%) MariaDB
13 5 (0.39%) Power Query
13 5 (0.39%) Relational Database
13 5 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (2.58%) GitLab
2 24 (1.87%) Axure RP
3 23 (1.80%) Balsamiq
4 20 (1.56%) Git
5 13 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.01%) JIRA
6 8 (0.62%) Subversion
7 7 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.55%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.55%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.55%) Selenium
8 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.31%) NUnit
9 3 (0.23%) Gatling
9 3 (0.23%) JMeter
9 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.16%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.16%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 329 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 247 (19.28%) Finance
3 207 (16.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (10.46%) Law
5 133 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (5.78%) Marketing
7 58 (4.53%) Presentation Skills
8 53 (4.14%) Local Government
8 53 (4.14%) Telecoms
9 49 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (3.51%) Legal
10 45 (3.51%) Retail
11 38 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
13 26 (2.03%) Electronics
14 24 (1.87%) Banking
15 17 (1.33%) Billing
16 14 (1.09%) Police
17 10 (0.78%) General Ledger
18 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 346 (27.01%) Senior
2 174 (13.58%) Architect
3 152 (11.87%) Senior Manager
4 105 (8.20%) Lead
5 85 (6.64%) Consultant
6 83 (6.48%) Analyst
7 82 (6.40%) Developer
8 62 (4.84%) Business Analyst
9 60 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
10 56 (4.37%) Designer
11 50 (3.90%) Project Manager
12 43 (3.36%) Data Engineer
12 43 (3.36%) Portfolio Manager
13 42 (3.28%) Digital Project Manager
14 40 (3.12%) Senior Project Manager
15 37 (2.89%) Senior Digital Project Manager
15 37 (2.89%) Senior Portfolio Manager
16 35 (2.73%) IT Manager
17 34 (2.65%) Data Architect
18 33 (2.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.81%) .NET
2 33 (2.58%) REST
3 23 (1.80%) CSS
3 23 (1.80%) HTML
3 23 (1.80%) RESTful
4 21 (1.64%) Middleware
4 21 (1.64%) React
4 21 (1.64%) Spring
5 18 (1.41%) SOAP
6 17 (1.33%) Node.js
7 16 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (1.25%) Visualforce
8 12 (0.94%) SAP CAF
9 11 (0.86%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (0.78%) PySpark
11 9 (0.70%) .NET Core
11 9 (0.70%) ASP.NET
11 9 (0.70%) Kafka
11 9 (0.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (5.85%) Product Ownership
2 62 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 48 (3.75%) Blog
4 43 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 39 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.97%) NHS
7 36 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (2.73%) Onboarding
9 32 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.50%) Virtual Team
10 28 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (2.11%) PKI
12 21 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
13 20 (1.56%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (1.09%) PMI
18 13 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 49 (3.83%) Windows
2 47 (3.67%) Linux
3 23 (1.80%) Unix
4 12 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.78%) Android
6 9 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.23%) VME
8 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (31.15%) Mentoring
2 354 (27.63%) Coaching
3 352 (27.48%) Agile
4 230 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 182 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
6 164 (12.80%) Community of Practice
7 158 (12.33%) AI
8 136 (10.62%) Analytics
9 132 (10.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 124 (9.68%) DevOps
11 121 (9.45%) CI/CD
12 118 (9.21%) Decision-Making
13 112 (8.74%) Technology Strategy
14 106 (8.27%) Collaborative Culture
14 106 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
15 102 (7.96%) Roadmaps
16 100 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
17 83 (6.48%) Project Delivery
18 82 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
19 79 (6.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (7.65%) Python
2 79 (6.17%) SQL
3 78 (6.09%) Java
4 62 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.97%) C#
6 16 (1.25%) Apex Code
6 16 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.09%) VBA
8 13 (1.01%) Bash
9 11 (0.86%) R
10 10 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.70%) Scala
12 4 (0.31%) Bicep
12 4 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.23%) COBOL
13 3 (0.23%) PHP
13 3 (0.23%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.16%) ABAP
14 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 278 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 221 (17.25%) Degree
4 46 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.89%) CISSP
7 29 (2.26%) CISM
8 27 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.48%) ACCA
11 17 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.17%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 15 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 15 (1.17%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.94%) CHECK Team Member
14 10 (0.78%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.70%) Cyber Scheme
15 9 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.85%) Accessibility
2 49 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (3.59%) QA
5 31 (2.42%) GDPR
6 29 (2.26%) WCAG
7 28 (2.19%) GRC
8 27 (2.11%) NIST
9 19 (1.48%) GAAP
9 19 (1.48%) IFRS
10 14 (1.09%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.01%) P3O
12 11 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.78%) NCSC
14 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.62%) SLA
16 6 (0.47%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.39%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.97%) Docker
3 22 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.78%) vSphere
6 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.078%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (5.85%) Terraform
2 39 (3.04%) Ansible
3 35 (2.73%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (0.94%) Grafana
6 11 (0.86%) Argo
7 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.55%) Nessus
9 7 (0.55%) Nmap
10 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.23%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.23%) Control-M
11 3 (0.23%) OpenView
11 3 (0.23%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.16%) MIIS
12 2 (0.16%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.078%) Puppet
13 1 (0.078%) SCCM
13 1 (0.078%) WSUS
Vendors
1 197 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.07%) Google
3 38 (2.97%) SAP
4 33 (2.58%) Oracle
4 33 (2.58%) Salesforce
5 32 (2.50%) Adobe
6 26 (2.03%) VMware
7 23 (1.80%) Cisco
8 20 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.33%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.25%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.17%) Arista
11 15 (1.17%) Aruba
11 15 (1.17%) NetScout
12 12 (0.94%) Splunk
13 10 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.62%) Apple
14 8 (0.62%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.62%) Samsung
15 7 (0.55%) Red Hat