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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 66 47
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 +14
Permanent jobs citing Public Sector 1,527 803 1,642
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.33% 4.97% 4.95%
As % of the General category 12.42% 6.81% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 388 1,358
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £47,016 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £58,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +0.06% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76,201 £69,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £83,250 £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 12,296 11,800 20,238
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 59.03% 72.99% 61.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,065 6,605 14,734
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,250 £80,000 £75,728
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 4 July 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 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (0.92%) Apache
4 12 (0.79%) SAS
5 9 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.20%) CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Confluence
9 3 (0.20%) Drupal
9 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.065%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.72%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.46%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.26%) Windchill
7 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.20%) Civil 3D
7 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.13%) PlantUML
8 2 (0.13%) Sketch
9 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.46%) iTrent
4 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.26%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.13%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.065%) HFM
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 290 (18.99%) Azure
2 278 (18.21%) AWS
3 89 (5.83%) GCP
4 85 (5.57%) Power Platform
5 61 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (1.83%) Entra ID
8 27 (1.77%) Google Analytics
8 27 (1.77%) OCI
9 24 (1.57%) SaaS
10 22 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 21 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.31%) Serverless
13 18 (1.18%) Azure AKS
13 18 (1.18%) Azure Service Bus
14 17 (1.11%) GitHub
15 16 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 12 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.75%) Firewall
2 37 (2.42%) WAN
3 31 (2.03%) LAN
4 27 (1.77%) Network Security
5 22 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 16 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 16 (1.05%) Wireshark
7 15 (0.98%) NGFW
7 15 (0.98%) VXLAN
8 13 (0.85%) VLAN
9 12 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (0.79%) DNS
9 12 (0.79%) VPN
10 11 (0.72%) VoIP
11 10 (0.65%) BGP
11 10 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.59%) DHCP
12 9 (0.59%) MPLS
12 9 (0.59%) SMTP
12 9 (0.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.19%) Power BI
2 63 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (3.73%) MongoDB
4 41 (2.69%) Metadata
5 38 (2.49%) NoSQL
6 37 (2.42%) MySQL
7 19 (1.24%) SQL Server
8 16 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 15 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 13 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (0.72%) Looker
12 11 (0.72%) Relational Database
13 10 (0.65%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.65%) Tableau
14 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.46%) Big Data
16 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (2.55%) GitLab
2 35 (2.29%) Git
3 16 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.52%) JIRA
4 8 (0.52%) Selenium
5 5 (0.33%) Axure RP
5 5 (0.33%) Balsamiq
5 5 (0.33%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.20%) Gatling
6 3 (0.20%) JMeter
6 3 (0.20%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.13%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.13%) Jasmine
7 2 (0.13%) JUnit
7 2 (0.13%) NUnit
7 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.065%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.065%) Zephyr
General
1 329 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 205 (13.43%) Finance
3 183 (11.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 149 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 119 (7.79%) Law
6 56 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
7 53 (3.47%) Legal
7 53 (3.47%) Marketing
8 44 (2.88%) Local Government
9 42 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.36%) Retail
12 29 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.51%) Banking
14 12 (0.79%) Multimedia
15 9 (0.59%) Advertising
15 9 (0.59%) Environmental Health
16 8 (0.52%) Police
17 7 (0.46%) General Ledger
18 6 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 430 (28.16%) Senior
2 256 (16.76%) Architect
3 154 (10.09%) Senior Manager
4 138 (9.04%) Lead
5 113 (7.40%) Analyst
6 95 (6.22%) Consultant
7 83 (5.44%) Developer
8 78 (5.11%) Business Analyst
9 72 (4.72%) Data Architect
10 67 (4.39%) Technical Architect
11 58 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 57 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
13 52 (3.41%) Project Manager
14 50 (3.27%) Senior Architect
15 48 (3.14%) Data Engineer
15 48 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
16 47 (3.08%) Account Manager
17 44 (2.88%) Designer
17 44 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
18 43 (2.82%) Portfolio Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (2.75%) REST
2 41 (2.69%) .NET
3 37 (2.42%) Node.js
4 33 (2.16%) RESTful
5 24 (1.57%) Spring
6 22 (1.44%) React
6 22 (1.44%) SOAP
7 17 (1.11%) Middleware
7 17 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (0.98%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.85%) CSS
9 13 (0.85%) HTML
10 11 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (0.72%) Visualforce
11 10 (0.65%) Kafka
12 9 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.59%) PySpark
12 9 (0.59%) SAML
12 9 (0.59%) XMPP
13 8 (0.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 98 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (3.01%) Management Information System
3 46 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 37 (2.42%) e-Learning
5 35 (2.29%) Virtual Team
6 32 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
9 28 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 27 (1.77%) PKI
11 24 (1.57%) NHS
11 24 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 19 (1.24%) CMDB
13 18 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.11%) Blog
14 17 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.98%) Low-Code
16 14 (0.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.58%) Windows
2 66 (4.32%) Linux
3 36 (2.36%) Unix
4 17 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.52%) Android
5 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.20%) VME
7 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (33.01%) Mentoring
2 467 (30.58%) Agile
3 444 (29.08%) Coaching
4 277 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 188 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
6 180 (11.79%) CI/CD
7 167 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 159 (10.41%) Analytics
9 158 (10.35%) Community of Practice
10 152 (9.95%) DevOps
11 143 (9.36%) AI
12 132 (8.64%) Decision-Making
13 128 (8.38%) Roadmaps
14 126 (8.25%) Technology Strategy
15 113 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
16 109 (7.14%) Software Engineering
17 102 (6.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 102 (6.68%) Test Automation
18 95 (6.22%) ITIL
18 95 (6.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (8.45%) Java
2 111 (7.27%) Python
3 108 (7.07%) SQL
4 90 (5.89%) JavaScript
5 38 (2.49%) C#
6 17 (1.11%) Bash
7 15 (0.98%) PowerShell
8 14 (0.92%) VBA
9 11 (0.72%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.65%) R
11 8 (0.52%) C++
11 8 (0.52%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.46%) Scala
13 5 (0.33%) Bicep
13 5 (0.33%) PHP
14 4 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.26%) Perl
14 4 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.20%) COBOL
15 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 369 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 309 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 192 (12.57%) Degree
4 67 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 54 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.29%) CISSP
7 26 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.57%) CISM
9 19 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 11 (0.72%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.65%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.52%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.52%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.46%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.46%) CCNP
16 6 (0.39%) CHECK Team Member
16 6 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.88%) Accessibility
2 63 (4.13%) QA
3 59 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.36%) NCSC
5 33 (2.16%) GDPR
6 29 (1.90%) NIST
7 28 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 20 (1.31%) GRC
9 19 (1.24%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.85%) P3O
10 13 (0.85%) WCAG
11 11 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 10 (0.65%) SLA
13 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.46%) PMO
14 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 43 (2.82%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.69%) Docker
3 23 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.65%) vSphere
6 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.26%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (5.44%) Terraform
2 51 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.69%) Ansible
4 16 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.92%) Argo
6 13 (0.85%) Grafana
7 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.20%) OpenView
10 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.13%) MIIS
11 2 (0.13%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.065%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.065%) Kibana
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 186 (12.18%) Microsoft
2 60 (3.93%) Google
3 51 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.01%) Oracle
5 29 (1.90%) Cisco
5 29 (1.90%) VMware
6 27 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 15 (0.98%) Arista
8 15 (0.98%) Aruba
8 15 (0.98%) NetScout
8 15 (0.98%) Splunk
9 14 (0.92%) SAP
10 12 (0.79%) Databricks
10 12 (0.79%) Pega
11 11 (0.72%) Adobe
11 11 (0.72%) Fortinet
11 11 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.72%) Palo Alto
12 10 (0.65%) Avaya