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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 73 47
Rank change year-on-year +48 -26 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,468 751 1,706
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.35% 4.89% 4.94%
As % of the General category 12.63% 6.56% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 348 1,426
10th Percentile £40,600 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £84,964
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 11,626 11,450 20,857
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 58.23% 74.59% 60.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,580 6,288 15,255
10th Percentile £31,975 £27,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,753 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,271 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.02% +5.84% -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 17 June 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 35 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.95%) Apache
4 12 (0.82%) SAS
5 9 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.20%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
9 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) Camunda
10 2 (0.14%) Confluence
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
11 1 (0.068%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.16%) Adobe XD
4 13 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.27%) InVision
5 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.27%) Sketch
5 4 (0.27%) Windchill
6 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.14%) Civil 3D
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.48%) iTrent
4 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.068%) HFM
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 288 (19.62%) Azure
2 252 (17.17%) AWS
3 87 (5.93%) GCP
4 86 (5.86%) Power Platform
5 57 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.04%) Google Analytics
8 26 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 26 (1.77%) OCI
9 24 (1.63%) SaaS
10 23 (1.57%) Serverless
11 22 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 21 (1.43%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
14 18 (1.23%) Azure AKS
15 17 (1.16%) Figma
15 17 (1.16%) GitHub
16 16 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (0.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.00%) Firewall
2 35 (2.38%) WAN
3 29 (1.98%) LAN
4 27 (1.84%) Network Security
5 18 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.09%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.09%) Wireshark
7 15 (1.02%) NGFW
7 15 (1.02%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (0.89%) VLAN
9 11 (0.75%) VPN
10 10 (0.68%) BGP
10 10 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (0.61%) MPLS
11 9 (0.61%) SMTP
11 9 (0.61%) WebEx
12 8 (0.54%) DNS
13 7 (0.48%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.41%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.29%) Power BI
2 58 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (3.54%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.79%) Metadata
5 37 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 32 (2.18%) MySQL
7 17 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 14 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (0.75%) Looker
13 10 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.68%) Tableau
14 8 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.48%) Big Data
15 7 (0.48%) Relational Database
16 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (2.66%) GitLab
2 36 (2.45%) Git
3 15 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) Axure RP
4 9 (0.61%) Balsamiq
5 8 (0.54%) Selenium
6 6 (0.41%) JIRA
7 5 (0.34%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.20%) Gatling
8 3 (0.20%) JMeter
8 3 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.14%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.14%) JUnit
9 2 (0.14%) NUnit
9 2 (0.14%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.068%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.068%) Zephyr
General
1 321 (21.87%) Social Skills
2 204 (13.90%) Finance
3 192 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 144 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (8.24%) Law
6 54 (3.68%) Marketing
7 52 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 48 (3.27%) Legal
9 42 (2.86%) Local Government
9 42 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (2.32%) Retail
11 28 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 22 (1.50%) Banking
13 11 (0.75%) Multimedia
14 9 (0.61%) Advertising
14 9 (0.61%) Environmental Health
15 8 (0.54%) Police
16 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 405 (27.59%) Senior
2 233 (15.87%) Architect
3 155 (10.56%) Senior Manager
4 125 (8.51%) Lead
5 109 (7.43%) Analyst
6 88 (5.99%) Consultant
7 86 (5.86%) Developer
8 80 (5.45%) Business Analyst
9 60 (4.09%) Data Architect
10 59 (4.02%) Technical Architect
11 57 (3.88%) Software Engineer
12 55 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
13 52 (3.54%) Project Manager
14 49 (3.34%) Data Engineer
15 48 (3.27%) Designer
16 45 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
17 44 (3.00%) Account Manager
18 43 (2.93%) Portfolio Manager
19 42 (2.86%) Digital Project Manager
19 42 (2.86%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.86%) .NET
2 40 (2.72%) REST
3 32 (2.18%) RESTful
4 30 (2.04%) Node.js
5 25 (1.70%) Spring
6 21 (1.43%) React
6 21 (1.43%) SOAP
7 18 (1.23%) Middleware
8 17 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.09%) CSS
9 16 (1.09%) HTML
9 16 (1.09%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
10 12 (0.82%) Visualforce
11 10 (0.68%) Kafka
12 9 (0.61%) EDI
12 9 (0.61%) SAML
12 9 (0.61%) XMPP
13 8 (0.54%) AngularJS
13 8 (0.54%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 90 (6.13%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.22%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
3 44 (3.00%) Management Information System
3 44 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 34 (2.32%) Virtual Team
5 32 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 30 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
8 28 (1.91%) PKI
9 26 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (1.70%) NHS
11 24 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.57%) e-Learning
13 22 (1.50%) Public Cloud
14 18 (1.23%) Blog
15 17 (1.16%) CMDB
16 15 (1.02%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.95%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.68%) Linux
2 53 (3.61%) Windows
3 24 (1.63%) Unix
4 14 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.61%) Android
6 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.20%) VME
8 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (32.49%) Mentoring
2 445 (30.31%) Agile
3 415 (28.27%) Coaching
4 253 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 174 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (11.04%) CI/CD
6 162 (11.04%) Community of Practice
6 162 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 147 (10.01%) Analytics
8 133 (9.06%) AI
9 131 (8.92%) DevOps
10 120 (8.17%) Technology Strategy
11 119 (8.11%) Roadmaps
12 118 (8.04%) Decision-Making
13 117 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
14 103 (7.02%) Software Engineering
15 93 (6.34%) Collaborative Culture
16 91 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 87 (5.93%) Test Automation
18 86 (5.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 123 (8.38%) Java
2 107 (7.29%) Python
3 103 (7.02%) SQL
4 88 (5.99%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.66%) C#
6 17 (1.16%) Bash
7 14 (0.95%) VBA
8 13 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 12 (0.82%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.68%) R
11 8 (0.54%) C++
11 8 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.48%) Scala
13 5 (0.34%) Bicep
13 5 (0.34%) PHP
14 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.27%) Perl
14 4 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.20%) COBOL
15 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 369 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 313 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 192 (13.08%) Degree
4 63 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (2.52%) CISSP
7 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.77%) CISM
9 21 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.29%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.75%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.61%) CREST Certified
14 9 (0.61%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.48%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.48%) CCNP
16 6 (0.41%) ACCA
16 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.47%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.29%) QA
3 58 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 55 (3.75%) Data Quality
5 34 (2.32%) NCSC
6 31 (2.11%) GDPR
7 29 (1.98%) NIST
8 27 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 21 (1.43%) GRC
10 19 (1.29%) PCI DSS
11 16 (1.09%) WCAG
12 13 (0.89%) P3O
13 10 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.61%) SLA
15 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.41%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.34%) GAAP
16 5 (0.34%) IFRS
16 5 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (2.72%) Docker
2 39 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (5.45%) Terraform
2 43 (2.93%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.79%) Ansible
4 16 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.95%) Argo
6 13 (0.89%) Grafana
7 9 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) OpenView
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.14%) MIIS
11 2 (0.14%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.068%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.068%) Kibana
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.068%) SCCM
Vendors
1 197 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.09%) Google
3 44 (3.00%) Oracle
4 43 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 30 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.84%) VMware
7 24 (1.63%) Cisco
8 17 (1.16%) Adobe
9 16 (1.09%) CyberArk
9 16 (1.09%) SAP
10 15 (1.02%) Arista
10 15 (1.02%) Aruba
10 15 (1.02%) NetScout
10 15 (1.02%) Splunk
11 12 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 11 (0.75%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.68%) Apple
13 10 (0.68%) Databricks
13 10 (0.68%) Palo Alto
14 8 (0.54%) OpenAI